1. 23 Sep, 2012 1 commit
  2. 22 Sep, 2012 3 commits
    • Tom Lane's avatar
      Minor corrections for ALTER TYPE ADD VALUE IF NOT EXISTS patch. · 31510194
      Tom Lane authored
      Produce a NOTICE when the label already exists, for consistency with other
      CREATE IF NOT EXISTS commands.  Also, fix the code so it produces something
      more user-friendly than an index violation when the label already exists.
      This not incidentally enables making a regression test that the previous
      patch didn't make for fear of exposing an unpredictable OID in the results.
      Also some wordsmithing on the documentation.
      31510194
    • Andrew Dunstan's avatar
      Fix docs typo · fcc15766
      Andrew Dunstan authored
      fcc15766
    • Andrew Dunstan's avatar
      Allow IF NOT EXISTS when add a new enum label. · 6d12b68c
      Andrew Dunstan authored
      If the label is already in the enum the statement becomes a no-op.
      This will reduce the pain that comes from our not allowing this
      operation inside a transaction block.
      
      Andrew Dunstan, reviewed by Tom Lane and Magnus Hagander.
      6d12b68c
  3. 21 Sep, 2012 3 commits
    • Tom Lane's avatar
      Improve ruleutils.c's heuristics for dealing with rangetable aliases. · 11e13185
      Tom Lane authored
      The previous scheme had bugs in some corner cases involving tables that had
      been renamed since a view was made.  This could result in dumped views that
      failed to reload or reloaded incorrectly, as seen in bug #7553 from Lloyd
      Albin, as well as in some pgsql-hackers discussion back in January.  Also,
      its behavior for printing EXPLAIN plans was sometimes confusing because of
      willingness to use the same alias for multiple RTEs (it was Ashutosh
      Bapat's complaint about that aspect that started the January thread).
      
      To fix, ensure that each RTE in the query has a unique unqualified alias,
      by modifying the alias if necessary (we add "_" and digits as needed to
      create a non-conflicting name).  Then we can just print its variables with
      that alias, avoiding the confusing and bug-prone scheme of sometimes
      schema-qualifying variable names.  In EXPLAIN, it proves to be expedient to
      take the further step of only assigning such aliases to RTEs that are
      actually referenced in the query, since the planner has a habit of
      generating extra RTEs with the same alias in situations such as
      inheritance-tree expansion.
      
      Although this fixes a bug of very long standing, I'm hesitant to back-patch
      such a noticeable behavioral change.  My experiments while creating a
      regression test convinced me that actually incorrect output (as opposed to
      confusing output) occurs only in very narrow cases, which is backed up by
      the lack of previous complaints from the field.  So we may be better off
      living with it in released branches; and in any case it'd be smart to let
      this ripen awhile in HEAD before we consider back-patching it.
      11e13185
    • Heikki Linnakangas's avatar
      Parse pg_ident.conf when it's loaded, keeping it in memory in parsed format. · 7c45e3a3
      Heikki Linnakangas authored
      Similar changes were done to pg_hba.conf earlier already, this commit makes
      pg_ident.conf to behave the same as pg_hba.conf.
      
      This has two user-visible effects. First, if pg_ident.conf contains multiple
      errors, the whole file is parsed at postmaster startup time and all the
      errors are immediately reported. Before this patch, the file was parsed and
      the errors were reported only when someone tries to connect using an
      authentication method that uses the file, and the parsing stopped on first
      error. Second, if you SIGHUP to reload the config files, and the new
      pg_ident.conf file contains an error, the error is logged but the old file
      stays in effect.
      
      Also, regular expressions in pg_ident.conf are now compiled only once when
      the file is loaded, rather than every time the a user is authenticated. That
      should speed up authentication if you have a lot of regexps in the file.
      
      Amit Kapila
      7c45e3a3
    • Heikki Linnakangas's avatar
      Fix obsolete comment. · 9d5e9730
      Heikki Linnakangas authored
      load_hba and load_ident load stuff in a separate memory context nowadays,
      not in the current memory context.
      9d5e9730
  4. 20 Sep, 2012 1 commit
  5. 19 Sep, 2012 4 commits
    • Tom Lane's avatar
    • Tom Lane's avatar
      Put back AcceptInvalidationMessages calls in heap_openrv(_extended). · 96cc18ee
      Tom Lane authored
      These calls were removed in commit 4240e429
      as part of a general refactoring and improvement of DDL locking.  However,
      there's a problem not solved by the rewrite, which is that GRANT/REVOKE
      update pg_class.relacl without taking any particular lock on the target
      table as such.  If another backend fails to do AcceptInvalidationMessages,
      it won't notice a recently-committed change in ACLs.  Bug #7557 from Piotr
      Czachur demonstrates that there's at least one code path in 9.2.0 in which
      a command fails to do any AcceptInvalidationMessages calls at all, if the
      current transaction already holds all the locks it will need.
      
      Since we're hard up against the release deadline for 9.2.1, fix this by
      putting back the AcceptInvalidationMessages calls in heap_openrv and
      heap_openrv_extended, thereby restoring the historical behavior in this
      area.  We ought to look for a more elegant and perhaps more bulletproof
      solution, but there's no time for that right now.
      96cc18ee
    • Tom Lane's avatar
      Update time zone data files to tzdata release 2012f. · f1f722da
      Tom Lane authored
      DST law changes in Fiji.
      f1f722da
    • Peter Eisentraut's avatar
      pg_upgrade: Remove check for pg_config · 5cfd5bb1
      Peter Eisentraut authored
      It is no longer used, but was still being checked for.
      
      bug #7548 from Reinhard Max
      5cfd5bb1
  6. 18 Sep, 2012 3 commits
    • Tom Lane's avatar
      Fix planning of btree index scans using ScalarArrayOpExpr quals. · 807a40c5
      Tom Lane authored
      In commit 9e8da0f7, I improved btree
      to handle ScalarArrayOpExpr quals natively, so that constructs like
      "indexedcol IN (list)" could be supported by index-only scans.  Using
      such a qual results in multiple scans of the index, under-the-hood.
      I went to some lengths to ensure that this still produces rows in index
      order ... but I failed to recognize that if a higher-order index column
      is lacking an equality constraint, rescans can produce out-of-order
      data from that column.  Tweak the planner to not expect sorted output
      in that case.  Per trouble report from Robert McGehee.
      807a40c5
    • Tom Lane's avatar
      Fix array_typanalyze to work for domains over arrays. · 3f828fae
      Tom Lane authored
      Not sure how we missed this case, but we did.  Per bug #7551 from
      Diego de Lima.
      3f828fae
    • Peter Eisentraut's avatar
      libpq: Add missing directory to installdirs target · bcf90cc1
      Peter Eisentraut authored
      It prevented the libpq directory from being installable by itself.
      bcf90cc1
  7. 17 Sep, 2012 2 commits
    • Tom Lane's avatar
      Provide adequate documentation of the "table_name *" notation. · 3c64342c
      Tom Lane authored
      Somewhere along the line, somebody decided to remove all trace of this
      notation from the documentation text.  It was still in the command syntax
      synopses, or at least some of them, but with no indication what it meant.
      This will not do, as evidenced by the confusion apparent in bug #7543;
      even if the notation is now unnecessary, people will find it in legacy
      SQL code and need to know what it does.
      3c64342c
    • Peter Eisentraut's avatar
      PL/Python: Improve Python 3 regression test setup · b2e3bea3
      Peter Eisentraut authored
      Currently, we are making mangled copies of plpython/{expected,sql} to
      plpython/python3/{expected,sql}, and run the tests in
      plpython/python3.  This has the disadvantage that the regression.diffs
      file, if any, ends up in plpython/python3, which is not the normal
      location.  If we instead make the mangled copies in
      plpython/{expected,sql}/python3/, we can run the tests from the normal
      directory, regression.diffs ends up the normal place, and the
      pg_regress invocation also becomes a lot simpler.  It's also more
      obvious at run time what's going on, because the tests end up being
      named "python3/something" in the test output.
      b2e3bea3
  8. 16 Sep, 2012 3 commits
    • Tom Lane's avatar
      Rethink heuristics for choosing index quals for parameterized paths. · 3b8968f2
      Tom Lane authored
      Some experimentation with examples similar to bug #7539 has convinced me
      that indxpath.c's original implementation of parameterized-path generation
      was several bricks shy of a load.  In general, if we are relying on a
      particular outer rel or set of outer rels for a parameterized path, the
      path should use every indexable join clause that's available from that rel
      or rels.  Any join clauses that get left out of the indexqual will end up
      getting applied as plain filter quals (qpquals), and that's generally a
      significant loser compared to having the index AM enforce them.  (This is
      particularly true with btree, which can skip the index scan entirely if
      it can see that the given indexquals are mutually contradictory.)  The
      original heuristics failed to ensure this, though, and were overly
      complicated anyway.  Rewrite to make the code explicitly identify each
      useful set of outer rels and then select all applicable join clauses for
      each one.  The one plan that changes in the regression tests is in fact
      for the better according to the planner's cost estimates.
      
      (Note: this is not a correctness issue but just a matter of plan quality.
      I don't yet know what is going on in bug #7539, but I don't expect this
      change to fix that.)
      3b8968f2
    • Simon Riggs's avatar
      Fix bufmgr so CHECKPOINT_END_OF_RECOVERY behaves as a shutdown checkpoint. · 64e196b6
      Simon Riggs authored
      Recovery code documents clearly that a shutdown checkpoint is executed at
      end of recovery - a shutdown checkpoint WAL record is written but the buffer
      manager had been altered to treat end of recovery as a normal checkpoint.
      This bug exacerbates the bufmgr relpersistence bug.
      
      Bug spotted by Andres Freund, patch by me.
      64e196b6
    • Kevin Grittner's avatar
      Fix documentation reference to maximum allowed for autovacuum_freeze_max_age. · 32754264
      Kevin Grittner authored
      The documentation mentioned setting autovacuum_freeze_max_age to
      "its maximum allowed value of a little less than two billion".
      This led to a post asking about the exact maximum allowed value,
      which is precisely two billion, not "a little less".
      
      Based on question by Radovan Jablonovsky.  Backpatch to 8.3.
      32754264
  9. 15 Sep, 2012 2 commits
    • Tom Lane's avatar
      Adjust largeobject_1.source per buildfarm. · 2899e3d6
      Tom Lane authored
      Looks like the correct size of DOS-ified tenk.data is 680800 not 680801.
      (I got the latter from a version of unix2dos that appends a trailing ^Z,
      which evidently is not git's practice.)
      2899e3d6
    • Peter Eisentraut's avatar
      psql: Add more constraint completion · 05cf0ea8
      Peter Eisentraut authored
      - ALTER DOMAIN ... DROP/RENAME/VALIDATE CONSTRAINT
      - ALTER TABLE ... RENAME/VALIDATE CONSTRAINT
      - COMMENT ON CONSTRAINT
      - SET CONSTRAINTS
      05cf0ea8
  10. 14 Sep, 2012 3 commits
    • Tom Lane's avatar
      Improve largeobject regression test to show size of object read from file. · bd9b4f16
      Tom Lane authored
      The idea here is to provide a more easily diagnosable failure diff when
      the problem is that tenk.data has been DOS-ified, as I believe to be
      happening currently on buildfarm member hamerkop.  Per suggestion from
      Magnus Hagander.
      
      Also, sync output/largeobject_1.source with current regression test.
      Failure to do that in commit 3a0e4d36
      turns out to be the real reason that hamerkop has been complaining.
      bd9b4f16
    • Tom Lane's avatar
      Add a regression test case based on bug #7516. · b8fbbcf3
      Tom Lane authored
      Given what we now know about the cause of this bug, it seems like it'd
      be a real good idea to include it in the plperl regression tests, so as
      to catch any platform-specific cases where the code gets misoptimized.
      b8fbbcf3
    • Robert Haas's avatar
      Properly set relpersistence for fake relcache entries. · beb850e1
      Robert Haas authored
      This can result in buffers failing to be properly flushed at
      checkpoint time, leading to data loss.
      
      Report, diagnosis, and patch by Jeff Davis.
      beb850e1
  11. 13 Sep, 2012 3 commits
    • Tom Lane's avatar
      Keep plperl's current_call_data record on the stack, instead of palloc'ing. · 9afc6481
      Tom Lane authored
      This at least saves some palloc overhead, and should furthermore reduce
      the risk of anything going wrong, eg somebody resetting the context the
      current_call_data record was in.
      9afc6481
    • Tom Lane's avatar
      Fix case of window function + aggregate + GROUP BY expression. · a2099360
      Tom Lane authored
      In commit 1bc16a94 I added a minor
      optimization to drop the component variables of a GROUP BY expression from
      the target list computed at the aggregation level of a query, if those Vars
      weren't referenced elsewhere in the tlist.  However, I overlooked that the
      window-function planning code would deconstruct such expressions and thus
      need to have access to their component variables.  Fix it to not do that.
      
      While at it, I removed the distinction between volatile and nonvolatile
      window partition/order expressions: the code now computes all of them
      at the aggregation level.  This saves a relatively expensive check for
      volatility, and it's unclear that the resulting plan isn't better anyway.
      
      Per bug #7535 from Louis-David Mitterrand.  Back-patch to 9.2.
      a2099360
    • Kevin Grittner's avatar
      Fix typo in comment for pclose_check() function. · 6b896f51
      Kevin Grittner authored
      Backpatch to 9.2.
      
      Etsuro Fujit
      6b896f51
  12. 12 Sep, 2012 4 commits
    • Tom Lane's avatar
      9a93e710
    • Andrew Dunstan's avatar
      Fix catalog docs to reflect connoinherit change in 09ff76fc. · 7c328a9b
      Andrew Dunstan authored
      Backpatch to 9.2.
      7c328a9b
    • Tom Lane's avatar
      Fix logical errors in tsquery selectivity estimation for prefix queries. · 1faf866a
      Tom Lane authored
      I made multiple errors in commit 97532f7c,
      stemming mostly from failure to think about the available frequency data
      as being element frequencies not value frequencies (so that occurrences of
      different elements are not mutually exclusive).  This led to sillinesses
      such as estimating that "word" would match more rows than "word:*".
      
      The choice to clamp to a minimum estimate of DEFAULT_TS_MATCH_SEL also
      seems pretty ill-considered in hindsight, as it would frequently result in
      an estimate much larger than the available data suggests.  We do need some
      sort of clamp, since a pattern not matching any of the MCELEMs probably
      still needs a selectivity estimate of more than zero.  I chose instead to
      clamp to at least what a non-MCELEM word would be estimated as, preserving
      the property that "word:*" doesn't get an estimate less than plain "word",
      whether or not the word appears in MCELEM.
      
      Per investigation of a gripe from Bill Martin, though I suspect that his
      example case actually isn't even reaching the erroneous code.
      
      Back-patch to 9.1 where this code was introduced.
      1faf866a
    • Kevin Grittner's avatar
      Fix typo: lexemes misspelled in full text search docs. · 4bc0d2e2
      Kevin Grittner authored
      Dan Scott
      4bc0d2e2
  13. 10 Sep, 2012 2 commits
    • Andrew Dunstan's avatar
      Add vcregress.pl target for checking pg_upgrade. · a1d021e5
      Andrew Dunstan authored
      This follows recent addition of Windows/Mingw testing.
      Backpatch to Release 9.2 so we can get some buildfarm testing
      going.
      a1d021e5
    • Tom Lane's avatar
      Make plperl safe against functions that are redefined while running. · 59f23fe8
      Tom Lane authored
      validate_plperl_function() supposed that it could free an old
      plperl_proc_desc struct immediately upon detecting that it was stale.
      However, if a plperl function is called recursively, this could result
      in deleting the struct out from under an outer invocation, leading to
      misbehavior or crashes.  Add a simple reference-count mechanism to
      ensure that such structs are freed only when the last reference goes
      away.
      
      Per investigation of bug #7516 from Marko Tiikkaja.  I am not certain
      that this error explains his report, because he says he didn't have
      any recursive calls --- but it's hard to see how else it could have
      crashed right there.  In any case, this definitely fixes some problems
      in the area.
      
      Back-patch to all active branches.
      59f23fe8
  14. 09 Sep, 2012 1 commit
    • Tom Lane's avatar
      Use .NOTPARALLEL in ecpg/Makefile to avoid a gmake parallelism bug. · 843363b8
      Tom Lane authored
      Investigation shows that some intermittent build failures in ecpg are the
      result of a gmake bug that was reported quite some time ago:
      http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?30653
      
      Preventing parallel builds of the ecpg subdirectories seems to dodge the
      bug.  Per yesterday's pgsql-hackers discussion, there are some other things
      in the subdirectory makefiles that seem rather unsafe for parallel builds
      too, but there's little point in fixing them as long as we have to work
      around a make bug.
      
      Back-patch to 9.1; parallel builds weren't very well supported before
      that anyway.
      843363b8
  15. 08 Sep, 2012 1 commit
    • Tom Lane's avatar
      Adjust PL/Python regression tests some more for Python 3.3. · 45d1f1e0
      Tom Lane authored
      Commit 2cfb1c6f fixed some issues caused
      by Python 3.3 choosing to iterate through dict entries in a different order
      than before.  But here's another one: the test cases adjusted here made two
      bad entries in a dict and expected the one complained of would always be
      the same.
      
      Possibly this should be back-patched further than 9.2, but there seems
      little point unless the earlier fix is too.
      45d1f1e0
  16. 07 Sep, 2012 1 commit
    • Tom Lane's avatar
      Centralize libpq's low-level code for dropping a connection. · 210eb9b7
      Tom Lane authored
      Create an internal function pqDropConnection that does the physical socket
      close and cleans up closely-associated state.  This removes a bunch of ad
      hoc, not always consistent closure code.  The ulterior motive is to have a
      single place to wait for a spawned child backend to exit, but this seems
      like good cleanup even if that never happens.
      
      I went back and forth on whether to include "conn->status = CONNECTION_BAD"
      in pqDropConnection's actions, but for the moment decided not to.  Only a
      minority of the call sites actually want that, and in any case it's
      arguable that conn->status is slightly higher-level state, and thus not
      part of this function's purview.
      210eb9b7
  17. 06 Sep, 2012 3 commits