Tom Lane [Fri, 15 Nov 2013 21:46:18 +0000 (16:46 -0500)]
Compute correct em_nullable_relids in get_eclass_for_sort_expr().
Bug #8591 from Claudio Freire demonstrates that get_eclass_for_sort_expr
must be able to compute valid em_nullable_relids for any new equivalence
class members it creates. I'd worried about this in the commit message
for db9f0e1d9a4a0842c814a464cdc9758c3f20b96c, but claimed that it wasn't a
problem because multi-member ECs should already exist when it runs. That
is transparently wrong, though, because this function is also called by
initialize_mergeclause_eclasses, which runs during deconstruct_jointree.
The example given in the bug report (which the new regression test item
is based upon) fails because the COALESCE() expression is first seen by
initialize_mergeclause_eclasses rather than process_equivalence.
Fixing this requires passing the appropriate nullable_relids set to
get_eclass_for_sort_expr, and it requires new code to compute that set
for top-level expressions such as ORDER BY, GROUP BY, etc. We store
the top-level nullable_relids in a new field in PlannerInfo to avoid
computing it many times. In the back branches, I've added the new
field at the end of the struct to minimize ABI breakage for planner
plugins. There doesn't seem to be a good alternative to changing
get_eclass_for_sort_expr's API signature, though. There probably aren't
any third-party extensions calling that function directly; moreover,
if there are, they probably need to think about what to pass for
nullable_relids anyway.
Back-patch to 9.2, like the previous patch in this area.
Tom Lane [Fri, 15 Nov 2013 18:52:03 +0000 (13:52 -0500)]
Prevent leakage of cached plans and execution trees in plpgsql DO blocks.
plpgsql likes to cache query plans and simple-expression execution state
trees across calls. This is a considerable win for multiple executions
of the same function. However, it's useless for DO blocks, since by
definition those are executed only once and discarded. Nonetheless,
we were allowing a DO block's expression execution trees to survive
until end of transaction, resulting in a significant intra-transaction
memory leak, as reported by Yeb Havinga. Worse, if the DO block exited
with an error, the compiled form of the block's code was leaked till
end of session --- along with subsidiary plancache entries.
To fix, make DO blocks keep their expression execution trees in a private
EState that's deleted at exit from the block, and add a PG_TRY block
to plpgsql_inline_handler to make sure that memory cleanup happens
even on error exits. Also add a regression test covering error handling
in a DO block, because my first try at this broke that. (The test is
not meant to prove that we don't leak memory anymore, though it could
be used for that with a much larger loop count.)
Ideally we'd back-patch this into all versions supporting DO blocks;
but the patch needs to add a field to struct PLpgSQL_execstate, and that
would break ABI compatibility for third-party plugins such as the plpgsql
debugger. Given the small number of complaints so far, fixing this in
HEAD only seems like an acceptable choice.
Kevin Grittner [Fri, 15 Nov 2013 14:27:42 +0000 (08:27 -0600)]
Fix buffer overrun in isolation test program.
Commit 061b88c732952c59741374806e1e41c1ec845d50 saved argv0 to a
global buffer without ensuring that it was zero terminated,
allowing references to it to overrun the buffer and access other
memory. This probably would not have presented any security risk,
but could have resulted in very confusing failures if the path to
the executable was very long.
Tom Lane [Thu, 14 Nov 2013 15:27:24 +0000 (10:27 -0500)]
Fix incorrect column name in psql \d code.
pg_index.indisreplident had at one time in its development been called
indisidentity. describe.c got missed when it was renamed.
Bug introduced in commit 07cacba983ef79be4a84fcd0e0ca3b5fcb85dd65.
Robert Haas [Wed, 13 Nov 2013 15:52:59 +0000 (10:52 -0500)]
Fix relfilenodemap.c's handling of cache invalidations.
The old code entered a new hash table entry first, then scanned
pg_class to determine what value to fill in, and then populated the
entry. This fails to work properly if a cache invalidation happens
as a result of opening pg_class. Repair.
Along the way, get rid of the idea of blowing away the entire hash
table as a method of processing invalidations. Instead, just delete
all the entries one by one. This is probably not quite as cheap but
it's simpler, and shouldn't happen often.
Kevin Grittner [Wed, 13 Nov 2013 15:01:06 +0000 (09:01 -0600)]
Free ignorelist after each regression test schedule.
It's a trivial amount of RAM held until the end of the regression
test run; but it's probably worth fixing to silence future warnings
from code analyzers.
This was the only memory leak pointed out by clang's static code
analysis tool.
The root page is filled with as many items as fit, and the rest are inserted
using normal insertions. However, I fumbled the variable names, and the code
actually memcpy'd all the items on the page, overflowing the buffer. While
at it, rename the variable to make the distinction more clear.
Reported by Teodor Sigaev. This bug was introduced by my recent
refactorings, so no backpatching required.
Robert Haas [Tue, 12 Nov 2013 16:23:47 +0000 (11:23 -0500)]
Try again to make pg_isolation_regress work its build directory.
We can't search for the isolationtester binary until after we've set
up the environment, because otherwise when find_other_exec() tries
to invoke it with the -V option, it might fail for inability to
locate a working libpq. So postpone that step.
Tom Lane [Mon, 11 Nov 2013 21:36:27 +0000 (16:36 -0500)]
Fix failure with whole-row reference to a subquery.
Simple oversight in commit 1cb108efb0e60d87e4adec38e7636b6e8efbeb57 ---
recursively examining a subquery output column is only sane if the
original Var refers to a single output column. Found by Kevin Grittner.
Tom Lane [Mon, 11 Nov 2013 18:36:38 +0000 (13:36 -0500)]
Fix ruleutils pretty-printing to not generate trailing whitespace.
The pretty-printing logic in ruleutils.c operates by inserting a newline
and some indentation whitespace into strings that are already valid SQL.
This naturally results in leaving some trailing whitespace before the
newline in many cases; which can be annoying when processing the output
with other tools, as complained of by Joe Abbate. We can fix that in
a pretty localized fashion by deleting any trailing whitespace before
we append a pretty-printing newline. In addition, we have to modify the
code inserted by commit 2f582f76b1945929ff07116cd4639747ce9bb8a1 so that
we also delete trailing whitespace when transposing items from temporary
buffers into the main result string, when a temporary item starts with a
newline.
This results in rather voluminous changes to the regression test results,
but it's easily verified that they are only removal of trailing whitespace.
Back-patch to 9.3, because the aforementioned commit resulted in many
more cases of trailing whitespace than had occurred in earlier branches.
Tom Lane [Mon, 11 Nov 2013 15:42:57 +0000 (10:42 -0500)]
Re-allow duplicate aliases within aliased JOINs.
Although the SQL spec forbids duplicate table aliases, historically
we've allowed queries like
SELECT ... FROM tab1 x CROSS JOIN (tab2 x CROSS JOIN tab3 y) z
on the grounds that the aliased join (z) hides the aliases within it,
therefore there is no conflict between the two RTEs named "x". The
LATERAL patch broke this, on the misguided basis that "x" could be
ambiguous if tab3 were a LATERAL subquery. To avoid breaking existing
queries, it's better to allow this situation and complain only if
tab3 actually does contain an ambiguous reference. We need only remove
the check that was throwing an error, because the column lookup code
is already prepared to handle ambiguous references. Per bug #8444.
Magnus Hagander [Mon, 11 Nov 2013 13:59:55 +0000 (14:59 +0100)]
Don't abort pg_basebackup when receiving empty WAL block
This is a similar fix as c6ec8793aa59d1842082e14b4b4aae7d4bd883fd
9.2. This should never happen in 9.3 and newer since the special case
cannot happen there, but this patch synchronizes up the code so there
is no confusion on why they're different. An empty block is as harmless
in 9.3 as it was in 9.2, and can safely be ignored.
Fix race condition in GIN posting tree page deletion.
If a page is deleted, and reused for something else, just as a search is
following a rightlink to it from its left sibling, the search would continue
scanning whatever the new contents of the page are. That could lead to
incorrect query results, or even something more curious if the page is
reused for a different kind of a page.
To fix, modify the search algorithm to lock the next page before releasing
the previous one, and refrain from deleting pages from the leftmost branch
of the tree.
Add a new Concurrency section to the README, explaining why this works.
There is a lot more one could say about concurrency in GIN, but that's for
another patch.
Tom Lane [Fri, 8 Nov 2013 16:36:57 +0000 (11:36 -0500)]
Make contain_volatile_functions/contain_mutable_functions look into SubLinks.
This change prevents us from doing inappropriate subquery flattening in
cases such as dangerous functions hidden inside a sub-SELECT in the
targetlist of another sub-SELECT. That could result in unexpected behavior
due to multiple evaluations of a volatile function, as in a recent
complaint from Etienne Dube. It's been questionable from the very
beginning whether these functions should look into subqueries (as noted in
their comments), and this case seems to provide proof that they should.
Because the new code only descends into SubLinks, not SubPlans or
InitPlans, the change only affects the planner's behavior during
prepjointree processing and not later on --- for example, you can still get
it to use a volatile function in an indexqual if you wrap the function in
(SELECT ...). That's a historical behavior, for sure, but it's reasonable
given that the executor's evaluation rules for subplans don't depend on
whether there are volatile functions inside them. In any case, we need to
constrain the behavioral change as narrowly as we can to make this
reasonable to back-patch.
Tom Lane [Fri, 8 Nov 2013 13:59:39 +0000 (08:59 -0500)]
Fix subtly-wrong volatility checking in BeginCopyFrom().
contain_volatile_functions() is best applied to the output of
expression_planner(), not its input, so that insertion of function
default arguments and constant-folding have been done. (See comments
at CheckMutability, for instance.) It's perhaps unlikely that anyone
will notice a difference in practice, but still we should do it properly.
In passing, change variable type from Node* to Expr* to reduce the net
number of casts needed.
Noted while perusing uses of contain_volatile_functions().
Tom Lane [Thu, 7 Nov 2013 19:41:36 +0000 (14:41 -0500)]
Prevent display of dropped columns in row constraint violation messages.
ExecBuildSlotValueDescription() printed "null" for each dropped column in
a row being complained of by ExecConstraints(). This has some sanity in
terms of the underlying implementation, but is of course pretty surprising
to users. To fix, we must pass the target relation's descriptor to
ExecBuildSlotValueDescription(), because the slot descriptor it had been
using doesn't get labeled with attisdropped markers.
Per bug #8408 from Maxim Boguk. Back-patch to 9.2 where the feature of
printing row values in NOT NULL and CHECK constraint violation messages
was introduced.
Tom Lane [Thu, 7 Nov 2013 18:13:12 +0000 (13:13 -0500)]
Fix generation of MergeAppend plans for optimized min/max on expressions.
Before jamming a desired targetlist into a plan node, one really ought to
make sure the plan node can handle projections, and insert a buffering
Result plan node if not. planagg.c forgot to do this, which is a hangover
from the days when it only dealt with IndexScan plan types. MergeAppend
doesn't project though, not to mention that it gets unhappy if you remove
its possibly-resjunk sort columns. The code accidentally failed to fail
for cases in which the min/max argument was a simple Var, because the new
targetlist would be equivalent to the original "flat" tlist anyway.
For any more complex case, it's been broken since 9.1 where we introduced
the ability to optimize min/max using MergeAppend, as reported by Raphael
Bauduin. Fix by duplicating the logic from grouping_planner that decides
whether we need a Result node.
In 9.2 and 9.1, this requires back-porting the tlist_same_exprs() function
introduced in commit 4387cf956b9eb13aad569634e0c4df081d76e2e3, else we'd
uselessly add a Result node in cases that worked before. It's rather
tempting to back-patch that whole commit so that we can avoid extra Result
nodes in mainline cases too; but I'll refrain, since that code hasn't
really seen all that much field testing yet.
Tom Lane [Wed, 6 Nov 2013 20:50:17 +0000 (15:50 -0500)]
Be more robust when strerror() doesn't give a useful result.
glibc, at least, is capable of returning "???" instead of anything useful
if it doesn't like the setting of LC_CTYPE. If this happens, or in the
previously-known case of strerror() returning an empty string, try to
print the C macro name for the error code ("EACCES" etc). Only if we
don't have the error code in our compiled-in list of popular error codes
(which covers most though not quite all of what's called out in the POSIX
spec) will we fall back to printing a numeric error code. This should
simplify debugging.
Note that this functionality is currently only provided for %m in backend
ereport/elog messages. That may be sufficient, since we don't fool with the
locale environment in frontend clients, but it's foreseeable that we might
want similar code in libpq for instance.
There was some talk of back-patching this, but let's see how the buildfarm
likes it first. It seems likely that at least some of the POSIX-defined
error code symbols don't exist on all platforms. I don't want to clutter
the entire list with #ifdefs, but we may need more than are here now.
Tom Lane [Wed, 6 Nov 2013 18:26:30 +0000 (13:26 -0500)]
Support default arguments and named-argument notation for window functions.
These things didn't work because the planner omitted to do the necessary
preprocessing of a WindowFunc's argument list. Add the few dozen lines
of code needed to handle that.
Although this sounds like a feature addition, it's really a bug fix because
the default-argument case was likely to crash previously, due to lack of
checking of the number of supplied arguments in the built-in window
functions. It's not a security issue because there's no way for a
non-superuser to create a window function definition with defaults that
refers to a built-in C function, but nonetheless people might be annoyed
that it crashes rather than producing a useful error message. So
back-patch as far as the patch applies easily, which turns out to be 9.2.
I'll put a band-aid in earlier versions as a separate patch.
(Note that these features still don't work for aggregates, and fixing that
case will be harder since we represent aggregate arg lists as target lists
not bare expression lists. There's no crash risk though because CREATE
AGGREGATE doesn't accept defaults, and we reject named-argument notation
when parsing an aggregate call.)
Merge the isEnoughSpace and placeToPage functions in the b-tree interface
into one function that tries to put a tuple on page, and returns false if
it doesn't fit.
Move createPostingTree function to gindatapage.c, and change its contract
so that it can be passed more items than fit on the root page. It's in a
better position than the callers to know how many items fit.
Move ginMergeItemPointers out of gindatapage.c, into a separate file.
These changes make no difference now, but reduce the footprint of Alexander
Korotkov's upcoming patch to pack item pointers more tightly.
Tom Lane [Wed, 6 Nov 2013 02:58:08 +0000 (21:58 -0500)]
Improve the error message given for modifying a window with frame clause.
For rather inscrutable reasons, SQL:2008 disallows copying-and-modifying a
window definition that has any explicit framing clause. The error message
we gave for this only made sense if the referencing window definition
itself contains an explicit framing clause, which it might well not.
Moreover, in the context of an OVER clause it's not exactly obvious that
"OVER (windowname)" implies copy-and-modify while "OVER windowname" does
not. This has led to multiple complaints, eg bug #5199 from Iliya
Krapchatov. Change to a hopefully more intelligible error message, and
in the case where we have just "OVER (windowname)", add a HINT suggesting
that omitting the parentheses will fix it. Also improve the related
documentation. Back-patch to all supported branches.
The previous commit was intended to make psql show the full path name when
doing a \s (history save), but it was very badly implemented and would show
confusing if not outright wrong information in many situations; for
instance if the path name given to \s is absolute, or if \cd commands
involving relative paths have been issued. Consensus seems to be that
we don't especially need this functionality in \s, and certainly not in \s
alone. So revert rather than trying to fix it up. Per gripe from
Ian Barwick.
Although the bogus behavior exists in all supported versions, I'm not
back-patching, because the work created for translators (by change of
a translatable message) would probably outweigh the value of what is
after all a mostly-cosmetic change.
Kevin Grittner [Tue, 5 Nov 2013 21:36:33 +0000 (15:36 -0600)]
Lock relation used to generate fresh data for RMV.
The relation should not be accessible to any other process, but it
should be locked for consistency. Since this is not known to
cause any bug, it will not be back-patch, at least for now.
Tom Lane [Tue, 5 Nov 2013 16:31:35 +0000 (11:31 -0500)]
Fix some obsolete information in src/backend/optimizer/README.
Constant quals aren't handled the same way they used to be. Also,
add mention of a couple more major steps in grouping_planner.
Per complaint a couple months back from Etsuro Fujita.
The parsing of WAL filenames of segments larger than > 255 was broken,
making pg_receivexlog unable to restart streaming after stopping it.
The bug was introduced by the changes in 9.3 to represent WAL segment number
as a 64-bit integer instead of two ints, log and seg. To fix, replace the
plain sscanf call with XLogFromFileName macro, which does the conversion
from log+seg to a 64-bit integer correcly.
Tom Lane [Sun, 3 Nov 2013 16:33:05 +0000 (11:33 -0500)]
Prevent memory leaks from accumulating across printtup() calls.
Historically, printtup() has assumed that it could prevent memory leakage
by pfree'ing the string result of each output function and manually
managing detoasting of toasted values. This amounts to assuming that
datatype output functions never leak any memory internally; an assumption
we've already decided to be bogus elsewhere, for example in COPY OUT.
range_out in particular is known to leak multiple kilobytes per call, as
noted in bug #8573 from Godfried Vanluffelen. While we could go in and fix
that leak, it wouldn't be very notationally convenient, and in any case
there have been and undoubtedly will again be other leaks in other output
functions. So what seems like the best solution is to run the output
functions in a temporary memory context that can be reset after each row,
as we're doing in COPY OUT. Some quick experimentation suggests this is
actually a tad faster than the retail pfree's anyway.
This patch fixes all the variants of printtup, except for debugtup()
which is used in standalone mode. It doesn't seem worth worrying
about query-lifespan leaks in standalone mode, and fixing that case
would be a bit tedious since debugtup() doesn't currently have any
startup or shutdown functions.
While at it, remove manual detoast management from several other
output-function call sites that had copied it from printtup(). This
doesn't make a lot of difference right now, but in view of recent
discussions about supporting "non-flattened" Datums, we're going to
want that code gone eventually anyway.
Back-patch to 9.2 where range_out was introduced. We might eventually
decide to back-patch this further, but in the absence of known major
leaks in older output functions, I'll refrain for now.
Tom Lane [Sat, 2 Nov 2013 20:45:42 +0000 (16:45 -0400)]
Retry after buffer locking failure during SPGiST index creation.
The original coding thought this case was impossible, but it can happen
if the bgwriter or checkpointer processes decide to write out an index
page while creation is still proceeding, leading to a bogus "unexpected
spgdoinsert() failure" error. Problem reported by Jonathan S. Katz.
Tom Lane [Fri, 1 Nov 2013 20:09:48 +0000 (16:09 -0400)]
Ensure all files created for a single BufFile have the same resource owner.
Callers expect that they only have to set the right resource owner when
creating a BufFile, not during subsequent operations on it. While we could
insist this be fixed at the caller level, it seems more sensible for the
BufFile to take care of it. Without this, some temp files belonging to
a BufFile can go away too soon, eg at the end of a subtransaction,
leading to errors or crashes.
Reported and fixed by Andres Freund. Back-patch to all active branches.
Tom Lane [Fri, 1 Nov 2013 17:57:31 +0000 (13:57 -0400)]
Remove CTimeZone/HasCTZSet, root and branch.
These variables no longer have any useful purpose, since there's no reason
to special-case brute force timezones now that we have a valid
session_timezone setting for them. Remove the variables, and remove the
SET/SHOW TIME ZONE code that deals with them.
The user-visible impact of this is that SHOW TIME ZONE will now show a
POSIX-style zone specification, in the form "<+-offset>-+offset", rather
than an interval value when a brute-force zone has been set. While perhaps
less intuitive, this is a better definition than before because it's
actually possible to give that string back to SET TIME ZONE and get the
same behavior, unlike what used to happen.
We did not previously mention the angle-bracket syntax when describing
POSIX timezone specifications; add some documentation so that people
can figure out what these strings do. (There's still quite a lot of
undocumented functionality there, but anybody who really cares can
go read the POSIX spec to find out about it. In practice most people
seem to prefer Olsen-style city names anyway.)
Tom Lane [Fri, 1 Nov 2013 16:51:27 +0000 (12:51 -0400)]
Remove internal uses of CTimeZone/HasCTZSet.
The only remaining places where we actually look at CTimeZone/HasCTZSet
are abstime2tm() and timestamp2tm(). Now that session_timezone is always
valid, we can remove these special cases. The caller-visible impact of
this is that these functions now always return a valid zone abbreviation
if requested, whereas before they'd return a NULL pointer if a brute-force
timezone was in use. In the existing code, the only place I can find that
changes behavior is to_char(), whose TZ format code will now print
something useful rather than nothing for such zones. (In the places where
the returned zone abbreviation is passed to EncodeDateTime, the lack of
visible change is because we've chosen the abbreviation used for these
zones to match what EncodeTimezone would have printed.)
It's likely that there is now a fair amount of removable dead code around
the call sites, namely anything that's meant to cope with getting a NULL
timezone abbreviation, but I've not made an effort to root that out.
This could be back-patched if we decide we'd like to fix to_char()'s
behavior in the back branches, but there doesn't seem to be much
enthusiasm for that at present.
Tom Lane [Fri, 1 Nov 2013 16:13:18 +0000 (12:13 -0400)]
Fix some odd behaviors when using a SQL-style simple GMT offset timezone.
Formerly, when using a SQL-spec timezone setting with a fixed GMT offset
(called a "brute force" timezone in the code), the session_timezone
variable was not updated to match the nominal timezone; rather, all code
was expected to ignore session_timezone if HasCTZSet was true. This is
of course obviously fragile, though a search of the code finds only
timeofday() failing to honor the rule. A bigger problem was that
DetermineTimeZoneOffset() supposed that if its pg_tz parameter was
pointer-equal to session_timezone, then HasCTZSet should override the
parameter. This would cause datetime input containing an explicit zone
name to be treated as referencing the brute-force zone instead, if the
zone name happened to match the session timezone that had prevailed
before installing the brute-force zone setting (as reported in bug #8572).
The same malady could affect AT TIME ZONE operators.
To fix, set up session_timezone so that it matches the brute-force zone
specification, which we can do using the POSIX timezone definition syntax
"<abbrev>offset", and get rid of the bogus lookaside check in
DetermineTimeZoneOffset(). Aside from fixing the erroneous behavior in
datetime parsing and AT TIME ZONE, this will cause the timeofday() function
to print its result in the user-requested time zone rather than some
previously-set zone. It might also affect results in third-party
extensions, if there are any that make use of session_timezone without
considering HasCTZSet, but in all cases the new behavior should be saner
than before.
Tom Lane [Tue, 29 Oct 2013 00:49:24 +0000 (20:49 -0400)]
Prevent using strncpy with src == dest in TupleDescInitEntry.
The C and POSIX standards state that strncpy's behavior is undefined when
source and destination areas overlap. While it remains dubious whether any
implementations really misbehave when the pointers are exactly equal, some
platforms are now starting to force the issue by complaining when an
undefined call occurs. (In particular OS X 10.9 has been seen to dump core
here, though the exact set of circumstances needed to trigger that remain
elusive. Similar behavior can be expected to be optional on Linux and
other platforms in the near future.) So tweak the code to explicitly do
nothing when nothing need be done.
Back-patch to all active branches. In HEAD, this also lets us get rid of
an exception in valgrind.supp.
Andrew Dunstan [Mon, 28 Oct 2013 15:45:50 +0000 (11:45 -0400)]
Work around NetBSD shell issue in pg_upgrade test script.
The NetBSD shell apparently returns non-zero from an unset command if
the variable is already unset. This matters when, as in pg_upgrade's
test.sh, we are working under 'set -e'. To protect against this, we
first set the PG variables to an empty string before unsetting them
completely.
Error found on buildfarm member coypu, solution from Rémi Zara.
Tom Lane [Mon, 28 Oct 2013 14:28:35 +0000 (10:28 -0400)]
Improve documentation about usage of FDW validator functions.
SGML documentation, as well as code comments, failed to note that an FDW's
validator will be applied to foreign-table options for foreign tables using
the FDW.
Tom Lane [Mon, 28 Oct 2013 14:00:28 +0000 (10:00 -0400)]
Suppress duplicate-index-entry warning introduced by previous commit.
We don't need two index entries for lo_create pointing at the same section.
It's a bit pedantic for the toolchain to warn about this, but warn it does.
Noah Misch [Mon, 28 Oct 2013 02:42:46 +0000 (22:42 -0400)]
Add large object functions catering to SQL callers.
With these, one need no longer manipulate large object descriptors and
extract numeric constants from header files in order to read and write
large object contents from SQL.
Tom Lane [Sat, 26 Oct 2013 15:24:04 +0000 (11:24 -0400)]
Use unaligned output in selected regression queries to reduce diff noise.
The rules regression test prints all known views and rules, which is a set
that changes regularly. Previously, a change in one rule would frequently
lead to whitespace changes across the entire output of this query, which is
painful to verify and causes undesirable conflicts between unrelated patch
sets. Use \a mode to improve matters. Also use \t mode to suppress the
total-rows count, which was also a source of unnecessary patch conflicts.
Likewise modify the output mode for the list of indexed tables generated
in sanity_check.sql. There might be other places where we should use this
idea, but these are the ones that have caused the most problems.
Tom Lane [Fri, 25 Oct 2013 21:42:26 +0000 (17:42 -0400)]
Improve pqexpbuffer.c to use modern vsnprintf implementations efficiently.
When using a C99-compliant vsnprintf, we can use its report of the required
buffer size to avoid making multiple loops through the formatting logic.
This is similar to the changes recently made in stringinfo.c, but we can't
use psprintf.c here because in libpq we don't want to exit() on error.
(The behavior pqexpbuffer.c has historically used is to mark the
PQExpBuffer as "broken", ie empty, if it runs into any fatal problem.)
To avoid duplicating code more than necessary, I refactored
printfPQExpBuffer and appendPQExpBuffer to share a subroutine that's
very similar to psprintf.c's pvsnprintf in spirit.
Tom Lane [Fri, 25 Oct 2013 19:55:15 +0000 (15:55 -0400)]
Suppress -0 in the C field of lines computed by line_construct_pts().
It's not entirely clear why some PPC machines are generating -0 here, since
the underlying computation should be exactly 0 - 0. Perhaps there's some
wider-than-nominal-precision calculations happening? Anyway, the best way
to avoid platform-dependent results seems to be to explicitly reset -0 to
regular zero.
Tom Lane [Fri, 25 Oct 2013 19:50:31 +0000 (15:50 -0400)]
Revert "Tweak "line" test to avoid negative zeros on some platforms"
This reverts commit a0a546f0d94ec6cbb3cd6b1c82f58d801046615f.
It seems better to tweak the code to suppress -0 results during
line_construct_pts(), which I'll do in the next commit.
Tom Lane [Fri, 25 Oct 2013 01:51:00 +0000 (21:51 -0400)]
Ignore SIGSYS during initdb.
This prevents the recently-added probe for shm_open() from crashing
on platforms that are impolite enough to deliver a signal rather than
returning ENOSYS for an unimplemented kernel call. At least on the
one known example (HPUX 10.20), ignoring SIGSYS does result in the
desired behavior of getting an ENOSYS error return instead.
Per discussion, we might later wish to do this in the backend as well,
but for now it seems sufficient to do it in initdb.
Tom Lane [Fri, 25 Oct 2013 01:43:57 +0000 (21:43 -0400)]
Use improved vsnprintf calling logic in more places.
When we are using a C99-compliant vsnprintf implementation (which should be
most places, these days) it is worth the trouble to make use of its report
of how large the buffer needs to be to succeed. This patch adjusts
stringinfo.c and some miscellaneous usages in pg_dump to do that, relying
on the logic recently added in libpgcommon's psprintf.c. Since these
places want to know the number of bytes written once we succeed, modify the
API of pvsnprintf() to report that.
There remains near-duplicate logic in pqexpbuffer.c, but since that code
is in libpq, psprintf.c's approach of exit()-on-error isn't appropriate
for use there. Also note that I didn't bother touching the multitude
of places that call (v)snprintf without any attempt to provide a resizable
buffer.
Release-note-worthy incompatibility: the API of appendStringInfoVA()
changed. If there's any third-party code that's calling that directly,
it will need tweaking along the same lines as in this patch.
Increase the number of different values used when seeding random().
When a backend process is forked, we initialize the system's random number
generator with srandom(). The seed used is derived from the backend's pid
and the timestamp. However, we only used the microseconds part of the
timestamp, and it was XORed with the pid, so the total range of different
seed values chosen was 0-999999. That's quite limited.
Change the code to also use the seconds part of the timestamp in the seed,
and shift the microseconds so that all 32 bits of the seed are used.
The absolute path to config file was not pfreed. There are probably more
small leaks here and there in the config file reload code and assign hooks,
and in practice no-one reloads the config files frequently enough for it to
be a problem, but this one is trivial enough that might as well fix it.
Robert Haas [Wed, 23 Oct 2013 17:16:25 +0000 (13:16 -0400)]
Simplify tab completion rules for views and foreign tables.
Since an increasing number of views and foreign tables are now able
to be updated, complete with any table, view, or foreign table in
the relevant contexts. This avoids the need to use a complex
query that may be both confusing to end-users and nonperformant
to construct the list of possible completions.
Dean Rasheed, persuant to a complaint from Bernd Helme and a
suggestion from Peter Eisentraut
Fix two bugs in setting the vm bit of empty pages.
Use a critical section when setting the all-visible flag on an empty page,
and WAL-logging it. log_newpage_buffer() contains an assertion that it
must be called inside a critical section, and it's the right thing to do
when modifying a buffer anyway.
Also, the page should be marked dirty before calling log_newpage_buffer(),
per the comment in log_newpage_buffer() and src/backend/access/transam/README.
Patch by Andres Freund, in response to my report. Backpatch to 9.2, like
the patch that introduced these bugs (a6370fd9).
Tom Lane [Wed, 23 Oct 2013 01:31:57 +0000 (21:31 -0400)]
Suppress a couple of compiler warnings seen with older gcc versions.
To wit,
bgworker.c: In function `RegisterDynamicBackgroundWorker':
bgworker.c:761: warning: `generation' might be used uninitialized in this function
dsm_impl.c: In function `dsm_impl_op':
dsm_impl.c:197: warning: control reaches end of non-void function
Neither of these represent actual bugs, but we may as well tweak the code
so that more compilers can tell that. This won't change the generated code
on compilers that do recognize that the cases are unreachable.
Tom Lane [Tue, 22 Oct 2013 22:42:13 +0000 (18:42 -0400)]
Get rid of use of asprintf() in favor of a more portable implementation.
asprintf(), aside from not being particularly portable, has a fundamentally
badly-designed API; the psprintf() function that was added in passing in
the previous patch has a much better API choice. Moreover, the NetBSD
implementation that was borrowed for the previous patch doesn't work with
non-C99-compliant vsnprintf, which is something we still have to cope with
on some platforms; and it depends on va_copy which isn't all that portable
either. Get rid of that code in favor of an implementation similar to what
we've used for many years in stringinfo.c. Also, move it into libpgcommon
since it's not really libpgport material.
I think this patch will be enough to turn the buildfarm green again, but
there's still cosmetic work left to do, namely get rid of pg_asprintf()
in favor of using psprintf(). That will come in a followon patch.
Adjust cube.out expected output for new test queries.
Previous commit modified the test case, but I didn't update cube.out
expected output file in previous commit because it was not needed by the
platforms I have easy access to. Buildfarm animal 'dugong', running
"Debian 4.0 icc 10.1.011 ia64", has now gone red because of that, so update
it now.
Also adjust cube_3.out. According to git history, it was added to support
64-bit MinGW. There is no such animal in the buildfarm, so I'm doing this
blindly, but it was added quite recently so maybe someone still cares.
Extend cube on-disk format to pack points more tightly.
If the lower left and upper right corners of a cube are the same, set a
flag in the cube header, and only store one copy of the coordinates. That
cuts the on-disk size into half for the common case that the cube datatype
is used to represent points rather than boxes.
The new format is backwards-compatible with the old one, so pg_upgrade
still works. However, to get the space savings, the data needs to be
rewritten. A simple VACUUM FULL or REINDEX is not enough, as the old
Datums will just be moved to the new heap/index as is. A pg_dump and
reload, or something similar like casting to text and back, will do the
trick.
This patch deliberately doesn't update all the alternative expected output
files, as I don't have access to machines that produce those outputs. I'm
not sure if they are still relevant, but if they are, the buildfarm will
tell us and produce the diff required to fix it. If none of the buildfarm
animals need them, they should be removed altogether.
Peter Eisentraut [Wed, 11 Sep 2013 14:20:27 +0000 (10:20 -0400)]
doc: Improve setup for documentation building with FOP
Add a makefile rule for building PDFs with FOP. Two new build targets
in doc/src/sgml are postgres-A4-fop.pdf and postgres-US-fop.pdf.
Run .fo output through xmllint for reformatting, so that errors are
easier to find. (The default output has hardly any line breaks, so you
might be looking for an error in column 20000.)
Set some XSLT parameters to optimize for building with FOP.
Remove some redundant or somewhat useless chapterinfo/author
information, because it renders strangely with the FO stylesheet.
Noah Misch [Mon, 21 Oct 2013 01:04:52 +0000 (21:04 -0400)]
Consistently use unsigned arithmetic for alignment calculations.
This avoids an assumption about the signed number representation. It is
anticipated to have no functional changes on supported configurations;
many two's complement assumptions remain elsewhere.
Robert Haas [Fri, 18 Oct 2013 14:35:36 +0000 (10:35 -0400)]
Allow only some columns of a view to be auto-updateable.
Previously, unless all columns were auto-updateable, we wouldn't
inserts, updates, or deletes, or at least not without a rule or trigger;
now, we'll allow inserts and updates that target only the auto-updateable
columns, and deletes even if there are no auto-updateable columns at
all provided the view definition is otherwise suitable.
Robert Haas [Fri, 18 Oct 2013 14:21:25 +0000 (10:21 -0400)]
Provide a reliable mechanism for terminating a background worker.
Although previously-introduced APIs allow the process that registers a
background worker to obtain the worker's PID, there's no way to prevent
a worker that is not currently running from being restarted. This
patch introduces a new API TerminateBackgroundWorker() that prevents
the background worker from being restarted, terminates it if it is
currently running, and causes it to be unregistered if or when it is
not running.
Patch by me. Review by Michael Paquier and KaiGai Kohei.