Robert Haas [Thu, 15 Mar 2012 20:08:40 +0000 (16:08 -0400)]
sepgsql_setcon().
This is intended as infrastructure to allow sepgsql to cooperate with
connection pooling software, by allowing the effective security label
to be set for each new connection.
Peter Eisentraut [Wed, 14 Mar 2012 20:44:40 +0000 (22:44 +0200)]
COPY: Add an assertion
This is for tools such as Coverity that don't know that the grammar
enforces that the case of not having a relation (but instead a query)
cannot happen in the FROM case.
Peter Eisentraut [Tue, 13 Mar 2012 19:34:54 +0000 (21:34 +0200)]
pg_dump: Fix some minor memory leaks
Although we often don't care about freeing all memory in pg_dump,
these functions already freed the same memory in other code paths, so
we might as well do it consistently.
Tom Lane [Tue, 13 Mar 2012 19:26:32 +0000 (15:26 -0400)]
Patch some corner-case bugs in pl/python.
Dave Malcolm of Red Hat is working on a static code analysis tool for
Python-related C code. It reported a number of problems in plpython,
most of which were failures to check for NULL results from object-creation
functions, so would only be an issue in very-low-memory situations.
Patch in HEAD and 9.1. We could go further back but it's not clear that
these issues are important enough to justify the work.
Tom Lane [Tue, 13 Mar 2012 17:19:06 +0000 (13:19 -0400)]
Create a stack of pl/python "execution contexts".
This replaces the former global variable PLy_curr_procedure, and provides
a place to stash per-call-level information. In particular we create a
per-call-level scratch memory context.
For the moment, the scratch context is just used to avoid leaking memory
from datatype output function calls in PLyDict_FromTuple. There probably
will be more use-cases in future.
Although this is a fix for a pre-existing memory leakage bug, it seems
sufficiently invasive to not want to back-patch; it feels better as part
of the major rearrangement of plpython code that we've already done as
part of 9.2.
Robert Haas [Tue, 13 Mar 2012 13:35:55 +0000 (09:35 -0400)]
pgstattuple: Add new error case for spgist indexes.
Extracted from a larger patch by Jaime Casanova, reviewed by Noah Misch.
I think this error message could use some more extensive revision, but
this at least makes the handling of spgist consistent with what we do for
other types of indexes that this code doesn't know how to handle.
Bruce Momjian [Mon, 12 Mar 2012 23:47:54 +0000 (19:47 -0400)]
In pg_upgrade, add various logging improvements:
add ability to control permissions of created files
have psql echo its queries for easier debugging
output four separate log files, and delete them on success
add -r/--retain option to keep log files after success
make logs file append-only
remove -g/-G/-l logging options
sugggest tailing appropriate log file on failure
enhance -v/--verbose behavior
Tom Lane [Mon, 12 Mar 2012 20:10:05 +0000 (16:10 -0400)]
Fix SPGiST vacuum algorithm to handle concurrent tuple motion properly.
A leaf tuple that we need to delete could get moved as a consequence of an
insertion happening concurrently with the VACUUM scan. If it moves from a
page past the current scan point to a page before, we'll miss it, which is
not acceptable. Hence, when we see a leaf-page REDIRECT that could have
been made since our scan started, chase down the redirection pointer much
as if we were doing a normal index search, and be sure to vacuum every page
it leads to. This fixes the issue because, if the tuple was on page N at
the instant we start our scan, we will surely find it as a consequence of
chasing the redirect from page N, no matter how much it moves around in
between. Problem noted by Takashi Yamamoto.
Tom Lane [Sun, 11 Mar 2012 22:14:23 +0000 (18:14 -0400)]
Make INSERT/UPDATE queries depend on their specific target columns.
We have always created a whole-table dependency for the target relation,
but that's not really good enough, as it doesn't prevent scenarios such
as dropping an individual target column or altering its type. So we
have to create an individual dependency for each target column, as well.
Per report from Bill MacArthur of a rule containing UPDATE breaking
after such an alteration. Note that this patch doesn't try to make
such cases work, only to ensure that the attempted ALTER TABLE throws
an error telling you it can't cope with adjusting the rule.
This is a long-standing bug, but given the lack of prior reports
I'm not going to risk back-patching it. A back-patch wouldn't do
anything to fix existing rules' dependency lists, anyway.
Tom Lane [Sun, 11 Mar 2012 20:29:04 +0000 (16:29 -0400)]
Teach SPGiST to store nulls and do whole-index scans.
This patch fixes the other major compatibility-breaking limitation of
SPGiST, that it didn't store anything for null values of the indexed
column, and so could not support whole-index scans or "x IS NULL"
tests. The approach is to create a wholly separate search tree for
the null entries, and use fixed "allTheSame" insertion and search
rules when processing this tree, instead of calling the index opclass
methods. This way the opclass methods do not need to worry about
dealing with nulls.
Catversion bump is for pg_am updates as well as the change in on-disk
format of SPGiST indexes; there are some tweaks in SPGiST WAL records
as well.
Heavily rewritten version of a patch by Oleg Bartunov and Teodor Sigaev.
(The original also stored nulls separately, but it reused GIN code to do
so; which required undesirable compromises in the on-disk format, and
would likely lead to bugs due to the GIN code being required to work in
two very different contexts.)
Peter Eisentraut [Sat, 10 Mar 2012 23:52:05 +0000 (01:52 +0200)]
Add more detail to error message for invalid arguments for server process
It now prints the argument that was at fault.
Also fix a small misbehavior where the error message issued by
getopt() would complain about a program named "--single", because
that's what argv[0] is in the server process.
Tom Lane [Sat, 10 Mar 2012 23:36:49 +0000 (18:36 -0500)]
Restructure SPGiST opclass interface API to support whole-index scans.
The original API definition was incapable of supporting whole-index scans
because there was no way to invoke leaf-value reconstruction without
checking any qual conditions. Also, it was inefficient for
multiple-qual-condition scans because value reconstruction got done over
again for each qual condition, and because other internal work in the
consistent functions likewise had to be done for each qual. To fix these
issues, pass the whole scankey array to the opclass consistent functions,
instead of only letting them see one item at a time. (Essentially, the
loop over scankey entries is now inside the consistent functions not
outside them. This makes the consistent functions a bit more complicated,
but not unreasonably so.)
In itself this commit does nothing except save a few cycles in
multiple-qual-condition index scans, since we can't support whole-index
scans on SPGiST indexes until nulls are included in the index. However,
I consider this a must-fix for 9.2 because once we release it will get
very much harder to change the opclass API definition.
Robert Haas [Fri, 9 Mar 2012 19:34:56 +0000 (14:34 -0500)]
Extend object access hook framework to support arguments, and DROP.
This allows loadable modules to get control at drop time, perhaps for the
purpose of performing additional security checks or to log the event.
The initial purpose of this code is to support sepgsql, but other
applications should be possible as well.
Tom Lane [Fri, 9 Mar 2012 17:48:48 +0000 (12:48 -0500)]
Revise FDW planning API, again.
Further reflection shows that a single callback isn't very workable if we
desire to let FDWs generate multiple Paths, because that forces the FDW to
do all work necessary to generate a valid Plan node for each Path. Instead
split the former PlanForeignScan API into three steps: GetForeignRelSize,
GetForeignPaths, GetForeignPlan. We had already bit the bullet of breaking
the 9.1 FDW API for 9.2, so this shouldn't cause very much additional pain,
and it's substantially more flexible for complex FDWs.
Add an fdw_private field to RelOptInfo so that the new functions can save
state there rather than possibly having to recalculate information two or
three times.
In addition, we'd not thought through what would be needed to allow an FDW
to set up subexpressions of its choice for runtime execution. We could
treat ForeignScan.fdw_private as an executable expression but that seems
likely to break existing FDWs unnecessarily (in particular, it would
restrict the set of node types allowable in fdw_private to those supported
by expression_tree_walker). Instead, invent a separate field fdw_exprs
which will receive the postprocessing appropriate for expression trees.
(One field is enough since it can be a list of expressions; also, we assume
the corresponding expression state tree(s) will be held within fdw_state,
so we don't need to add anything to ForeignScanState.)
Per review of Hanada Shigeru's pgsql_fdw patch. We may need to tweak this
further as we continue to work on that patch, but to me it feels a lot
closer to being right now.
Tom Lane [Thu, 8 Mar 2012 20:52:26 +0000 (15:52 -0500)]
Fix some issues with temp/transient tables in extension scripts.
Phil Sorber reported that a rewriting ALTER TABLE within an extension
update script failed, because it creates and then drops a placeholder
table; the drop was being disallowed because the table was marked as an
extension member. We could hack that specific case but it seems likely
that there might be related cases now or in the future, so the most
practical solution seems to be to create an exception to the general rule
that extension member objects can only be dropped by dropping the owning
extension. To wit: if the DROP is issued within the extension's own
creation or update scripts, we'll allow it, implicitly performing an
"ALTER EXTENSION DROP object" first. This will simplify cases such as
extension downgrade scripts anyway.
No docs change since we don't seem to have documented the idea that you
would need ALTER EXTENSION DROP for such an action to begin with.
Also, arrange for explicitly temporary tables to not get linked as
extension members in the first place, and the same for the magic
pg_temp_nnn schemas that are created to hold them. This prevents assorted
unpleasant results if an extension script creates a temp table: the forced
drop at session end would either fail or remove the entire extension, and
neither of those outcomes is desirable. Note that this doesn't fix the
ALTER TABLE scenario, since the placeholder table is not temp (unless the
table being rewritten is).
Tom Lane [Thu, 8 Mar 2012 03:59:49 +0000 (22:59 -0500)]
Improve estimation of IN/NOT IN by assuming array elements are distinct.
In constructs such as "x IN (1,2,3,4)" and "x <> ALL(ARRAY[1,2,3,4])",
we formerly always used a general-purpose assumption that the probability
of success is independent for each comparison of "x" to an array element.
But in real-world usage of these constructs, that's a pretty poor
assumption; it's much saner to assume that the array elements are distinct
and so the match probabilities are disjoint. Apply that assumption if the
operator appears to behave as equality (for ANY) or inequality (for ALL).
But fall back to the normal independent-probabilities calculation if this
yields an impossible result, ie probability > 1 or < 0. We could protect
ourselves against bad estimates even more by explicitly checking for equal
array elements, but that is expensive and doesn't seem worthwhile: doing
it would amount to optimizing for poorly-written queries at the expense
of well-written ones.
Daniele Varrazzo and Tom Lane, after a suggestion by Ants Aasma
Tom Lane [Thu, 8 Mar 2012 00:25:59 +0000 (19:25 -0500)]
Fix indentation of \d footers for non-ASCII cases.
Multi-line "Inherits:" and "Child tables:" footers were misindented when
those strings' translations involved multibyte characters, because we were
using strlen() instead of an appropriate display width measurement.
In passing, avoid doing gettext() more than once per loop in these places.
While at it, fix pg_wcswidth(), which has been entirely broken since about
8.2, but fortunately has been unused for the same length of time.
Tom Lane [Wed, 7 Mar 2012 23:20:58 +0000 (18:20 -0500)]
Add GetForeignColumnOptions() to foreign.c, and add some documentation.
GetForeignColumnOptions provides some abstraction for accessing
column-specific FDW options, on a par with the access functions that were
already provided here for other FDW-related information.
Adjust file_fdw.c to use GetForeignColumnOptions instead of equivalent
hand-rolled code.
In addition, add some SGML documentation for the functions exported by
foreign.c that are meant for use by FDW authors.
(This is the fdw_helper portion of the proposed pgsql_fdw patch.)
Due to an apparent thinko, when printing a table in expanded mode
(\x), space would be allocated for 1 slot plus 1 byte per line,
instead of 1 slot per line plus 1 slot for the NULL terminator. When
the line count is small, reading or writing the terminator would
therefore access memory beyond what was allocated.
Tom Lane [Wed, 7 Mar 2012 19:51:13 +0000 (14:51 -0500)]
Expose an API for calculating catcache hash values.
Now that cache invalidation callbacks get only a hash value, and not a
tuple TID (per commits 632ae6829f7abda34e15082c91d9dfb3fc0f298b and b5282aa893e565b7844f8237462cb843438cdd5e), the only way they can restrict
what they invalidate is to know what the hash values mean. setrefs.c was
doing this via a hard-wired assumption but that seems pretty grotty, and
it'll only get worse as more cases come up. So let's expose a calculation
function that takes the same parameters as SearchSysCache. Per complaint
from Marko Kreen.
Tom Lane [Tue, 6 Mar 2012 20:35:41 +0000 (15:35 -0500)]
Add a hook for processing messages due to be sent to the server log.
Use-cases for this include custom log filtering rules and custom log
message transmission mechanisms (for instance, lossy log message
collection, which has been discussed several times recently).
As is our common practice for hooks, there's no regression test nor
user-facing documentation for this, though the author did exhibit a
sample module using the hook.
This simplifies the code a little bit. The new rule is that to update
XLogCtl->LogwrtResult, you must hold both WALWriteLock and info_lck, whereas
before we had two copies, one that was protected by WALWriteLock and another
protected by info_lck. The code that updates them was already holding both
locks, so merging the two is trivial.
The third copy, XLogCtl->Insert.LogwrtResult, was not totally redundant, it
was used in AdvanceXLInsertBuffer to update the backend-local copy, before
acquiring the info_lck to read the up-to-date value. But the value of that
seems dubious; at best it's saving one spinlock acquisition per completed
WAL page, which is not significant compared to all the other work involved.
And in practice, it's probably not saving even that much.
Simplify the way changes to full_page_writes are logged.
It's harmless to do full page writes even when not strictly necessary, so
when turning full_page_writes on, we can set the global flag first, and then
call XLogInsert. Likewise, when turning it off, we can write the WAL record
first, and then clear the flag. This way XLogInsert doesn't need any special
handling of the XLOG_FPW_CHANGE record type. XLogInsert is complicated
enough already, so anything we can keep away from there is a good thing.
Actually I don't think the atomicity of the shared memory flag matters,
anyway, because we only write the XLOG_FPW_CHANGE at the end of recovery,
when there are no concurrent WAL insertions going on. But might as well make
it safe, in case we allow changing full_page_writes on the fly in the
future.
Bruce Momjian [Tue, 6 Mar 2012 02:19:54 +0000 (21:19 -0500)]
In pg_upgrade, only lock the old cluster if link mode is used, and do it
right after we restore the schema (a common failure point), and right
before we do the link operation.
Tom Lane [Mon, 5 Mar 2012 21:15:59 +0000 (16:15 -0500)]
Redesign PlanForeignScan API to allow multiple paths for a foreign table.
The original API specification only allowed an FDW to create a single
access path, which doesn't seem like a terribly good idea in hindsight.
Instead, move the responsibility for building the Path node and calling
add_path() into the FDW's PlanForeignScan function. Now, it can do that
more than once if appropriate. There is no longer any need for the
transient FdwPlan struct, so get rid of that.
Tom Lane [Mon, 5 Mar 2012 19:08:52 +0000 (14:08 -0500)]
Improve documentation around logging_collector and use of stderr.
In backup.sgml, point out that you need to be using the logging collector
if you want to log messages from a failing archive_command script. (This
is an oversimplification, in that it will work without the collector as
long as you're not sending postmaster stderr to /dev/null; but it seems
like a good idea to encourage use of the collector to avoid problems
with multiple processes concurrently scribbling on one file.)
In config.sgml, do some wordsmithing of logging_collector discussion.
Tom Lane [Sun, 4 Mar 2012 21:03:38 +0000 (16:03 -0500)]
Remove useless "rough estimate" path from mcelem_array_contained_selec.
The code in this function that tried to cope with a missing count histogram
was quite ineffective for anything except a perfectly flat distribution.
Furthermore, since we were already punting for missing MCELEM slot, it's
rather useless to sweat over missing DECHIST: there are no cases where
ANALYZE will create the first but not the second. So just simplify the
code by punting rather than pretending we can do something useful.
Tom Lane [Sun, 4 Mar 2012 20:40:16 +0000 (15:40 -0500)]
Improve histogram-filling loop in new compute_array_stats() code.
Do "frac" arithmetic in int64 to prevent overflow with large statistics
targets, and improve the comments so people have some chance of
understanding how it works.
Tom Lane [Sun, 4 Mar 2012 01:20:19 +0000 (20:20 -0500)]
Collect and use element-frequency statistics for arrays.
This patch improves selectivity estimation for the array <@, &&, and @>
(containment and overlaps) operators. It enables collection of statistics
about individual array element values by ANALYZE, and introduces
operator-specific estimators that use these stats. In addition,
ScalarArrayOpExpr constructs of the forms "const = ANY/ALL (array_column)"
and "const <> ANY/ALL (array_column)" are estimated by treating them as
variants of the containment operators.
Since we still collect scalar-style stats about the array values as a
whole, the pg_stats view is expanded to show both these stats and the
array-style stats in separate columns. This creates an incompatible change
in how stats for tsvector columns are displayed in pg_stats: the stats
about lexemes are now displayed in the array-related columns instead of the
original scalar-related columns.
There are a few loose ends here, notably that it'd be nice to be able to
suppress either the scalar-style stats or the array-element stats for
columns for which they're not useful. But the patch is in good enough
shape to commit for wider testing.
Alexander Korotkov, reviewed by Noah Misch and Nathan Boley
The only reason this didn't work before was that parserOpenTable()
rejects composite types. So use relation_openrv() directly and
manually do the errposition() setup that parserOpenTable() does.
This used to pass silently because gzFile used to be defined as void*,
and you can assign a void* to a void**. But somewhere between zlib
versions 1.2.3.4 and 1.2.6, the definition of gzFile was changed to
struct gzFile_s *, and with that new definition this usage causes
compiler warnings.
So remove all those extra pointer decorations.
There is a related issue in pg_backup_archiver.h, where
FILE *FH; /* General purpose file handle */
is used throughout pg_dump as sometimes a real FILE* and sometimes a
gzFile handle, which also causes warnings now. This is not yet fixed
here, because it might need more code restructuring.
Re-add "make check" target in src/test/isolation/Makefile
This effectively reverts 7886cc73ad12fb9b5a729b6c8152f11a309f5d65,
which was done under the impression that isolationtester needs libpq,
which it no longer does (and never really did).
Tom Lane [Fri, 2 Mar 2012 19:28:46 +0000 (14:28 -0500)]
Allow child-relation entries to be made in ec_has_const EquivalenceClasses.
This fixes an oversight in commit 11cad29c91524aac1d0b61e0ea0357398ab79bf8,
which introduced MergeAppend plans. Before that happened, we never
particularly cared about the sort ordering of scans of inheritance child
relations, since appending their outputs together would destroy any
ordering anyway. But now it's important to be able to match child relation
sort orderings to those of the surrounding query. The original coding of
add_child_rel_equivalences skipped ec_has_const EquivalenceClasses, on the
originally-correct grounds that adding child expressions to them was
useless. The effect of this is that when a parent variable is equated to
a constant, we can't recognize that index columns on the equivalent child
variables are not sort-significant; that is, we can't recognize that a
child index on, say, (x, y) is able to generate output in "ORDER BY y"
order when there is a clause "WHERE x = constant". Adding child
expressions to the (x, constant) EquivalenceClass fixes this, without any
downside that I can see other than a few more planner cycles expended on
such queries.
Per recent gripe from Robert McGehee. Back-patch to 9.1 where MergeAppend
was introduced.
Magnus Hagander [Sat, 25 Feb 2012 14:13:12 +0000 (15:13 +0100)]
Add a rule to optionally build docs with the stylesheet from the website
For those of us who prefer the formatting of the docs using the
website stylesheets. Use "make STYLE=website draft" (for example) to use.
The stylesheet itself is referenced directly to the website, so there
is currently no copy of it stored in the source repository. Thus, docs
built with it will only look correct if the browser can access the website
when viewing them.
When a GiST page is split during index build, it might not have a buffer.
Previously it was thought that it's impossible as the code stands, because
insertions create buffers as tuples are cascaded downwards, and index
split also creaters buffers eagerly for all halves. But the example from
Jay Levitt demonstrates that it can happen, when the root page is split.
It's in fact OK if the buffer doesn't exist, so we just need to remove the
sanity check. In fact, we've been discussing the possibility of destroying
empty buffers to conserve memory, which would render the sanity check
completely useless anyway.
Small possible clarification in pg_basebackup reference page
The <literal> markup is not visible as distinct on man pages, which
creates a bit of confusion when looking at the documentation of the
pg_basebackup -l option. Rather than reinventing the entire font
system for man pages to remedy this, just put some quotes around this
particular case, which should also help in other output formats.
Alvaro Herrera [Wed, 29 Feb 2012 02:43:36 +0000 (23:43 -0300)]
Remove TOAST table from pg_database
The only toastable column now is datacl, but we don't really support
long ACLs anyway. The TOAST table should have been removed when the
pg_db_role_setting catalog was introduced in commit 2eda8dfb52ed9962920282d8384da8bb4c22514d, but I forgot to do that.
Tom Lane [Wed, 29 Feb 2012 17:11:10 +0000 (12:11 -0500)]
Simplify references to backslash-doubling in func.sgml.
Several places were still written as though standard_conforming_strings
didn't exist, much less be the default. Now that it is on by default,
we can simplify the text and just insert occasional notes suggesting that
you might have to think harder if it's turned off. Per discussion of a
suggestion from Hannes Frederic Sowa.
Back-patch to 9.1 where standard_conforming_strings was made the default.
Correctly detect SSI conflicts of prepared transactions after crash.
A prepared transaction can get new conflicts in and out after preparing, so
we cannot rely on the in- and out-flags stored in the statefile at prepare-
time. As a quick fix, make the conservative assumption that after a restart,
all prepared transactions are considered to have both in- and out-conflicts.
That can lead to unnecessary rollbacks after a crash, but that shouldn't be
a big problem in practice; you don't want prepared transactions to hang
around for a long time anyway.
Tom Lane [Wed, 29 Feb 2012 00:53:39 +0000 (19:53 -0500)]
Move CRC tables to libpgport, and provide them in a separate include file.
This makes it much more convenient to build tools for Postgres that are
separately compiled and require a matching CRC implementation.
To prevent multiple copies of the CRC polynomial tables being introduced
into the postgres binaries, they are now included in the static library
libpgport that is mainly meant for replacement system functions. That
seems like a bit of a kludge, but there's no better place.
This cleans up building of the tools pg_controldata and pg_resetxlog,
which previously had to build their own copies of pg_crc.o.
In the future, external programs that need access to the CRC tables can
include the tables directly from the new header file pg_crc_tables.h.
Daniel Farina, reviewed by Abhijit Menon-Sen and Tom Lane
Tom Lane [Tue, 28 Feb 2012 23:10:40 +0000 (18:10 -0500)]
Fix thinko in new match_join_clauses_to_index() logic.
We don't need to constrain the other side of an indexable join clause to
not be below an outer join; an example here is
SELECT FROM t1 LEFT JOIN t2 ON t1.a = t2.b LEFT JOIN t3 ON t2.c = t3.d;
We can consider an inner indexscan on t3.d using c = d as indexqual, even
though t2.c is potentially nulled by a previous outer join. The comparable
logic in orindxpath.c has always worked that way, but I was being overly
cautious here.
Alvaro Herrera [Tue, 28 Feb 2012 04:06:29 +0000 (01:06 -0300)]
psql: when tab-completing, use quotes on file names that need them
psql backslash commands that deal with file or directory names require
quotes around those that have spaces, single quotes, or backslashes.
However, tab-completing such names does not provide said quotes, and is
thus almost useless with them.
This patch fixes the problem by having a wrapper function around
rl_filename_completion_function that dequotes on input and quotes on
output. This eases dealing with such names.
Alvaro Herrera [Mon, 27 Feb 2012 21:28:00 +0000 (18:28 -0300)]
ALTER TABLE: skip FK validation when it's safe to do so
We already skip rewriting the table in these cases, but we still force a
whole table scan to validate the data. This can be skipped, and thus
we can make the whole ALTER TABLE operation just do some catalog touches
instead of scanning the table, when these two conditions hold:
(a) Old and new pg_constraint.conpfeqop match exactly. This is actually
stronger than needed; we could loosen things by way of operator
families, but it'd require a lot more effort.
(b) The functions, if any, implementing a cast from the foreign type to
the primary opcintype are the same. For this purpose, we can consider a
binary coercion equivalent to an exact type match. When the opcintype
is polymorphic, require that the old and new foreign types match
exactly. (Since ri_triggers.c does use the executor, the stronger check
for polymorphic types is no mere future-proofing. However, no core type
exercises its necessity.)
Author: Noah Misch
Committer's note: catalog version bumped due to change of the Constraint
node. I can't actually find any way to have such a node in a stored
rule, but given that we have "out" support for them, better be safe.
Tom Lane [Sun, 26 Feb 2012 20:12:17 +0000 (15:12 -0500)]
Fix some more bugs in GIN's WAL replay logic.
In commit 4016bdef8aded77b4903c457050622a5a1815c16 I fixed a bunch of
ginxlog.c bugs having to do with not handling XLogReadBuffer failures
correctly. However, in ginRedoUpdateMetapage and ginRedoDeleteListPages,
I unaccountably thought that failure to read the metapage would be
impossible and just put in an elog(PANIC) call. This is of course wrong:
failure is exactly what will happen if the index got dropped (or rebuilt)
between creation of the WAL record and the crash we're trying to recover
from. I believe this explains Nicholas Wilson's recent report of these
errors getting reached.
Also, fix memory leak in forgetIncompleteSplit. This wasn't of much
concern when the code was written, but in a long-running standby server
page split records could be expected to accumulate indefinitely.
Back-patch to 8.4 --- before that, GIN didn't have a metapage.
Peter Eisentraut [Sun, 26 Feb 2012 13:22:27 +0000 (15:22 +0200)]
Remove useless const qualifier
Claiming that the typevar argument to DefineCompositeType() is const
was a plain lie. A similar case in DefineVirtualRelation() was
already changed in passing in commit 1575fbcb. Also clean up the now
unnecessary casts that used to cast away the const.
Magnus Hagander [Sat, 25 Feb 2012 14:21:04 +0000 (15:21 +0100)]
Merge the list of statistics functions into the view documentation
Most people won't read them individually anyway, it's an easy way to find
them, and it's a lot of duplicated information if they are kept in two
different places.
Tom Lane [Fri, 24 Feb 2012 21:26:10 +0000 (16:26 -0500)]
Merge dissect() into cdissect() to remove a pile of near-duplicate code.
The "uncomplicated" case isn't materially less complicated than the full
case, certainly not enough so to justify duplicating nearly 500 lines
of code. The only extra work being done in the full path is zaptreesubs,
which is very cheap compared to everything else being done here, and
besides that I'm less than convinced that it's not needed in some cases
even without backrefs.
Tom Lane [Fri, 24 Feb 2012 19:56:35 +0000 (14:56 -0500)]
Avoid repeated creation/freeing of per-subre DFAs during regex search.
In nested sub-regex trees, lower-level nodes created DFAs and then
destroyed them again before exiting, which is a bit dumb considering that
the recursive search is likely to call those nodes again later. Instead
cache each created DFA until the end of pg_regexec(). This is basically a
space for time tradeoff, in that it might increase the maximum memory
usage. However, in most regex patterns there are not all that many subre
nodes, so not that many DFAs --- and in any case, the peak usage occurs
when reaching the bottom recursion level, and except for alternation cases
that's going to be the same anyway.
Tom Lane [Fri, 24 Feb 2012 08:36:49 +0000 (03:36 -0500)]
Remove useless "retry memory" logic within regex engine.
Apparently some primordial version of Spencer's engine needed cdissect()
and child functions to be able to continue matching from a previous
position when re-called. That is dead code, though, since trivial
inspection shows that cdissect can never be entered without having
previously done zapmem which resets the relevant retry counter. I have
also verified experimentally that no case in the Tcl regression tests
reaches cdissect with a nonzero retry value. Accordingly, remove that
logic. This doesn't really save any noticeable number of cycles in itself,
but it is one step towards making dissect() and cdissect() equivalent,
which will allow removing hundreds of lines of near-duplicated code.
Since struct subre's "retry" field is no longer particularly related to
any kind of retry, rename it to "id". As of this commit it's only used
for identifying a subre node in debug printouts, so you might think we
should get rid of the field entirely; but I have a plan for another use.
Bruce Momjian [Fri, 24 Feb 2012 21:17:07 +0000 (16:17 -0500)]
Update src/tools/make_ctags to avoid Exuberant tags option
that has been renamed and undocumented since 2003; instead, use the
documented option. Add comments.