68 Commits (552fcebff04699103cefd2efa71fae1274893dbe)

Author	SHA1	Message	Date
Noah Misch	de9396326e	Revert "Skip WAL for new relfilenodes, under wal_level=minimal." ... This reverts commit cb2fd7eac2. Per numerous buildfarm members, it was incompatible with parallel query, and a test case assumed LP64. Back-patch to 9.5 (all supported versions). Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200321224920.GB1763544@rfd.leadboat.com	6 years ago
Noah Misch	cb2fd7eac2	Skip WAL for new relfilenodes, under wal_level=minimal. ... Until now, only selected bulk operations (e.g. COPY) did this. If a given relfilenode received both a WAL-skipping COPY and a WAL-logged operation (e.g. INSERT), recovery could lose tuples from the COPY. See src/backend/access/transam/README section "Skipping WAL for New RelFileNode" for the new coding rules. Maintainers of table access methods should examine that section. To maintain data durability, just before commit, we choose between an fsync of the relfilenode and copying its contents to WAL. A new GUC, wal_skip_threshold, guides that choice. If this change slows a workload that creates small, permanent relfilenodes under wal_level=minimal, try adjusting wal_skip_threshold. Users setting a timeout on COMMIT may need to adjust that timeout, and log_min_duration_statement analysis will reflect time consumption moving to COMMIT from commands like COPY. Internally, this requires a reliable determination of whether RollbackAndReleaseCurrentSubTransaction() would unlink a relation's current relfilenode. Introduce rd_firstRelfilenodeSubid. Amend the specification of rd_createSubid such that the field is zero when a new rel has an old rd_node. Make relcache.c retain entries for certain dropped relations until end of transaction. Back-patch to 9.5 (all supported versions). This introduces a new WAL record type, XLOG_GIST_ASSIGN_LSN, without bumping XLOG_PAGE_MAGIC. As always, update standby systems before master systems. This changes sizeof(RelationData) and sizeof(IndexStmt), breaking binary compatibility for affected extensions. (The most recent commit to affect the same class of extensions was 089e4d405d0f3b94c74a2c6a54357a84a681754b.) Kyotaro Horiguchi, reviewed (in earlier, similar versions) by Robert Haas. Heikki Linnakangas and Michael Paquier implemented earlier designs that materially clarified the problem. Reviewed, in earlier designs, by Andrew Dunstan, Andres Freund, Alvaro Herrera, Tom Lane, Fujii Masao, and Simon Riggs. Reported by Martijn van Oosterhout. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20150702220524.GA9392@svana.org	6 years ago
Tom Lane	bb4114a4e2	Allow whole-row Vars to be used in partitioning expressions. ... In the wake of commit 5b9312378, there's no particular reason for this restriction (previously, it was problematic because of the implied rowtype reference). A simple constraint on a whole-row Var probably isn't that useful, but conceivably somebody would want to pass one to a function that extracts a partitioning key. Besides which, we're expending much more code to enforce the restriction than we save by having it, since the latter quantity is now zero. So drop the restriction. Amit Langote Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+HiwqFUzjfj9HEsJtYWcr1SgQ_=iCAvQ=O2Sx6aQxoDu4OiHw@mail.gmail.com	6 years ago
Tom Lane	5b9312378e	Load relcache entries' partitioning data on-demand, not immediately. ... Formerly the rd_partkey and rd_partdesc data structures were always populated immediately when a relcache entry was built or rebuilt. This patch changes things so that they are populated only when they are first requested. (Hence, callers *must* now always use RelationGetPartitionKey or RelationGetPartitionDesc; just fetching the pointer directly is no longer acceptable.) This seems to have some performance benefits, but the main reason to do it is that it eliminates a recursive-reload failure that occurs if the partkey or partdesc expressions contain any references to the relation's rowtype (as discovered by Amit Langote). In retrospect, since loading these data structures might result in execution of nearly-arbitrary code via eval_const_expressions, it was a dumb idea to require that to happen during relcache entry rebuild. Also, fix things so that old copies of a relcache partition descriptor will be dropped when the cache entry's refcount goes to zero. In the previous coding it was possible for such copies to survive for the lifetime of the session, as I'd complained of in a previous discussion. (This management technique still isn't perfect, but it's better than before.) Improve the commentary explaining how that works and why it's safe to hand out direct pointers to these relcache substructures. In passing, improve RelationBuildPartitionDesc by using the same memory-context-parent-swap approach used by RelationBuildPartitionKey, thereby making it less dependent on strong assumptions about what partition_bounds_copy does. Avoid doing get_rel_relkind in the critical section, too. Patch by Amit Langote and Tom Lane; Robert Haas deserves some credit for prior work in the area, too. Although this is a pre-existing problem, no back-patch: the patch seems too invasive to be safe to back-patch, and the bug it fixes is a corner case that seems relatively unlikely to cause problems in the field. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+HiwqFUzjfj9HEsJtYWcr1SgQ_=iCAvQ=O2Sx6aQxoDu4OiHw@mail.gmail.com Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmoY3bRmGB6-DUnoVy5fJoreiBJ43rwMrQRCdPXuKt4Ykaw@mail.gmail.com	6 years ago
Tom Lane	39ebb943de	Disallow partition key expressions that return pseudo-types. ... This wasn't checked originally, but it should have been, because in general pseudo-types can't be stored to and retrieved from disk. Notably, partition bound values of type "record" would not be interpretable by another session. In v12 and HEAD, add another flag to CheckAttributeType's repertoire so that it can produce a specific error message for this case. That's infeasible in older branches without an ABI break, so fall back to a slightly-less-nicely-worded error message in v10 and v11. Problem noted by Amit Langote, though this patch is not his initial solution. Back-patch to v10 where partitioning was introduced. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+HiwqFUzjfj9HEsJtYWcr1SgQ_=iCAvQ=O2Sx6aQxoDu4OiHw@mail.gmail.com	6 years ago
Michael Paquier	dc816e5815	Fix failure when creating cloned indexes for a partition ... When using CREATE TABLE for a new partition, the partitioned indexes of the parent are created automatically in a fashion similar to LIKE INDEXES. The new partition and its parent use a mapping for attribute numbers for this operation, and while the mapping was correctly built, its length was defined as the number of attributes of the newly-created child, and not the parent. If the parent includes dropped columns, this could cause failures. This is wrong since 8b08f7d which has introduced the concept of partitioned indexes, so backpatch down to 11. Reported-by: Wyatt Alt Author: Michael Paquier Reviewed-by: Amit Langote Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAGem3qCcRmhbs4jYMkenYNfP2kEusDXvTfw-q+eOhM0zTceG-g@mail.gmail.com Backpatch-through: 11	6 years ago
Tom Lane	a0555ddab9	Install dependencies to prevent dropping partition key columns. ... The logic in ATExecDropColumn that rejects dropping partition key columns is quite an inadequate defense, because it doesn't execute in cases where a column needs to be dropped due to cascade from something that only the column, not the whole partitioned table, depends on. That leaves us with a badly broken partitioned table; even an attempt to load its relcache entry will fail. We really need to have explicit pg_depend entries that show that the column can't be dropped without dropping the whole table. Hence, add those entries. In v12 and HEAD, bump catversion to ensure that partitioned tables will have such entries. We can't do that in released branches of course, so in v10 and v11 this patch affords protection only to partitioned tables created after the patch is installed. Given the lack of field complaints (this bug was found by fuzz-testing not by end users), that's probably good enough. In passing, fix ATExecDropColumn and ATPrepAlterColumnType messages to be more specific about which partition key column they're complaining about. Per report from Manuel Rigger. Back-patch to v10 where partitioned tables were added. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+u7OA4JKCPFrdrAbOs7XBiCyD61XJxeNav4LefkSmBLQ-Vobg@mail.gmail.com Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/31920.1562526703@sss.pgh.pa.us	7 years ago
Alvaro Herrera	23cccb17fe	Fix for dropped columns in a partitioned table's default partition ... We forgot to map column numbers to/from the default partition for various operations, leading to valid cases failing with spurious errors, such as ERROR: attribute N of type some_partition has been dropped It was also possible that the search for conflicting rows in the default partition when attaching another partition would fail to detect some. Secondarily, it was also possible that such a search should be skipped (because the constraint was implied) but wasn't. Fix all this by mapping column numbers when necessary. Reported by: Daniel Wilches Author: Amit Langote Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/15873-8c61945d6b3ef87c@postgresql.org	7 years ago
Michael Paquier	ecfed4a122	Improve error handling of column references in expression transformation ... Column references are not allowed in default expressions and partition bound expressions, and are restricted as such once the transformation of their expressions is done. However, trying to use more complex column references can lead to confusing error messages. For example, trying to use a two-field column reference name for default expressions and partition bounds leads to "missing FROM-clause entry for table", which makes no sense in their respective context. In order to make the errors generated more useful, this commit adds more verbose messages when transforming column references depending on the context. This has a little consequence though: for example an expression using an aggregate with a column reference as argument would cause an error to be generated for the column reference, while the aggregate was the problem reported before this commit because column references get transformed first. The confusion exists for default expressions for a long time, and the problem is new as of v12 for partition bounds. Still per the lack of complaints on the matter no backpatch is done. The patch has been written by Amit Langote and me, and Tom Lane has provided the improvement of the documentation for default expressions on the CREATE TABLE page. Author: Amit Langote, Michael Paquier Reviewed-by: Tom Lane Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20190326020853.GM2558@paquier.xyz	7 years ago
Michael Paquier	cdde886d36	Fix crash when using partition bound expressions ... Since 7c079d7, partition bounds are able to use generalized expression syntax when processed, treating "minvalue" and "maxvalue" as specific cases as they get passed down for transformation as a column references. The checks for infinite bounds in range expressions have been lax though, causing crashes when trying to use column reference names with more than one field. Here is an example causing a crash: CREATE TABLE list_parted (a int) PARTITION BY LIST (a); CREATE TABLE part_list_crash PARTITION OF list_parted FOR VALUES IN (somename.somename); Note that the creation of the second relation should fail as partition bounds cannot have column references in their expressions, so when finding an expression which does not match the expected infinite bounds, then this commit lets the generic transformation machinery check after it. The error message generated in this case references as well a missing RTE, which is confusing. This problem will be treated separately as it impacts as well default expressions for some time, and for now only the cases where a crash can happen are fixed. While on it, extend the set of regression tests in place for list partition bounds and add an extra set for range partition bounds. Reported-by: Alexander Lakhin Author: Michael Paquier Reviewed-by: Amit Langote Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/15668-0377b1981aa1a393@postgresql.org	7 years ago
Michael Paquier	331a613e9d	Fix support for CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS AS EXECUTE ... The grammar IF NOT EXISTS for CTAS is supported since 9.5 and documented as such, however the case of using EXECUTE as query has never been covered as EXECUTE CTAS statements and normal CTAS statements are parsed separately. Author: Andreas Karlsson Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2ddcc188-e37c-a0be-32bf-a56b07c3559e@proxel.se Backpatch-through: 9.5	7 years ago
Peter Eisentraut	1e4730c639	Make regression test output locale-independent ... In some locales, letters sort before numbers, so change the object naming to not depend on that. Introduced by commit 7c079d7417.	7 years ago
Peter Eisentraut	7c079d7417	Allow generalized expression syntax for partition bounds ... 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/	7 years ago
Stephen Frost	2d7eeb1b14	Add additional partition tests to pg_dump ... This adds a few tests for non-inherited constraints. Author: Amit Langote Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20181208001735.GT3415%40tamriel.snowman.net	7 years ago
Andres Freund	b238527664	Fix jit compilation bug on wide tables. ... The function generated to perform JIT compiled tuple deforming failed when HeapTupleHeader's t_hoff was bigger than a signed int8. I'd failed to realize that LLVM's getelementptr would treat an int8 index argument as signed, rather than unsigned. That means that a hoff larger than 127 would result in a negative offset being applied. Fix that by widening the index to 32bit. Add a testcase with a wide table. Don't drop it, as it seems useful to verify other tools deal properly with wide tables. Thanks to Justin Pryzby for both reporting a bug and then reducing it to a reproducible testcase! Reported-By: Justin Pryzby Author: Andres Freund Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20181115223959.GB10913@telsasoft.com Backpatch: 11, just as jit compilation was	7 years ago
Andres Freund	578b229718	Remove WITH OIDS support, change oid catalog column visibility. ... 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	7 years ago
Alvaro Herrera	705d433fd5	Revise attribute handling code on partition creation ... The original code to propagate NOT NULL and default expressions specified when creating a partition was mostly copy-pasted from typed-tables creation, but not being a great match it contained some duplicity, inefficiency and bugs. This commit fixes the bug that NOT NULL constraints declared in the parent table would not be honored in the partition. One reported issue that is not fixed is that a DEFAULT declared in the child is not used when inserting through the parent. That would amount to a behavioral change that's better not back-patched. This rewrite makes the code simpler: 1. instead of checking for duplicate column names in its own block, reuse the original one that already did that; 2. instead of concatenating the list of columns from parent and the one declared in the partition and scanning the result to (incorrectly) propagate defaults and not-null constraints, just scan the latter searching the former for a match, and merging sensibly. This works because we know the list in the parent is already correct and there can only be one parent. This rewrite makes ColumnDef->is_from_parent unused, so it's removed on branch master; on released branches, it's kept as an unused field in order not to cause ABI incompatibilities. This commit also adds a test case for creating partitions with collations mismatching that on the parent table, something that is closely related to the code being patched. No code change is introduced though, since that'd be a behavior change that could break some (broken) working applications. Amit Langote wrote a less invasive fix for the original NOT NULL/defaults bug, but while I kept the tests he added, I ended up not using his original code. Ashutosh Bapat reviewed Amit's fix. Amit reviewed mine. Author: Álvaro Herrera, Amit Langote Reviewed-by: Ashutosh Bapat, Amit Langote Reported-by: Jürgen Strobel (bug #15212) Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/152746742177.1291.9847032632907407358@wrigleys.postgresql.org	7 years ago
Michael Paquier	dc3e436b19	Block creation of partitions with open references to its parent ... When a partition is created as part of a trigger processing, it is possible that the partition which just gets created changes the properties of the table the executor of the ongoing command relies on, causing a subsequent crash. This has been found possible when for example using a BEFORE INSERT which creates a new partition for a partitioned table being inserted to. Any attempt to do so is blocked when working on a partition, with regression tests added for both CREATE TABLE PARTITION OF and ALTER TABLE ATTACH PARTITION. Reported-by: Dmitry Shalashov Author: Amit Langote Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier, Tom Lane Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/15437-3fe01ee66bd1bae1@postgresql.org Backpatch-through: 10	7 years ago
Tom Lane	2409716755	Remove undocumented restriction against duplicate partition key columns. ... transformPartitionSpec rejected duplicate simple partition columns (e.g., "PARTITION BY RANGE (x,x)") but paid no attention to expression columns, resulting in inconsistent behavior. Worse, cases like "PARTITION BY RANGE (x,(x))") were accepted but would then result in dump/reload failures, since the expression (x) would get simplified to a plain column later. There seems no better reason for this restriction than there was for the one against duplicate included index columns (cf commit 701fd0bbc), so let's just remove it. Back-patch to v10 where this code was added. Report and patch by Yugo Nagata. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180712165939.36b12aff.nagata@sraoss.co.jp	8 years ago
Michael Paquier	1c7c317cd9	Clarify use of temporary tables within partition trees ... Since their introduction, partition trees have been a bit lossy regarding temporary relations. Inheritance trees respect the following patterns: 1) a child relation can be temporary if the parent is permanent. 2) a child relation can be temporary if the parent is temporary. 3) a child relation cannot be permanent if the parent is temporary. 4) The use of temporary relations also imply that when both parent and child need to be from the same sessions. Partitions share many similar patterns with inheritance, however the handling of the partition bounds make the situation a bit tricky for case 1) as the partition code bases a lot of its lookup code upon PartitionDesc which does not really look after relpersistence. This causes for example a temporary partition created by session A to be visible by another session B, preventing this session B to create an extra partition which overlaps with the temporary one created by A with a non-intuitive error message. There could be use-cases where mixing permanent partitioned tables with temporary partitions make sense, but that would be a new feature. Partitions respect 2), 3) and 4) already. It is a bit depressing to see those error checks happening in MergeAttributes() whose purpose is different, but that's left as future refactoring work. Back-patch down to 10, which is where partitioning has been introduced, except that default partitions do not apply there. Documentation also includes limitations related to the use of temporary tables with partition trees. Reported-by: David Rowley Author: Amit Langote, Michael Paquier Reviewed-by: Ashutosh Bapat, Amit Langote, Michael Paquier Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAKJS1f94Ojk0og9GMkRHGt8wHTW=ijq5KzJKuoBoqWLwSVwGmw@mail.gmail.com	8 years ago
Tom Lane	4df58f7ed7	Fix handling of partition bounds for boolean partitioning columns. ... Previously, you could partition by a boolean column as long as you spelled the bound values as string literals, for instance FOR VALUES IN ('t'). The trouble with this is that ruleutils.c printed that as FOR VALUES IN (TRUE), which is reasonable syntax but wasn't accepted by the grammar. That results in dump-and-reload failures for such cases. Apply a minimal fix that just causes TRUE and FALSE to be converted to strings 'true' and 'false'. This is pretty grotty, but it's too late for a more principled fix in v11 (to say nothing of v10). We should revisit the whole issue of how partition bound values are parsed for v12. Amit Langote Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/e05c5162-1103-7e37-d1ab-6de3e0afaf70@lab.ntt.co.jp	8 years ago
Alvaro Herrera	a4d56f583e	Use the right memory context for partkey's FmgrInfo ... We were using CurrentMemoryContext to put the partsupfunc fmgr_info into, which isn't right, because we want the PartitionKey as a whole to be in the isolated Relation->rd_partkeycxt context. This can cause a crash with user-defined support functions in the operator classes used by partitioning keys. (Maybe this can cause problems with core-supplied opclasses too, not sure.) This is demonstrably broken in Postgres 10, too, but the initial proposed fix runs afoul of a problem discussed back when 8a0596cb65 ("Get rid of copy_partition_key") reorganized that code: namely that it is possible to jump out of RelationBuildPartitionKey because of some error and leave a dangling memory context child of CacheMemoryContext. Also, while reviewing this I noticed that the removed-in-pg11 copy_partition_key was doing something wrong, unfixed in pg10, namely doing memcpy() on the FmgrInfo, which is bogus (should be doing fmgr_info_copy). Therefore, in branch pg10, the sane fix seems to be to backpatch both the aforementioned 8a0596cb65 and its followup be2343221f ("Protect against hypothetical memory leaks in RelationGetPartitionKey"), so do that, then apply the fmgr_info memcxt bugfix on top. Add a test case exercising btree-based custom operator classes, which causes a crash prior to this fix. This is not a security problem, because in order to create an operator class you need superuser privileges anyway. Authors: Álvaro Herrera and Amit Langote Reported and diagnosed by: Amit Langote Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3041e853-b1dd-a0c6-ff21-7cc5633bffd0@lab.ntt.co.jp	8 years ago
Alvaro Herrera	3de241dba8	Foreign keys on partitioned tables ... Author: Álvaro Herrera Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20171231194359.cvojcour423ulha4@alvherre.pgsql Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut	8 years ago
Alvaro Herrera	eb7ed3f306	Allow UNIQUE indexes on partitioned tables ... If we restrict unique constraints on partitioned tables so that they must always include the partition key, then our standard approach to unique indexes already works --- each unique key is forced to exist within a single partition, so enforcing the unique restriction in each index individually is enough to have it enforced globally. Therefore we can implement unique indexes on partitions by simply removing a few restrictions (and adding others.) Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20171222212921.hi6hg6pem2w2t36z@alvherre.pgsql Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20171229230607.3iib6b62fn3uaf47@alvherre.pgsql Reviewed-by: Simon Riggs, Jesper Pedersen, Peter Eisentraut, Jaime Casanova, Amit Langote	8 years ago
Tom Lane	3492a0af0b	Fix RelationBuildPartitionKey's processing of partition key expressions. ... Failure to advance the list pointer while reading partition expressions from a list results in invoking an input function with inappropriate data, possibly leading to crashes or, with carefully crafted input, disclosure of arbitrary backend memory. Bug discovered independently by Álvaro Herrera and David Rowley. This patch is by Álvaro but owes something to David's proposed fix. Back-patch to v10 where the issue was introduced. Security: CVE-2018-1052	8 years ago
Robert Haas	3ccdc6f9a5	Fix list partition constraints for partition keys of array type. ... The old code generated always generated a constraint of the form col = ANY(ARRAY[val1, val2, ...]), but that's invalid when col is an array type. Instead, generate col = val when there's only one value, col = val1 OR col = val2 OR ... when there are multiple values and col is of array type, and the old form when there are multiple values and col is not of an array type. As a side benefit, this makes constraint exclusion able to prune a list partition declared to accept a single Boolean value, which didn't work before. Amit Langote, reviewed by Etsuro Fujita Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/97267195-e235-89d1-a41a-c110198dfce9@lab.ntt.co.jp	8 years ago
Tom Lane	fb8697b31a	Avoid unnecessary use of pg_strcasecmp for already-downcased identifiers. ... We have a lot of code in which option names, which from the user's viewpoint are logically keywords, are passed through the grammar as plain identifiers, and then matched to string literals during command execution. This approach avoids making words into lexer keywords unnecessarily. Some places matched these strings using plain strcmp, some using pg_strcasecmp. But the latter should be unnecessary since identifiers would have been downcased on their way through the parser. Aside from any efficiency concerns (probably not a big factor), the lack of consistency in this area creates a hazard of subtle bugs due to different places coming to different conclusions about whether two option names are the same or different. Hence, standardize on using strcmp() to match any option names that are expected to have been fed through the parser. This does create a user-visible behavioral change, which is that while formerly all of these would work: alter table foo set (fillfactor = 50); alter table foo set (FillFactor = 50); alter table foo set ("fillfactor" = 50); alter table foo set ("FillFactor" = 50); now the last case will fail because that double-quoted identifier is different from the others. However, none of our documentation says that you can use a quoted identifier in such contexts at all, and we should discourage doing so since it would break if we ever decide to parse such constructs as true lexer keywords rather than poor man's substitutes. So this shouldn't create a significant compatibility issue for users. Daniel Gustafsson, reviewed by Michael Paquier, small changes by me Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/29405B24-564E-476B-98C0-677A29805B84@yesql.se	8 years ago
Simon Riggs	05b6ec39d7	Show partition info from psql \d+ ... Author: Amit Langote, Ashutosh Bapat Reviewed-by: Álvaro Herrera, Simon Riggs	8 years ago
Robert Haas	1aba8e651a	Add hash partitioning. ... Hash partitioning is useful when you want to partition a growing data set evenly. This can be useful to keep table sizes reasonable, which makes maintenance operations such as VACUUM faster, or to enable partition-wise join. At present, we still depend on constraint exclusion for partitioning pruning, and the shape of the partition constraints for hash partitioning is such that that doesn't work. Work is underway to fix that, which should both improve performance and make partitioning pruning work with hash partitioning. Amul Sul, reviewed and tested by Dilip Kumar, Ashutosh Bapat, Yugo Nagata, Rajkumar Raghuwanshi, Jesper Pedersen, and by me. A few final tweaks also by me. Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAAJ_b96fhpJAP=ALbETmeLk1Uni_GFZD938zgenhF49qgDTjaQ@mail.gmail.com	8 years ago
Robert Haas	9361f6f54e	After a MINVALUE/MAXVALUE bound, allow only more of the same. ... In the old syntax, which used UNBOUNDED, we had a similar restriction, but commit d363d42bb9, which changed the syntax, eliminated it. Put it back. Patch by me, reviewed by Dean Rasheed. Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+Tgmobs+pLPC27tS3gOpEAxAffHrq5w509cvkwTf9pF6cWYbg@mail.gmail.com	8 years ago
Robert Haas	6f6b99d133	Allow a partitioned table to have a default partition. ... Any tuples that don't route to any other partition will route to the default partition. Jeevan Ladhe, Beena Emerson, Ashutosh Bapat, Rahila Syed, and Robert Haas, with review and testing at various stages by (at least) Rushabh Lathia, Keith Fiske, Amit Langote, Amul Sul, Rajkumar Raghuanshi, Sven Kunze, Kyotaro Horiguchi, Thom Brown, Rafia Sabih, and Dilip Kumar. Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAH2L28tbN4SYyhS7YV1YBWcitkqbhSWfQCy0G=apRcC_PEO-bg@mail.gmail.com Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAOG9ApEYj34fWMcvBMBQ-YtqR9fTdXhdN82QEKG0SVZ6zeL1xg@mail.gmail.com	8 years ago
Dean Rasheed	d363d42bb9	Use MINVALUE/MAXVALUE instead of UNBOUNDED for range partition bounds. ... Previously, UNBOUNDED meant no lower bound when used in the FROM list, and no upper bound when used in the TO list, which was OK for single-column range partitioning, but problematic with multiple columns. For example, an upper bound of (10.0, UNBOUNDED) would not be collocated with a lower bound of (10.0, UNBOUNDED), thus making it difficult or impossible to define contiguous multi-column range partitions in some cases. Fix this by using MINVALUE and MAXVALUE instead of UNBOUNDED to represent a partition column that is unbounded below or above respectively. This syntax removes any ambiguity, and ensures that if one partition's lower bound equals another partition's upper bound, then the partitions are contiguous. Also drop the constraint prohibiting finite values after an unbounded column, and just document the fact that any values after MINVALUE or MAXVALUE are ignored. Previously it was necessary to repeat UNBOUNDED multiple times, which was needlessly verbose. Note: Forces a post-PG 10 beta2 initdb. Report by Amul Sul, original patch by Amit Langote with some additional hacking by me. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAAJ_b947mowpLdxL3jo3YLKngRjrq9+Ej4ymduQTfYR+8=YAYQ@mail.gmail.com	9 years ago
Tom Lane	76a3df6e5e	Code review focused on new node types added by partitioning support. ... Fix failure to check that we got a plain Const from const-simplification of a coercion request. This is the cause of bug #14666 from Tian Bing: there is an int4 to money cast, but it's only stable not immutable (because of dependence on lc_monetary), resulting in a FuncExpr that the code was miserably unequipped to deal with, or indeed even to notice that it was failing to deal with. Add test cases around this coercion behavior. In view of the above, sprinkle the code liberally with castNode() macros, in hope of catching the next such bug a bit sooner. Also, change some functions that were randomly declared to take Node* to take more specific pointer types. And change some struct fields that were declared Node* but could be given more specific types, allowing removal of assorted explicit casts. Place PARTITION_MAX_KEYS check a bit closer to the code it's protecting. Likewise check only-one-key-for-list-partitioning restriction in a less random place. Avoid not-per-project-style usages like !strcmp(...). Fix assorted failures to avoid scribbling on the input of parse transformation. I'm not sure how necessary this is, but it's entirely silly for these functions to be expending cycles to avoid that and not getting it right. Add guards against partitioning on system columns. Put backend/nodes/ support code into an order that matches handling of these node types elsewhere. Annotate the fact that somebody added location fields to PartitionBoundSpec and PartitionRangeDatum but forgot to handle them in outfuncs.c/readfuncs.c. This is fairly harmless for production purposes (since readfuncs.c would just substitute -1 anyway) but it's still bogus. It's not worth forcing a post-beta1 initdb just to fix this, but if we have another reason to force initdb before 10.0, we should go back and clean this up. Contrariwise, somebody added location fields to PartitionElem and PartitionSpec but forgot to teach exprLocation() about them. Consolidate duplicative code in transformPartitionBound(). Improve a couple of error messages. Improve assorted commentary. Re-pgindent the files touched by this patch; this affects a few comment blocks that must have been added quite recently. Report: https://postgr.es/m/20170524024550.29935.14396@wrigleys.postgresql.org	9 years ago
Robert Haas	3ec76ff1f2	Don't explicitly mark range partitioning columns NOT NULL. ... This seemed like a good idea originally because there's no way to mark a range partition as accepting NULL, but that now seems more like a current limitation than something we want to lock down for all time. For example, there's a proposal to add the notion of a default partition which accepts all rows not otherwise routed, which directly conflicts with the idea that a range-partitioned table should never allow nulls anywhere. So let's change this while we still can, by putting the NOT NULL test into the partition constraint instead of changing the column properties. Amit Langote and Robert Haas, reviewed by Amit Kapila Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/8e2dd63d-c6fb-bb74-3c2b-ed6d63629c9d@lab.ntt.co.jp	9 years ago
Robert Haas	1848b73d45	Teach \d+ to show partitioning constraints. ... The fact that we didn't have this in the first place is likely why the problem fixed by f8bffe9e6d escaped detection. Patch by Amit Langote, reviewed and slightly adjusted by me. Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmoYWnV2GMnYLG-Czsix-E1WGAbo4D+0tx7t9NdfYBDMFsA@mail.gmail.com	9 years ago
Robert Haas	3439f84475	Disallow finite partition bound following earlier UNBOUNDED column. ... Amit Langote, per an observation by me. Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmoYWnV2GMnYLG-Czsix-E1WGAbo4D+0tx7t9NdfYBDMFsA@mail.gmail.com	9 years ago
Robert Haas	504c2205ab	Fix crash when partitioned column specified twice. ... Amit Langote, reviewed by Beena Emerson Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/6ed23d3d-c09d-4cbc-3628-0a8a32f750f4@lab.ntt.co.jp	9 years ago
Stephen Frost	b9a3ef55b2	Remove unnecessairly duplicated gram.y productions ... Declarative partitioning duplicated the TypedTableElement productions, evidently to remove the need to specify WITH OPTIONS when creating partitions. Instead, simply make WITH OPTIONS optional in the TypedTableElement production and remove all of the duplicate PartitionElement-related productions. This change simplifies the syntax and makes WITH OPTIONS optional when adding defaults, constraints or storage parameters to columns when creating either typed tables or partitions. Also update pg_dump to no longer include WITH OPTIONS, since it's not necessary, and update the documentation to reflect that WITH OPTIONS is now optional.	9 years ago
Simon Riggs	51175f3638	Allow COMMENT ON COLUMN with partitioned tables ... Amit Langote	9 years ago
Simon Riggs	8b4d582d27	Allow partitioned tables to be dropped without CASCADE ... Record partitioned table dependencies as DEPENDENCY_AUTO rather than DEPENDENCY_NORMAL, so that DROP TABLE just works. Remove all the tests for partitioned tables where earlier work had deliberately avoided using CASCADE. Amit Langote, reviewed by Ashutosh Bapat and myself	9 years ago
Robert Haas	a3dc8e495b	Make partitions automatically inherit OIDs. ... Previously, if the parent was specified as WITH OIDS, each child also had to be explicitly specified as WITH OIDS. Amit Langote, per a report from Simon Riggs. Some additional work on the documentation changes by me. Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CANP8+jJBpWocfKrbJcaf3iBt9E3U=WPE_NC8YE6rye+YJ1sYnQ@mail.gmail.com	9 years ago
Heikki Linnakangas	181bdb90ba	Fix typos in comments. ... Backpatch to all supported versions, where applicable, to make backpatching of future fixes go more smoothly. Josh Soref Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CACZqfqCf+5qRztLPgmmosr-B0Ye4srWzzw_mo4c_8_B_mtjmJQ@mail.gmail.com	9 years ago
Tom Lane	1e7c4bb004	Change unknown-type literals to type text in SELECT and RETURNING lists. ... Previously, we left such literals alone if the query or subquery had no properties forcing a type decision to be made (such as an ORDER BY or DISTINCT clause using that output column). This meant that "unknown" could be an exposed output column type, which has never been a great idea because it could result in strange failures later on. For example, an outer query that tried to do any operations on an unknown-type subquery output would generally fail with some weird error like "failed to find conversion function from unknown to text" or "could not determine which collation to use for string comparison". Also, if the case occurred in a CREATE VIEW's query then the view would have an unknown-type column, causing similar failures in queries trying to use the view. To fix, at the tail end of parse analysis of a query, forcibly convert any remaining "unknown" literals in its SELECT or RETURNING list to type text. However, provide a switch to suppress that, and use it in the cases of SELECT inside a set operation or INSERT command. In those cases we already had type resolution rules that make use of context information from outside the subquery proper, and we don't want to change that behavior. Also, change creation of an unknown-type column in a relation from a warning to a hard error. The error should be unreachable now in CREATE VIEW or CREATE MATVIEW, but it's still possible to explicitly say "unknown" in CREATE TABLE or CREATE (composite) TYPE. We want to forbid that because it's nothing but a foot-gun. This change creates a pg_upgrade failure case: a matview that contains an unknown-type column can't be pg_upgraded, because reparsing the matview's defining query will now decide that the column is of type text, which doesn't match the cstring-like storage that the old materialized column would actually have. Add a checking pass to detect that. While at it, we can detect tables or composite types that would fail, essentially for free. Those would fail safely anyway later on, but we might as well fail earlier. This patch is by me, but it owes something to previous investigations by Rahila Syed. Also thanks to Ashutosh Bapat and Michael Paquier for review. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2L28uwwbL9HUM-WR=hromW1Cvamkn7O-g8fPY2m=_7muJ0oA@mail.gmail.com	9 years ago
Robert Haas	c397814953	Teach partitioning tests not to use DROP TABLE ... CASCADE. ... This occasionally causes failures; the order in which the affected objects are listed is not 100% consistent. Amit Langote	9 years ago
Robert Haas	8a8afe2f54	Fix some problems in check_new_partition_bound(). ... Account for the fact that the highest bound less than or equal to the upper bound might be either the lower or the upper bound of the overlapping partition, depending on whether the proposed partition completely contains the existing partition or merely overlaps it. Also, we need not continue searching for even greater bound in partition_bound_bsearch() once we find the first bound that is *equal* to the probe, because we don't have duplicate datums. That spends cycles needlessly. Amit Langote, per a report from Amul Sul. Cosmetic changes by me. Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAAJ_b94XgbqVoXMyxxs63CaqWoMS1o2gpHiU0F7yGnJBnvDc_A%40mail.gmail.com	9 years ago
Tom Lane	5ad966ab1c	Fix some more regression test row-order-instability issues. ... Commit 0563a3a8b just introduced another instance of the same unsafe testing methodology that appeared in 2ac3ef7a0, which I corrected in 257d81572. Robert/Amit, please stop doing that. Also look through the rest of f0e44751d's test cases, and correct some other queries with underdetermined ordering of results from the system catalogs. These haven't failed in the buildfarm yet, but I don't have any confidence in that staying true. Per multiple buildfarm members.	9 years ago
Robert Haas	71efd34fb8	Replace references to COLLATE "en_US" with COLLATE "C". ... Commit f0e44751d7 is turning the buildfarm red; let's try something hopefully more portable.	9 years ago
Robert Haas	f0e44751d7	Implement table partitioning. ... 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.	9 years ago
Bruce Momjian	b943f502b7	Have CREATE TABLE LIKE add OID column if any LIKEd table has one ... Also, process constraints for LIKEd tables at the end so an OID column can be referenced in a constraint. Report by Tom Lane	10 years ago
Alvaro Herrera	0853630159	Fix lost persistence setting during REINDEX INDEX ... ReindexIndex() trusts a parser-built RangeVar with the persistence to use for the new copy of the index; but the parser naturally does not know what's the persistence of the original index. To find out the correct persistence, grab it from relcache. This bug was introduced by commit 85b506bbfc, and therefore no backpatch is necessary. Bug reported by Thom Brown, analysis and patch by Michael Paquier; test case provided by Fabrízio de Royes Mello.	11 years ago