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2025-11-24Improve detection of implicitly-temporary views.Tom Lane
We've long had a practice of making views temporary by default if they reference any temporary tables. However the implementation was pretty incomplete, in that it only searched for RangeTblEntry references to temp relations. Uses of temporary types, regclass constants, etc were not detected even though the dependency mechanism considers them grounds for dropping the view. Thus a view not believed to be temp could silently go away at session exit anyhow. To improve matters, replace the ad-hoc isQueryUsingTempRelation() logic with use of the dependency-based infrastructure introduced by commit 572c40ba9. This is complete by definition, and it's less code overall. While we're at it, we can also extend the warning NOTICE (or ERROR in the case of a materialized view) to mention one of the temp objects motivating the classification of the view as temp, as was done for functions in 572c40ba9. Author: Tom Lane <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Jim Jones <[email protected]> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/[email protected]
2025-09-16Provide more-specific error details/hints for function lookup failures.Tom Lane
Up to now we've contented ourselves with a one-size-fits-all error hint when we fail to find any match to a function or procedure call. That was mostly okay in the beginning, but it was never great, and since the introduction of named arguments it's really not adequate. We at least ought to distinguish "function name doesn't exist" from "function name exists, but not with those argument names". And the rules for named-argument matching are arcane enough that some more detail seems warranted if we match the argument names but the call still doesn't work. This patch creates a framework for dealing with these problems: FuncnameGetCandidates and related code will now pass back a bitmask of flags showing how far the match succeeded. This allows a considerable amount of granularity in the reports. The set-bits-in-a-bitmask approach means that when there are multiple candidate functions, the report will reflect the match(es) that got the furthest, which seems correct. Also, we can avoid mentioning "maybe add casts" unless failure to match argument types is actually the issue. Extend the same return-a-bitmask approach to OpernameGetCandidates. The issues around argument names don't apply to operator syntax, but it still seems worth distinguishing between "there is no operator of that name" and "we couldn't match the argument types". While at it, adjust these messages and related ones to more strictly separate "detail" from "hint", following our message style guidelines' distinction between those. Reported-by: Dominique Devienne <[email protected]> Author: Tom Lane <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Robert Haas <[email protected]> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/[email protected]
2024-08-29Fix mis-deparsing of ORDER BY lists when there is a name conflict.Tom Lane
If an ORDER BY item in SELECT is a bare identifier, the parser first seeks it as an output column name of the SELECT (for SQL92 compatibility). However, ruleutils.c is expecting the SQL99 interpretation where such a name is an input column name. So it's possible to produce an incorrect display of a view in the (admittedly pretty ill-advised) case where some other column is renamed in the SELECT output list to match an ORDER BY column. This can be fixed by table-qualifying such names in the dumped view text. To avoid cluttering less-ill-advised queries, we'd like to do so only when there's an actual name conflict. That requires passing the current get_query_def call's resultDesc parameter down to get_variable, so that it can determine what the output column names are. In hopes of reducing rather than increasing notational clutter in ruleutils.c, I moved that value into the deparse_context struct and removed it from the parameter lists of get_query_def's other subroutines. I made a few other cosmetic changes while at it: * Likewise move the colNamesVisible parameter into deparse_context. * Rename deparse_context's windowTList field to targetList, since it's no longer used only in connection with WINDOW clauses. * Replace the special_exprkind field with a bool inGroupBy, since that was all it was being used for, and the apparent flexibility of storing a ParseExprKind proved to be illusory. (We need a separate varInOrderBy field to make this patch work.) * Remove useless save/restore logic in get_select_query_def. In principle, this bug is quite old. However, it seems unreachable before 1b4d280ea, because before that the presence of "new" and "old" entries in a view's rangetable caused us to always table-qualify every Var reference in dumped views. Hence, back-patch to v16 where that came in. Per bug #18589 from Quynh Tran. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/[email protected]
2024-08-05Restrict accesses to non-system views and foreign tables during pg_dump.Masahiko Sawada
When pg_dump retrieves the list of database objects and performs the data dump, there was possibility that objects are replaced with others of the same name, such as views, and access them. This vulnerability could result in code execution with superuser privileges during the pg_dump process. This issue can arise when dumping data of sequences, foreign tables (only 13 or later), or tables registered with a WHERE clause in the extension configuration table. To address this, pg_dump now utilizes the newly introduced restrict_nonsystem_relation_kind GUC parameter to restrict the accesses to non-system views and foreign tables during the dump process. This new GUC parameter is added to back branches too, but these changes do not require cluster recreation. Back-patch to all supported branches. Reviewed-by: Noah Misch Security: CVE-2024-7348 Backpatch-through: 12
2023-01-18Get rid of the "new" and "old" entries in a view's rangetable.Tom Lane
The rule system needs "old" and/or "new" pseudo-RTEs in rule actions that are ON INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE. Historically it's put such entries into the ON SELECT rules of views as well, but those are really quite vestigial. The only thing we've used them for is to carry the view's relid forward to AcquireExecutorLocks (so that we can re-lock the view to verify it hasn't changed before re-using a plan) and to carry its relid and permissions data forward to execution-time permissions checks. What we can do instead of that is to retain these fields of the RTE_RELATION RTE for the view even after we convert it to an RTE_SUBQUERY RTE. This requires a tiny amount of extra complication in the planner and AcquireExecutorLocks, but on the other hand we can get rid of the logic that moves that data from one place to another. The principal immediate benefit of doing this, aside from a small saving in the pg_rewrite data for views, is that these pseudo-RTEs no longer trigger ruleutils.c's heuristic about qualifying variable names when the rangetable's length is more than 1. That results in quite a number of small simplifications in regression test outputs, which are all to the good IMO. Bump catversion because we need to dump a few more fields of RTE_SUBQUERY RTEs. While those will always be zeroes anyway in stored rules (because we'd never populate them until query rewrite) they are useful for debugging, and it seems like we'd better make sure to transmit such RTEs accurately in plans sent to parallel workers. I don't think the executor actually examines these fields after startup, but someday it might. This is a second attempt at committing 1b4d280ea. The difference from the first time is that now we can add some filtering rules to AdjustUpgrade.pm to allow cross-version upgrade testing to pass despite all the cosmetic changes in CREATE VIEW outputs. Amit Langote (filtering rules by me) Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+HiwqEf7gPN4Hn+LoZ4tP2q_Qt7n3vw7-6fJKOf92tSEnX6Gg@mail.gmail.com Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/[email protected]
2023-01-12Revert "Get rid of the "new" and "old" entries in a view's rangetable."Tom Lane
This reverts commit 1b4d280ea1eb7ddb2e16654d5fa16960bb959566. It's broken the buildfarm members that run cross-version-upgrade tests, because they're not prepared to deal with cosmetic differences between CREATE VIEW commands emitted by older servers and HEAD. Even if we had a solution to that, which we don't, it'd take some time to roll it out to the affected animals. This improvement isn't valuable enough to justify addressing that problem on an emergency basis, so revert it for now.
2023-01-12Get rid of the "new" and "old" entries in a view's rangetable.Tom Lane
The rule system needs "old" and/or "new" pseudo-RTEs in rule actions that are ON INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE. Historically it's put such entries into the ON SELECT rules of views as well, but those are really quite vestigial. The only thing we've used them for is to carry the view's relid forward to AcquireExecutorLocks (so that we can re-lock the view to verify it hasn't changed before re-using a plan) and to carry its relid and permissions data forward to execution-time permissions checks. What we can do instead of that is to retain these fields of the RTE_RELATION RTE for the view even after we convert it to an RTE_SUBQUERY RTE. This requires a tiny amount of extra complication in the planner and AcquireExecutorLocks, but on the other hand we can get rid of the logic that moves that data from one place to another. The principal immediate benefit of doing this, aside from a small saving in the pg_rewrite data for views, is that these pseudo-RTEs no longer trigger ruleutils.c's heuristic about qualifying variable names when the rangetable's length is more than 1. That results in quite a number of small simplifications in regression test outputs, which are all to the good IMO. Bump catversion because we need to dump a few more fields of RTE_SUBQUERY RTEs. While those will always be zeroes anyway in stored rules (because we'd never populate them until query rewrite) they are useful for debugging, and it seems like we'd better make sure to transmit such RTEs accurately in plans sent to parallel workers. I don't think the executor actually examines these fields after startup, but someday it might. Amit Langote Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+HiwqEf7gPN4Hn+LoZ4tP2q_Qt7n3vw7-6fJKOf92tSEnX6Gg@mail.gmail.com
2022-12-01Fix under-parenthesized display of AT TIME ZONE constructs.Tom Lane
In commit 40c24bfef, I forgot to use get_rule_expr_paren() for the arguments of AT TIME ZONE, resulting in possibly not printing parens for expressions that need it. But get_rule_expr_paren() wouldn't have gotten it right anyway, because isSimpleNode() hadn't been taught that COERCE_SQL_SYNTAX parent nodes don't guarantee sufficient parentheses. Improve all that. Also use this methodology for F_IS_NORMALIZED, so that we don't print useless parens for that. In passing, remove a comment that was obsoleted later. Per report from Duncan Sands. Back-patch to v14 where this code came in. (Before that, we didn't try to print AT TIME ZONE that way, so there was no bug just ugliness.) Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/[email protected]
2022-10-24Improve coverage of ruleutils.c for SQLValueFunctionsMichael Paquier
While looking at how these are handled in the parser and the executor, I have noticed that there is no test coverage for most of these when reverse-engineering an expression for a SQLValueFunction node in ruleutils.c, including how these are reparsed when included in a FROM clause. Some hacking in this area has showed me that these could break easily, so add some coverage to track the existing compatibility. Extracted from a much larger patch by me. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/[email protected]
2022-09-29Introduce SYSTEM_USERMichael Paquier
SYSTEM_USER is a reserved keyword of the SQL specification that, roughly described, is aimed at reporting some information about the system user who has connected to the database server. It may include implementation-specific information about the means by the user connected, like an authentication method. This commit implements SYSTEM_USER as of auth_method:identity, where "auth_method" is a keyword about the authentication method used to log into the server (like peer, md5, scram-sha-256, gss, etc.) and "identity" is the authentication identity as introduced by 9afffcb (peer sets authn to the OS user name, gss to the user principal, etc.). This format has been suggested by Tom Lane. Note that thanks to d951052, SYSTEM_USER is available to parallel workers. Bump catalog version. Author: Bertrand Drouvot Reviewed-by: Jacob Champion, Joe Conway, Álvaro Herrera, Michael Paquier Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/[email protected]
2022-07-22Close old gap in dependency checks for functions returning composite.Tom Lane
The dependency logic failed to register a column-level dependency when a view or rule contains a reference to a specific column of the result of a function-returning-composite. That meant you could drop the column from the composite type, causing trouble for future executions of the view. We've known about this for years, but never summoned the energy to actually fix it, instead installing various low-level defenses to prevent crashing on references to dropped columns. We had to do that to plug the hole in stable branches, where there might be pre-existing broken references; but let's fix the root cause today. To do that, add some logic (borrowed from get_rte_attribute_is_dropped) to find_expr_references_walker, to check whether a Var referencing an RTE_FUNCTION RTE is referencing a column of a composite type, and if so add the proper dependency. However ... it seems mighty unwise to remove said low-level defenses, since there could be other bugs now or in the future that allow reaching them. By the same token, letting those defenses go untested seems unwise. Hence, rather than just dropping the associated test cases, hack them to continue working by the expedient of manually dropping the pg_depend entries that this fix installs. Back-patch into v15. I don't want to risk changing this behavior in stable branches, but it seems not too late for v15. (Since we have already forced initdb for beta3, we can be sure that all production v15 installations will have these added dependencies.) Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/[email protected]
2022-07-21Fix ruleutils issues with dropped cols in functions-returning-composite.Tom Lane
Due to lack of concern for the case in the dependency code, it's possible to drop a column of a composite type even though stored queries have references to the dropped column via functions-in-FROM that return the composite type. There are "soft" references, namely FROM-clause aliases for such columns, and "hard" references, that is actual Vars referring to them. The right fix for hard references is to add dependencies preventing the drop; something we've known for many years and not done (and this commit still doesn't address it). A "soft" reference shouldn't prevent a drop though. We've been around on this before (cf. 9b35ddce9, 2c4debbd0), but nobody had noticed that the current behavior can result in dump/reload failures, because ruleutils.c can print more column aliases than the underlying composite type now has. So we need to rejigger the column-alias-handling code to treat such columns as dropped and not print aliases for them. Rather than writing new code for this, I used expandRTE() which already knows how to figure out which function result columns are dropped. I'd initially thought maybe we could use expandRTE() in all cases, but that fails for EXPLAIN's purposes, because the planner strips a lot of RTE infrastructure that expandRTE() needs. So this patch just uses it for unplanned function RTEs and otherwise does things the old way. If there is a hard reference (Var), then removing the column alias causes us to fail to print the Var, since there's no longer a name to print. Failing seems less desirable than printing a made-up name, so I made it print "?dropped?column?" instead. Per report from Timo Stolz. Back-patch to all supported branches. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/[email protected]
2022-07-19Estimate cost of elided SubqueryScan, Append, MergeAppend nodes better.Tom Lane
setrefs.c contains logic to discard no-op SubqueryScan nodes, that is, ones that have no qual to check and copy the input targetlist unchanged. (Formally it's not very nice to be applying such optimizations so late in the planner, but there are practical reasons for it; mostly that we can't unify relids between the subquery and the parent query until we flatten the rangetable during setrefs.c.) This behavior falsifies our previous cost estimates, since we would've charged cpu_tuple_cost per row just to pass data through the node. Most of the time that's little enough to not matter, but there are cases where this effect visibly changes the plan compared to what you would've gotten with no sub-select. To improve the situation, make the callers of cost_subqueryscan tell it whether they think the targetlist is trivial. cost_subqueryscan already has the qual list, so it can check the other half of the condition easily. It could make its own determination of tlist triviality too, but doing so would be repetitive (for callers that may call it several times) or unnecessarily expensive (for callers that can determine this more cheaply than a general test would do). This isn't a 100% solution, because createplan.c also does things that can falsify any earlier estimate of whether the tlist is trivial. However, it fixes nearly all cases in practice, if results for the regression tests are anything to go by. setrefs.c also contains logic to discard no-op Append and MergeAppend nodes. We did have knowledge of that behavior at costing time, but somebody failed to update it when a check on parallel-awareness was added to the setrefs.c logic. Fix that while we're here. These changes result in two minor changes in query plans shown in our regression tests. Neither is relevant to the purposes of its test case AFAICT. Patch by me; thanks to Richard Guo for review. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/[email protected]
2022-03-22Add support for security invoker views.Dean Rasheed
A security invoker view checks permissions for accessing its underlying base relations using the privileges of the user of the view, rather than the privileges of the view owner. Additionally, if any of the base relations are tables with RLS enabled, the policies of the user of the view are applied, rather than those of the view owner. This allows views to be defined without giving away additional privileges on the underlying base relations, and matches a similar feature available in other database systems. It also allows views to operate more naturally with RLS, without affecting the assignments of policies to users. Christoph Heiss, with some additional hacking by me. Reviewed by Laurenz Albe and Wolfgang Walther. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/b66dd6d6-ad3e-c6f2-8b90-47be773da240%40cybertec.at
2022-02-15Reject change of output-column collation in CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW.Tom Lane
checkViewTupleDesc() didn't get the memo that it should verify same attcollation along with same type/typmod. (A quick scan did not find other similar oversights.) Per bug #17404 from Pierre-Aurélien Georges. On another day I might've back-patched this, but today I'm feeling paranoid about unnecessary behavioral changes in back branches. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/[email protected]
2022-02-08Rearrange core regression tests to reduce cross-script dependencies.Tom Lane
The idea behind this patch is to make it possible to run individual test scripts without running the entire core test suite. Making all the scripts completely independent would involve a massive rewrite, and would probably be worse for coverage of things like concurrent DDL. So this patch just does what seems practical with limited changes. The net effect is that any test script can be run after running limited earlier dependencies: * all scripts depend on test_setup * many scripts depend on create_index * other dependencies are few in number, and are documented in the parallel_schedule file. To accomplish this, I chose a small number of commonly-used tables and moved their creation and filling into test_setup. Later scripts are expected not to modify these tables' data contents, for fear of affecting other scripts' results. Also, our former habit of declaring all C functions in one place is now gone in favor of declaring them where they're used, if that's just one script, or in test_setup if necessary. There's more that could be done to remove some of the remaining inter-script dependencies, but significantly more-invasive changes would be needed, and at least for now it doesn't seem worth it. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/[email protected]
2022-01-13Fix ruleutils.c's dumping of whole-row Vars in more contexts.Tom Lane
Commit 7745bc352 intended to ensure that whole-row Vars would be printed with "::type" decoration in all contexts where plain "var.*" notation would result in star-expansion, notably in ROW() and VALUES() constructs. However, it missed the case of INSERT with a single-row VALUES, as reported by Timur Khanjanov. Nosing around ruleutils.c, I found a second oversight: the code for RowCompareExpr generates ROW() notation without benefit of an actual RowExpr, and naturally it wasn't in sync :-(. (The code for FieldStore also does this, but we don't expect that to generate strictly parsable SQL anyway, so I left it alone.) Back-patch to all supported branches. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/[email protected]
2021-04-06Change return type of EXTRACT to numericPeter Eisentraut
The previous implementation of EXTRACT mapped internally to date_part(), which returned type double precision (since it was implemented long before the numeric type existed). This can lead to imprecise output in some cases, so returning numeric would be preferrable. Changing the return type of an existing function is a bit risky, so instead we do the following: We implement a new set of functions, which are now called "extract", in parallel to the existing date_part functions. They work the same way internally but use numeric instead of float8. The EXTRACT construct is now mapped by the parser to these new extract functions. That way, dumps of views etc. from old versions (which would use date_part) continue to work unchanged, but new uses will map to the new extract functions. Additionally, the reverse compilation of EXTRACT now reproduces the original syntax, using the new mechanism introduced in 40c24bfef92530bd846e111c1742c2a54441c62c. The following minor changes of behavior result from the new implementation: - The column name from an isolated EXTRACT call is now "extract" instead of "date_part". - Extract from date now rejects inappropriate field names such as HOUR. It was previously mapped internally to extract from timestamp, so it would silently accept everything appropriate for timestamp. - Return values when extracting fields with possibly fractional values, such as second and epoch, now have the full scale that the value has internally (so, for example, '1.000000' instead of just '1'). Reported-by: Petr Fedorov <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <[email protected]> Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/[email protected]
2021-03-31Allow an alias to be attached to a JOIN ... USINGPeter Eisentraut
This allows something like SELECT ... FROM t1 JOIN t2 USING (a, b, c) AS x where x has the columns a, b, c and unlike a regular alias it does not hide the range variables of the tables being joined t1 and t2. Per SQL:2016 feature F404 "Range variable for common column names". Reviewed-by: Vik Fearing <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <[email protected]> Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/[email protected]
2021-01-18Add bytea equivalents of ltrim() and rtrim().Tom Lane
We had bytea btrim() already, but for some reason not the other two. Joel Jacobson Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/[email protected]
2020-11-04Improve our ability to regurgitate SQL-syntax function calls.Tom Lane
The SQL spec calls out nonstandard syntax for certain function calls, for example substring() with numeric position info is supposed to be spelled "SUBSTRING(string FROM start FOR count)". We accept many of these things, but up to now would not print them in the same format, instead simplifying down to "substring"(string, start, count). That's long annoyed me because it creates an interoperability problem: we're gratuitously injecting Postgres-specific syntax into what might otherwise be a perfectly spec-compliant view definition. However, the real reason for addressing it right now is to support a planned change in the semantics of EXTRACT() a/k/a date_part(). When we switch that to returning numeric, we'll have the parser translate EXTRACT() to some new function name (might as well be "extract" if you ask me) and then teach ruleutils.c to reverse-list that per SQL spec. In this way existing calls to date_part() will continue to have the old semantics. To implement this, invent a new CoercionForm value COERCE_SQL_SYNTAX, and make the parser insert that rather than COERCE_EXPLICIT_CALL when the input has SQL-spec decoration. (But if the input has the form of a plain function call, continue to mark it COERCE_EXPLICIT_CALL, even if it's calling one of these functions.) Then ruleutils.c recognizes COERCE_SQL_SYNTAX as a cue to emit SQL call syntax. It can know which decoration to emit using hard-wired knowledge about the functions that could be called this way. (While this solution isn't extensible without manual additions, neither is the grammar, so this doesn't seem unmaintainable.) Notice that this solution will reverse-list a function call with SQL decoration only if it was entered that way; so dump-and-reload will not by itself produce any changes in the appearance of views. This requires adding a CoercionForm field to struct FuncCall. (I couldn't resist the temptation to rearrange that struct's field order a tad while I was at it.) FuncCall doesn't appear in stored rules, so that change isn't a reason for a catversion bump, but I did one anyway because the new enum value for CoercionForm fields could confuse old backend code. Possible future work: * Perhaps CoercionForm should now be renamed to DisplayForm, or something like that, to reflect its more general meaning. This'd require touching a couple hundred places, so it's not clear it's worth the code churn. * The SQLValueFunction node type, which was invented partly for the same goal of improving SQL-compatibility of view output, could perhaps be replaced with regular function calls marked with COERCE_SQL_SYNTAX. It's unclear if this would be a net code savings, however. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/[email protected]
2019-12-06Improve test coverage of ruleutils.c.Tom Lane
While fooling around with the EXPLAIN improvements I've been working on, I noticed that there were some large gaps in our test coverage of ruleutils.c, according to the code coverage report. This commit just adds a few test cases to improve coverage of: get_name_for_var_field() get_update_query_targetlist_def() isSimpleNode() get_sublink_expr()
2019-11-21Allow ALTER VIEW command to rename the column in the view.Fujii Masao
ALTER TABLE RENAME COLUMN command always can be used to rename the column in the view, but it's reasonable to add that syntax to ALTER VIEW too. Author: Fujii Masao Reviewed-by: Ibrar Ahmed, Yu Kimura Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAHGQGwHoQMD3b-MqTLcp1MgdhCpOKU7QNRwjFooT4_d+ti5v6g@mail.gmail.com
2019-06-12Fix incorrect printing of queries with duplicated join names.Tom Lane
Given a query in which multiple JOIN nodes used the same alias (which'd necessarily be in different sub-SELECTs), ruleutils.c would assign the JOIN nodes distinct aliases for clarity ... but then it forgot to print the modified aliases when dumping the JOIN nodes themselves. This results in a dump/reload hazard for views, because the emitted query is flat-out incorrect: Vars will be printed with table names that have no referent. This has been wrong for a long time, so back-patch to all supported branches. Philip Dubé Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CY4PR2101MB080246F2955FF58A6ED1FEAC98140@CY4PR2101MB0802.namprd21.prod.outlook.com
2019-03-24Un-hide most cascaded-drop details in regression test results.Tom Lane
Now that the ordering of DROP messages ought to be stable everywhere, we should not need these kluges of hiding DETAIL output just to avoid unstable ordering. Hiding it's not great for test coverage, so let's undo that where possible. In a small number of places, it's necessary to leave it in, for example because the output might include a variable pg_temp_nnn schema name. I also left things alone in places where the details would depend on other regression test scripts, e.g. plpython_drop.sql. Perhaps buildfarm experience will show this to be a bad idea, but if so I'd like to know why. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/[email protected]
2019-02-17Fix CREATE VIEW to allow zero-column views.Tom Lane
We should logically have allowed this case when we allowed zero-column tables, but it was overlooked. Although this might be thought a feature addition, it's really a bug fix, because it was possible to create a zero-column view via the convert-table-to-view code path, and then you'd have a situation where dump/reload would fail. Hence, back-patch to all supported branches. Arrange the added test cases to provide coverage of the related pg_dump code paths (since these views will be dumped and reloaded during the pg_upgrade regression test). I also made them test the case where pg_dump has to postpone the view rule into post-data, which disturbingly had no regression coverage before. Report and patch by Ashutosh Sharma (test case by me) Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAE9k0PkmHdeSaeZt2ujnb_cKucmK3sDDceDzw7+d5UZoNJPYOg@mail.gmail.com
2018-03-15Clean up duplicate role and schema names in regression tests.Tom Lane
Since these names are global, using the same ones in different regression tests creates a hazard of test failures if any two such scripts run concurrently. Let's establish a policy of not doing that. In the cases where a conflict existed, I chose to rename both sides: in principle one script or the other could've been left in possession of the common name, but that seems to just invite more trouble of the same sort. There are a number of places where scripts are using names that seem unduly generic, but in the absence of actual conflicts I left them alone. In addition, fix insert.sql's use of "someone_else" as a role name. That's a flat out violation of longstanding project policy, so back-patch that change to v10 where the usage appeared. The rest of this is just future-proofing, as no two of these scripts are actually run concurrently in the existing parallel_schedule. Conflicts of schema-qualified names also exist, but will be dealt with separately. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/[email protected]
2017-08-23Improve plural handling in error messagePeter Eisentraut
This does not use the normal plural handling, because no numbers appear in the actual message.
2017-08-01Suppress less info in regression tests using DROP CASCADE.Tom Lane
DROP CASCADE doesn't currently promise to visit dependent objects in a fixed order, so when the regression tests use it, we typically need to suppress the details of which objects get dropped in order to have predictable test output. Traditionally we've done that by setting client_min_messages higher than NOTICE, but there's a better way: we can "\set VERBOSITY terse" in psql. That suppresses the DETAIL message with the object list, but we still get the basic notice telling how many objects were dropped. So at least the test case can verify that the expected number of objects were dropped. The VERBOSITY method was already in use in a few places, but run around and use it wherever it makes sense. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/[email protected]
2017-07-24Ensure that pg_get_ruledef()'s output matches pg_get_viewdef()'s.Tom Lane
Various cases involving renaming of view columns are handled by having make_viewdef pass down the view's current relation tupledesc to get_query_def, which then takes care to use the column names from the tupledesc for the output column names of the SELECT. For some reason though, we'd missed teaching make_ruledef to do similarly when it is printing an ON SELECT rule, even though this is exactly the same case. The results from pg_get_ruledef would then be different and arguably wrong. In particular, this breaks pre-v10 versions of pg_dump, which in some situations would define views by means of emitting a CREATE RULE ... ON SELECT command. Third-party tools might not be happy either. In passing, clean up some crufty code in make_viewdef; we'd apparently modernized the equivalent code in make_ruledef somewhere along the way, and missed this copy. Per report from Gilles Darold. Back-patch to all supported versions. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/[email protected]
2017-07-20Fix dumping of outer joins with empty qual lists.Tom Lane
Normally, a JoinExpr would have empty "quals" only if it came from CROSS JOIN syntax. However, it's possible to get to this state by specifying NATURAL JOIN between two tables with no common column names, and there might be other ways too. The code previously printed no ON clause if "quals" was empty; that's right for CROSS JOIN but syntactically invalid if it's some type of outer join. Fix by printing ON TRUE in that case. This got broken by commit 2ffa740be, which stopped using NATURAL JOIN syntax in ruleutils output due to its brittleness in the face of column renamings. Back-patch to 9.3 where that commit appeared. Per report from Tushar Ahuja. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/[email protected]
2017-07-13Fix dumping of FUNCTION RTEs that contain non-function-call expressions.Tom Lane
The grammar will only accept something syntactically similar to a function call in a function-in-FROM expression. However, there are various ways to input something that ruleutils.c won't deparse that way, potentially leading to a view or rule that fails dump/reload. Fix by inserting a dummy CAST around anything that isn't going to deparse as a function (which is one of the ways to get something like that in there in the first place). In HEAD, also make use of the infrastructure added by this to avoid emitting unnecessary parentheses in CREATE INDEX deparsing. I did not change that in back branches, thinking that people might find it to be unexpected/unnecessary behavioral change. In HEAD, also fix incorrect logic for when to add extra parens to partition key expressions. Somebody apparently thought they could get away with simpler logic than pg_get_indexdef_worker has, but they were wrong --- a counterexample is PARTITION BY LIST ((a[1])). Ignoring the prettyprint flag for partition expressions isn't exactly a nice solution anyway. This has been broken all along, so back-patch to all supported branches. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/[email protected]
2017-03-28Make new expression eval code reject references to dropped columns.Tom Lane
Formerly, a Var referencing an already-dropped column was allowed and would always produce a NULL value. However, that behavior was implemented in slot_getattr which the new expression code doesn't use; thus there is now a risk of returning theoretically-deleted data. We had regression test cases that purported to exercise this, but they failed to expose any problem, apparently because plpgsql filters the dropped column and produces an output tuple that has a NULL there already. Ideally the DROP or ALTER attempt in these test cases would get rejected due to dependency checks; but until that happens, let's modify the behavior so that we fail the query during executor start. This was already true for the related case of a column having changed type underneath us, and there's no obvious reason why we need to be laxer for dropped columns. In passing, adjust the error messages in CheckVarSlotCompatibility to include the composite type name. In the cases shown in the regression tests this is always just "record", but it should be more useful in actual stale-plan cases, where the slot tupdesc would be a table's tupdesc directly. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/[email protected]
2017-01-25Change unknown-type literals to type text in SELECT and RETURNING lists.Tom Lane
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
2016-12-08Fix reporting of column typmods for multi-row VALUES constructs.Tom Lane
expandRTE() and get_rte_attribute_type() reported the exprType() and exprTypmod() values of the expressions in the first row of the VALUES as being the column type/typmod returned by the VALUES RTE. That's fine for the data type, since we coerce all expressions in a column to have the same common type. But we don't coerce them to have a common typmod, so it was possible for rows after the first one to return values that violate the claimed column typmod. This leads to the incorrect result seen in bug #14448 from Hassan Mahmood, as well as some other corner-case misbehaviors. The desired behavior is the same as we use in other type-unification cases: report the common typmod if there is one, but otherwise return -1 indicating no particular constraint. It's cheap for transformValuesClause to determine the common typmod while transforming a multi-row VALUES, but it'd be less cheap for expandRTE() and get_rte_attribute_type() to re-determine that info every time they're asked --- possibly a lot less cheap, if the VALUES has many rows. Therefore, the best fix is to record the common typmods explicitly in a list in the VALUES RTE, as we were already doing for column collations. This looks quite a bit like what we're doing for CTE RTEs, so we can save a little bit of space and code by unifying the representation for those two RTE types. They both now share coltypes/coltypmods/colcollations fields. (At some point it might seem desirable to populate those fields for all RTE types; but right now it looks like constructing them for other RTE types would add more code and cycles than it would save.) The RTE change requires a catversion bump, so this fix is only usable in HEAD. If we fix this at all in the back branches, the patch will need to look quite different. Report: https://postgr.es/m/[email protected] Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/[email protected]
2016-11-03psql: Split up "Modifiers" column in \d and \dDPeter Eisentraut
Make separate columns "Collation", "Nullable", "Default". Reviewed-by: Kuntal Ghosh <[email protected]>
2016-04-21Fix ruleutils.c's dumping of ScalarArrayOpExpr containing an EXPR_SUBLINK.Tom Lane
When we shoehorned "x op ANY (array)" into the SQL syntax, we created a fundamental ambiguity as to the proper treatment of a sub-SELECT on the righthand side: perhaps what's meant is to compare x against each row of the sub-SELECT's result, or perhaps the sub-SELECT is meant as a scalar sub-SELECT that delivers a single array value whose members should be compared against x. The grammar resolves it as the former case whenever the RHS is a select_with_parens, making the latter case hard to reach --- but you can get at it, with tricks such as attaching a no-op cast to the sub-SELECT. Parse analysis would throw away the no-op cast, leaving a parsetree with an EXPR_SUBLINK SubLink directly under a ScalarArrayOpExpr. ruleutils.c was not clued in on this fine point, and would naively emit "x op ANY ((SELECT ...))", which would be parsed as the first alternative, typically leading to errors like "operator does not exist: text = text[]" during dump/reload of a view or rule containing such a construct. To fix, emit a no-op cast when dumping such a parsetree. This might well be exactly what the user wrote to get the construct accepted in the first place; and even if she got there with some other dodge, it is a valid representation of the parsetree. Per report from Karl Czajkowski. He mentioned only a case involving RLS policies, but actually the problem is very old, so back-patch to all supported branches. Report: <[email protected]>
2015-11-16Speed up ruleutils' name de-duplication code, and fix overlength-name case.Tom Lane
Since commit 11e131854f8231a21613f834c40fe9d046926387, ruleutils.c has attempted to ensure that each RTE in a query or plan tree has a unique alias name. However, the code that was added for this could be quite slow, even as bad as O(N^3) if N identical RTE names must be replaced, as noted by Jeff Janes. Improve matters by building a transient hash table within set_rtable_names. The hash table in itself reduces the cost of detecting a duplicate from O(N) to O(1), and we can save another factor of N by storing the number of de-duplicated names already created for each entry, so that we don't have to re-try names already created. This way is probably a bit slower overall for small range tables, but almost by definition, such cases should not be a performance problem. In principle the same problem applies to the column-name-de-duplication code; but in practice that seems to be less of a problem, first because N is limited since we don't support extremely wide tables, and second because duplicate column names within an RTE are fairly rare, so that in practice the cost is more like O(N^2) not O(N^3). It would be very much messier to fix the column-name code, so for now I've left that alone. An independent problem in the same area was that the de-duplication code paid no attention to the identifier length limit, and would happily produce identifiers that were longer than NAMEDATALEN and wouldn't be unique after truncation to NAMEDATALEN. This could result in dump/reload failures, or perhaps even views that silently behaved differently than before. We can fix that by shortening the base name as needed. Fix it for both the relation and column name cases. In passing, check for interrupts in set_rtable_names, just in case it's still slow enough to be an issue. Back-patch to 9.3 where this code was introduced.
2015-11-15Fix ruleutils.c's dumping of whole-row Vars in ROW() and VALUES() contexts.Tom Lane
Normally ruleutils prints a whole-row Var as "foo.*". We already knew that that doesn't work at top level of a SELECT list, because the parser would treat the "*" as a directive to expand the reference into separate columns, not a whole-row Var. However, Joshua Yanovski points out in bug #13776 that the same thing happens at top level of a ROW() construct; and some nosing around in the parser shows that the same is true in VALUES(). Hence, apply the same workaround already devised for the SELECT-list case, namely to add a forced cast to the appropriate rowtype in these cases. (The alternative of just printing "foo" was rejected because it is difficult to avoid ambiguity against plain columns named "foo".) Back-patch to all supported branches.
2014-07-19Partial fix for dropped columns in functions returning composite.Tom Lane
When a view has a function-returning-composite in FROM, and there are some dropped columns in the underlying composite type, ruleutils.c printed junk in the column alias list for the reconstructed FROM entry. Before 9.3, this was prevented by doing get_rte_attribute_is_dropped tests while printing the column alias list; but that solution is not currently available to us for reasons I'll explain below. Instead, check for empty-string entries in the alias list, which can only exist if that column position had been dropped at the time the view was made. (The parser fills in empty strings to preserve the invariant that the aliases correspond to physical column positions.) While this is sufficient to handle the case of columns dropped before the view was made, we have still got issues with columns dropped after the view was made. In particular, the view could contain Vars that explicitly reference such columns! The dependency machinery really ought to refuse the column drop attempt in such cases, as it would do when trying to drop a table column that's explicitly referenced in views. However, we currently neglect to store dependencies on columns of composite types, and fixing that is likely to be too big to be back-patchable (not to mention that existing views in existing databases would not have the needed pg_depend entries anyway). So I'll leave that for a separate patch. Pre-9.3, ruleutils would print such Vars normally (with their original column names) even though it suppressed their entries in the RTE's column alias list. This is certainly bogus, since the printed view definition would fail to reload, but at least it didn't crash. However, as of 9.3 the printed column alias list is tightly tied to the names printed for Vars; so we can't treat columns as dropped for one purpose and not dropped for the other. This is why we can't just put back the get_rte_attribute_is_dropped test: it results in an assertion failure if the view in fact contains any Vars referencing the dropped column. Once we've got dependencies preventing such cases, we'll probably want to do it that way instead of relying on the empty-string test used here. This fix turned up a very ancient bug in outfuncs/readfuncs, namely that T_String nodes containing empty strings were not dumped/reloaded correctly: the node was printed as "<>" which is read as a string value of <>. Since (per SQL) we disallow empty-string identifiers, such nodes don't occur normally, which is why we'd not noticed. (Such nodes aren't used for literal constants, just identifiers.) Per report from Marc Schablewski. Back-patch to 9.3 which is where the rule printing behavior changed. The dangling-variable case is broken all the way back, but that's not what his complaint is about.
2014-05-02Fix yet another corner case in dumping rules/views with USING clauses.Tom Lane
ruleutils.c tries to cope with additions/deletions/renamings of columns in tables referenced by views, by means of adding machine-generated aliases to the printed form of a view when needed to preserve the original semantics. A recent blog post by Marko Tiikkaja pointed out a case I'd missed though: if one input of a join with USING is itself a join, there is nothing to stop the user from adding a column of the same name as the USING column to whichever side of the sub-join didn't provide the USING column. And then there'll be an error when the view is re-parsed, since now the sub-join exposes two columns matching the USING specification. We were catching a lot of related cases, but not this one, so add some logic to cope with it. Back-patch to 9.3, which is the first release that makes any serious attempt to cope with such cases (cf commit 2ffa740be and follow-ons).
2014-04-30Reduce indentation/parenthesization of set operations in rule/view dumps.Tom Lane
A query such as "SELECT x UNION SELECT y UNION SELECT z UNION ..." produces a left-deep nested parse tree, which we formerly showed in its full nested glory and with all the possible parentheses. This does little for readability, though, and long UNION lists resulting in excessive indentation are common. Instead, let's omit parentheses and indent all the subqueries at the same level in such cases. This patch skips indentation/parenthesization whenever the lefthand input of a SetOperationStmt is another SetOperationStmt of the same kind and ALL/DISTINCT property. We could teach the code the exact syntactic precedence of set operations and thereby avoid parenthesization in some more cases, but it's not clear that that'd be a readability win: it seems better to parenthesize if the set operation changes. (As an example, if there's one UNION in a long list of UNION ALL, it now stands out like a sore thumb, which seems like a good thing.) Back-patch to 9.3. This completes our response to a complaint from Greg Stark that since commit 62e666400d there's a performance problem in pg_dump for views containing long UNION sequences (or other types of deeply nested constructs). The previous commit 0601cb54dac14d979d726ab2ebeda251ae36e857 handles the general problem, but this one makes the specific case of UNION lists look a lot nicer.
2014-04-30Fix indentation of JOIN clauses in rule/view dumps.Tom Lane
The code attempted to outdent JOIN clauses further left than the parent FROM keyword, which was odd in any case, and led to inconsistent formatting since in simple cases the clauses couldn't be moved any further left than that. And it left a permanent decrement of the indentation level, causing subsequent lines to be much further left than they should be (again, this couldn't be seen in simple cases for lack of indentation to give up). After a little experimentation I chose to make it indent JOIN keywords two spaces from the parent FROM, which is one space more than the join's lefthand input in cases where that appears on a different line from FROM. Back-patch to 9.3. This is a purely cosmetic change, and the bug is quite old, so that may seem arbitrary; but we are going to be making some other changes to the indentation behavior in both HEAD and 9.3, so it seems reasonable to include this in 9.3 too. I committed this one first because its effects are more visible in the regression test results as they currently stand than they will be later.
2014-04-13Make security barrier views automatically updatableStephen Frost
Views which are marked as security_barrier must have their quals applied before any user-defined quals are called, to prevent user-defined functions from being able to see rows which the security barrier view is intended to prevent them from seeing. Remove the restriction on security barrier views being automatically updatable by adding a new securityQuals list to the RTE structure which keeps track of the quals from security barrier views at each level, independently of the user-supplied quals. When RTEs are later discovered which have securityQuals populated, they are turned into subquery RTEs which are marked as security_barrier to prevent any user-supplied quals being pushed down (modulo LEAKPROOF quals). Dean Rasheed, reviewed by Craig Ringer, Simon Riggs, KaiGai Kohei
2013-11-11Fix ruleutils pretty-printing to not generate trailing whitespace.Tom Lane
The pretty-printing logic in ruleutils.c operates by inserting a newline and some indentation whitespace into strings that are already valid SQL. This naturally results in leaving some trailing whitespace before the newline in many cases; which can be annoying when processing the output with other tools, as complained of by Joe Abbate. We can fix that in a pretty localized fashion by deleting any trailing whitespace before we append a pretty-printing newline. In addition, we have to modify the code inserted by commit 2f582f76b1945929ff07116cd4639747ce9bb8a1 so that we also delete trailing whitespace when transposing items from temporary buffers into the main result string, when a temporary item starts with a newline. This results in rather voluminous changes to the regression test results, but it's easily verified that they are only removal of trailing whitespace. Back-patch to 9.3, because the aforementioned commit resulted in many more cases of trailing whitespace than had occurred in earlier branches.
2013-07-23Further hacking on ruleutils' new column-alias-assignment code.Tom Lane
After further thought about implicit coercions appearing in a joinaliasvars list, I realized that they represent an additional reason why we might need to reference the join output column directly instead of referencing an underlying column. Consider SELECT x FROM t1 LEFT JOIN t2 USING (x) where t1.x is of type date while t2.x is of type timestamptz. The merged output variable is of type timestamptz, but it won't go to null when t2 does, therefore neither t1.x nor t2.x is a valid substitute reference. The code in get_variable() actually gets this case right, since it knows it shouldn't look through a coercion, but we failed to ensure that the unqualified output column name would be globally unique. To fix, modify the code that trawls for a dangerous situation so that it actually scans through an unnamed join's joinaliasvars list to see if there are any non-simple-Var entries.
2013-07-23Change post-rewriter representation of dropped columns in joinaliasvars.Tom Lane
It's possible to drop a column from an input table of a JOIN clause in a view, if that column is nowhere actually referenced in the view. But it will still be there in the JOIN clause's joinaliasvars list. We used to replace such entries with NULL Const nodes, which is handy for generation of RowExpr expansion of a whole-row reference to the view. The trouble with that is that it can't be distinguished from the situation after subquery pull-up of a constant subquery output expression below the JOIN. Instead, replace such joinaliasvars with null pointers (empty expression trees), which can't be confused with pulled-up expressions. expandRTE() still emits the old convention, though, for convenience of RowExpr generation and to reduce the risk of breaking extension code. In HEAD and 9.3, this patch also fixes a problem with some new code in ruleutils.c that was failing to cope with implicitly-casted joinaliasvars entries, as per recent report from Feike Steenbergen. That oversight was because of an inadequate description of the data structure in parsenodes.h, which I've now corrected. There were some pre-existing oversights of the same ilk elsewhere, which I believe are now all fixed.
2013-07-18WITH CHECK OPTION support for auto-updatable VIEWsStephen Frost
For simple views which are automatically updatable, this patch allows the user to specify what level of checking should be done on records being inserted or updated. For 'LOCAL CHECK', new tuples are validated against the conditionals of the view they are being inserted into, while for 'CASCADED CHECK' the new tuples are validated against the conditionals for all views involved (from the top down). This option is part of the SQL specification. Dean Rasheed, reviewed by Pavel Stehule
2013-02-03Perform line wrapping and indenting by default in ruleutils.c.Tom Lane
This patch changes pg_get_viewdef() and allied functions so that PRETTY_INDENT processing is always enabled. Per discussion, only the PRETTY_PAREN processing (that is, stripping of "unnecessary" parentheses) poses any real forward-compatibility risk, so we may as well make dump output look as nice as we safely can. Also, set the default wrap length to zero (i.e, wrap after each SELECT or FROM list item), since there's no very principled argument for the former default of 80-column wrapping, and most people seem to agree this way looks better. Marko Tiikkaja, reviewed by Jeevan Chalke, further hacking by Tom Lane
2012-12-31Fix ruleutils to cope with conflicts from adding/dropping/renaming columns.Tom Lane
In commit 11e131854f8231a21613f834c40fe9d046926387, we improved the rule/view dumping code so that it would produce valid query representations even if some of the tables involved in a query had been renamed since the query was parsed. This patch extends that idea to fix problems that occur when individual columns are renamed, or added or dropped. As before, the core of the fix is to assign unique new aliases when a name conflict has been created. This is complicated by the JOIN USING feature, which requires the same column alias to be used in both input relations, but we can handle that with a sufficiently complex approach to assigning aliases. A fortiori, this patch takes care of situations where the query didn't have unique column names to begin with, such as in a recent complaint from Bryan Nuse. (Because of expansion of "SELECT *", re-parsing a dumped query can require column name uniqueness even though the original text did not.)