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4deb57de7d Issue ERROR if FREEZE mode can't be honored by COPY
Previously non-honored FREEZE mode was ignored.  This also issues an
appropriate error message based on the cause of the failure, per
suggestion from Tom.  Additional regression test case added.
2013-01-26 13:33:24 -05:00
0d5fbdc157 Change plan caching to honor, not resist, changes in search_path.
In the initial implementation of plan caching, we saved the active
search_path when a plan was first cached, then reinstalled that path
anytime we needed to reparse or replan.  The idea of that was to try to
reselect the same referenced objects, in somewhat the same way that views
continue to refer to the same objects in the face of schema or name
changes.  Of course, that analogy doesn't bear close inspection, since
holding the search_path fixed doesn't cope with object drops or renames.
Moreover sticking with the old path seems to create more surprises than
it avoids.  So instead of doing that, consider that the cached plan depends
on search_path, and force reparse/replan if the active search_path is
different than it was when we last saved the plan.

This gets us fairly close to having "transparency" of plan caching, in the
sense that the cached statement acts the same as if you'd just resubmitted
the original query text for another execution.  There are still some corner
cases where this fails though: a new object added in the search path
schema(s) might capture a reference in the query text, but we'd not realize
that and force a reparse.  We might try to fix that in the future, but for
the moment it looks too expensive and complicated.
2013-01-25 14:14:41 -05:00
760f3c043a Fix concat() and format() to handle VARIADIC-labeled arguments correctly.
Previously, the VARIADIC labeling was effectively ignored, but now these
functions act as though the array elements had all been given as separate
arguments.

Pavel Stehule
2013-01-25 00:19:56 -05:00
ca5db759b8 isolationtester: add a few fflush(stderr) calls
The lack of them is causing failures in some BF members.

Per Andrew Dunstan.
2013-01-23 13:30:14 -03:00
0ac5ad5134 Improve concurrency of foreign key locking
This patch introduces two additional lock modes for tuples: "SELECT FOR
KEY SHARE" and "SELECT FOR NO KEY UPDATE".  These don't block each
other, in contrast with already existing "SELECT FOR SHARE" and "SELECT
FOR UPDATE".  UPDATE commands that do not modify the values stored in
the columns that are part of the key of the tuple now grab a SELECT FOR
NO KEY UPDATE lock on the tuple, allowing them to proceed concurrently
with tuple locks of the FOR KEY SHARE variety.

Foreign key triggers now use FOR KEY SHARE instead of FOR SHARE; this
means the concurrency improvement applies to them, which is the whole
point of this patch.

The added tuple lock semantics require some rejiggering of the multixact
module, so that the locking level that each transaction is holding can
be stored alongside its Xid.  Also, multixacts now need to persist
across server restarts and crashes, because they can now represent not
only tuple locks, but also tuple updates.  This means we need more
careful tracking of lifetime of pg_multixact SLRU files; since they now
persist longer, we require more infrastructure to figure out when they
can be removed.  pg_upgrade also needs to be careful to copy
pg_multixact files over from the old server to the new, or at least part
of multixact.c state, depending on the versions of the old and new
servers.

Tuple time qualification rules (HeapTupleSatisfies routines) need to be
careful not to consider tuples with the "is multi" infomask bit set as
being only locked; they might need to look up MultiXact values (i.e.
possibly do pg_multixact I/O) to find out the Xid that updated a tuple,
whereas they previously were assured to only use information readily
available from the tuple header.  This is considered acceptable, because
the extra I/O would involve cases that would previously cause some
commands to block waiting for concurrent transactions to finish.

Another important change is the fact that locking tuples that have
previously been updated causes the future versions to be marked as
locked, too; this is essential for correctness of foreign key checks.
This causes additional WAL-logging, also (there was previously a single
WAL record for a locked tuple; now there are as many as updated copies
of the tuple there exist.)

With all this in place, contention related to tuples being checked by
foreign key rules should be much reduced.

As a bonus, the old behavior that a subtransaction grabbing a stronger
tuple lock than the parent (sub)transaction held on a given tuple and
later aborting caused the weaker lock to be lost, has been fixed.

Many new spec files were added for isolation tester framework, to ensure
overall behavior is sane.  There's probably room for several more tests.

There were several reviewers of this patch; in particular, Noah Misch
and Andres Freund spent considerable time in it.  Original idea for the
patch came from Simon Riggs, after a problem report by Joel Jacobson.
Most code is from me, with contributions from Marti Raudsepp, Alexander
Shulgin, Noah Misch and Andres Freund.

This patch was discussed in several pgsql-hackers threads; the most
important start at the following message-ids:
	AANLkTimo9XVcEzfiBR-ut3KVNDkjm2Vxh+t8kAmWjPuv@mail.gmail.com
	1290721684-sup-3951@alvh.no-ip.org
	1294953201-sup-2099@alvh.no-ip.org
	1320343602-sup-2290@alvh.no-ip.org
	1339690386-sup-8927@alvh.no-ip.org
	4FE5FF020200002500048A3D@gw.wicourts.gov
	4FEAB90A0200002500048B7D@gw.wicourts.gov
2013-01-23 12:04:59 -03:00
601e2935e2 Update comments and output for event_trigger regression test. 2013-01-23 06:49:30 -05:00
841a5150c5 Add ddl_command_end support for event triggers.
Dimitri Fontaine, with slight changes by me
2013-01-21 18:00:24 -05:00
765cbfdc92 Refactor ALTER some-obj RENAME implementation
Remove duplicate implementations of catalog munging and miscellaneous
privilege checks.  Instead rely on already existing data in
objectaddress.c to do the work.

Author: KaiGai Kohei, changes by me
Reviewed by: Robert Haas, Álvaro Herrera, Dimitri Fontaine
2013-01-21 12:06:41 -03:00
7ac5760fa2 Rework order of checks in ALTER / SET SCHEMA
When attempting to move an object into the schema in which it already
was, for most objects classes we were correctly complaining about
exactly that ("object is already in schema"); but for some other object
classes, such as functions, we were instead complaining of a name
collision ("object already exists in schema").  The latter is wrong and
misleading, per complaint from Robert Haas in
CA+TgmoZ0+gNf7RDKRc3u5rHXffP=QjqPZKGxb4BsPz65k7qnHQ@mail.gmail.com

To fix, refactor the way these checks are done.  As a bonus, the
resulting code is smaller and can also share some code with Rename
cases.

While at it, remove use of getObjectDescriptionOids() in error messages.
These are normally disallowed because of translatability considerations,
but this one had slipped through since 9.1.  (Not sure that this is
worth backpatching, though, as it would create some untranslated
messages in back branches.)

This is loosely based on a patch by KaiGai Kohei, heavily reworked by
me.
2013-01-15 13:23:43 -03:00
bd61a623ac Update copyrights for 2013
Fully update git head, and update back branches in ./COPYRIGHT and
legal.sgml files.
2013-01-01 17:15:01 -05:00
2ffa740be9 Fix ruleutils to cope with conflicts from adding/dropping/renaming columns.
In commit 11e131854f8231a21613f834c40fe9d046926387, we improved the
rule/view dumping code so that it would produce valid query representations
even if some of the tables involved in a query had been renamed since the
query was parsed.  This patch extends that idea to fix problems that occur
when individual columns are renamed, or added or dropped.  As before, the
core of the fix is to assign unique new aliases when a name conflict has
been created.  This is complicated by the JOIN USING feature, which
requires the same column alias to be used in both input relations, but we
can handle that with a sufficiently complex approach to assigning aliases.

A fortiori, this patch takes care of situations where the query didn't have
unique column names to begin with, such as in a recent complaint from Bryan
Nuse.  (Because of expansion of "SELECT *", re-parsing a dumped query can
require column name uniqueness even though the original text did not.)
2012-12-31 15:13:26 -05:00
740ee42da5 Make some messages more consistent in style 2012-12-21 00:10:46 -05:00
a99c42f291 Support automatically-updatable views.
This patch makes "simple" views automatically updatable, without the need
to create either INSTEAD OF triggers or INSTEAD rules.  "Simple" views
are those classified as updatable according to SQL-92 rules.  The rewriter
transforms INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE commands on such views directly into an
equivalent command on the underlying table, which will generally have
noticeably better performance than is possible with either triggers or
user-written rules.  A view that has INSTEAD OF triggers or INSTEAD rules
continues to operate the same as before.

For the moment, security_barrier views are not considered simple.
Also, we do not support WITH CHECK OPTION.  These features may be
added in future.

Dean Rasheed, reviewed by Amit Kapila
2012-12-08 18:26:21 -05:00
ef754fb51b Correct xmax test for COPY FREEZE 2012-12-07 14:18:47 +00:00
1f023f9297 Optimize COPY FREEZE with CREATE TABLE also.
Jeff Davis, additional test by me
2012-12-07 13:26:52 +00:00
31a891857a Improve pl/pgsql to support composite-type expressions in RETURN.
For some reason lost in the mists of prehistory, RETURN was only coded to
allow a simple reference to a composite variable when the function's return
type is composite.  Allow an expression instead, while preserving the
efficiency of the original code path in the case where the expression is
indeed just a composite variable's name.  Likewise for RETURN NEXT.

As is true in various other places, the supplied expression must yield
exactly the number and data types of the required columns.  There was some
discussion of relaxing that for pl/pgsql, but no consensus yet, so this
patch doesn't address that.

Asif Rehman, reviewed by Pavel Stehule
2012-12-06 23:09:52 -05:00
5457a130d3 Reduce scope of changes for COPY FREEZE.
Allow support only for freezing tuples by explicit
command. Previous coding mistakenly extended
slightly beyond what was agreed as correct on -hackers.
So essentially a partial revoke of earlier work,
leaving just the COPY FREEZE command.
2012-12-02 20:52:52 +00:00
c35fea1026 Prevent passing gmake's environment variables down through pg_regress.
When we do "make install" to create a temp installation, we don't want
that instance of make to try to communicate with any instance of make
that might be calling us.  This is known to cause problems if the
upper make has a -jN flag, and in principle could cause problems even
without that.  Unset the relevant environment variables to prevent such
issues.

Andres Freund
2012-12-01 17:23:49 -05:00
7b90469b71 Allow adding values to an enum type created in the current transaction.
Normally it is unsafe to allow ALTER TYPE ADD VALUE in a transaction block,
because instances of the value could be added to indexes later in the same
transaction, and then they would still be accessible even if the
transaction rolls back.  However, we can allow this if the enum type itself
was created in the current transaction, because then any such indexes would
have to go away entirely on rollback.

The reason for allowing this is to support pg_upgrade's new usage of
pg_restore --single-transaction: in --binary-upgrade mode, pg_dump emits
enum types as a succession of ALTER TYPE ADD VALUE commands so that it can
preserve the values' OIDs.  The support is a bit limited, so we'll leave
it undocumented.

Andres Freund
2012-12-01 14:27:30 -05:00
02aea36414 Second tweak of COPY FREEZE 2012-12-01 14:55:35 +00:00
ddf509eb4a Tweak tests in COPY FREEZE 2012-12-01 13:46:41 +00:00
8de72b66a2 COPY FREEZE and mark committed on fresh tables.
When a relfilenode is created in this subtransaction or
a committed child transaction and it cannot otherwise
be seen by our own process, mark tuples committed ahead
of transaction commit for all COPY commands in same
transaction. If FREEZE specified on COPY
and pre-conditions met then rows will also be frozen.
Both options designed to avoid revisiting rows after commit,
increasing performance of subsequent commands after
data load and upgrade. pg_restore changes later.

Simon Riggs, review comments from Heikki Linnakangas, Noah Misch and design
input from Tom Lane, Robert Haas and Kevin Grittner
2012-12-01 12:54:20 +00:00
bd9c8e741b Move long_options structures to the top of main() functions, for
consistency.

Per suggestion from Tom.
2012-11-30 14:49:55 -05:00
d3237e04ca Fix SELECT DISTINCT with index-optimized MIN/MAX on inheritance trees.
In a query such as "SELECT DISTINCT min(x) FROM tab", the DISTINCT is
pretty useless (there being only one output row), but nonetheless it
shouldn't fail.  But it could fail if "tab" is an inheritance parent,
because planagg.c's code for fixing up equivalence classes after making the
index-optimized MIN/MAX transformation wasn't prepared to find child-table
versions of the aggregate expression.  The least ugly fix seems to be
to add an option to mutate_eclass_expressions() to skip child-table
equivalence class members, which aren't used anymore at this stage of
planning so it's not really necessary to fix them.  Since child members
are ignored in many cases already, it seems plausible for
mutate_eclass_expressions() to have an option to ignore them too.

Per bug #7703 from Maxim Boguk.

Back-patch to 9.1.  Although the same code exists before that, it cannot
encounter child-table aggregates AFAICS, because the index optimization
transformation cannot succeed on inheritance trees before 9.1 (for lack
of MergeAppend).
2012-11-26 12:57:58 -05:00
1f7cb5c309 Improve handling of INT_MIN / -1 and related cases.
Some platforms throw an exception for this division, rather than returning
a necessarily-overflowed result.  Since we were testing for overflow after
the fact, an exception isn't nice.  We can avoid the problem by treating
division by -1 as negation.

Add some regression tests so that we'll find out if any compilers try to
optimize away the overflow check conditions.

This ought to be back-patched, but I'm going to see what the buildfarm
reports about the regression tests first.

Per discussion with Xi Wang, though this is different from the patch he
submitted.
2012-11-19 12:24:25 -05:00
5ed6546cf7 Fix handling of inherited check constraints in ALTER COLUMN TYPE.
This case got broken in 8.4 by the addition of an error check that
complains if ALTER TABLE ONLY is used on a table that has children.
We do use ONLY for this situation, but it's okay because the necessary
recursion occurs at a higher level.  So we need to have a separate
flag to suppress recursion without making the error check.

Reported and patched by Pavan Deolasee, with some editorial adjustments by
me.  Back-patch to 8.4, since this is a regression of functionality that
worked in earlier branches.
2012-11-05 13:36:16 -05:00
ef28e05ac5 Fix bogus handling of $(X) (i.e., ".exe") in isolationtester Makefile.
I'm not sure why commit 1eb1dde049ccfffc42c80c2bcec14155c58bcc1f seems
to have made this start to fail on Cygwin when it never did before ---
but nonetheless, the coding was pretty bogus, and unlike the way we
handle $(X) anywhere else.  Per buildfarm.
2012-11-01 19:48:53 -04:00
6868ed7491 Throw error if expiring tuple is again updated or deleted.
This prevents surprising behavior when a FOR EACH ROW trigger
BEFORE UPDATE or BEFORE DELETE directly or indirectly updates or
deletes the the old row.  Prior to this patch the requested action
on the row could be silently ignored while all triggered actions
based on the occurence of the requested action could be committed.
One example of how this could happen is if the BEFORE DELETE
trigger for a "parent" row deleted "children" which had trigger
functions to update summary or status data on the parent.

This also prevents similar surprising problems if the query has a
volatile function which updates a target row while it is already
being updated.

There are related issues present in FOR UPDATE cursors and READ
COMMITTED queries which are not handled by this patch.  These
issues need further evalution to determine what change, if any, is
needed.

Where the new error messages are generated, in most cases the best
fix will be to move code from the BEFORE trigger to an AFTER
trigger.  Where this is not feasible, the trigger can avoid the
error by re-issuing the triggering statement and returning NULL.

Documentation changes will be submitted in a separate patch.

Kevin Grittner and Tom Lane with input from Florian Pflug and
Robert Haas, based on problems encountered during conversion of
Wisconsin Circuit Court trigger logic to plpgsql triggers.
2012-10-26 14:55:36 -05:00
a4e8680a6c When converting a table to a view, remove its system columns.
Views should not have any pg_attribute entries for system columns.
However, we forgot to remove such entries when converting a table to a
view.  This could lead to crashes later on, if someone attempted to
reference such a column, as reported by Kohei KaiGai.

Patch in HEAD only.  This bug has been there forever, but in the back
branches we will have to defend against existing mis-converted views,
so it doesn't seem worthwhile to change the conversion code too.
2012-10-24 13:39:37 -04:00
160984c8c8 Isolation test for DROP INDEX CONCURRENTLY
for recent concurrent changes.

Abhijit Menon-Sen
2012-10-18 19:41:40 +01:00
72a4231f0c Fix planning of non-strict equivalence clauses above outer joins.
If a potential equivalence clause references a variable from the nullable
side of an outer join, the planner needs to take care that derived clauses
are not pushed to below the outer join; else they may use the wrong value
for the variable.  (The problem arises only with non-strict clauses, since
if an upper clause can be proven strict then the outer join will get
simplified to a plain join.)  The planner attempted to prevent this type
of error by checking that potential equivalence clauses aren't
outerjoin-delayed as a whole, but actually we have to check each side
separately, since the two sides of the clause will get moved around
separately if it's treated as an equivalence.  Bugs of this type can be
demonstrated as far back as 7.4, even though releases before 8.3 had only
a very ad-hoc notion of equivalence clauses.

In addition, we neglected to account for the possibility that such clauses
might have nonempty nullable_relids even when not outerjoin-delayed; so the
equivalence-class machinery lacked logic to compute correct nullable_relids
values for clauses it constructs.  This oversight was harmless before 9.2
because we were only using RestrictInfo.nullable_relids for OR clauses;
but as of 9.2 it could result in pushing constructed equivalence clauses
to incorrect places.  (This accounts for bug #7604 from Bill MacArthur.)

Fix the first problem by adding a new test check_equivalence_delay() in
distribute_qual_to_rels, and fix the second one by adding code in
equivclass.c and called functions to set correct nullable_relids for
generated clauses.  Although I believe the second part of this is not
currently necessary before 9.2, I chose to back-patch it anyway, partly to
keep the logic similar across branches and partly because it seems possible
we might find other reasons why we need valid values of nullable_relids in
the older branches.

Add regression tests illustrating these problems.  In 9.0 and up, also
add test cases checking that we can push constants through outer joins,
since we've broken that optimization before and I nearly broke it again
with an overly simplistic patch for this problem.
2012-10-18 12:30:10 -04:00
5ad72cee7e Revert tests for drop index concurrently. 2012-10-18 15:27:12 +01:00
4e206744dc Add isolation tests for DROP INDEX CONCURRENTLY.
Backpatch to 9.2 to ensure bugs are fixed.

Abhijit Menon-Sen
2012-10-18 13:37:09 +01:00
b72bd3d1c6 alter_generic regression test cannot run concurrently with privileges test.
... because the latter plays games with the privileges for language SQL.
It looks like running alter_generic in parallel with "misc" is OK though.

Also, adjust serial_schedule to maintain the same test ordering (up to
parallelism) as parallel_schedule.
2012-10-15 12:18:52 -04:00
8b728e5c6e Fix oversight in new code for printing rangetable aliases.
In commit 11e131854f8231a21613f834c40fe9d046926387, I missed the case of
a CTE RTE that doesn't have a user-defined alias, but does have an
alias assigned by set_rtable_names().  Per report from Peter Eisentraut.

While at it, refactor slightly to reduce code duplication.
2012-10-12 16:14:43 -04:00
4816d2ea32 Fix cross-type case in partial row matching for hashed subplans.
When hashing a subplan like "WHERE (a, b) NOT IN (SELECT x, y FROM ...)",
findPartialMatch() attempted to match rows using the hashtable's internal
equality operators, which of course are for x and y's datatypes.  What we
need to use are the potentially cross-type operators for a=x, b=y, etc.
Failure to do that leads to wrong answers or even crashes.  The scope for
problems is limited to cases where we have different types with compatible
hash functions (else we'd not be using a hashed subplan), but for example
int4 vs int8 can cause the problem.

Per bug #7597 from Bo Jensen.  This has been wrong since the hashed-subplan
code was written, so patch all the way back.
2012-10-11 12:22:13 -04:00
8521d13194 Refactor flex and bison make rules
Numerous flex and bison make rules have appeared in the source tree
over time, and they are all virtually identical, so we can replace
them by pattern rules with some variables for customization.

Users of pgxs will also be able to benefit from this.
2012-10-11 06:57:04 -04:00
f52c5165e1 Fix lo_export usage in example programs.
lo_export returns -1, not zero, on failure.
2012-10-08 21:19:54 -04:00
26fe56481c Code review for 64-bit-large-object patch.
Fix broken-on-bigendian-machines byte-swapping functions, add missed update
of alternate regression expected file, improve error reporting, remove some
unnecessary code, sync testlo64.c with current testlo.c (it seems to have
been cloned from a very old copy of that), assorted cosmetic improvements.
2012-10-08 18:24:32 -04:00
461ef73f09 Add API for 64-bit large object access. Now users can access up to
4TB large objects (standard 8KB BLCKSZ case).  For this purpose new
libpq API lo_lseek64, lo_tell64 and lo_truncate64 are added.  Also
corresponding new backend functions lo_lseek64, lo_tell64 and
lo_truncate64 are added. inv_api.c is changed to handle 64-bit
offsets.

Patch contributed by Nozomi Anzai (backend side) and Yugo Nagata
(frontend side, docs, regression tests and example program). Reviewed
by Kohei Kaigai. Committed by Tatsuo Ishii with minor editings.
2012-10-07 08:36:48 +09:00
707263542e Fix parse location tracking for lists that can be empty.
The previous coding of the YYLLOC_DEFAULT macro behaved strangely for empty
productions, assigning the previous nonterminal's location as the parse
location of the result.  The usefulness of that was (at best) debatable
already, but the real problem is that in list-generating nonterminals like
	OptFooList: /* EMPTY */ { ... } | OptFooList Foo { ... } ;
the initially-identified location would get copied up, so that even a
nonempty list would be given a bogus parse location.  Document how to work
around that, and do so for OptSchemaEltList, so that the error condition
just added for CREATE SCHEMA IF NOT EXISTS produces a sane error cursor.
So far as I can tell, there are currently no other cases where the
situation arises, so we don't need other instances of this coding yet.
2012-10-04 17:15:29 -04:00
fb34e94d21 Support CREATE SCHEMA IF NOT EXISTS.
Per discussion, schema-element subcommands are not allowed together with
this option, since it's not very obvious what should happen to the element
objects.

Fabrízio de Royes Mello
2012-10-03 19:47:11 -04:00
ece26987c2 Remove collations from generic ALTER test
The error messages they generate are not portable enough.

Also, since the only point of the alter_generic_1 expected file was to
cover platforms with no collation support, it's now useless, so remove
it.
2012-10-01 10:57:58 -03:00
811ca1300b Add alternative expected output for alter_generic
The original only expected file failed to consider machines without
non-default collation support.  Per buildfarm.

Also, move the test to another parallel group; the one it was originally
put in is already full according to comments in the schedule file.  Per
note from Tom Lane.
2012-09-29 00:37:13 -03:00
ff7e5b4841 Add alter_generic regression test
This makes refactoring of parts of the ALTER command safe(r) because we
ensure no change in functionality.

Author: KaiGai Kohei
2012-09-28 18:39:12 -03:00
31510194cc Minor corrections for ALTER TYPE ADD VALUE IF NOT EXISTS patch.
Produce a NOTICE when the label already exists, for consistency with other
CREATE IF NOT EXISTS commands.  Also, fix the code so it produces something
more user-friendly than an index violation when the label already exists.
This not incidentally enables making a regression test that the previous
patch didn't make for fear of exposing an unpredictable OID in the results.
Also some wordsmithing on the documentation.
2012-09-22 18:35:22 -04:00
6d12b68cd7 Allow IF NOT EXISTS when add a new enum label.
If the label is already in the enum the statement becomes a no-op.
This will reduce the pain that comes from our not allowing this
operation inside a transaction block.

Andrew Dunstan, reviewed by Tom Lane and Magnus Hagander.
2012-09-22 12:53:31 -04:00
11e131854f Improve ruleutils.c's heuristics for dealing with rangetable aliases.
The previous scheme had bugs in some corner cases involving tables that had
been renamed since a view was made.  This could result in dumped views that
failed to reload or reloaded incorrectly, as seen in bug #7553 from Lloyd
Albin, as well as in some pgsql-hackers discussion back in January.  Also,
its behavior for printing EXPLAIN plans was sometimes confusing because of
willingness to use the same alias for multiple RTEs (it was Ashutosh
Bapat's complaint about that aspect that started the January thread).

To fix, ensure that each RTE in the query has a unique unqualified alias,
by modifying the alias if necessary (we add "_" and digits as needed to
create a non-conflicting name).  Then we can just print its variables with
that alias, avoiding the confusing and bug-prone scheme of sometimes
schema-qualifying variable names.  In EXPLAIN, it proves to be expedient to
take the further step of only assigning such aliases to RTEs that are
actually referenced in the query, since the planner has a habit of
generating extra RTEs with the same alias in situations such as
inheritance-tree expansion.

Although this fixes a bug of very long standing, I'm hesitant to back-patch
such a noticeable behavioral change.  My experiments while creating a
regression test convinced me that actually incorrect output (as opposed to
confusing output) occurs only in very narrow cases, which is backed up by
the lack of previous complaints from the field.  So we may be better off
living with it in released branches; and in any case it'd be smart to let
this ripen awhile in HEAD before we consider back-patching it.
2012-09-21 19:03:10 -04:00
807a40c551 Fix planning of btree index scans using ScalarArrayOpExpr quals.
In commit 9e8da0f75731aaa7605cf4656c21ea09e84d2eb1, I improved btree
to handle ScalarArrayOpExpr quals natively, so that constructs like
"indexedcol IN (list)" could be supported by index-only scans.  Using
such a qual results in multiple scans of the index, under-the-hood.
I went to some lengths to ensure that this still produces rows in index
order ... but I failed to recognize that if a higher-order index column
is lacking an equality constraint, rescans can produce out-of-order
data from that column.  Tweak the planner to not expect sorted output
in that case.  Per trouble report from Robert McGehee.
2012-09-18 12:20:34 -04:00
3b8968f252 Rethink heuristics for choosing index quals for parameterized paths.
Some experimentation with examples similar to bug #7539 has convinced me
that indxpath.c's original implementation of parameterized-path generation
was several bricks shy of a load.  In general, if we are relying on a
particular outer rel or set of outer rels for a parameterized path, the
path should use every indexable join clause that's available from that rel
or rels.  Any join clauses that get left out of the indexqual will end up
getting applied as plain filter quals (qpquals), and that's generally a
significant loser compared to having the index AM enforce them.  (This is
particularly true with btree, which can skip the index scan entirely if
it can see that the given indexquals are mutually contradictory.)  The
original heuristics failed to ensure this, though, and were overly
complicated anyway.  Rewrite to make the code explicitly identify each
useful set of outer rels and then select all applicable join clauses for
each one.  The one plan that changes in the regression tests is in fact
for the better according to the planner's cost estimates.

(Note: this is not a correctness issue but just a matter of plan quality.
I don't yet know what is going on in bug #7539, but I don't expect this
change to fix that.)
2012-09-16 17:58:09 -04:00