Commit Graph

27427 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Tom Lane
8818f3793e Clarify description of pg_restore's handling of large objects. 2008-09-07 19:12:57 +00:00
Tom Lane
e6a310b281 Reimplement text_position and related functions to use Boyer-Moore-Horspool
searching instead of naive matching.  In the worst case this has the same
O(M*N) complexity as the naive method, but the worst case is hard to hit,
and the average case is very fast, especially with longer patterns.

David Rowley
2008-09-07 04:20:00 +00:00
Tom Lane
2cf3f6694f Add a few more details in the source-code-formatting documentation.
This isn't exhaustive but it covers some of the more common layout
mistakes I've seen in submitted patches.
2008-09-07 02:01:04 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
1cfd878643 Clarify documention workding for xip_list().
Simon Riggs
2008-09-07 01:29:36 +00:00
Tom Lane
409c144d83 Adjust psql's new \ef command to present an empty CREATE FUNCTION template
for editing if no function name is specified.  This seems a much cleaner way
to offer that functionality than the original patch had.  In passing,
de-clutter the error displays that are given for a bogus function-name
argument, and standardize on "$function$" as the default delimiter for the
function body.  (The original coding would use the shortest possible
dollar-quote delimiter, which seems to create unnecessarily high risk of
later conflicts with the user-modified function body.)
2008-09-06 20:18:08 +00:00
Tom Lane
2c863ca818 Implement a psql command "\ef" to edit the definition of a function.
In support of that, create a backend function pg_get_functiondef().
The psql command is functional but maybe a bit rough around the edges...

Abhijit Menon-Sen
2008-09-06 00:01:25 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
2cdcf459ba Add comment about why pg_dump doesn't dump the public schema comment. 2008-09-05 23:53:42 +00:00
Tom Lane
e540b97248 Fix an oversight in the 8.2 patch that improved mergejoin performance by
inserting a materialize node above an inner-side sort node, when the sort is
expected to spill to disk.  (The materialize protects the sort from having
to support mark/restore, allowing it to do its final merge pass on-the-fly.)
We neglected to teach cost_mergejoin about that hack, so it was failing to
include the materialize's costs in the estimated cost of the mergejoin.
The materialize's costs are generally going to be pretty negligible in
comparison to the sort's, so this is only a small error and probably not
worth back-patching; but it's still wrong.

In the similar case where a materialize is inserted to protect an inner-side
node that can't do mark/restore at all, it's still true that the materialize
should not spill to disk, and so we should cost it cheaply rather than
expensively.

Noted while thinking about a question from Tom Raney.
2008-09-05 21:07:29 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
58829581f8 Check for gcov and lcov only when coverage testing is enabled. 2008-09-05 18:54:58 +00:00
Tom Lane
5bc561a16a Add some additional casts and regression tests for the citext data type.
David Wheeler
2008-09-05 18:25:17 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
f536f74ade Add Win32 MSVC code to support this recent patch:
Add missing descriptions for aggregates, functions and conversions.

Bernd Helmle
2008-09-05 16:54:39 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
11f53b1063 Code coverage testing with gcov. Documentation is in the regression test
chapter.

Author: Michelle Caisse <Michelle.Caisse@Sun.COM>
2008-09-05 12:11:18 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
579d9a5201 Add DSSSL stylesheet location for Mac OS X/Fink installation. 2008-09-05 09:37:37 +00:00
Teodor Sigaev
5373817cf2 Fix strategy propagation to scanEntry for partial match by moving propagation
to initializaion of scanEntry.
2008-09-04 11:47:05 +00:00
Tom Lane
ba9f37f066 If a loadable module has wrong values in its magic block, spell out
exactly what they are in the complaint message.  Marko Kreen,
some editorialization by me.
2008-09-03 22:34:50 +00:00
Tom Lane
fbb2b69c8f Prevent memory leaks in our various bison parsers when an error occurs
during parsing.  Formerly the parser's stack was allocated with malloc
and so wouldn't be reclaimed; this patch makes it use palloc instead,
so that flushing the current context will reclaim the memory.  Per
Marko Kreen.
2008-09-02 20:37:55 +00:00
Tom Lane
dd6edd5efd Fix plpgsql's exec_move_row() to supply valid type OIDs to exec_assign_value()
whenever possible, as per bug report from Oleg Serov.  While at it, reorder
the operations in the RECORD case to avoid possible palloc failure while the
variable update is only partly complete.

Back-patch as far as 8.1.  Although the code of the particular function is
similar in 8.0, 8.0's support for composite fields in rows is sufficiently
broken elsewhere that it doesn't seem worth fixing this.
2008-09-01 22:30:33 +00:00
Tom Lane
76c39cf3be Sigh, I missed checking the ecpg tests ... 2008-09-01 21:42:18 +00:00
Tom Lane
bb3f839bfc Add a variant expected-output file for the sequence regression test, to cover
output that is seen when a checkpoint occurs at just the right time during
the test.  Per my report of 2008-08-31.

This could be back-patched but I'm not sure it's worth the trouble.
2008-09-01 21:24:52 +00:00
Tom Lane
b153c09209 Add a bunch of new error location reports to parse-analysis error messages.
There are still some weak spots around JOIN USING and relation alias lists,
but most errors reported within backend/parser/ now have locations.
2008-09-01 20:42:46 +00:00
Heikki Linnakangas
9ac4299163 HeapTupleHeaderAdjustCmax made the incorrect assumption that the raw
command id is the cmin, when it can in fact be a combo cid. That made rows
incorrectly invisible to a transaction where a tuple was deleted by multiple
aborted subtransactions.

Report and patch Karl Schnaitter. Back-patch to 8.3, where combo cids was
introduced.
2008-09-01 18:52:45 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
86ec73b909 Synchronize the shared object build rules in Makefile.port with Makefile.shlib
somewhat by adding CFLAGS where the compiler is used and Makefile.shlib
already used CFLAGS.
2008-09-01 08:50:10 +00:00
Tom Lane
b8f5ea7685 Fix (hopefully) some oversights in recent Bison cleanup patch.
Per buildfarm results.
2008-08-30 02:32:24 +00:00
Tom Lane
449a00fbbd Fix the raw-parsetree representation of star (as in SELECT * FROM or
SELECT foo.*) so that it cannot be confused with a quoted identifier "*".
Instead create a separate node type A_Star to represent this notation.
Per pgsql-hackers discussion of 2007-Sep-27.
2008-08-30 01:39:14 +00:00
Tom Lane
6253f9de67 In GCC-based builds, use a better newNode() macro that relies on GCC-specific
syntax to avoid a useless store into a global variable.  Per experimentation,
this works better than my original thought of trying to push the code into
an out-of-line subroutine.
2008-08-29 22:49:07 +00:00
Alvaro Herrera
7ad60b49dc Fixup pg_dumpall adding --lock-wait-timeout, to match pg_dump.
David Gould
2008-08-29 17:28:43 +00:00
Tom Lane
4571185111 Suppress gcc warning about possibly-uninitialized variable. It's not
clear to me why I'd not seen this message before --- on F-9 it seems to
only happen if Asserts are disabled, which ought to be irrelevant.
Maybe that affects a decision whether to inline get_ten(), which would
be needed to expose the warning condition to the compiler?  Anyway,
the fix is clear.
2008-08-29 16:34:14 +00:00
Alvaro Herrera
c67f037f4f Document that \t and \x are now settable. 2008-08-29 15:52:07 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
7c31742a07 Remove all traces that suggest that a non-Bison yacc might be supported, and
change build system to use only Bison.  Simplify build rules, make file names
uniform.  Don't build the token table header file where it is not needed.
2008-08-29 13:02:33 +00:00
Tom Lane
a2794623d2 Extend the parser location infrastructure to include a location field in
most node types used in expression trees (both before and after parse
analysis).  This allows us to place an error cursor in many situations
where we formerly could not, because the information wasn't available
beyond the very first level of parse analysis.  There's a fair amount
of work still to be done to persuade individual ereport() calls to actually
include an error location, but this gets the initdb-forcing part of the
work out of the way; and the situation is already markedly better than
before for complaints about unimplementable implicit casts, such as
CASE and UNION constructs with incompatible alternative data types.
Per my proposal of a few days ago.
2008-08-28 23:09:48 +00:00
Tom Lane
6734182c16 Teach eval_const_expressions() to simplify an ArrayCoerceExpr to a constant
when its input is constant and the element coercion function is immutable
(or nonexistent, ie, binary-coercible case).  This is an oversight in the
8.3 implementation of ArrayCoerceExpr, and its result is that certain cases
involving IN or NOT IN with constants don't get optimized as they should be.
Per experimentation with an example from Ow Mun Heng.
2008-08-26 02:16:31 +00:00
Tom Lane
6741688b16 Fix pg_dump docs to acknowledge that you can use -Z with plain text output. Pointed out by Daniel Migowski. 2008-08-26 00:03:15 +00:00
Tom Lane
3e4264ca35 Add %option noinput to contrib's flex scanners, to suppress gcc 4.3
warnings.  Peter did this for core awhile ago but evidently missed
contrib.
2008-08-25 23:12:45 +00:00
Tom Lane
e5536e77a5 Move exprType(), exprTypmod(), expression_tree_walker(), and related routines
into nodes/nodeFuncs, so as to reduce wanton cross-subsystem #includes inside
the backend.  There's probably more that should be done along this line,
but this is a start anyway.
2008-08-25 22:42:34 +00:00
Tom Lane
d320101b5b Get rid of the last remaining uses of var_is_rel(), to wit some debugging
checks in ExecIndexBuildScanKeys() that were inadequate anyway: it's better
to verify the correct varno on an expected index key, not just reject OUTER
and INNER.

This makes the entire current contents of nodeFuncs.c dead code.  I'll be
replacing it with some other stuff later, as per recent proposal.
2008-08-25 20:20:30 +00:00
Tom Lane
e36716a653 Add standard boilerplate sentence about when stats_temp_directory can be changed. 2008-08-25 19:03:37 +00:00
Magnus Hagander
f1e237b6b2 Unconditionally write the statsfile when SIGHUP is received, to minimize
the window during which backends have no statistics file to read.
2008-08-25 18:55:43 +00:00
Alvaro Herrera
d96d7be2b5 Update URL to Ross William's paper.
Devrim Gunduz.
2008-08-25 17:37:40 +00:00
Alvaro Herrera
2bb4d09cac Have man page generation work on VPATH builds too. 2008-08-25 15:34:05 +00:00
Magnus Hagander
be8d6c5c34 Make stats_temp_directory PGC_SIGHUP, and document how it may cause a temporary
"outage" of the statistics views.

This requires making the stats collector respond to SIGHUP, like the other
utility processes already did.
2008-08-25 15:11:01 +00:00
Magnus Hagander
8c032adec4 Convert remaining builtin set-returning functions to use OUT parameters, making
it possible to call them without specifying a column list.

Jaime Casanova
2008-08-25 11:18:43 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
31ad4e5396 Add missing descriptions for aggregates, functions and conversions.
Bernd Helmle
2008-08-23 20:31:37 +00:00
Teodor Sigaev
1dcf6fdf1b Fix possible duplicate tuples while GiST scan. Now page is processed
at once and ItemPointers are collected in memory.

Remove tuple's killing by killtuple() if tuple was moved to another
page - it could produce unaceptable overhead.

Backpatch up to 8.1 because the bug was introduced by GiST's concurrency support.
2008-08-23 10:37:24 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
42d313f546 Update link to developer's FAQ from main FAQ. 2008-08-23 01:55:36 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
8ddb739e9d Make "log_temp_files" super-user set only, like other logging options.
Simon Riggs
2008-08-22 18:47:07 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
6152de97d3 Minor patch on pgbench
1. -i option should run vacuum analyze only on pgbench tables, not *all*
tables in database.

2. pre-run cleanup step was DELETE FROM HISTORY then VACUUM HISTORY.
This is just a slow version of TRUNCATE HISTORY.

Simon Riggs
2008-08-22 17:57:34 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
03302fd9b4 Improve wording of error message when a postgresql.conf setting is
ignored because it can only be set at server start.
2008-08-22 00:20:40 +00:00
Tom Lane
bd3daddaf2 Arrange to convert EXISTS subqueries that are equivalent to hashable IN
subqueries into the same thing you'd have gotten from IN (except always with
unknownEqFalse = true, so as to get the proper semantics for an EXISTS).
I believe this fixes the last case within CVS HEAD in which an EXISTS could
give worse performance than an equivalent IN subquery.

The tricky part of this is that if the upper query probes the EXISTS for only
a few rows, the hashing implementation can actually be worse than the default,
and therefore we need to make a cost-based decision about which way to use.
But at the time when the planner generates plans for subqueries, it doesn't
really know how many times the subquery will be executed.  The least invasive
solution seems to be to generate both plans and postpone the choice until
execution.  Therefore, in a query that has been optimized this way, EXPLAIN
will show two subplans for the EXISTS, of which only one will actually get
executed.

There is a lot more that could be done based on this infrastructure: in
particular it's interesting to consider switching to the hash plan if we start
out using the non-hashed plan but find a lot more upper rows going by than we
expected.  I have therefore left some minor inefficiencies in place, such as
initializing both subplans even though we will currently only use one.
2008-08-22 00:16:04 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
8875a16ee1 Mention that pg_dump does not dump ALTER DATABASE ... SET commands;
backpatch to 8.3.X. Also fix markup that had just one bullet.
2008-08-21 22:25:44 +00:00
Alvaro Herrera
edb6a4c02a Update URL. 2008-08-21 20:15:31 +00:00