18 Commits (37507962c3d2123b0f21c50d6172fd0b1e059fe7)

Author	SHA1	Message	Date
Tom Lane	37507962c3	Handle unexpected query results, especially NULLs, safely in connectby(). ... connectby() didn't adequately check that the constructed SQL query returns what it's expected to; in fact, since commit 08c33c426b it wasn't checking that at all. This could result in a null-pointer-dereference crash if the constructed query returns only one column instead of the expected two. Less excitingly, it could also result in surprising data conversion failures if the constructed query returned values that were not I/O-conversion-compatible with the types specified by the query calling connectby(). In all branches, insist that the query return at least two columns; this seems like a minimal sanity check that can't break any reasonable use-cases. In HEAD, insist that the constructed query return the types specified by the outer query, including checking for typmod incompatibility, which the code never did even before it got broken. This is to hide the fact that the implementation does a conversion to text and back; someday we might want to improve that. In back branches, leave that alone, since adding a type check in a minor release is more likely to break things than make people happy. Type inconsistencies will continue to work so long as the actual type and declared type are I/O representation compatible, and otherwise will fail the same way they used to. Also, in all branches, be on guard for NULL results from the constructed query, which formerly would cause null-pointer dereference crashes. We now print the row with the NULL but don't recurse down from it. In passing, get rid of the rather pointless idea that build_tuplestore_recursively() should return the same tuplestore that's passed to it. Michael Paquier, adjusted somewhat by me	11 years ago
Robert Haas	d7c734841b	Reduce messages about implicit indexes and sequences to DEBUG1. ... Per recent discussion on pgsql-hackers, these messages are too chatty for most users.	13 years ago
Tom Lane	629b3af27d	Convert contrib modules to use the extension facility. ... This isn't fully tested as yet, in particular I'm not sure that the "foo--unpackaged--1.0.sql" scripts are OK. But it's time to get some buildfarm cycles on it. sepgsql is not converted to an extension, mainly because it seems to require a very nonstandard installation process. Dimitri Fontaine and Tom Lane	15 years ago
Tom Lane	30e2c42e00	Fix a few contrib regression test scripts that hadn't gotten the word ... about best practice for including the module creation scripts: to wit that you should suppress NOTICE messages. This avoids creating regression failures by adding or removing comment lines in the module scripts.	18 years ago
Joe Conway	01496439e9	Have crosstab variants treat NULL rowid as a category in its own right, ... per suggestion from Tom Lane. This fixes crash-bug reported by Stefan Schwarzer.	18 years ago
Peter Eisentraut	7f4f42fa10	Clean up CREATE FUNCTION syntax usage in contrib and elsewhere, in ... particular get rid of single quotes around language names and old WITH () construct.	20 years ago
Tom Lane	978129f28e	Document get_call_result_type() and friends; mark TypeGetTupleDesc() ... and RelationNameGetTupleDesc() as deprecated; remove uses of the latter in the contrib library. Along the way, clean up crosstab() code and documentation a little.	21 years ago
Joe Conway	bc8a1fc282	Hashed crosstab was dying with an SPI_finish error when the source SQL ... produced no rows. Now it returns 0 rows instead. Adjusted regression test for this case.	21 years ago
Tom Lane	08c33c426b	Attached is a patch for contrib/tablefunc. It fixes two issues raised by ... Lars Boegild Thomsen (full email below) and also corrects the regression expected output for a recent backend message adjustment. Please apply. Joe Conway	22 years ago
Tom Lane	c472b8366f	With Joe Conway's concurrence, remove srandom() call from normal_rand(). ... This was the last piece of code that took it upon itself to reset the random number sequence --- now we only have srandom() in postmaster start, backend start, and explicit setseed() operations.	22 years ago
Bruce Momjian	a265b7f70a	> Am Son, 2003-06-22 um 02.09 schrieb Joe Conway: ... >>Sounds like all that's needed for your case. But to be complete, in >>addition to changing tablefunc.c we'd have to: >>1) come up with a new function call signature that makes sense and does >>not cause backward compatibility problems for other people >>2) make needed changes to tablefunc.sql.in >>3) adjust the README.tablefunc appropriately >>4) adjust the regression test for new functionality >>5) be sure we don't break any of the old cases >> >>If you want to submit a complete patch, it would be gratefully accepted >>-- for review at least ;-) > > Here's the patch, at least for steps 1-3 Nabil Sayegh Joe Conway	22 years ago
Tom Lane	8fd5b3ed67	Error message editing in contrib (mostly by Joe Conway --- thanks Joe!)	22 years ago
Bruce Momjian	64d0b8b05f	Attached is an update to contrib/tablefunc. It implements a new hashed ... version of crosstab. This fixes a major deficiency in real-world use of the original version. Easiest to undestand with an illustration: Data: ------------------------------------------------------------------- select * from cth; id | rowid | rowdt | attribute | val ----+-------+---------------------+----------------+--------------- 1 | test1 | 2003-03-01 00:00:00 | temperature | 42 2 | test1 | 2003-03-01 00:00:00 | test_result | PASS 3 | test1 | 2003-03-01 00:00:00 | volts | 2.6987 4 | test2 | 2003-03-02 00:00:00 | temperature | 53 5 | test2 | 2003-03-02 00:00:00 | test_result | FAIL 6 | test2 | 2003-03-02 00:00:00 | test_startdate | 01 March 2003 7 | test2 | 2003-03-02 00:00:00 | volts | 3.1234 (7 rows) Original crosstab: ------------------------------------------------------------------- SELECT * FROM crosstab( 'SELECT rowid, attribute, val FROM cth ORDER BY 1,2',4) AS c(rowid text, temperature text, test_result text, test_startdate text, volts text); rowid | temperature | test_result | test_startdate | volts -------+-------------+-------------+----------------+-------- test1 | 42 | PASS | 2.6987 | test2 | 53 | FAIL | 01 March 2003 | 3.1234 (2 rows) Hashed crosstab: ------------------------------------------------------------------- SELECT * FROM crosstab( 'SELECT rowid, attribute, val FROM cth ORDER BY 1', 'SELECT DISTINCT attribute FROM cth ORDER BY 1') AS c(rowid text, temperature int4, test_result text, test_startdate timestamp, volts float8); rowid | temperature | test_result | test_startdate | volts -------+-------------+-------------+---------------------+-------- test1 | 42 | PASS | | 2.6987 test2 | 53 | FAIL | 2003-03-01 00:00:00 | 3.1234 (2 rows) Notice that the original crosstab slides data over to the left in the result tuple when it encounters missing data. In order to work around this you have to be make your source sql do all sorts of contortions (cartesian join of distinct rowid with distinct attribute; left join that back to the real source data). The new version avoids this by building a hash table using a second distinct attribute query. The new version also allows for "extra" columns (see the README) and allows the result columns to be coerced into differing datatypes if they are suitable (as shown above). In testing a "real-world" data set (69 distinct rowid's, 27 distinct categories/attributes, multiple missing data points) I saw about a 5-fold improvement in execution time (from about 2200 ms old, to 440 ms new). I left the original version intact because: 1) BC, 2) it is probably slightly faster if you know that you have no missing attributes. README and regression test adjustments included. If there are no objections, please apply. Joe Conway	23 years ago
Tom Lane	1f1c332381	Remove inappropriate double-quoting in connectby() code; adjust ... regression test to avoid using VALUE as a name. From Joe Conway.	23 years ago
Bruce Momjian	aa4c702eac	Update /contrib for "autocommit TO 'on'". ... Create objects in public schema. Make spacing/capitalization consistent. Remove transaction block use for object creation. Remove unneeded function GRANTs.	23 years ago
Bruce Momjian	a62873d279	The attached adds a bit to the contrib/tablefunc regression test for ... behavior of connectby() in the presence of infinite recursion. Please apply this one in addition to the one sent earlier. Joe Conway	23 years ago
Tom Lane	bd04184b11	Attached is a patch to fix some recently raised issues that exist in ... contrib/tablefunc. Specifically it replaces the use of VIEWs (for needed composite type creation) with use of CREATE TYPE. It also performs GRANT EXECUTE ON FUNCTION foo() TO PUBLIC for all of the created functions. There was also a cosmetic change to two regression files. Joe Conway	23 years ago
Bruce Momjian	6fff9a7475	The attached removes the current non-standard file ... "contrib/tablefunc/tablefunc-test.sql", and adds a standard regression test suite to contrib/tablefunc. Joe Conway	23 years ago