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* Allow generalized expression syntax for partition boundsPeter Eisentraut2019-01-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Previously, only literals were allowed. This change allows general expressions, including functions calls, which are evaluated at the time the DDL command is executed. Besides offering some more functionality, it simplifies the parser structures and removes some inconsistencies in how the literals were handled. Author: Kyotaro Horiguchi, Tom Lane, Amit Langote Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com> Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/9f88b5e0-6da2-5227-20d0-0d7012beaa1c@lab.ntt.co.jp/
* Allow COPY FROM to filter data using WHERE conditionsTomas Vondra2019-01-20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Extends the COPY FROM command with a WHERE condition, which allows doing various types of filtering while importing the data (random sampling, condition on a data column, etc.). Until now such filtering required either preprocessing of the input data, or importing all data and then filtering in the database. COPY FROM ... WHERE is an easy-to-use and low-overhead alternative for most simple cases. Author: Surafel Temesgen Reviewed-by: Tomas Vondra, Masahiko Sawada, Lim Myungkyu Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CALAY4q_DdpWDuB5-Zyi-oTtO2uSk8pmy+dupiRe3AvAc++1imA@mail.gmail.com
* Update copyright for 2019Bruce Momjian2019-01-02
| | | | Backpatch-through: certain files through 9.4
* Fix misc typos, mostly in comments.Heikki Linnakangas2018-07-18
| | | | | | | | A collection of typos I happened to spot while reading code, as well as grepping for common mistakes. Backpatch to all supported versions, as applicable, to avoid conflicts when backporting other commits in the future.
* Add separate error message for procedure does not existPeter Eisentraut2018-07-07
| | | | | | While we probably don't want to split up all error messages into function and procedure variants, this one is a very prominent one, so it's helpful to be more specific here.
* Consider syntactic form when disambiguating function vs column reference.Tom Lane2018-06-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Postgres has traditionally considered the syntactic forms f(x) and x.f to be equivalent, allowing tricks such as writing a function and then using it as though it were a computed-on-demand column. However, our behavior when both interpretations are feasible left something to be desired: we always chose the column interpretation. This could lead to very surprising results, as in a recent bug report from Neil Conway. It also created a dump-and-reload hazard, since what was a function call in a dumped view could get interpreted as a column reference at reload, if a matching column name had been added to the underlying table since the view was created. What seems better, in ambiguous situations, is to prefer the choice matching the syntactic form of the reference. This seems much less astonishing in general, and it fixes the dump/reload hazard. Although this could be called a bug fix, there have been few complaints and there's some small risk of breaking applications that depend on the old behavior, so no back-patch. It does seem reasonable to slip it into v11, though. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAOW5sYa3Wp7KozCuzjOdw6PiOYPi6D=VvRybtH2S=2C0SVmRmA@mail.gmail.com
* Fix some minor error-checking oversights in ParseFuncOrColumn().Tom Lane2018-06-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Recent additions to ParseFuncOrColumn to make it reject non-procedure functions in CALL were neither adequate nor documented. Reorganize the code to ensure uniform results for all the cases that should be rejected. Also, use ERRCODE_WRONG_OBJECT_TYPE for this case as well as the converse case of a procedure in a non-CALL context. The original coding used ERRCODE_UNDEFINED_FUNCTION which seems wrong, and is certainly inconsistent with the adjacent wrong-kind-of-routine errors. This reorganization also causes the checks for aggregate decoration with a non-aggregate function to be made in the FUNCDETAIL_COERCION case; that they were not is a long-standing oversight. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/14497.1529089235@sss.pgh.pa.us
* Revert MERGE patchSimon Riggs2018-04-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This reverts commits d204ef63776b8a00ca220adec23979091564e465, 83454e3c2b28141c0db01c7d2027e01040df5249 and a few more commits thereafter (complete list at the end) related to MERGE feature. While the feature was fully functional, with sufficient test coverage and necessary documentation, it was felt that some parts of the executor and parse-analyzer can use a different design and it wasn't possible to do that in the available time. So it was decided to revert the patch for PG11 and retry again in the future. Thanks again to all reviewers and bug reporters. List of commits reverted, in reverse chronological order: f1464c5380 Improve parse representation for MERGE ddb4158579 MERGE syntax diagram correction 530e69e59b Allow cpluspluscheck to pass by renaming variable 01b88b4df5 MERGE minor errata 3af7b2b0d4 MERGE fix variable warning in non-assert builds a5d86181ec MERGE INSERT allows only one VALUES clause 4b2d44031f MERGE post-commit review 4923550c20 Tab completion for MERGE aa3faa3c7a WITH support in MERGE 83454e3c2b New files for MERGE d204ef6377 MERGE SQL Command following SQL:2016 Author: Pavan Deolasee Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier
* MERGE SQL Command following SQL:2016Simon Riggs2018-04-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | MERGE performs actions that modify rows in the target table using a source table or query. MERGE provides a single SQL statement that can conditionally INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE rows a task that would other require multiple PL statements. e.g. MERGE INTO target AS t USING source AS s ON t.tid = s.sid WHEN MATCHED AND t.balance > s.delta THEN UPDATE SET balance = t.balance - s.delta WHEN MATCHED THEN DELETE WHEN NOT MATCHED AND s.delta > 0 THEN INSERT VALUES (s.sid, s.delta) WHEN NOT MATCHED THEN DO NOTHING; MERGE works with regular and partitioned tables, including column and row security enforcement, as well as support for row, statement and transition triggers. MERGE is optimized for OLTP and is parameterizable, though also useful for large scale ETL/ELT. MERGE is not intended to be used in preference to existing single SQL commands for INSERT, UPDATE or DELETE since there is some overhead. MERGE can be used statically from PL/pgSQL. MERGE does not yet support inheritance, write rules, RETURNING clauses, updatable views or foreign tables. MERGE follows SQL Standard per the most recent SQL:2016. Includes full tests and documentation, including full isolation tests to demonstrate the concurrent behavior. This version written from scratch in 2017 by Simon Riggs, using docs and tests originally written in 2009. Later work from Pavan Deolasee has been both complex and deep, leaving the lead author credit now in his hands. Extensive discussion of concurrency from Peter Geoghegan, with thanks for the time and effort contributed. Various issues reported via sqlsmith by Andreas Seltenreich Authors: Pavan Deolasee, Simon Riggs Reviewer: Peter Geoghegan, Amit Langote, Tomas Vondra, Simon Riggs Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CANP8+jKitBSrB7oTgT9CY2i1ObfOt36z0XMraQc+Xrz8QB0nXA@mail.gmail.com https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-WzkJdBuxj9PO=2QaO9-3h3xGbQPZ34kJH=HukRekwM-GZg@mail.gmail.com
* Revert "Modified files for MERGE"Simon Riggs2018-04-02
| | | | This reverts commit 354f13855e6381d288dfaa52bcd4f2cb0fd4a5eb.
* Modified files for MERGESimon Riggs2018-04-02
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* Add prokind column, replacing proisagg and proiswindowPeter Eisentraut2018-03-02
| | | | | | | | | | The new column distinguishes normal functions, procedures, aggregates, and window functions. This replaces the existing columns proisagg and proiswindow, and replaces the convention that procedures are indicated by prorettype == 0. Also change prorettype to be VOIDOID for procedures. Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
* Fix oversight in CALL argument handling, and do some minor cleanup.Tom Lane2018-02-10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | CALL statements cannot support sub-SELECTs in the arguments of the called procedure, since they just use ExecEvalExpr to evaluate such arguments. Teach transformSubLink() to reject the case, as it already does for other contexts in which subqueries are not supported. In passing, s/EXPR_KIND_CALL/EXPR_KIND_CALL_ARGUMENT/ to make that enum symbol line up more closely with the phrasing of the error messages it is associated with. And fix someone's weak grasp of English grammar in the preceding EXPR_KIND_PARTITION_EXPRESSION addition. Also update an incorrect comment in resolve_unique_index_expr (possibly it was correct when written, but nowadays transformExpr definitely does reject SRFs here). Per report from Pavel Stehule --- but this resolves only one of the bugs he mentions. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAFj8pRDxOwPPzpA8i+AQeDQFj7bhVw-dR2==rfWZ3zMGkm568Q@mail.gmail.com
* Support all SQL:2011 options for window frame clauses.Tom Lane2018-02-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch adds the ability to use "RANGE offset PRECEDING/FOLLOWING" frame boundaries in window functions. We'd punted on that back in the original patch to add window functions, because it was not clear how to do it in a reasonably data-type-extensible fashion. That problem is resolved here by adding the ability for btree operator classes to provide an "in_range" support function that defines how to add or subtract the RANGE offset value. Factoring it this way also allows the operator class to avoid overflow problems near the ends of the datatype's range, if it wishes to expend effort on that. (In the committed patch, the integer opclasses handle that issue, but it did not seem worth the trouble to avoid overflow failures for datetime types.) The patch includes in_range support for the integer_ops opfamily (int2/int4/int8) as well as the standard datetime types. Support for other numeric types has been requested, but that seems like suitable material for a follow-on patch. In addition, the patch adds GROUPS mode which counts the offset in ORDER-BY peer groups rather than rows, and it adds the frame_exclusion options specified by SQL:2011. As far as I can see, we are now fully up to spec on window framing options. Existing behaviors remain unchanged, except that I changed the errcode for a couple of existing error reports to meet the SQL spec's expectation that negative "offset" values should be reported as SQLSTATE 22013. Internally and in relevant parts of the documentation, we now consistently use the terminology "offset PRECEDING/FOLLOWING" rather than "value PRECEDING/FOLLOWING", since the term "value" is confusingly vague. Oliver Ford, reviewed and whacked around some by me Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAGMVOdu9sivPAxbNN0X+q19Sfv9edEPv=HibOJhB14TJv_RCQg@mail.gmail.com
* Update copyright for 2018Bruce Momjian2018-01-02
| | | | Backpatch-through: certain files through 9.3
* Fix crash when using CALL on an aggregatePeter Eisentraut2017-12-13
| | | | | Author: Ashutosh Bapat <ashutosh.bapat@enterprisedb.com> Reported-by: Rushabh Lathia <rushabh.lathia@gmail.com>
* SQL proceduresPeter Eisentraut2017-11-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This adds a new object type "procedure" that is similar to a function but does not have a return type and is invoked by the new CALL statement instead of SELECT or similar. This implementation is aligned with the SQL standard and compatible with or similar to other SQL implementations. This commit adds new commands CALL, CREATE/ALTER/DROP PROCEDURE, as well as ALTER/DROP ROUTINE that can refer to either a function or a procedure (or an aggregate function, as an extension to SQL). There is also support for procedures in various utility commands such as COMMENT and GRANT, as well as support in pg_dump and psql. Support for defining procedures is available in all the languages supplied by the core distribution. While this commit is mainly syntax sugar around existing functionality, future features will rely on having procedures as a separate object type. Reviewed-by: Andrew Dunstan <andrew.dunstan@2ndquadrant.com>
* Add some const decorations to prototypesPeter Eisentraut2017-11-10
| | | | Reviewed-by: Fabien COELHO <coelho@cri.ensmp.fr>
* Support domains over composite types.Tom Lane2017-10-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This is the last major omission in our domains feature: you can now make a domain over anything that's not a pseudotype. The major complication from an implementation standpoint is that places that might be creating tuples of a domain type now need to be prepared to apply domain_check(). It seems better that unprepared code fail with an error like "<type> is not composite" than that it silently fail to apply domain constraints. Therefore, relevant infrastructure like get_func_result_type() and lookup_rowtype_tupdesc() has been adjusted to treat domain-over-composite as a distinct case that unprepared code won't recognize, rather than just transparently treating it the same as plain composite. This isn't a 100% solution to the possibility of overlooked domain checks, but it catches most places. In passing, improve typcache.c's support for domains (it can now cache the identity of a domain's base type), and rewrite the argument handling logic in jsonfuncs.c's populate_record[set]_worker to reduce duplicative per-call lookups. I believe this is code-complete so far as the core and contrib code go. The PLs need varying amounts of work, which will be tackled in followup patches. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/4206.1499798337@sss.pgh.pa.us
* Change tupledesc->attrs[n] to TupleDescAttr(tupledesc, n).Andres Freund2017-08-20
| | | | | | | | | | | This is a mechanical change in preparation for a later commit that will change the layout of TupleDesc. Introducing a macro to abstract the details of where attributes are stored will allow us to change that in separate step and revise it in future. Author: Thomas Munro, editorialized by Andres Freund Reviewed-By: Andres Freund Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEepm=0ZtQ-SpsgCyzzYpsXS6e=kZWqk3g5Ygn3MDV7A8dabUA@mail.gmail.com
* Phase 3 of pgindent updates.Tom Lane2017-06-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Don't move parenthesized lines to the left, even if that means they flow past the right margin. By default, BSD indent lines up statement continuation lines that are within parentheses so that they start just to the right of the preceding left parenthesis. However, traditionally, if that resulted in the continuation line extending to the right of the desired right margin, then indent would push it left just far enough to not overrun the margin, if it could do so without making the continuation line start to the left of the current statement indent. That makes for a weird mix of indentations unless one has been completely rigid about never violating the 80-column limit. This behavior has been pretty universally panned by Postgres developers. Hence, disable it with indent's new -lpl switch, so that parenthesized lines are always lined up with the preceding left paren. This patch is much less interesting than the first round of indent changes, but also bulkier, so I thought it best to separate the effects. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/E1dAmxK-0006EE-1r@gemulon.postgresql.org Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/30527.1495162840@sss.pgh.pa.us
* Phase 2 of pgindent updates.Tom Lane2017-06-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Change pg_bsd_indent to follow upstream rules for placement of comments to the right of code, and remove pgindent hack that caused comments following #endif to not obey the general rule. Commit e3860ffa4dd0dad0dd9eea4be9cc1412373a8c89 wasn't actually using the published version of pg_bsd_indent, but a hacked-up version that tried to minimize the amount of movement of comments to the right of code. The situation of interest is where such a comment has to be moved to the right of its default placement at column 33 because there's code there. BSD indent has always moved right in units of tab stops in such cases --- but in the previous incarnation, indent was working in 8-space tab stops, while now it knows we use 4-space tabs. So the net result is that in about half the cases, such comments are placed one tab stop left of before. This is better all around: it leaves more room on the line for comment text, and it means that in such cases the comment uniformly starts at the next 4-space tab stop after the code, rather than sometimes one and sometimes two tabs after. Also, ensure that comments following #endif are indented the same as comments following other preprocessor commands such as #else. That inconsistency turns out to have been self-inflicted damage from a poorly-thought-through post-indent "fixup" in pgindent. This patch is much less interesting than the first round of indent changes, but also bulkier, so I thought it best to separate the effects. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/E1dAmxK-0006EE-1r@gemulon.postgresql.org Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/30527.1495162840@sss.pgh.pa.us
* Initial pgindent run with pg_bsd_indent version 2.0.Tom Lane2017-06-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The new indent version includes numerous fixes thanks to Piotr Stefaniak. The main changes visible in this commit are: * Nicer formatting of function-pointer declarations. * No longer unexpectedly removes spaces in expressions using casts, sizeof, or offsetof. * No longer wants to add a space in "struct structname *varname", as well as some similar cases for const- or volatile-qualified pointers. * Declarations using PG_USED_FOR_ASSERTS_ONLY are formatted more nicely. * Fixes bug where comments following declarations were sometimes placed with no space separating them from the code. * Fixes some odd decisions for comments following case labels. * Fixes some cases where comments following code were indented to less than the expected column 33. On the less good side, it now tends to put more whitespace around typedef names that are not listed in typedefs.list. This might encourage us to put more effort into typedef name collection; it's not really a bug in indent itself. There are more changes coming after this round, having to do with comment indentation and alignment of lines appearing within parentheses. I wanted to limit the size of the diffs to something that could be reviewed without one's eyes completely glazing over, so it seemed better to split up the changes as much as practical. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/E1dAmxK-0006EE-1r@gemulon.postgresql.org Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/30527.1495162840@sss.pgh.pa.us
* Disallow set-returning functions inside CASE or COALESCE.Tom Lane2017-06-13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When we reimplemented SRFs in commit 69f4b9c85, our initial choice was to allow the behavior to vary from historical practice in cases where a SRF call appeared within a conditional-execution construct (currently, only CASE or COALESCE). But that was controversial to begin with, and subsequent discussion has resulted in a consensus that it's better to throw an error instead of executing the query differently from before, so long as we can provide a reasonably clear error message and a way to rewrite the query. Hence, add a parser mechanism to allow detection of such cases during parse analysis. The mechanism just requires storing, in the ParseState, a pointer to the set-returning FuncExpr or OpExpr most recently emitted by parse analysis. Then the parsing functions for CASE and COALESCE can detect the presence of a SRF in their arguments by noting whether this pointer changes while analyzing their arguments. Furthermore, if it does, it provides a suitable error cursor location for the complaint. (This means that if there's more than one SRF in the arguments, the error will point at the last one to be analyzed not the first. While connoisseurs of parsing behavior might find that odd, it's unlikely the average user would ever notice.) While at it, we can also provide more specific error messages than before about some pre-existing restrictions, such as no-SRFs-within-aggregates. Also, reject at parse time cases where a NULLIF or IS DISTINCT FROM construct would need to return a set. We've never supported that, but the restriction is depended on in more subtle ways now, so it seems wise to detect it at the start. Also, provide some documentation about how to rewrite a SRF-within-CASE query using a custom wrapper SRF. It turns out that the information_schema.user_mapping_options view contained an instance of exactly the behavior we're now forbidding; but rewriting it makes it more clear and safer too. initdb forced because of user_mapping_options change. Patch by me, with error message suggestions from Alvaro Herrera and Andres Freund, pursuant to a complaint from Regina Obe. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/000001d2d5de$d8d66170$8a832450$@pcorp.us
* Allow referring to functions without arguments when uniquePeter Eisentraut2017-03-14
| | | | | | | | | | | In DDL commands referring to an existing function, allow omitting the argument list if the function name is unique in its schema, per SQL standard. This uses the same logic that the regproc type uses for finding functions by name only. Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>
* Replace LookupFuncNameTypeNames() with LookupFuncWithArgs()Peter Eisentraut2017-03-06
| | | | | | | | | | | The old function took function name and function argument list as separate arguments. Now that all function signatures are passed around as ObjectWithArgs structs, this is no longer necessary and can be replaced by a function that takes ObjectWithArgs directly. Similarly for aggregates and operators. Reviewed-by: Jim Nasby <Jim.Nasby@BlueTreble.com> Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>
* Make more use of castNode()Peter Eisentraut2017-02-21
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* Fix check_srf_call_placement() to handle VALUES cases correctly.Tom Lane2017-01-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | INSERT ... VALUES with a single VALUES row is implemented quite differently from the general VALUES case. A user-visible implication of that is that we accept SRFs in the single-row case, but not in the multi-row case. That's a historical artifact no doubt, but in view of the lack of field complaints, I'm not excited about fixing it right now. However, check_srf_call_placement() needs to know about this, first because it should throw an error in the unsupported case, and second because it should set p_hasTargetSRFs in the single-row case (because we treat that like a SELECT tlist). That's an oversight in commit a4c35ea1c. To fix, split EXPR_KIND_VALUES into two values. So far as I can see, this is the only place where we need to distinguish the two cases at present; but there might be more later. Patch by me, per report from Andres Freund. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170116081548.zg63zltblwimpfgp@alap3.anarazel.de
* Update copyright via script for 2017Bruce Momjian2017-01-03
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* Implement table partitioning.Robert Haas2016-12-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Table partitioning is like table inheritance and reuses much of the existing infrastructure, but there are some important differences. The parent is called a partitioned table and is always empty; it may not have indexes or non-inherited constraints, since those make no sense for a relation with no data of its own. The children are called partitions and contain all of the actual data. Each partition has an implicit partitioning constraint. Multiple inheritance is not allowed, and partitioning and inheritance can't be mixed. Partitions can't have extra columns and may not allow nulls unless the parent does. Tuples inserted into the parent are automatically routed to the correct partition, so tuple-routing ON INSERT triggers are not needed. Tuple routing isn't yet supported for partitions which are foreign tables, and it doesn't handle updates that cross partition boundaries. Currently, tables can be range-partitioned or list-partitioned. List partitioning is limited to a single column, but range partitioning can involve multiple columns. A partitioning "column" can be an expression. Because table partitioning is less general than table inheritance, it is hoped that it will be easier to reason about properties of partitions, and therefore that this will serve as a better foundation for a variety of possible optimizations, including query planner optimizations. The tuple routing based which this patch does based on the implicit partitioning constraints is an example of this, but it seems likely that many other useful optimizations are also possible. Amit Langote, reviewed and tested by Robert Haas, Ashutosh Bapat, Amit Kapila, Rajkumar Raghuwanshi, Corey Huinker, Jaime Casanova, Rushabh Lathia, Erik Rijkers, among others. Minor revisions by me.
* Improve parser's and planner's handling of set-returning functions.Tom Lane2016-09-13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Teach the parser to reject misplaced set-returning functions during parse analysis using p_expr_kind, in much the same way as we do for aggregates and window functions (cf commit eaccfded9). While this isn't complete (it misses nesting-based restrictions), it's much better than the previous error reporting for such cases, and it allows elimination of assorted ad-hoc expression_returns_set() error checks. We could add nesting checks later if it seems important to catch all cases at parse time. There is one case the parser will now throw error for although previous versions allowed it, which is SRFs in the tlist of an UPDATE. That never behaved sensibly (since it's ill-defined which generated row should be used to perform the update) and it's hard to see why it should not be treated as an error. It's a release-note-worthy change though. Also, add a new Query field hasTargetSRFs reporting whether there are any SRFs in the targetlist (including GROUP BY/ORDER BY expressions). The parser can now set that basically for free during parse analysis, and we can use it in a number of places to avoid expression_returns_set searches. (There will be more such checks soon.) In some places, this allows decontorting the logic since it's no longer expensive to check for SRFs in the tlist --- so I made the checks parallel to the handling of hasAggs/hasWindowFuncs wherever it seemed appropriate. catversion bump because adding a Query field changes stored rules. Andres Freund and Tom Lane Discussion: <24639.1473782855@sss.pgh.pa.us>
* Rethink node-level representation of partial-aggregation modes.Tom Lane2016-06-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The original coding had three separate booleans representing partial aggregation behavior, which was confusing, unreadable, and error-prone, not least because the booleans weren't always listed in the same order. It was also inadequate for the allegedly-desirable future extension to support intermediate partial aggregation, because we'd need separate markers for serialization and deserialization in such a case. Merge these bools into an enum "AggSplit" to provide symbolic names for the supported operating modes (and document what those are). By assigning the values of the enum constants carefully, we can treat AggSplit values as options bitmasks so that tests of what to do aren't noticeably more expensive than before. While at it, get rid of Aggref.aggoutputtype. That's not needed since commit 59a3795c2 got rid of setrefs.c's special-purpose Aggref comparison code, and it likewise seemed more confusing than helpful. Assorted comment cleanup as well (there's still more that I want to do in that line). catversion bump for change in Aggref node contents. Should be the last one for partial-aggregation changes. Discussion: <29309.1466699160@sss.pgh.pa.us>
* Fix handling of argument and result datatypes for partial aggregation.Tom Lane2016-06-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When doing partial aggregation, the args list of the upper (combining) Aggref node is replaced by a Var representing the output of the partial aggregation steps, which has either the aggregate's transition data type or a serialized representation of that. However, nodeAgg.c blindly continued to use the args list as an indication of the user-level argument types. This broke resolution of polymorphic transition datatypes at executor startup (though it accidentally failed to fail for the ANYARRAY case, which is likely the only one anyone had tested). Moreover, the constructed FuncExpr passed to the finalfunc contained completely wrong information, which would have led to bogus answers or crashes for any case where the finalfunc examined that information (which is only likely to be with polymorphic aggregates using a non-polymorphic transition type). As an independent bug, apply_partialaggref_adjustment neglected to resolve a polymorphic transition datatype before assigning it as the output type of the lower-level Aggref node. This again accidentally failed to fail for ANYARRAY but would be unlikely to work in other cases. To fix the first problem, record the user-level argument types in a separate OID-list field of Aggref, and look to that rather than the args list when asking what the argument types were. (It turns out to be convenient to include any "direct" arguments in this list too, although those are not currently subject to being overwritten.) Rather than adding yet another resolve_aggregate_transtype() call to fix the second problem, add an aggtranstype field to Aggref, and store the resolved transition type OID there when the planner first computes it. (By doing this in the planner and not the parser, we can allow the aggregate's transition type to change from time to time, although no DDL support yet exists for that.) This saves nothing of consequence for simple non-polymorphic aggregates, but for polymorphic transition types we save a catalog lookup during executor startup as well as several planner lookups that are new in 9.6 due to parallel query planning. In passing, fix an error that was introduced into count_agg_clauses_walker some time ago: it was applying exprTypmod() to something that wasn't an expression node at all, but a TargetEntry. exprTypmod silently returned -1 so that there was not an obvious failure, but this broke the intended sensitivity of aggregate space consumption estimates to the typmod of varchar and similar data types. This part needs to be back-patched. Catversion bump due to change of stored Aggref nodes. Discussion: <8229.1466109074@sss.pgh.pa.us>
* Support parallel aggregation.Robert Haas2016-03-21
| | | | | | | | | Parallel workers can now partially aggregate the data and pass the transition values back to the leader, which can combine the partial results to produce the final answer. David Rowley, based on earlier work by Haribabu Kommi. Reviewed by Álvaro Herrera, Tomas Vondra, Amit Kapila, James Sewell, and me.
* Update copyright for 2016Bruce Momjian2016-01-02
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* Redesign tablesample method API, and do extensive code review.Tom Lane2015-07-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The original implementation of TABLESAMPLE modeled the tablesample method API on index access methods, which wasn't a good choice because, without specialized DDL commands, there's no way to build an extension that can implement a TSM. (Raw inserts into system catalogs are not an acceptable thing to do, because we can't undo them during DROP EXTENSION, nor will pg_upgrade behave sanely.) Instead adopt an API more like procedural language handlers or foreign data wrappers, wherein the only SQL-level support object needed is a single handler function identified by having a special return type. This lets us get rid of the supporting catalog altogether, so that no custom DDL support is needed for the feature. Adjust the API so that it can support non-constant tablesample arguments (the original coding assumed we could evaluate the argument expressions at ExecInitSampleScan time, which is undesirable even if it weren't outright unsafe), and discourage sampling methods from looking at invisible tuples. Make sure that the BERNOULLI and SYSTEM methods are genuinely repeatable within and across queries, as required by the SQL standard, and deal more honestly with methods that can't support that requirement. Make a full code-review pass over the tablesample additions, and fix assorted bugs, omissions, infelicities, and cosmetic issues (such as failure to put the added code stanzas in a consistent ordering). Improve EXPLAIN's output of tablesample plans, too. Back-patch to 9.5 so that we don't have to support the original API in production.
* Avoid passing NULL to memcmp() in lookups of zero-argument functions.Tom Lane2015-06-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | A few places assumed they could pass NULL for the argtypes array when looking up functions known to have zero arguments. At first glance it seems that this should be safe enough, since memcmp() is surely not allowed to fetch any bytes if its count argument is zero. However, close reading of the C standard says that such calls have undefined behavior, so we'd probably best avoid it. Since the number of places doing this is quite small, and some other places looking up zero-argument functions were already passing dummy arrays, let's standardize on the latter solution rather than hacking the function lookup code to avoid calling memcmp() in these cases. I also added Asserts to catch any future violations of the new rule. Given the utter lack of any evidence that this actually causes any problems in the field, I don't feel a need to back-patch this change. Per report from Piotr Stefaniak, though this is not his patch.
* 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
* Deparse named arguments to use the new => operator instead of :=Robert Haas2015-05-01
| | | | | | Tom Lane pointed out that this wasn't done, and asked whether that was intentional. Subsequent discussion was in favor of making the change, so here we go.
* Setup cursor position for schema-qualified elementsAlvaro Herrera2015-03-18
| | | | | | | | This makes any errors thrown while looking up such schemas report the position of the error. Author: Ryan Kelly Reviewed by: Jeevan Chalke, Tom Lane
* Suggest to the user the column they may have meant to reference.Robert Haas2015-03-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Error messages informing the user that no such column exists can sometimes provoke a perplexed response. This often happens due to a subtle typo in the column name or, perhaps less likely, in the alias name. To speed discovery of what the real issue is in such cases, we'll now search the range table for approximate matches. If there are one or two such matches that are good enough to think that they might be what the user intended to type, and better than all other approximate matches, we'll issue a hint suggesting that the user might have intended to reference those columns. Peter Geoghegan and Robert Haas
* Update copyright for 2015Bruce Momjian2015-01-06
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* pgindent run for 9.4Bruce Momjian2014-05-06
| | | | | This includes removing tabs after periods in C comments, which was applied to back branches, so this change should not effect backpatching.
* Fix non-equivalence of VARIADIC and non-VARIADIC function call formats.Tom Lane2014-04-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | For variadic functions (other than VARIADIC ANY), the syntaxes foo(x,y,...) and foo(VARIADIC ARRAY[x,y,...]) should be considered equivalent, since the former is converted to the latter at parse time. They have indeed been equivalent, in all releases before 9.3. However, commit 75b39e790 made an ill-considered decision to record which syntax had been used in FuncExpr nodes, and then to make equal() test that in checking node equality --- which caused the syntaxes to not be seen as equivalent by the planner. This is the underlying cause of bug #9817 from Dmitry Ryabov. It might seem that a quick fix would be to make equal() disregard FuncExpr.funcvariadic, but the same commit made that untenable, because the field actually *is* semantically significant for some VARIADIC ANY functions. This patch instead adopts the approach of redefining funcvariadic (and aggvariadic, in HEAD) as meaning that the last argument is a variadic array, whether it got that way by parser intervention or was supplied explicitly by the user. Therefore the value will always be true for non-ANY variadic functions, restoring the principle of equivalence. (However, the planner will continue to consider use of VARIADIC as a meaningful difference for VARIADIC ANY functions, even though some such functions might disregard it.) In HEAD, this change lets us simplify the decompilation logic in ruleutils.c, since the funcvariadic/aggvariadic flag tells directly whether to print VARIADIC. However, in 9.3 we have to continue to cope with existing stored rules/views that might contain the previous definition. Fortunately, this just means no change in ruleutils.c, since its existing behavior effectively ignores funcvariadic for all cases other than VARIADIC ANY functions. In HEAD, bump catversion to reflect the fact that FuncExpr.funcvariadic changed meanings; this is sort of pro forma, since I don't believe any built-in views are affected. Unfortunately, this patch doesn't magically fix everything for affected 9.3 users. After installing 9.3.5, they might need to recreate their rules/views/indexes containing variadic function calls in order to get everything consistent with the new definition. As in the cited bug, the symptom of a problem would be failure to use a nominally matching index that has a variadic function call in its definition. We'll need to mention this in the 9.3.5 release notes.
* Code review for commit d26888bc4d1e539a82f21382b0000fe5bbf889d9.Tom Lane2014-04-03
| | | | | Mostly, copy-edit the comments; but also fix it to not reject domains over arrays.
* Make DROP IF EXISTS more consistently not failAlvaro Herrera2014-01-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | Some cases were still reporting errors and aborting, instead of a NOTICE that the object was being skipped. This makes it more difficult to cleanly handle pg_dump --clean, so change that to instead skip missing objects properly. Per bug #7873 reported by Dave Rolsky; apparently this affects a large number of users. Authors: Pavel Stehule and Dean Rasheed. Some tweaks by Álvaro Herrera
* Update copyright for 2014Bruce Momjian2014-01-07
| | | | | Update all files in head, and files COPYRIGHT and legal.sgml in all back branches.
* Support ordered-set (WITHIN GROUP) aggregates.Tom Lane2013-12-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch introduces generic support for ordered-set and hypothetical-set aggregate functions, as well as implementations of the instances defined in SQL:2008 (percentile_cont(), percentile_disc(), rank(), dense_rank(), percent_rank(), cume_dist()). We also added mode() though it is not in the spec, as well as versions of percentile_cont() and percentile_disc() that can compute multiple percentile values in one pass over the data. Unlike the original submission, this patch puts full control of the sorting process in the hands of the aggregate's support functions. To allow the support functions to find out how they're supposed to sort, a new API function AggGetAggref() is added to nodeAgg.c. This allows retrieval of the aggregate call's Aggref node, which may have other uses beyond the immediate need. There is also support for ordered-set aggregates to install cleanup callback functions, so that they can be sure that infrastructure such as tuplesort objects gets cleaned up. In passing, make some fixes in the recently-added support for variadic aggregates, and make some editorial adjustments in the recent FILTER additions for aggregates. Also, simplify use of IsBinaryCoercible() by allowing it to succeed whenever the target type is ANY or ANYELEMENT. It was inconsistent that it dealt with other polymorphic target types but not these. Atri Sharma and Andrew Gierth; reviewed by Pavel Stehule and Vik Fearing, and rather heavily editorialized upon by Tom Lane
* Support default arguments and named-argument notation for window functions.Tom Lane2013-11-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | These things didn't work because the planner omitted to do the necessary preprocessing of a WindowFunc's argument list. Add the few dozen lines of code needed to handle that. Although this sounds like a feature addition, it's really a bug fix because the default-argument case was likely to crash previously, due to lack of checking of the number of supplied arguments in the built-in window functions. It's not a security issue because there's no way for a non-superuser to create a window function definition with defaults that refers to a built-in C function, but nonetheless people might be annoyed that it crashes rather than producing a useful error message. So back-patch as far as the patch applies easily, which turns out to be 9.2. I'll put a band-aid in earlier versions as a separate patch. (Note that these features still don't work for aggregates, and fixing that case will be harder since we represent aggregate arg lists as target lists not bare expression lists. There's no crash risk though because CREATE AGGREGATE doesn't accept defaults, and we reject named-argument notation when parsing an aggregate call.)