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2012-04-29Simplify makefile rulePeter Eisentraut
Instead of writing out the .c -> .o rule, use the default one, so that dependency tracking can be used.
2012-04-29Make a copy-editing pass over the new documentation for statistics views.Tom Lane
Fix a bunch of typos, improve markup, make wording more uniform, rearrange some material. No substantive changes.
2012-04-28Adjust timing units in pg_stat_statements.Tom Lane
Display total time and I/O timings in milliseconds, for consistency with the units used for timings in the core statistics views. The columns remain of float8 type, so that sub-msec precision is available. (At some point we will probably want to convert the core views to use float8 type for the same reason, but this patch does not touch that issue.) This is a release-note-requiring change in the meaning of the total_time column. The I/O timing columns are new as of 9.2, so there is no compatibility impact from redefining them. Do some minor copy-editing in the documentation, too.
2012-04-28Clear I/O timing counters after sending them to the stats collector.Tom Lane
This oversight caused the reported times to accumulate in an O(N^2) fashion the longer a backend runs.
2012-04-28PL/Python: Update list of supported environment variablesPeter Eisentraut
2012-04-27Fix printing of whole-row Vars at top level of a SELECT targetlist.Tom Lane
Normally whole-row Vars are printed as "tabname.*". However, that does not work at top level of a targetlist, because per SQL standard the parser will think that the "*" should result in column-by-column expansion; which is not at all what a whole-row Var implies. We used to just print the table name in such cases, which works most of the time; but it fails if the table name matches a column name available anywhere in the FROM clause. This could lead for instance to a view being interpreted differently after dump and reload. Adding parentheses doesn't fix it, but there is a reasonably simple kluge we can use instead: attach a no-op cast, so that the "*" isn't syntactically at top level anymore. This makes the printing of such whole-row Vars a lot more consistent with other Vars, and may indeed fix more cases than just the reported one; I'm suspicious that cases involving schema qualification probably didn't work properly before, either. Per bug report and fix proposal from Abbas Butt, though this patch is quite different in detail from his. Back-patch to all supported versions.
2012-04-27Add options to git_changelog for use in major release note creation:Bruce Momjian
--details-after --master-only --oldest-first
2012-04-27Fix syslogger's rotation disable/re-enable logic.Tom Lane
If it fails to open a new log file, the syslogger assumes there's something wrong with its parameters (such as log_directory), and stops attempting automatic time-based or size-based log file rotations. Sending it SIGHUP is supposed to start that up again. However, the original coding for that was really bogus, involving clobbering a couple of GUC variables and hoping that SIGHUP processing would restore them. Get rid of that technique in favor of maintaining a separate flag showing we've turned rotation off. Per report from Mark Kirkwood. Also, the syslogger will automatically attempt to create the log_directory directory if it doesn't exist, but that was only happening at startup. For consistency and ease of use, it should do the same whenever the value of log_directory is changed by SIGHUP. Back-patch to all supported branches.
2012-04-27Prevent index-only scans from returning wrong answers under Hot Standby.Robert Haas
The alternative of disallowing index-only scans in HS operation was discussed, but the consensus was that it was better to treat marking a page all-visible as a recovery conflict for snapshots that could still fail to see XIDs on that page. We may in the future try to soften this, so that we simply force index scans to do heap fetches in cases where this may be an issue, rather than throwing a hard conflict.
2012-04-26Improve documentation around historical calendar rules.Tom Lane
Get rid of section 8.5.6 (Date/Time Internals), which appears to confuse people more than it helps, and anyway discussion of Postgres' internal datetime calculation methods seems pretty out of place here. Instead, make datatype.sgml just say that we follow the Gregorian calendar (a bit of specification not previously present anywhere in that chapter :-() and link to the History of Units appendix for more info. Do some mild editorialization on that appendix, too, to make it clearer that we are following proleptic Gregorian calendar rules rather than anything more historically accurate. Per a question from Florence Cousin and subsequent discussion in pgsql-docs.
2012-04-26Fix oversight in recent parameterized-path patch.Tom Lane
bitmap_scan_cost_est() has to be able to cope with a BitmapOrPath, but I'd taken a shortcut that didn't work for that case. Noted by Heikki. Add some regression tests since this area is evidently under-covered.
2012-04-26PL/Python: Accept strings in functions returning composite typesPeter Eisentraut
Before 9.1, PL/Python functions returning composite types could return a string and it would be parsed using record_in. The 9.1 changes made PL/Python only expect dictionaries, tuples, or objects supporting getattr as output of composite functions, resulting in a regression and a confusing error message, as the strings were interpreted as sequences and the code for transforming lists to database tuples was used. Fix this by treating strings separately as before, before checking for the other types. The reason why it's important to support string to database tuple conversion is that trigger functions on tables with composite columns get the composite row passed in as a string (from record_out). Without supporting converting this back using record_in, this makes it impossible to implement pass-through behavior for these columns, as PL/Python no longer accepts strings for composite values. A better solution would be to fix the code that transforms composite inputs into Python objects to produce dictionaries that would then be correctly interpreted by the Python->PostgreSQL counterpart code. But that would be too invasive to backpatch to 9.1, and it is too late in the 9.2 cycle to attempt it. It should be revisited in the future, though. Reported as bug #6559 by Kirill Simonov. Jan Urbański
2012-04-26psql: Tab completion updatesPeter Eisentraut
Add/complete support for: - ALTER DOMAIN / VALIDATE CONSTRAINT - ALTER DOMAIN / RENAME - ALTER DOMAIN / RENAME CONSTRAINT - ALTER TABLE / RENAME CONSTRAINT
2012-04-26Modify create_index regression test to avoid intermittent failures.Tom Lane
We have been seeing intermittent buildfarm failures due to a query sometimes not using an index-only scan plan, because a background auto-ANALYZE prevented the table's all-visible bits from being set immediately, thereby causing the estimated cost of an index-only scan to go up considerably. Adjust the test case so that a bitmap index scan is preferred instead, which serves equally well for the purpose the test case is actually meant for. (Of course, it would be better to eliminate the interference from auto-ANALYZE, but I see no low-risk way to do that, so any such fix will have to be left for 9.3 or later.)
2012-04-26Fix planner's handling of RETURNING lists in writable CTEs.Tom Lane
setrefs.c failed to do "rtoffset" adjustment of Vars in RETURNING lists, which meant they were left with the wrong varnos when the RETURNING list was in a subquery. That was never possible before writable CTEs, of course, but now it's broken. The executor fails to notice any problem because ExecEvalVar just references the ecxt_scantuple for any normal varno; but EXPLAIN breaks when the varno is wrong, as illustrated in a recent complaint from Bartosz Dmytrak. Since the eventual rtoffset of the subquery is not known at the time we are preparing its plan node, the previous scheme of executing set_returning_clause_references() at that time cannot handle this adjustment. Fortunately, it turns out that we don't really need to do it that way, because all the needed information is available during normal setrefs.c execution; we just have to dig it out of the ModifyTable node. So, do that, and get rid of the kluge of early setrefs processing of RETURNING lists. (This is a little bit of a cheat in the case of inherited UPDATE/DELETE, because we are not passing a "root" struct that corresponds exactly to what the subplan was built with. But that doesn't matter, and anyway this is less ugly than early setrefs processing was.) Back-patch to 9.1, where the problem became possible to hit.
2012-04-25Fix edge-case behavior of pg_next_dst_boundary().Tom Lane
Due to rather sloppy thinking (on my part, I'm afraid) about the appropriate behavior for boundary conditions, pg_next_dst_boundary() gave undefined, platform-dependent results when the input time is exactly the last recorded DST transition time for the specified time zone, as a result of fetching values one past the end of its data arrays. Change its specification to be that it always finds the next DST boundary *after* the input time, and adjust code to match that. The sole existing caller, DetermineTimeZoneOffset, doesn't actually care about this distinction, since it always uses a probe time earlier than the instant that it does care about. So it seemed best to me to change the API to make the result=1 and result=0 cases more consistent, specifically to ensure that the "before" outputs always describe the state at the given time, rather than hacking the code to obey the previous API comment exactly. Per bug #6605 from Sergey Burladyan. Back-patch to all supported versions.
2012-04-25Remove prototype for nonexistent function.Robert Haas
2012-04-25Another trivial comment-typo fix.Tom Lane
2012-04-25PL/Python: Improve error messagesPeter Eisentraut
2012-04-24Standardize indentation of XSL filesPeter Eisentraut
Predominant standard is two spaces, so adjust outliers to that.
2012-04-24entab: Improve makefilePeter Eisentraut
A few simplifications and stylistic improvements, found while grepping around for makefile problems elsewhere.
2012-04-24Fix minor stylistic issuePeter Eisentraut
2012-04-24Casts to or from a domain type are ignored; warn and document.Robert Haas
Prohibiting this outright would break dumps taken from older versions that contain such casts, which would create far more pain than is justified here. Per report by Jaime Casanova and subsequent discussion.
2012-04-24Another typographical correction.Robert Haas
Noted by Guillaume Smet.
2012-04-24Lots of doc corrections.Robert Haas
Josh Kupershmidt
2012-04-24Rearrange lazy_scan_heap to avoid visibility map race conditions.Robert Haas
We must set the visibility map bit before releasing our exclusive lock on the heap page; otherwise, someone might clear the heap page bit before we set the visibility map bit, leading to a situation where the visibility map thinks the page is all-visible but it's really not. This problem has existed since 8.4, but it wasn't critical before we had index-only scans, since the worst case scenario was that the page wouldn't get vacuumed until the next scan_all vacuum. Along the way, a couple of minor, related improvements: (1) if we pause the heap scan to do an index vac cycle, release any visibility map page we're holding, since really long-running pins are not good for a variety of reasons; and (2) warn if we see a page that's marked all-visible in the visibility map but not on the page level, since that should never happen any more (it was allowed in previous releases, but not in 9.2).
2012-04-24Reduce hash size for compute_array_stats, compute_tsvector_stats.Robert Haas
The size is only a hint, but a big hint chews up a lot of memory without apparently improving performance much. Analysis and patch by Noah Misch.
2012-04-24Minor improvements for CHECK NO INHERIT documentation.Robert Haas
Fix typo spotted by Thom Brown, and improve wording in another area where Thom spotted a typo.
2012-04-22Fix some typosPeter Eisentraut
Josh Kupershmidt
2012-04-21Use fuzzy not exact cost comparison for the final tie-breaker in add_path.Tom Lane
Instead of an exact cost comparison, use a fuzzy comparison with 1e-10 delta after all other path metrics have proved equal. This is to avoid having platform-specific roundoff behaviors determine the choice when two paths are really the same to our cost estimators. Adjust the recently-added test case that made it obvious we had a problem here.
2012-04-21Recast "ONLY" column CHECK constraints as NO INHERITAlvaro Herrera
The original syntax wasn't universally loved, and it didn't allow its usage in CREATE TABLE, only ALTER TABLE. It now works everywhere, and it also allows using ALTER TABLE ONLY to add an uninherited CHECK constraint, per discussion. The pg_constraint column has accordingly been renamed connoinherit. This commit partly reverts some of the changes in 61d81bd28dbec65a6b144e0cd3d0bfe25913c3ac, particularly some pg_dump and psql bits, because now pg_get_constraintdef includes the necessary NO INHERIT within the constraint definition. Author: Nikhil Sontakke Some tweaks by me
2012-04-21Adjust join_search_one_level's handling of clauseless joins.Tom Lane
For an initial relation that lacks any join clauses (that is, it has to be cartesian-product-joined to the rest of the query), we considered only cartesian joins with initial rels appearing later in the initial-relations list. This creates an undesirable dependency on FROM-list order. We would never fail to find a plan, but perhaps we might not find the best available plan. Noted while discussing the logic with Amit Kapila. Improve the comments a bit in this area, too. Arguably this is a bug fix, but given the lack of complaints from the field I'll refrain from back-patching.
2012-04-19Revise parameterized-path mechanism to fix assorted issues.Tom Lane
This patch adjusts the treatment of parameterized paths so that all paths with the same parameterization (same set of required outer rels) for the same relation will have the same rowcount estimate. We cache the rowcount estimates to ensure that property, and hopefully save a few cycles too. Doing this makes it practical for add_path_precheck to operate without a rowcount estimate: it need only assume that paths with different parameterizations never dominate each other, which is close enough to true anyway for coarse filtering, because normally a more-parameterized path should yield fewer rows thanks to having more join clauses to apply. In add_path, we do the full nine yards of comparing rowcount estimates along with everything else, so that we can discard parameterized paths that don't actually have an advantage. This fixes some issues I'd found with add_path rejecting parameterized paths on the grounds that they were more expensive than not-parameterized ones, even though they yielded many fewer rows and hence would be cheaper once subsequent joining was considered. To make the same-rowcounts assumption valid, we have to require that any parameterized path enforce *all* join clauses that could be obtained from the particular set of outer rels, even if not all of them are useful for indexing. This is required at both base scans and joins. It's a good thing anyway since the net impact is that join quals are checked at the lowest practical level in the join tree. Hence, discard the original rather ad-hoc mechanism for choosing parameterization joinquals, and build a better one that has a more principled rule for when clauses can be moved. The original rule was actually buggy anyway for lack of knowledge about which relations are part of an outer join's outer side; getting this right requires adding an outer_relids field to RestrictInfo.
2012-04-19Untabify DSSSL and XSL files and add to check-tabs targetPeter Eisentraut
Like with SGML files, using tabs in these files is confusing and unnecessary.
2012-04-18Remove bogus comment from HeapTupleSatisfiesNow.Robert Haas
This has been wrong for a really long time. We don't use two-phase locking to protect against serialization anomalies. Per discussion on pgsql-hackers about 2011-03-07; original report by Dan Ports.
2012-04-18Finish rename of FastPathStrongLocks to FastPathStrongRelationLocks.Robert Haas
Commit 8e5ac74c1249820ca55481223a95b9124b4a4f95 tried to do this renaming, but I relied on gcc to tell me where I needed to make changes, instead of grep. Noted by Jeff Davis.
2012-04-18Tighten up error recovery for fast-path locking.Robert Haas
The previous code could cause a backend crash after BEGIN; SAVEPOINT a; LOCK TABLE foo (interrupted by ^C or statement timeout); ROLLBACK TO SAVEPOINT a; LOCK TABLE foo, and might have leaked strong-lock counts in other situations. Report by Zoltán Böszörményi; patch review by Jeff Davis.
2012-04-18Fix incorrect comment in SetBufferCommitInfoNeedsSave().Robert Haas
Noah Misch spotted the fact that the old comment is in fact incorrect, due to memory ordering hazards.
2012-04-18After PageSetAllVisible, use MarkBufferDirty.Robert Haas
Previously, we used SetBufferCommitInfoNeedsSave, but that's really intended for dirty-marks we can theoretically afford to lose, such as hint bits. As for 9.2, the PD_ALL_VISIBLE mustn't be lost in this way, since we could then end up with a heap page that isn't all-visible and a visibility map page that is all visible, causing index-only scans to return wrong answers.
2012-04-18Fix copyfuncs/equalfuncs support for ReassignOwnedStmt.Robert Haas
Noah Misch
2012-04-18Fix various infelicities in node functions.Robert Haas
Mostly, this consists of adding support for fields which exist in the structure but aren't handled by copy/equal/outfuncs; but the create foreign table case can actually produce garbage output. Noah Misch
2012-04-18Doc clarification for synchronous_commit.Robert Haas
Fujii Masao
2012-04-18psql: Add tab completion for CREATE/ALTER ROLE name WITHPeter Eisentraut
Previously, the use of the optional key word WITH was not supported. Josh Kupershmidt
2012-04-17Don't override arguments set via options with positional arguments.Andrew Dunstan
A number of utility programs were rather careless about paremeters that can be set via both an option argument and a positional argument. This leads to results which can violate the Principal Of Least Astonishment. These changes refuse to use positional arguments to override settings that have been made via positional arguments. The changes are backpatched to all live branches.
2012-04-17Don't wait for the commit record to be replicated if we wrote no WAL.Heikki Linnakangas
When using synchronous replication, we waited for the commit record to be replicated, but if we our transaction didn't write any other WAL records, that's not required because we don't even flush the WAL locally to disk in that case. This lead to long waits when committing a transaction that only modified a temporary table. Bug spotted by Thom Brown.
2012-04-16Add compatibility information for prepared transaction commandsPeter Eisentraut
2012-04-16Fix typoPeter Eisentraut
Kyotaro HORIGUCHI
2012-04-16Install plpgsql.h to to include/server at "make install".Heikki Linnakangas
The header file is needed by any module that wants to use the PL/pgSQL instrumentation plugin interface. Most notably, the pldebugger plugin needs this. With this patch, it can be built using pgxs, without having the full server source tree available.
2012-04-16PL/Python: Improve documentation of nrows() methodPeter Eisentraut
Clarify that nrows() is the number of rows processed, versus the number of rows returned, which can be obtained using len. Also add tests about that.
2012-04-15PL/Python: Fix crash when colnames() etc. called without result setPeter Eisentraut
The result object methods colnames() etc. would crash when called after a command that did not produce a result set. Now they throw an exception. discovery and initial patch by Jean-Baptiste Quenot