the PARAM_FLAG_CONST flag on the parameters that are passed into the portal,
while the former's behavior is unchanged. This should only affect the case
where the portal is executing an EXPLAIN; it will cause the generated plan to
look more like what would be generated if the portal were actually executing
the command being explained. Per gripe from Pavel.
functions.
Note that because this patch changes FmgrInfo, any external C functions
you might be testing with 8.4 will need to be recompiled.
Patch by Martin Pihlak, some editorialization by me (principally, removing
tracking of getrusage() numbers)
file portability/instr_time.h, and add a couple more macros to eliminate
some abstraction leakage we formerly had. Also update psql to use this
header instead of its own copy of nearly the same code.
This commit in itself is just code cleanup and shouldn't change anything.
It lays some groundwork for the upcoming function-stats patch, though.
There are two ways to track a snapshot: there's the "registered" list, which
is used for arbitrary long-lived snapshots; and there's the "active stack",
which is used for the snapshot that is considered "active" at any time.
This also allows users of snapshots to stop worrying about snapshot memory
allocation and freeing, and about using PG_TRY blocks around ActiveSnapshot
assignment. This is all done automatically now.
As a consequence, this allows us to reset MyProc->xmin when there are no
more snapshots registered in the current backend, reducing the impact that
long-running transactions have on VACUUM.
unnecessary #include lines in it. Also, move some tuple routine prototypes and
macros to htup.h, which allows removal of heapam.h inclusion from some .c
files.
For this to work, a new header file access/sysattr.h needed to be created,
initially containing attribute numbers of system columns, for pg_dump usage.
While at it, make contrib ltree, intarray and hstore header files more
consistent with our header style.
as those for inherited columns; that is, it's no longer allowed for a child
table to not have a check constraint matching one that exists on a parent.
This satisfies the principle of least surprise (rows selected from the parent
will always appear to meet its check constraints) and eliminates some
longstanding bogosity in pg_dump, which formerly had to guess about whether
check constraints were really inherited or not.
The implementation involves adding conislocal and coninhcount columns to
pg_constraint (paralleling attislocal and attinhcount in pg_attribute)
and refactoring various ALTER TABLE actions to be more like those for
columns.
Alex Hunsaker, Nikhil Sontakke, Tom Lane
a user-supplied TID is out of range for the relation. This is needed to
preserve compatibility with our pre-8.3 behavior, and it is sensible anyway
since if the query were implemented by brute force rather than optimized
into a TidScan, the behavior for a non-existent TID would be zero rows out,
never an error. Per gripe from Gurjeet Singh.
UPDATE/SHARE couldn't occur as a subquery in a query with a non-SELECT
top-level operation. Symptoms included outright failure (as in report from
Mark Mielke) and silently neglecting to take the requested row locks.
Back-patch to 8.3, because the visible failure in the INSERT ... SELECT case
is a regression from 8.2. I'm a bit hesitant to back-patch further given the
lack of field complaints.
no particular need to do get_op_opfamily_properties() while building an
indexscan plan. Postpone that lookup until executor start. This simplifies
createplan.c a lot more than it complicates nodeIndexscan.c, and makes things
more uniform since we already had to do it that way for RowCompare
expressions. Should be a bit faster too, at least for plans that aren't
re-used many times, since we avoid palloc'ing and perhaps copying the
intermediate list data structure.
instead of plan time. Extend the amgettuple API so that the index AM returns
a boolean indicating whether the indexquals need to be rechecked, and make
that rechecking happen in nodeIndexscan.c (currently the only place where
it's expected to be needed; other callers of index_getnext are just erroring
out for now). For the moment, GIN and GIST have stub logic that just always
sets the recheck flag to TRUE --- I'm hoping to get Teodor to handle pushing
that control down to the opclass consistent() functions. The planner no
longer pays any attention to amopreqcheck, and that catalog column will go
away in due course.
indexscan always occurs in one call, and the results are returned in a
TIDBitmap instead of a limited-size array of TIDs. This should improve
speed a little by reducing AM entry/exit overhead, and it is necessary
infrastructure if we are ever to support bitmap indexes.
In an only slightly related change, add support for TIDBitmaps to preserve
(somewhat lossily) the knowledge that particular TIDs reported by an index
need to have their quals rechecked when the heap is visited. This facility
is not really used yet; we'll need to extend the forced-recheck feature to
plain indexscans before it's useful, and that hasn't been coded yet.
The intent is to use it to clean up 8.3's horrid @@@ kluge for text search
with weighted queries. There might be other uses in future, but that one
alone is sufficient reason.
Heikki Linnakangas, with some adjustments by me.
responsible for copying the query string into the new Portal. Such copying
is unnecessary in the common code path through exec_simple_query, and in
this case it can be enormously expensive because the string might contain
a large number of individual commands; we were copying the entire, long
string for each command, resulting in O(N^2) behavior for N commands.
(This is the cause of bug #4079.) A second problem with it is that
PortalDefineQuery really can't risk error, because if it elog's before
having set up the Portal, we will leak the plancache refcount that the
caller is trying to hand off to the portal. So go back to the design in
which the caller is responsible for making sure everything is copied into
the portal if necessary.
that is commands that have out-of-line parameters but the plan is prepared
assuming that the parameter values are constants. This is needed for the
plpgsql EXECUTE USING patch, but will probably have use elsewhere.
This commit includes the SPI functions and documentation, but no callers
nor regression tests. The upcoming EXECUTE USING patch will provide
regression-test coverage. I thought committing this separately made
sense since it's logically a distinct feature.
snapmgmt.c file for the former. The header files have also been reorganized
in three parts: the most basic snapshot definitions are now in a new file
snapshot.h, and the also new snapmgmt.h keeps the definitions for snapmgmt.c.
tqual.h has been reduced to the bare minimum.
This patch is just a first step towards managing live snapshots within a
transaction; there is no functionality change.
Per my proposal to pgsql-patches on 20080318191940.GB27458@alvh.no-ip.org and
subsequent discussion.
strings. This patch introduces four support functions cstring_to_text,
cstring_to_text_with_len, text_to_cstring, and text_to_cstring_buffer, and
two macros CStringGetTextDatum and TextDatumGetCString. A number of
existing macros that provided variants on these themes were removed.
Most of the places that need to make such conversions now require just one
function or macro call, in place of the multiple notational layers that used
to be needed. There are no longer any direct calls of textout or textin,
and we got most of the places that were using handmade conversions via
memcpy (there may be a few still lurking, though).
This commit doesn't make any serious effort to eliminate transient memory
leaks caused by detoasting toasted text objects before they reach
text_to_cstring. We changed PG_GETARG_TEXT_P to PG_GETARG_TEXT_PP in a few
places where it was easy, but much more could be done.
Brendan Jurd and Tom Lane
identical to tuplestore_puttuple(), except it operates on arrays of
Datums + nulls rather than a fully-formed HeapTuple. In several places
that use the tuplestore API, this means we can avoid creating a
HeapTuple altogether, saving a copy.
are declared to return set, and consist of just a single SELECT. We
can replace the FROM-item with a sub-SELECT and then optimize much as
if we were dealing with a view. Patch from Richard Rowell, cleaned up
by me.
during a bitmap index scan. This cannot affect the query results
(since we're just dumping the TIDs into a bitmap) but it might offer
some advantage in locality of access to the index. Per Greg Stark.
"multi_call_ctx" to be a distinct sub-context of the EState's per-query
context, and delete the multi_call_ctx as soon as the SRF finishes
execution. This avoids leaking SRF memory until the end of the current
query, which is particularly egregious when the SRF is scanned
multiple times. This change also fixes a leak of the fields of the
AttInMetadata struct in shutdown_MultiFuncCall().
Also fix a leak of the SRF result TupleDesc when rescanning a
FunctionScan node. The TupleDesc is allocated in the per-query context
for every call to ExecMakeTableFunctionResult(), so we should free it
after calling that function. Since the SRF might choose to return
a non-expendable TupleDesc, we only free the TupleDesc if it is
not being reference-counted.
Backpatch to 8.3 and 8.2 stable branches.
doing anything interesting, such as calling RevalidateCachedPlan(). The
necessity of this is demonstrated by an example from Willem Buitendyk:
during a replan, the planner might try to evaluate SPI-using functions,
and so we'd better be in a clean SPI context.
A small downside of this fix is that these two functions will now fail
outright if called when not inside a SPI-using procedure (ie, a
SPI_connect/SPI_finish pair). The documentation never promised or suggested
that that would work, though; and they are normally used in concert with
other functions, mainly SPI_prepare, that always have failed in such a case.
So the odds of breaking something seem pretty low.
In passing, make SPI_is_cursor_plan's error handling convention clearer,
and fix documentation's erroneous claim that SPI_cursor_open would
return NULL on error.
Before 8.3 these functions could not invoke replanning, so there is probably
no need for back-patching.
tablespace permissions failures when copying an index that is in the
database's default tablespace. A side-effect of the change is that explicitly
specifying the default tablespace no longer triggers a permissions check;
this is not how it was done in pre-8.3 releases but is argued to be more
consistent. Per bug #3921 from Andrew Gilligan. (Note: I argued in the
subsequent discussion that maybe LIKE shouldn't copy index tablespaces
at all, but since no one indicated agreement with that idea, I've refrained
from doing it.)
checking of argument compatibility right; although the problem is only exposed
with multiple-input aggregates in which some arguments are polymorphic and
some are not. Per bug #3852 from Sokolov Yura.
but no database changes have been made since the last CommandCounterIncrement.
This should result in a significant improvement in the number of "commands"
that can typically be performed within a transaction before hitting the 2^32
CommandId size limit. In particular this buys back (and more) the possible
adverse consequences of my previous patch to fix plan caching behavior.
The implementation requires tracking whether the current CommandCounter
value has been "used" to mark any tuples. CommandCounter values stored into
snapshots are presumed not to be used for this purpose. This requires some
small executor changes, since the executor used to conflate the curcid of
the snapshot it was using with the command ID to mark output tuples with.
Separating these concepts allows some small simplifications in executor APIs.
Something for the TODO list: look into having CommandCounterIncrement not do
AcceptInvalidationMessages. It seems fairly bogus to be doing it there,
but exactly where to do it instead isn't clear, and I'm disinclined to mess
with asynchronous behavior during late beta.
plan before the effects of DDL executed in an immediately prior SPI operation
had been absorbed. Per report from Chris Wood.
This patch has an unpleasant side effect of causing the number of
CommandCounterIncrement()s done by a typical plpgsql function to
approximately double. Amelioration of the consequences of that
will be undertaken in a separate patch.
in corner cases such as re-fetching a just-deleted row. We may be able to
relax this someday, but let's find out how many people really care before
we invest a lot of work in it. Per report from Heikki and subsequent
discussion.
While in the neighborhood, make the combination of INSENSITIVE and FOR UPDATE
throw an error, since they are semantically incompatible. (Up to now we've
accepted but just ignored the INSENSITIVE option of DECLARE CURSOR.)
then-delete on the current cursor row. The basic fix is that nodeTidscan.c
has to apply heap_get_latest_tid() to the current-scan-TID obtained from the
cursor query; this ensures we get the latest row version to work with.
However, since that only works if the query plan is a TID scan, we also have
to hack the planner to make sure only that type of plan will be selected.
(Formerly, the planner might decide to apply a seqscan if the table is very
small. This change is probably a Good Thing anyway, since it's hard to see
how a seqscan could really win.) That means the execQual.c code to support
CurrentOfExpr as a regular expression type is dead code, so replace it with
just an elog(). Also, add regression tests covering these cases. Note
that the added tests expose the fact that re-fetching an updated row
misbehaves if the cursor used FOR UPDATE. That's an independent bug that
should be fixed later. Per report from Dharmendra Goyal.
columns, and the new version can be stored on the same heap page, we no longer
generate extra index entries for the new version. Instead, index searches
follow the HOT-chain links to ensure they find the correct tuple version.
In addition, this patch introduces the ability to "prune" dead tuples on a
per-page basis, without having to do a complete VACUUM pass to recover space.
VACUUM is still needed to clean up dead index entries, however.
Pavan Deolasee, with help from a bunch of other people.
than two independent bits (one of which was never used in heap pages anyway,
or at least hadn't been in a very long time). This gives us flexibility to
add the HOT notions of redirected and dead item pointers without requiring
anything so klugy as magic values of lp_off and lp_len. The state values
are chosen so that for the states currently in use (pre-HOT) there is no
change in the physical representation.
no need for serialization against snapshot-taking because the xact doesn't
affect anyone else's snapshot anyway. Per discussion. Also, move various
info about the interlocking of transactions and snapshots out of code comments
and into a hopefully-more-cohesive discussion in access/transam/README.
Also, remove a couple of now-obsolete comments about having to force some WAL
to be written to persuade RecordTransactionCommit to do its thing.
null::char(3) to a simple Const node. (It already worked for non-null values,
but not when we skipped evaluation of a strict coercion function.) This
prevents loss of typmod knowledge in situations such as exhibited in bug
#3598. Unfortunately there seems no good way to fix that bug in 8.1 and 8.2,
because they simply don't carry a typmod for a plain Const node.
In passing I made all the other callers of makeNullConst supply "real" typmod
values too, though I think it probably doesn't matter anywhere else.
generating the tuples has resjunk output columns. This is not possible for
simple table scans but can happen when evaluating a whole-row Var for a view.
Per example from Patryk Kordylewski. The problem exists back to 8.0 but
I'm not going to risk back-patching further than 8.2 because of the many
changes in this area.
are not one of the query's defined result relations, but nonetheless have
triggers fired against them while the query is active. This was formerly
impossible but can now occur because of my recent patch to fix the firing
order for RI triggers. Caching a ResultRelInfo avoids duplicating work by
repeatedly opening and closing the same relation, and also allows EXPLAIN
ANALYZE to "see" and report on these extra triggers. Use the same mechanism
to cache open relations when firing deferred triggers at transaction shutdown;
this replaces the former one-element-cache strategy used in that case, and
should improve performance a bit when there are deferred triggers on a number
of relations.
row within one query: we were firing check triggers before all the updates
were done, leading to bogus failures. Fix by making the triggers queued by
an RI update go at the end of the outer query's trigger event list, thereby
effectively making the processing "breadth-first". This was indeed how it
worked pre-8.0, so the bug does not occur in the 7.x branches.
Per report from Pavel Stehule.
hash table is allocated in a child context of the agg node's memory
context, MemoryContextReset() will reset but *not* delete the child
context. Since ExecReScanAgg() proceeds to build a new hash table
from scratch (in a new sub-context), this results in leaking the
header for the previous memory context. Therefore, use
MemoryContextResetAndDeleteChildren() instead.
Credit: My colleague Sailesh Krishnamurthy at Truviso for isolating
the cause of the leak.