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2023-04-18Fix various typosDavid Rowley
This fixes many spelling mistakes in comments, but a few references to invalid parameter names, function names and option names too in comments and also some in string constants Also, fix an #undef that was undefining the incorrect definition Author: Alexander Lakhin Reviewed-by: Justin Pryzby Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/d5f68d19-c0fc-91a9-118d-7c6a5a3f5fad@gmail.com
2023-03-07Fix more bugs caused by adding columns to the end of a view.Tom Lane
If a view is defined atop another view, and then CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW is used to add columns to the lower view, then when the upper view's referencing RTE is expanded by ApplyRetrieveRule we will have a subquery RTE with fewer eref->colnames than output columns. This confuses various code that assumes those lists are always in sync, as they are in plain parser output. We have seen such problems before (cf commit d5b760ecb), and now I think the time has come to do what was speculated about in that commit: let's make ApplyRetrieveRule synthesize some column names to preserve the invariant that holds in parser output. Otherwise we'll be chasing this class of bugs indefinitely. Moreover, it appears from testing that this actually gives us better results in the test case d5b760ecb added, and likely in other corner cases that we lack coverage for. In HEAD, I replaced d5b760ecb's hack to make expandRTE exit early with an elog(ERROR) call, since the case is now presumably unreachable. But it seems like changing that in back branches would bring more risk than benefit, so there I just updated the comment. Per bug #17811 from Alexander Lakhin. Back-patch to all supported branches. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17811-d31686b78f0dffc9@postgresql.org
2023-03-02Remove local optimizations of empty Bitmapsets into null pointers.Tom Lane
These are all dead code now that it's done centrally. Patch by me; thanks to Nathan Bossart and Richard Guo for review. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1159933.1677621588@sss.pgh.pa.us
2023-02-25Fix mishandling of OLD/NEW references in subqueries in rule actions.Dean Rasheed
If a rule action contains a subquery that refers to columns from OLD or NEW, then those are really lateral references, and the planner will complain if it sees such things in a subquery that isn't marked as lateral. However, at rule-definition time, the user isn't required to mark the subquery with LATERAL, and so it can fail when the rule is used. Fix this by marking such subqueries as lateral in the rewriter, at the point where they're used. Dean Rasheed and Tom Lane, per report from Alexander Lakhin. Back-patch to all supported branches. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/5e09da43-aaba-7ea7-0a51-a2eb981b058b%40gmail.com
2023-02-23Fix multi-row DEFAULT handling for INSERT ... SELECT rules.Dean Rasheed
Given an updatable view with a DO ALSO INSERT ... SELECT rule, a multi-row INSERT ... VALUES query on the view fails if the VALUES list contains any DEFAULTs that are not replaced by view defaults. This manifests as an "unrecognized node type" error, or an Assert failure, in an assert-enabled build. The reason is that when RewriteQuery() attempts to replace the remaining DEFAULT items with NULLs in any product queries, using rewriteValuesRTEToNulls(), it assumes that the VALUES RTE is located at the same rangetable index in each product query. However, if the product query is an INSERT ... SELECT, then the VALUES RTE is actually in the SELECT part of that query (at the same index), rather than the top-level product query itself. Fix, by descending to the SELECT in such cases. Note that we can't simply use getInsertSelectQuery() for this, since that expects to be given a raw rule action with OLD and NEW placeholder entries, so we duplicate its logic instead. While at it, beef up the checks in getInsertSelectQuery() by checking that the jointree->fromlist node is indeed a RangeTblRef, and that the RTE it points to has rtekind == RTE_SUBQUERY. Per bug #17803, from Alexander Lakhin. Back-patch to all supported branches. Dean Rasheed, reviewed by Tom Lane. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17803-53c63ed4ecb4eac6%40postgresql.org
2023-01-30Make Vars be outer-join-aware.Tom Lane
Traditionally we used the same Var struct to represent the value of a table column everywhere in parse and plan trees. This choice predates our support for SQL outer joins, and it's really a pretty bad idea with outer joins, because the Var's value can depend on where it is in the tree: it might go to NULL above an outer join. So expression nodes that are equal() per equalfuncs.c might not represent the same value, which is a huge correctness hazard for the planner. To improve this, decorate Var nodes with a bitmapset showing which outer joins (identified by RTE indexes) may have nulled them at the point in the parse tree where the Var appears. This allows us to trust that equal() Vars represent the same value. A certain amount of klugery is still needed to cope with cases where we re-order two outer joins, but it's possible to make it work without sacrificing that core principle. PlaceHolderVars receive similar decoration for the same reason. In the planner, we include these outer join bitmapsets into the relids that an expression is considered to depend on, and in consequence also add outer-join relids to the relids of join RelOptInfos. This allows us to correctly perceive whether an expression can be calculated above or below a particular outer join. This change affects FDWs that want to plan foreign joins. They *must* follow suit when labeling foreign joins in order to match with the core planner, but for many purposes (if postgres_fdw is any guide) they'd prefer to consider only base relations within the join. To support both requirements, redefine ForeignScan.fs_relids as base+OJ relids, and add a new field fs_base_relids that's set up by the core planner. Large though it is, this commit just does the minimum necessary to install the new mechanisms and get check-world passing again. Follow-up patches will perform some cleanup. (The README additions and comments mention some stuff that will appear in the follow-up.) Patch by me; thanks to Richard Guo for review. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/830269.1656693747@sss.pgh.pa.us
2023-01-18Get rid of the "new" and "old" entries in a view's rangetable.Tom Lane
The rule system needs "old" and/or "new" pseudo-RTEs in rule actions that are ON INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE. Historically it's put such entries into the ON SELECT rules of views as well, but those are really quite vestigial. The only thing we've used them for is to carry the view's relid forward to AcquireExecutorLocks (so that we can re-lock the view to verify it hasn't changed before re-using a plan) and to carry its relid and permissions data forward to execution-time permissions checks. What we can do instead of that is to retain these fields of the RTE_RELATION RTE for the view even after we convert it to an RTE_SUBQUERY RTE. This requires a tiny amount of extra complication in the planner and AcquireExecutorLocks, but on the other hand we can get rid of the logic that moves that data from one place to another. The principal immediate benefit of doing this, aside from a small saving in the pg_rewrite data for views, is that these pseudo-RTEs no longer trigger ruleutils.c's heuristic about qualifying variable names when the rangetable's length is more than 1. That results in quite a number of small simplifications in regression test outputs, which are all to the good IMO. Bump catversion because we need to dump a few more fields of RTE_SUBQUERY RTEs. While those will always be zeroes anyway in stored rules (because we'd never populate them until query rewrite) they are useful for debugging, and it seems like we'd better make sure to transmit such RTEs accurately in plans sent to parallel workers. I don't think the executor actually examines these fields after startup, but someday it might. This is a second attempt at committing 1b4d280ea. The difference from the first time is that now we can add some filtering rules to AdjustUpgrade.pm to allow cross-version upgrade testing to pass despite all the cosmetic changes in CREATE VIEW outputs. Amit Langote (filtering rules by me) Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+HiwqEf7gPN4Hn+LoZ4tP2q_Qt7n3vw7-6fJKOf92tSEnX6Gg@mail.gmail.com Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/891521.1673657296@sss.pgh.pa.us
2023-01-12Revert "Get rid of the "new" and "old" entries in a view's rangetable."Tom Lane
This reverts commit 1b4d280ea1eb7ddb2e16654d5fa16960bb959566. It's broken the buildfarm members that run cross-version-upgrade tests, because they're not prepared to deal with cosmetic differences between CREATE VIEW commands emitted by older servers and HEAD. Even if we had a solution to that, which we don't, it'd take some time to roll it out to the affected animals. This improvement isn't valuable enough to justify addressing that problem on an emergency basis, so revert it for now.
2023-01-12Get rid of the "new" and "old" entries in a view's rangetable.Tom Lane
The rule system needs "old" and/or "new" pseudo-RTEs in rule actions that are ON INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE. Historically it's put such entries into the ON SELECT rules of views as well, but those are really quite vestigial. The only thing we've used them for is to carry the view's relid forward to AcquireExecutorLocks (so that we can re-lock the view to verify it hasn't changed before re-using a plan) and to carry its relid and permissions data forward to execution-time permissions checks. What we can do instead of that is to retain these fields of the RTE_RELATION RTE for the view even after we convert it to an RTE_SUBQUERY RTE. This requires a tiny amount of extra complication in the planner and AcquireExecutorLocks, but on the other hand we can get rid of the logic that moves that data from one place to another. The principal immediate benefit of doing this, aside from a small saving in the pg_rewrite data for views, is that these pseudo-RTEs no longer trigger ruleutils.c's heuristic about qualifying variable names when the rangetable's length is more than 1. That results in quite a number of small simplifications in regression test outputs, which are all to the good IMO. Bump catversion because we need to dump a few more fields of RTE_SUBQUERY RTEs. While those will always be zeroes anyway in stored rules (because we'd never populate them until query rewrite) they are useful for debugging, and it seems like we'd better make sure to transmit such RTEs accurately in plans sent to parallel workers. I don't think the executor actually examines these fields after startup, but someday it might. Amit Langote Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+HiwqEf7gPN4Hn+LoZ4tP2q_Qt7n3vw7-6fJKOf92tSEnX6Gg@mail.gmail.com
2023-01-05Fix calculation of which GENERATED columns need to be updated.Tom Lane
We were identifying the updatable generated columns of inheritance children by transposing the calculation made for their parent. However, there's nothing that says a traditional-inheritance child can't have generated columns that aren't there in its parent, or that have different dependencies than are in the parent's expression. (At present it seems that we don't enforce that for partitioning either, which is likely wrong to some degree or other; but the case clearly needs to be handled with traditional inheritance.) Hence, drop the very-klugy-anyway "extraUpdatedCols" RTE field in favor of identifying which generated columns depend on updated columns during executor startup. In HEAD we can remove extraUpdatedCols altogether; in back branches, it's still there but always empty. Another difference between the HEAD and back-branch versions of this patch is that in HEAD we can add the new bitmap field to ResultRelInfo, but that would cause an ABI break in back branches. Like 4b3e37993, add a List field at the end of struct EState instead. Back-patch to v13. The bogus calculation is also being made in v12, but it doesn't have the same visible effect because we don't use it to decide which generated columns to recalculate; as a consequence of which the patch doesn't apply easily. I think that there might still be a demonstrable bug associated with trigger firing conditions, but that's such a weird corner-case usage that I'm content to leave it unfixed in v12. Amit Langote and Tom Lane Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+HiwqFshLKNvQUd1DgwJ-7tsTp=dwv7KZqXC4j2wYBV1aCDUA@mail.gmail.com Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2793383.1672944799@sss.pgh.pa.us
2023-01-02Update copyright for 2023Bruce Momjian
Backpatch-through: 11
2022-12-20Add copyright notices to meson filesAndrew Dunstan
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/222b43a5-2fb3-2c1b-9cd0-375d376c8246@dunslane.net
2022-12-07Update outdated comment in ApplyRetrieveRuleAlvaro Herrera
After a61b1f74823c. Author: Amit Langote <amitlangote09@gmail.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+HiwqGZm7hb2VAy8HGM22-fTDaQzqE6T=5GbAk=GkT9H0hJEg@mail.gmail.com
2022-12-06Rework query relation permission checkingAlvaro Herrera
Currently, information about the permissions to be checked on relations mentioned in a query is stored in their range table entries. So the executor must scan the entire range table looking for relations that need to have permissions checked. This can make the permission checking part of the executor initialization needlessly expensive when many inheritance children are present in the range range. While the permissions need not be checked on the individual child relations, the executor still must visit every range table entry to filter them out. This commit moves the permission checking information out of the range table entries into a new plan node called RTEPermissionInfo. Every top-level (inheritance "root") RTE_RELATION entry in the range table gets one and a list of those is maintained alongside the range table. This new list is initialized by the parser when initializing the range table. The rewriter can add more entries to it as rules/views are expanded. Finally, the planner combines the lists of the individual subqueries into one flat list that is passed to the executor for checking. To make it quick to find the RTEPermissionInfo entry belonging to a given relation, RangeTblEntry gets a new Index field 'perminfoindex' that stores the corresponding RTEPermissionInfo's index in the query's list of the latter. ExecutorCheckPerms_hook has gained another List * argument; the signature is now: typedef bool (*ExecutorCheckPerms_hook_type) (List *rangeTable, List *rtePermInfos, bool ereport_on_violation); The first argument is no longer used by any in-core uses of the hook, but we leave it in place because there may be other implementations that do. Implementations should likely scan the rtePermInfos list to determine which operations to allow or deny. Author: Amit Langote <amitlangote09@gmail.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+HiwqGjJDmUhDSfv-U2qhKJjt9ST7Xh9JXC_irsAQ1TAUsJYg@mail.gmail.com
2022-12-03Fix DEFAULT handling for multi-row INSERT rules.Dean Rasheed
When updating a relation with a rule whose action performed an INSERT from a multi-row VALUES list, the rewriter might skip processing the VALUES list, and therefore fail to replace any DEFAULTs in it. This would lead to an "unrecognized node type" error. The reason was that RewriteQuery() assumed that a query doing an INSERT from a multi-row VALUES list would necessarily only have one item in its fromlist, pointing to the VALUES RTE to read from. That assumption is correct for the original query, but not for product queries produced for rule actions. In such cases, there may be multiple items in the fromlist, possibly including multiple VALUES RTEs. What is required instead is for RewriteQuery() to skip any RTEs from the product query's originating query, which might include one or more already-processed VALUES RTEs. What's left should then include at most one VALUES RTE (from the rule action) to be processed. Patch by me. Thanks to Tom Lane for reviewing. Back-patch to all supported branches. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEZATCV39OOW7LAR_Xq4i%2BLc1Byux%3DeK3Q%3DHD_pF1o9LBt%3DphA%40mail.gmail.com
2022-12-02Remove logic for converting a table to a view.Tom Lane
Up to now we have allowed manual creation of an ON SELECT rule on a table to convert it into a view. That was never anything but a horrid, error-prone hack though. pg_dump used to rely on that behavior to deal with cases involving circular dependencies, where a dependency loop could be broken by separating the creation of a view from installation of its ON SELECT rule. However, we changed pg_dump to use CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW for that in commit d8c05aff5 (which was later back-patched as far as 9.4), so there's not a good argument anymore for continuing to support the behavior. The proximate reason for axing it now is that we found that the new statistics code has failure modes associated with the relkind change caused by this behavior. We'll patch around that in v15, but going forward it seems like a better idea to get rid of the need to support relkind changes. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CALDaNm2yXz+zOtv7y5zBd5WKT8O0Ld3YxikuU3dcyCvxF7gypA@mail.gmail.com
2022-11-30Stop accessing checkAsUser via RTE in some casesAlvaro Herrera
A future commit will move the checkAsUser field from RangeTblEntry to a new node that, unlike RTEs, will only be created for tables mentioned in the query but not for the inheritance child relations added to the query by the planner. So, checkAsUser value for a given child relation will have to be obtained by referring to that for its ancestor mentioned in the query. In preparation, it seems better to expand the use of RelOptInfo.userid during planning in place of rte->checkAsUser so that there will be fewer places to adjust for the above change. Given that the child-to-ancestor mapping is not available during the execution of a given "child" ForeignScan node, add a checkAsUser field to ForeignScan to carry the child relation's RelOptInfo.userid. Author: Amit Langote <amitlangote09@gmail.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+HiwqGFCs2uq7VRKi7g+FFKbP6Ea_2_HkgZb2HPhUfaAKT3ng@mail.gmail.com
2022-11-13Refactor ownercheck functionsPeter Eisentraut
Instead of dozens of mostly-duplicate pg_foo_ownercheck() functions, write one common function object_ownercheck() that can handle almost all of them. We already have all the information we need, such as which system catalog corresponds to which catalog table and which column is the owner column. Reviewed-by: Corey Huinker <corey.huinker@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Antonin Houska <ah@cybertec.at> Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/95c30f96-4060-2f48-98b5-a4392d3b6066@enterprisedb.com
2022-10-17Reject non-ON-SELECT rules that are named "_RETURN".Tom Lane
DefineQueryRewrite() has long required that ON SELECT rules be named "_RETURN". But we overlooked the converse case: we should forbid non-ON-SELECT rules that are named "_RETURN". In particular this prevents using CREATE OR REPLACE RULE to overwrite a view's _RETURN rule with some other kind of rule, thereby breaking the view. Per bug #17646 from Kui Liu. Back-patch to all supported branches. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17646-70c93cfa40365776@postgresql.org
2022-10-11Yet further fixes for multi-row VALUES lists for updatable views.Tom Lane
DEFAULT markers appearing in an INSERT on an updatable view could be mis-processed if they were in a multi-row VALUES clause. This would lead to strange errors such as "cache lookup failed for type NNNN", or in older branches even to crashes. The cause is that commit 41531e42d tried to re-use rewriteValuesRTE() to remove any SetToDefault nodes (that hadn't previously been replaced by the view's own default values) appearing in "product" queries, that is DO ALSO queries. That's fundamentally wrong because the DO ALSO queries might not even be INSERTs; and even if they are, their targetlists don't necessarily match the view's column list, so that almost all the logic in rewriteValuesRTE() is inapplicable. What we want is a narrow focus on replacing any such nodes with NULL constants. (That is, in this context we are interpreting the defaults as being strictly those of the view itself; and we already replaced any that aren't NULL.) We could add still more !force_nulls tests to further lobotomize rewriteValuesRTE(); but it seems cleaner to split out this case to a new function, restoring rewriteValuesRTE() to the charter it had before. Per bug #17633 from jiye_sw. Patch by me, but thanks to Richard Guo and Japin Li for initial investigation. Back-patch to all supported branches, as the previous fix was. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17633-98cc85e1fa91e905@postgresql.org
2022-09-22meson: Add initial version of meson based build systemAndres Freund
Autoconf is showing its age, fewer and fewer contributors know how to wrangle it. Recursive make has a lot of hard to resolve dependency issues and slow incremental rebuilds. Our home-grown MSVC build system is hard to maintain for developers not using Windows and runs tests serially. While these and other issues could individually be addressed with incremental improvements, together they seem best addressed by moving to a more modern build system. After evaluating different build system choices, we chose to use meson, to a good degree based on the adoption by other open source projects. We decided that it's more realistic to commit a relatively early version of the new build system and mature it in tree. This commit adds an initial version of a meson based build system. It supports building postgres on at least AIX, FreeBSD, Linux, macOS, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris and Windows (however only gcc is supported on aix, solaris). For Windows/MSVC postgres can now be built with ninja (faster, particularly for incremental builds) and msbuild (supporting the visual studio GUI, but building slower). Several aspects (e.g. Windows rc file generation, PGXS compatibility, LLVM bitcode generation, documentation adjustments) are done in subsequent commits requiring further review. Other aspects (e.g. not installing test-only extensions) are not yet addressed. When building on Windows with msbuild, builds are slower when using a visual studio version older than 2019, because those versions do not support MultiToolTask, required by meson for intra-target parallelism. The plan is to remove the MSVC specific build system in src/tools/msvc soon after reaching feature parity. However, we're not planning to remove the autoconf/make build system in the near future. Likely we're going to keep at least the parts required for PGXS to keep working around until all supported versions build with meson. Some initial help for postgres developers is at https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Meson With contributions from Thomas Munro, John Naylor, Stone Tickle and others. Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> Author: Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com> Author: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org> Reviewed-By: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20211012083721.hvixq4pnh2pixr3j@alap3.anarazel.de
2022-09-15Fix grammar in error messageJohn Naylor
While at it, make ellipses formatting consistent when describing SQL statements. Ekaterina Kiryanova and Alexander Lakhin Reviewed by myself and Álvaro Herrera Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/eed5cec0-a542-53da-6a5e-7789c6ed9817%40postgrespro.ru Backpatch only the grammar fix to v15
2022-08-25More -Wshadow=compatible-local warning fixesDavid Rowley
In a similar effort to f01592f91, here we're targetting fixing the warnings where we've deemed the shadowing variable to serve a close enough purpose to the shadowed variable just to reuse the shadowed version and not declare the shadowing variable at all. By my count, this takes the warning count from 106 down to 71. Author: Justin Pryzby Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220825020839.GT2342@telsasoft.com
2022-08-17Avoid using list_length() to test for empty list.Tom Lane
The standard way to check for list emptiness is to compare the List pointer to NIL; our list code goes out of its way to ensure that that is the only representation of an empty list. (An acceptable alternative is a plain boolean test for non-null pointer, but explicit mention of NIL is usually preferable.) Various places didn't get that memo and expressed the condition with list_length(), which might not be so bad except that there were such a variety of ways to check it exactly: equal to zero, less than or equal to zero, less than one, yadda yadda. In the name of code readability, let's standardize all those spellings as "list == NIL" or "list != NIL". (There's probably some microscopic efficiency gain too, though few of these look to be at all performance-critical.) A very small number of cases were left as-is because they seemed more consistent with other adjacent list_length tests that way. Peter Smith, with bikeshedding from a number of us Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAHut+PtQYe+ENX5KrONMfugf0q6NHg4hR5dAhqEXEc2eefFeig@mail.gmail.com
2022-07-16Replace many MemSet calls with struct initializationPeter Eisentraut
This replaces all MemSet() calls with struct initialization where that is easily and obviously possible. (For example, some cases have to worry about padding bits, so I left those.) (The same could be done with appropriate memset() calls, but this patch is part of an effort to phase out MemSet(), so it doesn't touch memset() calls.) Reviewed-by: Ranier Vilela <ranier.vf@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/9847b13c-b785-f4e2-75c3-12ec77a3b05c@enterprisedb.com
2022-04-23Fix incautious CTE matching in rewriteSearchAndCycle().Tom Lane
This function looks for a reference to the recursive WITH CTE, but it checked only the CTE name not ctelevelsup, so that it could seize on a lower CTE that happened to have the same name. This would result in planner failures later, either weird errors such as "could not find attribute 2 in subquery targetlist", or crashes or assertion failures. The code also merely Assert'ed that it found a matching entry, which is not guaranteed at all by the parser. Per bugs #17320 and #17318 from Zhiyong Wu. Thanks to Kyotaro Horiguchi for investigation. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17320-70e37868182512ab@postgresql.org Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17318-2eb65a3a611d2368@postgresql.org
2022-03-28Add support for MERGE SQL commandAlvaro Herrera
MERGE performs actions that modify rows in the target table using a source table or query. MERGE provides a single SQL statement that can conditionally INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE rows -- a task that would otherwise require multiple PL statements. For example, MERGE INTO target AS t USING source AS s ON t.tid = s.sid WHEN MATCHED AND t.balance > s.delta THEN UPDATE SET balance = t.balance - s.delta WHEN MATCHED THEN DELETE WHEN NOT MATCHED AND s.delta > 0 THEN INSERT VALUES (s.sid, s.delta) WHEN NOT MATCHED THEN DO NOTHING; MERGE works with regular tables, partitioned tables and inheritance hierarchies, including column and row security enforcement, as well as support for row and statement triggers and transition tables therein. MERGE is optimized for OLTP and is parameterizable, though also useful for large scale ETL/ELT. MERGE is not intended to be used in preference to existing single SQL commands for INSERT, UPDATE or DELETE since there is some overhead. MERGE can be used from PL/pgSQL. MERGE does not support targetting updatable views or foreign tables, and RETURNING clauses are not allowed either. These limitations are likely fixable with sufficient effort. Rewrite rules are also not supported, but it's not clear that we'd want to support them. Author: Pavan Deolasee <pavan.deolasee@gmail.com> Author: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> Author: Amit Langote <amitlangote09@gmail.com> Author: Simon Riggs <simon.riggs@enterprisedb.com> Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com> Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> (earlier versions) Reviewed-by: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie> (earlier versions) Reviewed-by: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> (earlier versions) Reviewed-by: Japin Li <japinli@hotmail.com> Reviewed-by: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com> Reviewed-by: Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@enterprisedb.com> Reviewed-by: Zhihong Yu <zyu@yugabyte.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CANP8+jKitBSrB7oTgT9CY2i1ObfOt36z0XMraQc+Xrz8QB0nXA@mail.gmail.com Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-WzkJdBuxj9PO=2QaO9-3h3xGbQPZ34kJH=HukRekwM-GZg@mail.gmail.com Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20201231134736.GA25392@alvherre.pgsql
2022-03-22Add support for security invoker views.Dean Rasheed
A security invoker view checks permissions for accessing its underlying base relations using the privileges of the user of the view, rather than the privileges of the view owner. Additionally, if any of the base relations are tables with RLS enabled, the policies of the user of the view are applied, rather than those of the view owner. This allows views to be defined without giving away additional privileges on the underlying base relations, and matches a similar feature available in other database systems. It also allows views to operate more naturally with RLS, without affecting the assignments of policies to users. Christoph Heiss, with some additional hacking by me. Reviewed by Laurenz Albe and Wolfgang Walther. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/b66dd6d6-ad3e-c6f2-8b90-47be773da240%40cybertec.at
2022-03-17Don't bother to attach column name lists to RowExprs of named types.Tom Lane
If a RowExpr is marked as returning a named composite type, we aren't going to consult its colnames list; we'll use the attribute names shown for the type in pg_attribute. Hence, skip storing that list, to save a few nanoseconds when copying the expression tree around. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2950001.1638729947@sss.pgh.pa.us
2022-01-08Update copyright for 2022Bruce Momjian
Backpatch-through: 10
2021-09-08Fix rewriter to set hasModifyingCTE correctly on rewritten queries.Tom Lane
If we copy data-modifying CTEs from the original query to a replacement query (from a DO INSTEAD rule), we must set hasModifyingCTE properly in the replacement query. Failure to do this can cause various unpleasantness, such as unsafe usage of parallel plans. The code also neglected to propagate hasRecursive, though that's only cosmetic at the moment. A difficulty arises if the rule action is an INSERT...SELECT. We attach the original query's RTEs and CTEs to the sub-SELECT Query, but data-modifying CTEs are only allowed to appear in the topmost Query. For the moment, throw an error in such cases. It would probably be possible to avoid this error by attaching the CTEs to the top INSERT Query instead; but that would require a bunch of new code to adjust ctelevelsup references. Given the narrowness of the use-case, and the need to back-patch this fix, it does not seem worth the trouble for now. We can revisit this if we get field complaints. Per report from Greg Nancarrow. Back-patch to all supported branches. (The test case added here does not fail before v10, but there are plenty of places checking top-level hasModifyingCTE in 9.6, so I have no doubt that this code change is necessary there too.) Greg Nancarrow and Tom Lane Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAJcOf-f68DT=26YAMz_i0+Au3TcLO5oiHY5=fL6Sfuits6r+_w@mail.gmail.com Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAJcOf-fAdj=nDKMsRhQzndm-O13NY4dL6xGcEvdX5Xvbbi0V7g@mail.gmail.com
2021-09-08Disable anonymous record hash support except in special casesPeter Eisentraut
Commit 01e658fa74 added hash support for row types. This also added support for hashing anonymous record types, using the same approach that the type cache uses for comparison support for record types: It just reports that it works, but it might fail at run time if a component type doesn't actually support the operation. We get away with that for comparison because most types support that. But some types don't support hashing, so the current state can result in failures at run time where the planner chooses hashing over sorting, whereas that previously worked if only sorting was an option. We do, however, want the record hashing support for path tracking in recursive unions, and the SEARCH and CYCLE clauses built on that. In that case, hashing is the only plan option. So enable that, this commit implements the following approach: The type cache does not report that hashing is available for the record type. This undoes that part of 01e658fa74. Instead, callers that require hashing no matter what can override that result themselves. This patch only touches the callers to make the aforementioned recursive query cases work, namely the parse analysis of unions, as well as the hash_array() function. Reported-by: Sait Talha Nisanci <sait.nisanci@microsoft.com> Bug: #17158 Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/17158-8a2ba823982537a4%40postgresql.org
2021-07-19Use l*_node() family of functions where appropriatePeter Eisentraut
Instead of castNode(…, lfoo(…)) Author: Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker <ilmari@ilmari.org> Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/87eecahraj.fsf@wibble.ilmari.org
2021-07-09Reject cases where a query in WITH rewrites to just NOTIFY.Tom Lane
Since the executor can't cope with a utility statement appearing as a node of a plan tree, we can't support cases where a rewrite rule inserts a NOTIFY into an INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE command appearing in a WITH clause of a larger query. (One can imagine ways around that, but it'd be a new feature not a bug fix, and so far there's been no demand for it.) RewriteQuery checked for this, but it missed the case where the DML command rewrites to *only* a NOTIFY. That'd lead to crashes later on in planning. Add the missed check, and improve the level of testing of this area. Per bug #17094 from Yaoguang Chen. It's been busted since WITH was introduced, so back-patch to all supported branches. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17094-bf15dff55eaf2e28@postgresql.org
2021-07-08Improve error messages about mismatching relkindPeter Eisentraut
Most error messages about a relkind that was not supported or appropriate for the command was of the pattern "relation \"%s\" is not a table, foreign table, or materialized view" This style can become verbose and tedious to maintain. Moreover, it's not very helpful: If I'm trying to create a comment on a TOAST table, which is not supported, then the information that I could have created a comment on a materialized view is pointless. Instead, write the primary error message shorter and saying more directly that what was attempted is not possible. Then, in the detail message, explain that the operation is not supported for the relkind the object was. To simplify that, add a new function errdetail_relkind_not_supported() that does this. In passing, make use of RELKIND_HAS_STORAGE() where appropriate, instead of listing out the relkinds individually. Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz> Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/dc35a398-37d0-75ce-07ea-1dd71d98f8ec@2ndquadrant.com
2021-06-04Adjust locations which have an incorrect copyright yearDavid Rowley
A few patches committed after ca3b37487 mistakenly forgot to make the copyright year 2021. Fix these. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAApHDvqyLmd9P2oBQYJ=DbrV8QwyPRdmXtCTFYPE08h+ip0UJw@mail.gmail.com
2021-05-03Remove unused function argumentPeter Eisentraut
became unused by 04942bffd0aa9bd0d143d99b473342eb9ecee88b
2021-04-26Remove rewriteTargetListIU's expansion of view targetlists in UPDATE.Tom Lane
Commit 2ec993a7c, which added triggers on views, modified the rewriter to add dummy entries like "SET x = x" for all columns that weren't actually being updated by the user in any UPDATE directed at a view. That was needed at the time to produce a complete "NEW" row to pass to the trigger. Later it was found to cause problems for ordinary updatable views, so commit cab5dc5da restricted it to happen only for trigger-updatable views. But in the wake of commit 86dc90056, we really don't need it at all. nodeModifyTable.c populates the trigger "OLD" row from the whole-row variable that is generated for the view, and then it computes the "NEW" row using that old row and the UPDATE targetlist. So there is no need for the UPDATE tlist to have dummy entries, any more than it needs them for regular tables or other types of views. (The comments for rewriteTargetListIU suggest that we must do this for correct expansion of NEW references in rules, but I now think that that was just lazy comment editing in 2ec993a7c. If we didn't need it for rules on views before there were triggers, we don't need it after that.) This essentially propagates 86dc90056's decision that we don't need dummy column updates into the view case. Aside from making the different cases more uniform and hence possibly forestalling future bugs, it ought to save a little bit of rewriter/planner effort. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2181213.1619397634@sss.pgh.pa.us
2021-04-25Update comments for rewriteTargetListIU().Tom Lane
This function's behavior for UPDATE on a trigger-updatable view was justified by analogy to what preptlist.c used to do for UPDATE on regular tables. Since preptlist.c hasn't done that since 86dc90056, that argument is no longer sensible, let alone convincing. I think we do still need it to act that way, so update the comment to explain why.
2021-04-21doc: Improve hyphenation consistencyPeter Eisentraut
2021-04-19Fix typos and grammar in comments and docsMichael Paquier
Author: Justin Pryzby Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210416070310.GG3315@telsasoft.com
2021-04-06Clean up treatment of missing default and CHECK-constraint records.Tom Lane
Andrew Gierth reported that it's possible to crash the backend if no pg_attrdef record is found to match an attribute that has atthasdef set. AttrDefaultFetch warns about this situation, but then leaves behind a relation tupdesc that has null "adbin" pointer(s), which most places don't guard against. We considered promoting the warning to an error, but throwing errors during relcache load is pretty drastic: it effectively locks one out of using the relation at all. What seems better is to leave the load-time behavior as a warning, but then throw an error in any code path that wants to use a default and can't find it. This confines the error to a subset of INSERT/UPDATE operations on the table, and in particular will at least allow a pg_dump to succeed. Also, we should fix AttrDefaultFetch to not leave any null pointers in the tupdesc, because that just creates an untested bug hazard. While at it, apply the same philosophy of "warn at load, throw error only upon use of the known-missing info" to CHECK constraints. CheckConstraintFetch is very nearly the same logic as AttrDefaultFetch, but for reasons lost in the mists of time, it was throwing ERROR for the same cases that AttrDefaultFetch treats as WARNING. Make the two functions more nearly alike. In passing, get rid of potentially-O(N^2) loops in equalTupleDesc by making AttrDefaultFetch sort the entries after fetching them, so that equalTupleDesc can assume that entries in two equal tupdescs must be in matching order. (CheckConstraintFetch already was sorting CHECK constraints, but equalTupleDesc hadn't been told about it.) There's some argument for back-patching this, but with such a small number of field reports, I'm content to fix it in HEAD. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/87pmzaq4gx.fsf@news-spur.riddles.org.uk
2021-03-31Rework planning and execution of UPDATE and DELETE.Tom Lane
This patch makes two closely related sets of changes: 1. For UPDATE, the subplan of the ModifyTable node now only delivers the new values of the changed columns (i.e., the expressions computed in the query's SET clause) plus row identity information such as CTID. ModifyTable must re-fetch the original tuple to merge in the old values of any unchanged columns. The core advantage of this is that the changed columns are uniform across all tables of an inherited or partitioned target relation, whereas the other columns might not be. A secondary advantage, when the UPDATE involves joins, is that less data needs to pass through the plan tree. The disadvantage of course is an extra fetch of each tuple to be updated. However, that seems to be very nearly free in context; even worst-case tests don't show it to add more than a couple percent to the total query cost. At some point it might be interesting to combine the re-fetch with the tuple access that ModifyTable must do anyway to mark the old tuple dead; but that would require a good deal of refactoring and it seems it wouldn't buy all that much, so this patch doesn't attempt it. 2. For inherited UPDATE/DELETE, instead of generating a separate subplan for each target relation, we now generate a single subplan that is just exactly like a SELECT's plan, then stick ModifyTable on top of that. To let ModifyTable know which target relation a given incoming row refers to, a tableoid junk column is added to the row identity information. This gets rid of the horrid hack that was inheritance_planner(), eliminating O(N^2) planning cost and memory consumption in cases where there were many unprunable target relations. Point 2 of course requires point 1, so that there is a uniform definition of the non-junk columns to be returned by the subplan. We can't insist on uniform definition of the row identity junk columns however, if we want to keep the ability to have both plain and foreign tables in a partitioning hierarchy. Since it wouldn't scale very far to have every child table have its own row identity column, this patch includes provisions to merge similar row identity columns into one column of the subplan result. In particular, we can merge the whole-row Vars typically used as row identity by FDWs into one column by pretending they are type RECORD. (It's still okay for the actual composite Datums to be labeled with the table's rowtype OID, though.) There is more that can be done to file down residual inefficiencies in this patch, but it seems to be committable now. FDW authors should note several API changes: * The argument list for AddForeignUpdateTargets() has changed, and so has the method it must use for adding junk columns to the query. Call add_row_identity_var() instead of manipulating the parse tree directly. You might want to reconsider exactly what you're adding, too. * PlanDirectModify() must now work a little harder to find the ForeignScan plan node; if the foreign table is part of a partitioning hierarchy then the ForeignScan might not be the direct child of ModifyTable. See postgres_fdw for sample code. * To check whether a relation is a target relation, it's no longer sufficient to compare its relid to root->parse->resultRelation. Instead, check it against all_result_relids or leaf_result_relids, as appropriate. Amit Langote and Tom Lane Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+HiwqHpHdqdDn48yCEhynnniahH78rwcrv1rEX65-fsZGBOLQ@mail.gmail.com
2021-02-07Revert "Propagate CTE property flags when copying a CTE list into a rule."Tom Lane
This reverts commit ed290896335414c6c069b9ccae1f3dcdd2fac6ba and equivalent back-branch commits. The issue is subtler than I thought, and it's far from new, so just before a release deadline is no time to be fooling with it. We'll consider what to do at a bit more leisure. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAJcOf-fAdj=nDKMsRhQzndm-O13NY4dL6xGcEvdX5Xvbbi0V7g@mail.gmail.com
2021-02-07Propagate CTE property flags when copying a CTE list into a rule.Tom Lane
rewriteRuleAction() neglected this step, although it was careful to propagate other similar flags such as hasSubLinks or hasRowSecurity. Omitting to transfer hasRecursive is just cosmetic at the moment, but omitting hasModifyingCTE is a live bug, since the executor certainly looks at that. The proposed test case only fails back to v10, but since the executor examines hasModifyingCTE in 9.x as well, I suspect that a test case could be devised that fails in older branches. Given the nearness of the release deadline, though, I'm not going to spend time looking for a better test. Report and patch by Greg Nancarrow, cosmetic changes by me Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAJcOf-fAdj=nDKMsRhQzndm-O13NY4dL6xGcEvdX5Xvbbi0V7g@mail.gmail.com
2021-02-06Disallow converting an inheritance child table to a view.Tom Lane
Generally, members of inheritance trees must be plain tables (or, in more recent versions, foreign tables). ALTER TABLE INHERIT rejects creating an inheritance relationship that has a view at either end. When DefineQueryRewrite attempts to convert a relation to a view, it already had checks prohibiting doing so for partitioning parents or children as well as traditional-inheritance parents ... but it neglected to check that a traditional-inheritance child wasn't being converted. Since the planner assumes that any inheritance child is a table, this led to making plans that tried to do a physical scan on a view, causing failures (or even crashes, in recent versions). One could imagine trying to support such a case by expanding the view normally, but since the rewriter runs before the planner does inheritance expansion, it would take some very fundamental refactoring to make that possible. There are probably a lot of other parts of the system that don't cope well with such a situation, too. For now, just forbid it. Per bug #16856 from Yang Lin. Back-patch to all supported branches. (In versions before v10, this includes back-patching the portion of commit 501ed02cf that added has_superclass(). Perhaps the lack of that infrastructure partially explains the missing check.) Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16856-0363e05c6e1612fd@postgresql.org
2021-02-01SEARCH and CYCLE clausesPeter Eisentraut
This adds the SQL standard feature that adds the SEARCH and CYCLE clauses to recursive queries to be able to do produce breadth- or depth-first search orders and detect cycles. These clauses can be rewritten into queries using existing syntax, and that is what this patch does in the rewriter. Reviewed-by: Vik Fearing <vik@postgresfriends.org> Reviewed-by: Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com> Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/db80ceee-6f97-9b4a-8ee8-3ba0c58e5be2@2ndquadrant.com
2021-01-02Update copyright for 2021Bruce Momjian
Backpatch-through: 9.5
2020-11-23Improve wording of two error messages related to generated columns.Tom Lane
Clarify that you can "insert" into a generated column as long as what you're inserting is a DEFAULT placeholder. Also, use ERRCODE_GENERATED_ALWAYS in place of ERRCODE_SYNTAX_ERROR; there doesn't seem to be any reason to use the less specific errcode. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/9q0sgcr416t.fsf@gmx.us
2020-11-22Allow a multi-row INSERT to specify DEFAULTs for a generated column.Tom Lane
One can say "INSERT INTO tab(generated_col) VALUES (DEFAULT)" and not draw an error. But the equivalent case for a multi-row VALUES list always threw an error, even if one properly said DEFAULT in each row. Fix that. While here, improve the test cases for nearby logic about OVERRIDING SYSTEM/USER values. Dean Rasheed Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/9q0sgcr416t.fsf@gmx.us