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cd30728fb2 Allow LEAKPROOF functions for better performance of security views.
We don't normally allow quals to be pushed down into a view created
with the security_barrier option, but functions without side effects
are an exception: they're OK.  This allows much better performance in
common cases, such as when using an equality operator (that might
even be indexable).

There is an outstanding issue here with the CREATE FUNCTION / ALTER
FUNCTION syntax: there's no way to use ALTER FUNCTION to unset the
leakproof flag.  But I'm committing this as-is so that it doesn't
have to be rebased again; we can fix up the grammar in a future
commit.

KaiGai Kohei, with some wordsmithing by me.
2012-02-13 22:21:14 -05:00
c13897983a Add transform functions for various temporal typmod coercisions.
This enables ALTER TABLE to skip table and index rebuilds in some cases.

Noah Misch, with trivial changes by me.
2012-02-08 09:33:37 -05:00
f7d7dade8a Add a transform function for varbit typmod coercisions.
This enables ALTER TABLE to skip table and index rebuilds when the
new type is unconstraint varbit, or when the allowable number of bits
is not decreasing.

Noah Misch, with review and a fix for an OID collision by me.
2012-02-07 12:42:50 -05:00
3cc0800829 Add a transform function for numeric typmod coercisions.
This enables ALTER TABLE to skip table and index rebuilds when a column
is changed to an unconstrained numeric, or when the scale is unchanged
and the precision does not decrease.

Noah Misch, with a few stylistic changes and a fix for an OID
collision by me.
2012-02-07 12:08:26 -05:00
39909d1d39 Add array_to_json and row_to_json functions.
Also move the escape_json function from explain.c to json.c where it
seems to belong.

Andrew Dunstan, Reviewd by Abhijit Menon-Sen.
2012-02-03 12:11:16 -05:00
5384a73f98 Built-in JSON data type.
Like the XML data type, we simply store JSON data as text, after checking
that it is valid.  More complex operations such as canonicalization and
comparison may come later, but this is enough for not.

There are a few open issues here, such as whether we should attempt to
detect UTF-8 surrogate pairs represented as \uXXXX\uYYYY, but this gets
the basic framework in place.
2012-01-31 11:48:23 -05:00
b376ec6fa5 Show default privileges in information schema
Hitherto, the information schema only showed explicitly granted
privileges that were visible in the *acl catalog columns.  If no
privileges had been granted, the implicit privileges were not shown.

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

reviewed by Abhijit Menon-Sen
2012-01-27 21:58:51 +02:00
cc53a1e7cc Add bitwise AND, OR, and NOT operators for macaddr data type.
Brendan Jurd, reviewed by Fujii Masao
2012-01-19 15:25:14 -05:00
21b446dd09 Fix CLUSTER/VACUUM FULL for toast values owned by recently-updated rows.
In commit 7b0d0e9356963d5c3e4d329a917f5fbb82a2ef05, I made CLUSTER and
VACUUM FULL try to preserve toast value OIDs from the original toast table
to the new one.  However, if we have to copy both live and recently-dead
versions of a row that has a toasted column, those versions may well
reference the same toast value with the same OID.  The patch then led to
duplicate-key failures as we tried to insert the toast value twice with the
same OID.  (The previous behavior was not very desirable either, since it
would have silently inserted the same value twice with different OIDs.
That wastes space, but what's worse is that the toast values inserted for
already-dead heap rows would not be reclaimed by subsequent ordinary
VACUUMs, since they go into the new toast table marked live not deleted.)

To fix, check if the copied OID already exists in the new toast table, and
if so, assume that it stores the desired value.  This is reasonably safe
since the only case where we will copy an OID from a previous toast pointer
is when toast_insert_or_update was given that toast pointer and so we just
pulled the data from the old table; if we got two different values that way
then we have big problems anyway.  We do have to assume that no other
backend is inserting items into the new toast table concurrently, but
that's surely safe for CLUSTER and VACUUM FULL.

Per bug #6393 from Maxim Boguk.  Back-patch to 9.0, same as the previous
patch.
2012-01-12 16:40:14 -05:00
1fc3d18faa Slightly reorganize struct SnapshotData.
This squeezes out a bunch of alignment padding, reducing the size
from 72 to 56 bytes on my machine.  At least in my testing, this
didn't produce any measurable performance improvement, but the space
savings seem like enough justification.

Andres Freund
2012-01-06 22:56:00 -05:00
e126958c2e Update copyright notices for year 2012. 2012-01-01 18:01:58 -05:00
d5448c7d31 Add bytea_agg, parallel to string_agg.
Pavel Stehule
2011-12-23 08:40:25 -05:00
0e4611c023 Add a security_barrier option for views.
When a view is marked as a security barrier, it will not be pulled up
into the containing query, and no quals will be pushed down into it,
so that no function or operator chosen by the user can be applied to
rows not exposed by the view.  Views not configured with this
option cannot provide robust row-level security, but will perform far
better.

Patch by KaiGai Kohei; original problem report by Heikki Linnakangas
(in October 2009!).  Review (in earlier versions) by Noah Misch and
others.  Design advice by Tom Lane and myself.  Further review and
cleanup by me.
2011-12-22 16:16:31 -05:00
729205571e Add support for privileges on types
This adds support for the more or less SQL-conforming USAGE privilege
on types and domains.  The intent is to be able restrict which users
can create dependencies on types, which restricts the way in which
owners can alter types.

reviewed by Yeb Havinga
2011-12-20 00:05:19 +02:00
3695a55513 Replace simple constant pg_am.amcanreturn with an AM support function.
The need for this was debated when we put in the index-only-scan feature,
but at the time we had no near-term expectation of having AMs that could
support such scans for only some indexes; so we kept it simple.  However,
the SP-GiST AM forces the issue, so let's fix it.

This patch only installs the new API; no behavior actually changes.
2011-12-18 15:50:37 -05:00
8daeb5ddd6 Add SP-GiST (space-partitioned GiST) index access method.
SP-GiST is comparable to GiST in flexibility, but supports non-balanced
partitioned search structures rather than balanced trees.  As described at
PGCon 2011, this new indexing structure can beat GiST in both index build
time and query speed for search problems that it is well matched to.

There are a number of areas that could still use improvement, but at this
point the code seems committable.

Teodor Sigaev and Oleg Bartunov, with considerable revisions by Tom Lane
2011-12-17 16:42:30 -05:00
6d09b2105f include_if_exists facility for config file.
This works the same as include, except that an error is not thrown
if the file is missing. Instead the fact that it's missing is
logged.

Greg Smith, reviewed by Euler Taveira de Oliveira.
2011-12-15 19:40:58 -05:00
8409b60476 Revert the behavior of inet/cidr functions to not unpack the arguments.
I forgot to change the functions to use the PG_GETARG_INET_PP() macro,
when I changed DatumGetInetP() to unpack the datum, like Datum*P macros
usually do. Also, I screwed up the definition of the PG_GETARG_INET_PP()
macro, and didn't notice because it wasn't used.

This fixes the memory leak when sorting inet values, as reported
by Jochen Erwied and debugged by Andres Freund. Backpatch to 8.3, like
the previous patch that broke it.
2011-12-12 10:10:53 +02:00
16d8e594ac Remove spclocation field from pg_tablespace
Instead, add a function pg_tablespace_location(oid) used to return
the same information, and do this by reading the symbolic link.

Doing it this way makes it possible to relocate a tablespace when the
database is down by simply changing the symbolic link.
2011-12-07 10:37:33 +01:00
c6e3ac11b6 Create a "sort support" interface API for faster sorting.
This patch creates an API whereby a btree index opclass can optionally
provide non-SQL-callable support functions for sorting.  In the initial
patch, we only use this to provide a directly-callable comparator function,
which can be invoked with a bit less overhead than the traditional
SQL-callable comparator.  While that should be of value in itself, the real
reason for doing this is to provide a datatype-extensible framework for
more aggressive optimizations, as in Peter Geoghegan's recent work.

Robert Haas and Tom Lane
2011-12-07 00:19:39 -05:00
c66e4f138b Improve GiST range-contained-by searches by adding a flag for empty ranges.
In the original implementation, a range-contained-by search had to scan
the entire index because an empty range could be lurking anywhere.
Improve that by adding a flag to upper GiST entries that says whether the
represented subtree contains any empty ranges.

Also, make a simple mod to the penalty function to discourage empty ranges
from getting pushed into subtrees without any.  This needs more work, and
the picksplit function should be taught about it too, but that code can be
improved without causing an on-disk compatibility break; so we'll leave it
for another day.

Since we're breaking on-disk compatibility of range values anyway, I took
the opportunity to reorganize the range flags bits; the unused
RANGE_xB_NULL bits are now adjacent, which might open the door for using
them in some other way later.

In passing, remove the GiST range opclass entry for <>, which doesn't seem
like it can really be indexed usefully.

Alexander Korotkov, with some editorializing by Tom
2011-11-27 16:51:29 -05:00
74c1723fc8 Remove user-selectable ANALYZE option for range types.
It's not clear that a per-datatype typanalyze function would be any more
useful than a generic typanalyze for ranges.  What *is* clear is that
letting unprivileged users select typanalyze functions is a crash risk or
worse.  So remove the option from CREATE TYPE AS RANGE, and instead put in
a generic typanalyze function for ranges.  The generic function does
nothing as yet, but hopefully we'll improve that before 9.2 release.
2011-11-23 00:03:22 -05:00
df73584431 Remove zero- and one-argument range constructor functions.
Per discussion, the zero-argument forms aren't really worth the catalog
space (just write 'empty' instead).  The one-argument forms have some use,
but they also have a serious problem with looking too much like functional
cast notation; to the point where in many real use-cases, the parser would
misinterpret what was wanted.

Committing this as a separate patch, with the thought that we might want
to revert part or all of it if we can think of some way around the cast
ambiguity.
2011-11-22 20:45:05 -05:00
766948bedd Still more review for range-types patch.
Per discussion, relax the range input/construction rules so that the
only hard error is lower bound > upper bound.  Cases where the lower
bound is <= upper bound, but the range nonetheless normalizes to empty,
are now permitted.

Fix core dump in range_adjacent when bounds are infinite.  Marginal
cleanup of regression test cases, some more code commenting.
2011-11-22 16:06:26 -05:00
b985d48779 Further code review for range types patch.
Fix some bugs in coercion logic and pg_dump; more comment cleanup;
minor cosmetic improvements.
2011-11-20 23:50:27 -05:00
37ee4b75db Restructure function-internal caching in the range type code.
Move the responsibility for caching specialized information about range
types into the type cache, so that the catalog lookups only have to occur
once per session.  Rearrange APIs a bit so that fn_extra caching is
actually effective in the GiST support code.  (Use of OidFunctionCallN is
bad enough for performance in itself, but it also prevents the function
from exploiting fn_extra caching.)

The range I/O functions are still not very bright about caching repeated
lookups, but that seems like material for a separate patch.

Also, avoid unnecessary use of memcpy to fetch/store the range type OID and
flags, and don't use the full range_deserialize machinery when all we need
to see is the flags value.

Also fix API error in range_gist_penalty --- it was failing to set *penalty
for any case involving an empty range.
2011-11-15 13:05:45 -05:00
f158536285 Fix copyright notices, other minor editing in new range-types code.
No functional changes in this commit (except I could not resist the
temptation to re-word a couple of error messages).  This is just manual
cleanup after pgindent to make the code look reasonably like other PG
code, in preparation for more detailed code review to come.
2011-11-14 13:59:34 -05:00
3b8161723c Make DatumGetInetP() unpack inet datums with a 1-byte header, and add
a new macro, DatumGetInetPP(), that does not. This brings these macros
in line with other DatumGet*P() macros.

Backpatch to 8.3, where 1-byte header varlenas were introduced.
2011-11-08 22:39:43 +02:00
4429f6a9e3 Support range data types.
Selectivity estimation functions are missing for some range type operators,
which is a TODO.

Jeff Davis
2011-11-03 13:42:15 +02:00
bb446b689b Support synchronization of snapshots through an export/import procedure.
A transaction can export a snapshot with pg_export_snapshot(), and then
others can import it with SET TRANSACTION SNAPSHOT.  The data does not
leave the server so there are not security issues.  A snapshot can only
be imported while the exporting transaction is still running, and there
are some other restrictions.

I'm not totally convinced that we've covered all the bases for SSI (true
serializable) mode, but it works fine for lesser isolation modes.

Joachim Wieland, reviewed by Marko Tiikkaja, and rather heavily modified
by Tom Lane
2011-10-22 18:23:30 -04:00
f9c92a5a3e Code review for pgstat_get_crashed_backend_activity patch.
Avoid possibly dumping core when pgstat_track_activity_query_size has a
less-than-default value; avoid uselessly searching for the query string
of a successfully-exited backend; don't bother putting out an ERRDETAIL if
we don't have a query to show; some other minor stylistic improvements.
2011-10-21 16:36:04 -04:00
c8e8b5a6e2 Try to log current the query string when a backend crashes.
To avoid minimize risk inside the postmaster, we subject this feature
to a number of significant limitations.  We very much wish to avoid
doing any complex processing inside the postmaster, due to the
posssibility that the crashed backend has completely corrupted shared
memory.  To that end, no encoding conversion is done; instead, we just
replace anything that doesn't look like an ASCII character with a
question mark.  We limit the amount of data copied to 1024 characters,
and carefully sanity check the source of that data.  While these
restrictions would doubtless be unacceptable in a general-purpose
logging facility, even this limited facility seems like an improvement
over the status quo ante.

Marti Raudsepp, reviewed by PDXPUG and myself
2011-10-21 13:26:40 -04:00
ba6f629326 Improve and simplify CREATE EXTENSION's management of GUC variables.
CREATE EXTENSION needs to transiently set search_path, as well as
client_min_messages and log_min_messages.  We were doing this by the
expedient of saving the current string value of each variable, doing a
SET LOCAL, and then doing another SET LOCAL with the previous value at
the end of the command.  This is a bit expensive though, and it also fails
badly if there is anything funny about the existing search_path value,
as seen in a recent report from Roger Niederland.  Fortunately, there's a
much better way, which is to piggyback on the GUC infrastructure previously
developed for functions with SET options.  We just open a new GUC nesting
level, do our assignments with GUC_ACTION_SAVE, and then close the nesting
level when done.  This automatically restores the prior settings without a
re-parsing pass, so (in principle anyway) there can't be an error.  And
guc.c still takes care of cleanup in event of an error abort.

The CREATE EXTENSION code for this was modeled on some much older code in
ri_triggers.c, which I also changed to use the better method, even though
there wasn't really much risk of failure there.  Also improve the comments
in guc.c to reflect this additional usage.
2011-10-05 20:44:16 -04:00
41e461d36f Improve define_custom_variable's handling of pre-existing settings.
Arrange for any problems with pre-existing settings to be reported as
WARNING not ERROR, so that we don't undesirably abort the loading of the
incoming add-on module.  The bad setting is just discarded, as though it
had never been applied at all.  (This requires a change in the API of
set_config_option.  After some thought I decided the most potentially
useful addition was to allow callers to just pass in a desired elevel.)

Arrange to restore the complete stacked state of the variable, rather than
cheesily reinstalling only the active value.  This ensures that custom GUCs
will behave unsurprisingly even when the module loading operation occurs
within nested subtransactions that have changed the active value.  Since a
module load could occur as a result of, eg, a PL function call, this is not
an unlikely scenario.
2011-10-04 19:57:21 -04:00
9f5836d224 Remember the source GucContext for each GUC parameter.
We used to just remember the GucSource, but saving GucContext too provides
a little more information --- notably, whether a SET was done by a
superuser or regular user.  This allows us to rip out the fairly dodgy code
that define_custom_variable used to use to try to infer the context to
re-install a pre-existing setting with.  In particular, it now works for
a superuser to SET a extension's SUSET custom variable before loading the
associated extension, because GUC can remember whether the SET was done as
a superuser or not.  The plperl regression tests contain an example where
this is useful.
2011-10-04 16:13:50 -04:00
d56b3afc03 Restructure error handling in reading of postgresql.conf.
This patch has two distinct purposes: to report multiple problems in
postgresql.conf rather than always bailing out after the first one,
and to change the policy for whether changes are applied when there are
unrelated errors in postgresql.conf.

Formerly the policy was to apply no changes if any errors could be
detected, but that had a significant consistency problem, because in some
cases specific values might be seen as valid by some processes but invalid
by others.  This meant that the latter processes would fail to adopt
changes in other parameters even though the former processes had done so.

The new policy is that during SIGHUP, the file is rejected as a whole
if there are any errors in the "name = value" syntax, or if any lines
attempt to set nonexistent built-in parameters, or if any lines attempt
to set custom parameters whose prefix is not listed in (the new value of)
custom_variable_classes.  These tests should always give the same results
in all processes, and provide what seems a reasonably robust defense
against loading values from badly corrupted config files.  If these tests
pass, all processes will apply all settings that they individually see as
good, ignoring (but logging) any they don't.

In addition, the postmaster does not abandon reading a configuration file
after the first syntax error, but continues to read the file and report
syntax errors (up to a maximum of 100 syntax errors per file).

The postmaster will still refuse to start up if the configuration file
contains any errors at startup time, but these changes allow multiple
errors to be detected and reported before quitting.

Alexey Klyukin, reviewed by Andy Colson and av (Alexander ?)
with some additional hacking by Tom Lane
2011-10-02 16:50:04 -04:00
57eb009092 Allow snapshot references to still work during transaction abort.
In REPEATABLE READ (nee SERIALIZABLE) mode, an attempt to do
GetTransactionSnapshot() between AbortTransaction and CleanupTransaction
failed, because GetTransactionSnapshot would recompute the transaction
snapshot (which is already wrong, given the isolation mode) and then
re-register it in the TopTransactionResourceOwner, leading to an Assert
because the TopTransactionResourceOwner should be empty of resources after
AbortTransaction.  This is the root cause of bug #6218 from Yamamoto
Takashi.  While changing plancache.c to avoid requesting a snapshot when
handling a ROLLBACK masks the problem, I think this is really a snapmgr.c
bug: it's lower-level than the resource manager mechanism and should not be
shutting itself down before we unwind resource manager resources.  However,
just postponing the release of the transaction snapshot until cleanup time
didn't work because of the circular dependency with
TopTransactionResourceOwner.  Fix by managing the internal reference to
that snapshot manually instead of depending on TopTransactionResourceOwner.
This saves a few cycles as well as making the module layering more
straightforward.  predicate.c's dependencies on TopTransactionResourceOwner
go away too.

I think this is a longstanding bug, but there's no evidence that it's more
than a latent bug, so it doesn't seem worth any risk of back-patching.
2011-09-26 22:25:28 -04:00
e6faf910d7 Redesign the plancache mechanism for more flexibility and efficiency.
Rewrite plancache.c so that a "cached plan" (which is rather a misnomer
at this point) can support generation of custom, parameter-value-dependent
plans, and can make an intelligent choice between using custom plans and
the traditional generic-plan approach.  The specific choice algorithm
implemented here can probably be improved in future, but this commit is
all about getting the mechanism in place, not the policy.

In addition, restructure the API to greatly reduce the amount of extraneous
data copying needed.  The main compromise needed to make that possible was
to split the initial creation of a CachedPlanSource into two steps.  It's
worth noting in particular that SPI_saveplan is now deprecated in favor of
SPI_keepplan, which accomplishes the same end result with zero data
copying, and no need to then spend even more cycles throwing away the
original SPIPlan.  The risk of long-term memory leaks while manipulating
SPIPlans has also been greatly reduced.  Most of this improvement is based
on use of the recently-added MemoryContextSetParent primitive.
2011-09-16 00:43:52 -04:00
b0025bd957 Invent a new memory context primitive, MemoryContextSetParent.
This function will be useful for altering the lifespan of a context after
creation (for example, by creating it under a transient context and later
reparenting it to belong to a long-lived context).  It costs almost no new
code, since we can refactor what was there.  Per my proposal of yesterday.
2011-09-11 16:29:42 -04:00
ca4af308c3 Simplify handling of the timezone GUC by making initdb choose the default.
We were doing some amazingly complicated things in order to avoid running
the very expensive identify_system_timezone() procedure during GUC
initialization.  But there is an obvious fix for that, which is to do it
once during initdb and have initdb install the system-specific default into
postgresql.conf, as it already does for most other GUC variables that need
system-environment-dependent defaults.  This means that the timezone (and
log_timezone) settings no longer have any magic behavior in the server.
Per discussion.
2011-09-09 17:59:11 -04:00
a7801b62f2 Move Timestamp/Interval typedefs and basic macros into datatype/timestamp.h.
As per my recent proposal, this refactors things so that these typedefs and
macros are available in a header that can be included in frontend-ish code.
I also changed various headers that were undesirably including
utils/timestamp.h to include datatype/timestamp.h instead.  Unsurprisingly,
this showed that half the system was getting utils/timestamp.h by way of
xlog.h.

No actual code changes here, just header refactoring.
2011-09-09 13:23:41 -04:00
4c2777d0b7 Change get_variable_numdistinct's API to flag default estimates explicitly.
Formerly, callers tested for DEFAULT_NUM_DISTINCT, which had the problem
that a perfectly solid estimate might be mistaken for a content-free
default.
2011-09-04 15:41:49 -04:00
6416a82a62 Remove unnecessary #include references, per pgrminclude script. 2011-09-01 10:04:27 -04:00
b5282aa893 Revise sinval code to remove no-longer-used tuple TID from inval messages.
This requires adjusting the API for syscache callback functions: they now
get a hash value, not a TID, to identify the target tuple.  Most of them
weren't paying any attention to that argument anyway, but plancache did
require a small amount of fixing.

Also, improve performance a trifle by avoiding sending duplicate inval
messages when a heap_update isn't changing the catcache lookup columns.
2011-08-16 19:27:46 -04:00
2ada6779c5 Fix race condition in relcache init file invalidation.
The previous code tried to synchronize by unlinking the init file twice,
but that doesn't actually work: it leaves a window wherein a third process
could read the already-stale init file but miss the SI messages that would
tell it the data is stale.  The result would be bizarre failures in catalog
accesses, typically "could not read block 0 in file ..." later during
startup.

Instead, hold RelCacheInitLock across both the unlink and the sending of
the SI messages.  This is more straightforward, and might even be a bit
faster since only one unlink call is needed.

This has been wrong since it was put in (in 2002!), so back-patch to all
supported releases.
2011-08-16 13:11:54 -04:00
6d7bd5dec9 Make USECS_PER_* timestamp macros visible even when we are not using
integer timestamps.
2011-08-12 21:32:19 -04:00
cacd42d62c Rewrite libxml error handling to be more robust.
libxml reports some errors (like invalid xmlns attributes) via the error
handler hook, but still returns a success indicator to the library caller.
This causes us to miss some errors that are important to report.  Since the
"generic" error handler hook doesn't know whether the message it's getting
is for an error, warning, or notice, stop using that and instead start
using the "structured" error handler hook, which gets enough information
to be useful.

While at it, arrange to save and restore the error handler hook setting in
each libxml-using function, rather than assuming we can set and forget the
hook.  This should improve the odds of working nicely with third-party
libraries that also use libxml.

In passing, volatile-ize some local variables that get modified within
PG_TRY blocks.  I noticed this while testing with an older gcc version
than I'd previously tried to compile xml.c with.

Florian Pflug and Tom Lane, with extensive review/testing by Noah Misch
2011-07-20 13:03:49 -04:00
4bd8ed31b7 Introduce sending servers as new category for replication params
Fujii Masao
2011-07-19 08:59:55 +01:00
367bc426a1 Avoid index rebuild for no-rewrite ALTER TABLE .. ALTER TYPE.
Noah Misch.  Review and minor cosmetic changes by me.
2011-07-18 11:04:43 -04:00
23e5b16c71 Add temp_file_limit GUC parameter to constrain temporary file space usage.
The limit is enforced against the total amount of temp file space used by
each session.

Mark Kirkwood, reviewed by Cédric Villemain and Tatsuo Ishii
2011-07-17 14:19:31 -04:00