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* Simplify useless 0L constantsPeter Eisentraut2023-03-291-1/+1
| | | | | | | In ancient times, these belonged to arguments or fields that were actually of type long, but now they are not anymore, so this "L" decoration is just confusing. (Some other 0L and other "L" constants remain, where they are actually associated with a long type.)
* Update copyright for 2023Bruce Momjian2023-01-021-1/+1
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* Remove AssertArg and AssertStatePeter Eisentraut2022-10-281-4/+4
| | | | | | | | | These don't offer anything over plain Assert, and their usage had already been declared obsolescent. Author: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz> Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20221009210148.GA900071@nathanxps13
* Add support for MERGE SQL commandAlvaro Herrera2022-03-281-0/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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 otherwise require multiple PL statements. For example, 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 tables, partitioned tables and inheritance hierarchies, including column and row security enforcement, as well as support for row and statement triggers and transition tables therein. 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 from PL/pgSQL. MERGE does not support targetting updatable views or foreign tables, and RETURNING clauses are not allowed either. These limitations are likely fixable with sufficient effort. Rewrite rules are also not supported, but it's not clear that we'd want to support them. Author: Pavan Deolasee <pavan.deolasee@gmail.com> Author: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> Author: Amit Langote <amitlangote09@gmail.com> Author: Simon Riggs <simon.riggs@enterprisedb.com> Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com> Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> (earlier versions) Reviewed-by: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie> (earlier versions) Reviewed-by: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> (earlier versions) Reviewed-by: Japin Li <japinli@hotmail.com> Reviewed-by: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com> Reviewed-by: Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@enterprisedb.com> Reviewed-by: Zhihong Yu <zyu@yugabyte.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CANP8+jKitBSrB7oTgT9CY2i1ObfOt36z0XMraQc+Xrz8QB0nXA@mail.gmail.com Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-WzkJdBuxj9PO=2QaO9-3h3xGbQPZ34kJH=HukRekwM-GZg@mail.gmail.com Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20201231134736.GA25392@alvherre.pgsql
* Update copyright for 2022Bruce Momjian2022-01-071-1/+1
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* Fix Portal snapshot tracking to handle subtransactions properly.Tom Lane2021-10-011-7/+20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Commit 84f5c2908 forgot to consider the possibility that EnsurePortalSnapshotExists could run inside a subtransaction with lifespan shorter than the Portal's. In that case, the new active snapshot would be popped at the end of the subtransaction, leaving a dangling pointer in the Portal, with mayhem ensuing. To fix, make sure the ActiveSnapshot stack entry is marked with the same subtransaction nesting level as the associated Portal. It's certainly safe to do so since we won't be here at all unless the stack is empty; hence we can't create an out-of-order stack. Let's also apply this logic in the case where PortalRunUtility sets portalSnapshot, just to be sure that path can't cause similar problems. It's slightly less clear that that path can't create an out-of-order stack, so add an assertion guarding it. Report and patch by Bertrand Drouvot (with kibitzing by me). Back-patch to v11, like the previous commit. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ff82b8c5-77f4-3fe7-6028-fcf3303e82dd@amazon.com
* Fix some anomalies with NO SCROLL cursors.Tom Lane2021-09-101-3/+25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We have long forbidden fetching backwards from a NO SCROLL cursor, but the prohibition didn't extend to cases in which we rewind the query altogether and then re-fetch forwards. I think the reason is that this logic was mainly meant to protect plan nodes that can't be run in the reverse direction. However, re-reading the query output is problematic if the query is volatile (which includes SELECT FOR UPDATE, not just queries with volatile functions): the re-read can produce different results, which confuses the cursor navigation logic completely. Another reason for disliking this approach is that some code paths will either fetch backwards or rewind-and-fetch-forwards depending on the distance to the target row; so that seemingly identical use-cases may or may not draw the "cursor can only scan forward" error. Hence, let's clean things up by disallowing rewind as well as fetch-backwards in a NO SCROLL cursor. Ordinarily we'd only make such a definitional change in HEAD, but there is a third reason to consider this change now. Commit ba2c6d6ce created some new user-visible anomalies for non-scrollable cursors WITH HOLD, in that navigation in the cursor result got confused if the cursor had been partially read before committing. The only good way to resolve those anomalies is to forbid rewinding such a cursor, which allows removal of the incorrect cursor state manipulations that ba2c6d6ce added to PersistHoldablePortal. To minimize the behavioral change in the back branches (including v14), refuse to rewind a NO SCROLL cursor only when it has a holdStore, ie has been held over from a previous transaction due to WITH HOLD. This should avoid breaking most applications that have been sloppy about whether to declare cursors as scrollable. We'll enforce the prohibition across-the-board beginning in v15. Back-patch to v11, as ba2c6d6ce was. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3712911.1631207435@sss.pgh.pa.us
* Use elog, not Assert, to report failure to provide an outer snapshot.Tom Lane2021-07-311-1/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | As of commit 84f5c2908, executing SQL commands (via SPI or otherwise) requires having either an active Portal, or a caller-established active snapshot. We were simply Assert'ing that that's the case. But we've now had a couple different reports of people testing extensions that didn't meet this requirement, and were confused by the resulting crash. Let's convert the Assert to a test-and-elog, in hopes of making the issue clearer for extension authors. Per gripes from Liu Huailing and RekGRpth. Back-patch to v11, like the prior commit. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/OSZPR01MB6215671E3C5956A034A080DFBEEC9@OSZPR01MB6215.jpnprd01.prod.outlook.com Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17035-14607d308ac8643c@postgresql.org
* Centralize the logic for protective copying of utility statements.Tom Lane2021-06-181-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In the "simple Query" code path, it's fine for parse analysis or execution of a utility statement to scribble on the statement's node tree, since that'll just be thrown away afterwards. However it's not fine if the node tree is in the plan cache, as then it'd be corrupted for subsequent executions. Up to now we've dealt with that by having individual utility-statement functions apply copyObject() if they were going to modify the tree. But that's prone to errors of omission. Bug #17053 from Charles Samborski shows that CREATE/ALTER DOMAIN didn't get this memo, and can crash if executed repeatedly from plan cache. In the back branches, we'll just apply a narrow band-aid for that, but in HEAD it seems prudent to have a more principled fix that will close off the possibility of other similar bugs in future. Hence, let's hoist the responsibility for doing copyObject up into ProcessUtility from its children, thus ensuring that it happens for all utility statement types. Also, modify ProcessUtility's API so that its callers can tell it whether a copy step is necessary. It turns out that in all cases, the immediate caller knows whether the node tree is transient, so this doesn't involve a huge amount of code thrashing. In this way, while we lose a little bit in the execute-from-cache code path due to sometimes copying node trees that wouldn't be mutated anyway, we gain something in the simple-Query code path by not copying throwaway node trees. Statements that are complex enough to be expensive to copy are almost certainly ones that would have to be copied anyway, so the loss in the cache code path shouldn't be much. (Note that this whole problem applies only to utility statements. Optimizable statements don't have the issue because we long ago made the executor treat Plan trees as read-only. Perhaps someday we will make utility statement execution act likewise, but I'm not holding my breath.) Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/931771.1623893989@sss.pgh.pa.us Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17053-3ca3f501bbc212b4@postgresql.org
* Restore the portal-level snapshot after procedure COMMIT/ROLLBACK.Tom Lane2021-05-211-31/+104
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | COMMIT/ROLLBACK necessarily destroys all snapshots within the session. The original implementation of intra-procedure transactions just cavalierly did that, ignoring the fact that this left us executing in a rather different environment than normal. In particular, it turns out that handling of toasted datums depends rather critically on there being an outer ActiveSnapshot: otherwise, when SPI or the core executor pop whatever snapshot they used and return, it's unsafe to dereference any toasted datums that may appear in the query result. It's possible to demonstrate "no known snapshots" and "missing chunk number N for toast value" errors as a result of this oversight. Historically this outer snapshot has been held by the Portal code, and that seems like a good plan to preserve. So add infrastructure to pquery.c to allow re-establishing the Portal-owned snapshot if it's not there anymore, and add enough bookkeeping support that we can tell whether it is or not. We can't, however, just re-establish the Portal snapshot as part of COMMIT/ROLLBACK. As in normal transaction start, acquiring the first snapshot should wait until after SET and LOCK commands. Hence, teach spi.c about doing this at the right time. (Note that this patch doesn't fix the problem for any PLs that try to run intra-procedure transactions without using SPI to execute SQL commands.) This makes SPI's no_snapshots parameter rather a misnomer, so in HEAD, rename that to allow_nonatomic. replication/logical/worker.c also needs some fixes, because it wasn't careful to hold a snapshot open around AFTER trigger execution. That code doesn't use a Portal, which I suspect someday we're gonna have to fix. But for now, just rearrange the order of operations. This includes back-patching the recent addition of finish_estate() to centralize the cleanup logic there. This also back-patches commit 2ecfeda3e into v13, to improve the test coverage for worker.c (it was that test that exposed that worker.c's snapshot management is wrong). Per bug #15990 from Andreas Wicht. Back-patch to v11 where intra-procedure COMMIT was added. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/15990-eee2ac466b11293d@postgresql.org
* Avoid crash when rolling back within a prepared statement.Tom Lane2021-02-031-7/+18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If a portal is used to run a prepared CALL or DO statement that contains a ROLLBACK, PortalRunMulti fails because the portal's statement list gets cleared by the rollback. (Since the grammar doesn't allow CALL/DO in PREPARE, the only easy way to get to this is via extended query protocol, which treats all inputs as prepared statements.) It's difficult to avoid resetting the portal early because of resource-management issues, so work around this by teaching PortalRunMulti to be wary of portal->stmts having suddenly become NIL. The crash has only been seen to occur in v13 and HEAD (as a consequence of commit 1cff1b95a having added an extra touch of portal->stmts). But even before that, the code involved touching a List that the portal no longer has any claim on. In the test case at hand, the List will still exist because of another refcount on the cached plan; but I'm far from convinced that it's impossible for the cached plan to have been dropped by the time control gets back to PortalRunMulti. Hence, backpatch to v11 where nested transactions were added. Thomas Munro and Tom Lane, per bug #16811 from James Inform Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16811-c1b599b2c6c2d622@postgresql.org
* Update copyright for 2021Bruce Momjian2021-01-021-1/+1
| | | | Backpatch-through: 9.5
* Avoid using a cursor in plpgsql's RETURN QUERY statement.Tom Lane2020-06-121-1/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | plpgsql has always executed the query given in a RETURN QUERY command by opening it as a cursor and then fetching a few rows at a time, which it turns around and dumps into the function's result tuplestore. The point of this was to keep from blowing out memory with an oversized SPITupleTable result (note that while a tuplestore can spill tuples to disk, SPITupleTable cannot). However, it's rather inefficient, both because of extra data copying and because of executor entry/exit overhead. In recent versions, a new performance problem has emerged: use of a cursor prevents use of a parallel plan for the executed query. We can improve matters by skipping use of a cursor and having the executor push result tuples directly into the function's result tuplestore. However, a moderate amount of new infrastructure is needed to make that idea work: * We can use the existing tstoreReceiver.c DestReceiver code to funnel executor output to the tuplestore, but it has to be extended to support plpgsql's requirement for possibly applying a tuple conversion map. * SPI needs to be extended to allow use of a caller-supplied DestReceiver instead of its usual receiver that puts tuples into a SPITupleTable. Two new API calls are needed to handle both the RETURN QUERY and RETURN QUERY EXECUTE cases. I also felt that I didn't want these new API calls to use the legacy method of specifying query parameter values with "char" null flags (the old ' '/'n' convention); rather they should accept ParamListInfo objects containing the parameter type and value info. This required a bit of additional new infrastructure since we didn't yet have any parse analysis callback that would interpret $N parameter symbols according to type data supplied in a ParamListInfo. There seems to be no harm in letting makeParamList install that callback by default, rather than leaving a new ParamListInfo's parserSetup hook as NULL. (Indeed, as of HEAD, I couldn't find anyplace that was using the parserSetup field at all; plpgsql was using parserSetupArg for its own purposes, but parserSetup seemed to be write-only.) We can actually get plpgsql out of the business of using legacy null flags altogether, and using ParamListInfo instead of its ad-hoc PreparedParamsData structure; but this requires inventing one more SPI API call that can replace SPI_cursor_open_with_args. That seems worth doing, though. SPI_execute_with_args and SPI_cursor_open_with_args are now unused anywhere in the core PG distribution. Perhaps someday we could deprecate/remove them. But cleaning up the crufty bits of the SPI API is a task for a different patch. Per bug #16040 from Jeremy Smith. This is unfortunately too invasive to consider back-patching. Patch by me; thanks to Hamid Akhtar for review. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16040-eaacad11fecfb198@postgresql.org
* Represent command completion tags as structsAlvaro Herrera2020-03-021-68/+44
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The backend was using strings to represent command tags and doing string comparisons in multiple places, but that's slow and unhelpful. Create a new command list with a supporting structure to use instead; this is stored in a tag-list-file that can be tailored to specific purposes with a caller-definable C macro, similar to what we do for WAL resource managers. The first first such uses are a new CommandTag enum and a CommandTagBehavior struct. Replace numerous occurrences of char *completionTag with a QueryCompletion struct so that the code no longer stores information about completed queries in a cstring. Only at the last moment, in EndCommand(), does this get converted to a string. EventTriggerCacheItem no longer holds an array of palloc’d tag strings in sorted order, but rather just a Bitmapset over the CommandTags. Author: Mark Dilger, with unsolicited help from Álvaro Herrera Reviewed-by: John Naylor, Tom Lane Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/981A9DB4-3F0C-4DA5-88AD-CB9CFF4D6CAD@enterprisedb.com
* Update copyrights for 2020Bruce Momjian2020-01-011-1/+1
| | | | Backpatch-through: update all files in master, backpatch legal files through 9.4
* Fix inconsistencies and typos in the treeMichael Paquier2019-07-291-2/+2
| | | | | | | | This is numbered take 8, and addresses again a set of issues with code comments, variable names and unreferenced variables. Author: Alexander Lakhin Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/b137b5eb-9c95-9c2f-586e-38aba7d59788@gmail.com
* Represent Lists as expansible arrays, not chains of cons-cells.Tom Lane2019-07-151-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Originally, Postgres Lists were a more or less exact reimplementation of Lisp lists, which consist of chains of separately-allocated cons cells, each having a value and a next-cell link. We'd hacked that once before (commit d0b4399d8) to add a separate List header, but the data was still in cons cells. That makes some operations -- notably list_nth() -- O(N), and it's bulky because of the next-cell pointers and per-cell palloc overhead, and it's very cache-unfriendly if the cons cells end up scattered around rather than being adjacent. In this rewrite, we still have List headers, but the data is in a resizable array of values, with no next-cell links. Now we need at most two palloc's per List, and often only one, since we can allocate some values in the same palloc call as the List header. (Of course, extending an existing List may require repalloc's to enlarge the array. But this involves just O(log N) allocations not O(N).) Of course this is not without downsides. The key difficulty is that addition or deletion of a list entry may now cause other entries to move, which it did not before. For example, that breaks foreach() and sister macros, which historically used a pointer to the current cons-cell as loop state. We can repair those macros transparently by making their actual loop state be an integer list index; the exposed "ListCell *" pointer is no longer state carried across loop iterations, but is just a derived value. (In practice, modern compilers can optimize things back to having just one loop state value, at least for simple cases with inline loop bodies.) In principle, this is a semantics change for cases where the loop body inserts or deletes list entries ahead of the current loop index; but I found no such cases in the Postgres code. The change is not at all transparent for code that doesn't use foreach() but chases lists "by hand" using lnext(). The largest share of such code in the backend is in loops that were maintaining "prev" and "next" variables in addition to the current-cell pointer, in order to delete list cells efficiently using list_delete_cell(). However, we no longer need a previous-cell pointer to delete a list cell efficiently. Keeping a next-cell pointer doesn't work, as explained above, but we can improve matters by changing such code to use a regular foreach() loop and then using the new macro foreach_delete_current() to delete the current cell. (This macro knows how to update the associated foreach loop's state so that no cells will be missed in the traversal.) There remains a nontrivial risk of code assuming that a ListCell * pointer will remain good over an operation that could now move the list contents. To help catch such errors, list.c can be compiled with a new define symbol DEBUG_LIST_MEMORY_USAGE that forcibly moves list contents whenever that could possibly happen. This makes list operations significantly more expensive so it's not normally turned on (though it is on by default if USE_VALGRIND is on). There are two notable API differences from the previous code: * lnext() now requires the List's header pointer in addition to the current cell's address. * list_delete_cell() no longer requires a previous-cell argument. These changes are somewhat unfortunate, but on the other hand code using either function needs inspection to see if it is assuming anything it shouldn't, so it's not all bad. Programmers should be aware of these significant performance changes: * list_nth() and related functions are now O(1); so there's no major access-speed difference between a list and an array. * Inserting or deleting a list element now takes time proportional to the distance to the end of the list, due to moving the array elements. (However, it typically *doesn't* require palloc or pfree, so except in long lists it's probably still faster than before.) Notably, lcons() used to be about the same cost as lappend(), but that's no longer true if the list is long. Code that uses lcons() and list_delete_first() to maintain a stack might usefully be rewritten to push and pop at the end of the list rather than the beginning. * There are now list_insert_nth...() and list_delete_nth...() functions that add or remove a list cell identified by index. These have the data-movement penalty explained above, but there's no search penalty. * list_concat() and variants now copy the second list's data into storage belonging to the first list, so there is no longer any sharing of cells between the input lists. The second argument is now declared "const List *" to reflect that it isn't changed. This patch just does the minimum needed to get the new implementation in place and fix bugs exposed by the regression tests. As suggested by the foregoing, there's a fair amount of followup work remaining to do. Also, the ENABLE_LIST_COMPAT macros are finally removed in this commit. Code using those should have been gone a dozen years ago. Patch by me; thanks to David Rowley, Jesper Pedersen, and others for review. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/11587.1550975080@sss.pgh.pa.us
* Phase 2 pgindent run for v12.Tom Lane2019-05-221-15/+15
| | | | | | | | | Switch to 2.1 version of pg_bsd_indent. This formats multiline function declarations "correctly", that is with additional lines of parameter declarations indented to match where the first line's left parenthesis is. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEepm=0P3FeTXRcU5B2W3jv3PgRVZ-kGUXLGfd42FFhUROO3ug@mail.gmail.com
* Update copyright for 2019Bruce Momjian2019-01-021-1/+1
| | | | Backpatch-through: certain files through 9.4
* Remove WITH OIDS support, change oid catalog column visibility.Andres Freund2018-11-201-6/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Previously tables declared WITH OIDS, including a significant fraction of the catalog tables, stored the oid column not as a normal column, but as part of the tuple header. This special column was not shown by default, which was somewhat odd, as it's often (consider e.g. pg_class.oid) one of the more important parts of a row. Neither pg_dump nor COPY included the contents of the oid column by default. The fact that the oid column was not an ordinary column necessitated a significant amount of special case code to support oid columns. That already was painful for the existing, but upcoming work aiming to make table storage pluggable, would have required expanding and duplicating that "specialness" significantly. WITH OIDS has been deprecated since 2005 (commit ff02d0a05280e0). Remove it. Removing includes: - CREATE TABLE and ALTER TABLE syntax for declaring the table to be WITH OIDS has been removed (WITH (oids[ = true]) will error out) - pg_dump does not support dumping tables declared WITH OIDS and will issue a warning when dumping one (and ignore the oid column). - restoring an pg_dump archive with pg_restore will warn when restoring a table with oid contents (and ignore the oid column) - COPY will refuse to load binary dump that includes oids. - pg_upgrade will error out when encountering tables declared WITH OIDS, they have to be altered to remove the oid column first. - Functionality to access the oid of the last inserted row (like plpgsql's RESULT_OID, spi's SPI_lastoid, ...) has been removed. The syntax for declaring a table WITHOUT OIDS (or WITH (oids = false) for CREATE TABLE) is still supported. While that requires a bit of support code, it seems unnecessary to break applications / dumps that do not use oids, and are explicit about not using them. The biggest user of WITH OID columns was postgres' catalog. This commit changes all 'magic' oid columns to be columns that are normally declared and stored. To reduce unnecessary query breakage all the newly added columns are still named 'oid', even if a table's column naming scheme would indicate 'reloid' or such. This obviously requires adapting a lot code, mostly replacing oid access via HeapTupleGetOid() with access to the underlying Form_pg_*->oid column. The bootstrap process now assigns oids for all oid columns in genbki.pl that do not have an explicit value (starting at the largest oid previously used), only oids assigned later by oids will be above FirstBootstrapObjectId. As the oid column now is a normal column the special bootstrap syntax for oids has been removed. Oids are not automatically assigned during insertion anymore, all backend code explicitly assigns oids with GetNewOidWithIndex(). For the rare case that insertions into the catalog via SQL are called for the new pg_nextoid() function can be used (which only works on catalog tables). The fact that oid columns on system tables are now normal columns means that they will be included in the set of columns expanded by * (i.e. SELECT * FROM pg_class will now include the table's oid, previously it did not). It'd not technically be hard to hide oid column by default, but that'd mean confusing behavior would either have to be carried forward forever, or it'd cause breakage down the line. While it's not unlikely that further adjustments are needed, the scope/invasiveness of the patch makes it worthwhile to get merge this now. It's painful to maintain externally, too complicated to commit after the code code freeze, and a dependency of a number of other patches. Catversion bump, for obvious reasons. Author: Andres Freund, with contributions by John Naylor Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180930034810.ywp2c7awz7opzcfr@alap3.anarazel.de
* Introduce notion of different types of slots (without implementing them).Andres Freund2018-11-151-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Upcoming work intends to allow pluggable ways to introduce new ways of storing table data. Accessing those table access methods from the executor requires TupleTableSlots to be carry tuples in the native format of such storage methods; otherwise there'll be a significant conversion overhead. Different access methods will require different data to store tuples efficiently (just like virtual, minimal, heap already require fields in TupleTableSlot). To allow that without requiring additional pointer indirections, we want to have different structs (embedding TupleTableSlot) for different types of slots. Thus different types of slots are needed, which requires adapting creators of slots. The slot that most efficiently can represent a type of tuple in an executor node will often depend on the type of slot a child node uses. Therefore we need to track the type of slot is returned by nodes, so parent slots can create slots based on that. Relatedly, JIT compilation of tuple deforming needs to know which type of slot a certain expression refers to, so it can create an appropriate deforming function for the type of tuple in the slot. But not all nodes will only return one type of slot, e.g. an append node will potentially return different types of slots for each of its subplans. Therefore add function that allows to query the type of a node's result slot, and whether it'll always be the same type (whether it's fixed). This can be queried using ExecGetResultSlotOps(). The scan, result, inner, outer type of slots are automatically inferred from ExecInitScanTupleSlot(), ExecInitResultSlot(), left/right subtrees respectively. If that's not correct for a node, that can be overwritten using new fields in PlanState. This commit does not introduce the actually abstracted implementation of different kind of TupleTableSlots, that will be left for a followup commit. The different types of slots introduced will, for now, still use the same backing implementation. While this already partially invalidates the big comment in tuptable.h, it seems to make more sense to update it later, when the different TupleTableSlot implementations actually exist. Author: Ashutosh Bapat and Andres Freund, with changes by Amit Khandekar Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20181105210039.hh4vvi4vwoq5ba2q@alap3.anarazel.de
* Revert MERGE patchSimon Riggs2018-04-121-5/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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 Riggs2018-04-031-0/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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 Riggs2018-04-021-5/+0
| | | | This reverts commit 354f13855e6381d288dfaa52bcd4f2cb0fd4a5eb.
* Modified files for MERGESimon Riggs2018-04-021-0/+5
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* Remove PortalGetQueryDesc()Peter Eisentraut2018-01-091-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | After having gotten rid of PortalGetHeapMemory(), there seems little reason to keep one Portal access macro around that offers no actual abstraction and isn't consistently used anyway. Reviewed-by: Andrew Dunstan <andrew.dunstan@2ndquadrant.com> Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
* Update portal-related memory context names and APIPeter Eisentraut2018-01-091-8/+8
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Rename PortalMemory to TopPortalContext, to avoid confusion with PortalContext and align naming with similar top-level memory contexts. Rename PortalData's "heap" field to portalContext. The "heap" naming seems quite antiquated and confusing. Also get rid of the PortalGetHeapMemory() macro and access the field directly, which we do for other portal fields, so this abstraction doesn't buy anything. Reviewed-by: Andrew Dunstan <andrew.dunstan@2ndquadrant.com> Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
* Update copyright for 2018Bruce Momjian2018-01-021-1/+1
| | | | Backpatch-through: certain files through 9.3
* Change TRUE/FALSE to true/falsePeter Eisentraut2017-11-081-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | The lower case spellings are C and C++ standard and are used in most parts of the PostgreSQL sources. The upper case spellings are only used in some files/modules. So standardize on the standard spellings. The APIs for ICU, Perl, and Windows define their own TRUE and FALSE, so those are left as is when using those APIs. In code comments, we use the lower-case spelling for the C concepts and keep the upper-case spelling for the SQL concepts. Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>
* Reduce excessive dereferencing of function pointersPeter Eisentraut2017-09-071-4/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | It is equivalent in ANSI C to write (*funcptr) () and funcptr(). These two styles have been applied inconsistently. After discussion, we'll use the more verbose style for plain function pointer variables, to make it clear that it's a variable, and the shorter style when the function pointer is in a struct (s.func() or s->func()), because then it's clear that it's not a plain function name, and otherwise the excessive punctuation makes some of those invocations hard to read. Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/f52c16db-14ed-757d-4b48-7ef360b1631d@2ndquadrant.com
* Phase 3 of pgindent updates.Tom Lane2017-06-211-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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 Lane2017-06-211-4/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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
* Improve castNode notation by introducing list-extraction-specific variants.Tom Lane2017-04-101-3/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This extends the castNode() notation introduced by commit 5bcab1114 to provide, in one step, extraction of a list cell's pointer and coercion to a concrete node type. For example, "lfirst_node(Foo, lc)" is the same as "castNode(Foo, lfirst(lc))". Almost half of the uses of castNode that have appeared so far include a list extraction call, so this is pretty widely useful, and it saves a few more keystrokes compared to the old way. As with the previous patch, back-patch the addition of these macros to pg_list.h, so that the notation will be available when back-patching. Patch by me, after an idea of Andrew Gierth's. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/14197.1491841216@sss.pgh.pa.us
* Add infrastructure to support EphemeralNamedRelation references.Kevin Grittner2017-03-311-1/+9
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | A QueryEnvironment concept is added, which allows new types of objects to be passed into queries from parsing on through execution. At this point, the only thing implemented is a collection of EphemeralNamedRelation objects -- relations which can be referenced by name in queries, but do not exist in the catalogs. The only type of ENR implemented is NamedTuplestore, but provision is made to add more types fairly easily. An ENR can carry its own TupleDesc or reference a relation in the catalogs by relid. Although these features can be used without SPI, convenience functions are added to SPI so that ENRs can easily be used by code run through SPI. The initial use of all this is going to be transition tables in AFTER triggers, but that will be added to each PL as a separate commit. An incidental effect of this patch is to produce a more informative error message if an attempt is made to modify the contents of a CTE from a referencing DML statement. No tests previously covered that possibility, so one is added. Kevin Grittner and Thomas Munro Reviewed by Heikki Linnakangas, David Fetter, and Thomas Munro with valuable comments and suggestions from many others
* Allow for parallel execution whenever ExecutorRun() is done only once.Robert Haas2017-03-231-4/+16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Previously, it was unsafe to execute a plan in parallel if ExecutorRun() might be called with a non-zero row count. However, it's quite easy to fix things up so that we can support that case, provided that it is known that we will never call ExecutorRun() a second time for the same QueryDesc. Add infrastructure to signal this, and cross-checks to make sure that a caller who claims this is true doesn't later reneg. While that pattern never happens with queries received directly from a client -- there's no way to know whether multiple Execute messages will be sent unless the first one requests all the rows -- it's pretty common for queries originating from procedural languages, which often limit the result to a single tuple or to a user-specified number of tuples. This commit doesn't actually enable parallelism in any additional cases, because currently none of the places that would be able to benefit from this infrastructure pass CURSOR_OPT_PARALLEL_OK in the first place, but it makes it much more palatable to pass CURSOR_OPT_PARALLEL_OK in places where we currently don't, because it eliminates some cases where we'd end up having to run the parallel plan serially. Patch by me, based on some ideas from Rafia Sabih and corrected by Rafia Sabih based on feedback from Dilip Kumar and myself. Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmobXEhvHbJtWDuPZM9bVSLiTj-kShxQJ2uM5GPDze9fRYA@mail.gmail.com
* Consistently declare timestamp variables as TimestampTz.Tom Lane2017-02-231-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Twiddle the replication-related code so that its timestamp variables are declared TimestampTz, rather than the uninformative "int64" that was previously used for meant-to-be-always-integer timestamps. This resolves the int64-vs-TimestampTz declaration inconsistencies introduced by commit 7c030783a, though in the opposite direction to what was originally suggested. This required including datatype/timestamp.h in a couple more places than before. I decided it would be a good idea to slim down that header by not having it pull in <float.h> etc, as those headers are no longer at all relevant to its purpose. Unsurprisingly, a small number of .c files turn out to have been depending on those inclusions, so add them back in the .c files as needed. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/26788.1487455319@sss.pgh.pa.us Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/27694.1487456324@sss.pgh.pa.us
* Use castNode() in a bunch of statement-list-related code.Tom Lane2017-01-261-3/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | When I wrote commit ab1f0c822, I really missed the castNode() macro that Peter E. had proposed shortly before. This back-fills the uses I would have put it to. It's probably not all that significant, but there are more assertions here than there were before, and conceivably they will help catch any bugs associated with those representation changes. I left behind a number of usages like "(Query *) copyObject(query_var)". Those could have been converted as well, but Peter has proposed another notational improvement that would handle copyObject cases automatically, so I let that be for now.
* Change representation of statement lists, and add statement location info.Tom Lane2017-01-141-82/+50
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch makes several changes that improve the consistency of representation of lists of statements. It's always been the case that the output of parse analysis is a list of Query nodes, whatever the types of the individual statements in the list. This patch brings similar consistency to the outputs of raw parsing and planning steps: * The output of raw parsing is now always a list of RawStmt nodes; the statement-type-dependent nodes are one level down from that. * The output of pg_plan_queries() is now always a list of PlannedStmt nodes, even for utility statements. In the case of a utility statement, "planning" just consists of wrapping a CMD_UTILITY PlannedStmt around the utility node. This list representation is now used in Portal and CachedPlan plan lists, replacing the former convention of intermixing PlannedStmts with bare utility-statement nodes. Now, every list of statements has a consistent head-node type depending on how far along it is in processing. This allows changing many places that formerly used generic "Node *" pointers to use a more specific pointer type, thus reducing the number of IsA() tests and casts needed, as well as improving code clarity. Also, the post-parse-analysis representation of DECLARE CURSOR is changed so that it looks more like EXPLAIN, PREPARE, etc. That is, the contained SELECT remains a child of the DeclareCursorStmt rather than getting flipped around to be the other way. It's now true for both Query and PlannedStmt that utilityStmt is non-null if and only if commandType is CMD_UTILITY. That allows simplifying a lot of places that were testing both fields. (I think some of those were just defensive programming, but in many places, it was actually necessary to avoid confusing DECLARE CURSOR with SELECT.) Because PlannedStmt carries a canSetTag field, we're also able to get rid of some ad-hoc rules about how to reconstruct canSetTag for a bare utility statement; specifically, the assumption that a utility is canSetTag if and only if it's the only one in its list. While I see no near-term need for relaxing that restriction, it's nice to get rid of the ad-hocery. The API of ProcessUtility() is changed so that what it's passed is the wrapper PlannedStmt not just the bare utility statement. This will affect all users of ProcessUtility_hook, but the changes are pretty trivial; see the affected contrib modules for examples of the minimum change needed. (Most compilers should give pointer-type-mismatch warnings for uncorrected code.) There's also a change in the API of ExplainOneQuery_hook, to pass through cursorOptions instead of expecting hook functions to know what to pick. This is needed because of the DECLARE CURSOR changes, but really should have been done in 9.6; it's unlikely that any extant hook functions know about using CURSOR_OPT_PARALLEL_OK. Finally, teach gram.y to save statement boundary locations in RawStmt nodes, and pass those through to Query and PlannedStmt nodes. This allows more intelligent handling of cases where a source query string contains multiple statements. This patch doesn't actually do anything with the information, but a follow-on patch will. (Passing this information through cleanly is the true motivation for these changes; while I think this is all good cleanup, it's unlikely we'd have bothered without this end goal.) catversion bump because addition of location fields to struct Query affects stored rules. This patch is by me, but it owes a good deal to Fabien Coelho who did a lot of preliminary work on the problem, and also reviewed the patch. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/alpine.DEB.2.20.1612200926310.29821@lancre
* Update copyright via script for 2017Bruce Momjian2017-01-031-1/+1
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* Remove or reduce verbosity of some debug messages.Robert Haas2016-11-171-4/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The debug messages that merely print StartTransactionCommand, CommitTransactionCommand, ProcessUtilty, or ProcessQuery with no additional details seem to be useless. Get rid of them. The transaction status messages produced by ShowTransactionState are occasionally useful, but they are extremely verbose, producing multiple lines of log output every time they fire, which can happens multiple times per transaction. So, reduce the level to DEBUG5; avoid emitting an extra line just to explain which debug point is at issue; and tighten up the rest of the message so it doesn't use quite so much horizontal space. With these changes, it's possible to run a somewhat busy system with a log level even as high as DEBUG4, whereas previously anything above DEBUG2 would flood the log with output that probably wasn't really all that useful.
* Fix TOAST access failure in RETURNING queries.Tom Lane2016-08-071-20/+50
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Discussion of commit 3e2f3c2e4 exposed a problem that is of longer standing: since we don't detoast data while sticking it into a portal's holdStore for PORTAL_ONE_RETURNING and PORTAL_UTIL_SELECT queries, and we release the query's snapshot as soon as we're done loading the holdStore, later readout of the holdStore can do TOAST fetches against data that can no longer be seen by any of the session's live snapshots. This means that a concurrent VACUUM could remove the TOAST data before we can fetch it. Commit 3e2f3c2e4 exposed the problem by showing that sometimes we had *no* live snapshots while fetching TOAST data, but we'd be at risk anyway. I believe this code was all right when written, because our management of a session's exposed xmin was such that the TOAST references were safe until end of transaction. But that's no longer true now that we can advance or clear our PGXACT.xmin intra-transaction. To fix, copy the query's snapshot during FillPortalStore() and save it in the Portal; release it only when the portal is dropped. This essentially implements a policy that we must hold a relevant snapshot whenever we access potentially-toasted data. We had already come to that conclusion in other places, cf commits 08e261cbc94ce9a7 and ec543db77b6b72f2. I'd have liked to add a regression test case for this, but I didn't see a way to make one that's not unreasonably bloated; it seems to require returning a toasted value to the client, and those will be big. In passing, improve PortalRunUtility() so that it positively verifies that its ending PopActiveSnapshot() call will pop the expected snapshot, removing a rather shaky assumption about which utility commands might do their own PopActiveSnapshot(). There's no known bug here, but now that we're actively referencing the snapshot it's almost free to make this code a bit more bulletproof. We might want to consider back-patching something like this into older branches, but it would be prudent to let it prove itself more in HEAD beforehand. Discussion: <87vazemeda.fsf@credativ.de>
* Stop the executor if no more tuples can be sent from worker to leader.Robert Haas2016-06-061-1/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If a Gather node has read as many tuples as it needs (for example, due to Limit) it may detach the queue connecting it to the worker before reading all of the worker's tuples. Rather than let the worker continue to generate and send all of the results, have it stop after sending the next tuple. More could be done here to stop the worker even quicker, but this is about as well as we can hope to do for 9.6. This is in response to a problem report from Andreas Seltenreich. Commit 44339b892a04e94bbb472235882dc6f7023bdc65 should be actually be sufficient to fix that example even without this change, but it seems better to do this, too, since we might otherwise waste quite a large amount of effort in one or more workers. Discussion: CAA4eK1KOKGqmz9bGu+Z42qhRwMbm4R5rfnqsLCNqFs9j14jzEA@mail.gmail.com Amit Kapila
* Widen query numbers-of-tuples-processed counters to uint64.Tom Lane2016-03-121-54/+60
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch widens SPI_processed, EState's es_processed field, PortalData's portalPos field, FuncCallContext's call_cntr and max_calls fields, ExecutorRun's count argument, PortalRunFetch's result, and the max number of rows in a SPITupleTable to uint64, and deals with (I hope) all the ensuing fallout. Some of these values were declared uint32 before, and others "long". I also removed PortalData's posOverflow field, since that logic seems pretty useless given that portalPos is now always 64 bits. The user-visible results are that command tags for SELECT etc will correctly report tuple counts larger than 4G, as will plpgsql's GET GET DIAGNOSTICS ... ROW_COUNT command. Queries processing more tuples than that are still not exactly the norm, but they're becoming more common. Most values associated with FETCH/MOVE distances, such as PortalRun's count argument and the count argument of most SPI functions that have one, remain declared as "long". It's not clear whether it would be worth promoting those to int64; but it would definitely be a large dollop of additional API churn on top of this, and it would only help 32-bit platforms which seem relatively less likely to see any benefit. Andreas Scherbaum, reviewed by Christian Ullrich, additional hacking by me
* Update copyright for 2016Bruce Momjian2016-01-021-1/+1
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* Fix subtransaction cleanup after an outer-subtransaction portal fails.Tom Lane2015-09-041-10/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Formerly, we treated only portals created in the current subtransaction as having failed during subtransaction abort. However, if the error occurred while running a portal created in an outer subtransaction (ie, a cursor declared before the last savepoint), that has to be considered broken too. To allow reliable detection of which ones those are, add a bookkeeping field to struct Portal that tracks the innermost subtransaction in which each portal has actually been executed. (Without this, we'd end up failing portals containing functions that had called the subtransaction, thereby breaking plpgsql exception blocks completely.) In addition, when we fail an outer-subtransaction Portal, transfer its resources into the subtransaction's resource owner, so that they're released early in cleanup of the subxact. This fixes a problem reported by Jim Nasby in which a function executed in an outer-subtransaction cursor could cause an Assert failure or crash by referencing a relation created within the inner subtransaction. The proximate cause of the Assert failure is that AtEOSubXact_RelationCache assumed it could blow away a relcache entry without first checking that the entry had zero refcount. That was a bad idea on its own terms, so add such a check there, and to the similar coding in AtEOXact_RelationCache. This provides an independent safety measure in case there are still ways to provoke the situation despite the Portal-level changes. This has been broken since subtransactions were invented, so back-patch to all supported branches. Tom Lane and Michael Paquier
* Remove the new UPSERT command tag and use INSERT instead.Andres Freund2015-05-231-14/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Previously, INSERT with ON CONFLICT DO UPDATE specified used a new command tag -- UPSERT. It was introduced out of concern that INSERT as a command tag would be a misrepresentation for ON CONFLICT DO UPDATE, as some affected rows may actually have been updated. Alvaro Herrera noticed that the implementation of that new command tag was incomplete; in subsequent discussion we concluded that having it doesn't provide benefits that are in line with the compatibility breaks it requires. Catversion bump due to the removal of PlannedStmt->isUpsert. Author: Peter Geoghegan Discussion: 20150520215816.GI5885@postgresql.org
* Add support for INSERT ... ON CONFLICT DO NOTHING/UPDATE.Andres Freund2015-05-081-3/+14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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.
* Update copyright for 2015Bruce Momjian2015-01-061-1/+1
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* Fix failure to set ActiveSnapshot while rewinding a cursor.Tom Lane2014-05-071-2/+12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | ActiveSnapshot needs to be set when we call ExecutorRewind because some plan node types may execute user-defined functions during their ReScan calls (nodeLimit.c does so, at least). The wisdom of that is somewhat debatable, perhaps, but for now the simplest fix is to make sure the required context is valid. Failure to do this typically led to a null-pointer-dereference core dump, though it's possible that in more complex cases a function could be executed with the wrong snapshot leading to very subtle misbehavior. Per report from Leif Jensen. It's been broken for a long time, so back-patch to all active branches.
* pgindent run for 9.4Bruce Momjian2014-05-061-7/+7
| | | | | This includes removing tabs after periods in C comments, which was applied to back branches, so this change should not effect backpatching.