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Author SHA1 Message Date
Tom Lane
d9572c4e3b Core support for "extensions", which are packages of SQL objects.
This patch adds the server infrastructure to support extensions.
There is still one significant loose end, namely how to make it play nice
with pg_upgrade, so I am not yet committing the changes that would make
all the contrib modules depend on this feature.

In passing, fix a disturbingly large amount of breakage in
AlterObjectNamespace() and callers.

Dimitri Fontaine, reviewed by Anssi Kääriäinen,
Itagaki Takahiro, Tom Lane, and numerous others
2011-02-08 16:13:22 -05:00
Peter Eisentraut
414c5a2ea6 Per-column collation support
This adds collation support for columns and domains, a COLLATE clause
to override it per expression, and B-tree index support.

Peter Eisentraut
reviewed by Pavel Stehule, Itagaki Takahiro, Robert Haas, Noah Misch
2011-02-08 23:04:18 +02:00
Heikki Linnakangas
1703f0e8da Fix typo, by Kevin Grittner. 2011-02-08 21:48:03 +02:00
Simon Riggs
7a7d36ec33 Continue long tradition of bumping the catalog version a little late. 2011-02-08 19:44:50 +00:00
Simon Riggs
c016ce7281 Named restore points in recovery. Users can record named points, then
new recovery.conf parameter recovery_target_name allows PITR to
specify named points as recovery targets.

Jaime Casanova, reviewed by Euler Taveira de Oliveira, plus minor edits
2011-02-08 19:39:08 +00:00
Simon Riggs
8c6e3adbf7 Basic Recovery Control functions for use in Hot Standby. Pause, Resume,
Status check functions only. Also, new recovery.conf parameter to
pause_at_recovery_target, default on.

Simon Riggs, reviewed by Fujii Masao
2011-02-08 18:30:22 +00:00
Heikki Linnakangas
f9f9d696a9 UINT64_MAX isn't defined on MSVC. 2011-02-08 18:15:53 +02:00
Simon Riggs
faa0550572 Remove rare corner case for data loss when triggering standby server.
If the standby was streaming when trigger file arrives, check also in the
archive for additional WAL files. This is a corner case since it is
unlikely that we would trigger a failover while the master is still
available and sending data to standby, while at the same time running in
archive mode and also while the streaming standby has fallen behind archive.
Someone would eventually be unlucky; we must plug all gaps however small.

Fujii Masao
2011-02-08 14:38:02 +00:00
Simon Riggs
722bf7017b Extend ALTER TABLE to allow Foreign Keys to be added without initial validation.
FK constraints that are marked NOT VALID may later be VALIDATED, which uses an
ShareUpdateExclusiveLock on constraint table and RowShareLock on referenced
table. Significantly reduces lock strength and duration when adding FKs.
New state visible from psql.

Simon Riggs, with reviews from Marko Tiikkaja and Robert Haas
2011-02-08 12:23:20 +00:00
Heikki Linnakangas
7202ad7b8d Fix copy-pasto in description of pg_serial, and silence compiler warning
about uninitialized field you get on some compilers.
2011-02-08 09:05:13 +02:00
Robert Haas
32896c40ca Avoid having autovacuum workers wait for relation locks.
Waiting for relation locks can lead to starvation - it pins down an
autovacuum worker for as long as the lock is held.  But if we're doing
an anti-wraparound vacuum, then we still wait; maintenance can no longer
be put off.

To assist with troubleshooting, if log_autovacuum_min_duration >= 0,
we log whenever an autovacuum or autoanalyze is skipped for this reason.

Per a gripe by Josh Berkus, and ensuing discussion.
2011-02-07 22:04:29 -05:00
Heikki Linnakangas
47082fa875 Oops, forgot to bump catversion in the Serializable Snapshot Isolation patch.
I thought we didn't need that, but then I remembered that it added a new
SLRU subdirectory, pg_serial. While we're at it, document what pg_serial is.
2011-02-08 00:24:23 +02:00
Heikki Linnakangas
dafaa3efb7 Implement genuine serializable isolation level.
Until now, our Serializable mode has in fact been what's called Snapshot
Isolation, which allows some anomalies that could not occur in any
serialized ordering of the transactions. This patch fixes that using a
method called Serializable Snapshot Isolation, based on research papers by
Michael J. Cahill (see README-SSI for full references). In Serializable
Snapshot Isolation, transactions run like they do in Snapshot Isolation,
but a predicate lock manager observes the reads and writes performed and
aborts transactions if it detects that an anomaly might occur. This method
produces some false positives, ie. it sometimes aborts transactions even
though there is no anomaly.

To track reads we implement predicate locking, see storage/lmgr/predicate.c.
Whenever a tuple is read, a predicate lock is acquired on the tuple. Shared
memory is finite, so when a transaction takes many tuple-level locks on a
page, the locks are promoted to a single page-level lock, and further to a
single relation level lock if necessary. To lock key values with no matching
tuple, a sequential scan always takes a relation-level lock, and an index
scan acquires a page-level lock that covers the search key, whether or not
there are any matching keys at the moment.

A predicate lock doesn't conflict with any regular locks or with another
predicate locks in the normal sense. They're only used by the predicate lock
manager to detect the danger of anomalies. Only serializable transactions
participate in predicate locking, so there should be no extra overhead for
for other transactions.

Predicate locks can't be released at commit, but must be remembered until
all the transactions that overlapped with it have completed. That means that
we need to remember an unbounded amount of predicate locks, so we apply a
lossy but conservative method of tracking locks for committed transactions.
If we run short of shared memory, we overflow to a new "pg_serial" SLRU
pool.

We don't currently allow Serializable transactions in Hot Standby mode.
That would be hard, because even read-only transactions can cause anomalies
that wouldn't otherwise occur.

Serializable isolation mode now means the new fully serializable level.
Repeatable Read gives you the old Snapshot Isolation level that we have
always had.

Kevin Grittner and Dan Ports, reviewed by Jeff Davis, Heikki Linnakangas and
Anssi Kääriäinen
2011-02-08 00:09:08 +02:00
Itagaki Takahiro
c18f51da17 Fix a comment for MergeAttributes.
We forgot to adjust it when we changed relistemp to relpersistence.
2011-02-07 16:53:05 +09:00
Andrew Dunstan
c852e95b0b Supply now required HeUTF8 macro for plperl where it's missing, per buildfarm results. 2011-02-06 21:36:56 -05:00
Itagaki Takahiro
fb7355e0ce Fix error messages for FreeFile in COPY command.
They are extracted from COPY API patch.

suggested by Noah Misch
2011-02-07 10:46:56 +09:00
Bruce Momjian
ad76242633 remove tags. 2011-02-06 18:44:43 -05:00
Andrew Dunstan
50d89d422f Force strings passed to and from plperl to be in UTF8 encoding.
String are converted to UTF8 on the way into perl and to the
database encoding on the way back. This avoids a number of
observed anomalies, and ensures Perl a consistent view of the
world.

Some minor code cleanups are also accomplished.

Alex Hunsaker, reviewed by Andy Colson.
2011-02-06 17:29:26 -05:00
Bruce Momjian
5ed45ac09c Adjust libpq docs to be clearer about 'hostaddr' usage by rewording and
using an itemized list.
2011-02-06 12:04:42 -05:00
Bruce Momjian
97116ca417 Rename macro DECIMAL to DECIMAL_T to help pgindent; this is already
done for a few other macros in that file, for other reasons.  I also
remove pgindent/README mention of the file.
2011-02-06 10:48:17 -05:00
Magnus Hagander
cedd6515ba IDENTIFY_SYSTEM now returns 3 fields, not 2 2011-02-06 07:46:14 +01:00
Robert Haas
65377e0b9c Tighten ALTER FOREIGN TABLE .. SET DATA TYPE checks.
If the foreign table's rowtype is being used as the type of a column in
another table, we can't just up and change its data type.  This was
already checked for composite types and ordinary tables, but we
previously failed to enforce it for foreign tables.
2011-02-06 00:26:27 -05:00
Bruce Momjian
51dbc87dff Add C comment about why older compilers complain about basebackup.c's
longjump.
2011-02-04 23:28:14 -05:00
Andrew Dunstan
895ad83d70 Attempt to unbreak MSVC builds after pipe.c move. 2011-02-04 20:49:39 -05:00
Bruce Momjian
8e6ae3d79c Add doc comment that installation.sgml can't use xrefs. 2011-02-04 17:30:54 -05:00
Robert Haas
9e7e1172a5 Clarify comment in ATRewriteTable().
Make sure it's clear that the prohibition on adding a column with a default
when the rowtype is used elsewhere is intentional, and be a bit more
explicit about the other cases where we perform this check.
2011-02-04 16:14:54 -05:00
Robert Haas
b1e65c3216 Move pipe.c into the backend.
It's full of backend-specific error reporting, so it's neither possible
nor necessary for this to be used from frontend code.
2011-02-04 15:52:21 -05:00
Bruce Momjian
b157a1d555 In docs, move PQrequestCancel() deprecation mention up to match other
libpq doc mentions.
2011-02-04 14:23:35 -05:00
Robert Haas
8201aea90c Avoid including postgres.h in frontend compiles of src/port.
This isn't kosher, and doesn't play nicely with my recent changes to the
Makefile in this directory.
2011-02-04 13:11:53 -05:00
Robert Haas
edad08ba54 Update ALTER TABLE docs to mention using VACUUM FULL for rewrites.
Remove the claim that ALTER TABLE .. SET DATA TYPE is the fastest way of
rewriting a table, since it no longer is.

Noah Misch and Robert Haas, based on a suggestion from Tom Lane.
2011-02-04 13:08:56 -05:00
Robert Haas
6f59a5e5dd Use $(MAKE) rather than make.
Per buildfarm.
2011-02-04 09:48:32 -05:00
Robert Haas
356f2cbbb4 Make handling of errcodes.h more consistent with other generated headers.
This fixes make distprep, and seems more robust in other ways as well.
Some special handling is required because errcodes.txt is needed by
some stuff in src/port, but just by src/backend as is the case for the
other generated headers.

While I'm at it, fix a few other things that were overlooked in the
original patch.
2011-02-04 09:29:10 -05:00
Magnus Hagander
afb6dee1e3 Attempt to un-break the documentation build again
Another case of <xref linkend> in the documentation that
builds INSTALL, which is not allowed.
2011-02-04 15:24:49 +01:00
Robert Haas
b87811ee27 Unbreak 'configure' followed immediately by 'make install'.
More fallout from ddfe26f644.

Report by Fujii Masao.
2011-02-04 07:06:36 -05:00
Magnus Hagander
39fbec73b0 Use single quotes when there are backslashes in the filename
In the hope of unbreaking the buildfarm
2011-02-04 10:52:25 +01:00
Robert Haas
dde9684d65 Unbreak the VPATH build.
My commit ddfe26f644 of 2010-02-03 broke it.

Per buildfarm.
2011-02-04 00:07:08 -05:00
Robert Haas
b8a0467e10 Preserve copyright notice from old errcodes.h file. 2011-02-03 22:38:02 -05:00
Robert Haas
ddfe26f644 Avoid maintaining three separate copies of the error codes list.
src/pl/plpgsql/src/plerrcodes.h, src/include/utils/errcodes.h, and a
big chunk of errcodes.sgml are now automatically generated from a single
file, src/backend/utils/errcodes.txt.

Jan Urbański, reviewed by Tom Lane.
2011-02-03 22:32:49 -05:00
Robert Haas
7212c77d0c ALTER TABLE sometimes takes only ShareUpdateExclusiveLock.
Along the way, be more consistent about the wording we use here.
2011-02-03 15:14:27 -05:00
Bruce Momjian
df63aac678 In docs, PL is Procedural Language, not Programming Language.
Satoshi Nagayasu
2011-02-03 11:54:07 -05:00
Bruce Momjian
35b0a6b205 Simplify code used in is_absolute_path() macro; also add comment about
'E:abc' Win32 path handling.
2011-02-03 10:47:06 -05:00
Magnus Hagander
76129e7f14 Include more status information in walsender results
Add the current xlog insert location to the response of
IDENTIFY_SYSTEM, and adds result sets containing start
and stop location of backups to BASE_BACKUP responses.
2011-02-03 13:46:23 +01:00
Magnus Hagander
f001cb38b6 Fix typo.
Thom Brown
2011-02-03 11:24:47 +01:00
Robert Haas
4c4daf6710 Further sepgsql documentation cleanup. 2011-02-03 00:23:44 -05:00
Robert Haas
4ff9dec138 sepgsql doc fix
KaiGai Kohei
2011-02-02 23:47:45 -05:00
Robert Haas
87d967f70f Minor sepgsql regression test fixes. 2011-02-02 23:46:51 -05:00
Robert Haas
c7689ee733 Various sepgsql corrections.
KaiGai Kohei
2011-02-02 23:39:43 -05:00
Bruce Momjian
426227850b Rename function to first_path_var_separator() to clarify it works with
path variables, not directory paths.
2011-02-02 22:49:54 -05:00
Bruce Momjian
bffb638d16 Clearify macro IS_PATH_VAR_SEP in path.c so it is clear this is a path
variable, not a directory path.
2011-02-02 22:28:45 -05:00
Robert Haas
0af695fd43 Log restartpoints in the same fashion as checkpoints.
Prior to 9.0, restartpoints never created, deleted, or recycled WAL
files, but now they can.  This code makes log_checkpoints treat
checkpoints and restartpoints symmetrically.  It also adjusts up
the documentation of the parameter to mention restartpoints.

Fujii Masao.  Docs by me, as suggested by Itagaki Takahiro.
2011-02-02 21:08:53 -05:00