1. Directly reading interp->result is deprecated in Tcl 8.0 and later;
you're supposed to use Tcl_GetStringResult. This code finally broke with
Tcl 8.5, because Tcl_GetVar can now have side-effects on interp->result even
though it preserves the logical state of the result. (There's arguably a
Tcl issue here, because Tcl_GetVar could invalidate the pointer result of a
just-preceding Tcl_GetStringResult, but I doubt the Tcl guys will see it as
a bug.)
2. We were being sloppy about the encoding of the result: some places would
push database-encoding data into the Tcl result, which should not happen,
and we were assuming that any error result coming back from Tcl was in the
database encoding, which is not a good assumption.
3. There were a lot of calls of Tcl_SetResult that uselessly specified
TCL_VOLATILE for constant strings. This is only a minor performance issue,
but I fixed it in passing since I had to look at all the calls anyway.
#2 is a live bug regardless of which Tcl version you are interested in,
so back-patch even to branches that are unlikely to be used with Tcl 8.5.
I went back as far as 8.0, which is as far as the patch applied easily;
7.4 was using a different error processing scheme that has got its own
problems :-(
* The temporary enabling of the caller opcode here is to work around a
* bug in perl 5.10, which unkindly changed the way its Safe.pm works, without
* notice. It is quite safe, as caller is informational only, and in any case
* we only enable it while we load the 'strict' module.
a trigger's target table. The rowtype could change from one call to the
next, so cope in such cases, while avoiding doing repetitive catalog lookups.
Per bug #3847 from Mark Reid.
Backpatch to 8.2.x. Likely this fix should go further back, but I can't test
it because I no longer have a machine with a pre-2.5 Python installation.
(Maybe we should rethink that idea about not supporting Python 2.5 in the
older branches.)
implicit loading of modules, thereby breaking Safe rules.
We compile and call a tiny perl function on trusted interpreter init, after which
the problem does not occur.
is sane (eg, EXIT argument or first part of a qualified identifier), and cause
more-closely-nested record variables to take precedence over outer block
labels. This cures the breakage exhibited by Marko Kreen that 8.3 no longer
allowed a function's name to be used for a variable within the function, and
makes plpgsql's handling of block labels more like Oracle's. It's important
to fix this now because we are documenting the use of block labels as variable
qualifiers for the first time in 8.3.
"bool" into plperl.c. This has always been a hazard since Perl allows a
platform-specific choice to define bool as int rather than char, but
evidently this didn't happen on any platform we support ... until OS X 10.5.
Per report from Brandon Maust.
Back-patch as far as 8.0 --- a bit arbitrary, but it seems unlikely anyone
will be trying to port 7.x onto new platforms.
even in code paths where we don't pay any subsequent attention to the typmod
value. This seems needed in view of the fact that 8.3's generalized typmod
support will accept a lot of bogus syntax, such as "timestamp(foo)" or
"record(int, 42)" --- if we allow such things to pass without comment,
users will get confused. Per a recent example from Greg Stark.
To implement this in a way that's not very vulnerable to future
bugs-of-omission, refactor the API of parse_type.c's TypeName lookup routines
so that typmod validation is folded into the base lookup operation. Callers
can still choose not to receive the encoded typmod, but we'll check the
decoration anyway if it's present.
has a bad habit of launching multiple threads within the backend and thereby
causing all kinds of havoc. Fortunately, we don't need it, and recent Tcl
versions provide an easy way to disable it. Diagnosis and fix by
Steve Marshall, Paul Bayer, and Doug Knight of WSI Corporation.
sugar for PL/PgSQL set-returning functions that want to return the result
of evaluating a query; it should also be more efficient than repeated
RETURN NEXT statements. Based on an earlier patch from Pavel Stehule.
name. With this patch, it is always possible for the user to qualify a
plpgsql variable name if needed to avoid ambiguity. While there is much more
work to be done in this area, this simple change removes one unnecessary
incompatibility with Oracle. Per discussion.
theoretically vary depending on what the compile-time locale setting is.
Hence, force it to see LC_CTYPE=C to ensure consistent build results.
(It's likely that this makes no difference in practice, since our
specification for "identifier" surely includes both ends of any possible
uppercase/lowercase pair anyway. But it should silence warnings about
ambiguous character classes that are reported by some buildfarm members.)
sanely if the loop value overflows int32 on the way to the end value.
Avoid useless computation of "SELECT 1" when BY is omitted. Avoid some
type-punning between Datum and int4 that dates from the original coding.
from old versions of gcc. It's not clear to me that this is really
necessary for correctness, but less warnings are always good.
Per buildfarm results and local testing.
The correct test for defined-ness is SvOK(sv), not anything involving
SvTYPE. Per bug #3415 from Matt Taylor.
Back-patch as far as 8.0; no apparent problem in 7.x.
were accepted by prior Postgres releases. This takes care of the loose end
left by the preceding patch to downgrade implicit casts-to-text. To avoid
breaking desirable behavior for array concatenation, introduce a new
polymorphic pseudo-type "anynonarray" --- the added concatenation operators
are actually text || anynonarray and anynonarray || text.
from the other string-category types; this eliminates a lot of surprising
interpretations that the parser could formerly make when there was no directly
applicable operator.
Create a general mechanism that supports casts to and from the standard string
types (text,varchar,bpchar) for *every* datatype, by invoking the datatype's
I/O functions. These new casts are assignment-only in the to-string direction,
explicit-only in the other, and therefore should create no surprising behavior.
Remove a bunch of thereby-obsoleted datatype-specific casting functions.
The "general mechanism" is a new expression node type CoerceViaIO that can
actually convert between *any* two datatypes if their external text
representations are compatible. This is more general than needed for the
immediate feature, but might be useful in plpgsql or other places in future.
This commit does nothing about the issue that applying the concatenation
operator || to non-text types will now fail, often with strange error messages
due to misinterpreting the operator as array concatenation. Since it often
(not always) worked before, we should either make it succeed or at least give
a more user-friendly error; but details are still under debate.
Peter Eisentraut and Tom Lane
will exit before failing because of conflicting DB usage. Per discussion,
this seems a good idea to help mask the fact that backend exit takes nonzero
time. Remove a couple of thereby-obsoleted sleeps in contrib and PL
regression test sequences.
pass-by-reference data type and the RETURN statement is within an EXCEPTION
block. Bug introduced by my fix of 2007-01-28 to use per-subtransaction
ExprContexts/EStates; since that wasn't back-patched into older branches,
only 8.2 and HEAD are affected. Per report from Gary Winslow.
It removes last remaining casts inside struct definitions.
Such usage is bad practice, as it hides problems from compiler.
Reason for the cast is popular practice in some circles
to define functions as foo(MyObj *) instead of foo(PyObject *)
thus avoiding a local variable inside functions and make
direct calling easier. As pl/python does not use such style,
the casts were unnecessary from the start.
Marko Kreen
seen by code inspecting the expression. The best way to do this seems
to be to drop the original representation as a function invocation, and
instead make a special expression node type that represents applying
the element-type coercion function to each array element. In this way
the element function is exposed and will be checked for volatility.
Per report from Guillaume Smet.
Vadim had included this restriction in the original design of the SPI code,
but I'm darned if I can see a reason for it.
I left the macro definition of SPI_ERROR_CURSOR in place, so as not to
needlessly break any SPI callers that are checking for it, but that code
will never actually be returned anymore.
uses SPI plans, this finally fixes the ancient gotcha that you can't
drop and recreate a temp table used by a plpgsql function.
Along the way, clean up SPI's API a little bit by declaring SPI plan
pointers as "SPIPlanPtr" instead of "void *". This is cosmetic but
helps to forestall simple programming mistakes. (I have changed some
but not all of the callers to match; there are still some "void *"'s
in contrib and the PL's. This is intentional so that we can see if
anyone's compiler complains about it.)
storing mostly-redundant Query trees in prepared statements, portals, etc.
To replace Query, a new node type called PlannedStmt is inserted by the
planner at the top of a completed plan tree; this carries just the fields of
Query that are still needed at runtime. The statement lists kept in portals
etc. now consist of intermixed PlannedStmt and bare utility-statement nodes
--- no Query. This incidentally allows us to remove some fields from Query
and Plan nodes that shouldn't have been there in the first place.
Still to do: simplify the execution-time range table; at the moment the
range table passed to the executor still contains Query trees for subqueries.
initdb forced due to change of stored rules.
