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Tom Lane
21a39de580 Tweak index costing for problems with partial indexes.
btcostestimate() makes an estimate of the number of index tuples that will
be visited based on knowledge of which index clauses can actually bound the
scan within nbtree.  However, it forgot to account for partial indexes in
this calculation, with the result that the cost of the index scan could be
significantly overestimated for a partial index.  Fix that by merging the
predicate with the abbreviated indexclause list, in the same way as we do
with the full list to estimate how many heap tuples will be visited.

Also, slightly increase the "fudge factor" that's meant to give preference
to smaller indexes over larger ones.  While this is applied to all indexes,
it's most important for partial indexes since it can be the only factor
that makes a partial index look cheaper than a similar full index.
Experimentation shows that the existing value is so small as to easily get
swamped by noise such as page-boundary-roundoff behavior.  I'm tempted to
kick it up more than this, but will refrain for now.

Per report from Ruben Blanco.  These are long-standing issues, but given
the lack of prior complaints I'm not going to risk changing planner
behavior in back branches by back-patching.
2012-01-29 18:37:14 -05:00
Tom Lane
b28ffd0fcc Fix pushing of index-expression qualifications through UNION ALL.
In commit 57664ed25e, I made the planner
wrap non-simple-variable outputs of appendrel children (IOW, child SELECTs
of UNION ALL subqueries) inside PlaceHolderVars, in order to solve some
issues with EquivalenceClass processing.  However, this means that any
upper-level WHERE clauses mentioning such outputs will now contain
PlaceHolderVars after they're pushed down into the appendrel child,
and that prevents indxpath.c from recognizing that they could be matched
to index expressions.  To fix, add explicit stripping of PlaceHolderVars
from index operands, same as we have long done for RelabelType nodes.
Add a regression test covering both this and the plain-UNION case (which
is a totally different code path, but should also be able to do it).

Per bug #6416 from Matteo Beccati.  Back-patch to 9.1, same as the
previous change.
2012-01-29 16:31:23 -05:00
Tom Lane
ed6e0545f5 Add caution about multiple unique indexes breaking plpgsql upsert example.
Per Phil Sorber, though I didn't use his wording exactly.
2012-01-28 21:06:41 -05:00
Tom Lane
17d3233e1b Update statement about sorting of character-string data.
The sort order is no longer fixed at database creation time, but can be
controlled via COLLATE.  Noted by Thomas Kellerer.
2012-01-28 20:54:56 -05:00
Tom Lane
4ec6581c0c Fix handling of init_plans list in inheritance_planner().
Formerly we passed an empty list to each per-child-table invocation of
grouping_planner, and then merged the results into the global list.
However, that fails if there's a CTE attached to the statement, because
create_ctescan_plan uses the list to find the plan referenced by a CTE
reference; so it was unable to find any CTEs attached to the outer UPDATE
or DELETE.  But there's no real reason not to use the same list throughout
the process, and doing so is simpler and faster anyway.

Per report from Josh Berkus of "could not find plan for CTE" failures.
Back-patch to 9.1 where we added support for WITH attached to UPDATE or
DELETE.  Add some regression test cases, too.
2012-01-28 20:24:42 -05:00
Tom Lane
759d9d6769 Add simple tests of EvalPlanQual using the isolationtester infrastructure.
Much more could be done here, but at least now we have *some* automated
test coverage of that mechanism.  In particular this tests the writable-CTE
case reported by Phil Sorber.

In passing, remove isolationtester's arbitrary restriction on the number of
steps in a permutation list.  I used this so that a single spec file could
be used to run several related test scenarios, but there are other possible
reasons to want a step series that's not exactly a permutation.  Improve
documentation and fix a couple other nits as well.
2012-01-28 17:55:08 -05:00
Tom Lane
7c1719bc68 Fix handling of data-modifying CTE subplans in EvalPlanQual.
We can't just skip initializing such subplans, because the referencing CTE
node will expect to find the subplan available when it initializes.  That
in turn means that ExecInitModifyTable must allow the case (which actually
it needed to do anyway, since there's no guarantee that ModifyTable is
exactly at the top of the CTE plan tree).  So move the complaint about not
being allowed in EvalPlanQual mode to execution instead of initialization.
Testing turned up yet another problem, which is that we'd try to
re-initialize the result relation's index list, leading to leaks and
dangling pointers.

Per report from Phil Sorber.  Back-patch to 9.1 where data-modifying CTEs
were introduced.
2012-01-28 17:43:57 -05:00
Magnus Hagander
672614cf21 Prevent logging "failed to stat file: success" for temp files
This was broken in commit bc3347484a, the
addition of statistics counters for temp files.

Reported by Thom Brown
2012-01-28 10:03:26 +01:00
Tom Lane
a8b4b84360 Fix error detection in contrib/pgcrypto's encrypt_iv() and decrypt_iv().
Due to oversights, the encrypt_iv() and decrypt_iv() functions failed to
report certain types of invalid-input errors, and would instead return
random garbage values.

Marko Kreen, per report from Stefan Kaltenbrunner
2012-01-27 23:09:16 -05:00
Tom Lane
0816fad6ee Undo 8.4-era lobotomization of subquery pullup rules.
After the planner was fixed to convert some IN/EXISTS subqueries into
semijoins or antijoins, we had to prevent it from doing that in some
cases where the plans risked getting much worse.  The reason the plans
got worse was that in the unoptimized implementation, subqueries could
reference parameters from the outer query at any join level, and so
full table scans could be avoided even if they were one or more levels
of join below where the semi/anti join would be.  Now that we have
sufficient mechanism in the planner to handle such cases properly,
it should no longer be necessary to play dumb here.

This reverts commits 07b9936a0f and
cd1f0d04bf.  The latter was a stopgap
fix that wasn't really sufficiently analyzed at the time.  Rather
than just restricting ourselves to cases where the new join can be
stacked on the right-hand input, we should also consider whether it
can be stacked on the left-hand input.
2012-01-27 19:46:41 -05:00
Tom Lane
e2fa76d80b Use parameterized paths to generate inner indexscans more flexibly.
This patch fixes the planner so that it can generate nestloop-with-
inner-indexscan plans even with one or more levels of joining between
the indexscan and the nestloop join that is supplying the parameter.
The executor was fixed to handle such cases some time ago, but the
planner was not ready.  This should improve our plans in many situations
where join ordering restrictions formerly forced complete table scans.

There is probably a fair amount of tuning work yet to be done, because
of various heuristics that have been added to limit the number of
parameterized paths considered.  However, we are not going to find out
what needs to be adjusted until the code gets some real-world use, so
it's time to get it in there where it can be tested easily.

Note API change for index AM amcostestimate functions.  I'm not aware of
any non-core index AMs, but if there are any, they will need minor
adjustments.
2012-01-27 19:26:38 -05:00
Peter Eisentraut
b376ec6fa5 Show default privileges in information schema
Hitherto, the information schema only showed explicitly granted
privileges that were visible in the *acl catalog columns.  If no
privileges had been granted, the implicit privileges were not shown.

To fix that, add an SQL-accessible version of the acldefault()
function, and use that inside the aclexplode() calls to substitute the
catalog-specific default privilege set for null values.

reviewed by Abhijit Menon-Sen
2012-01-27 21:58:51 +02:00
Peter Eisentraut
bf90562aa4 Revert unfortunate whitespace change
In e5e2fc842c, blank lines were removed
after a comment block, which now looks as though the comment refers to
the immediately following code, but it actually refers to the
preceding code.  So put the blank lines back.
2012-01-27 21:39:38 +02:00
Peter Eisentraut
2787458362 Disallow ALTER DOMAIN on non-domain type everywhere
This has been the behavior already in most cases, but through
omission, ALTER DOMAIN / OWNER TO and ALTER DOMAIN / SET SCHEMA would
silently work on non-domain types as well.
2012-01-27 21:20:34 +02:00
Peter Eisentraut
8137f2c323 Hide most variable-length fields from Form_pg_* structs
Those fields only appear in the structs so that genbki.pl can create
the BKI bootstrap files for the catalogs.  But they are not actually
usable from C.  So hiding them can prevent coding mistakes, saves
stack space, and can help the compiler.

In certain catalogs, the first variable-length field has been kept
visible after manual inspection.  These exceptions are noted in C
comments.

reviewed by Tom Lane
2012-01-27 20:16:17 +02:00
Peter Eisentraut
8a3f745f16 Do not access indclass through Form_pg_index
Normally, accessing variable-length members of catalog structures past
the first one doesn't work at all.  Here, it happened to work because
indnatts was checked to be 1, and so the defined FormData_pg_index
layout, using int2vector[1] and oidvector[1] for variable-length
arrays, happened to match the actual memory layout.  But it's a very
fragile assumption, and it's not in a performance-critical path, so
code it properly using heap_getattr() instead.

bug analysis by Tom Lane
2012-01-27 20:08:34 +02:00
Robert Haas
eb6af016fc Document that COUNT(*) might not need a seq scan any more.
Noted by Josh Kupershmidt.
2012-01-27 12:40:37 -05:00
Robert Haas
db6de5b71e Document that analyzing an empty table doesn't update the statistics.
Per a suggestion from Sergey Konoplev
2012-01-27 12:14:23 -05:00
Heikki Linnakangas
cf3fff6326 Initialize the new bgwriterLatch field properly.
Peter Geoghegan
2012-01-27 18:25:32 +02:00
Robert Haas
e43166a557 pg_dump: Move connection-setup code to a separate function.
Parallel dump will need to repeat these steps for each new connection,
so it's better to have this logic in its own function.

Extracted (with some changes) from a much larger patch
by Joachim Wieland.
2012-01-27 10:59:27 -05:00
Heikki Linnakangas
59c67ecdd3 Fix copy-paste error in docs.
Dean Rasheed
2012-01-27 12:48:42 +02:00
Magnus Hagander
c9f14bb4ac Fix wording, per Peter Geoghegan 2012-01-27 10:36:27 +01:00
Heikki Linnakangas
2e92b5872f Mention in the docs that bgwriter now sleeps longer when it has no work to do. 2012-01-27 09:17:37 +02:00
Bruce Momjian
3946c28161 Fix pg_upgrade --help text for --user to not use a plural cluster name. 2012-01-26 22:18:58 -05:00
Robert Haas
c5a03256c7 Adjust tuplesort.c based on the fact that we never use the OS's qsort().
Our own qsort_arg() implementation doesn't have the defect previously
observed to affect only QNX 4, so it seems sufficiently to assert that
it isn't broken rather than retesting.  Also, update a few comments to
clarify why it's valuable to retain a tie-break rule based on CTID
during index builds.

Peter Geoghegan, with slight tweaks by me.
2012-01-26 14:43:28 -05:00
Robert Haas
2d1371d3ee Be more clear when a new column name collides with a system column name.
We now use the same error message for ALTER TABLE .. ADD COLUMN or
ALTER TABLE .. RENAME COLUMN that we do for CREATE TABLE.  The old
message was accurate, but might be confusing to users not aware of our
system columns.

Vik Reykja, with some changes by me, and further proofreading by Tom Lane
2012-01-26 12:44:30 -05:00
Heikki Linnakangas
d4bad4e1e1 Fix sentence in docs: checkpoints are not done by bgwriter anymore. 2012-01-26 19:08:20 +02:00
Heikki Linnakangas
6d90eaaa89 Make bgwriter sleep longer when it has no work to do, to save electricity.
To make it wake up promptly when activity starts again, backends nudge it
by setting a latch in MarkBufferDirty(). The latch is kept set while
bgwriter is active, so there is very little overhead from that when the
system is busy. It is only armed before going into longer sleep.

Peter Geoghegan, with some changes by me.
2012-01-26 18:39:13 +02:00
Robert Haas
467ff207f5 Add missing #include, to suppress compiler warning. 2012-01-26 10:16:26 -05:00
Magnus Hagander
7729e22d83 Fix a copy/pasted typo in several comments 2012-01-26 16:02:33 +01:00
Magnus Hagander
61cb8c5abb Add deadlock counter to pg_stat_database
Adds a counter that tracks number of deadlocks that occurred in
each database to pg_stat_database.

Magnus Hagander, reviewed by Jaime Casanova
2012-01-26 15:58:19 +01:00
Robert Haas
0e549697d1 Classify DROP operations by whether or not they are user-initiated.
This doesn't do anything useful just yet, but is intended as supporting
infrastructure for allowing sepgsql to sensibly check DROP permissions.

KaiGai Kohei and Robert Haas
2012-01-26 09:30:27 -05:00
Magnus Hagander
bc3347484a Track temporary file count and size in pg_stat_database
Add counters for number and size of temporary files used
for spill-to-disk queries for each database to the
pg_stat_database view.

Tomas Vondra, review by Magnus Hagander
2012-01-26 14:41:19 +01:00
Robert Haas
9d35116611 Damage control for yesterday's CheckIndexCompatible changes.
Rip out a regression test that doesn't play well with settings put in
place by the build farm, and rewrite the code in CheckIndexCompatible
in a hopefully more transparent style.
2012-01-26 08:21:31 -05:00
Robert Haas
9f9135d129 Instrument index-only scans to count heap fetches performed.
Patch by me; review by Tom Lane, Jeff Davis, and Peter Geoghegan.
2012-01-25 20:41:52 -05:00
Alvaro Herrera
08146775ac Have \copy go through SendQuery
This enables a bunch of features, notably ON_ERROR_ROLLBACK.  It also
makes COPY failure (either in the server or psql) as a whole behave more
sanely in psql.

Additionally, having more commands in the same command line as COPY
works better (though since psql splits lines at semicolons, this doesn't
matter much unless you're using -c).

Also tighten a couple of switches on PQresultStatus() to add
PGRES_COPY_BOTH support and stop assuming that unknown statuses received
are errors; have those print diagnostics where warranted.

Author: Noah Misch
2012-01-25 18:22:00 -03:00
Robert Haas
6eb71ac552 Make CheckIndexCompatible simpler and more bullet-proof.
This gives up the "don't rewrite the index" behavior in a couple of
relatively unimportant cases, such as changing between an array type
and an unconstrained domain over that array type, in return for
making this code more future-proof.

Noah Misch
2012-01-25 15:28:07 -05:00
Simon Riggs
8366c7803e Allow pg_basebackup from standby node with safety checking.
Base backup follows recommended procedure, plus goes to great
lengths to ensure that partial page writes are avoided.

Jun Ishizuka and Fujii Masao, with minor modifications
2012-01-25 18:02:04 +00:00
Alvaro Herrera
74ab96a45e Add pg_trigger_depth() function
This reports the depth level of triggers currently in execution, or zero
if not called from inside a trigger.

No catversion bump in this patch, but you have to initdb if you want
access to the new function.

Author: Kevin Grittner
2012-01-25 13:22:54 -03:00
Bruce Momjian
6d5aae7afa Now that the shared library name can be adjusted in the library test,
have pg_upgrade allocate a maximum fixed size buffer for testing the
library file name, rather than base the allocation on the library name.

Backpatch to 9.1.
2012-01-25 09:35:17 -05:00
Bruce Momjian
a7f2c79a6e Improve plpython fix comment in pg_upgrade. 2012-01-24 22:49:55 -05:00
Bruce Momjian
cfe443ab9d In pg_upgrade, when checking for the plpython library, we must check for
"plpython2" when upgrading from pre-PG 9.1.  Patch to head and 9.1.

Per report from Peter.
2012-01-24 22:42:37 -05:00
Bruce Momjian
b95aec5290 Fix new SQL tablespace location function usage in pg_upgrade to properly
check cluster version numbers, and fix missing table alias.
2012-01-24 21:51:10 -05:00
Simon Riggs
443b4821f1 Add new replication mode synchronous_commit = 'write'.
Replication occurs only to memory on standby, not to disk,
so provides additional performance if user wishes to
reduce durability level slightly. Adds concept of multiple
independent sync rep queues.

Fujii Masao and Simon Riggs
2012-01-24 20:22:37 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
89dda5f297 Remove quotes around format_type_be() output
format_type_be() takes care of any needed quoting itself.
2012-01-24 21:49:27 +02:00
Tom Lane
f26c9896b3 Suppress variable-clobbered-by-longjmp warning seen with older gcc versions. 2012-01-24 13:44:07 -05:00
Tom Lane
beef89567e Suppress possibly-uninitialized-variable warning seen with older gcc versions. 2012-01-24 13:40:26 -05:00
Bruce Momjian
890a9992ce Reduce tab outdent of "error handling" GUC comments in postgresql.conf,
to match surrounding outdenting.
2012-01-24 10:41:00 -05:00
Robert Haas
49562f5eb6 Adjustments to regression tests for security_barrier views.
Drop the role we create, so regression tests pass even when run more
than once against the same cluster, a problem noted by Tom Lane and
Jeff Janes.  Also, rename the temporary role so that it starts with
"regress_", to make it unlikely that we'll collide with an existing
role name while running "make installcheck", per further gripe from
Tom Lane.
2012-01-24 08:46:32 -05:00
Simon Riggs
c172b7b02e Resolve timing issue with logging locks for Hot Standby.
We log AccessExclusiveLocks for replay onto standby nodes,
but because of timing issues on ProcArray it is possible to
log a lock that is still held by a just committed transaction
that is very soon to be removed. To avoid any timing issue we
avoid applying locks made by transactions with InvalidXid.

Simon Riggs, bug report Tom Lane, diagnosis Pavan Deolasee
2012-01-23 23:37:32 +00:00