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606c0123d6 Reduce btree scan overhead for < and > strategies
For <, <=, > and >= strategies, mark the first scan key
as already matched if scanning in an appropriate direction.
If index tuple contains no nulls we can skip the first
re-check for each tuple.

Author: Rajeev Rastogi
Reviewer: Haribabu Kommi
Rework of the code and comments by Simon Riggs
2014-11-18 10:24:55 +00:00
dedae6c211 Remove obsolete debugging option, RTDEBUG.
The r-tree AM that used it was removed back in 2005.

Peter Geoghegan
2014-11-18 09:55:05 +02:00
0f9692b40d Fix relpersistence setting in reindex_index
Buildfarm members with CLOBBER_CACHE_ALWAYS advised us that commit
85b506bbfc2937 was mistaken in setting the relpersistence value of the
index directly in the relcache entry, within reindex_index.  The reason
for the failure is that an invalidation message that comes after mucking
with the relcache entry directly, but before writing it to the catalogs,
would cause the entry to become rebuilt in place from catalogs with the
old contents, losing the update.

Fix by passing the correct persistence value to
RelationSetNewRelfilenode instead; this routine also writes the updated
tuple to pg_class, avoiding the problem.  Suggested by Tom Lane.
2014-11-17 11:23:35 -03:00
85b506bbfc Get rid of SET LOGGED indexes persistence kludge
This removes ATChangeIndexesPersistence() introduced by f41872d0c1239d36
which was too ugly to live for long.  Instead, the correct persistence
marking is passed all the way down to reindex_index, so that the
transient relation built to contain the index relfilenode can
get marked correctly right from the start.

Author: Fabrízio de Royes Mello
Review and editorialization by Michael Paquier
                                     and Álvaro Herrera
2014-11-15 01:19:49 -03:00
e4d1e26491 Remove unused InhPaths
Allegedly, the last remaining usages of that struct were removed by
0e99be1c.

Author: Peter Geoghegan
2014-11-15 01:19:39 -03:00
80eacaa3cd Clean up includes from RLS patch
The initial patch for RLS mistakenly included headers associated with
the executor and planner bits in rewrite/rowsecurity.h.  Per policy and
general good sense, executor headers should not be included in planner
headers or vice versa.

The include of execnodes.h was a mistaken holdover from previous
versions, while the include of relation.h was used for Relation's
definition, which should have been coming from utils/relcache.h.  This
patch cleans these issues up, adds comments to the RowSecurityPolicy
struct and the RowSecurityConfigType enum, and changes Relation->rsdesc
to Relation->rd_rsdesc to follow Relation field naming convention.

Additionally, utils/rel.h was including rewrite/rowsecurity.h, which
wasn't a great idea since that was pulling in things not really needed
in utils/rel.h (which gets included in quite a few places).  Instead,
use 'struct RowSecurityDesc' for the rd_rsdesc field and add comments
explaining why.

Lastly, add an include into access/nbtree/nbtsort.c for
utils/sortsupport.h, which was evidently missed due to the above mess.

Pointed out by Tom in 16970.1415838651@sss.pgh.pa.us; note that the
concerns regarding a similar situation in the custom-path commit still
need to be addressed.
2014-11-14 17:05:17 -05:00
81c4508196 Fix race condition between hot standby and restoring a full-page image.
There was a window in RestoreBackupBlock where a page would be zeroed out,
but not yet locked. If a backend pinned and locked the page in that window,
it saw the zeroed page instead of the old page or new page contents, which
could lead to missing rows in a result set, or errors.

To fix, replace RBM_ZERO with RBM_ZERO_AND_LOCK, which atomically pins,
zeroes, and locks the page, if it's not in the buffer cache already.

In stable branches, the old RBM_ZERO constant is renamed to RBM_DO_NOT_USE,
to avoid breaking any 3rd party extensions that might use RBM_ZERO. More
importantly, this avoids renumbering the other enum values, which would
cause even bigger confusion in extensions that use ReadBufferExtended, but
haven't been recompiled.

Backpatch to all supported versions; this has been racy since hot standby
was introduced.
2014-11-13 20:02:37 +02:00
c0828b78e9 Move the guts of our Levenshtein implementation into core.
The hope is that we can use this to produce better diagnostics in
some cases.

Peter Geoghegan, reviewed by Michael Paquier, with some further
changes by me.
2014-11-13 12:33:26 -05:00
c291503b1c Rename pending_list_cleanup_size to gin_pending_list_limit.
Since this parameter is only for GIN index, it's better to
add "gin" to the parameter name for easier understanding.
2014-11-13 12:14:48 +09:00
677708032c Explicitly support the case that a plancache's raw_parse_tree is NULL.
This only happens if a client issues a Parse message with an empty query
string, which is a bit odd; but since it is explicitly called out as legal
by our FE/BE protocol spec, we'd probably better continue to allow it.

Fix by adding tests everywhere that the raw_parse_tree field is passed to
functions that don't or shouldn't accept NULL.  Also make it clear in the
relevant comments that NULL is an expected case.

This reverts commits a73c9dbab0165b3395dfe8a44a7dfd16166963c4 and
2e9650cbcff8c8fb0d9ef807c73a44f241822eee, which fixed specific crash
symptoms by hacking things at what now seems to be the wrong end, ie the
callee functions.  Making the callees allow NULL is superficially more
robust, but it's not always true that there is a defensible thing for the
callee to do in such cases.  The caller has more context and is better
able to decide what the empty-query case ought to do.

Per followup discussion of bug #11335.  Back-patch to 9.2.  The code
before that is sufficiently different that it would require development
of a separate patch, which doesn't seem worthwhile for what is believed
to be an essentially cosmetic change.
2014-11-12 15:59:01 -05:00
1871c89202 Add generate_series(numeric, numeric).
Платон Малюгин
Reviewed by Michael Paquier, Ali Akbar and Marti Raudsepp
2014-11-11 21:44:46 +09:00
a1b395b6a2 Add GUC and storage parameter to set the maximum size of GIN pending list.
Previously the maximum size of GIN pending list was controlled only by
work_mem. But the reasonable value of work_mem and the reasonable size
of the list are basically not the same, so it was not appropriate to
control both of them by only one GUC, i.e., work_mem. This commit
separates new GUC, pending_list_cleanup_size, from work_mem to allow
users to control only the size of the list.

Also this commit adds pending_list_cleanup_size as new storage parameter
to allow users to specify the size of the list per index. This is useful,
for example, when users want to increase the size of the list only for
the GIN index which can be updated heavily, and decrease it otherwise.

Reviewed by Etsuro Fujita.
2014-11-11 21:08:21 +09:00
ae667f778d Really fix compilation failure on MIPS.
I missed an additional colon in previous patch. Oops. to make that mistake
less likely in the future, add comments as placeholders for unused inputs
and outputs in inline assembly.
2014-11-11 10:25:22 +02:00
baf7b3a503 Fix compilation failure on MIPS.
Rémi Zara
2014-11-11 01:06:06 +02:00
bf7ca15875 Ensure that RowExprs and whole-row Vars produce the expected column names.
At one time it wasn't terribly important what column names were associated
with the fields of a composite Datum, but since the introduction of
operations like row_to_json(), it's important that looking up the rowtype
ID embedded in the Datum returns the column names that users would expect.
That did not work terribly well before this patch: you could get the column
names of the underlying table, or column aliases from any level of the
query, depending on minor details of the plan tree.  You could even get
totally empty field names, which is disastrous for cases like row_to_json().

To fix this for whole-row Vars, look to the RTE referenced by the Var, and
make sure its column aliases are applied to the rowtype associated with
the result Datums.  This is a tad scary because we might have to return
a transient RECORD type even though the Var is declared as having some
named rowtype.  In principle it should be all right because the record
type will still be physically compatible with the named rowtype; but
I had to weaken one Assert in ExecEvalConvertRowtype, and there might be
third-party code containing similar assumptions.

Similarly, RowExprs have to be willing to override the column names coming
from a named composite result type and produce a RECORD when the column
aliases visible at the site of the RowExpr differ from the underlying
table's column names.

In passing, revert the decision made in commit 398f70ec070fe601 to add
an alias-list argument to ExecTypeFromExprList: better to provide that
functionality in a separate function.  This also reverts most of the code
changes in d68581483564ec0f, which we don't need because we're no longer
depending on the tupdesc found in the child plan node's result slot to be
blessed.

Back-patch to 9.4, but not earlier, since this solution changes the results
in some cases that users might not have realized were buggy.  We'll apply a
more restricted form of this patch in older branches.
2014-11-10 15:21:09 -05:00
67067f9ae3 C comment: mention 1500-02-29 as an invalid date
It is invalid because the Gregorian calendar is used for all years.
2014-11-09 20:50:15 -05:00
b89ee54e20 Fix some coding issues in BRIN
Reported by David Rowley: variadic macros are a problem.  Get rid of
them using a trick suggested by Tom Lane: add extra parentheses where
needed.  In the future we might decide we don't need the calls at all
and remove them, but it seems appropriate to keep them while this code
is still new.

Also from David Rowley: brininsert() was trying to use a variable before
initializing it.  Fix by moving the brin_form_tuple call (which
initializes the variable) to within the locked section.

Reported by Peter Eisentraut: can't use "new" as a struct member name,
because C++ compilers will choke on it, as reported by cpluspluscheck.
2014-11-08 00:31:03 -03:00
0b03e5951b Introduce custom path and scan providers.
This allows extension modules to define their own methods for
scanning a relation, and get the core code to use them.  It's
unclear as yet how much use this capability will find, but we
won't find out if we never commit it.

KaiGai Kohei, reviewed at various times and in various levels
of detail by Shigeru Hanada, Tom Lane, Andres Freund, Álvaro
Herrera, and myself.
2014-11-07 17:34:36 -05:00
5ea86e6e65 Use the sortsupport infrastructure in more cases.
This removes some fmgr overhead from cases such as btree index builds.

Peter Geoghegan, reviewed by Andreas Karlsson and me.
2014-11-07 15:50:55 -05:00
7516f52594 BRIN: Block Range Indexes
BRIN is a new index access method intended to accelerate scans of very
large tables, without the maintenance overhead of btrees or other
traditional indexes.  They work by maintaining "summary" data about
block ranges.  Bitmap index scans work by reading each summary tuple and
comparing them with the query quals; all pages in the range are returned
in a lossy TID bitmap if the quals are consistent with the values in the
summary tuple, otherwise not.  Normal index scans are not supported
because these indexes do not store TIDs.

As new tuples are added into the index, the summary information is
updated (if the block range in which the tuple is added is already
summarized) or not; in the latter case, a subsequent pass of VACUUM or
the brin_summarize_new_values() function will create the summary
information.

For data types with natural 1-D sort orders, the summary info consists
of the maximum and the minimum values of each indexed column within each
page range.  This type of operator class we call "Minmax", and we
supply a bunch of them for most data types with B-tree opclasses.
Since the BRIN code is generalized, other approaches are possible for
things such as arrays, geometric types, ranges, etc; even for things
such as enum types we could do something different than minmax with
better results.  In this commit I only include minmax.

Catalog version bumped due to new builtin catalog entries.

There's more that could be done here, but this is a good step forwards.

Loosely based on ideas from Simon Riggs; code mostly by Álvaro Herrera,
with contribution by Heikki Linnakangas.

Patch reviewed by: Amit Kapila, Heikki Linnakangas, Robert Haas.
Testing help from Jeff Janes, Erik Rijkers, Emanuel Calvo.

PS:
  The research leading to these results has received funding from the
  European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under
  grant agreement n° 318633.
2014-11-07 16:38:14 -03:00
2effb72e68 Remove obsolete cases from GiST update redo code.
The code that generated a record to clear the F_TUPLES_DELETED flag hasn't
existed since we got rid of old-style VACUUM FULL. I kept the code that sets
the flag, although it's not used for anything anymore, because it might
still be interesting information for debugging purposes that some tuples
have been deleted from a page.

Likewise, the code to turn the root page from non-leaf to leaf page was
removed when we got rid of old-style VACUUM FULL. Remove the code to replay
that action, too.
2014-11-07 15:13:02 +02:00
2076db2aea Move the backup-block logic from XLogInsert to a new file, xloginsert.c.
xlog.c is huge, this makes it a little bit smaller, which is nice. Functions
related to putting together the WAL record are in xloginsert.c, and the
lower level stuff for managing WAL buffers and such are in xlog.c.

Also move the definition of XLogRecord to a separate header file. This
causes churn in the #includes of all the files that write WAL records, and
redo routines, but it avoids pulling in xlog.h into most places.

Reviewed by Michael Paquier, Alvaro Herrera, Andres Freund and Amit Kapila.
2014-11-06 13:55:36 +02:00
08309aaf74 Implement IF NOT EXIST for CREATE INDEX.
Fabrízio de Royes Mello, reviewed by Marti Raudsepp, Adam Brightwell and me.
2014-11-06 18:48:33 +09:00
171c377a0a C comment: mention why the Gregorian calendar is used pre-1582 2014-11-06 02:33:05 -05:00
c30be9787b Fix thinko in commit 2bd9e412f92bc6a68f3e8bcb18e04955cc35001d.
Obviously, every translation unit should not be declaring this
separately.  It needs to be PGDLLIMPORT as well, to avoid breaking
third-party code that uses any of the functions that the commit
mentioned above changed to macros.
2014-11-05 17:12:23 -05:00
5028f22f6e Switch to CRC-32C in WAL and other places.
The old algorithm was found to not be the usual CRC-32 algorithm, used by
Ethernet et al. We were using a non-reflected lookup table with code meant
for a reflected lookup table. That's a strange combination that AFAICS does
not correspond to any bit-wise CRC calculation, which makes it difficult to
reason about its properties. Although it has worked well in practice, seems
safer to use a well-known algorithm.

Since we're changing the algorithm anyway, we might as well choose a
different polynomial. The Castagnoli polynomial has better error-correcting
properties than the traditional CRC-32 polynomial, even if we had
implemented it correctly. Another reason for picking that is that some new
CPUs have hardware support for calculating CRC-32C, but not CRC-32, let
alone our strange variant of it. This patch doesn't add any support for such
hardware, but a future patch could now do that.

The old algorithm is kept around for tsquery and pg_trgm, which use the
values in indexes that need to remain compatible so that pg_upgrade works.
While we're at it, share the old lookup table for CRC-32 calculation
between hstore, ltree and core. They all use the same table, so might as
well.
2014-11-04 11:39:48 +02:00
404bc51cde Remove support for 64-bit CRC.
It hasn't been used for anything for a long time.
2014-11-04 11:33:08 +02:00
585e0b9b27 pqmq.h needs to include something that defines StringInfo.
Reported by Peter Eisentraut.
2014-11-03 12:24:42 -05:00
2bd9e412f9 Support frontend-backend protocol communication using a shm_mq.
A background worker can use pq_redirect_to_shm_mq() to direct protocol
that would normally be sent to the frontend to a shm_mq so that another
process may read them.

The receiving process may use pq_parse_errornotice() to parse an
ErrorResponse or NoticeResponse from the background worker and, if
it wishes, ThrowErrorData() to propagate the error (with or without
further modification).

Patch by me.  Review by Andres Freund.
2014-10-31 12:02:40 -04:00
f7102b0463 Extend dsm API with a new function dsm_unpin_mapping.
This reassociates a dynamic shared memory handle previous passed to
dsm_pin_mapping with the current resource owner, so that it will be
cleaned up at the end of the current query.

Patch by me.  Review of the function name by Andres Freund, Amit
Kapila, Jim Nasby, Petr Jelinek, and Álvaro Herrera.
2014-10-30 14:55:23 -04:00
fd0f651a86 Test IsInTransactionChain, not IsTransactionBlock, in vac_update_relstats.
As noted by Noah Misch, my initial cut at fixing bug #11638 didn't cover
all cases where ANALYZE might be invoked in an unsafe context.  We need to
test the result of IsInTransactionChain not IsTransactionBlock; which is
notationally a pain because IsInTransactionChain requires an isTopLevel
flag, which would have to be passed down through several levels of callers.
I chose to pass in_outer_xact (ie, the result of IsInTransactionChain)
rather than isTopLevel per se, as that seemed marginally more apropos
for the intermediate functions to know about.
2014-10-30 13:04:06 -04:00
6057c212f3 "Pin", rather than "keep", dynamic shared memory mappings and segments.
Nobody seemed concerned about this naming when it originally went in,
but there's a pending patch that implements the opposite of
dsm_keep_mapping, and the term "unkeep" was judged unpalatable.
"unpin" has existing precedent in the PostgreSQL code base, and the
English language, so use this terminology instead.

Per discussion, back-patch to 9.4.
2014-10-30 11:35:55 -04:00
6cb4afff33 Avoid setup work for invalidation messages at start-of-(sub)xact.
Instead of initializing a new TransInvalidationInfo for every
transaction or subtransaction, we can just do it for those
transactions or subtransactions that actually need to queue
invalidation messages.  That also avoids needing to free those
entries at the end of a transaction or subtransaction that does
not generate any invalidation messages, which is by far the
common case.

Patch by me.  Review by Simon Riggs and Andres Freund.
2014-10-29 12:35:19 -04:00
a4da35a0d2 Add variable names to two LWLock C prototypes
Previously only the variable types appeared.
2014-10-27 04:45:57 -04:00
4a54b99e9c Add native compiler and memory barriers for solaris studio.
Discussion: 20140925133459.GB9633@alap3.anarazel.de
Author: Oskari Saarenmaa
2014-10-25 11:11:39 +02:00
5ac372fc1a Add a function to get the authenticated user ID.
Previously, this was not exposed outside of miscinit.c.  It is needed
for the pending pg_background patch, and will also be needed for
parallelism.  Without it, there's no way for a background worker to
re-create the exact authentication environment that was present in the
process that started it, which could lead to security exposures.
2014-10-23 08:18:45 -04:00
11abd6c90f Renumber CHECKPOINT_* flags.
Commit 7dbb6069382 added a new CHECKPOINT_FLUSH_ALL flag. As that
commit needed to be backpatched I didn't change the numeric values of
the existing flags as that could lead to nastly problems if any
external code issued checkpoints. That's not a concern on master, so
renumber them there.

Also add a comment about CHECKPOINT_FLUSH_ALL above
CreateCheckPoint().
2014-10-21 00:20:08 +02:00
7dbb606938 Flush unlogged table's buffers when copying or moving databases.
CREATE DATABASE and ALTER DATABASE .. SET TABLESPACE copy the source
database directory on the filesystem level. To ensure the on disk
state is consistent they block out users of the affected database and
force a checkpoint to flush out all data to disk. Unfortunately, up to
now, that checkpoint didn't flush out dirty buffers from unlogged
relations.

That bug means there could be leftover dirty buffers in either the
template database, or the database in its old location. Leading to
problems when accessing relations in an inconsistent state; and to
possible problems during shutdown in the SET TABLESPACE case because
buffers belonging files that don't exist anymore are flushed.

This was reported in bug #10675 by Maxim Boguk.

Fix by Pavan Deolasee, modified somewhat by me. Reviewed by MauMau and
Fujii Masao.

Backpatch to 9.1 where unlogged tables were introduced.
2014-10-20 23:43:46 +02:00
af2b8fd057 Correct volatility markings of a few json functions.
json_agg and json_object_agg and their associated transition functions
should have been marked as stable rather than immutable, as they call IO
functions indirectly. Changing this probably isn't going to make much
difference, as you can't use an aggregate function in an index
expression, but we should be correct nevertheless.

json_object, on the other hand, should be marked immutable rather than
stable, as it does not call IO functions.

As discussed on -hackers, this change is being made without bumping the
catalog version, as we don't want to do that at this stage of the  cycle,
and  the changes are very unlikely to affect anyone.
2014-10-20 15:31:05 -04:00
60f8133dc9 Declare mkdtemp() only if we're providing it.
Follow our usual style of providing an "extern" for a standard library
function only when we're also providing the implementation.  This avoids
issues when the system headers declare the function slightly differently
than we do, as noted by Caleb Welton.

We might have to go to the extent of probing to see if the system headers
declare the function, but let's not do that until it's demonstrated to be
necessary.

Oversight in commit 9e6b1bf258170e62dac555fc82ff0536dfe01d29.  Back-patch
to all supported branches, as that was.
2014-10-17 22:55:20 -04:00
b2cbced9ee Support timezone abbreviations that sometimes change.
Up to now, PG has assumed that any given timezone abbreviation (such as
"EDT") represents a constant GMT offset in the usage of any particular
region; we had a way to configure what that offset was, but not for it
to be changeable over time.  But, as with most things horological, this
view of the world is too simplistic: there are numerous regions that have
at one time or another switched to a different GMT offset but kept using
the same timezone abbreviation.  Almost the entire Russian Federation did
that a few years ago, and later this month they're going to do it again.
And there are similar examples all over the world.

To cope with this, invent the notion of a "dynamic timezone abbreviation",
which is one that is referenced to a particular underlying timezone
(as defined in the IANA timezone database) and means whatever it currently
means in that zone.  For zones that use or have used daylight-savings time,
the standard and DST abbreviations continue to have the property that you
can specify standard or DST time and get that time offset whether or not
DST was theoretically in effect at the time.  However, the abbreviations
mean what they meant at the time in question (or most recently before that
time) rather than being absolutely fixed.

The standard abbreviation-list files have been changed to use this behavior
for abbreviations that have actually varied in meaning since 1970.  The
old simple-numeric definitions are kept for abbreviations that have not
changed, since they are a bit faster to resolve.

While this is clearly a new feature, it seems necessary to back-patch it
into all active branches, because otherwise use of Russian zone
abbreviations is going to become even more problematic than it already was.
This change supersedes the changes in commit 513d06ded et al to modify the
fixed meanings of the Russian abbreviations; since we've not shipped that
yet, this will avoid an undesirably incompatible (not to mention incorrect)
change in behavior for timestamps between 2011 and 2014.

This patch makes some cosmetic changes in ecpglib to keep its usage of
datetime lookup tables as similar as possible to the backend code, but
doesn't do anything about the increasingly obsolete set of timezone
abbreviation definitions that are hard-wired into ecpglib.  Whatever we
do about that will likely not be appropriate material for back-patching.
Also, a potential free() of a garbage pointer after an out-of-memory
failure in ecpglib has been fixed.

This patch also fixes pre-existing bugs in DetermineTimeZoneOffset() that
caused it to produce unexpected results near a timezone transition, if
both the "before" and "after" states are marked as standard time.  We'd
only ever thought about or tested transitions between standard and DST
time, but that's not what's happening when a zone simply redefines their
base GMT offset.

In passing, update the SGML documentation to refer to the Olson/zoneinfo/
zic timezone database as the "IANA" database, since it's now being
maintained under the auspices of IANA.
2014-10-16 15:22:10 -04:00
90063a7612 Print planning time only in EXPLAIN ANALYZE, not plain EXPLAIN.
We've gotten enough push-back on that change to make it clear that it
wasn't an especially good idea to do it like that.  Revert plain EXPLAIN
to its previous behavior, but keep the extra output in EXPLAIN ANALYZE.
Per discussion.

Internally, I set this up as a separate flag ExplainState.summary that
controls printing of planning time and execution time.  For now it's
just copied from the ANALYZE option, but we could consider exposing it
to users.
2014-10-15 18:50:13 -04:00
30d7ae3c76 Increase number of hash join buckets for underestimate.
If we expect batching at the very beginning, we size nbuckets for
"full work_mem" (see how many tuples we can get into work_mem,
while not breaking NTUP_PER_BUCKET threshold).

If we expect to be fine without batching, we start with the 'right'
nbuckets and track the optimal nbuckets as we go (without actually
resizing the hash table). Once we hit work_mem (considering the
optimal nbuckets value), we keep the value.

At the end of the first batch, we check whether (nbuckets !=
nbuckets_optimal) and resize the hash table if needed. Also, we
keep this value for all batches (it's OK because it assumes full
work_mem, and it makes the batchno evaluation trivial). So the
resize happens only once.

There could be cases where it would improve performance to allow
the NTUP_PER_BUCKET threshold to be exceeded to keep everything in
one batch rather than spilling to a second batch, but attempts to
generate such a case have so far been unsuccessful; that issue may
be addressed with a follow-on patch after further investigation.

Tomas Vondra with minor format and comment cleanup by me
Reviewed by Robert Haas, Heikki Linnakangas, and Kevin Grittner
2014-10-13 10:16:36 -05:00
7b1c2a0f20 Split builtins.h to a new header ruleutils.h
The new header contains many prototypes for functions in ruleutils.c
that are not exposed to the SQL level.

Reviewed by Andres Freund and Michael Paquier.
2014-10-08 18:10:47 -03:00
7bb0e97407 Extend shm_mq API with new functions shm_mq_sendv, shm_mq_set_handle.
shm_mq_sendv sends a message to the queue assembled from multiple
locations.  This is expected to be used by forthcoming patches to
allow frontend/backend protocol messages to be sent via shm_mq, but
might be useful for other purposes as well.

shm_mq_set_handle associates a BackgroundWorkerHandle with an
already-existing shm_mq_handle.  This solves a timing problem when
creating a shm_mq to communicate with a newly-launched background
worker: if you attach to the queue first, and the background worker
fails to start, you might block forever trying to do I/O on the queue;
but if you start the background worker first, but then die before
attaching to the queue, the background worrker might block forever
trying to do I/O on the queue.  This lets you attach before starting
the worker (so that the worker is protected) and then associate the
BackgroundWorkerHandle later (so that you are also protected).

Patch by me, reviewed by Stephen Frost.
2014-10-08 14:38:31 -04:00
df630b0dd5 Implement SKIP LOCKED for row-level locks
This clause changes the behavior of SELECT locking clauses in the
presence of locked rows: instead of causing a process to block waiting
for the locks held by other processes (or raise an error, with NOWAIT),
SKIP LOCKED makes the new reader skip over such rows.  While this is not
appropriate behavior for general purposes, there are some cases in which
it is useful, such as queue-like tables.

Catalog version bumped because this patch changes the representation of
stored rules.

Reviewed by Craig Ringer (based on a previous attempt at an
implementation by Simon Riggs, who also provided input on the syntax
used in the current patch), David Rowley, and Álvaro Herrera.

Author: Thomas Munro
2014-10-07 17:23:34 -03:00
9019264f2e Still another typo fix for 0709b7ee72e4bc71ad07b7120acd117265ab51d0.
Buildfarm member anole caught this one.
2014-10-03 11:39:38 -04:00
3acc10c997 Increase the number of buffer mapping partitions to 128.
Testing by Amit Kapila, Andres Freund, and myself, with and without
other patches that also aim to improve scalability, seems to indicate
that this change is a significant win over the current value and over
smaller values such as 64.  It's not clear how high we can push this
value before it starts to have negative side-effects elsewhere, but
going this far looks OK.
2014-10-02 13:58:50 -04:00
952872698d Install all headers for the new atomics API.
Previously, by mistake, only atomics.h was installed.

Kohei KaiGai
2014-10-02 16:52:21 +02:00
5a6c168c78 Fix some more problems with nested append relations.
As of commit a87c72915 (which later got backpatched as far as 9.1),
we're explicitly supporting the notion that append relations can be
nested; this can occur when UNION ALL constructs are nested, or when
a UNION ALL contains a table with inheritance children.

Bug #11457 from Nelson Page, as well as an earlier report from Elvis
Pranskevichus, showed that there were still nasty bugs associated with such
cases: in particular the EquivalenceClass mechanism could try to generate
"join" clauses connecting an appendrel child to some grandparent appendrel,
which would result in assertion failures or bogus plans.

Upon investigation I concluded that all current callers of
find_childrel_appendrelinfo() need to be fixed to explicitly consider
multiple levels of parent appendrels.  The most complex fix was in
processing of "broken" EquivalenceClasses, which are ECs for which we have
been unable to generate all the derived equality clauses we would like to
because of missing cross-type equality operators in the underlying btree
operator family.  That code path is more or less entirely untested by
the regression tests to date, because no standard opfamilies have such
holes in them.  So I wrote a new regression test script to try to exercise
it a bit, which turned out to be quite a worthwhile activity as it exposed
existing bugs in all supported branches.

The present patch is essentially the same as far back as 9.2, which is
where parameterized paths were introduced.  In 9.0 and 9.1, we only need
to back-patch a small fragment of commit 5b7b5518d, which fixes failure to
propagate out the original WHERE clauses when a broken EC contains constant
members.  (The regression test case results show that these older branches
are noticeably stupider than 9.2+ in terms of the quality of the plans
generated; but we don't really care about plan quality in such cases,
only that the plan not be outright wrong.  A more invasive fix in the
older branches would not be a good idea anyway from a plan-stability
standpoint.)
2014-10-01 19:31:12 -04:00