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<title>delta/postgresql.git/src/test/regress/output/create_function_1.source, branch master</title>
<subtitle>git.postgresql.org: git/postgresql.git
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<entry>
<title>Remove dynamic translation of regression test scripts, step 2.</title>
<updated>2021-12-20T19:15:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tom Lane</name>
<email>tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us</email>
</author>
<published>2021-12-20T19:15:52+00:00</published>
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"git mv" all the input/*.source and output/*.source files into
the corresponding sql/ and expected/ directories.  Then remove
the pg_regress and Makefile infrastructure associated with
dynamic translation.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1655733.1639871614@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"git mv" all the input/*.source and output/*.source files into
the corresponding sql/ and expected/ directories.  Then remove
the pg_regress and Makefile infrastructure associated with
dynamic translation.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1655733.1639871614@sss.pgh.pa.us
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Remove dynamic translation of regression test scripts, step 1.</title>
<updated>2021-12-20T19:06:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tom Lane</name>
<email>tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us</email>
</author>
<published>2021-12-20T19:06:15+00:00</published>
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pg_regress has long had provisions for dynamically substituting path
names into regression test scripts and result files, but use of that
feature has always been a serious pain in the neck, mainly because
updating the result files requires tedious manual editing.  Let's
get rid of that in favor of passing down the paths in environment
variables.

In addition to being easier to maintain, this way is capable of
dealing with path names that require escaping at runtime, for example
paths containing single-quote marks.  (There are other stumbling
blocks in the way of actually building in a path that looks like
that, but removing this one seems like a good thing to do.)  The key
coding rule that makes that possible is to concatenate pieces of a
dynamically-variable string using psql's \set command, and then use
the :'variable' notation to quote and escape the string for the next
level of interpretation.

In hopes of making this change more transparent to "git blame",
I've split it into two steps.  This commit adds the necessary
pg_regress.c support and changes all the *.source files in-place
so that they no longer require any dynamic translation.  The next
commit will just "git mv" them into the regular sql/ and expected/
directories.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1655733.1639871614@sss.pgh.pa.us
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pg_regress has long had provisions for dynamically substituting path
names into regression test scripts and result files, but use of that
feature has always been a serious pain in the neck, mainly because
updating the result files requires tedious manual editing.  Let's
get rid of that in favor of passing down the paths in environment
variables.

In addition to being easier to maintain, this way is capable of
dealing with path names that require escaping at runtime, for example
paths containing single-quote marks.  (There are other stumbling
blocks in the way of actually building in a path that looks like
that, but removing this one seems like a good thing to do.)  The key
coding rule that makes that possible is to concatenate pieces of a
dynamically-variable string using psql's \set command, and then use
the :'variable' notation to quote and escape the string for the next
level of interpretation.

In hopes of making this change more transparent to "git blame",
I've split it into two steps.  This commit adds the necessary
pg_regress.c support and changes all the *.source files in-place
so that they no longer require any dynamic translation.  The next
commit will just "git mv" them into the regular sql/ and expected/
directories.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1655733.1639871614@sss.pgh.pa.us
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Replace opr_sanity test's binary_coercible() function with C code.</title>
<updated>2021-05-11T18:28:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tom Lane</name>
<email>tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us</email>
</author>
<published>2021-05-11T18:28:11+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://trove.baserock.org/cgit/delta/postgresql.git/commit/?id=6303a5730914dfe6ef2709b28b225553315c573c'/>
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opr_sanity's binary_coercible() function has always been meant
to match the parser's notion of binary coercibility, but it also
has always been a rather poor approximation of the parser's
real rules (as embodied in IsBinaryCoercible()).  That hasn't
bit us so far, but it's predictable that it will eventually.

It also now emerges that implementing this check in plpgsql
performs absolutely horribly in clobber-cache-always testing.
(Perhaps we could do something about that, but I suspect it just
means that plpgsql is exploiting catalog caching to the hilt.)

Hence, let's replace binary_coercible() with a C shim that directly
invokes IsBinaryCoercible(), eliminating both the semantic hazard
and the performance issue.

Most of regress.c's C functions are declared in create_function_1,
but we can't simply move that to before opr_sanity/type_sanity
since those tests would complain about the resulting shell types.
I chose to split it into create_function_0 and create_function_1.
Since create_function_0 now runs as part of a parallel group while
create_function_1 doesn't, reduce the latter to create just those
functions that opr_sanity and type_sanity would whine about.

To make room for create_function_0 in the second parallel group
of tests, move tstypes to the third parallel group.

In passing, clean up some ordering deviations between
parallel_schedule and serial_schedule.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/292305.1620503097@sss.pgh.pa.us
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opr_sanity's binary_coercible() function has always been meant
to match the parser's notion of binary coercibility, but it also
has always been a rather poor approximation of the parser's
real rules (as embodied in IsBinaryCoercible()).  That hasn't
bit us so far, but it's predictable that it will eventually.

It also now emerges that implementing this check in plpgsql
performs absolutely horribly in clobber-cache-always testing.
(Perhaps we could do something about that, but I suspect it just
means that plpgsql is exploiting catalog caching to the hilt.)

Hence, let's replace binary_coercible() with a C shim that directly
invokes IsBinaryCoercible(), eliminating both the semantic hazard
and the performance issue.

Most of regress.c's C functions are declared in create_function_1,
but we can't simply move that to before opr_sanity/type_sanity
since those tests would complain about the resulting shell types.
I chose to split it into create_function_0 and create_function_1.
Since create_function_0 now runs as part of a parallel group while
create_function_1 doesn't, reduce the latter to create just those
functions that opr_sanity and type_sanity would whine about.

To make room for create_function_0 in the second parallel group
of tests, move tstypes to the third parallel group.

In passing, clean up some ordering deviations between
parallel_schedule and serial_schedule.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/292305.1620503097@sss.pgh.pa.us
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Mark test_enc_conversion() as STRICT.</title>
<updated>2021-04-06T11:53:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Heikki Linnakangas</name>
<email>heikki.linnakangas@iki.fi</email>
</author>
<published>2021-04-06T11:53:56+00:00</published>
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Reported-by: Jaime Casanova, using SQLsmith
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20210402235337.GA4082@ahch-to
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Reported-by: Jaime Casanova, using SQLsmith
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20210402235337.GA4082@ahch-to
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Add 'noError' argument to encoding conversion functions.</title>
<updated>2021-04-01T08:45:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Heikki Linnakangas</name>
<email>heikki.linnakangas@iki.fi</email>
</author>
<published>2021-04-01T08:45:22+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://trove.baserock.org/cgit/delta/postgresql.git/commit/?id=ea1b99a6619cd9dcfd46b82ac0d926b0b80e0ae9'/>
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With the 'noError' argument, you can try to convert a buffer without
knowing the character boundaries beforehand. The functions now need to
return the number of input bytes successfully converted.

This is is a backwards-incompatible change, if you have created a custom
encoding conversion with CREATE CONVERSION. This adds a check to
pg_upgrade for that, refusing the upgrade if there are any user-defined
encoding conversions. Custom conversions are very rare, there are no
commonly used extensions that I know of that uses that feature. No other
objects can depend on conversions, so if you do have one, you can fairly
easily drop it before upgrading, and recreate it after the upgrade with
an updated version.

Add regression tests for built-in encoding conversions. This doesn't cover
every conversion, but it covers all the internal functions in conv.c that
are used to implement the conversions.

Reviewed-by: John Naylor
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/e7861509-3960-538a-9025-b75a61188e01%40iki.fi
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With the 'noError' argument, you can try to convert a buffer without
knowing the character boundaries beforehand. The functions now need to
return the number of input bytes successfully converted.

This is is a backwards-incompatible change, if you have created a custom
encoding conversion with CREATE CONVERSION. This adds a check to
pg_upgrade for that, refusing the upgrade if there are any user-defined
encoding conversions. Custom conversions are very rare, there are no
commonly used extensions that I know of that uses that feature. No other
objects can depend on conversions, so if you do have one, you can fairly
easily drop it before upgrading, and recreate it after the upgrade with
an updated version.

Add regression tests for built-in encoding conversions. This doesn't cover
every conversion, but it covers all the internal functions in conv.c that
are used to implement the conversions.

Reviewed-by: John Naylor
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/e7861509-3960-538a-9025-b75a61188e01%40iki.fi
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Implement operator class parameters</title>
<updated>2020-03-30T16:17:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexander Korotkov</name>
<email>akorotkov@postgresql.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-03-30T16:17:11+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://trove.baserock.org/cgit/delta/postgresql.git/commit/?id=911e70207703799605f5a0e8aad9f06cff067c63'/>
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PostgreSQL provides set of template index access methods, where opclasses have
much freedom in the semantics of indexing.  These index AMs are GiST, GIN,
SP-GiST and BRIN.  There opclasses define representation of keys, operations on
them and supported search strategies.  So, it's natural that opclasses may be
faced some tradeoffs, which require user-side decision.  This commit implements
opclass parameters allowing users to set some values, which tell opclass how to
index the particular dataset.

This commit doesn't introduce new storage in system catalog.  Instead it uses
pg_attribute.attoptions, which is used for table column storage options but
unused for index attributes.

In order to evade changing signature of each opclass support function, we
implement unified way to pass options to opclass support functions.  Options
are set to fn_expr as the constant bytea expression.  It's possible due to the
fact that opclass support functions are executed outside of expressions, so
fn_expr is unused for them.

This commit comes with some examples of opclass options usage.  We parametrize
signature length in GiST.  That applies to multiple opclasses: tsvector_ops,
gist__intbig_ops, gist_ltree_ops, gist__ltree_ops, gist_trgm_ops and
gist_hstore_ops.  Also we parametrize maximum number of integer ranges for
gist__int_ops.  However, the main future usage of this feature is expected
to be json, where users would be able to specify which way to index particular
json parts.

Catversion is bumped.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/d22c3a18-31c7-1879-fc11-4c1ce2f5e5af%40postgrespro.ru
Author: Nikita Glukhov, revised by me
Reviwed-by: Nikolay Shaplov, Robert Haas, Tom Lane, Tomas Vondra, Alvaro Herrera
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PostgreSQL provides set of template index access methods, where opclasses have
much freedom in the semantics of indexing.  These index AMs are GiST, GIN,
SP-GiST and BRIN.  There opclasses define representation of keys, operations on
them and supported search strategies.  So, it's natural that opclasses may be
faced some tradeoffs, which require user-side decision.  This commit implements
opclass parameters allowing users to set some values, which tell opclass how to
index the particular dataset.

This commit doesn't introduce new storage in system catalog.  Instead it uses
pg_attribute.attoptions, which is used for table column storage options but
unused for index attributes.

In order to evade changing signature of each opclass support function, we
implement unified way to pass options to opclass support functions.  Options
are set to fn_expr as the constant bytea expression.  It's possible due to the
fact that opclass support functions are executed outside of expressions, so
fn_expr is unused for them.

This commit comes with some examples of opclass options usage.  We parametrize
signature length in GiST.  That applies to multiple opclasses: tsvector_ops,
gist__intbig_ops, gist_ltree_ops, gist__ltree_ops, gist_trgm_ops and
gist_hstore_ops.  Also we parametrize maximum number of integer ranges for
gist__int_ops.  However, the main future usage of this feature is expected
to be json, where users would be able to specify which way to index particular
json parts.

Catversion is bumped.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/d22c3a18-31c7-1879-fc11-4c1ce2f5e5af%40postgrespro.ru
Author: Nikita Glukhov, revised by me
Reviwed-by: Nikolay Shaplov, Robert Haas, Tom Lane, Tomas Vondra, Alvaro Herrera
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Build out the planner support function infrastructure.</title>
<updated>2019-02-09T23:32:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tom Lane</name>
<email>tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us</email>
</author>
<published>2019-02-09T23:32:23+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://trove.baserock.org/cgit/delta/postgresql.git/commit/?id=a391ff3c3d418e404a2c6e4ff0865a107752827b'/>
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Add support function requests for estimating the selectivity, cost,
and number of result rows (if a SRF) of the target function.

The lack of a way to estimate selectivity of a boolean-returning
function in WHERE has been a recognized deficiency of the planner
since Berkeley days.  This commit finally fixes it.

In addition, non-constant estimates of cost and number of output
rows are now possible.  We still fall back to looking at procost
and prorows if the support function doesn't service the request,
of course.

To make concrete use of the possibility of estimating output rowcount
for SRFs, this commit adds support functions for array_unnest(anyarray)
and the integer variants of generate_series; the lack of plausible
rowcount estimates for those, even when it's obvious to a human,
has been a repeated subject of complaints.  Obviously, much more
could now be done in this line, but I'm mostly just trying to get
the infrastructure in place.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/15193.1548028093@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Add support function requests for estimating the selectivity, cost,
and number of result rows (if a SRF) of the target function.

The lack of a way to estimate selectivity of a boolean-returning
function in WHERE has been a recognized deficiency of the planner
since Berkeley days.  This commit finally fixes it.

In addition, non-constant estimates of cost and number of output
rows are now possible.  We still fall back to looking at procost
and prorows if the support function doesn't service the request,
of course.

To make concrete use of the possibility of estimating output rowcount
for SRFs, this commit adds support functions for array_unnest(anyarray)
and the integer variants of generate_series; the lack of plausible
rowcount estimates for those, even when it's obvious to a human,
has been a repeated subject of complaints.  Obviously, much more
could now be done in this line, but I'm mostly just trying to get
the infrastructure in place.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/15193.1548028093@sss.pgh.pa.us
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Revert renaming of int44in/int44out.</title>
<updated>2018-02-27T20:15:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tom Lane</name>
<email>tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us</email>
</author>
<published>2018-02-27T20:15:35+00:00</published>
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This seemed like a good idea in commit be42eb9d6, but it causes more
trouble than it's worth for cross-branch upgrade testing.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/11927.1519756619@sss.pgh.pa.us
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This seemed like a good idea in commit be42eb9d6, but it causes more
trouble than it's worth for cross-branch upgrade testing.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/11927.1519756619@sss.pgh.pa.us
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Prevent dangling-pointer access when update trigger returns old tuple.</title>
<updated>2018-02-27T18:28:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tom Lane</name>
<email>tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us</email>
</author>
<published>2018-02-27T18:27:38+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://trove.baserock.org/cgit/delta/postgresql.git/commit/?id=25b692568f429436f89ff203c1413e9670d0ad67'/>
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A before-update row trigger may choose to return the "new" or "old" tuple
unmodified.  ExecBRUpdateTriggers failed to consider the second
possibility, and would proceed to free the "old" tuple even if it was the
one returned, leading to subsequent access to already-deallocated memory.
In debug builds this reliably leads to an "invalid memory alloc request
size" failure; in production builds it might accidentally work, but data
corruption is also possible.

This is a very old bug.  There are probably a couple of reasons it hasn't
been noticed up to now.  It would be more usual to return NULL if one
wanted to suppress the update action; returning "old" is significantly less
efficient since the update will occur anyway.  Also, none of the standard
PLs would ever cause this because they all returned freshly-manufactured
tuples even if they were just copying "old".  But commit 4b93f5799 changed
that for plpgsql, making it possible to see the bug with a plpgsql trigger.
Still, this is certainly legal behavior for a trigger function, so it's
ExecBRUpdateTriggers's fault not plpgsql's.

It seems worth creating a test case that exercises returning "old" directly
with a C-language trigger; testing this through plpgsql seems unreliable
because its behavior might change again.

Report and fix by Rushabh Lathia; regression test case by me.
Back-patch to all supported branches.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAGPqQf1P4pjiNPrMof=P_16E-DFjt457j+nH2ex3=nBTew7tXw@mail.gmail.com
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A before-update row trigger may choose to return the "new" or "old" tuple
unmodified.  ExecBRUpdateTriggers failed to consider the second
possibility, and would proceed to free the "old" tuple even if it was the
one returned, leading to subsequent access to already-deallocated memory.
In debug builds this reliably leads to an "invalid memory alloc request
size" failure; in production builds it might accidentally work, but data
corruption is also possible.

This is a very old bug.  There are probably a couple of reasons it hasn't
been noticed up to now.  It would be more usual to return NULL if one
wanted to suppress the update action; returning "old" is significantly less
efficient since the update will occur anyway.  Also, none of the standard
PLs would ever cause this because they all returned freshly-manufactured
tuples even if they were just copying "old".  But commit 4b93f5799 changed
that for plpgsql, making it possible to see the bug with a plpgsql trigger.
Still, this is certainly legal behavior for a trigger function, so it's
ExecBRUpdateTriggers's fault not plpgsql's.

It seems worth creating a test case that exercises returning "old" directly
with a C-language trigger; testing this through plpgsql seems unreliable
because its behavior might change again.

Report and fix by Rushabh Lathia; regression test case by me.
Back-patch to all supported branches.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAGPqQf1P4pjiNPrMof=P_16E-DFjt457j+nH2ex3=nBTew7tXw@mail.gmail.com
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Improve regression test coverage of regress.c.</title>
<updated>2018-02-27T17:13:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tom Lane</name>
<email>tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us</email>
</author>
<published>2018-02-27T17:13:14+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://trove.baserock.org/cgit/delta/postgresql.git/commit/?id=be42eb9d624cc14a9326e21ec75fdc571a7cb188'/>
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It's a bit silly to have test functions that aren't tested, so test
them.

In passing, rename int44in/int44out to city_budget_in/_out so that they
match how the regression tests use them.  Also, fix city_budget_out
so that it emits the format city_budget_in expects to read; otherwise
we'd have dump/reload failures when testing pg_dump against the
regression database.  (We avoided that in the past only because no
data of type city_budget was actually stored anywhere.)

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/29322.1519701006@sss.pgh.pa.us
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It's a bit silly to have test functions that aren't tested, so test
them.

In passing, rename int44in/int44out to city_budget_in/_out so that they
match how the regression tests use them.  Also, fix city_budget_out
so that it emits the format city_budget_in expects to read; otherwise
we'd have dump/reload failures when testing pg_dump against the
regression database.  (We avoided that in the past only because no
data of type city_budget was actually stored anywhere.)

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/29322.1519701006@sss.pgh.pa.us
</pre>
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