Formerly the planner had a hard-wired rule of thumb for guessing the amount
of space consumed by an aggregate function's transition state data.  This
estimate is critical to deciding whether it's OK to use hash aggregation,
and in many situations the built-in estimate isn't very good.  This patch
adds a column to pg_aggregate wherein a per-aggregate estimate can be
provided, overriding the planner's default, and infrastructure for setting
the column via CREATE AGGREGATE.

It may be that additional smarts will be required in future, perhaps even
a per-aggregate estimation function.  But this is already a step forward.

This is extracted from a larger patch to improve the performance of numeric
and int8 aggregates.  I (tgl) thought it was worth reviewing and committing
this infrastructure separately.  In this commit, all built-in aggregates
are given aggtransspace = 0, so no behavior should change.

Hadi Moshayedi, reviewed by Pavel Stehule and Tomas Vondra

pgbench formerly failed on lines longer than BUFSIZ, unexpectedly
splitting them into multiple commands.  Allow it to work with any
length of input line.

Sawada Masahiko

A couple of places that should have been iterating over WORDS_PER_CHUNK
words were iterating over WORDS_PER_PAGE words instead.  This thinko
accidentally failed to fail, because (at least on common architectures
with default BLCKSZ) WORDS_PER_CHUNK is a bit less than WORDS_PER_PAGE,
and the extra words being looked at were always zero so nothing happened.
Still, it's a bug waiting to happen if anybody ever fools with the
parameters affecting TIDBitmap sizes, and it's a small waste of cycles
too.  So back-patch to all active branches.

Etsuro Fujita

In --inserts and especially --column-inserts mode, we can get a useful
speedup by generating the common prefix of all a table's INSERT commands
just once, and then printing the prebuilt string for each row.  This avoids
multiple invocations of fmtId() and other minor fooling around.

David Rowley

The previous coding was fairly unreadable and drew double-free warnings
from clang.  I believe the double free was actually not reachable, because
PQconnectionNeedsPassword is coded to not return true if a password was
provided, so that the loop can't iterate more than twice.  Nonetheless
it seems worth rewriting.  No back-patch since this is just cosmetic.

Bug #8591 from Claudio Freire demonstrates that get_eclass_for_sort_expr
must be able to compute valid em_nullable_relids for any new equivalence
class members it creates.  I'd worried about this in the commit message
for db9f0e1d, but claimed that it wasn't a
problem because multi-member ECs should already exist when it runs.  That
is transparently wrong, though, because this function is also called by
initialize_mergeclause_eclasses, which runs during deconstruct_jointree.
The example given in the bug report (which the new regression test item
is based upon) fails because the COALESCE() expression is first seen by
initialize_mergeclause_eclasses rather than process_equivalence.

Fixing this requires passing the appropriate nullable_relids set to
get_eclass_for_sort_expr, and it requires new code to compute that set
for top-level expressions such as ORDER BY, GROUP BY, etc.  We store
the top-level nullable_relids in a new field in PlannerInfo to avoid
computing it many times.  In the back branches, I've added the new
field at the end of the struct to minimize ABI breakage for planner
plugins.  There doesn't seem to be a good alternative to changing
get_eclass_for_sort_expr's API signature, though.  There probably aren't
any third-party extensions calling that function directly; moreover,
if there are, they probably need to think about what to pass for
nullable_relids anyway.

Back-patch to 9.2, like the previous patch in this area.

plpgsql likes to cache query plans and simple-expression execution state
trees across calls.  This is a considerable win for multiple executions
of the same function.  However, it's useless for DO blocks, since by
definition those are executed only once and discarded.  Nonetheless,
we were allowing a DO block's expression execution trees to survive
until end of transaction, resulting in a significant intra-transaction
memory leak, as reported by Yeb Havinga.  Worse, if the DO block exited
with an error, the compiled form of the block's code was leaked till
end of session --- along with subsidiary plancache entries.

To fix, make DO blocks keep their expression execution trees in a private
EState that's deleted at exit from the block, and add a PG_TRY block
to plpgsql_inline_handler to make sure that memory cleanup happens
even on error exits.  Also add a regression test covering error handling
in a DO block, because my first try at this broke that.  (The test is
not meant to prove that we don't leak memory anymore, though it could
be used for that with a much larger loop count.)

Ideally we'd back-patch this into all versions supporting DO blocks;
but the patch needs to add a field to struct PLpgSQL_execstate, and that
would break ABI compatibility for third-party plugins such as the plpgsql
debugger.  Given the small number of complaints so far, fixing this in
HEAD only seems like an acceptable choice.

There were enough typos in the comments to annoy me ...

Commit 061b88c7 saved argv0 to a
global buffer without ensuring that it was zero terminated,
allowing references to it to overrun the buffer and access other
memory.  This probably would not have presented any security risk,
but could have resulted in very confusing failures if the path to
the executable was very long.

Reported by David Rowley

Colin 't Hart

Andres Freund

This speeds up nextval() and currval(), when you touch a lot of different
sequences in the same backend.

David Rowley

Previous commit shows the need for this.  The coverage isn't really
thorough, but it's better than nothing.

pg_index.indisreplident had at one time in its development been called
indisidentity.  describe.c got missed when it was renamed.
Bug introduced in commit 07cacba9.

Andres Freund

The previous text was a bit misleading, as well as unnecessarily vague
about what information would be discarded.  Per gripe from Craig Skinner.

The old code entered a new hash table entry first, then scanned
pg_class to determine what value to fill in, and then populated the
entry.  This fails to work properly if a cache invalidation happens
as a result of opening pg_class.  Repair.

Along the way, get rid of the idea of blowing away the entire hash
table as a method of processing invalidations.  Instead, just delete
all the entries one by one.  This is probably not quite as cheap but
it's simpler, and shouldn't happen often.

Andres Freund

It's a trivial amount of RAM held until the end of the regression
test run; but it's probably worth fixing to silence future warnings
from code analyzers.

This was the only memory leak pointed out by clang's static code
analysis tool.

The root page is filled with as many items as fit, and the rest are inserted
using normal insertions. However, I fumbled the variable names, and the code
actually memcpy'd all the items on the page, overflowing the buffer. While
at it, rename the variable to make the distinction more clear.

Reported by Teodor Sigaev. This bug was introduced by my recent
refactorings, so no backpatching required.

This avoids an unused variable warning on Windows when building without
asserts

From: David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com>

Avoid the use of **, which was only introduced in Git version 1.8.2.

We can't search for the isolationtester binary until after we've set
up the environment, because otherwise when find_other_exec() tries
to invoke it with the -V option, it might fail for inability to
locate a working libpq.  So postpone that step.

Andres Freund

Reported by Thom Brown.

Per report from Colin 't Hart

This removes the remaining pieces of the IRIX port that was removed by
ea91a6be.

Simple oversight in commit 1cb108ef ---
recursively examining a subquery output column is only sane if the
original Var refers to a single output column.  Found by Kevin Grittner.

The pretty-printing logic in ruleutils.c operates by inserting a newline
and some indentation whitespace into strings that are already valid SQL.
This naturally results in leaving some trailing whitespace before the
newline in many cases; which can be annoying when processing the output
with other tools, as complained of by Joe Abbate.  We can fix that in
a pretty localized fashion by deleting any trailing whitespace before
we append a pretty-printing newline.  In addition, we have to modify the
code inserted by commit 2f582f76 so that
we also delete trailing whitespace when transposing items from temporary
buffers into the main result string, when a temporary item starts with a
newline.

This results in rather voluminous changes to the regression test results,
but it's easily verified that they are only removal of trailing whitespace.

Back-patch to 9.3, because the aforementioned commit resulted in many
more cases of trailing whitespace than had occurred in earlier branches.

Although the SQL spec forbids duplicate table aliases, historically
we've allowed queries like
    SELECT ... FROM tab1 x CROSS JOIN (tab2 x CROSS JOIN tab3 y) z
on the grounds that the aliased join (z) hides the aliases within it,
therefore there is no conflict between the two RTEs named "x".  The
LATERAL patch broke this, on the misguided basis that "x" could be
ambiguous if tab3 were a LATERAL subquery.  To avoid breaking existing
queries, it's better to allow this situation and complain only if
tab3 actually does contain an ambiguous reference.  We need only remove
the check that was throwing an error, because the column lookup code
is already prepared to handle ambiguous references.  Per bug #8444.

This is a similar fix as c6ec8793aa59d1842082e14b4b4aae7d4bd883fd
9.2. This should never happen in 9.3 and newer since the special case
cannot happen there, but this patch synchronizes up the code so there
is no confusion on why they're different. An empty block is as harmless
in 9.3 as it was in 9.2, and can safely be ignored.

Set per file type attributes in .gitattributes to fine-tune whitespace
checks.  With the associated cleanups, the tree is now clean for git

Commit 9b4d52f2 failed to notice
that pg_regress_ecpg needed updating.

This patch was independently submitted by both David Rowley
and Andres Freund.

If a page is deleted, and reused for something else, just as a search is
following a rightlink to it from its left sibling, the search would continue
scanning whatever the new contents of the page are. That could lead to
incorrect query results, or even something more curious if the page is
reused for a different kind of a page.

To fix, modify the search algorithm to lock the next page before releasing
the previous one, and refrain from deleting pages from the leftmost branch
of the tree.

Add a new Concurrency section to the README, explaining why this works.
There is a lot more one could say about concurrency in GIN, but that's for
another patch.

Backpatch to all supported versions.

Inspired by, but different from, a patch from Ivan Lezhnjov IV

This makes it possible to, for example, use the isolation tester to
test a contrib module.

Andres Freund

Pending patches for logical replication will use this to determine
which columns of a tuple ought to be considered as its candidate key.

Andres Freund, with minor, mostly cosmetic adjustments by me

This change prevents us from doing inappropriate subquery flattening in
cases such as dangerous functions hidden inside a sub-SELECT in the
targetlist of another sub-SELECT.  That could result in unexpected behavior
due to multiple evaluations of a volatile function, as in a recent
complaint from Etienne Dube.  It's been questionable from the very
beginning whether these functions should look into subqueries (as noted in
their comments), and this case seems to provide proof that they should.

Because the new code only descends into SubLinks, not SubPlans or
InitPlans, the change only affects the planner's behavior during
prepjointree processing and not later on --- for example, you can still get
it to use a volatile function in an indexqual if you wrap the function in
(SELECT ...).  That's a historical behavior, for sure, but it's reasonable
given that the executor's evaluation rules for subplans don't depend on
whether there are volatile functions inside them.  In any case, we need to
constrain the behavioral change as narrowly as we can to make this
reasonable to back-patch.

contain_volatile_functions() is best applied to the output of
expression_planner(), not its input, so that insertion of function
default arguments and constant-folding have been done.  (See comments
at CheckMutability, for instance.)  It's perhaps unlikely that anyone
will notice a difference in practice, but still we should do it properly.

In passing, change variable type from Node* to Expr* to reduce the net
number of casts needed.

Noted while perusing uses of contain_volatile_functions().