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Tom Lane
2eba69addc Fix failure of "ALTER TABLE t ADD COLUMN c serial" when done by non-owner.
The implicitly created sequence was created as owned by the current user,
who could be different from the table owner, eg if current user is a
superuser or some member of the table's owning role.  This caused sanity
checks in the SEQUENCE OWNED BY code to spit up.  Although possibly we
don't need those sanity checks, the safest fix seems to be to make sure
the implicit sequence is assigned the same owner role as the table has.
(We still do all permissions checks as the current user, however.)
Per report from Josh Berkus.

Back-patch to 9.0.  The bug goes back to the invention of SEQUENCE OWNED BY
in 8.2, but the fix requires an API change for DefineRelation(), which seems
to have potential for breaking third-party code if done in a minor release.
Given the lack of prior complaints, it's probably not worth fixing in the
stable branches.
2010-08-18 18:35:30 +00:00
Tom Lane
0321d031b5 Add missing handling of PlannedStmt.transientPlan in copyfuncs/outfuncs.
_outPlannedStmt is only debug support, so the omission there was not very
serious, but the omission in _copyPlannedStmt is a real bug.  The consequence
would be that a copied plan tree would never be marked as a transient plan,
so that we would forget we ought to replan it after some not-yet-ready index
becomes ready for use.  This might explain some past complaints about indexes
created with CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY not being used right away.  Problem
spotted by Yeb Havinga.

Back-patch to 8.3, where the field was added.
2010-08-18 15:22:00 +00:00
Heikki Linnakangas
dbc4669173 Coerce 'unknown' type parameters to the right type in the fixed-params
parse_analyze() function. That case occurs e.g with PL/pgSQL
EXECUTE ... USING 'stringconstant'.

The coercion with a CoerceViaIO node. The result is similar to the coercion
via input function performed for unknown constants in coerce_type(),
except that this happens at runtime.

Backpatch to 9.0. The issue is present in 8.4 as well, but the coerce param
hook infrastructure this patch relies on was introduced in 9.0. Given the
lack of user reports and harmlessness of the bug, it's not worth attempting
a different fix just for 8.4.
2010-08-18 12:20:22 +00:00
Michael Meskes
277633b7e8 Applied Zoltan's patch to fix a few memleaks in ecpg's pgtypeslib. 2010-08-17 11:06:26 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
db7fe0de62 Revert: looks like Binary Large OBject[sic] wasn't a misspelling 2010-08-17 04:47:03 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
f71145d0ec Spell and markup checking 2010-08-17 04:37:19 +00:00
Tom Lane
c93b652c2d Arrange to fsync the contents of lockfiles (both postmaster.pid and the
socket lockfile) when writing them.  The lack of an fsync here may well
explain two different reports we've seen of corrupted lockfile contents,
which doesn't particularly bother the running server but can prevent a
new server from starting if the old one crashes.  Per suggestion from
Alvaro.

Back-patch to all supported versions.
2010-08-16 17:32:53 +00:00
Tom Lane
59ea02a108 Fix psql's copy of utf2ucs() to match the backend's copy exactly;
in particular, propagate a fix in the test to see whether a UTF8 character has
length 4 bytes.  This is likely of little real-world consequence because
5-or-more-byte UTF8 sequences are not supported by Postgres nor seen anywhere
in the wild, but still we may as well get it right.  Problem found by Joseph
Adams.

Bug is aboriginal, so back-patch all the way.
2010-08-16 00:06:24 +00:00
Tom Lane
5e25b70b23 Assorted improvements to backup/restore documentation, per Thom Brown. 2010-08-15 23:04:54 +00:00
Tom Lane
799743b792 Clarify bit numbering in get_bit/set_bit etc. Per gripe from
Boszormenyi Zoltan.
2010-08-15 21:26:42 +00:00
Tom Lane
95139e6e66 Improve pgarchivecleanup documentation, per comments from Satoshi Nagayasu. 2010-08-15 20:20:35 +00:00
Robert Haas
7562423eb1 Add link and additional index reference to pgcrypto.
Kevin Grittner, with markup adjustments.
2010-08-15 01:57:12 +00:00
Tom Lane
a5955f4a65 Fix planner to make a reasonable assumption about the amount of memory space
used by array_agg(), string_agg(), and similar aggregate functions that use
"internal" as their transition datatype.  The previous coding thought this
took *no* extra space, since "internal" is pass-by-value; but actually these
aggregates typically consume a great deal of space.  Per bug #5608 from
Itagaki Takahiro, and fix suggestion from Hitoshi Harada.

Back-patch to 8.4, where array_agg was introduced.
2010-08-14 15:47:21 +00:00
Tom Lane
d2945deefb Fix Assert failure in PushOverrideSearchPath when trying to restore a search
path that specifies useTemp, but there is no active temp schema in the
current session.  (This can happen if the path was saved during a transaction
that created a temp schema and was later rolled back.)  For existing callers
it's sufficient to ignore the useTemp flag in this case, though we might
later want to offer an option to create a fresh temp schema.  So far as I can
tell this is just an Assert failure: in a non-assert build, the code would
push a zero onto the new search path, which is useless but not very harmful.
Per bug report from Heikki.

Back-patch to 8.3; prior versions don't have this code.
2010-08-13 16:27:18 +00:00
Robert Haas
361cadb224 Make RecordTransactionCommit() respect wal_level.
Since the only purpose of WAL-loggin SharedInvalidationMessages is to support
Hot Standby operation, they needn't be included when wal_level < hot_standby.

Back-patch to 9.0.

Review by Heikki Linnakanagas and Fujii Masao.
2010-08-13 15:45:17 +00:00
Tom Lane
e507a3ee7b Fix pg_restore to complain if any arguments remain after parsing the switches
and input file name, per bug #5617 from Leo Shklovskii.  Rearrange the
corresponding code in pg_dump and pg_dumpall so that all three programs
handle this in a consistent, straightforward fashion.

Back-patch to 9.0, but no further.  Although this is certainly a bug, it's
possible that people have scripts that will be broken by the added error
check, so it seems better not to change the behavior in stable branches.
2010-08-13 14:38:12 +00:00
Robert Haas
5be77ca563 Reorder docs on lexical structure slightly for clarity.
Thom Brown
2010-08-13 01:12:51 +00:00
Robert Haas
ed3ea3fa0c Correct sundry errors in Hot Standby-related comments.
Fujii Masao
2010-08-12 23:25:45 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
8cc3c67c24 Back out syntax case changes --- seems they were intentional. 2010-08-12 02:04:07 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
f483b02041 Properly lowercase identifiers, uppercase keywords, in doc examples 2010-08-11 21:49:01 +00:00
Heikki Linnakangas
e286b85c90 The sanity check added to array_recv() wa a bit too tight; we must
continue to accept an empty array with dimension information. array_send()
can output such arrays.

Per report from Vladimir Shakhov.
2010-08-11 19:12:36 +00:00
Robert Haas
101096013e Fix one more incorrect errno definition in the ECPG manual.
Again, back-patch all the way to 7.4.
2010-08-11 19:03:25 +00:00
Robert Haas
5eac6a9ac0 Fix incorrect errno definitions in ECPG manual.
ecpgerrno.h hasn't materially changed since PostgreSQL 7.4, so this has
been wrong for a very long time.  Back-patch all the way.

Satoshi Nagayasu
2010-08-11 18:52:12 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
efb49d5bea Add some links to tables 2010-08-10 20:42:02 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
e0e08d3c80 <example> is a floating element, so it's use is inappropriate when the
surrounding text refers to the example inline.
2010-08-10 20:41:28 +00:00
Robert Haas
65559c385d Use double quotes rather than double quotes for libpq target anchors.
Per observation from Tom Lane that the previous patch to these files was
not consistent with what is done elsewhere in the docs.
2010-08-10 02:57:03 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
4798e21447 Add EXPLAIN documentation example.
gabrielle <gorthx@gmail.com>

Backpatch to 9.0.X.
2010-08-09 23:49:33 +00:00
Tom Lane
6d301d938f Fix incorrect logic in plpgsql for cleanup after evaluation of non-simple
expressions.  We need to deal with this when handling subscripts in an array
assignment, and also when catching an exception.  In an Assert-enabled build
these omissions led to Assert failures, but I think in a normal build the
only consequence would be short-term memory leakage; which may explain why
this wasn't reported from the field long ago.

Back-patch to all supported versions.  7.4 doesn't have exceptions, but
otherwise these bugs go all the way back.

Heikki Linnakangas and Tom Lane
2010-08-09 18:50:20 +00:00
Robert Haas
6d8ae3fa08 Provide stable target anchors for libpq functions.
Daniele Varrazzo
2010-08-09 12:00:39 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
d720567f21 Fix indexterm spelling 2010-08-06 20:09:01 +00:00
Tom Lane
d92ca54d0a Let's put that </link> in a sane place ... 2010-08-06 19:13:18 +00:00
Tom Lane
9a299eee03 Fix inaccurate description of deferrable unique constraints, per Dean Rasheed. 2010-08-06 18:55:30 +00:00
Robert Haas
00d9d5964e Rearrange "big features" section of the release notes.
Josh Berkus
2010-08-06 17:57:03 +00:00
Tom Lane
331c3c218b Add a very specific hint for the case that we're unable to locate a function
matching a call like f(x, ORDER BY y,z).  It could be that what the user
really wants is f(x,z ORDER BY y).  We now have pretty conclusive evidence
that many people won't understand this problem without concrete guidance,
so give it to them.  Per further discussion of the string_agg() problem.
2010-08-05 21:45:45 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
5f5f193662 Document which Python environment variables affect PL/Python 2010-08-05 18:36:31 +00:00
Tom Lane
bdd538c571 Remove the single-argument form of string_agg(). It added nothing much in
functionality, while creating an ambiguity in usage with ORDER BY that at
least two people have already gotten seriously confused by.  Also, add an
opr_sanity test to check that we don't in future violate the newly minted
policy of not having built-in aggregates with the same name and different
numbers of parameters.  Per discussion of a complaint from Thom Brown.
2010-08-05 18:21:31 +00:00
Tom Lane
6a366113e6 Forgot to back-patch earlier change to documentation for aggregate
ORDER BY clauses.
2010-08-04 22:31:55 +00:00
Tom Lane
5e84e1ac05 Fix sloppy mistakes in documentation of PQescapeLiteral and PQescapeIdentifier.
Noted by Dmitriy Igrishin.
2010-08-04 16:27:13 +00:00
Robert Haas
e4a5dc7b8e Fix inheritance count tracking in ALTER TABLE .. ADD CONSTRAINT.
Without this patch, constraints inherited by children of a parent
table which itself has multiple inheritance parents can end up with
the wrong coninhcount.  After dropping the constraint, the children
end up with a leftover copy of the constraint that is not dumped
and cannot be dropped.  There is a similar problem with ALTER TABLE
.. ADD COLUMN, but that looks significantly more difficult to
resolve, so I'm committing this fix separately.

Back-patch to 8.4, which is the first release that has coninhcount.

Report by Hank Enting.
2010-08-03 15:47:09 +00:00
Tom Lane
2f203642f8 Fix core dump in QTNodeCompare when tsquery_cmp() is applied to two empty
tsqueries.  CompareTSQ has to have a guard for the case rather than blindly
applying QTNodeCompare to random data past the end of the datums.  Also,
change QTNodeCompare to be a little less trusting: use an actual test rather
than just Assert'ing that the input is sane.  Problem encountered while
investigating another issue (I saw a core dump in autoanalyze on a table
containing multiple empty tsquery values).

Back-patch to all branches with tsquery support.

In HEAD, also fix some bizarre (though not outright wrong) coding in
tsq_mcontains().
2010-08-03 00:10:44 +00:00
Tom Lane
3e3ee1dfc3 Don't try to force use of -no-cpp-precomp on OS X. It's been five years
since Apple shipped a compiler that needed this switch, and there's
increasing interest in using other compilers that won't accept the switch
at all.  Better to let anybody who still needs the switch inject it via
CPPFLAGS.  Per gripe from Neil Conway.
2010-08-02 04:51:25 +00:00
Tom Lane
12dbe763f3 Fix an ancient typo that prevented the detection of conflicting fields when
interval input "invalid" was specified together with other fields.  Spotted
by Neil Conway with the help of a clang warning.  Although this has been
wrong since the interval code was written more than 10 years ago, it doesn't
affect anything beyond which error message you get for a wrong input, so not
worth back-patching very far.
2010-08-02 01:25:02 +00:00
Tom Lane
727117fe4e Back-patch fix for renaming asyncCommitLSN to asyncXactLSN.
AIUI this was supposed to go into 9.0 as well as HEAD.
2010-08-01 23:07:05 +00:00
Tom Lane
2fa68e2a35 Fix ANALYZE's ancient deficiency of not trying to collect stats for expression
indexes when the index column type (the opclass opckeytype) is different from
the expression's datatype.  When coded, this limitation wasn't worth worrying
about because we had no intelligence to speak of in stats collection for the
datatypes used by such opclasses.  However, now that there's non-toy
estimation capability for tsvector queries, it amounts to a bug that ANALYZE
fails to do this.

The fix changes struct VacAttrStats, and therefore constitutes an API break
for custom typanalyze functions.  Therefore we can't back-patch it into
released branches, but it was agreed that 9.0 isn't yet frozen hard enough
to make such a change unacceptable.  Ergo, back-patch to 9.0 but no further.
The API break had better be mentioned in 9.0 release notes.
2010-08-01 22:38:20 +00:00
Tom Lane
7354dbfa8c Fix an additional set of problems in GIN's handling of lossy page pointers.
Although the key-combining code claimed to work correctly if its input
contained both lossy and exact pointers for a single page in a single TID
stream, in fact this did not work, and could not work without pretty
fundamental redesign.  Modify keyGetItem so that it will not return such a
stream, by handling lossy-pointer cases a bit more explicitly than we did
before.

Per followup investigation of a gripe from Artur Dabrowski.
An example of a query that failed given his data set is
select count(*) from search_tab where
(to_tsvector('german', keywords ) @@ to_tsquery('german', 'ee:* | dd:*')) and
(to_tsvector('german', keywords ) @@ to_tsquery('german', 'aa:*'));

Back-patch to 8.4 where the lossy pointer code was introduced.
2010-08-01 19:16:47 +00:00
Tom Lane
538cb94db8 Rewrite the rbtree routines so that an RBNode is the first field of the
struct representing a tree entry, rather than being a separately allocated
piece of storage.  This API is at least as clean as the old one (if not
more so --- there were some bizarre choices in there) and it permits a
very substantial memory savings, on the order of 2X in ginbulk.c's usage.

Also, fix minor memory leaks in code called by ginEntryInsert, in
particular in ginInsertValue and entryFillRoot, as well as ginEntryInsert
itself.  These leaks resulted in the GIN index build context continuing
to bloat even after we'd filled it to maintenance_work_mem and started
to dump data out to the index.

In combination these fixes restore the GIN index build code to honoring
the maintenance_work_mem limit about as well as it did in 8.4.  Speed
seems on par with 8.4 too, maybe even a bit faster, for a non-pathological
case in which HEAD was formerly slower.

Back-patch to 9.0 so we don't have a performance regression from 8.4.
2010-08-01 02:12:51 +00:00
Tom Lane
c9e845f82a Tweak tsmatchsel() so that it examines the structure of the tsquery whenever
possible (ie, whenever the tsquery is a constant), even when no statistics
are available for the tsvector.  For example, foo @@ 'a & b'::tsquery
can be expected to be more selective than foo @@ 'a'::tsquery, whether
or not we know anything about foo.  We use DEFAULT_TS_MATCH_SEL as the assumed
selectivity of individual query terms when no stats are available, then
combine the terms according to the query's AND/OR structure as usual.

Per experimentation with Artur Dabrowski's example.  (The fact that there
are no stats available in that example is a problem in itself, but
nonetheless tsmatchsel should be smarter about the case.)

Back-patch to 8.4 to keep all versions of tsmatchsel() in sync.
2010-07-31 03:27:48 +00:00
Tom Lane
ed34833c57 Rewrite the key-combination logic in GIN's keyGetItem() and scanGetItem()
routines to make them behave better in the presence of "lossy" index pointers.
The previous coding was outright incorrect for some cases, as recently
reported by Artur Dabrowski: scanGetItem would fail to return index entries in
cases where one index key had multiple exact pointers on the same page as
another key had a lossy pointer.  Also, keyGetItem was extremely inefficient
for cases where a single index key generates multiple "entry" streams, such as
an @@ operator with a multiple-clause tsquery.  The presence of a lossy page
pointer in any one stream defeated its ability to use the opclass
consistentFn, resulting in probing many heap pages that didn't really need to
be visited.  In Artur's example case, a query like
	WHERE tsvector @@ to_tsquery('a & b')
was about 50X slower than the theoretically equivalent
	WHERE tsvector @@ to_tsquery('a') AND tsvector @@ to_tsquery('b')
The way that I chose to fix this was to have GIN call the consistentFn
twice with both TRUE and FALSE values for the in-doubt entry stream,
returning a hit if either call produces TRUE, but not if they both return
FALSE.  The code handles this for the case of a single in-doubt entry stream,
but punts (falling back to the stupid behavior) if there's more than one lossy
reference to the same page.  The idea could be scaled up to deal with multiple
lossy references, but I think that would probably be wasted complexity.  At
least to judge by Artur's example, such cases don't occur often enough to be
worth trying to optimize.

Back-patch to 8.4.  8.3 did not have lossy GIN index pointers, so not
subject to these problems.
2010-07-31 00:31:04 +00:00
Marc G. Fournier
5f3c54a3a6 tag for beta4 2010-07-30 03:31:41 +00:00
Tom Lane
c902ad9ca9 Improved version of patch to protect pg_get_expr() against misuse:
look through join alias Vars to avoid breaking join queries, and
move the test to someplace where it will catch more possible ways
of calling a function.  We still ought to throw away the whole thing
in favor of a data-type-based solution, but that's not feasible in
the back branches.

This needs to be back-patched further than 9.0, but I don't have time
to do so today.  Committing now so that the fix gets into 9.0beta4.
2010-07-29 23:16:41 +00:00