Tom Lane [Wed, 21 Jan 2004 23:33:34 +0000 (23:33 +0000)]
Repair error apparently introduced in the initial coding of GUC: the
default value for geqo_effort is supposed to be 40, not 1. The actual
'genetic' component of the GEQO algorithm has been practically disabled
since 7.1 because of this mistake. Improve documentation while at it.
Tom Lane [Wed, 21 Jan 2004 19:22:19 +0000 (19:22 +0000)]
If we don't have shared libraries, we don't have conversions. Make
conversion_create.sql be empty (except for a helpful comment) in this
case. Allows initdb to succeed with --disable-shared.
Tom Lane [Wed, 21 Jan 2004 19:04:11 +0000 (19:04 +0000)]
Fix bit-rot in support for building with --disable-shared. This patch
gets us past 'make install', but initdb still fails for lack of conversion
libraries ...
Tom Lane [Tue, 20 Jan 2004 23:48:56 +0000 (23:48 +0000)]
Implement '\copy from -' to support reading copy data from the same
source the \copy came from. Also, fix prompting logic so that initial
and per-line prompts appear for all cases of reading from an interactive
terminal. Patch by Mark Feit, with some kibitzing by Tom Lane.
Tom Lane [Tue, 20 Jan 2004 19:49:34 +0000 (19:49 +0000)]
This is a patch to support readline prompts which contain non-printing
characters, as for fancy colorized prompts. This was nearly a direct
lift from bash-2.05b's lib/readline/display.c, per guidance from Chet Ramey.
Tom Lane [Mon, 19 Jan 2004 20:12:30 +0000 (20:12 +0000)]
Improve discussion of consistent-snapshot backup technique. Haphazard
editing of this text had left nearly contradictory statements in
adjacent paragraphs ...
Tom Lane [Mon, 19 Jan 2004 19:04:40 +0000 (19:04 +0000)]
Repair problem identified by Olivier Prenant: ALTER DATABASE SET search_path
should not be too eager to reject paths involving unknown schemas, since
it can't really tell whether the schemas exist in the target database.
(Also, when reading pg_dumpall output, it could be that the schemas
don't exist yet, but eventually will.) ALTER USER SET has a similar issue.
So, reduce the normal ERROR to a NOTICE when checking search_path values
for these commands. Supporting this requires changing the API for GUC
assign_hook functions, which causes the patch to touch a lot of places,
but the changes are conceptually trivial.
Tom Lane [Mon, 19 Jan 2004 03:49:41 +0000 (03:49 +0000)]
Recognize that IN subqueries return already-unique results if they use
UNION/INTERSECT/EXCEPT (without ALL). This adds on to the previous
optimization for subqueries using DISTINCT.
Tom Lane [Mon, 19 Jan 2004 02:06:42 +0000 (02:06 +0000)]
Add a hash table to cache lookups of 'C'-language functions (that is,
dynamically loaded C functions). Some limited testing suggests that
this puts the lookup speed for external functions just about on par
with built-in functions. Per discussion with Eric Ridge.
Tom Lane [Sun, 18 Jan 2004 02:15:29 +0000 (02:15 +0000)]
Don't use %s-with-precision format spec to truncate data being displayed
in a COPY error message. It seems that glibc gets indigestion if it is
asked to truncate strings that contain invalid UTF-8 encoding sequences.
vsnprintf will return -1 in such cases, leading to looping and eventual
memory overflow in elog.c. Instead use our own, more robust pg_mbcliplen
routine. I believe this problem accounts for several recent reports of
unexpected 'out of memory' errors during COPY IN.
Tom Lane [Sun, 18 Jan 2004 00:50:03 +0000 (00:50 +0000)]
When testing whether a sub-plan can do projection, use a general-purpose
check instead of hardwiring assumptions that only certain plan node types
can appear at the places where we are testing. This was always a pretty
fragile assumption, and it turns out to be broken in 7.4 for certain cases
involving IN-subselect tests that need type coercion.
Also, modify code that builds finished Plan tree so that node types that
don't do projection always copy their input node's targetlist, rather than
having the tlist passed in from the caller. The old method makes it too
easy to write broken code that thinks it can modify the tlist when it
cannot.
Tom Lane [Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:09:35 +0000 (20:09 +0000)]
Repair misestimation of indexscan CPU costs. When an indexqual contains
a run-time key (that is, a nonconstant expression compared to the index
variable), the key is evaluated just once per scan, but we were charging
costs as though it were evaluated once per visited index entry.
Tom Lane [Fri, 16 Jan 2004 20:51:30 +0000 (20:51 +0000)]
Tighten short-circuit tests for deciding whether we need to invoke
tuptoaster.c --- fields that are compressed in-line are not a reason
to invoke the toaster. Along the way, add a couple more htup.h macros
to eliminate confusing negated tests, and get rid of the already
vestigial TUPLE_TOASTER_ACTIVE symbol.
Tom Lane [Wed, 14 Jan 2004 23:01:55 +0000 (23:01 +0000)]
Fix permission-checking bug reported by Tim Burgess 10-Feb-03 (this time
for sure...). Rather than relying on the query context of a rangetable
entry to identify what permissions it wants checked, store a full AclMode
mask in each RTE, and check exactly those bits. This allows an RTE
specifying, say, INSERT privilege on a view to be copied into a derived
UPDATE query without changing meaning. Per recent discussion thread.
initdb forced due to change of stored rule representation.
Tom Lane [Wed, 14 Jan 2004 03:39:22 +0000 (03:39 +0000)]
Revert ill-starred change of 13-Feb-02: it appeared to fix a problem of
incorrect permissions checking, but in fact disabled most all permissions
checks for view updates. This corrects problems reported by Sergey
Yatskevich among others, at the cost of re-introducing the problem
previously reported by Tim Burgess. However, since we'd lived with that
problem for quite awhile without knowing it, we can live with it awhile
longer until a proper fix can be made in 7.5.
Tom Lane [Mon, 12 Jan 2004 20:48:15 +0000 (20:48 +0000)]
Preserve AND/OR flatness during eval_const_expressions(). This seems a
useful improvement in any case, and it keeps the new logic for restrictinfo
structures happy. Per report from Kris Jurka.
Neil Conway [Sat, 10 Jan 2004 23:28:45 +0000 (23:28 +0000)]
Implement "WITH / WITHOID OIDS" clause for CREATE TABLE AS. This is
intended to allow application authors to insulate themselves from
changes to the default value of 'default_with_oids' in future releases
of PostgreSQL.
This patch also fixes a bug in the earlier implementation of the
'default_with_oids' GUC variable: code in gram.y should not examine
the value of GUC variables directly due to synchronization issues.
Tom Lane [Sat, 10 Jan 2004 18:13:53 +0000 (18:13 +0000)]
Improve has_nullable_targetlist() to allow strict functions of simple
variables, not just simple variables. This was foreseen in the original
coding of this routine, but not implemented until now. Responds to
performance gripe from Laurent Perez.
Tom Lane [Sat, 10 Jan 2004 00:30:21 +0000 (00:30 +0000)]
Fix subquery pullup logic to not be fooled when a view that appears
'simple' references another view that is not simple. Must recheck
conditions after performing recursive pullup. Per example from
Laurent Perez, 9-Jan-04.
Bruce Momjian [Fri, 9 Jan 2004 02:02:43 +0000 (02:02 +0000)]
Allow libpq to do thread-safe SIGPIPE handling. This allows it to
ignore SIGPIPE from send() in libpq, but terminate on any other SIGPIPE,
unless the user installs their own signal handler.
This is a minor fix because the only time you get SIGPIPE from libpq's
send() is when the backend dies.
Tom Lane [Thu, 8 Jan 2004 23:40:27 +0000 (23:40 +0000)]
Remove broken (and unnecessary) definition of operator <> for _int4
datatype; the generic array comparators added in 7.4 supersede this.
Per report and patch from Korea PostgreSQL Users' Group.
Tom Lane [Wed, 7 Jan 2004 22:02:48 +0000 (22:02 +0000)]
Make some improvements in the intelligence of the partial-index
predicate tester. It can now deal with commuted clauses (for
instance, 4 < x implies x > 3), subclauses more complicated than
a simple Var (for example, upper(x) = 't' implies upper(x) > 'a'),
and <> operators (for example, x < 3 implies x <> 4). Still
only understands operators associated with btree opclasses, though.
Inspired by example from Martin Hampl.
Neil Conway [Wed, 7 Jan 2004 18:56:30 +0000 (18:56 +0000)]
More janitorial work: remove the explicit casting of NULL literals to a
pointer type when it is not necessary to do so.
For future reference, casting NULL to a pointer type is only necessary
when (a) invoking a function AND either (b) the function has no prototype
OR (c) the function is a varargs function.
Tom Lane [Wed, 7 Jan 2004 06:20:02 +0000 (06:20 +0000)]
Support function parameter names in plpgsql. This is the last of
Dennis Bjorklund's original patch for function parameter names, but
there's still plenty left to do (documentation for instance...)
Tom Lane [Tue, 6 Jan 2004 23:55:19 +0000 (23:55 +0000)]
Apply the core parts of Dennis Bjorklund's patch to allow function
parameters to be declared with names. pg_proc has a column to store
names, and CREATE FUNCTION can insert data into it, but that's all as
yet. I need to do more work on the pg_dump and plpgsql portions of the
patch before committing those, but I thought I'd get the bulky changes
in before the tree drifts under me.
initdb forced due to pg_proc change.
Bruce Momjian [Tue, 6 Jan 2004 23:15:22 +0000 (23:15 +0000)]
Final rearrangement of main postgresql child process (ie.
BackendFork/SSDataBase/pgstat) startup, to allow fork/exec calls to
closely mimic (the soon to be provided) Win32 CreateProcess equivalent
calls.
Neil Conway [Tue, 6 Jan 2004 18:07:32 +0000 (18:07 +0000)]
Code cleanup, mostly in the smgr:
- Update comment in IsReservedName() to the present day
- Improve some variable & function names in commands/vacuum.c. I
was planning to rewrite this to avoid lappend(), but since I
still intend to do the list rewrite, there's no need for that.
- Update some smgr comments which seemed to imply that we still
forced all dirty pages to disk at commit-time.
- Replace some #ifdef DIAGNOSTIC code with assertions.
- Make the distinction between OS-level file descriptors and
virtual file descriptors a little clearer in a few comments
- Other minor comment improvements in the smgr code
Tom Lane [Tue, 6 Jan 2004 04:31:01 +0000 (04:31 +0000)]
Instead of rechecking lossy index operators by putting them into the
regular qpqual ('filter condition'), add special-purpose code to
nodeIndexscan.c to recheck them. This ends being almost no net addition
of code, because the removal of planner code balances out the extra
executor code, but it is significantly more efficient when a lossy
operator is involved in an OR indexscan. The old implementation had
to recheck the entire indexqual in such cases.
Tom Lane [Mon, 5 Jan 2004 23:39:54 +0000 (23:39 +0000)]
Adjust indexscan planning logic to keep RestrictInfo nodes associated
with index qual clauses in the Path representation. This saves a little
work during createplan and (probably more importantly) allows reuse of
cached selectivity estimates during indexscan planning. Also fix latent
bug: wrong plan would have been generated for a 'special operator' used
in a nestloop-inner-indexscan join qual, because the special operator
would not have gotten into the list of quals to recheck. This bug is
only latent because at present the special-operator code could never
trigger on a join qual, but sooner or later someone will want to do it.