331 Commits (558d77f20e4e9ed18101d5d057b770ae22ece855)

Author	SHA1	Message	Date
Alvaro Herrera	558d77f20e	Renaming for new subscripting mechanism ... Over at patch https://commitfest.postgresql.org/21/1062/ Dmitry wants to introduce a more generic subscription mechanism, which allows subscripting not only arrays but also other object types such as JSONB. That functionality is introduced in a largish invasive patch, out of which this internal renaming patch was extracted. Author: Dmitry Dolgov Reviewed-by: Tom Lane, Arthur Zakirov Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+q6zcUK4EqPAu7XRRO5CCjMwhz5zvg+rfWuLzVoxp_5sKS6=w@mail.gmail.com	7 years ago
Tom Lane	f09346a9c6	Refactor planner's header files. ... Create a new header optimizer/optimizer.h, which exposes just the planner functions that can be used "at arm's length", without need to access Paths or the other planner-internal data structures defined in nodes/relation.h. This is intended to provide the whole planner API seen by most of the rest of the system; although FDWs still need to use additional stuff, and more thought is also needed about just what selfuncs.c should rely on. The main point of doing this now is to limit the amount of new #include baggage that will be needed by "planner support functions", which I expect to introduce later, and which will be in relevant datatype modules rather than anywhere near the planner. This commit just moves relevant declarations into optimizer.h from other header files (a couple of which go away because everything got moved), and adjusts #include lists to match. There's further cleanup that could be done if we want to decide that some stuff being exposed by optimizer.h doesn't belong in the planner at all, but I'll leave that for another day. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/11460.1548706639@sss.pgh.pa.us	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
Tomas Vondra	31f3817402	Allow COPY FROM to filter data using WHERE conditions ... Extends the COPY FROM command with a WHERE condition, which allows doing various types of filtering while importing the data (random sampling, condition on a data column, etc.). Until now such filtering required either preprocessing of the input data, or importing all data and then filtering in the database. COPY FROM ... WHERE is an easy-to-use and low-overhead alternative for most simple cases. Author: Surafel Temesgen Reviewed-by: Tomas Vondra, Masahiko Sawada, Lim Myungkyu Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CALAY4q_DdpWDuB5-Zyi-oTtO2uSk8pmy+dupiRe3AvAc++1imA@mail.gmail.com	7 years ago
Bruce Momjian	97c39498e5	Update copyright for 2019 ... Backpatch-through: certain files through 9.4	7 years ago
Simon Riggs	08ea7a2291	Revert MERGE patch ... This reverts commits d204ef6377, 83454e3c2b 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	8 years ago
Simon Riggs	d204ef6377	MERGE SQL Command following SQL:2016 ... 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	8 years ago
Simon Riggs	7cf8a5c302	Revert "Modified files for MERGE" ... This reverts commit 354f13855e.	8 years ago
Simon Riggs	354f13855e	Modified files for MERGE	8 years ago
Tom Lane	65b1d76785	Fix oversight in CALL argument handling, and do some minor cleanup. ... CALL statements cannot support sub-SELECTs in the arguments of the called procedure, since they just use ExecEvalExpr to evaluate such arguments. Teach transformSubLink() to reject the case, as it already does for other contexts in which subqueries are not supported. In passing, s/EXPR_KIND_CALL/EXPR_KIND_CALL_ARGUMENT/ to make that enum symbol line up more closely with the phrasing of the error messages it is associated with. And fix someone's weak grasp of English grammar in the preceding EXPR_KIND_PARTITION_EXPRESSION addition. Also update an incorrect comment in resolve_unique_index_expr (possibly it was correct when written, but nowadays transformExpr definitely does reject SRFs here). Per report from Pavel Stehule --- but this resolves only one of the bugs he mentions. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAFj8pRDxOwPPzpA8i+AQeDQFj7bhVw-dR2==rfWZ3zMGkm568Q@mail.gmail.com	8 years ago
Tom Lane	0a459cec96	Support all SQL:2011 options for window frame clauses. ... This patch adds the ability to use "RANGE offset PRECEDING/FOLLOWING" frame boundaries in window functions. We'd punted on that back in the original patch to add window functions, because it was not clear how to do it in a reasonably data-type-extensible fashion. That problem is resolved here by adding the ability for btree operator classes to provide an "in_range" support function that defines how to add or subtract the RANGE offset value. Factoring it this way also allows the operator class to avoid overflow problems near the ends of the datatype's range, if it wishes to expend effort on that. (In the committed patch, the integer opclasses handle that issue, but it did not seem worth the trouble to avoid overflow failures for datetime types.) The patch includes in_range support for the integer_ops opfamily (int2/int4/int8) as well as the standard datetime types. Support for other numeric types has been requested, but that seems like suitable material for a follow-on patch. In addition, the patch adds GROUPS mode which counts the offset in ORDER-BY peer groups rather than rows, and it adds the frame_exclusion options specified by SQL:2011. As far as I can see, we are now fully up to spec on window framing options. Existing behaviors remain unchanged, except that I changed the errcode for a couple of existing error reports to meet the SQL spec's expectation that negative "offset" values should be reported as SQLSTATE 22013. Internally and in relevant parts of the documentation, we now consistently use the terminology "offset PRECEDING/FOLLOWING" rather than "value PRECEDING/FOLLOWING", since the term "value" is confusingly vague. Oliver Ford, reviewed and whacked around some by me Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAGMVOdu9sivPAxbNN0X+q19Sfv9edEPv=HibOJhB14TJv_RCQg@mail.gmail.com	8 years ago
Bruce Momjian	9d4649ca49	Update copyright for 2018 ... Backpatch-through: certain files through 9.3	8 years ago
Peter Eisentraut	e4128ee767	SQL procedures ... This adds a new object type "procedure" that is similar to a function but does not have a return type and is invoked by the new CALL statement instead of SELECT or similar. This implementation is aligned with the SQL standard and compatible with or similar to other SQL implementations. This commit adds new commands CALL, CREATE/ALTER/DROP PROCEDURE, as well as ALTER/DROP ROUTINE that can refer to either a function or a procedure (or an aggregate function, as an extension to SQL). There is also support for procedures in various utility commands such as COMMENT and GRANT, as well as support in pg_dump and psql. Support for defining procedures is available in all the languages supplied by the core distribution. While this commit is mainly syntax sugar around existing functionality, future features will rely on having procedures as a separate object type. Reviewed-by: Andrew Dunstan <andrew.dunstan@2ndquadrant.com>	8 years ago
Peter Eisentraut	0e1539ba0d	Add some const decorations to prototypes ... Reviewed-by: Fabien COELHO <coelho@cri.ensmp.fr>	8 years ago
Peter Eisentraut	1356f78ea9	Reduce excessive dereferencing of function pointers ... 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	8 years ago
Tom Lane	382ceffdf7	Phase 3 of pgindent updates. ... 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	8 years ago
Tom Lane	c7b8998ebb	Phase 2 of pgindent updates. ... 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 e3860ffa4d 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	8 years ago
Tom Lane	e3860ffa4d	Initial pgindent run with pg_bsd_indent version 2.0. ... The new indent version includes numerous fixes thanks to Piotr Stefaniak. The main changes visible in this commit are: * Nicer formatting of function-pointer declarations. * No longer unexpectedly removes spaces in expressions using casts, sizeof, or offsetof. * No longer wants to add a space in "struct structname *varname", as well as some similar cases for const- or volatile-qualified pointers. * Declarations using PG_USED_FOR_ASSERTS_ONLY are formatted more nicely. * Fixes bug where comments following declarations were sometimes placed with no space separating them from the code. * Fixes some odd decisions for comments following case labels. * Fixes some cases where comments following code were indented to less than the expected column 33. On the less good side, it now tends to put more whitespace around typedef names that are not listed in typedefs.list. This might encourage us to put more effort into typedef name collection; it's not really a bug in indent itself. There are more changes coming after this round, having to do with comment indentation and alignment of lines appearing within parentheses. I wanted to limit the size of the diffs to something that could be reviewed without one's eyes completely glazing over, so it seemed better to split up the changes as much as practical. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/E1dAmxK-0006EE-1r@gemulon.postgresql.org Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/30527.1495162840@sss.pgh.pa.us	8 years ago
Tom Lane	0436f6bde8	Disallow set-returning functions inside CASE or COALESCE. ... When we reimplemented SRFs in commit 69f4b9c85, our initial choice was to allow the behavior to vary from historical practice in cases where a SRF call appeared within a conditional-execution construct (currently, only CASE or COALESCE). But that was controversial to begin with, and subsequent discussion has resulted in a consensus that it's better to throw an error instead of executing the query differently from before, so long as we can provide a reasonably clear error message and a way to rewrite the query. Hence, add a parser mechanism to allow detection of such cases during parse analysis. The mechanism just requires storing, in the ParseState, a pointer to the set-returning FuncExpr or OpExpr most recently emitted by parse analysis. Then the parsing functions for CASE and COALESCE can detect the presence of a SRF in their arguments by noting whether this pointer changes while analyzing their arguments. Furthermore, if it does, it provides a suitable error cursor location for the complaint. (This means that if there's more than one SRF in the arguments, the error will point at the last one to be analyzed not the first. While connoisseurs of parsing behavior might find that odd, it's unlikely the average user would ever notice.) While at it, we can also provide more specific error messages than before about some pre-existing restrictions, such as no-SRFs-within-aggregates. Also, reject at parse time cases where a NULLIF or IS DISTINCT FROM construct would need to return a set. We've never supported that, but the restriction is depended on in more subtle ways now, so it seems wise to detect it at the start. Also, provide some documentation about how to rewrite a SRF-within-CASE query using a custom wrapper SRF. It turns out that the information_schema.user_mapping_options view contained an instance of exactly the behavior we're now forbidding; but rewriting it makes it more clear and safer too. initdb forced because of user_mapping_options change. Patch by me, with error message suggestions from Alvaro Herrera and Andres Freund, pursuant to a complaint from Regina Obe. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/000001d2d5de$d8d66170$8a832450$@pcorp.us	8 years ago
Bruce Momjian	a6fd7b7a5f	Post-PG 10 beta1 pgindent run ... perltidy run not included.	8 years ago
Tom Lane	8f0530f580	Improve castNode notation by introducing list-extraction-specific variants. ... 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	9 years ago
Peter Eisentraut	4cb824699e	Cast result of copyObject() to correct type ... copyObject() is declared to return void *, which allows easily assigning the result independent of the input, but it loses all type checking. If the compiler supports typeof or something similar, cast the result to the input type. This creates a greater amount of type safety. In some cases, where the result is assigned to a generic type such as Node * or Expr *, new casts are now necessary, but in general casts are now unnecessary in the normal case and indicate that something unusual is happening. Reviewed-by: Mark Dilger <hornschnorter@gmail.com>	9 years ago
Peter Eisentraut	38d103763d	Make more use of castNode()	9 years ago
Tom Lane	7afd56c3c6	Use castNode() in a bunch of statement-list-related code. ... 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.	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
Tom Lane	d43a619c60	Fix check_srf_call_placement() to handle VALUES cases correctly. ... INSERT ... VALUES with a single VALUES row is implemented quite differently from the general VALUES case. A user-visible implication of that is that we accept SRFs in the single-row case, but not in the multi-row case. That's a historical artifact no doubt, but in view of the lack of field complaints, I'm not excited about fixing it right now. However, check_srf_call_placement() needs to know about this, first because it should throw an error in the unsupported case, and second because it should set p_hasTargetSRFs in the single-row case (because we treat that like a SELECT tlist). That's an oversight in commit a4c35ea1c. To fix, split EXPR_KIND_VALUES into two values. So far as I can see, this is the only place where we need to distinguish the two cases at present; but there might be more later. Patch by me, per report from Andres Freund. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170116081548.zg63zltblwimpfgp@alap3.anarazel.de	9 years ago
Tom Lane	ab1f0c8225	Change representation of statement lists, and add statement location info. ... 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	9 years ago
Tom Lane	7c3abe3c92	Get rid of ParseState.p_value_substitute; use a columnref hook instead. ... I noticed that p_value_substitute, which is a single-purpose kluge I added in 2002 (commit b0422b215), could be replaced by having domainAddConstraint install a parser hook that looks for the name "value". The parser hook code only dates back to 2009, so it's not surprising that we had to kluge this in 2002, but we can do it more cleanly now.	9 years ago
Bruce Momjian	1d25779284	Update copyright via script for 2017	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
Tom Lane	906bfcad7b	Improve handling of "UPDATE ... SET (column_list) = row_constructor". ... Previously, the right-hand side of a multiple-column assignment, if it wasn't a sub-SELECT, had to be a simple parenthesized expression list, because gram.y was responsible for "bursting" the construct into independent column assignments. This had the minor defect that you couldn't write ROW (though you should be able to, since the standard says this is a row constructor), and the rather larger defect that unlike other uses of row constructors, we would not expand a "foo.*" item into multiple columns. Fix that by changing the RHS to be just "a_expr" in the grammar, leaving it to transformMultiAssignRef to separate the elements of a RowExpr; which it will do only after performing standard transformation of the RowExpr, so that "foo.*" behaves as expected. The key reason we didn't do that before was the hard-wired handling of DEFAULT tokens (SetToDefault nodes). This patch deals with that issue by allowing DEFAULT in any a_expr and having parse analysis throw an error if SetToDefault is found in an unexpected place. That's an improvement anyway since the error can be more specific than just "syntax error". The SQL standard suggests that the RHS could be any a_expr yielding a suitable row value. This patch doesn't really move the goal posts in that respect --- you're still limited to RowExpr or a sub-SELECT --- but it does fix the grammar restriction, so it provides some tangible progress towards a full implementation. And the limitation is now documented by an explicit error message rather than an unhelpful "syntax error". Discussion: <8542.1479742008@sss.pgh.pa.us>	9 years ago
Tom Lane	0bb51aa967	Improve parsetree representation of special functions such as CURRENT_DATE. ... We implement a dozen or so parameterless functions that the SQL standard defines special syntax for. Up to now, that was done by converting them into more or less ad-hoc constructs such as "'now'::text::date". That's messy for multiple reasons: it exposes what should be implementation details to users, and performance is worse than it needs to be in several cases. To improve matters, invent a new expression node type SQLValueFunction that can represent any of these parameterless functions. Bump catversion because this changes stored parsetrees for rules. Discussion: <30058.1463091294@sss.pgh.pa.us>	9 years ago
Tom Lane	8d19d0e139	Teach parser to transform "x IS [NOT] DISTINCT FROM NULL" to a NullTest. ... Now that we've nailed down the principle that NullTest with !argisrow is fully equivalent to SQL's IS [NOT] DISTINCT FROM NULL, let's teach the parser about it. This produces a slightly more compact parse tree and is much more amenable to optimization than a DistinctExpr, since the planner knows a good deal about NullTest and next to nothing about DistinctExpr. I'm not sure that there are all that many queries in the wild that could be improved by this, but at least one source of such cases is the patch just made to postgres_fdw to emit IS [NOT] DISTINCT FROM NULL when IS [NOT] NULL isn't semantically correct. No back-patch, since to the extent that this does affect planning results, it might be considered undesirable plan destabilization.	9 years ago
Tom Lane	abb164655c	Fix unexpected side-effects of operator_precedence_warning. ... The implementation of that feature involves injecting nodes into the raw parsetree where explicit parentheses appear. Various places in parse_expr.c that test to see "is this child node of type Foo" need to look through such nodes, else we'll get different behavior when operator_precedence_warning is on than when it is off. Note that we only need to handle this when testing untransformed child nodes, since the AEXPR_PAREN nodes will be gone anyway after transformExprRecurse. Per report from Scott Ribe and additional code-reading. Back-patch to 9.5 where this feature was added. Report: <ED37E303-1B0A-4CD8-8E1E-B9C4C2DD9A17@elevated-dev.com>	10 years ago
Bruce Momjian	ee94300446	Update copyright for 2016 ... Backpatch certain files through 9.1	10 years ago
Joe Conway	632cd9f892	Create new ParseExprKind for use by policy expressions. ... Policy USING and WITH CHECK expressions were using EXPR_KIND_WHERE for parse analysis, which results in inappropriate ERROR messages when the expression contains unsupported constructs such as aggregates. Create a new ParseExprKind called EXPR_KIND_POLICY and tailor the related messages to fit. Reported by Noah Misch. Reviewed by Dean Rasheed, Alvaro Herrera, and Robert Haas. Back-patch to 9.5 where RLS was introduced.	10 years ago
Andres Freund	f3d3118532	Support GROUPING SETS, CUBE and ROLLUP. ... This SQL standard functionality allows to aggregate data by different GROUP BY clauses at once. Each grouping set returns rows with columns grouped by in other sets set to NULL. This could previously be achieved by doing each grouping as a separate query, conjoined by UNION ALLs. Besides being considerably more concise, grouping sets will in many cases be faster, requiring only one scan over the underlying data. The current implementation of grouping sets only supports using sorting for input. Individual sets that share a sort order are computed in one pass. If there are sets that don't share a sort order, additional sort & aggregation steps are performed. These additional passes are sourced by the previous sort step; thus avoiding repeated scans of the source data. The code is structured in a way that adding support for purely using hash aggregation or a mix of hashing and sorting is possible. Sorting was chosen to be supported first, as it is the most generic method of implementation. Instead of, as in an earlier versions of the patch, representing the chain of sort and aggregation steps as full blown planner and executor nodes, all but the first sort are performed inside the aggregation node itself. This avoids the need to do some unusual gymnastics to handle having to return aggregated and non-aggregated tuples from underlying nodes, as well as having to shut down underlying nodes early to limit memory usage. The optimizer still builds Sort/Agg node to describe each phase, but they're not part of the plan tree, but instead additional data for the aggregation node. They're a convenient and preexisting way to describe aggregation and sorting. The first (and possibly only) sort step is still performed as a separate execution step. That retains similarity with existing group by plans, makes rescans fairly simple, avoids very deep plans (leading to slow explains) and easily allows to avoid the sorting step if the underlying data is sorted by other means. A somewhat ugly side of this patch is having to deal with a grammar ambiguity between the new CUBE keyword and the cube extension/functions named cube (and rollup). To avoid breaking existing deployments of the cube extension it has not been renamed, neither has cube been made a reserved keyword. Instead precedence hacking is used to make GROUP BY cube(..) refer to the CUBE grouping sets feature, and not the function cube(). To actually group by a function cube(), unlikely as that might be, the function name has to be quoted. Needs a catversion bump because stored rules may change. Author: Andrew Gierth and Atri Sharma, with contributions from Andres Freund Reviewed-By: Andres Freund, Noah Misch, Tom Lane, Svenne Krap, Tomas Vondra, Erik Rijkers, Marti Raudsepp, Pavel Stehule Discussion: CAOeZVidmVRe2jU6aMk_5qkxnB7dfmPROzM7Ur8JPW5j8Y5X-Lw@mail.gmail.com	10 years ago
Tom Lane	c6b3c939b7	Make operator precedence follow the SQL standard more closely. ... While the SQL standard is pretty vague on the overall topic of operator precedence (because it never presents a unified BNF for all expressions), it does seem reasonable to conclude from the spec for <boolean value expression> that OR has the lowest precedence, then AND, then NOT, then IS tests, then the six standard comparison operators, then everything else (since any non-boolean operator in a WHERE clause would need to be an argument of one of these). We were only sort of on board with that: most notably, while "<" ">" and "=" had properly low precedence, "<=" ">=" and "<>" were treated as generic operators and so had significantly higher precedence. And "IS" tests were even higher precedence than those, which is very clearly wrong per spec. Another problem was that "foo NOT SOMETHING bar" constructs, such as "x NOT LIKE y", were treated inconsistently because of a bison implementation artifact: they had the documented precedence with respect to operators to their right, but behaved like NOT (i.e., very low priority) with respect to operators to their left. Fixing the precedence issues is just a small matter of rearranging the precedence declarations in gram.y, except for the NOT problem, which requires adding an additional lookahead case in base_yylex() so that we can attach a different token precedence to NOT LIKE and allied two-word operators. The bulk of this patch is not the bug fix per se, but adding logic to parse_expr.c to allow giving warnings if an expression has changed meaning because of these precedence changes. These warnings are off by default and are enabled by the new GUC operator_precedence_warning. It's believed that very few applications will be affected by these changes, but it was agreed that a warning mechanism is essential to help debug any that are.	11 years ago
Robert Haas	e529cd4ffa	Suggest to the user the column they may have meant to reference. ... Error messages informing the user that no such column exists can sometimes provoke a perplexed response. This often happens due to a subtle typo in the column name or, perhaps less likely, in the alias name. To speed discovery of what the real issue is in such cases, we'll now search the range table for approximate matches. If there are one or two such matches that are good enough to think that they might be what the user intended to type, and better than all other approximate matches, we'll issue a hint suggesting that the user might have intended to reference those columns. Peter Geoghegan and Robert Haas	11 years ago
Tom Lane	56be925e4b	Further tweaking of raw grammar output to distinguish different inputs. ... Use a different A_Expr_Kind for LIKE/ILIKE/SIMILAR TO constructs, so that they can be distinguished from direct invocation of the underlying operators. Also, postpone selection of the operator name when transforming "x IN (select)" to "x = ANY (select)", so that those syntaxes can be told apart at parse analysis time. I had originally thought I'd also have to do something special for the syntaxes IS NOT DISTINCT FROM, IS NOT DOCUMENT, and x NOT IN (SELECT...), which the grammar translates as though they were NOT (construct). On reflection though, we can distinguish those cases reliably by noting whether the parse location shown for the NOT is the same as for its child node. This only requires tweaking the parse locations for NOT IN, which I've done here. These changes should have no effect outside the parser; they're just in support of being able to give accurate warnings for planned operator precedence changes.	11 years ago
Tom Lane	c063da1769	Add parse location fields to NullTest and BooleanTest structs. ... We did not need a location tag on NullTest or BooleanTest before, because no error messages referred directly to their locations. That's planned to change though, so add these fields in a separate housekeeping commit. Catversion bump because stored rules may change.	11 years ago
Tom Lane	6a75562ed1	Get rid of multiple applications of transformExpr() to the same tree. ... transformExpr() has for many years had provisions to do nothing when applied to an already-transformed expression tree. However, this was always ugly and of dubious reliability, so we'd be much better off without it. The primary historical reason for it was that gram.y sometimes returned multiple links to the same subexpression, which is no longer true as of my BETWEEN fixes. We'd also grown some lazy hacks in CREATE TABLE LIKE (failing to distinguish between raw and already-transformed index specifications) and one or two other places. This patch removes the need for and support for re-transforming already transformed expressions. The index case is dealt with by adding a flag to struct IndexStmt to indicate that it's already been transformed; which has some benefit anyway in that tablecmds.c can now Assert that transformation has happened rather than just assuming. The other main reason was some rather sloppy code for array type coercion, which can be fixed (and its performance improved too) by refactoring. I did leave transformJoinUsingClause() still constructing expressions containing untransformed operator nodes being applied to Vars, so that transformExpr() still has to allow Var inputs. But that's a much narrower, and safer, special case than before, since Vars will never appear in a raw parse tree, and they don't have any substructure to worry about. In passing fix some oversights in the patch that added CREATE INDEX IF NOT EXISTS (missing processing of IndexStmt.if_not_exists). These appear relatively harmless, but still sloppy coding practice.	11 years ago
Tom Lane	34af082f95	Represent BETWEEN as a special node type in raw parse trees. ... Previously, gram.y itself converted BETWEEN into AND (or AND/OR) nests of expression comparisons. This was always as bogus as could be, but fixing it hasn't risen to the top of the to-do list. The present patch invents an A_Expr representation for BETWEEN expressions, and does the expansion to comparison trees in parse_expr.c which is at least a slightly saner place to be doing semantic conversions. There should be no change in the post- parse-analysis results. This does nothing for the semantic issues with BETWEEN (dubious connection to btree-opclass semantics, and multiple evaluation of possibly volatile subexpressions) ... but it's a necessary preliminary step before we could fix any of that. The main immediate benefit is that preserving BETWEEN as an identifiable raw-parse-tree construct will enable better error messages. While at it, fix the code so that multiply-referenced subexpressions are physically duplicated before being passed through transformExpr(). This gets rid of one of the principal reasons why transformExpr() has historically had to allow already-processed input.	11 years ago
Bruce Momjian	4baaf863ec	Update copyright for 2015 ... Backpatch certain files through 9.0	11 years ago
Tom Lane	8f889b1083	Implement UPDATE tab SET (col1,col2,...) = (SELECT ...), ... ... This SQL-standard feature allows a sub-SELECT yielding multiple columns (but only one row) to be used to compute the new values of several columns to be updated. While the same results can be had with an independent sub-SELECT per column, such a workaround can require a great deal of duplicated computation. The standard actually says that the source for a multi-column assignment could be any row-valued expression. The implementation used here is tightly tied to our existing sub-SELECT support and can't handle other cases; the Bison grammar would have some issues with them too. However, I don't feel too bad about this since other cases can be converted into sub-SELECTs. For instance, "SET (a,b,c) = row_valued_function(x)" could be written "SET (a,b,c) = (SELECT * FROM row_valued_function(x))".	11 years ago
Tom Lane	2146f13408	Avoid recursion when processing simple lists of AND'ed or OR'ed clauses. ... Since most of the system thinks AND and OR are N-argument expressions anyway, let's have the grammar generate a representation of that form when dealing with input like "x AND y AND z AND ...", rather than generating a deeply-nested binary tree that just has to be flattened later by the planner. This avoids stack overflow in parse analysis when dealing with queries having more than a few thousand such clauses; and in any case it removes some rather unsightly inconsistencies, since some parts of parse analysis were generating N-argument ANDs/ORs already. It's still possible to get a stack overflow with weirdly parenthesized input, such as "x AND (y AND (z AND ( ... )))", but such cases are not mainstream usage. The maximum depth of parenthesization is already limited by Bison's stack in such cases, anyway, so that the limit is probably fairly platform-independent. Patch originally by Gurjeet Singh, heavily revised by me	11 years ago
Bruce Momjian	0a78320057	pgindent run for 9.4 ... This includes removing tabs after periods in C comments, which was applied to back branches, so this change should not effect backpatching.	12 years ago
Bruce Momjian	7e04792a1c	Update copyright for 2014 ... Update all files in head, and files COPYRIGHT and legal.sgml in all back branches.	12 years ago
Tom Lane	8d65da1f01	Support ordered-set (WITHIN GROUP) aggregates. ... This patch introduces generic support for ordered-set and hypothetical-set aggregate functions, as well as implementations of the instances defined in SQL:2008 (percentile_cont(), percentile_disc(), rank(), dense_rank(), percent_rank(), cume_dist()). We also added mode() though it is not in the spec, as well as versions of percentile_cont() and percentile_disc() that can compute multiple percentile values in one pass over the data. Unlike the original submission, this patch puts full control of the sorting process in the hands of the aggregate's support functions. To allow the support functions to find out how they're supposed to sort, a new API function AggGetAggref() is added to nodeAgg.c. This allows retrieval of the aggregate call's Aggref node, which may have other uses beyond the immediate need. There is also support for ordered-set aggregates to install cleanup callback functions, so that they can be sure that infrastructure such as tuplesort objects gets cleaned up. In passing, make some fixes in the recently-added support for variadic aggregates, and make some editorial adjustments in the recent FILTER additions for aggregates. Also, simplify use of IsBinaryCoercible() by allowing it to succeed whenever the target type is ANY or ANYELEMENT. It was inconsistent that it dealt with other polymorphic target types but not these. Atri Sharma and Andrew Gierth; reviewed by Pavel Stehule and Vik Fearing, and rather heavily editorialized upon by Tom Lane	12 years ago
Noah Misch	b560ec1b0d	Implement the FILTER clause for aggregate function calls. ... This is SQL-standard with a few extensions, namely support for subqueries and outer references in clause expressions. catversion bump due to change in Aggref and WindowFunc. David Fetter, reviewed by Dean Rasheed.	12 years ago