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* Update copyrights in source tree to 2008.Bruce Momjian2008-01-01
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* Code review for LIKE ... INCLUDING INDEXES patch. Fix failure to propagateTom Lane2007-12-01
| | | | | | | | | | constraint status of copied indexes (bug #3774), as well as various other small bugs such as failure to pstrdup when needed. Allow INCLUDING INDEXES indexes to be merged with identical declared indexes (perhaps not real useful, but the code is there and having it not apply to LIKE indexes seems pretty unorthogonal). Avoid useless work in generateClonedIndexStmt(). Undo some poorly chosen API changes, and put a couple of routines in modules that seem to be better places for them.
* pgindent run for 8.3.Bruce Momjian2007-11-15
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* HOT updates. When we update a tuple without changing any of its indexedTom Lane2007-09-20
| | | | | | | | | | | | columns, and the new version can be stored on the same heap page, we no longer generate extra index entries for the new version. Instead, index searches follow the HOT-chain links to ensure they find the correct tuple version. In addition, this patch introduces the ability to "prune" dead tuples on a per-page basis, without having to do a complete VACUUM pass to recover space. VACUUM is still needed to clean up dead index entries, however. Pavan Deolasee, with help from a bunch of other people.
* Make CLUSTER and REINDEX silently skip remote temp tables in theirAlvaro Herrera2007-09-10
| | | | | | database-wide editions. Per report from bitsandbytes88 <at> hotmail.com and subsequent discussion.
* Allow CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY to disregard transactions in otherTom Lane2007-09-07
| | | | | databases, per gripe from hubert depesz lubaczewski. Patch from Simon Riggs.
* Implement lazy XID allocation: transactions that do not modify any databaseTom Lane2007-09-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | rows will normally never obtain an XID at all. We already did things this way for subtransactions, but this patch extends the concept to top-level transactions. In applications where there are lots of short read-only transactions, this should improve performance noticeably; not so much from removal of the actual XID-assignments, as from reduction of overhead that's driven by the rate of XID consumption. We add a concept of a "virtual transaction ID" so that active transactions can be uniquely identified even if they don't have a regular XID. This is a much lighter-weight concept: uniqueness of VXIDs is only guaranteed over the short term, and no on-disk record is made about them. Florian Pflug, with some editorialization by Tom.
* Fix brain fade in DefineIndex(): it was continuing to access the table'sTom Lane2007-08-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | relcache entry after having heap_close'd it. This could lead to misbehavior if a relcache flush wiped out the cache entry meanwhile. In 8.2 there is a very real risk of CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY using the wrong relid for locking and waiting purposes. I think the bug is only cosmetic in 8.0 and 8.1, because their transgression is limited to using RelationGetRelationName(rel) in an ereport message immediately after heap_close, and there's no way (except with special debugging options) for a cache flush to occur in that interval. Not quite sure that it's cosmetic in 7.4, but seems best to patch anyway. Found by trying to run the regression tests with CLOBBER_CACHE_ALWAYS enabled. Maybe we should try to do that on a regular basis --- it's awfully slow, but perhaps some fast buildfarm machine could do it once in awhile.
* Implement CREATE TABLE LIKE ... INCLUDING INDEXES. Patch from NikhilS,Neil Conway2007-07-17
| | | | | based in part on an earlier patch from Trevor Hardcastle, and reviewed by myself.
* Separate parse-analysis for utility commands out of parser/analyze.cTom Lane2007-06-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | (which now deals only in optimizable statements), and put that code into a new file parser/parse_utilcmd.c. This helps clarify and enforce the design rule that utility statements shouldn't be processed during the regular parse analysis phase; all interpretation of their meaning should happen after they are given to ProcessUtility to execute. (We need this because we don't retain any locks for a utility statement that's in a plan cache, nor have any way to detect that it's stale.) We are also able to simplify the API for parse_analyze() and related routines, because they will now always return exactly one Query structure. In passing, fix bug #3403 concerning trying to add a serial column to an existing temp table (this is largely Heikki's work, but we needed all that restructuring to make it safe).
* Create a GUC parameter temp_tablespaces that allows selection of theTom Lane2007-06-03
| | | | | | | | | | tablespace(s) in which to store temp tables and temporary files. This is a list to allow spreading the load across multiple tablespaces (a random list element is chosen each time a temp object is to be created). Temp files are not stored in per-database pgsql_tmp/ directories anymore, but per-tablespace directories. Jaime Casanova and Albert Cervera, with review by Bernd Helmle and Tom Lane.
* Fix things so that when CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY sets pg_index.indisvalidTom Lane2007-05-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | true at the very end of its processing, the update is broadcast via a shared-cache-inval message for the index; without this, existing backends that already have relcache entries for the index might never see it become valid. Also, force a relcache inval on the index's parent table at the same time, so that any cached plans for that table are re-planned; this ensures that the newly valid index will be used if appropriate. Aside from making C.I.C. behave more reasonably, this is necessary infrastructure for some aspects of the HOT patch. Pavan Deolasee, with a little further stuff from me.
* First phase of plan-invalidation project: create a plan cache managementTom Lane2007-03-13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | module and teach PREPARE and protocol-level prepared statements to use it. In service of this, rearrange utility-statement processing so that parse analysis does not assume table schemas can't change before execution for utility statements (necessary because we don't attempt to re-acquire locks for utility statements when reusing a stored plan). This requires some refactoring of the ProcessUtility API, but it ends up cleaner anyway, for instance we can get rid of the QueryContext global. Still to do: fix up SPI and related code to use the plan cache; I'm tempted to try to make SQL functions use it too. Also, there are at least some aspects of system state that we want to ensure remain the same during a replan as in the original processing; search_path certainly ought to behave that way for instance, and perhaps there are others.
* Revert temp_tablespaces because of coding problems, per Tom.Bruce Momjian2007-03-06
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* Wording cleanup for error messages. Also change can't -> cannot.Bruce Momjian2007-02-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Standard English uses "may", "can", and "might" in different ways: may - permission, "You may borrow my rake." can - ability, "I can lift that log." might - possibility, "It might rain today." Unfortunately, in conversational English, their use is often mixed, as in, "You may use this variable to do X", when in fact, "can" is a better choice. Similarly, "It may crash" is better stated, "It might crash".
* Add GUC temp_tablespaces to provide a default location for temporaryBruce Momjian2007-01-25
| | | | | | objects. Jaime Casanova
* Simplify pg_am representation of ordering-capable access methods:Tom Lane2007-01-20
| | | | | | | provide just a boolean 'amcanorder', instead of fields that specify the sort operator strategy numbers. We have decided to require ordering-capable AMs to use btree-compatible strategy numbers, so the old fields are overkill (and indeed misleading about what's allowed).
* Support ORDER BY ... NULLS FIRST/LAST, and add ASC/DESC/NULLS FIRST/NULLS LASTTom Lane2007-01-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | per-column options for btree indexes. The planner's support for this is still pretty rudimentary; it does not yet know how to plan mergejoins with nondefault ordering options. The documentation is pretty rudimentary, too. I'll work on improving that stuff later. Note incompatible change from prior behavior: ORDER BY ... USING will now be rejected if the operator is not a less-than or greater-than member of some btree opclass. This prevents less-than-sane behavior if an operator that doesn't actually define a proper sort ordering is selected.
* Update CVS HEAD for 2007 copyright. Back branches are typically notBruce Momjian2007-01-05
| | | | back-stamped for this.
* Restructure operator classes to allow improved handling of cross-data-typeTom Lane2006-12-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | cases. Operator classes now exist within "operator families". While most families are equivalent to a single class, related classes can be grouped into one family to represent the fact that they are semantically compatible. Cross-type operators are now naturally adjunct parts of a family, without having to wedge them into a particular opclass as we had done originally. This commit restructures the catalogs and cleans up enough of the fallout so that everything still works at least as well as before, but most of the work needed to actually improve the planner's behavior will come later. Also, there are not yet CREATE/DROP/ALTER OPERATOR FAMILY commands; the only way to create a new family right now is to allow CREATE OPERATOR CLASS to make one by default. I owe some more documentation work, too. But that can all be done in smaller pieces once this infrastructure is in place.
* pgindent run for 8.2.Bruce Momjian2006-10-04
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* Add a function GetLockConflicts() to lock.c to report xacts holdingTom Lane2006-08-27
| | | | | | | | | locks that would conflict with a specified lock request, without actually trying to get that lock. Use this instead of the former ad hoc method of doing the first wait step in CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY. Fixes problem with undetected deadlock and in many cases will allow the index creation to proceed sooner than it otherwise could've. Per discussion with Greg Stark.
* Add the ability to create indexes 'concurrently', that is, withoutTom Lane2006-08-25
| | | | | blocking concurrent writes to the table. Greg Stark, with a little help from Tom Lane.
* Change the bootstrap sequence so that toast tables for system catalogs areTom Lane2006-07-31
| | | | | | | | | | created in the bootstrap phase proper, rather than added after-the-fact by initdb. This is cleaner than before because it allows us to retire the undocumented ALTER TABLE ... CREATE TOAST TABLE command, but the real reason I'm doing it is so that toast tables of shared catalogs will now have predetermined OIDs. This will allow a reasonably clean solution to the problem of locking tables before we load their relcache entries, to appear in a forthcoming patch.
* Allow include files to compile own their own.Bruce Momjian2006-07-13
| | | | | | | Strip unused include files out unused include files, and add needed includes to C files. The next step is to remove unused include files in C files.
* Alphabetically order reference to include files, "G" - "M".Bruce Momjian2006-07-11
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* Code review for FILLFACTOR patch. Change WITH grammar as per earlierTom Lane2006-07-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | discussion (including making def_arg allow reserved words), add missed opt_definition for UNIQUE case. Put the reloptions support code in a less random place (I chose to make a new file access/common/reloptions.c). Eliminate header inclusion creep. Make the index options functions safely user-callable (seems like client apps might like to be able to test validity of options before trying to make an index). Reduce overhead for normal case with no options by allowing rd_options to be NULL. Fix some unmaintainably klugy code, including getting rid of Natts_pg_class_fixed at long last. Some stylistic cleanup too, and pay attention to keeping comments in sync with code. Documentation still needs work, though I did fix the omissions in catalogs.sgml and indexam.sgml.
* Add FILLFACTOR to CREATE INDEX.Bruce Momjian2006-07-02
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* Have REINDEX use NOTICE, so it can be suppressed.Bruce Momjian2006-06-07
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* Use INFO-level for reindex messages, rather than NOTICE.Bruce Momjian2006-06-07
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* Clean up code associated with updating pg_class statistics columnsTom Lane2006-05-10
| | | | | | | | | | | (relpages/reltuples). To do this, create formal support in heapam.c for "overwrite" tuple updates (including xlog replay capability) and use that instead of the ad-hoc overwrites we'd been using in VACUUM and CREATE INDEX. Take the responsibility for updating stats during CREATE INDEX out of the individual index AMs, and do it where it belongs, in catalog/index.c. Aside from being more modular, this avoids having to update the same tuple twice in some paths through CREATE INDEX. It's probably not measurably faster, but for sure it's a lot cleaner than before.
* Update copyright for 2006. Update scripts.Bruce Momjian2006-03-05
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* Change search for default operator classes so that it examines all opclassesTom Lane2006-02-10
| | | | | | | | | | regardless of the current schema search path. Since CREATE OPERATOR CLASS only allows one default opclass per datatype regardless of schemas, this should have minimal impact, and it fixes problems with failure to find a desired opclass while restoring dump files. Per discussion at http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-02/msg00284.php. Remove now-redundant-or-unused code in typcache.c and namespace.c, and backpatch as far as 8.0.
* Re-run pgindent, fixing a problem where comment lines after a blankBruce Momjian2005-11-22
| | | | | | | | | comment line where output as too long, and update typedefs for /lib directory. Also fix case where identifiers were used as variable names in the backend, but as typedefs in ecpg (favor the backend for indenting). Backpatch to 8.1.X.
* R-tree is dead ... long live GiST.Tom Lane2005-11-07
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* Standard pgindent run for 8.1.Bruce Momjian2005-10-15
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* Make REINDEX DATABASE do what one would expect, namely reindex all indexesTom Lane2005-06-22
| | | | | | | in the database. The old behavior (reindex system catalogs only) is now available as REINDEX SYSTEM. I did not add the complementary REINDEX USER case since there did not seem to be consensus for this, but it would be trivial to add later. Per recent discussions.
* Trivial dead code removal: in makeObjectName(), name1 must be non-NULLNeil Conway2005-06-21
| | | | | | | (due to the preceding strlen(), for example), so we needn't recheck this before invoking pg_mbcliplen(). Per Coverity static analysis performed by EnterpriseDB.
* For some reason access/tupmacs.h has been #including utils/memutils.h,Tom Lane2005-05-06
| | | | | | | which is neither needed by nor related to that header. Remove the bogus inclusion and instead include the header in those C files that actually need it. Also fix unnecessary inclusions and bad inclusion order in tsearch2 files.
* Completion of project to use fixed OIDs for all system catalogs andTom Lane2005-04-14
| | | | | | | indexes. Replace all heap_openr and index_openr calls by heap_open and index_open. Remove runtime lookups of catalog OID numbers in various places. Remove relcache's support for looking up system catalogs by name. Bulky but mostly very boring patch ...
* First phase of project to use fixed OIDs for all system catalogs andTom Lane2005-04-14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | indexes. Extend the macros in include/catalog/*.h to carry the info about hand-assigned OIDs, and adjust the genbki script and bootstrap code to make the relations actually get those OIDs. Remove the small number of RelOid_pg_foo macros that we had in favor of a complete set named like the catname.h and indexing.h macros. Next phase will get rid of internal use of names for looking up catalogs and indexes; but this completes the changes forcing an initdb, so it looks like a good place to commit. Along the way, I made the shared relations (pg_database etc) not be 'bootstrap' relations any more, so as to reduce the number of hardwired entries and simplify changing those relations in future. I'm not sure whether they ever really needed to be handled as bootstrap relations, but it seems to work fine to not do so now.
* Tag appropriate files for rc3PostgreSQL Daemon2004-12-31
| | | | | | | | Also performed an initial run through of upgrading our Copyright date to extend to 2005 ... first run here was very simple ... change everything where: grep 1996-2004 && the word 'Copyright' ... scanned through the generated list with 'less' first, and after, to make sure that I only picked up the right entries ...
* Create 'default_tablespace' GUC variable that supplies a TABLESPACETom Lane2004-11-05
| | | | | | | | | | clause implicitly whenever one is not given explicitly. Remove concept of a schema having an associated tablespace, and simplify the rules for selecting a default tablespace for a table or index. It's now just (a) explicit TABLESPACE clause; (b) default_tablespace if that's not an empty string; (c) database's default. This will allow pg_dump to use SET commands instead of tablespace clauses to determine object locations (but I didn't actually make it do so). All per recent discussions.
* Redesign query-snapshot timing so that volatile functions in READ COMMITTEDTom Lane2004-09-13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | mode see a fresh snapshot for each command in the function, rather than using the latest interactive command's snapshot. Also, suppress fresh snapshots as well as CommandCounterIncrement inside STABLE and IMMUTABLE functions, instead using the snapshot taken for the most closely nested regular query. (This behavior is only sane for read-only functions, so the patch also enforces that such functions contain only SELECT commands.) As per my proposal of 6-Sep-2004; I note that I floated essentially the same proposal on 19-Jun-2002, but that discussion tailed off without any action. Since 8.0 seems like the right place to be taking possibly nontrivial backwards compatibility hits, let's get it done now.
* Pgindent run for 8.0.Bruce Momjian2004-08-29
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* Update copyright to 2004.Bruce Momjian2004-08-29
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* Label CVS tip as 8.0devel instead of 7.5devel. Adjust various commentsTom Lane2004-08-04
| | | | and documentation to reference 8.0 instead of 7.5.
* Tablespaces. Alternate database locations are dead, long live tablespaces.Tom Lane2004-06-18
| | | | | | | | | There are various things left to do: contrib dbsize and oid2name modules need work, and so does the documentation. Also someone should think about COMMENT ON TABLESPACE and maybe RENAME TABLESPACE. Also initlocation is dead, it just doesn't know it yet. Gavin Sherry and Tom Lane.
* Clean up generation of default names for constraints, indexes, and serialTom Lane2004-06-10
| | | | | | | | sequences, as per recent discussion. All these names are now of the form table_column_type, with digits added if needed to make them unique. Default constraint names are chosen to be unique across their whole schema, not just within the parent object, so as to be more SQL-spec-compatible and make the information schema views more useful.
* Reimplement the linked list data structure used throughout the backend.Neil Conway2004-05-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In the past, we used a 'Lispy' linked list implementation: a "list" was merely a pointer to the head node of the list. The problem with that design is that it makes lappend() and length() linear time. This patch fixes that problem (and others) by maintaining a count of the list length and a pointer to the tail node along with each head node pointer. A "list" is now a pointer to a structure containing some meta-data about the list; the head and tail pointers in that structure refer to ListCell structures that maintain the actual linked list of nodes. The function names of the list API have also been changed to, I hope, be more logically consistent. By default, the old function names are still available; they will be disabled-by-default once the rest of the tree has been updated to use the new API names.