1. 29 Sep, 2012 3 commits
  2. 28 Sep, 2012 4 commits
    • Andrew Dunstan's avatar
      6e9876dc
    • Alvaro Herrera's avatar
      Add alter_generic regression test · ff7e5b48
      Alvaro Herrera authored
      This makes refactoring of parts of the ALTER command safe(r) because we
      ensure no change in functionality.
      
      Author: KaiGai Kohei
      ff7e5b48
    • Tom Lane's avatar
      Fix tar files emitted by pg_dump and pg_basebackup to be POSIX conformant. · 05b555d1
      Tom Lane authored
      Both programs got the "magic" string wrong, causing standard-conforming tar
      implementations to believe the output was just legacy tar format without
      any POSIX extensions.  This doesn't actually matter that much, especially
      since pg_dump failed to fill the POSIX fields anyway, but still there is
      little point in emitting tar format if we can't be compliant with the
      standard.  In addition, pg_dump failed to write the EOF marker correctly
      (there should be 2 blocks of zeroes not just one), pg_basebackup put the
      numeric group ID in the wrong place, and both programs had a pretty
      brain-dead idea of how to compute the checksum.  Fix all that and improve
      the comments a bit.
      
      pg_restore is modified to accept either the correct POSIX-compliant "magic"
      string or the previous value.  This part of the change will need to be
      back-patched to avoid an unnecessary compatibility break when a previous
      version tries to read tar-format output from 9.3 pg_dump.
      
      Brian Weaver and Tom Lane
      05b555d1
    • Peter Eisentraut's avatar
  3. 27 Sep, 2012 6 commits
    • Tom Lane's avatar
      Fix btmarkpos/btrestrpos to handle array keys. · 70bc5833
      Tom Lane authored
      This fixes another error in commit 9e8da0f7.
      I neglected to make the mark/restore functionality save and restore the
      current set of array key values, which led to strange behavior if an
      IndexScan with ScalarArrayOpExpr quals was used as the inner side of a
      mergejoin.  Per bug #7570 from Melese Tesfaye.
      70bc5833
    • Alvaro Herrera's avatar
      Have pg_terminate/cancel_backend not ERROR on non-existent processes · ae90ffad
      Alvaro Herrera authored
      This worked fine for superusers, but not for ordinary users trying to
      cancel their own processes.  Tweak the order the checks are done in so
      that we correctly return SIGNAL_BACKEND_ERROR (which current callers
      know to ignore without erroring out) so that an ordinary user can loop
      through a resultset without fearing that a process might exit in the
      middle of said looping -- causing the remaining processes to go
      unsignalled.
      
      Incidentally, the last in-core caller of IsBackendPid() is now gone.
      However, the function is exported and must remain in place, because
      there are plenty of callers in external modules.
      
      Author: Josh Kupershmidt
      
      Reviewed by Noah Misch
      ae90ffad
    • Tom Lane's avatar
      Run check_keywords.pl anytime gram.c is rebuilt. · 55c1687a
      Tom Lane authored
      This script is a bit slow, but still it only takes a fraction of the time
      the bison run does, so the overhead doesn't seem intolerable.  And we
      definitely need some mechanical aid here, because people keep missing
      the need to add new keywords to the appropriate keyword-list production.
      
      While at it, I moved check_keywords.pl from src/tools into
      src/backend/parser where it's actually used, and did some very minor
      cleanup on the script.
      55c1687a
    • Peter Eisentraut's avatar
      pg_upgrade test: Disable fsync in initdb and postgres calls · 10bfe81d
      Peter Eisentraut authored
      This mirrors the behavior of pg_regress and makes the test run much
      faster.
      10bfe81d
    • Tom Lane's avatar
      Make plpgsql's unreserved keywords more unreserved. · bac95fd4
      Tom Lane authored
      There were assorted places where unreserved keywords were not treated the
      same as T_WORD (that is, a random unrecognized identifier).  Fix them.
      It might not always be possible to allow this, but it is in all these
      places, so I don't see any downside.
      
      Per gripe from Jim Wilson.  Arguably this is a bug fix, but given the lack
      of other complaints and the ease of working around it (just quote the
      word), I won't risk back-patching.
      bac95fd4
    • Tom Lane's avatar
      Add new EVENT keyword to unreserved_keyword production. · fc68ac86
      Tom Lane authored
      Once again, somebody who ought to know better forgot this.  We really
      need some automated cross-check on the keyword-list productions, I think.
      Per report from Brian Weaver.
      fc68ac86
  4. 25 Sep, 2012 1 commit
    • Tom Lane's avatar
      Fix examples of how to use "su" while starting the server. · 7d8cbeb0
      Tom Lane authored
      The syntax "su -c 'command' username" is not accepted by all versions of
      su, for example not OpenBSD's.  More portable is "su username -c
      'command'".  So change runtime.sgml to recommend that syntax.  Also,
      add a -D switch to the OpenBSD example script, for consistency with other
      examples.  Per Denis Lapshin and Gábor Hidvégi.
      7d8cbeb0
  5. 24 Sep, 2012 2 commits
  6. 23 Sep, 2012 2 commits
  7. 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
  8. 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
  9. 20 Sep, 2012 1 commit
  10. 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
  11. 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
  12. 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
  13. 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
  14. 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
  15. 14 Sep, 2012 1 commit
    • 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