1. 27 Dec, 2013 1 commit
  2. 24 Dec, 2013 4 commits
  3. 23 Dec, 2013 1 commit
    • Tom Lane's avatar
      Support ordered-set (WITHIN GROUP) aggregates. · 8d65da1f
      Tom Lane authored
      This patch introduces generic support for ordered-set and hypothetical-set
      aggregate functions, as well as implementations of the instances defined in
      SQL:2008 (percentile_cont(), percentile_disc(), rank(), dense_rank(),
      percent_rank(), cume_dist()).  We also added mode() though it is not in the
      spec, as well as versions of percentile_cont() and percentile_disc() that
      can compute multiple percentile values in one pass over the data.
      
      Unlike the original submission, this patch puts full control of the sorting
      process in the hands of the aggregate's support functions.  To allow the
      support functions to find out how they're supposed to sort, a new API
      function AggGetAggref() is added to nodeAgg.c.  This allows retrieval of
      the aggregate call's Aggref node, which may have other uses beyond the
      immediate need.  There is also support for ordered-set aggregates to
      install cleanup callback functions, so that they can be sure that
      infrastructure such as tuplesort objects gets cleaned up.
      
      In passing, make some fixes in the recently-added support for variadic
      aggregates, and make some editorial adjustments in the recent FILTER
      additions for aggregates.  Also, simplify use of IsBinaryCoercible() by
      allowing it to succeed whenever the target type is ANY or ANYELEMENT.
      It was inconsistent that it dealt with other polymorphic target types
      but not these.
      
      Atri Sharma and Andrew Gierth; reviewed by Pavel Stehule and Vik Fearing,
      and rather heavily editorialized upon by Tom Lane
      8d65da1f
  4. 22 Dec, 2013 1 commit
    • Robert Haas's avatar
      Change the way we mark tuples as frozen. · 37484ad2
      Robert Haas authored
      Instead of changing the tuple xmin to FrozenTransactionId, the combination
      of HEAP_XMIN_COMMITTED and HEAP_XMIN_INVALID, which were previously never
      set together, is now defined as HEAP_XMIN_FROZEN.  A variety of previous
      proposals to freeze tuples opportunistically before vacuum_freeze_min_age
      is reached have foundered on the objection that replacing xmin by
      FrozenTransactionId might hinder debugging efforts when things in this
      area go awry; this patch is intended to solve that problem by keeping
      the XID around (but largely ignoring the value to which it is set).
      
      Third-party code that checks for HEAP_XMIN_INVALID on tuples where
      HEAP_XMIN_COMMITTED might be set will be broken by this change.  To fix,
      use the new accessor macros in htup_details.h rather than consulting the
      bits directly.  HeapTupleHeaderGetXmin has been modified to return
      FrozenTransactionId when the infomask bits indicate that the tuple is
      frozen; use HeapTupleHeaderGetRawXmin when you already know that the
      tuple isn't marked commited or frozen, or want the raw value anyway.
      We currently do this in routines that display the xmin for user consumption,
      in tqual.c where it's known to be safe and important for the avoidance of
      extra cycles, and in the function-caching code for various procedural
      languages, which shouldn't invalidate the cache just because the tuple
      gets frozen.
      
      Robert Haas and Andres Freund
      37484ad2
  5. 20 Dec, 2013 4 commits
  6. 19 Dec, 2013 6 commits
    • Bruce Momjian's avatar
      Move pg_upgrade_support global variables to their own include file · 527fdd9d
      Bruce Momjian authored
      Previously their declarations were spread around to avoid accidental
      access.
      527fdd9d
    • Alvaro Herrera's avatar
      Make stdout unbuffered · 73bcb76b
      Alvaro Herrera authored
      This ensures that all stdout output is flushed immediately, to match
      stderr.  This eliminates the need for fflush(stdout) calls sprinkled all
      over the place.
      
      Per Daniel Wood in message 519A79C6.90308@salesforce.com
      73bcb76b
    • Alvaro Herrera's avatar
      Optimize updating a row that's locked by same xid · 13aa6244
      Alvaro Herrera authored
      Updating or locking a row that was already locked by the same
      transaction under the same Xid caused a MultiXact to be created; but
      this is unnecessary, because there's no usefulness in being able to
      differentiate two locks by the same transaction.  In particular, if a
      transaction executed SELECT FOR UPDATE followed by an UPDATE that didn't
      modify columns of the key, we would dutifully represent the resulting
      combination as a multixact -- even though a single key-update is
      sufficient.
      
      Optimize the case so that only the strongest of both locks/updates is
      represented in Xmax.  This can save some Xmax's from becoming
      MultiXacts, which can be a significant optimization.
      
      This missed optimization opportunity was spotted by Andres Freund while
      investigating a bug reported by Oliver Seemann in message
      CANCipfpfzoYnOz5jj=UZ70_R=CwDHv36dqWSpwsi27vpm1z5sA@mail.gmail.com
      and also directly as a performance regression reported by Dong Ye in
      message
      d54b8387.000012d8.00000010@YED-DEVD1.vmware.com
      Reportedly, this patch fixes the performance regression.
      
      Since the missing optimization was reported as a significant performance
      regression from 9.2, backpatch to 9.3.
      
      Andres Freund, tweaked by Álvaro Herrera
      13aa6244
    • Fujii Masao's avatar
      084e385a
    • Fujii Masao's avatar
      Fix typo in docs for min_recovery_apply_delay. · f83a7545
      Fujii Masao authored
      Bernd Helmle
      f83a7545
    • Peter Eisentraut's avatar
      Upgrade to Autoconf 2.69 · 94b899b8
      Peter Eisentraut authored
      94b899b8
  7. 18 Dec, 2013 5 commits
    • Robert Haas's avatar
      Fix compiler warning. · 6bb9d301
      Robert Haas authored
      get_user_name returns const char *, but we were assigning the result
      to a char * variable.
      6bb9d301
    • Robert Haas's avatar
      Allow on-detach callbacks for dynamic shared memory segments. · 001a573a
      Robert Haas authored
      Just as backends must clean up their shared memory state (releasing
      lwlocks, buffer pins, etc.) before exiting, they must also perform
      any similar cleanups related to dynamic shared memory segments they
      have mapped before unmapping those segments.  So add a mechanism to
      ensure that.
      
      Existing on_shmem_exit hooks include both "user level" cleanup such
      as transaction abort and removal of leftover temporary relations and
      also "low level" cleanup that forcibly released leftover shared
      memory resources.  On-detach callbacks should run after the first
      group but before the second group, so create a new before_shmem_exit
      function for registering the early callbacks and keep on_shmem_exit
      for the regular callbacks.  (An earlier draft of this patch added an
      additional argument to on_shmem_exit, but that had a much larger
      footprint and probably a substantially higher risk of breaking third
      party code for no real gain.)
      
      Patch by me, reviewed by KaiGai Kohei and Andres Freund.
      001a573a
    • Bruce Momjian's avatar
      Fix incorrect error message reported for non-existent users · 613c6d26
      Bruce Momjian authored
      Previously, lookups of non-existent user names could return "Success";
      it will now return "User does not exist" by resetting errno.  This also
      centralizes the user name lookup code in libpgport.
      
      Report and analysis by Nicolas Marchildon;  patch by me
      613c6d26
    • Alvaro Herrera's avatar
      Don't ignore tuple locks propagated by our updates · 11ac4c73
      Alvaro Herrera authored
      If a tuple was locked by transaction A, and transaction B updated it,
      the new version of the tuple created by B would be locked by A, yet
      visible only to B; due to an oversight in HeapTupleSatisfiesUpdate, the
      lock held by A wouldn't get checked if transaction B later deleted (or
      key-updated) the new version of the tuple.  This might cause referential
      integrity checks to give false positives (that is, allow deletes that
      should have been rejected).
      
      This is an easy oversight to have made, because prior to improved tuple
      locks in commit 0ac5ad51 it wasn't possible to have tuples created by
      our own transaction that were also locked by remote transactions, and so
      locks weren't even considered in that code path.
      
      It is recommended that foreign keys be rechecked manually in bulk after
      installing this update, in case some referenced rows are missing with
      some referencing row remaining.
      
      Per bug reported by Daniel Wood in
      CAPweHKe5QQ1747X2c0tA=5zf4YnS2xcvGf13Opd-1Mq24rF1cQ@mail.gmail.com
      11ac4c73
    • Tatsuo Ishii's avatar
      Add ALTER SYSTEM command to edit the server configuration file. · 65d6e4cb
      Tatsuo Ishii authored
      Patch contributed by Amit Kapila. Reviewed by Hari Babu, Masao Fujii,
      Boszormenyi Zoltan, Andres Freund, Greg Smith and others.
      65d6e4cb
  8. 17 Dec, 2013 1 commit
  9. 16 Dec, 2013 2 commits
    • Alvaro Herrera's avatar
      Rework tuple freezing protocol · 3b97e682
      Alvaro Herrera authored
      Tuple freezing was broken in connection to MultiXactIds; commit
      8e53ae025de9 tried to fix it, but didn't go far enough.  As noted by
      Noah Misch, freezing a tuple whose Xmax is a multi containing an aborted
      update might cause locks in the multi to go ignored by later
      transactions.  This is because the code depended on a multixact above
      their cutoff point not having any lock-only member older than the cutoff
      point for Xids, which is easily defeated in READ COMMITTED transactions.
      
      The fix for this involves creating a new MultiXactId when necessary.
      But this cannot be done during WAL replay, and moreover multixact
      examination requires using CLOG access routines which are not supposed
      to be used during WAL replay either; so tuple freezing cannot be done
      with the old freeze WAL record.  Therefore, separate the freezing
      computation from its execution, and change the WAL record to carry all
      necessary information.  At WAL replay time, it's easy to re-execute
      freezing because we don't need to re-compute the new infomask/Xmax
      values but just take them from the WAL record.
      
      While at it, restructure the coding to ensure all page changes occur in
      a single critical section without much room for failures.  The previous
      coding wasn't using a critical section, without any explanation as to
      why this was acceptable.
      
      In replication scenarios using the 9.3 branch, standby servers must be
      upgraded before their master, so that they are prepared to deal with the
      new WAL record once the master is upgraded; failure to do so will cause
      WAL replay to die with a PANIC message.  Later upgrade of the standby
      will allow the process to continue where it left off, so there's no
      disruption of the data in the standby in any case.  Standbys know how to
      deal with the old WAL record, so it's okay to keep the master running
      the old code for a while.
      
      In master, the old freeze WAL record is gone, for cleanliness' sake;
      there's no compatibility concern there.
      
      Backpatch to 9.3, where the original bug was introduced and where the
      previous fix was backpatched.
      
      Álvaro Herrera and Andres Freund
      3b97e682
    • Heikki Linnakangas's avatar
      Mark variables 'static' where possible. Move GinFuzzySearchLimit to ginget.c · 30b96549
      Heikki Linnakangas authored
      Per "clang -Wmissing-variable-declarations" output, posted by Andres Freund.
      I didn't silence all those warnings, though, only the most obvious cases.
      30b96549
  10. 15 Dec, 2013 2 commits
    • Tatsuo Ishii's avatar
      Add "SHIFT_JIS" as an accepted encoding name for locale checking. · 1f0626ee
      Tatsuo Ishii authored
      When locale is "ja_JP.SJIS", nl_langinfo(CODESET) returns "SHIFT_JIS"
      on some platforms, at least on RedHat Linux. So the encoding/locale
      match table (encoding_match_list) needs the entry. Otherwise client
      encoding is set to SQL_ASCII.
      
      Back patch to all supported branches.
      1f0626ee
    • Tom Lane's avatar
      Allow empty target list in SELECT. · 1b4f7f93
      Tom Lane authored
      This fixes a problem noted as a followup to bug #8648: if a query has a
      semantically-empty target list, e.g. SELECT * FROM zero_column_table,
      ruleutils.c will dump it as a syntactically-empty target list, which was
      not allowed.  There doesn't seem to be any reliable way to fix this by
      hacking ruleutils (note in particular that the originally zero-column table
      might since have had columns added to it); and even if we had such a fix,
      it would do nothing for existing dump files that might contain bad syntax.
      The best bet seems to be to relax the syntactic restriction.
      
      Also, add parse-analysis errors for SELECT DISTINCT with no columns (after
      *-expansion) and RETURNING with no columns.  These cases previously
      produced unexpected behavior because the parsed Query looked like it had
      no DISTINCT or RETURNING clause, respectively.  If anyone ever offers
      a plausible use-case for this, we could work a bit harder on making the
      situation distinguishable.
      
      Arguably this is a bug fix that should be back-patched, but I'm worried
      that there may be client apps or PLs that expect "SELECT ;" to throw a
      syntax error.  The issue doesn't seem important enough to risk changing
      behavior in minor releases.
      1b4f7f93
  11. 14 Dec, 2013 1 commit
    • Tom Lane's avatar
      Fix inherited UPDATE/DELETE with UNION ALL subqueries. · c03ad560
      Tom Lane authored
      Fix an oversight in commit b3aaf908: we do
      indeed need to process the planner's append_rel_list when copying RTE
      subqueries, because if any of them were flattenable UNION ALL subqueries,
      the append_rel_list shows which subquery RTEs were pulled up out of which
      other ones.  Without this, UNION ALL subqueries aren't correctly inserted
      into the update plans for inheritance child tables after the first one,
      typically resulting in no update happening for those child table(s).
      Per report from Victor Yegorov.
      
      Experimentation with this case also exposed a fault in commit
      a7b96538: if an inherited UPDATE/DELETE
      was proven totally dummy by constraint exclusion, we might arrive at
      add_rtes_to_flat_rtable with root->simple_rel_array being NULL.  This
      should be interpreted as not having any RelOptInfos.  I chose to code
      the guard as a check against simple_rel_array_size, so as to also
      provide some protection against indexing off the end of the array.
      
      Back-patch to 9.2 where the faulty code was added.
      c03ad560
  12. 13 Dec, 2013 9 commits
    • Alvaro Herrera's avatar
      Fix typo · 60eea378
      Alvaro Herrera authored
      60eea378
    • Alvaro Herrera's avatar
      Rework MultiXactId cache code · d881dd62
      Alvaro Herrera authored
      The original performs too poorly; in some scenarios it shows way too
      high while profiling.  Try to make it a bit smarter to avoid excessive
      cosst.  In particular, make it have a maximum size, and have entries be
      sorted in LRU order; once the max size is reached, evict the oldest
      entry to avoid it from growing too large.
      
      Per complaint from Andres Freund in connection with new tuple freezing
      code.
      d881dd62
    • Tom Lane's avatar
      Add HOLD/RESUME_INTERRUPTS in HandleCatchupInterrupt/HandleNotifyInterrupt. · 2efc6dc2
      Tom Lane authored
      This prevents a possible longjmp out of the signal handler if a timeout
      or SIGINT occurs while something within the handler has transiently set
      ImmediateInterruptOK.  For safety we must hold off the timeout or cancel
      error until we're back in mainline, or at least till we reach the end of
      the signal handler when ImmediateInterruptOK was true at entry.  This
      syncs these functions with the logic now present in handle_sig_alarm.
      
      AFAICT there is no live bug here in 9.0 and up, because I don't think we
      currently can wait for any heavyweight lock inside these functions, and
      there is no other code (except read-from-client) that will turn on
      ImmediateInterruptOK.  However, that was not true pre-9.0: in older
      branches ProcessIncomingNotify might block trying to lock pg_listener, and
      then a SIGINT could lead to undesirable control flow.  It might be all
      right anyway given the relatively narrow code ranges in which NOTIFY
      interrupts are enabled, but for safety's sake I'm back-patching this.
      2efc6dc2
    • Heikki Linnakangas's avatar
      Fix more instances of "the the" in comments. · dde62825
      Heikki Linnakangas authored
      Plus one instance of "to to" in the docs.
      dde62825
    • Tom Lane's avatar
      Don't let timeout interrupts happen unless ImmediateInterruptOK is set. · e8312b4f
      Tom Lane authored
      Serious oversight in commit 16e1b7a1:
      we should not allow an interrupt to take control away from mainline code
      except when ImmediateInterruptOK is set.  Just to be safe, let's adopt
      the same save-clear-restore dance that's been used for many years in
      HandleCatchupInterrupt and HandleNotifyInterrupt, so that nothing bad
      happens if a timeout handler invokes code that tests or even manipulates
      ImmediateInterruptOK.
      
      Per report of "stuck spinlock" failures from Christophe Pettus, though
      many other symptoms are possible.  Diagnosis by Andres Freund.
      e8312b4f
    • Heikki Linnakangas's avatar
      Add GUC to enable WAL-logging of hint bits, even with checksums disabled. · 50e54709
      Heikki Linnakangas authored
      WAL records of hint bit updates is useful to tools that want to examine
      which pages have been modified. In particular, this is required to make
      the pg_rewind tool safe (without checksums).
      
      This can also be used to test how much extra WAL-logging would occur if
      you enabled checksums, without actually enabling them (which you can't
      currently do without re-initdb'ing).
      
      Sawada Masahiko, docs by Samrat Revagade. Reviewed by Dilip Kumar, with
      further changes by me.
      50e54709
    • Magnus Hagander's avatar
      Fix double "the" in the documentation · 56afe850
      Magnus Hagander authored
      Erik Rijkers
      56afe850
    • Heikki Linnakangas's avatar
      Fix WAL-logging of setting the visibility map bit. · a49633d8
      Heikki Linnakangas authored
      The operation that removes the remaining dead tuples from the page must
      be WAL-logged before the setting of the VM bit. Otherwise, if you replay
      the WAL to between those two records, you end up with the VM bit set, but
      the dead tuples are still there.
      
      Backpatch to 9.3, where this bug was introduced.
      a49633d8
    • Peter Eisentraut's avatar
      configure: Allow adding a custom string to PG_VERSION · 46328916
      Peter Eisentraut authored
      This can be used to mark custom built binaries with an extra version
      string such as a git describe identifier or distribution package release
      version.
      
      From: Oskari Saarenmaa <os@ohmu.fi>
      46328916
  13. 12 Dec, 2013 3 commits