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* postgres_fdw: Consider foreign joining and foreign sorting together.Robert Haas2016-03-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | Commit ccd8f97922944566d26c7d90eb67ab7848ee9905 gave us the ability to request that the remote side sort the data, and, later, commit e4106b2528727c4b48639c0e12bf2f70a766b910 gave us the ability to request that the remote side perform the join for us rather than doing it locally. But we could not do both things at the same time: a remote SQL query that had an ORDER BY clause would never be a join. This commit adds that capability. Ashutosh Bapat, reviewed by me.
* Fix reversed argument to bms_is_subset.Robert Haas2016-03-08
| | | | Ashutosh Bapat
* postgres_fdw: When sending ORDER BY, always include NULLS FIRST/LAST.Robert Haas2016-03-04
| | | | | | | | | Previously, we included NULLS FIRST when appropriate but relied on the default behavior to be NULLS LAST. This is, however, not true for a sort in descending order and seems like a fragile assumption anyway. Report by Rajkumar Raghuwanshi. Patch by Ashutosh Bapat. Review comments from Michael Paquier and Tom Lane.
* postgres_fdw: Avoid sharing list substructure.Robert Haas2016-02-21
| | | | | | | | list_concat(list_concat(a, b), c) destructively changes both a and b; to avoid such perils, copy lists of remote_conds before incorporating them into larger lists via list_concat(). Ashutosh Bapat, per a report from Etsuro Fujita
* Add an explicit representation of the output targetlist to Paths.Tom Lane2016-02-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Up to now, there's been an assumption that all Paths for a given relation compute the same output column set (targetlist). However, there are good reasons to remove that assumption. For example, an indexscan on an expression index might be able to return the value of an expensive function "for free". While we have the ability to generate such a plan today in simple cases, we don't have a way to model that it's cheaper than a plan that computes the function from scratch, nor a way to create such a plan in join cases (where the function computation would normally happen at the topmost join node). Also, we need this so that we can have Paths representing post-scan/join steps, where the targetlist may well change from one step to the next. Therefore, invent a "struct PathTarget" representing the columns we expect a plan step to emit. It's convenient to include the output tuple width and tlist evaluation cost in this struct, and there will likely be additional fields in future. While Path nodes that actually do have custom outputs will need their own PathTargets, it will still be true that most Paths for a given relation will compute the same tlist. To reduce the overhead added by this patch, keep a "default PathTarget" in RelOptInfo, and allow Paths that compute that column set to just point to their parent RelOptInfo's reltarget. (In the patch as committed, actually every Path is like that, since we do not yet have any cases of custom PathTargets.) I took this opportunity to provide some more-honest costing of PlaceHolderVar evaluation. Up to now, the assumption that "scan/join reltargetlists have cost zero" was applied not only to Vars, where it's reasonable, but also PlaceHolderVars where it isn't. Now, we add the eval cost of a PlaceHolderVar's expression to the first plan level where it can be computed, by including it in the PathTarget cost field and adding that to the cost estimates for Paths. This isn't perfect yet but it's much better than before, and there is a way forward to improve it more. This costing change affects the join order chosen for a couple of the regression tests, changing expected row ordering.
* Add missing "static" qualifier.Tom Lane2016-02-12
| | | | Per buildfarm member pademelon.
* postgres_fdw: Remove unnecessary variable.Robert Haas2016-02-10
| | | | | | It causes warnings in non-Assert-enabled builds. Per report from Jeff Janes.
* postgres_fdw: Remove unstable regression test.Robert Haas2016-02-09
| | | | Per Tom Lane and the buildfarm.
* postgres_fdw: Push down joins to remote servers.Robert Haas2016-02-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If we've got a relatively straightforward join between two tables, this pushes that join down to the remote server instead of fetching the rows for each table and performing the join locally. Some cases are not handled yet, such as SEMI and ANTI joins. Also, we don't yet attempt to create presorted join paths or parameterized join paths even though these options do get tried for a base relation scan. Nevertheless, this seems likely to be a very significant win in many practical cases. Shigeru Hanada and Ashutosh Bapat, reviewed by Robert Haas, with additional review at various points by Tom Lane, Etsuro Fujita, KaiGai Kohei, and Jeevan Chalke.
* Use %u not %d to print OIDs.Tom Lane2016-02-08
| | | | | | Oversight in commit 96198d94c. Etsuro Fujita
* Add missing "static" qualifier.Tom Lane2016-02-06
| | | | Per buildfarm member pademelon.
* postgres_fdw: pgindent run.Robert Haas2016-02-04
| | | | In preparation for upcoming commits.
* postgres_fdw: Avoid possible misbehavior when RETURNING tableoid column only.Robert Haas2016-02-04
| | | | | | | | deparseReturningList ended up adding up RETURNING NULL to the code, but code elsewhere saw an empty list of attributes and concluded that it should not expect tuples from the remote side. Etsuro Fujita and Robert Haas, reviewed by Thom Brown
* Code review for commit dc203dc3ac40a4b02b92fb827848a547d2957153.Robert Haas2016-02-03
| | | | | | | | | Remove duplicate assignment. This part by Ashutosh Bapat. Remove now-obsolete comment. This part by me, although the pending join pushdown patch does something similar, and for the same reason: there's no reason to keep two lists of the things in the fdw_private structure that have to be kept in sync with each other.
* postgres_fdw: Allow fetch_size to be set per-table or per-server.Robert Haas2016-02-03
| | | | | | | The default fetch size of 100 rows might not be right in every environment, so allow users to configure it. Corey Huinker, reviewed by Kyotaro Horiguchi, Andres Freund, and me.
* postgres_fdw: More preliminary refactoring for upcoming join pushdown.Robert Haas2016-01-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | The code that generates a complete SQL query for a given foreign relation was repeated in two places, and they didn't quite agree: the EXPLAIN case left out the locking clause. Centralize the code so we get the same behavior everywhere, and adjust calling conventions and which functions are static vs. extern accordingly . Centralize the code so we get the same behavior everywhere, and adjust calling conventions and which functions are static vs. extern accordingly. Ashutosh Bapat, reviewed and slightly adjusted by me.
* Fix incorrect pattern-match processing in psql's \det command.Tom Lane2016-01-29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | listForeignTables' invocation of processSQLNamePattern did not match up with the other ones that handle potentially-schema-qualified names; it failed to make use of pg_table_is_visible() and also passed the name arguments in the wrong order. Bug seems to have been aboriginal in commit 0d692a0dc9f0e532. It accidentally sort of worked as long as you didn't inquire too closely into the behavior, although the silliness was later exposed by inconsistencies in the test queries added by 59efda3e50ca4de6 (which I probably should have questioned at the time, but didn't). Per bug #13899 from Reece Hart. Patch by Reece Hart and Tom Lane. Back-patch to all affected branches.
* postgres_fdw: Refactor deparsing code for locking clauses.Robert Haas2016-01-28
| | | | | | | | | | The upcoming patch to allow join pushdown in postgres_fdw needs to use this code multiple times, which requires moving it to deparse.c. That seems like a good idea anyway, so do that now both on general principle and to simplify the future patch. Inspired by a patch by Shigeru Hanada and Ashutosh Bapat, but I did it a little differently than what that patch did.
* Add missing quotation mark.Robert Haas2016-01-28
| | | | This fix accidentally got left out of the previous commit.
* Avoid multiple foreign server connections when all use same user mapping.Robert Haas2016-01-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Previously, postgres_fdw's connection cache was keyed by user OID and server OID, but this can lead to multiple connections when it's not really necessary. In particular, if all relevant users are mapped to the public user mapping, then their connection options are certainly the same, so one connection can be used for all of them. While we're cleaning things up here, drop the "server" argument to GetConnection(), which isn't really needed. This saves a few cycles because callers no longer have to look this up; the function itself does, but only when establishing a new connection, not when reusing an existing one. Ashutosh Bapat, with a few small changes by me.
* Update copyright for 2016Bruce Momjian2016-01-02
| | | | Backpatch certain files through 9.1
* Add a comment noting that FDWs don't have to implement EXCEPT or LIMIT TO.Tom Lane2015-12-31
| | | | | | | | postgresImportForeignSchema pays attention to IMPORT's EXCEPT and LIMIT TO options, but only as an efficiency hack, not for correctness' sake. The FDW documentation does explain that, but someone using postgres_fdw.c as a coding guide might not remember it, so let's add a comment here. Per question from Regina Obe.
* postgres_fdw: Consider requesting sorted data so we can do a merge join.Robert Haas2015-12-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When use_remote_estimate is enabled, consider adding ORDER BY to the query we sending to the remote server so that we can use that ordered data for a merge join. Commit f18c944b6137329ac4a6b2dce5745c5dc21a8578 arranges to push down the query pathkeys, which seems like the case mostly likely to be a win, but testing shows this can sometimes win, too. For a regular table, we know which indexes are present and therefore test whether the ordering provided by each such index is useful. Here, we take the opposite approach: guess what orderings would be useful if they could be generated cheaply, and then ask the remote side what those will cost. Ashutosh Bapat, with very substantial cosmetic revisions by me. Also reviewed by Rushabh Lathia.
* Allow foreign and custom joins to handle EvalPlanQual rechecks.Robert Haas2015-12-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Commit e7cb7ee14555cc9c5773e2c102efd6371f6f2005 provided basic infrastructure for allowing a foreign data wrapper or custom scan provider to replace a join of one or more tables with a scan. However, this infrastructure failed to take into account the need for possible EvalPlanQual rechecks, and ExecScanFetch would fail an assertion (or just overwrite memory) if such a check was attempted for a plan containing a pushed-down join. To fix, adjust the EPQ machinery to skip some processing steps when scanrelid == 0, making those the responsibility of scan's recheck method, which also has the responsibility in this case of correctly populating the relevant slot. To allow foreign scans to gain control in the right place to make use of this new facility, add a new, optional RecheckForeignScan method. Also, allow a foreign scan to have a child plan, which can be used to correctly populate the slot (or perhaps for something else, but this is the only use currently envisioned). KaiGai Kohei, reviewed by Robert Haas, Etsuro Fujita, and Kyotaro Horiguchi.
* Make a comment more precise.Robert Haas2015-11-18
| | | | | | Remote expressions now also matter to make_foreignscan() Noted by Etsuro Fujita.
* Add regression tests for remote execution of extension operators/functions.Tom Lane2015-11-04
| | | | | | Rather than relying on other extensions to be available for installation, let's just add some test objects to the postgres_fdw extension itself within the regression script.
* Allow postgres_fdw to ship extension funcs/operators for remote execution.Tom Lane2015-11-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The user can whitelist specified extension(s) in the foreign server's options, whereupon we will treat immutable functions and operators of those extensions as candidates to be sent for remote execution. Whitelisting an extension in this way basically promises that the extension exists on the remote server and behaves compatibly with the local instance. We have no way to prove that formally, so we have to rely on the user to get it right. But this seems like something that people can usually get right in practice. We might in future allow functions and operators to be whitelisted individually, but extension granularity is a very convenient special case, so it got done first. The patch as-committed lacks any regression tests, which is unfortunate, but introducing dependencies on other extensions for testing purposes would break "make installcheck" scenarios, which is worse. I have some ideas about klugy ways around that, but it seems like material for a separate patch. For the moment, leave the problem open. Paul Ramsey, hacked up a bit more by me
* postgres_fdw: Add ORDER BY to some remote SQL queries.Robert Haas2015-11-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If the join problem's entire ORDER BY clause can be pushed to the remote server, consider a path that adds this ORDER BY clause. If use_remote_estimate is on, we cost this path using an additional remote EXPLAIN. If not, we just estimate that the path costs 20% more, which is intended to be large enough that we won't request a remote sort when it's not helpful, but small enough that we'll have the remote side do the sort when in doubt. In some cases, the remote sort might actually be free, because the remote query plan might happen to produce output that is ordered the way we need, but without remote estimates we have no way of knowing that. It might also be useful to request sorted output from the remote side if it enables an efficient merge join, but this patch doesn't attempt to handle that case. Ashutosh Bapat with revisions by me. Also reviewed by Fabrízio de Royes Mello and Jeevan Chalke.
* Allow FDWs to push down quals without breaking EvalPlanQual rechecks.Robert Haas2015-10-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This fixes a long-standing bug which was discovered while investigating the interaction between the new join pushdown code and the EvalPlanQual machinery: if a ForeignScan appears on the inner side of a paramaterized nestloop, an EPQ recheck would re-return the original tuple even if it no longer satisfied the pushed-down quals due to changed parameter values. This fix adds a new member to ForeignScan and ForeignScanState and a new argument to make_foreignscan, and requires changes to FDWs which push down quals to populate that new argument with a list of quals they have chosen to push down. Therefore, I'm only back-patching to 9.5, even though the bug is not new in 9.5. Etsuro Fujita, reviewed by me and by Kyotaro Horiguchi.
* Improve handling of collations in contrib/postgres_fdw.Tom Lane2015-09-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If we have a local Var of say varchar type with default collation, and we apply a RelabelType to convert that to text with default collation, we don't want to consider that as creating an FDW_COLLATE_UNSAFE situation. It should be okay to compare that to a remote Var, so long as the remote Var determines the comparison collation. (When we actually ship such an expression to the remote side, the local Var would become a Param with default collation, meaning the remote Var would in fact control the comparison collation, because non-default implicit collation overrides default implicit collation in parse_collate.c.) To fix, be more precise about what FDW_COLLATE_NONE means: it applies either to a noncollatable data type or to a collatable type with default collation, if that collation can't be traced to a remote Var. (When it can, FDW_COLLATE_SAFE is appropriate.) We were essentially using that interpretation already at the Var/Const/Param level, but we weren't bubbling it up properly. An alternative fix would be to introduce a separate FDW_COLLATE_DEFAULT value to describe the second situation, but that would add more code without changing the actual behavior, so it didn't seem worthwhile. Also, since we're clarifying the rule to be that we care about whether operator/function input collations match, there seems no need to fail immediately upon seeing a Const/Param/non-foreign-Var with nondefault collation. We only have to reject if it appears in a collation-sensitive context (for example, "var IS NOT NULL" is perfectly safe from a collation standpoint, whatever collation the var has). So just set the state to UNSAFE rather than failing immediately. Per report from Jeevan Chalke. This essentially corrects some sloppy thinking in commit ed3ddf918b59545583a4b374566bc1148e75f593, so back-patch to 9.3 where that logic appeared.
* Use appendStringInfoString/Char et al where appropriate.Heikki Linnakangas2015-07-02
| | | | | | Patch by David Rowley. Backpatch to 9.5, as some of the calls were new in 9.5, and keeping the code in sync with master makes future backpatching easier.
* pgindent run for 9.5Bruce Momjian2015-05-23
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* TABLESAMPLE, SQL Standard and extensibleSimon Riggs2015-05-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add a TABLESAMPLE clause to SELECT statements that allows user to specify random BERNOULLI sampling or block level SYSTEM sampling. Implementation allows for extensible sampling functions to be written, using a standard API. Basic version follows SQLStandard exactly. Usable concrete use cases for the sampling API follow in later commits. Petr Jelinek Reviewed by Michael Paquier and Simon Riggs
* Separate block sampling functionsSimon Riggs2015-05-15
| | | | | | | | Refactoring ahead of tablesample patch Requested and reviewed by Michael Paquier Petr Jelinek
* Fix postgres_fdw to return the right ctid value in EvalPlanQual cases.Tom Lane2015-05-13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If a postgres_fdw foreign table is a non-locked source relation in an UPDATE, DELETE, or SELECT FOR UPDATE/SHARE, and the query selects its ctid column, the wrong value would be returned if an EvalPlanQual recheck occurred. This happened because the foreign table's result row was copied via the ROW_MARK_COPY code path, and EvalPlanQualFetchRowMarks just unconditionally set the reconstructed tuple's t_self to "invalid". To fix that, we can have EvalPlanQualFetchRowMarks copy the composite datum's t_ctid field, and be sure to initialize that along with t_self when postgres_fdw constructs a tuple to return. If we just did that much then EvalPlanQualFetchRowMarks would start returning "(0,0)" as ctid for all other ROW_MARK_COPY cases, which perhaps does not matter much, but then again maybe it might. The cause of that is that heap_form_tuple, which is the ultimate source of all composite datums, simply leaves t_ctid as zeroes in newly constructed tuples. That seems like a bad idea on general principles: a field that's really not been initialized shouldn't appear to have a valid value. So let's eat the trivial additional overhead of doing "ItemPointerSetInvalid(&(td->t_ctid))" in heap_form_tuple. This closes out our handling of Etsuro Fujita's report that tableoid and ctid weren't correctly set in postgres_fdw EvalPlanQual cases. Along the way we did a great deal of work to improve FDWs' ability to control row locking behavior; which was not wasted effort by any means, but it didn't end up being a fix for this problem because that feature would be too expensive for postgres_fdw to use all the time. Although the fix for the tableoid misbehavior was back-patched, I'm hesitant to do so here; it seems far less likely that people would care about remote ctid than tableoid, and even such a minor behavioral change as this in heap_form_tuple is perhaps best not back-patched. So commit to HEAD only, at least for the moment. Etsuro Fujita, with some adjustments by me
* Replace some appendStringInfo* calls with more appropriate variantsPeter Eisentraut2015-05-11
| | | | Author: David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com>
* Code review for foreign/custom join pushdown patch.Tom Lane2015-05-10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Commit e7cb7ee14555cc9c5773e2c102efd6371f6f2005 included some design decisions that seem pretty questionable to me, and there was quite a lot of stuff not to like about the documentation and comments. Clean up as follows: * Consider foreign joins only between foreign tables on the same server, rather than between any two foreign tables with the same underlying FDW handler function. In most if not all cases, the FDW would simply have had to apply the same-server restriction itself (far more expensively, both for lack of caching and because it would be repeated for each combination of input sub-joins), or else risk nasty bugs. Anyone who's really intent on doing something outside this restriction can always use the set_join_pathlist_hook. * Rename fdw_ps_tlist/custom_ps_tlist to fdw_scan_tlist/custom_scan_tlist to better reflect what they're for, and allow these custom scan tlists to be used even for base relations. * Change make_foreignscan() API to include passing the fdw_scan_tlist value, since the FDW is required to set that. Backwards compatibility doesn't seem like an adequate reason to expect FDWs to set it in some ad-hoc extra step, and anyway existing FDWs can just pass NIL. * Change the API of path-generating subroutines of add_paths_to_joinrel, and in particular that of GetForeignJoinPaths and set_join_pathlist_hook, so that various less-used parameters are passed in a struct rather than as separate parameter-list entries. The objective here is to reduce the probability that future additions to those parameter lists will result in source-level API breaks for users of these hooks. It's possible that this is even a small win for the core code, since most CPU architectures can't pass more than half a dozen parameters efficiently anyway. I kept root, joinrel, outerrel, innerrel, and jointype as separate parameters to reduce code churn in joinpath.c --- in particular, putting jointype into the struct would have been problematic because of the subroutines' habit of changing their local copies of that variable. * Avoid ad-hocery in ExecAssignScanProjectionInfo. It was probably all right for it to know about IndexOnlyScan, but if the list is to grow we should refactor the knowledge out to the callers. * Restore nodeForeignscan.c's previous use of the relcache to avoid extra GetFdwRoutine lookups for base-relation scans. * Lots of cleanup of documentation and missed comments. Re-order some code additions into more logical places.
* Add support for INSERT ... ON CONFLICT DO NOTHING/UPDATE.Andres Freund2015-05-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The newly added ON CONFLICT clause allows to specify an alternative to raising a unique or exclusion constraint violation error when inserting. ON CONFLICT refers to constraints that can either be specified using a inference clause (by specifying the columns of a unique constraint) or by naming a unique or exclusion constraint. DO NOTHING avoids the constraint violation, without touching the pre-existing row. DO UPDATE SET ... [WHERE ...] updates the pre-existing tuple, and has access to both the tuple proposed for insertion and the existing tuple; the optional WHERE clause can be used to prevent an update from being executed. The UPDATE SET and WHERE clauses have access to the tuple proposed for insertion using the "magic" EXCLUDED alias, and to the pre-existing tuple using the table name or its alias. This feature is often referred to as upsert. This is implemented using a new infrastructure called "speculative insertion". It is an optimistic variant of regular insertion that first does a pre-check for existing tuples and then attempts an insert. If a violating tuple was inserted concurrently, the speculatively inserted tuple is deleted and a new attempt is made. If the pre-check finds a matching tuple the alternative DO NOTHING or DO UPDATE action is taken. If the insertion succeeds without detecting a conflict, the tuple is deemed inserted. To handle the possible ambiguity between the excluded alias and a table named excluded, and for convenience with long relation names, INSERT INTO now can alias its target table. Bumps catversion as stored rules change. Author: Peter Geoghegan, with significant contributions from Heikki Linnakangas and Andres Freund. Testing infrastructure by Jeff Janes. Reviewed-By: Heikki Linnakangas, Andres Freund, Robert Haas, Simon Riggs, Dean Rasheed, Stephen Frost and many others.
* Represent columns requiring insert and update privileges indentently.Andres Freund2015-05-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Previously, relation range table entries used a single Bitmapset field representing which columns required either UPDATE or INSERT privileges, despite the fact that INSERT and UPDATE privileges are separately cataloged, and may be independently held. As statements so far required either insert or update privileges but never both, that was sufficient. The required permission could be inferred from the top level statement run. The upcoming INSERT ... ON CONFLICT UPDATE feature needs to independently check for both privileges in one statement though, so that is not sufficient anymore. Bumps catversion as stored rules change. Author: Peter Geoghegan Reviewed-By: Andres Freund
* Create an infrastructure for parallel computation in PostgreSQL.Robert Haas2015-04-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This does four basic things. First, it provides convenience routines to coordinate the startup and shutdown of parallel workers. Second, it synchronizes various pieces of state (e.g. GUCs, combo CID mappings, transaction snapshot) from the parallel group leader to the worker processes. Third, it prohibits various operations that would result in unsafe changes to that state while parallelism is active. Finally, it propagates events that would result in an ErrorResponse, NoticeResponse, or NotifyResponse message being sent to the client from the parallel workers back to the master, from which they can then be sent on to the client. Robert Haas, Amit Kapila, Noah Misch, Rushabh Lathia, Jeevan Chalke. Suggestions and review from Andres Freund, Heikki Linnakangas, Noah Misch, Simon Riggs, Euler Taveira, and Jim Nasby.
* Pull in tableoid for inheiritance with rowMarksStephen Frost2015-04-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | As noted by Etsuro Fujita [1] and Dean Rasheed[2], cb1ca4d800621dcae67ca6c799006de99fa4f0a5 changed ExecBuildAuxRowMark() to always look for the tableoid in the target list, but didn't also change preprocess_targetlist() to always include the tableoid. This resulted in errors with soon-to-be-added RLS with inheritance tests, and errors when using inheritance with foreign tables. Authors: Etsuro Fujita and Dean Rasheed (independently) Minor word-smithing on the comments by me. [1] 552CF0B6.8010006@lab.ntt.co.jp [2] CAEZATCVmFUfUOwwhnBTcgi6AquyjQ0-1fyKd0T3xBWJvn+xsFA@mail.gmail.com
* Remove spurious semicolons.Heikki Linnakangas2015-03-31
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* Be more careful about printing constants in ruleutils.c.Tom Lane2015-03-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The previous coding in get_const_expr() tried to avoid quoting integer, float, and numeric literals if at all possible. While that looks nice, it means that dumped expressions might re-parse to something that's semantically equivalent but not the exact same parsetree; for example a FLOAT8 constant would re-parse as a NUMERIC constant with a cast to FLOAT8. Though the result would be the same after constant-folding, this is problematic in certain contexts. In particular, Jeff Davis pointed out that this could cause unexpected failures in ALTER INHERIT operations because of child tables having not-exactly-equivalent CHECK expressions. Therefore, favor correctness over legibility and dump such constants in quotes except in the limited cases where they'll be interpreted as the same type even without any casting. This results in assorted small changes in the regression test outputs, and will affect display of user-defined views and rules similarly. The odds of that causing problems in the field seem non-negligible; given the lack of previous complaints, it seems best not to change this in the back branches.
* Allow foreign tables to participate in inheritance.Tom Lane2015-03-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Foreign tables can now be inheritance children, or parents. Much of the system was already ready for this, but we had to fix a few things of course, mostly in the area of planner and executor handling of row locks. As side effects of this, allow foreign tables to have NOT VALID CHECK constraints (and hence to accept ALTER ... VALIDATE CONSTRAINT), and to accept ALTER SET STORAGE and ALTER SET WITH/WITHOUT OIDS. Continuing to disallow these things would've required bizarre and inconsistent special cases in inheritance behavior. Since foreign tables don't enforce CHECK constraints anyway, a NOT VALID one is a complete no-op, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't allow it. And it's possible that some FDWs might have use for SET STORAGE or SET WITH OIDS, though doubtless they will be no-ops for most. An additional change in support of this is that when a ModifyTable node has multiple target tables, they will all now be explicitly identified in EXPLAIN output, for example: Update on pt1 (cost=0.00..321.05 rows=3541 width=46) Update on pt1 Foreign Update on ft1 Foreign Update on ft2 Update on child3 -> Seq Scan on pt1 (cost=0.00..0.00 rows=1 width=46) -> Foreign Scan on ft1 (cost=100.00..148.03 rows=1170 width=46) -> Foreign Scan on ft2 (cost=100.00..148.03 rows=1170 width=46) -> Seq Scan on child3 (cost=0.00..25.00 rows=1200 width=46) This was done mainly to provide an unambiguous place to attach "Remote SQL" fields, but it is useful for inherited updates even when no foreign tables are involved. Shigeru Hanada and Etsuro Fujita, reviewed by Ashutosh Bapat and Kyotaro Horiguchi, some additional hacking by me
* Improve representation of PlanRowMark.Tom Lane2015-03-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch fixes two inadequacies of the PlanRowMark representation. First, that the original LockingClauseStrength isn't stored (and cannot be inferred for foreign tables, which always get ROW_MARK_COPY). Since some PlanRowMarks are created out of whole cloth and don't actually have an ancestral RowMarkClause, this requires adding a dummy LCS_NONE value to enum LockingClauseStrength, which is fairly annoying but the alternatives seem worse. This fix allows getting rid of the use of get_parse_rowmark() in FDWs (as per the discussion around commits 462bd95705a0c23b and 8ec8760fc87ecde0), and it simplifies some things elsewhere. Second, that the representation assumed that all child tables in an inheritance hierarchy would use the same RowMarkType. That's true today but will soon not be true. We add an "allMarkTypes" field that identifies the union of mark types used in all a parent table's children, and use that where appropriate (currently, only in preprocess_targetlist()). In passing fix a couple of minor infelicities left over from the SKIP LOCKED patch, notably that _outPlanRowMark still thought waitPolicy is a bool. Catversion bump is required because the numeric values of enum LockingClauseStrength can appear in on-disk rules. Extracted from a much larger patch to support foreign table inheritance; it seemed worth breaking this out, since it's a separable concern. Shigeru Hanada and Etsuro Fujita, somewhat modified by me
* Use FLEXIBLE_ARRAY_MEMBER for HeapTupleHeaderData.t_bits[].Tom Lane2015-02-21
| | | | | | | This requires changing quite a few places that were depending on sizeof(HeapTupleHeaderData), but it seems for the best. Michael Paquier, some adjustments by me
* Update copyright for 2015Bruce Momjian2015-01-06
| | | | Backpatch certain files through 9.0
* Improve hash_create's API for selecting simple-binary-key hash functions.Tom Lane2014-12-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Previously, if you wanted anything besides C-string hash keys, you had to specify a custom hashing function to hash_create(). Nearly all such callers were specifying tag_hash or oid_hash; which is tedious, and rather error-prone, since a caller could easily miss the opportunity to optimize by using hash_uint32 when appropriate. Replace this with a design whereby callers using simple binary-data keys just specify HASH_BLOBS and don't need to mess with specific support functions. hash_create() itself will take care of optimizing when the key size is four bytes. This nets out saving a few hundred bytes of code space, and offers a measurable performance improvement in tidbitmap.c (which was not exploiting the opportunity to use hash_uint32 for its 4-byte keys). There might be some wins elsewhere too, I didn't analyze closely. In future we could look into offering a similar optimized hashing function for 8-byte keys. Under this design that could be done in a centralized and machine-independent fashion, whereas getting it right for keys of platform-dependent sizes would've been notationally painful before. For the moment, the old way still works fine, so as not to break source code compatibility for loadable modules. Eventually we might want to remove tag_hash and friends from the exported API altogether, since there's no real need for them to be explicitly referenced from outside dynahash.c. Teodor Sigaev and Tom Lane
* Allow CHECK constraints to be placed on foreign tables.Tom Lane2014-12-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | As with NOT NULL constraints, we consider that such constraints are merely reports of constraints that are being enforced by the remote server (or other underlying storage mechanism). Their only real use is to allow planner optimizations, for example in constraint-exclusion checks. Thus, the code changes here amount to little more than removal of the error that was formerly thrown for applying CHECK to a foreign table. (In passing, do a bit of cleanup of the ALTER FOREIGN TABLE reference page, which had accumulated some weird decisions about ordering etc.) Shigeru Hanada and Etsuro Fujita, reviewed by Kyotaro Horiguchi and Ashutosh Bapat.
* Revert misguided change to postgres_fdw FOR UPDATE/SHARE code.Tom Lane2014-12-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In commit 462bd95705a0c23ba0b0ba60a78d32566a0384c1, I changed postgres_fdw to rely on get_plan_rowmark() instead of get_parse_rowmark(). I still think that's a good idea in the long run, but as Etsuro Fujita pointed out, it doesn't work today because planner.c forces PlanRowMarks to have markType = ROW_MARK_COPY for all foreign tables. There's no urgent reason to change this in the back branches, so let's just revert that part of yesterday's commit rather than trying to design a better solution under time pressure. Also, add a regression test case showing what postgres_fdw does with FOR UPDATE/SHARE. I'd blithely assumed there was one already, else I'd have realized yesterday that this code didn't work.