in mind,
because the files that can be accessed on a client
machine may not be accessible (or may only be accessed
- using a different filename) on the database server
+ using a different file name) on the database server
machine.
You should also be aware that the
postmaster and
postgres servers run with the user-id of the
Postgres
To detect errors from the
Postgres server, include a line like:
exec sql include sqlca;
-
+
in the include section of your file. This will define a struct and
a variable with the name
sqlca as follows:
struct sqlca
{
char sqlcaid[8];
/* 7: empty */
char sqlext[8];
} sqlca;
-
+
- If an error occured in the last
SQL statement.
+ If an error occur
r ed in the last
SQL statement.
sqlca.sqlcode will be non-zero. If
sqlca.sqlcode is less that 0, this is a
serious error, like the database definition does not match the
- -12, Out of memory in line %d.
+ -12, Out of memory in line %d.
Should not normally occur. This indicates your virtual memory is
- -200, Unsupported type %s on line %d.
+ -200, Unsupported type %s on line %d.
Should not normally occur. This indicates the preprocessor has
- -201, Too many arguments line %d.
+ -201, Too many arguments line %d.
This means that
Postgres has
- -202, Too few arguments line %d.
+ -202, Too few arguments line %d.
This means that
Postgres has
- -203, Too many matches line %d.
+ -203, Too many matches line %d.
This means the query has returned several rows but the
- -204, Not correctly formatted int type: %s line %d.
+ -204, Not correctly formatted int type: %s line %d.
This means the host variable is of type int and
- -205, Not correctly formatted unsigned type: %s line %d.
+ -205, Not correctly formatted unsigned type: %s line %d.
This means the host variable is of type unsigned
- -206, Not correctly formatted floating point type: %s line %d.
+ -206, Not correctly formatted floating point type: %s line %d.
This means the host variable is of type float and
- -207, Unable to convert %s to bool on line %d.
+ -207, Unable to convert %s to bool on line %d.
This means the host variable is of type bool and
- -208, Empty query line %d.
+ -208, Empty query line %d.
-
Postgres returned
PGRES_EMPTY_QUERY , probably
+
Postgres returned
PGRES_EMPTY_QUERY , probably
because the query indeed was empty.
- -220, No such connection %s in line %d.
+ -220, No such connection %s in line %d.
The program tried to access a connection that does not exist.
- -221, Not connected in line %d.
+ -221, Not connected in line %d.
The program tried to access a connection that does exist but is
- -230, Invalid statement name %s in line %d.
+ -230, Invalid statement name %s in line %d.
The statement you are trying to use has not been prepared.
- -400, Postgres error: %s line %d.
+ -400, Postgres error: %s line %d.
- -401, Error in transaction processing line %d.
+ -401, Error in transaction processing line %d.
Postgres signaled that we cannot start,
- -402, connect: could not open database %s.
+ -402, connect: could not open database %s.
The connect to the database did not work.
- 100, Data not found line %d.
+ 100, Data not found line %d.
- This is a "normal" error that tells you that what you are quering cannot
+ This is a "normal" error that tells you that what you are query ing cannot
be found or you are at the end of the cursor.
Oracle's single tasking
- Oracle version 7.0 on AIX 3 uses OS-supported locks in shared
+ Oracle version 7.0 on AIX
memory that allow an application designer to link an application
in a "single tasking" way. Instead of starting one client
process per application process, both the database part and the
The following statements are not implemented thus far:
- exec sql allocate
+ exec sql allocate
- exec sql deallocate
+ exec sql deallocate
- SQLSTATE
+ SQLSTATE
- sqlwarn[6]
+ sqlwarn[6]
- sqlwarn[6] should be W if the PRECISION
+ sqlwarn[6] W if the PRECISION
or SCALE value specified in a SET
DESCRIPTOR statement was ignored.
The Preprocessor
- The first four lines written by ecpg to the output are fixed lines.
+ The first four lines written by ecpg
Two are comments and two are include lines necessary to interface
to the library.
- The special types VARCHAR and VARCHAR2 are converted into a named struct
+ The special types VARCHAR and VARCHAR2
for every variable. A declaration like:
VARCHAR var[180];
- Finally, the userid and password may be a constant text, a
+ Finally, the userid and password
character variable, or a character string.
The type as a special symbol.
A pointer to the value or a pointer to the pointer.
- The size of the variable if it is a char or varchar .
+ The size of the variable if it is a char or varchar
The number of elements in the array (for array fetches).
The offset to the next element in the array (for array fetches).
The type of the indicator variable as a special symbol.
Here is a complete example describing the output of the preprocessor of a
- file foo.pgc :
+ file foo.pgc
exec sql begin declare section;
int index;
The most important function in the library is
ECPGdo . It takes a variable number of
arguments. Hopefully there are no computers that limit the
- number of variables that can be accepted by a varargs() function. This
+ number of variables that can be accepted by a varargs()
can easily add up to 50 or so arguments.
- ECPGt_EOIT
+ ECPGt_EOIT
An enum telling that there are no more input variables.
We use the words procedure
- and function more or less interchangably.
+ and function more or less interchange ably.
The index access costs should be computed in the units used by
- src/backend/optimizer/path/costsize.c : a sequential disk block fetch
+ src/backend/optimizer/path/costsize.c
has cost 1.0, a nonsequential fetch has cost random_page_cost, and
the cost of processing one index tuple should usually be taken as
cpu_index_tuple_cost (which is a user-adjustable optimizer parameter).
There are two methods of using Large Objects. The first is the
standard
JDBC way, and is documented here. The
other, uses
PostgreSQL extensions to
- the
API , which presents the
libpq large object
+ the
API , which presents the
libpq large object
API to Java, providing even better access to
large objects than the standard. Internally, the driver uses the
extension to provide large object support.
...
Fastpath fp = ((org.postgresql.Connection)myconn).getFastpathAPI();
- where
myconn is an open Connection to
PostgreSQL .
+ where
myconn is an open Connection to
PostgreSQL .
...
LargeObjectManager lo = ((org.postgresql.Connection)myconn).getLargeObjectAPI();
- where myconn is an open Connection to
+ where myconn is an open Connection
Returns:
-
LargeObject object that implements the
API +
LargeObject object that implements the
API
Throws:
- SQLException by LargeObject when initializing for first time
+ SQLException by LargeObject
This allows client code to add a handler for one of
PostgreSQL's more unique data types. Normally, a data type not
- known by the driver is returned by ResultSet.getObject() as a
- PGobject instance. This method allows you to write a class
- that extends PGobject , and tell the driver the type name, and
+ known by the driver is returned by ResultSet.getObject()
+ PGobject
+ that extends PGobject
class name to use. The down side to this, is that you must
call this method each time a connection is made.
((org.postgresql.Connection)myconn).addDataType("mytype","my.class.name");
...
- where myconn is an open Connection to
+ where myconn is an open Connection
PostgreSQL . The handling class must
extend org.postgresql.util.PGobject .
- exists within the libpq C interface, and allows a client machine
+ exists within the
libpq C interface, and allows a client machine
to execute a function on the database backend. Most client code
will not need to use this method, but it is provided because the
Large Object
API uses it.
Parameters:
- fnid - Function id
- resulttype - True if the result is an integer, false
+
resulttype - True if the result is an integer, false
for
other results
- args - FastpathArguments to pass to fastpath
+
args - FastpathArguments to pass to fastpath
The mapping for the procedure name to function id needs to
- exist, usually to an earlier call to addfunction() . This is
+ exist, usually to an earlier call to addfunction()
the preferred method to call, as function id's can/may change
between versions of the backend. For an example of how this
works, refer to org.postgresql.LargeObject
Parameters:
- name - Function name
- resulttype - True if the result is an integer, false
+
resulttype - True if the result is an integer, false
for
other results
- args - FastpathArguments to pass to fastpath
+
args - FastpathArguments to pass to fastpath
Parameters:
- name - Function name
- args - Function arguments
+
args - Function arguments
Throws:
- SQLException if a database-access error occurs or no result
+ SQLException
Parameters:
- name - Function name
- args - Function arguments
+
args - Function arguments
Throws:
- SQLException if a database-access error occurs or no result
+ SQLException
PostgreSQL stores the function id's and their corresponding
- names in the pg_proc table. To speed things up locally,
+ names in the pg_proc
instead of querying each function from that table when
required, a Hashtable is used. Also, only the function's
required are entered into this table, keeping connection
Do not think that manually converting them to the oid's will
- work. Okay , they will for now, but they can change during
+ work. OK , they will for now, but they can change during
development (there was some discussion about this for V7.0),
so this is implemented to prevent any unwarranted headaches
in the future.
This returns the function id associated by its name If
- addFunction() or addFunctions() have not been called for this
- name, then an SQLException is thrown.
+ addFunction() or addFunctions()
+ name, then an SQLException
- buf
source array
- off
offset within array
- len
length of data to include
- The org.postgresql.largeobject package provides to Java the libpq
+ The org.postgresql.largeobject package provides to Java the
libpq C interface's large object
API . It consists of
two classes, LargeObjectManager , which deals with creating,
opening and deleting large objects, and LargeObject which deals
- libpgeasy - Simplified C Library
+
libpgeasy
Author
It consists of set of simplified C functions that encapsulate the
- functionality of libpq .
+ functionality of
libpq .
The functions are:
+>
PGresult *doquery(char *query);
- >
+>
+>
PGconn *connectdb(char *options);
- >
+>
+>
void disconnectdb();
- >
+>
+>
int fetch(void *param,...);
- >
+>
+>
int fetchwithnulls(void *param,...);
- >
+>
+>
void reset_fetch();
- >
+>
+>
void on_error_continue();
- >
+>
+>
void on_error_stop();
- >
+>
+>
PGresult *get_result();
- >
+>
+>
void set_result(PGresult *newres);
- >
+>
+>
void unset_result(PGresult *oldres);
- >
+>
fetchwithnulls allows you to retrieve the NULL
status of the field by passing an int*
after each result pointer, which returns true or false if the field is null.
- You can always use libpq functions on the PGresult pointer returned
+ You can always use
libpq functions on the PGresult pointer returned
by doquery .
reset_fetch starts the fetch back at the beginning.
-
<span class="marked">pgtcl</span> - Tcl Binding Library
+
<span class="marked"><application>pgtcl</application></span> - Tcl Binding Library
-pgtcl is a t cl package for front-end programs
+pgtcl is a T cl package for front-end programs
to interface with
Postgres backends. It makes most of the functionality of libpq available to
-t cl scripts.
+T cl scripts.
|
- pg_connect
+ pg_connect
opens a connection to the backend server
|
- pg_disconnect
+ pg_disconnect
closes a connection
|
- pg_conndefaults
+ pg_conndefaults
get connection options and their defaults
|
- pg_exec
+ pg_exec
send a query to the backend
|
- pg_result
+ pg_result
manipulate the results of a query
|
- pg_select
+ pg_select
loop over the result of a SELECT statement
|
- pg_listen
+ pg_listen
establish a callback for NOTIFY messages
|
- pg_lo_creat
+ pg_lo_creat
create a large object
|
- pg_lo_open
+ pg_lo_open
open a large object
|
- pg_lo_close
+ pg_lo_close
close a large object
|
- pg_lo_read
+ pg_lo_read
read a large object
|
- pg_lo_write
+ pg_lo_write
write a large object
|
- pg_lo_lseek
+ pg_lo_lseek
seek to a position in a large object
|
- pg_lo_tell
+ pg_lo_tell
return the current seek position of a large object
|
- pg_lo_unlink
+ pg_lo_unlink
delete a large object
|
- pg_lo_import
+ pg_lo_import
import a Unix file into a large object
|
- pg_lo_export
+ pg_lo_export
export a large object into a Unix file
-
<span class="marked">pgtcl</span> Command Reference Information
+
<span class="marked"><application>pgtcl</application></span> Command Reference Information
-tty pqtty
-
Specifies file or tty for optional debug output from backend. +
Specifies file or tty
If successful, a handle for a database connection is returned.
-Handles start with the prefix "pgsql" .
+Handles start with the prefix pgsql
Usage</div>
<div class="diff ctx">
-
+
+ XXX thomas 1997-12-24
+
current default values.
Each entry in the list is a sublist of the format:
-<para >
- {optname label dispchar dispsize value}
-Para>
+<screen >
+{optname label dispchar dispsize value}
+screen>
-where the optname is usable as an option in
+where the optname
pg_connect -conninfo .
Usage</div>
<div class="diff ctx">
-A Tcl error will be returned if Pgtcl was unable to obtain a backend
+A Tcl error will be returned if
pgtcl was unable to obtain a backend
response. Otherwise, a query result object is created and a handle for
it is returned. This handle can be passed to pg_result
to obtain the results of the query.
--status
+-status
--error
+-error
--conn
+-conn
--oid
+-oid
--numTuples
+-numTuples
--numAttrs
+-numAttrs
--list VarName
+-list VarName
--assign arrayName
+-assign arrayName
assign the results to an array, using subscripts of the form
-(tupno,attributeName) .
+(tupno,attributeName)
--assignbyidx arrayName ?appendstr?
+-assignbyidx arrayName ?appendstr?
assign the results to an array using the first attribute's value and
-the remaining attributes' names as keys. If appendstr is given then
+the remaining attributes' names as keys. If
appendstr is given then
it is appended to each key. In short, all but the first field of each
tuple are stored into the array, using subscripts of the form
-(firstFieldValue,fieldNameAppendStr) .
+(firstFieldValue,fieldNameAppendStr)
--getTuple tupleNumber
+-getTuple tupleNumber
--tupleArray tupleNumber arrayName
+-tupleArray tupleNumber arrayName
-stores the fields of the tuple in array arrayName , indexed by field names.
+stores the fields of the tuple in array
arrayName , indexed by field names.
Tuple numbers start at zero.
--attributes
+-attributes
--lAttributes
+-lAttributes
-returns a list of sublists, {name ftype fsize} for each tuple attribute.
+returns a list of sublists, {name ftype fsize}
--clear
+-clear
You can keep a query result around for as long as you need it, but when
you are done with it, be sure to free it by
executing pg_result -clear . Otherwise, you have
-a memory leak, and Pgtcl will eventually start complaining that you've
+a memory leak, and
Pgtcl will eventually start complaining that you've
created too many query result objects.
pg_listen creates, changes, or cancels a request
to listen for asynchronous NOTIFY messages from the
-
Postgres backend. With a
callbackCommand +
Postgres backend. With a
callbackCommand parameter, the request is established, or the command string of an already
-existing request is replaced. With no callbackCommand parameter, a prior
+existing request is replaced. With no
callbackCommand parameter, a prior
request is canceled.
-You should not invoke the SQL statements LISTEN or UNLISTEN directly when
-using pg_listen . Pgtcl takes care of issuing those
+You should not invoke the SQL statements LISTEN or UNLISTEN
+using
pg_listen .
Pgtcl takes care of issuing those
statements for you. But if you want to send a NOTIFY message yourself,
invoke the SQL NOTIFY statement using pg_exec .
Identifier for a large object.
-XXX Is this the same as objOid in other calls?? - thomas 1998-01-11
+
+ XXX Is this the same as
objOid in other calls?? - thomas 1998-01-11
+
None
-XXX Does this return a lobjId? Is that the same as the objOid in other calls? thomas - 1998-01-11
+
+ XXX Does this return a lobjId? Is that the same as the objOid in other calls? thomas - 1998-01-11
+
Large object identifier.
-XXX Is this the same as the objOid in other calls?? thomas - 1998-01-11
+
+ XXX Is this the same as the objOid in other calls?? thomas - 1998-01-11
+
None
-XXX Does this return a lobjId? Is that the same as the objOid in other calls? thomas - 1998-01-11
+
+ XXX Does this return a lobjId? Is that the same as the objOid in other calls? thomas - 1998-01-11
+
-
<span class="marked">libpq++</span> - C++ Binding Library
+
<span class="marked"><application>libpq++</application></span> - C++ Binding Library
libpq++ is the C++ API to
libpq++ uses only environment variables or
libpq's PQconnectdb
- conninfo style strings.
+
conninfo style strings.
PGHOST sets the default server name.
If this begins with a slash, it specifies Unix-domain communication
rather than TCP/IP communication; the value is the name of the
- directory in which the socket file is stored (default "/tmp" ).
+ directory in which the socket file is stored (default /tmp
PGUSER
- sets the username used to connect to the database and for authentication.
+ sets the user name used to connect to the database and for authentication.
- PGTTY sets the file or tty on which debugging
+
PGTTY sets the file or
tty on which debugging
messages from the backend server are displayed.
-
<span class="marked">libpq++</span> Classes
+
<span class="marked"><application>libpq++</application></span> Classes
Connection Class: <classname>PgConnection</classname>
The database class provides C++ objects that have a connection
to a backend server. To create such an object one first needs
- the apropriate environment for the backend to access.
+ the app ropriate environment for the backend to access.
The following constructors deal with making a connection to a backend
server from a C++ program.
PgConnection::PgConnection(const char *conninfo)
Although typically called from one of the access classes, a connection to
- a backend server is possible by creating a PgConnection object.
+ a backend server is possible by creating a PgConnection
PgDatabase(const char *conninfo)
- After a PgDatabase has been created it should be checked to make sure
- the connection to the database succeded before sending
+ After a PgDatabase
+ the connection to the database succee ded before sending
queries to the object. This can easily be done by
- retrieving the current status of the PgDatabase object with the
+ retrieving the current status of the PgDatabase
Status or ConnectionBad methods.
PGnotify* PgConnection::Notifies()
- See PQnotifies() for details.
+ See PQnotifies
- PGRES_EMPTY_QUERY
+ PGRES_EMPTY_QUERY
- PGRES_COMMAND_OK , if the query was a command
+ PGRES_COMMAND_OK
- PGRES_TUPLES_OK , if the query successfully returned tuples
+ PGRES_TUPLES_OK
- PGRES_COPY_OUT
+ PGRES_COPY_OUT
- PGRES_COPY_IN
+ PGRES_COPY_IN
- PGRES_BAD_RESPONSE , if an unexpected response was received
+ PGRES_BAD_RESPONSE
- PGRES_NONFATAL_ERROR
+ PGRES_NONFATAL_ERROR
- PGRES_FATAL_ERROR
+ PGRES_FATAL_ERROR
FieldNum
- PQfnumber Returns the field (attribute) index associated with
+ PQfnumber
the given field name.
int PgDatabase::FieldNum(const char* field_name) const
GetValue
- Returns a single field (attribute) value of one tuple of a PGresult.
+ Returns a single field (attribute) value of one tuple of a PGresult .
Tuple and field indices start at 0.
const char *PgDatabase::GetValue(int tup_num, int field_num) const
- For most queries, the value returned by GetValue is a null-terminated
- ASCII string representation of the attribute value. But if BinaryTuples()
- is TRUE, the value returned by GetValue is the binary representation
+ For most queries, the value returned by GetValue
+ string representation of the attribute value. But if BinaryTuples
+ is TRUE, the value returned by GetValue
of the type in the internal format of the backend server (but not including
the size word, if the field is variable-length). It is then the programmer's
responsibility to cast and convert the data to the correct C type. The
- pointer returned by GetValue points to storage that is part of the
- PGresult structure. One should not modify it, and one must explicitly
+ pointer returned by GetValue
+ PGresult
copy the value into other storage if it is to be used past the lifetime
- of the PGresult structure itself. BinaryTuples() is not yet implemented.
+ of the PGresult structure itself. BinaryTuples
GetValue
- Returns a single field (attribute) value of one tuple of a PGresult .
+ Returns a single field (attribute) value of one tuple of a PGresult
Tuple and field indices start at 0.
const char *PgDatabase::GetValue(int tup_num, const char *field_name) const
- For most queries, the value returned by GetValue is a null-terminated
- ASCII string representation of the attribute value. But if BinaryTuples()
- is TRUE, the value returned by GetValue is the binary representation
+ For most queries, the value returned by GetValue
+ string representation of the attribute value. But if BinaryTuples
+ is TRUE, the value returned by GetValue
of the type in the internal format of the backend server (but not including
the size word, if the field is variable-length). It is then the programmer's
responsibility to cast and convert the data to the correct C type. The
- pointer returned by GetValue points to storage that is part of the
- PGresult structure. One should not modify it, and one must explicitly
+ pointer returned by GetValue
+ PGresult
copy the value into other storage if it is to be used past the lifetime
- of the PGresult structure itself. BinaryTuples() is not yet implemented.
+ of the PGresult structure itself. BinaryTuples
int PgDatabase::GetLength(int tup_num, int field_num) const
This is the actual data length for the particular data value, that
- is the size of the object pointed to by GetValue . Note that for
+ is the size of the object pointed to by GetValue
ASCII-represented values, this size has little to do with the binary
- size reported by PQfsize .
+ size reported by PQfsize
int PgDatabase::GetLength(int tup_num, const char* field_name) const
This is the actual data length for the particular data value, that
- is the size of the object pointed to by GetValue . Note that for
+ is the size of the object pointed to by GetValue
ASCII-represented values, this size has little to do with the binary
- size reported by PQfsize .
+ size reported by PQfsize
bool GetIsNull(int tup_num, int field_num) const
- Note that GetValue will return the empty string for null fields, not
+ Note that GetValue
the NULL pointer.
bool GetIsNull(int tup_num, const char *field_name) const
- Note that GetValue will return the empty string for null fields, not
+ Note that GetValue
the NULL pointer.
- In the past, the documentation has associated the names used for asyncronous
+ In the past, the documentation has associated the names used for asynch ronous
notification with relations or classes. However, there is in fact no
direct linkage of the two concepts in the implementation, and the
named semaphore in fact does not need to have a corresponding relation
-
<span class="marked">libpq</span> - C Library
+
<span class="marked"><application>libpq</application></span> - C Library
- <
filename>libpq> is the C + <
application>libpq> is the C application programmer's interface to
-
Postgres .
libpq> is a set +
PostgreSQL .
libpq> is a set of library routines that allow client programs to pass queries to the
-
Postgres backend server and to receive the
- results of these queries. <filename>libpq> is also the
- underlying engine for several other
Postgres - application interfaces, including <filename>libpq++> (C++),
+
PostgreSQL backend server and to receive the
+ results of these queries. <application>libpq> is also the
+ underlying engine for several other
PostgreSQL + application interfaces, including <application>libpq++> (C++),
libpgtcl (Tcl),
Perl , and
- ecpg . So some aspects of libpq 's behavior will be
+
ecpg . So some aspects of
libpq 's behavior will be
important to you if you use one of those packages.
The following routines deal with making a connection to a
-
Postgres backend server. The
+
PostgreSQL backend server. The
application program can have several backend connections open at
one time. (One reason to do that is to access more than one
database.) Each connection is represented by a
This routine opens a new database connection using the parameters taken
- from the string conninfo . Unlike PQsetdbLogin() below,
+ from the string conninfo . Unlike PQsetdbLogin
the parameter set can be extended without changing the function signature,
- so use either of this routine or the non-blocking analogues PQconnectStart
- / PQconnectPoll is prefe red for application programming. The passed string
+ so use either of this routine or the non-blocking analogues PQconnectStart
+ and PQconnectPoll is prefer red for application programming. The passed string
can be empty to use all default parameters, or it can contain one or more
parameter settings separated by whitespace.
IP address of host to connect to. This should be in standard
- numbers-and-dots form, as used by the BSD functions inet_aton et al. If
+ numbers-and-dots form, as used by the BSD functions inet_aton
a non-zero-length string is specified, TCP/IP communication is used.
- Using hostaddr instead of host allows the application to avoid a host
+ Using hostaddr
name look-up, which may be important in applications with time
constraints. However, Kerberos authentication requires the host
name. The following therefore applies. If host is specified without
- hostaddr, a hostname look-up is forced. If hostaddr is specified without
- host, the value for hostaddr gives the remote address; if Kerberos is
- used, this causes a reverse name query. If both host and hostaddr are
- specified, the value for hostaddr gives the remote address; the value
+ hostaddr, a host name lookup is forced. If hostaddr
+ host, the value for hostaddr
+ used, this causes a reverse name query. If both host and hostaddr
+ specified, the value for hostaddr
for host is ignored, unless Kerberos is used, in which case that value
is used for Kerberos authentication. Note that authentication is likely
- to fail if libpq is passed a host name that is not the name of the
- machine at hostaddr .
+ to fail if
libpq is passed a host name that is not the name of the
+ machine at hostaddr
- Without either a host name or host address, libpq will connect using a
+ Without either a host name or host address,
libpq will connect using a
local Unix domain socket.
Port number to connect to at the server host,
- or socket filename extension for Unix-domain connections.
+ or socket file name extension for Unix-domain connections.
tty
- A file or tty for optional debug output from the backend.
+ A file or
tty for optional debug output from the backend.
requiressl
- Set to '1' to require SSL connection to the backend. Libpq
+ Set to '1' to require SSL connection to the backend.
Libpq will then refuse to connect if the server does not support
SSL. Set to '0' (default) to negotiate with server.
char *pgtty,
char *dbName)
- This is a macro that calls PQsetdbLogin() with null pointers
- for the login and pwd parameters. It is provided primarily
+ This is a macro that calls PQsetdbLogin with null pointers
+ for the
login and pwd parameters. It is provided primarily
for backward compatibility with old programs.
The database connection is made using the parameters taken from the string
- conninfo , passed to PQconnectStart . This string is in
- the same format as described above for PQconnectdb .
+ conninfo , passed to PQconnectStart
+ the same format as described above for PQconnectdb
- Neither PQconnectStart nor PQconnectPoll will block, as long as a number of
+ Neither PQconnectStart nor PQconnectPoll
restrictions are met:
- The hostaddr and host parameters are used appropriately to ensure that
+ The hostaddr and host
name and reverse name queries are not made. See the documentation of
- these parameters under PQconnectdb above for details.
+ these parameters under PQconnectdb
- If you call PQtrace , ensure that the stream object into which you trace
+ If you call PQtrace
will not block.
You ensure for yourself that the socket is in the appropriate state
- before calling PQconnectPoll , as described below.
+ before calling PQconnectPoll
To begin, call conn=PQconnectStart("<connection_info_string>") .
- If conn is NULL, then libpq has been unable to allocate a new PGconn
- structure. Otherwise, a valid PGconn pointer is returned (though not yet
+ If
conn is NULL, then libpq has been unable to allocate a new PGconn + structure. Otherwise, a valid PGconn
representing a valid connection to the database). On return from
- PQconnectStart, call status=PQstatus(conn) . If status equals
- CONNECTION_BAD, PQconnectStart has failed.
+ PQconnectStart , call status=PQstatus(conn)
+ CONNECTION_BAD , PQconnectStart
- If PQconnectStart succeeds, the next stage is to poll libpq so that it may
+ If
PQconnectStart succeeds, the next stage is to poll libpq so that it may
proceed with the connection sequence. Loop thus: Consider a connection
- 'inactive' by default. If PQconnectPoll last returned PGRES_POLLING_ACTIVE ,
- consider it 'active' instead. If PQconnectPoll(conn) last returned
- PGRES_POLLING_READING, perform a select for reading on PQsocket(conn) . If
- it last returned PGRES_POLLING_WRITING , perform a select for writing on
- PQsocket(conn). If you have yet to call PQconnectPoll , i.e. after the call
- to PQconnectStart, behave as if it last returned PGRES_POLLING_WRITING . If
- the select shows that the socket is ready, consider it 'active' . If it has
- been decided that this connection is 'active', call PQconnectPoll(conn)
- again. If this call returns PGRES_POLLING_FAILED , the connection procedure
- has failed. If this call returns PGRES_POLLING_OK , the connection has been
+ inactive
by default. If PQconnectPoll last returned PGRES_POLLING_ACTIVE
+ consider it active
instead. If PQconnectPoll(conn)
+ PGRES_POLLING_READING , perform a select for reading on PQsocket(conn)
+ it last returned PGRES_POLLING_WRITING
+ PQsocket(conn) . If you have yet to call PQconnectPoll
+ to PQconnectStart , behave as if it last returned PGRES_POLLING_WRITING
+ the select shows that the socket is ready, consider it active
+ been decided that this connection is active
, call PQconnectPoll(conn)
+ again. If this call returns PGRES_POLLING_FAILED
+ has failed. If this call returns PGRES_POLLING_OK
successfully made.
+
- Note that the use of select() to ensure that the socket is ready is merely
+ Note that the use of select()
a (likely) example; those with other facilities available, such as a
- poll() call, may of course use that instead.
+ poll()
+
At any time during connection, the status of the connection may be
- checked, by calling PQstatus. If this is CONNECTION_BAD , then the
- connection procedure has failed; if this is CONNECTION_OK , then the
+ checked, by calling PQstatus. If this is CONNECTION_BAD
+ connection procedure has failed; if this is CONNECTION_OK
connection is ready. Either of these states should be equally detectable
- from the return value of PQconnectPoll , as above. Other states may be
+ from the return value of PQconnectPoll
shown during (and only during) an asynchronous connection procedure. These
indicate the current stage of the connection procedure, and may be useful
to provide feedback to the user for example. These statuses may include:
-
-
- CONNECTION_STARTED: Waiting for connection to be made.
-
-
-
- CONNECTION_MADE: Connection OK; waiting to send.
-
-
-
- CONNECTION_AWAITING_RESPONSE: Waiting for a response from the postmaster.
-
-
-
- CONNECTION_AUTH_OK: Received authentication; waiting for backend start-up.
-
-
-
- CONNECTION_SETENV: Negotiating environment.
-
-
-
+
+
+
+ CONNECTION_STARTED
+
+ Waiting for connection to be made.
+
+
+
+
+
+ CONNECTION_MADE
+
+ Connection OK; waiting to send.
+
+
+
+
+
+ CONNECTION_AWAITING_RESPONSE
+
+ Waiting for a response from the postmaster.
+
+
+
+
+
+ CONNECTION_AUTH_OK
+
+ Received authentication; waiting for backend start-up.
+
+
+
+
+
+ CONNECTION_SETENV
+
+
+ Negotiating environment.
+
+
+
+
Note that, although these constants will remain (in order to maintain
compatibility) an application should never rely upon these appearing in a
}
+
- Note that if PQconnectStart returns a non-NULL pointer, you must call
- PQfinish when you are finished with it, in order to dispose of
+ Note that if PQconnectStart
+ PQfinish
the structure and any associated memory blocks. This must be done even if a
- call to PQconnectStart or PQconnectPoll failed.
+ call to PQconnectStart or PQconnectPoll
+
- PQconnectPoll will currently block if libpq is compiled with USE_SSL
+ PQconnectPoll will currently block if
+
libpq is compiled with USE_SSL defined. This restriction may be removed in the future.
+
These functions leave the socket in a non-blocking state as if
PQsetnonblocking had been called.
}
Returns a connection options array. This may
- be used to determine all possible PQconnectdb options and their
+ be used to determine all possible PQconnectdb
current default values. The return value points to an array of
- PQconninfoOption structs, which ends with an entry having a NULL
- keyword pointer. Note that the default values ("val" fields)
+ PQconninfoOption
+ keyword pointer. Note that the default values (val
will depend on environment variables and other context.
Callers must treat the connection options data as read-only.
+
After processing the options array, free it by passing it to
- PQconninfoFree() . If this is not done, a small amount of memory
- is leaked for each call to PQconndefaults() .
+ PQconninfoFree
+ is leaked for each call to PQconndefaults
+
- In Postgres versions before 7.0, PQconndefaults() returned a pointer
+ In
PostgreSQL versions before 7.0, PQconndefaults returned a pointer
to a static array, rather than a dynamically allocated array. That
- wasn' t thread-safe, so the behavior has been changed.
+ was no t thread-safe, so the behavior has been changed.
PQfinish
Close the connection to the backend. Also frees
- memory used by the PGconn object.
+ memory used by the PGconn
void PQfinish(PGconn *conn)
Note that even if the backend connection attempt fails (as
- indicated by PQstatus), the application should call PQfinish
- to free the memory used by the PGconn object.
- The PGconn pointer should not be used after PQfinish has been called.
+ indicated by PQstatus ), the application should call PQfinish
+ to free the memory used by the PGconn
+ The PGconn pointer should not be used after PQfinish
These functions will close the connection to the backend and attempt to
reestablish a new connection to the same postmaster, using all the same
parameters previously used. This may be useful for error recovery if a
- working connection is lost. They differ from PQreset (above) in that they
+ working connection is lost. They differ from PQreset
act in a non-blocking manner. These functions suffer from the same
- restrictions as PQconnectStart and PQconnectPoll .
+ restrictions as PQconnectStart and PQconnectPoll
- Call PQresetStart . If it returns 0, the reset has failed. If it returns 1,
- poll the reset using PQresetPoll in exactly the same way as you would
- create the connection using PQconnectPoll .
+ Call PQresetStart
+ poll the reset using PQresetPoll
+ create the connection using PQconnectPoll
-libpq application programmers should be careful to
-maintain the PGconn abstraction. Use the accessor functions below to get
-at the contents of PGconn . Avoid directly referencing the fields of the
-PGconn structure because they are subject to change in the future.
-(Beginning in
Postgres release 6.4, the
-definition of struct PGconn is not even provided in libpq-fe.h .
-If you have old code that accesses PGconn fields directly, you can keep using it
+
libpq application programmers should be careful to
+maintain the PGconn
+at the contents of PGconn
+PGconn
+(Beginning in
PostgreSQK release 6.4, the
+definition of struct PGconn libpq-fe.h .
+If you have old code that accesses PGconn
by including libpq-int.h too, but you are encouraged to fix the code
soon.)
char *PQdb(const PGconn *conn)
-PQdb and the next several functions return the values established
-at connection. These values are fixed for the life of the PGconn
+PQdb
+at connection. These values are fixed for the life of the PGconn
object.
PQtty
- Returns the debug tty of the connection.
+ Returns the debug
tty of the connection.
char *PQtty(const PGconn *conn)
- See the entry for PQconnectStart and PQconnectPoll with regards
+ See the entry for PQconnectStart and PQconnectPoll
to other status codes
that might be seen.
- Nearly all libpq functions will set
+ Nearly all
libpq functions will set
PQerrorMessage if they fail.
- Note that by libpq convention, a non-empty
+ Note that by
libpq convention, a non-empty
PQerrorMessage will
include a trailing newline.
SSL *PQgetssl(const PGconn *conn);
This structure can be used to verify encryption levels, check
- server certificate and more. Refer to the Open SSL documentation
+ server certificate and more. Refer to the SSL documentation
for information about this structure.
You must define USE_SSL in order to get the
prototype for this function. Doing this will also
- automatically include ssl.h from OpenSSL .
+ automatically include
ssl.h from
OpenSSL .
PQexec
- Submit a query to
Postgres + Submit a query to the server
and wait for the result.
PGresult *PQexec(PGconn *conn,
const char *query);
- Returns a PGresult pointer or possibly a NULL pointer.
+ Returns a PGresult pointer or possibly a NULL pointer.
A non-NULL pointer will generally be returned except in
out-of-memory conditions or serious errors such as inability
to send the query to the backend.
If a NULL is returned, it
- should be treated like a PGRES_FATAL_ERROR result. Use
- PQerrorMessage to get more information about the error.
+ should be treated like a PGRES_FATAL_ERROR
+ PQerrorMessage
The PGresult structure encapsulates the query result
returned by the backend.
libpq application programmers should be careful to
-maintain the PGresult abstraction. Use the accessor functions below to get
-at the contents of PGresult . Avoid directly referencing the fields of the
-PGresult structure because they are subject to change in the future.
-(Beginning in
Postgres release 6.4, the
-definition of struct PGresult is not even provided in libpq-fe.h . If you
-have old code that accesses PGresult fields directly, you can keep using it
-by including libpq-int.h too, but you are encouraged to fix the code
+maintain the PGresult
+at the contents of PGresult
+PGresult
+(Beginning in
PostgreSQL 6.4, the
+definition of struct PGresult is not even provided in libpq-fe.h
+have old code that accesses PGresult
+by including libpq-int.h
soon.)
ExecStatusType PQresultStatus(const PGresult *res)
-PQresultStatus can return one of the following values:
+PQresultStatus can return one of the following values:
+
PGRES_EMPTY_QUERY -- The string sent to the backend was empty.
Immediately following a PQexec or PQgetResult
call, PQerrorMessage (on the connection) will return the same
string as PQresultErrorMessage (on the result). However, a
-PGresult will retain its error message
+PGresult
until destroyed, whereas the connection's error message will change when
subsequent operations are done. Use PQresultErrorMessage when you want to
-know the status associated with a particular PGresult ; use PQerrorMessage
+know the status associated with a particular PGresult PQerrorMessage
when you want to know the status from the latest operation on the connection.
PQclear
- Frees the storage associated with the PGresult .
- Every query result should be freed via PQclear when
+ Frees the storage associated with the PGresult
+ Every query result should be freed via PQclear
it is no longer needed.
void PQclear(PQresult *res);
- You can keep a PGresult object around for as long as you
+ You can keep a PGresult
need it; it does not go away when you issue a new query,
nor even if you close the connection. To get rid of it,
you must call PQclear . Failure to do this will
PQmakeEmptyPGresult
- Constructs an empty PGresult object with the given status.
+ Constructs an empty PGresult
PGresult* PQmakeEmptyPGresult(PGconn *conn, ExecStatusType status);
-This is libpq 's internal routine to allocate and initialize an empty
-PGresult object. It is exported because some applications find it
+This is
libpq 's internal routine to allocate and initialize an empty
+PGresult
useful to generate result objects (particularly objects with error
-status) themselves. If conn is not NULL and status indicates an error,
-the connection's current errorMessage is copied into the PGresult.
-Note that PQclear should eventually be called on the object, just
-as with a PGresult returned by libpq itself.
+status) themselves. If
conn is not NULL and status indicates an error,
+the connection's current errorMessage is copied into the PGresult.
+Note that PQclear
+as with a
PGresult returned by libpq itself.
int field_index);
You can query the system table pg_type to obtain
-the name and properties of the various datatypes. The
OID s
-of the built-in datatypes are defined in src/include/catalog/pg_type.h
+the name and properties of the various data
types. The
OID s
+of the built-in data types are defined in src/include/catalog/pg_type.h
in the source tree.
int PQfsize(const PGresult *res,
int field_index);
- PQfsize returns the space allocated for this field in a database
+ PQfsize
tuple, in other words the size of the server's binary representation
of the data type. -1 is returned if the field is variable size.
PQgetvalue
Returns a single field (attribute) value of one tuple
- of a PGresult .
+ of a PGresult
Tuple and field indices start at 0.
char* PQgetvalue(const PGresult *res,
It is then the programmer's responsibility to cast and
convert the data to the correct C type. The pointer
returned by PQgetvalue points to storage that is
-part of the PGresult structure. One should not modify it,
+part of the PGresult
and one must explicitly
copy the value into other storage if it is to
-be used past the lifetime of the PGresult structure itself.
+be used past the lifetime of the PGresult
int field_num);
This function returns 1 if the field contains a NULL, 0 if
- it contains a non-null value. (Note that PQgetvalue
+ it contains a non-null value. (Note that PQgetvalue
will return an empty string, not a null pointer, for a NULL
field.)
int field_num);
This is the actual data length for the particular data value, that is the
-size of the object pointed to by PQgetvalue. Note that for ASCII -represented
-values, this size has little to do with the binary size reported by PQfsize .
+size of the object pointed to by PQgetvalue . Note that for character
+values, this size has little to do with the binary size reported by PQfsize
PQcmdStatus
Returns the command status string from the SQL command that
- generated the PGresult .
+ generated the PGresult
char * PQcmdStatus(const PGresult *res);
char * PQcmdTuples(const PGresult *res);
If the
SQL command that generated the
- PGresult was INSERT, UPDATE or DELETE, this returns a
+ PGresult
string containing the number of rows affected. If the
command was anything else, it returns the empty string.
-PQexec can return only one PGresult structure. If the submitted query
-string contains multiple
SQL commands, all but the last
PGresult are
+PQexec can return only one PGresult
+string contains multiple
SQL commands, all but the last
PGresult are
discarded by PQexec .
int PQsetnonblocking(PGconn *conn, int arg)
- Sets the state of the connection to nonblocking if arg is TRUE ,
- blocking if arg is FALSE . Returns 0 if OK, -1 if error.
+ Sets the state of the connection to nonblocking if
arg is 1,
+ blocking if
arg is 0. Returns 0 if OK, -1 if error.
In the nonblocking state, calls to
completes.
- More of libpq is expected to be made safe for
+ More of
libpq is expected to be made safe for
PQsetnonblocking functionality in the near future.
int PQisnonblocking(const PGconn *conn)
- Returns TRUE if the connection is set to non-blocking mode,
- FALSE if blocking.
+ Returns 1 if the connection is set to non-blocking mode,
+ 0 if blocking.
PQsendQuery
- Submit a query to
Postgres without
- waiting for the result(s). TRUE is returned if the query was
- successfully dispatched, FALSE if not (in which case, use
+ Submit a query to
PostgreSQL without
+ waiting for the result(s). 1 is returned if the query was
+ successfully dispatched, 0 if not (in which case, use
PQerrorMessage to get more information about the failure).
int PQsendQuery(PGconn *conn,
PQrequestCancel
- Request that
Postgres abandon
+ Request that
PostgreSQL abandon
processing of the current query.
int PQrequestCancel(PGconn *conn);
So, it is also possible to use it in conjunction with plain
PQexec , if the decision to cancel can be made in a signal
handler. For example,
psql invokes
-PQrequestCancel from a SIGINT signal handler, thus allowing
+PQrequestCancel from a SIGINT
interactive cancellation of queries that it issues through PQexec .
Note that PQrequestCancel will have no effect if the connection
is not currently open or the backend is not currently processing a query.
Fast Path
-
Postgres provides a fast path interface to send
+
PostgreSQL provides a fast path interface to send
function calls to the backend. This is a trapdoor into system internals and
can be a potential security hole. Most users will not need this feature.
const PQArgBlock *args,
int nargs);
- The fnid argument is the object identifier of the function to be
+ The
fnid argument is the object identifier of the function to be
executed.
- result_buf is the buffer in which
+
result_buf is the buffer in which
to place the return value. The caller must have allocated
sufficient space to store the return value (there is no check!).
The actual result length will be returned in the integer pointed
- to by result_len . If a 4-byte integer result is expected, set
- result_is_int to 1; otherwise set it to 0. (Setting result_is_int to 1
- tells libpq to byte-swap the value if necessary, so that it is
+ to by
result_len . If a 4-byte integer result is expected, set
+
result_is_int to 1; otherwise set it to 0. (Setting result_is_int to 1
+ tells
libpq to byte-swap the value if necessary, so that it is
delivered as a proper int value for the client machine. When
result_is_int is 0, the byte string sent by the backend is returned
unmodified.)
- args and nargs specify the arguments to be passed to the function.
+
args and nargs specify the arguments to be passed to the function.
typedef struct {
int len;
} u;
} PQArgBlock;
- PQfn always returns a valid PGresult* . The resultStatus
+ PQfn always returns a valid PGresult*
should be checked before the result is used. The
- caller is responsible for freeing the PGresult with
+ caller is responsible for freeing the PGresult
PQclear when it is no longer needed.
Asynchronous Notification
-
Postgres supports asynchronous notification via the
-LISTEN and NOTIFY commands. A backend registers its interest in a particular
-notification condition with the LISTEN command (and can stop listening
-with the UNLISTEN command). All backends listening on a
-particular condition will be notified asynchronously when a NOTIFY of that
+
PostgreSQL supports asynchronous notification via the
+LISTEN and NOTIFY
+notification condition with the LISTEN
+with the UNLISTEN
+particular condition will be notified asynchronously when a NOTIFY
condition name is executed by any backend. No additional information is
passed from the notifier to the listener. Thus, typically, any actual data
that needs to be communicated is transferred through a database relation.
-libpq applications submit LISTEN and UNLISTEN
-commands as ordinary SQL queries. Subsequently, arrival of NOTIFY
-messages can be detected by calling PQnotifies() .
+libpq applications submit LISTEN and UNLISTEN
+commands as ordinary SQL queries. Subsequently, arrival of NOTIFY
+messages can be detected by calling PQnotifies
int be_pid; /* process id of backend */
} PGnotify;
-After processing a PGnotify object returned by PQnotifies ,
+After processing a PGnotify PQnotifies ,
be sure to free it with free() to avoid a memory leak.
- In
Postgres 6.4 and later,
- the be_pid is the notifying backend's ,
- whereas in earlier versions it was always
your own backend's PID .
+ In
PostgreSQL 6.4 and later,
+ the be_pid is that of the notifying backend ,
+ whereas in earlier versions it was always
the PID of your own backend .
- The COPY command in
Postgres has options to read from
+ The COPY command in
PostgreSQL has options to read from
or write to the network connection used by libpq .
Therefore, functions are necessary to access this network
connection directly so applications may take advantage of this capability.
end-of-data signal is detected. Unlike PQgetline , this routine takes
responsibility for detecting end-of-data.
On each call, PQgetlineAsync will return data if a complete newline-
-terminated data line is available in libpq 's input buffer, or if the
+terminated data line is available in
libpq 's input buffer, or if the
incoming data line is too long to fit in the buffer offered by the caller.
Otherwise, no data is returned until the rest of the line arrives.
data line will be returned. This can be detected by testing whether the
last returned byte is "\n " or not.
The returned string is not null-terminated. (If you want to add a
-terminating null, be sure to pass a bufsize one smaller than the room
+terminating null, be sure to pass a
bufsize one smaller than the room
actually available.)
PQuntrace
- Disable tracing started by PQtrace
+ Disable tracing started by PQtrace .
void PQuntrace(PGconn *conn)
To use a special notice processor, call
PQsetNoticeProcessor just after
-creation of a new PGconn object.
+creation of a new PGconn
Once you have set a notice processor, you should expect that that function
-could be called as long as either the PGconn object or PGresult objects
-made from it exist. At creation of a PGresult, the PGconn 's current
-notice processor pointer is copied into the PGresult for possible use by
+could be called as long as either the PGconn object or PGresult
+made from it exist. At creation of a PGresult, the PGconn
+notice processor pointer is copied into the PGresult
routines like PQgetvalue .
PGHOST sets the default server name.
If this begins with a slash, it specifies Unix-domain communication
rather than TCP/IP communication; the value is the name of the
-directory in which the socket file is stored (default "/tmp" ).
+directory in which the socket file is stored (default /tmp
PGPORT sets the default TCP port number or Unix-domain
socket file extension for communicating with the
PGDATABASE sets the default
+
PostgreSQL database name.
PGUSER
-sets the username used to connect to the database and for authentication.
+sets the user name used to connect to the database and for authentication.
PGREALM sets the Kerberos realm to use with
-
Postgres , if it is different from the local realm.
-If
PGREALM is set,
Postgres +
PostgreSQL , if it is different from the local realm.
+If
PGREALM is set,
PostgreSQL applications will attempt authentication with servers for this realm and use
separate ticket files to avoid conflicts with local
ticket files. This environment variable is only
PGOPTIONS sets additional runtime options for
The following environment variables can be used to specify user-level default
-behavior for every Postgres session:
+behavior for every
PostgreSQL session:
PGCLIENTENCODING
sets the default client encoding (if MULTIBYTE support was selected
-when configuring Postgres ).
+when configuring
PostgreSQL ).
The following environment variables can be used to specify default internal
-behavior for every Postgres session:
+behavior for every
PostgreSQL session:
libpq is thread-safe as of
-
Postgres 7.0, so long as no two threads
-attempt to manipulate the same PGconn object at the same time. In particular,
-you can' t issue concurrent queries from different threads through the same
+
PostgreSQL 7.0, so long as no two threads
+attempt to manipulate the same PGconn
+you canno t issue concurrent queries from different threads through the same
connection object. (If you need to run concurrent queries, start up multiple
connections.)
-PGresult objects are read-only after creation, and so can be passed around
+PGresult
freely between threads.
The deprecated functions PQoidStatus and
fe_setauthsvc are not thread-safe and should not be
-used in multi- thread programs. PQoidStatus can be
+used in multithread programs. PQoidStatus can be
replaced by PQoidValue . There is no good reason to
call fe_setauthsvc at all.
-
Building <span class="marked">Libpq</span> Programs
+
Building <span class="marked"><application>Libpq</application></span> Programs
- To build (i.e., compile and link) your libpq programs you need to
+ To build (i.e., compile and link) your
libpq programs you need to
do all of the following things:
When linking the final program, specify the option
- -lpq so that the libpq library gets pulled
+
-lpq so that the
libpq library gets pulled
in, as well as the option
-Ldirectory to
- point it to the directory where libpq resides. (Again, the
+ point it to the directory where
the libpq library resides. (Again, the
compiler will search some directories by default.) For maximum
portability, put the -L option before the
-lpq option. For example:
Example Programs
-
<span class="marked">libpq</span> Example Program 1
+
<span class="marked"><application>libpq</application></span> Example Program 1
/*
-
<span class="marked">libpq</span> Example Program 2
+
<span class="marked"><application>libpq</application></span> Example Program 2
/*
-
<span class="marked">libpq</span> Example Program 3</></div>
<div class="diff add">+ <title><span class="marked"><application>libpq</application></span> Example Program 3</></div>
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<div class="diff ctx"> <chapter id="largeObjects"></div>
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<div class="diff ctx"> objects interchangeably to mean the same thing in this</div>
<div class="diff ctx"> section.)</div>
<div class="diff ctx"> Since <productname>PostgreSQL 7.1</productname> all large objects are placed in</div>
<div class="diff rem">- one system table called <span class="marked">pg_largeobject</span>.</div>
<div class="diff add">+ one system table called <span class="marked"><classname>pg_largeobject</classname></span>.</div>
<div class="diff ctx"> </para></div>
<div class="diff ctx"> </sect1></div>
<div class="diff ctx"> </div>
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<div class="diff ctx"> <function>lseek(2)</function>, etc. User </div>
<div class="diff ctx"> functions call these routines to retrieve only the data of</div>
<div class="diff ctx"> interest from a large object. For example, if a large</div>
<div class="diff rem">- object type called <span class="marked">mugshot</span> existed that stored </div>
<div class="diff add">+ object type called <span class="marked"><type>mugshot</type></span> existed that stored </div>
<div class="diff ctx"> photographs of faces, then a function called beard could</div>
<div class="diff rem">- be declared on <span class="marked">mugshot</span> data. Beard could look at the</div>
<div class="diff add">+ be declared on <span class="marked"><type>mugshot</type></span> data. Beard could look at the</div>
<div class="diff ctx"> lower third of a photograph, and determine the color of</div>
<div class="diff ctx"> the beard that appeared there, if any. The entire</div>
<div class="diff ctx"> large object value need not be buffered, or even </div>
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<div class="diff ctx"> Oid lo_creat(PGconn *<replaceable class="parameter">conn</replaceable>, int <replaceable class="parameter">mode</replaceable>)</div>
<div class="diff ctx"> </synopsis></div>
<div class="diff ctx"> creates a new large object. </div>
<div class="diff rem">- <replaceable class="parameter">mode</replaceable> is a bitmask</div>
<div class="diff add">+ <replaceable class="parameter">mode</replaceable> is a bit<span class="marked"> </span>mask</div>
<div class="diff ctx"> describing several different attributes of the new</div>
<div class="diff ctx"> object. The symbolic constants listed here are defined</div>
<div class="diff ctx"> in</div>
<div class="diff ctx"> <filename>$<envar>PGROOT</envar>/src/backend/libpq/libpq-fs.h</filename></div>
<div class="diff ctx"> The access type (read, write, or both) is controlled by</div>
<div class="diff rem">- OR<span class="marked"> </span>ing together the bits <acronym>INV_READ</acronym> and</div>
<div class="diff add">+ OR<span class="marked">'</span>ing together the bits <acronym>INV_READ</acronym> and</div>
<div class="diff ctx"> <acronym>INV_WRITE</acronym>. The low-order sixteen bits of mask are</div>
<div class="diff ctx"> the storage manager number on which the large object</div>
<div class="diff ctx"> should reside. For sites other than Berkeley, these</div>
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<div class="diff ctx"> Oid lo_import(PGconn *<replaceable class="parameter">conn</replaceable>, const char *<replaceable class="parameter">filename</replaceable>)</div>
<div class="diff ctx"> </synopsis></div>
<div class="diff ctx"> <replaceable class="parameter">filename</replaceable> </div>
<div class="diff rem">- specifies the <acronym>Unix</acronym> pathname of</div>
<div class="diff add">+ specifies the <acronym>Unix</acronym> path<span class="marked"> </span>name of</div>
<div class="diff ctx"> the file to be imported as a large object.</div>
<div class="diff ctx"> </para></div>
<div class="diff ctx"> </sect2></div>
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<div class="diff ctx"> <synopsis></div>
<div class="diff ctx"> int lo_export(PGconn *<replaceable class="parameter">conn</replaceable>, Oid <replaceable class="parameter">lobjId</replaceable>, const char *<replaceable class="parameter">filename</replaceable>)</div>
<div class="diff ctx"> </synopsis></div>
<div class="diff rem">- The <span class="marked">lobjId</span> argument specifies the Oid of the large</div>
<div class="diff rem">- object to export and the <span class="marked">filename</span> argument specifies</div>
<div class="diff rem">- the <acronym>UNIX</acronym> pathname of the file.</div>
<div class="diff add">+ The <span class="marked"><parameter>lobjId</parameter></span> argument specifies the Oid of the large</div>
<div class="diff add">+ object to export and the <span class="marked"><parameter>filename</parameter></span> argument specifies</div>
<div class="diff add">+ the <acronym>UNIX</acronym> path<span class="marked"> </span>name of the file.</div>
<div class="diff ctx"> </para></div>
<div class="diff ctx"> </sect2></div>
<div class="diff ctx"> </div>
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<div class="diff ctx"> <synopsis></div>
<div class="diff ctx"> int lo_open(PGconn *conn, Oid lobjId, int mode)</div>
<div class="diff ctx"> </synopsis></div>
<div class="diff rem">- The <span class="marked">lobjId</span> argument specifies the Oid of the large</div>
<div class="diff rem">- object to open. The <span class="marked">mode</span> bits control whether the</div>
<div class="diff rem">- object is opened for reading <span class="marked">INV_READ</span>), writing or</div>
<div class="diff add">+ The <span class="marked"><parameter>lobjId</parameter></span> argument specifies the Oid of the large</div>
<div class="diff add">+ object to open. The <span class="marked"><parameter>mode</parameter></span> bits control whether the</div>
<div class="diff add">+ object is opened for reading <span class="marked">(<symbol>INV_READ</></span>), writing or</div>
<div class="diff ctx"> both.</div>
<div class="diff ctx"> A large object cannot be opened before it is created.</div>
<div class="diff ctx"> <function>lo_open</function> returns a large object descriptor</div>
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<div class="diff ctx"> <programlisting></div>
<div class="diff ctx"> int lo_write(PGconn *conn, int fd, const char *buf, size_t len)</div>
<div class="diff ctx"> </programlisting></div>
<div class="diff rem">- writes <span class="marked">len bytes from buf to large object fd. The fd</span></div>
<div class="diff add">+ writes <span class="marked"><parameter>len</parameter> bytes from <parameter>buf</parameter> to large object <parameter>fd</>. The <parameter>fd</parameter></span></div>
<div class="diff ctx"> argument must have been returned by a previous <function>lo_open</function>.</div>
<div class="diff ctx"> The number of bytes actually written is returned. In</div>
<div class="diff ctx"> the event of an error, the return value is negative.</div>
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<div class="diff ctx"> <programlisting></div>
<div class="diff ctx"> int lo_read(PGconn *conn, int fd, char *buf, size_t len)</div>
<div class="diff ctx"> </programlisting></div>
<div class="diff rem">- reads <span class="marked">len bytes from large object fd into buf. The fd</span></div>
<div class="diff add">+ reads <span class="marked"><parameter>len</parameter> bytes from large object <parameter>fd</parameter> into <parameter>buf</parameter>. The <parameter>fd</parameter></span></div>
<div class="diff ctx"> argument must have been returned by a previous <function>lo_open</function>.</div>
<div class="diff ctx"> The number of bytes actually read is returned. In</div>
<div class="diff ctx"> the event of an error, the return value is negative.</div>
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<div class="diff ctx"> <synopsis></div>
<div class="diff ctx"> Oid lo_unlink(PGconn *<replaceable class="parameter">conn</replaceable>, Oid lobjId)</div>
<div class="diff ctx"> </synopsis></div>
<div class="diff rem">- The <span class="marked">lobjId</span> argument specifies the Oid of the large</div>
<div class="diff add">+ The <span class="marked"><parameter>lobjId</parameter></span> argument specifies the Oid of the large</div>
<div class="diff ctx"> object to remove.</div>
<div class="diff ctx"> </para></div>
<div class="diff ctx"> </sect2></div>
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<div class="diff ctx"> </sect1></div>
<div class="diff ctx"> </div>
<div class="diff ctx"> <sect1 id="lo-libpq"></div>
<div class="diff rem">-<title>Accessing Large Objects from <span class="marked">LIBPQ</span>
+
Accessing Large Objects from <span class="marked"><application>Libpq</application></span>
Below is a sample program which shows how the large object
interface
- in LIBPQ can be used. Parts of the program are
+ in
libpq can be used. Parts of the program are
commented out but are left in the source for the readers
benefit. This program can be found in
../src/test/examples
Frontend applications which use the large object interface
- in LIBPQ should include the header file
- libpq/libpq-fs.h and link with the libpq library.
+ in
libpq should include the header file
+
libpq/libpq-fs.h and link with the libpq library.
The backend access come from
ODBC drivers,
- or vendor specif c drivers that
+ or vendor-specifi c drivers that
allow data access.
psqlODBC is such a driver,
along with others that are
- available, such as the
OpenLink ODBC drivers.
+ available, such as the
OpenLink ODBC drivers.
Supported Platforms
psqlODBC has been built and tested
- on <productname>Linux>. There have been reports of success
- with FreeBSD and with Solaris . There are no known restrictions
+ on <systemitem class="osname">Linux>. There have been reports of success
+ with FreeBSD and with Solaris
on the basic code for other platforms which already support
- In Visual C++, you can use the CRecordSet class, which wraps the
+ In Visual C++, you can use the CRecordSet
- set within an MFC 4.2 class. This is the easiest route if you are doing
+ set within an
MFC 4.2 class. This is the easiest route if you are doing
Windows C++ development under Windows NT.
- Visual Basic and the other RAD tools have Recordset objects
+ Visual Basic and the other
RAD tools have Recordset objects
directly to access data. Using the data-aware controls, you can quickly
link to the
ODBC back end database
- You'll have to set up a DSN first.
+ You'll have to set up a
DSN first.
-
<span class="marked">ApplixWare</span>
+
<span class="marked"><application>ApplixWare</application></span>
-
Enabling <span class="marked">ApplixWare</span> Database Access
+
Enabling <span class="marked"><application>ApplixWare</application></span> Database Access
These instructions are for the 4.4.2 release of
elfodbc can
find libodbc.so
(the
ODBC driver manager) shared library.
- This library is included with the ApplixWare distribution,
+ This library is included with the
ApplixWare distribution,
but axnet.cnf needs to be modified to point to the
correct location.
libFor elfodbc applixroot /applix/axdata/axshlib/lib
- which will tell elfodbc to look in this directory
+ which will tell elfodbc
for the
ODBC support library.
Typically
Applix is installed in
/opt so the full path would be
-
Testing <span class="marked">ApplixWare</span> ODBC Connections
+
Testing <span class="marked"><application>ApplixWare</application></span> ODBC Connections
Select
ODBC , and click
Browse .
The database you configured in .odbc.ini
should be shown. Make sure that the Host: field
- is empty (if it is not, axnet will try to contact axnet on another machine
+ is empty (if it is not, axnet will try to contact axnet
to look for the database).
- Enter username and password in the login identification dialog,
+ Enter user name and password in the login identification dialog,
and click OK .
- You should see "Starting elfodbc server "
+ You should see Starting elfodbc server
in the lower left corner of the
data window. If you get an error dialog box, see the debugging section
below.
- Cannot launch gateway on server
+ Cannot launch gateway on server
-
+
Error from ODBC Gateway:
- IM003::[iODBC][Driver Manager]Specified driver could not be loaded
+ IM003::[iODBC][Driver Manager]Specified driver could not be loaded
- Server: Broken Pipe
+ Server: Broken Pipe
- setuid to 256: failed to launch gateway
+ setuid to 256: failed to launch gateway
- The September release of ApplixWare v4.4.1 (the first release with official
-
ODBC support under Linux) shows problems when usernames
+ The September release of
ApplixWare v4.4.1 (the first release with official
+
ODBC support under Linux) shows problems when user
names
exceed eight (8) characters in length.
- Problem description ontributed by Steve Campbell
+ Problem description c ontributed by Steve Campbell
-
Debugging <span class="marked">ApplixWare</span> ODBC Connections
+
Debugging <span class="marked"><application>ApplixWare</application></span> ODBC Connections
One good tool for debugging connection problems uses the Unix system
-
Debugging with <span class="marked">strace</span>
+
Debugging with <span class="marked"><command>strace</command></span>
- Start applixware .
- the axnet process. For example, if
+ the axnet
% ps -aucx | grep ax
- Check the strace output.
+ Check the strace
Note from Cary
For example, after getting
- a "Cannot launch gateway on server " ,
- I ran strace on axnet and got
+ a Cannot launch gateway on server
+ I ran strace on axnet
[pid 27947] open("/usr/lib/libodbc.so", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT
(No such file or directory)
[pid 27947] open("/lib/libodbc.so", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT
(No such file or directory)
[pid 27947] write(2, "/usr2/applix/axdata/elfodbc:
can't load library 'libodbc.so'\n", 61) = -1 EIO (I/O error)
-
- So what is happening is that applix elfodbc is searching for libodbc.so , but it
- can't find it. That is why axnet.cnf needed to be changed.
+
+ So what is happening is that applix elfodbc is searching for libodbc.so
+ cannot find it. That is why axnet.cnf needed to be changed.
-
Running the <span class="marked">ApplixWare</span> Demo
+
Running the <span class="marked"><application>ApplixWare</application></span> Demo
In order to go through the
-
Modifying the <span class="marked">ApplixWare</span> Demo
+
Modifying the <span class="marked"><application>ApplixWare</application></span> Demo
- Open the
sqldemo.am file from the
Macro Editor .
+ Open the
sqldemo.am file from the
Macro Editor .
You can add information about your
- database login and password to the standard Applix start-up
+ database login and password to the standard
Applix start-up
macro file. This is an example
~/axhome/macros/login.am file:
You should be careful about the file protections on any file containing
- username and password information.
+ user name and password information.
The PL/Perl interpreter (when installed as trusted interpreter with
- default name 'plperl') inte preter is a full Perl interpreter. However, certain
+ default name plperl) inter
operations have been disabled in order to maintain the security of
the system. In general, the operations that are restricted are
- those that interact with the environment. This includes filehandle
+ those that interact with the environment. This includes file handle
operations, require , and use
(for external modules). It should be noted that this security is
not absolute. Indeed, several Denial-of-Service attacks are still
- When PL/Perl is installed as 'untrusted' interpreter (with name 'plperlu' ),
- everything is permitted, and any p erl code can be loaded (by superuser only).
+ When PL/Perl is installed as untrusted interpreter (with name plperlu
+ everything is permitted, and any P erl code can be loaded (by superuser only).
The creation of the function will succeed, but executing it will not.
Note that if same function was created by superuser using language
- 'plperlu' , execution would succeed.
+ plperlu
- Access to database itself from your p erl function can be done via
- an experimental module
DBD::PgSPI, available at this site. This module makes available a DBI -compliant
- database-handle named $pg_dbh , and you can use that to make queries with
- normal DBI syntax.
+ Access to database itself from your P erl function can be done via
+ an experimental module
DBD::PgSPI . This module makes available a DBI -compliant
+ database-handle named $pg_dbh
-
+
PL/Python - Python Procedural Language
PostgreSQL function variables are available in the global
args list. In the myfunc
- example, args[0] contains whatever was passed in as the text
- argument. For myfunc2(text, int4) , args[0]
- would contain the text variable and args[1] the int4 variable.
+ example, args[0]
+ argument. For myfunc2(text, integer) , args[0]
+ would contain the text variable and args[1] the integer
function calls. This variable is private static data. The global
dictionary GD is public data, available to all python functions
within a backend. Use with care. When the function is used in a
- trigger, the triggers tuples are in TD["new"] and/or TD["old"]
+ trigger, the triggers tuples are in TD["new"] and/or TD["old"]
depending on the trigger event. Return 'None' or "OK" from the
python function to indicate the tuple is unmodified, "SKIP" to
abort the event, or "MODIFIED" to indicate you've modified the
tuple. If the trigger was called with arguments they are available
- in TD["args"][0] to TD["args"][(n -1)]
+ in TD["args"][0] to TD["args"][(n -1)] .
- Additionally, the plpy module provides two functions called
+ Additionally, the plpy
execute and prepare .
Calling plpy.execute with a query string, and
an optional limit argument, causes that query to be run, and the
-
<span class="marked">PL/pgSQL</span> - <acronym>SQL</acronym> Procedural Language
+
<span class="marked"><application>PL/pgSQL</application></span> - <acronym>SQL</acronym> Procedural Language
- PL/pgSQL is a loadable procedural language for the
+
PL/pgSQL is a loadable procedural language for the
Postgres database system.
Overview
- The design goals of PL/pgSQL were to create a loadable procedural
+ The design goals of
PL/pgSQL were to create a loadable procedural
language that
- The PL/pgSQL call handler parses the function's source text and
+ The
PL/pgSQL call handler parses the function's source text and
produces an internal binary instruction tree the first time the
function is called. The produced bytecode is identified
in the call handler by the object ID of the function. This ensures
For all expressions and
SQL statements used in
- the function, the PL/pgSQL bytecode interpreter creates a
+ the function, the
PL/pgSQL bytecode interpreter creates a
prepared execution plan using the
SPI manager's
SPI_prepare() and
SPI_saveplan() functions. This is done the
first time the individual
- statement is processed in the PL/pgSQL function. Thus, a function with
+ statement is processed in the
PL/pgSQL function. Thus, a function with
conditional code that contains many statements for which execution
plans would be required, will only prepare and save those plans
that are really used during the lifetime of the database
- Because PL/pgSQL saves execution plans in this way, queries that appear
- directly in a PL/pgSQL function must refer to the same tables and fields
+ Because
PL/pgSQL saves execution plans in this way, queries that appear
+ directly in a
PL/pgSQL function must refer to the same tables and fields
on every execution; that is, you cannot use a parameter as the name of
a table or field in a query. To get around
- this restriction, you can construct dynamic queries using the PL/pgSQL
+ this restriction, you can construct dynamic queries using the
PL/pgSQL EXECUTE statement --- at the price of constructing a new query plan
on every execution.
Except for input/output conversion and calculation functions
for user defined types, anything that can be defined in C language
- functions can also be done with PL/pgSQL . It is possible to
+ functions can also be done with
PL/pgSQL . It is possible to
create complex conditional computation functions and later use
them to define operators or use them in functional indexes.
- With PL/pgSQL you can group a block of computation and a
+ With
PL/pgSQL you can group a block of computation and a
series of queries inside the
database server, thus having the power of a procedural
language and the ease of use of SQL, but saving lots of
time because you don't have the whole client/server
communication overhead. Your application will enjoy a
- considerable performance increase by using PL/pgSQL .
+ considerable performance increase by using
PL/pgSQL .
SQL Support
- PL/pgSQL adds the power of a procedural language to the
+
PL/pgSQL adds the power of a procedural language to the
flexibility and ease of
SQL . With
- PL/pgSQL you can use all the data types, columns, operators
+
PL/pgSQL you can use all the data types, columns, operators
and functions of SQL.
Portability
- Because PL/pgSQL functions run inside PostgreSQL, these
+ Because
PL/pgSQL functions run inside PostgreSQL, these
functions will run on any platform where PostgreSQL
runs. Thus you can reuse code and have less development costs.
-
Developing in <span class="marked">PL/pgSQL</span>
+
Developing in <span class="marked"><application>PL/pgSQL</application></span>
- Developing in PL/pgSQL is pretty straight forward, especially
+ Developing in
PL/pgSQL is pretty straight forward, especially
if you have developed in other database procedural languages,
- such as Oracle's PL/SQL . Two good ways of developing in
- PL/pgSQL are:
+ such as Oracle's
PL/SQL . Two good ways of developing in
- Using PostgreSQL's GUI Tool: pgaccess
+ Using PostgreSQL's GUI Tool:
PgAccess
- One good way to develop in PL/pgSQL is to simply use the text
+ One good way to develop in
PL/pgSQL is to simply use the text
editor of your choice to create your functions, and in another
console, use psql (PostgreSQL's interactive monitor) to load
those functions. If you are doing it this way (and if you are
- a PL/pgSQL novice or in debugging stage), it is a good idea to
+ a
PL/pgSQL novice or in debugging stage), it is a good idea to
always DROP your function before creating it. That way
when you reload the file, it'll drop your functions and then
re-create them. For example:
When you load the file for the first time,
PostgreSQL will raise a warning saying this
function doesn't exist and go on to create it. To load an SQL
- file (filename.sql) into a database named "dbname" , use the command:
+ file (e.g., filename.sql ) into a database named dbname , use the command:
psql -f filename.sql dbname
- Another good way to develop in PL/pgSQL is using
-
PostgreSQL's GUI tool: pgaccess . It does some + Another good way to develop in
PL/pgSQL is using
+
PostgreSQL's GUI tool: PgAccess nice things for you, like escaping single-quotes, and making
it easy to recreate and debug functions.
-
Structure of <span class="marked">PL/pgSQL</span>
+
Structure of <span class="marked"><application>PL/pgSQL</application></span>
- PL/pgSQL is a block structured language. All
+
PL/pgSQL is a
block structured language. All
keywords and identifiers can be used in mixed upper and
lower-case. A block is defined as:
It is important not to confuse the use of BEGIN/END for
- grouping statements in PL/pgSQL with the database commands for
- transaction control. PL/pgSQL 's BEGIN/END are only for grouping;
+ grouping statements in
PL/pgSQL with the database commands for
+ transaction control.
PL/pgSQL 's BEGIN/END are only for grouping;
they do not start or end a transaction. Functions and trigger procedures
are always executed within a transaction established by an outer query
--- they cannot start or commit transactions, since
Comments
- There are two types of comments in PL/pgSQL . A double dash --
+ There are two types of comments in
PL/pgSQL . A double dash
-- starts a comment that extends to the end of the line. A /*
starts a block comment that extends to the next occurrence of */ .
Block comments cannot be nested, but double dash comments can be
- PL/pgSQL variables can have any SQL data type, such as
+
PL/pgSQL variables can have any SQL data type, such as
INTEGER , VARCHAR and
CHAR . All variables have as default value the
Using the %TYPE and %ROWTYPE
attributes, you can declare variables with the same
- datatype or structure of another database item (e.g: a
+ data type or structure of another database item (e.g: a
table field).
- %TYPE provides the datatype of a
+ %TYPE provides the data type of a
variable or database column. You can use this to
declare variables that will hold database
values. For example, let's say you have a column
named user_id in your
users table. To declare a variable with
- the same datatype as users.user_id you write:
+ the same data type as users.user_id you write:
user_id users.user_id%TYPE;
By using %TYPE you don't need to know
- the datatype of the structure you are referencing,
- and most important, if the datatype of the
+ the data type of the structure you are referencing,
+ and most important, if the data type of the
referenced item changes in the future (e.g: you
change your table definition of user_id to become a
REAL), you won't need to change your function
- <replaceable>table%ROWTYPE
+ <literal>table %ROWTYPE
- %ROWTYPE provides the composite datatype corresponding
+ %ROWTYPE provides the composite data type corresponding
to a whole row of the specified table.
table must be an existing
table or view name of the database. The fields of the row are
Expressions
- All expressions used in PL/pgSQL statements are processed using
- the backend's executo r. Expressions that appear to contain
+ All expressions used in
PL/pgSQL statements are processed using
+ the executor of the serve r. Expressions that appear to contain
constants may in fact require run-time evaluation
(e.g. 'now' for the
timestamp type) so
- it is impossible for the PL/pgSQL parser
+ it is impossible for the
PL/pgSQL parser
to identify real constant values other than the NULL keyword. All
expressions are evaluated internally by executing a query
using the
SPI manager. In the expression, occurrences of variable
identifiers are substituted by parameters and the actual values from
the variables are passed to the executor in the parameter array. All
- expressions used in a PL/pgSQL function are only prepared and
+ expressions used in a
PL/pgSQL function are only prepared and
saved once. The only exception to this rule is an EXECUTE statement
if parsing of a query is needed each time it is encountered.
Postgres main parser knows when
preparing the plan for the INSERT, that the string
'now' should be interpreted as
- timestamp because the target field of logtable
+ timestamp because the target field of logtable
is of that type. Thus, it will make a constant from it at this
time and this constant value is then used in all invocations of
logfunc1() during the lifetime of the
what type 'now' should become and therefore
it returns a data type of text containing the string
'now' . During the assignment
- to the local variable curtime, the PL/pgSQL interpreter casts this
- string to the timestamp type by calling the
+ to the local variable
curtime , the PL/pgSQL interpreter casts this
+ string to the timestamp
text_out() and timestamp_in()
functions for the conversion.
This type checking done by the
Postgres main
- parser got implemented after PL/pgSQL was nearly done.
+ parser got implemented after
PL/pgSQL was nearly done.
It is a difference between 6.3 and 6.4 and affects all functions
using the prepared plan feature of the
SPI manager.
Using a local
- variable in the above manner is currently the only way in PL/pgSQL to get
+ variable in the above manner is currently the only way in
PL/pgSQL to get
those values interpreted correctly.
Statements
- Anything not understood by the PL/pgSQL parser as specified below
+ Anything not understood by the
PL/pgSQL parser as specified below
will be put into a query and sent down to the database engine
to execute. The resulting query should not return any data.
If the expressions result data type doesn't match the variables
data type, or the variable has a size/precision that is known
- (as for char(20) ), the result value will be implicitly casted by
- the PL/pgSQL bytecode interpreter using the result types output- and
+ (as for char(20) ), the result value will be implicitly cast by
+ the
PL/pgSQL bytecode interpreter using the result types output- and
the variables type input-functions. Note that this could potentially
result in runtime errors generated by the types input functions.
All functions defined in a
Postgres database return a value. Thus, the normal way to call a function
is to execute a SELECT query or doing an assignment (resulting
- in a PL/pgSQL internal SELECT).
+ in a
PL/pgSQL internal SELECT).
Often times you will want to generate dynamic queries inside
- your PL/pgSQL functions. Or you have functions that will
- generate other functions. PL/pgSQL provides the EXECUTE
+ your
PL/pgSQL functions. Or you have functions that will
+ generate other functions.
PL/pgSQL provides the EXECUTE
statement for these occasions.
When working with dynamic queries you will have to face
- escaping of single quotes in PL/pgSQL . Please refer to the
+ escaping of single quotes in
PL/pgSQL . Please refer to the
table available at the "Porting from Oracle PL/SQL" chapter
for a detailed explanation that will save you some effort.
- Unlike all other queries in PL/pgSQL , a
+ Unlike all other queries in
PL/pgSQL , a
query run by an EXECUTE statement is
not prepared and saved just once during the life of the server.
Instead, the query is prepared each
This command allows retrieval of system status indicators. Each
item is a keyword identifying a state
value to be assigned to the specified variable (which should be
- of the right datatype to receive it). The currently available
+ of the right data type to receive it). The currently available
status items are ROW_COUNT, the number of rows
processed by the last
SQL query sent down to
the
SQL engine; and
RESULT_OID,
Control Structures
Control structures are probably the most useful (and
- important) part of PL/SQL. With PL/pgSQL 's control structures,
+ important) part of PL/SQL. With
PL/pgSQL 's control structures,
you can manipulate
PostgreSQL data in a very flexible and powerful way.
With the LOOP, WHILE, FOR and EXIT statements, you can
- control the flow of execution of your PL/pgSQL program
- iteratively.
+ control the flow of execution of your
PL/pgSQL program
+ iterac tively.
record-/row-fields. Note that this is quite different from
Postgres' normal interpretation of SELECT INTO, which is that the
INTO target is a newly created table. (If you want to create a
- table from a SELECT result inside a PL/pgSQL function, use the
+ table from a SELECT result inside a
PL/pgSQL function, use the
equivalent syntax CREATE TABLE AS SELECT .)
Use the RAISE statement to throw messages into the
-
Postgres elog mechanism.
+
Postgres elog mechanism.
RAISE level 'format' , variable ... ;
- Thus, the only thing PL/pgSQL currently does when it encounters
+ Thus, the only thing
PL/pgSQL currently does when it encounters
an abort during execution of a function or trigger
procedure is to write some additional NOTICE level log messages
telling in which function and where (line number and type of
Trigger Procedures
- PL/pgSQL can be used to define trigger procedures. They are created
+
PL/pgSQL can be used to define trigger procedures. They are created
with the usual CREATE FUNCTION command as a function with no
arguments and a return type of OPAQUE .
-
A <span class="marked">PL/pgSQL</span> Trigger Procedure Example
+
A <span class="marked"><application>PL/pgSQL</application></span> Trigger Procedure Example
This trigger ensures, that any time a row is inserted or updated
Here are only a few functions to demonstrate how easy it is to
- write PL/pgSQL
functions. For more complex examples the programmer
- might look at the regression test for PL/pgSQL .
+ might look at the regression test for
PL/pgSQL .
- One painful detail in writing functions in PL/pgSQL is the handling
+ One painful detail in writing functions in
PL/pgSQL is the handling
of single quotes. The function's source text on CREATE FUNCTION must
be a literal string. Single quotes inside of literal strings must be
either doubled or quoted with a backslash. We are still looking for
-
A Simple <span class="marked">PL/pgSQL</span> Function to Increment an Integer
+
A Simple <span class="marked"><application>PL/pgSQL</application></span> Function to Increment an Integer
- The following two PL/pgSQL functions are identical to their
+ The following two
PL/pgSQL functions are identical to their
counterparts from the C language function discussion. This
function receives an integer and increments it by
one, returning the incremented value.
-
A Simple <span class="marked">PL/pgSQL</span> Function to Concatenate Text
+
A Simple <span class="marked"><application>PL/pgSQL</application></span> Function to Concatenate Text
This function receives two text parameters and
-
A <span class="marked">PL/pgSQL</span> Function on Composite Type
+
A <span class="marked"><application>PL/pgSQL</application></span> Function on Composite Type
- In this example, we take EMP (a table) and an
+ In this example, we take EMP
integer as arguments to our function, which returns
- a boolean . If the "salary" field of the EMP table is
- NULL , we return "f" . Otherwise we compare with
+ a boolean . If the salary field of the EMP
+ NULL , we return f
that field with the integer passed to the function
and return the boolean result of the comparison (t
- or f). This is the PL/pgSQL equivalent to the example from the C
+ or f). This is the
PL/pgSQL equivalent to the example from the C
functions.
This section explains differences between Oracle's PL/SQL and
- PostgreSQL's PL/pgSQL languages in the hopes of helping developers
+ PostgreSQL's
PL/pgSQL languages in the hopes of helping developers
port applications from Oracle to PostgreSQL. Most of the code here
- PL/pgSQL is similar to PL/SQL in many aspects. It is a block
+
PL/pgSQL is similar to PL/SQL in many aspects. It is a block
structured, imperative language (all variables have to be
declared). PL/SQL has many more features than its PostgreSQL
- counterpart, but PL/pgSQL allows for a great deal of functionality
+ counterpart, but
PL/pgSQL allows for a great deal of functionality
and it is being improved constantly.
- Let's go through this function and see the differences to PL/pgSQL :
+ Let's go through this function and see the differences to
PL/pgSQL :
The following Oracle PL/SQL procedure is used to parse a URL and
return several elements (host, path and query). It is an
- procedure because in PL/pgSQL functions only one value can be returned
+ procedure because in
PL/pgSQL functions only one value can be returned
(see ). In
PostgreSQL, one way to work around this is to split the procedure
in three different functions: one to return the host, another for
Oracle procedures give a little more flexibility to the developer
because nothing needs to be explicitly returned, but it can be
- through the use of INOUT or OUT parameters.
+ through the use of INOUT or OUT
- If you do a LOCK TABLE in PL/pgSQL , the lock
+ If you do a
LOCK TABLE in
PL/pgSQL , the lock
will not be released until the calling transaction is finished.
- You also cannot have transactions in PL/pgSQL procedures. The
+ You also cannot have transactions in
PL/pgSQL procedures. The
entire function (and other functions called from therein) is
executed in a transaction and PostgreSQL rolls back the results if
something goes wrong. Therefore only one
- So let's see one of the ways we could port this procedure to PL/pgSQL :
+ So let's see one of the ways we could port this procedure to
PL/pgSQL :
drop function cs_create_job(integer);
- Notice how you can raise notices (or errors) in PL/pgSQL .
+ Notice how you can raise notices (or errors) in
PL/pgSQL .
-
Optimizing <span class="marked">PL/pgSQL</span> Functions
+
Optimizing <span class="marked"><application>PL/pgSQL</application></span> Functions
PostgreSQL gives you two function creation modifiers to optimize
-
PL/Tcl - T<span class="marked">CL</span> Procedural Language
+
PL/Tcl - T<span class="marked">cl</span> Procedural Language
The good restriction is that everything is executed in a safe
Tcl interpreter. In addition to the limited command set of safe Tcl, only
a few commands are available to access the database via SPI and to raise
- messages via elog() . There is no way to access internals of the
+ messages via elog()
database backend or to gain OS-level access under the permissions of the
Postgres user ID, as a C function can do.
Thus, any unprivileged database user may be
To help protect PL/Tcl procedures from unwanted side effects,
- an array is made available to each procedure via the upvar
+ an array is made available to each procedure via the upvar
command. The global name of this variable is the procedure's internal
name and the local name is GD. It is recommended that GD be used
for private status data of a procedure. Use regular Tcl global variables
A Tcl list of the tables field names prefixed with an empty list element.
- So looking up an element name in the list with the lsearch Tcl command
+ So looking up an element name in the list with the lsearch
returns the same positive number starting from 1 as the fields are numbered
in the pg_attribute system catalog.
- elog level msg
+ elog level msg
Fire a log message. Possible levels are NOTICE, ERROR,
- quote string
+ quote string
Duplicates all occurrences of single quote and backslash characters.
- spi_lastoid
+ spi_lastoid
Returns the OID of the last query if it was an INSERT.
- spi_exec ?-count n ? ?-array name ? query ?loop-body ?
+ spi_exec ?-count n ? ?-array name ? query ?loop-body ?
Call parser/planner/optimizer/executor for query.
- spi_prepare query typelist
+ spi_prepare query typelist
Prepares AND SAVES a query plan for later execution. It is a bit different
from the C level SPI_prepare in that the plan is automatically copied to the
- toplevel memory context. Thus, there is currently no way of preparing a
+ top- level memory context. Thus, there is currently no way of preparing a
plan without saving it.
If the query references arguments, the type names must be given as a Tcl
- list. The return value from spi_prepare is a query ID to be used in
- subsequent calls to spi_execp. See spi_execp for a sample.
+ list. The return value from spi_prepare
+ subsequent calls to spi_execp . See spi_execp
- spi_exec ?-count n ? ?-arrayname ? ?-nullsstring ? queryid ?value-list ? ?loop-body ?
+ spi_exec ?-count n ? ?-arrayname ? ?-nullsstring ? queryid ?value-list ? ?loop-body ?
- Execute a prepared plan from spi_prepare with variable substitution.
- The optional -count value tells spi_execp the maximum number of rows
+ Execute a prepared plan from spi_prepare
+ The optional -count value tells spi_execp
to be processed by the query.
- The optional value for -nulls is a string of spaces and 'n' characters
- telling spi_execp which of the values are NULL's. If given, it must
+ The optional value for -nulls
+ telling spi_execp
have exactly the length of the number of values.
- The queryid is the ID returned by the spi_prepare call.
+ The
queryid is the ID returned by the spi_prepare call.
- If there was a typelist given to spi_prepare , a Tcl list of values of
+ If there was a
typelist given to spi_prepare , a Tcl list of values of
exactly the same length must be given to spi_execp after the query. If
the type list on spi_prepare was empty, this argument must be omitted.
- If the query is a SELECT statement, the same as described for spi_exec
+ If the query is a SELECT statement, the same as described for spi_exec
happens for the loop-body and the variables for the fields selected.
Note that each backslash that Tcl should see must be doubled in
the query creating the function, since the main parser processes
backslashes too on CREATE FUNCTION.
- Inside the query string given to spi_prepare should
+ Inside the query string given to spi_prepare
really be dollar signs to mark the parameter positions and to not let
$1 be substituted by the value given in the first function call.
- Modules and the unknown command
+ Modules and the unknown
- PL/Tcl has a special support for things often used. It recognizes two
- magic tables, pltcl_modules and pltcl_modfuncs.
- If these exist, the module 'unknown' is loaded into the interpreter
- right after creation. Whenever an unknown Tcl procedure is called,
- the unknown proc is asked to check if the procedure is defined in one
- of the modules. If this is true, the module is loaded on demand.
- To enable this behavior, the PL/Tcl call handler must be compiled
- with -DPLTCL_UNKNOWN_SUPPORT set.
+ PL/Tcl has a special support for things often used. It
+ recognizes two magic tables, pltcl_modules and
+ pltcl_modfuncs. If these exist, the module
+ 'unknown' is loaded into the interpreter right after
+ creation. Whenever an unknown Tcl procedure is called, the
+ unknown proc is asked to check if the procedure is defined in
+ one of the modules. If this is true, the module is loaded on
+ demand. To enable this behavior, the
+
PostgreSQL must be configured with the option + --enable-pltcl-unknown .
There are support scripts to maintain these tables in the modules
-
+
The <ProductName>Postgres</ProductName> Rule System
[].
-
What is a Query<span class="marked">t</span>ree?
+
What is a Query<span class="marked"> T</span>ree?
To understand how the rule system works it is necessary to know
The rule system is located between the query parser and the planner.
- It takes the output of the parser, one querytree, and the rewrite
+ It takes the output of the parser, one query tree, and the rewrite
rules from the pg_rewrite catalog, which are
- querytrees too with some extra information, and creates zero or many
- querytrees as result. So its input and output are always things
+ query trees too with some extra information, and creates zero or many
+ query trees as result. So its input and output are always things
the parser itself could have produced and thus, anything it sees
is basically representable as an
SQL statement.
- Now what is a querytree? It is an internal representation of an
+ Now what is a query tree? It is an internal representation of an
SQL statement where the single parts that built
- it are stored separately. These querytrees are visible when starting
- the
Postgres backend with debuglevel 4
+ it are stored separately. These query trees are visible when starting
+ the
Postgres backend with debug
level 4
and typing queries into the interactive backend interface. The rule
actions in the pg_rewrite system catalog are
- also stored as querytrees. They are not formatted like the debug
+ also stored as query trees. They are not formatted like the debug
output, but they contain exactly the same information.
- Reading a querytree requires some experience and it was a hard
+ Reading a query tree requires some experience and it was a hard
time when I started to work on the rule system. I can remember
that I was standing at the coffee machine and I saw the cup
- in a targetlist, water and coffee powder in a range table and all
+ in a target list, water and coffee powder in a range table and all
the buttons in a qualification expression. Since
-
SQL representations of querytrees are
+
SQL representations of query
trees are
sufficient to understand the rule system, this document will
not teach how to read them. It might help to learn
it and the naming conventions are required in the later following
-
The Parts of a Querytree
+
The Parts of a Query<span class="marked"> </span>tree
When reading the
SQL representations of the
- querytrees in this document it is necessary to be able to identify
- the parts the statement is broken into when it is in the querytree
- structure. The parts of a querytree are
-
+ query trees in this document it is necessary to be able to identify
+ the parts the statement is broken into when it is in the query tree
+ structure. The parts of a query tree are
- the commandtype
+ the command type
This is a simple value telling which command
- (SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE) produced the parsetree.
+ (SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE) produced the parse tree.
- the rangetable
+ the range table
- The rangetable is a list of relations that are used in the query.
+ The range table is a list of relations that are used in the query.
In a SELECT statement these are the relations given after
the FROM keyword.
- Every rangetable entry identifies a table or view and tells
+ Every range table entry identifies a table or view and tells
by which name it is called in the other parts of the query.
- In the querytree the range table entries are referenced by
+ In the query tree the range table entries are referenced by
index rather than by name, so here it doesn't matter if there
are duplicate names as it would in an
SQL - statement. This can happen after the rangetables of rules
+ statement. This can happen after the range tables of rules
have been merged in. The examples in this document will not have
this situation.
- the resultrelation
+ the result relation
- This is an index into the rangetable that identifies the
+ This is an index into the range table that identifies the
relation where the results of the query go.
- On INSERT, UPDATE and DELETE queries the resultrelation
+ On INSERT, UPDATE and DELETE queries the result relation
is the table (or view!) where the changes take effect.
- the targetlist
+ the target list
- The targetlist is a list of expressions that define the result
+ The target list is a list of expressions that define the result
of the query. In the case of a SELECT, the expressions are what
builds the final output of the query. They are the expressions
between the SELECT and the FROM keywords. (* is just an
- DELETE queries don't need a targetlist because they don't
+ DELETE queries don't need a target list because they don't
produce any result. In fact the planner will add a special CTID
- entry to the empty targetlist. But this is after the rule
+ entry to the empty target list. But this is after the rule
system and will be discussed later. For the rule system the
- targetlist is empty.
+ target list is empty.
- In INSERT queries the targetlist describes the new rows that
- should go into the resultrelation. It is the expressions in the VALUES
+ In INSERT queries the target list describes the new rows that
+ should go into the result relation. It is the expressions in the VALUES
clause or the ones from the SELECT clause in INSERT ... SELECT.
- Missing columns of the resultrelation will be filled in by the
+ Missing columns of the result relation will be filled in by the
planner with a constant NULL expression.
- In UPDATE queries, the targetlist describes the new rows that should
+ In UPDATE queries, the target list describes the new rows that should
replace the old ones. In the rule system, it contains just the
expressions from the SET attribute = expression part of the query.
The planner will add missing columns by inserting expressions that
- Every entry in the targetlist contains an expression that can
+ Every entry in the target list contains an expression that can
be a constant value, a variable pointing to an attribute of one
- of the relations in the rangetable, a parameter, or an expression
+ of the relations in the range table, a parameter, or an expression
tree made of function calls, constants, variables, operators etc.
The query's qualification is an expression much like one of those
- contained in the targetlist entries. The result value of this
- expression is a b oolean that tells if the operation
+ contained in the target list entries. The result value of this
+ expression is a B oolean that tells if the operation
(INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE or SELECT) for the final result row should be
executed or not. It is the WHERE clause of an
For a simple query like SELECT FROM a, b, c the join tree is just
a list of the FROM items, because we are allowed to join them in
any order. But when JOIN expressions --- particularly outer joins
- --- are used, we have to join in the order shown by the JOIN s.
+ --- are used, we have to join in the order shown by the join s.
The join tree shows the structure of the JOIN expressions. The
restrictions associated with particular JOIN clauses (from ON or
USING expressions) are stored as qualification expressions attached
- The other parts of the querytree like the ORDER BY
+ The other parts of the query tree like the ORDER BY
clause aren't of interest here. The rule system
substitutes entries there while applying rules, but that
doesn't have much to do with the fundamentals of the rule
Rules ON SELECT are applied to all queries as the
last step, even if the command
given is an INSERT, UPDATE or DELETE. And they have different
- semantics from the others in that they modify the parsetree in
+ semantics from the others in that they modify the parse tree in
place instead of creating a new one.
So SELECT rules are described first.
- The database needed to play with the examples is named al_bundy .
+ The database needed to play with the examples is named al_bundy
You'll see soon why this is the database name. And it needs the
- procedural language PL/pgSQL installed, because
+ procedural language
PL/pgSQL installed, because
we need a little min() function returning the lower of 2
integer values. We create that as
will create a relation shoelace and an entry
in pg_rewrite
that tells that there is a rewrite rule that must be applied
- whenever the relation shoelace is referenced in a query's rangetable.
+ whenever the relation shoelace is referenced in a query's range table.
The rule has no rule qualification (discussed later, with the
non SELECT rules, since SELECT rules currently cannot have them) and
it is INSTEAD. Note that rule qualifications are not the same as
- The rule's action is one querytree that is a copy of the
+ The rule's action is one query tree that is a copy of the
SELECT statement in the view creation command.
The two extra range
table entries for NEW and OLD (named *NEW* and *CURRENT* for
- historical reasons in the printed querytree) you can see in
+ historical reasons in the printed query tree) you can see in
the pg_rewrite entry aren't of interest
for SELECT rules.
and this is given to the rule system. The rule system walks through the
- rangetable and checks if there are rules in pg_rewrite
- for any relation. When processing the rangetable entry for
+ range table and checks if there are rules in pg_rewrite
+ for any relation. When processing the range table entry for
shoelace (the only one up to now) it finds the
- rule '_RETshoelace' with the parse tree
+ rule _RETshoelace with the parse
SELECT s.sl_name, s.sl_avail,
To expand the view, the rewriter simply creates a subselect rangetable
entry containing the rule's action parsetree, and substitutes this
- rangetable entry for the original one that referenced the view. The
- resulting rewritten parsetree is almost the same as if Al had typed
+ range table entry for the original one that referenced the view. The
+ resulting rewritten parse tree is almost the same as if Al had typed
SELECT shoelace.sl_name, shoelace.sl_avail,
WHERE s.sl_unit = u.un_name) shoelace;
- There is one difference however: the sub-query's rangetable has two
+ There is one difference however: the sub-query's range table has two
extra entries shoelace *OLD*, shoelace *NEW*. These entries don't
participate directly in the query, since they aren't referenced by
- the sub-query's join tree or targetlist. The rewriter uses them
+ the sub-query's join tree or target list. The rewriter uses them
to store the access permission check info that was originally present
in the rangetable entry that referenced the view. In this way, the
executor will still check that the user has proper permissions to access
- The output of the parser this time is the parsetree
+ The output of the parser this time is the parse tree
SELECT shoe_ready.shoename, shoe_ready.sh_avail,
The first rule applied will be the one for the
shoe_ready view and it results in the
- parsetree
+ parse tree
SELECT shoe_ready.shoename, shoe_ready.sh_avail,
Similarly, the rules for shoe and
- shoelace are substituted into the rangetable of
- the sub-query, leading to a three-level final querytree:
+ shoelace are substituted into the range table of
+ the sub-query, leading to a three-level final query tree:
SELECT shoe_ready.shoename, shoe_ready.sh_avail,
It turns out that the planner will collapse this tree into a two-level
- querytree: the bottommost selects will be "pulled up" into the middle
+ query tree: the bottommost selects will be "pulled up" into the middle
select since there's no need to process them separately. But the
middle select will remain separate from the top, because it contains
aggregate functions. If we pulled those up it would change the behavior
View Rules in Non-SELECT Statements
- Two details of the parsetree aren't touched in the description of
- view rules above. These are the commandtype and the result relation.
+ Two details of the parse tree aren't touched in the description of
+ view rules above. These are the command type and the result relation.
In fact, view rules don't need this information.
- There are only a few differences between a parsetree for a SELECT
- and one for any other command. Obviously they have another commandtype
- and this time the resultrelation points to the range table entry where
+ There are only a few differences between a parse tree for a SELECT
+ and one for any other command. Obviously they have another command type
+ and this time the result relation points to the range table entry where
the result should go. Everything else is absolutely the same.
So having two tables t1 and t2 with attributes
- a and b, the parsetrees for the two statements
+ a and b, the parse trees for the two statements
SELECT t2.b FROM t1, t2 WHERE t1.a = t2.a;
- The rangetables contain entries for the tables t1 and t2.
+ The range tables contain entries for the tables t1 and t2.
- The targetlists contain one variable that points to attribute
- b of the rangetable entry for table t2.
+ The target lists contain one variable that points to attribute
+ b of the range table entry for table t2.
- The jointrees show a simple join between t1 and t2.
+ The join trees show a simple join between t1 and t2.
- The consequence is, that both parsetrees result in similar execution
+ The consequence is, that both parse trees result in similar execution
plans. They are both joins over the two tables. For the UPDATE
- the missing columns from t1 are added to the targetlist by the planner
- and the final parsetree will read as
+ the missing columns from t1 are added to the target list by the planner
+ and the final parse tree will read as
UPDATE t1 SET a = t1.a, b = t2.b WHERE t1.a = t2.a;
for. It just produces a result set of rows. The difference that one
is a SELECT command and the other is an UPDATE is handled in the
caller of the executor. The caller still knows (looking at the
- parsetree) that this is an UPDATE, and he knows that this result
+ parse tree) that this is an UPDATE, and he knows that this result
should go into table t1. But which of the rows that are there
has to be replaced by the new row?
- To resolve this problem, another entry is added to the targetlist
+ To resolve this problem, another entry is added to the target list
in UPDATE (and also in DELETE) statements: the current tuple ID (ctid).
This is a system attribute containing the file
block number and position in the block for the row. Knowing the table,
the ctid can be used to retrieve the original t1 row to be updated.
- After adding the ctid to the targetlist, the query actually looks like
+ After adding the ctid to the target list, the query actually looks like
SELECT t1.a, t2.b, t1.ctid FROM t1, t2 WHERE t1.a = t2.a;
into the table (after stripping ctid) and in the tuple header of the row
that ctid pointed to the cmax and xmax entries are set to the current
command counter and current transaction ID. Thus the old row is hidden
- and after the transaction commited the vacuum cleaner can really move
+ and after the transaction committ ed the vacuum cleaner can really move
it out.
The above demonstrates how the rule system incorporates
- view definitions into the original parsetree. In the second example
- a simple SELECT from one view created a final parsetree that is
+ view definitions into the original parse tree. In the second example
+ a simple SELECT from one view created a final parse tree that is
a join of 4 tables (unit is used twice with different names).
relationships between these tables plus the restrictive
qualifications from the views plus the qualifications from
the original query
- in one single parsetree. And this is still the situation
+ in one single parse tree. And this is still the situation
when the original query is already a join over views.
Now the planner has to decide which is
the best path to execute the query. The more information
What happens if a view is named as the target relation for an INSERT,
UPDATE, or DELETE? After doing the substitutions described above,
- we will have a querytree in which the result relation points at a
- subquery rangetable entry. This will not work, so the rewriter throws
+ we will have a query tree in which the result relation points at a
+ subquery range table entry. This will not work, so the rewriter throws
an error if it sees it has produced such a thing.
- To change this we can define rules that modify the behaviou r
+ To change this we can define rules that modify the behavior
of non-SELECT queries. This is the topic of the next section.
- Second, they don't modify the parsetree in place. Instead they
- create zero or many new parsetrees and can throw away the
+ Second, they don't modify the parse tree in place. Instead they
+ create zero or many new parse trees and can throw away the
original one.
Update rules get applied by the rule system when the result
- relation and the commandtype of a parse tree are equal to the
+ relation and the command type of a parse tree are equal to the
object and event given in the CREATE RULE command.
- For update rules, the rule system creates a list of parsetrees.
- Initially the parsetree list is empty.
+ For update rules, the rule system creates a list of parse trees.
+ Initially the parse tree list is empty.
There can be zero (NOTHING keyword), one or multiple actions.
To simplify, we look at a rule with one action. This rule
can have a qualification or not and it can be INSTEAD or not.
- So we have four cases that produce the following parsetrees for
+ So we have four cases that produce the following parse trees for
a one-action rule.
- The parsetree from the rule action where the
- original parsetree's qualification has been added.
+ The parse tree from the rule action where the
+ original parse tree's qualification has been added.
- The parsetree from the rule action where the
- original parsetree's qualification has been added.
+ The parse tree from the rule action where the
+ original parse tree's qualification has been added.
- The parsetree from the rule action where the rule
- qualification and the original parsetree's
+ The parse tree from the rule action where the rule
+ qualification and the original parse tree's
qualification have been added.
- The parsetree from the rule action where the rule
- qualification and the original parsetree's
+ The parse tree from the rule action where the rule
+ qualification and the original parse tree's
qualification have been added.
- The original parsetree where the negated rule
+ The original parse tree where the negated rule
qualification has been added.
- Finally, if the rule is not INSTEAD, the unchanged original parsetree is
+ Finally, if the rule is not INSTEAD, the unchanged original parse tree is
added to the list. Since only qualified INSTEAD rules already add the
- original parsetree, we end up with either one or two output parse trees
+ original parse tree, we end up with either one or two output parse trees
for a rule with one action.
- The parsetrees generated from rule actions are thrown into the
+ The parse trees generated from rule actions are thrown into the
rewrite system again and maybe more rules get applied resulting
- in more or less parsetrees.
- So the parsetrees in the rule actions must have either another command type
- or another resultrelation. Otherwise this recursive process will end up in a loop.
+ in more or less parse trees.
+ So the parse trees in the rule actions must have either another command type
+ or another result relation. Otherwise this recursive process will end up in a loop.
There is a compiled in recursion limit of currently 10 iterations.
If after 10 iterations there are still update rules to apply the
rule system assumes a loop over multiple rule definitions and reports
The rule is a qualified non-INSTEAD rule, so the rule system
- has to return two parsetrees: the modified rule action and the original
- parsetree. In the first step the rangetable of the original query is
- incorporated into the rule's action parsetree. This results in
+ has to return two parse trees: the modified rule action and the original
+ parsetree. In the first step the range table of the original query is
+ incorporated into the rule's action parse tree. This results in
INSERT INTO shoelace_log VALUES(
difficulty with it. They need to support this same functionality
anyway for INSERT ... SELECT.
- In step 3 the original parsetree's qualification is added,
- restricting the resultset further to only the rows touched
- by the original parsetree.
+ In step 3 the original parse tree's qualification is added,
+ restricting the result set further to only the rows touched
+ by the original parse tree.
INSERT INTO shoelace_log VALUES(
AND bpchareq(shoelace_data.sl_name, 'sl7') ;
- Step 4 substitutes NEW references by the targetlist entries from the
- original parsetree or with the matching variable references
+ Step 4 substitutes NEW references by the target list entries from the
+ original parse tree or with the matching variable references
from the result relation.
AND bpchareq(shoelace_data.sl_name, 'sl7');
- Step 5 changes OLD references into resultrelation references.
+ Step 5 changes OLD references into result relation references.
INSERT INTO shoelace_log VALUES(
That's it. Since the rule is not INSTEAD, we also output the
- original parsetree. In short, the output from the rule system
- is a list of two parsetrees that are the same as the statements:
+ original parse tree. In short, the output from the rule system
+ is a list of two parse trees that are the same as the statements:
INSERT INTO shoelace_log VALUES(
no log entry would get written. This
- time the original parsetree does not contain a target list
+ time the original parse tree does not contain a target list
entry for sl_avail, so NEW.sl_avail will get replaced by
shoelace_data.sl_avail resulting in the extra query
four rows in fact get updated (sl1, sl2, sl3 and sl4).
But sl3 already has sl_avail = 0. This time, the original
- parsetrees qualification is different and that results
- in the extra parsetree
+ parse trees qualification is different and that results
+ in the extra parse tree
INSERT INTO shoelace_log SELECT
AND shoelace_data.sl_color = 'black' ;
- This parsetree will surely insert three new log entries. And
+ This parse tree will surely insert three new log entries. And
that's absolutely correct.
- Here we can see why it is important that the original parsetree is
+ Here we can see why it is important that the original parse tree is
executed last.
If the UPDATE would have been executed first, all the rows
are already set to zero, so the logging INSERT
A simple way to protect view relations from the mentioned
possibility that someone can try to INSERT, UPDATE and DELETE
- on them is to let those parsetrees get
+ on them is to let those parse trees get
thrown away. We create the rules
relation shoe , the rule system will
apply the rules. Since the rules have
no actions and are INSTEAD, the resulting list of
- parsetrees will be empty and the whole query will become
+ parse trees will be empty and the whole query will become
nothing because there is nothing left to be optimized or
executed after the rule system is done with it.
This way might irritate frontend applications because
absolutely nothing happened on the database and thus, the
backend will not return anything for the query. Not
- even a PGRES_EMPTY_QUERY will be available in libpq .
- In psql , nothing happens. This might change in the future.
+ even a
PGRES_EMPTY_QUERY will be available in libpq .
+ In
psql , nothing happens. This might change in the future.
A more sophisticated way to use the rule system is to
- create rules that rewrite the parsetree into one that
+ create rules that rewrite the parse tree into one that
does the right operation on the real tables. To do that
on the shoelace view, we create
the following rules:
Now there is a pack of shoelaces arriving in Al's shop and it has
- a big partlist. Al is not that good in calculating and so
+ a big part list. Al is not that good in calculating and so
we don't want him to manually update the shoelace view.
Instead we setup two little tables, one where he can
- insert the items from the partlist and one with a special
+ insert the items from the part list and one with a special
trick. The create commands for these are:
It's a long way from the one INSERT ... SELECT to these
results. And its description will be the last in this
- document (but not the last example :-). First there was the parsers output
+ document (but not the last example :-). First there was the parser' s output
INSERT INTO shoelace_ok SELECT
and throws away the original INSERT on shoelace_ok .
This rewritten query is passed to the rule system again and
- the second applied rule 'shoelace_upd' produced
+ the second applied rule shoelace_upd
UPDATE shoelace_data SET
AND bpchareq(shoelace_data.sl_name, shoelace.sl_name);
- Again it's an INSTEAD rule and the previous parsetree is trashed.
+ Again it's an INSTEAD rule and the previous parse tree is trashed.
Note that this query still uses the view shoelace .
But the rule system isn't finished with this loop so it continues
- and applies the rule '_RETshoelace' on it and we get
+ and applies the rule _RETshoelace
UPDATE shoelace_data SET
Again an update rule has been applied and so the wheel
turns on and we are in rewrite round 3. This time rule
- 'log_shoelace' gets applied what produces the extra
- parsetree
+ log_shoelace
+ parse tree
INSERT INTO shoelace_log SELECT
After that the rule system runs out of rules and returns the
- generated parsetrees.
- So we end up with two final parsetrees that are equal to the
+ generated parse trees.
+ So we end up with two final parse trees that are equal to the
There is a little detail that's a bit ugly. Looking at
the two queries turns out, that the shoelace_data
- relation appears twice in the rangetable where it could definitely
+ relation appears twice in the range table where it could definitely
be reduced to one. The planner does not handle it and so the
execution plan for the rule systems output of the INSERT will be
-> Seq Scan on shoelace_data
- while omitting the extra rangetable entry would result in a
+ while omitting the extra range table entry would result in a
Merge Join
WHERE sl_name = shoelace.sl_name);
- Voila :
+ Voilà :
al_bundy=> SELECT * FROM shoelace;
itself has a subselect qualification containing a view
and where calculated view columns are used,
gets rewritten into
- one single parsetree that deletes the requested data
+ one single parse tree that deletes the requested data
from a real table.
a relation (table or view) is automatically the owner of the
rewrite rules that are defined for it.
The
Postgres rule system changes the
- behaviou r of the default access control system. Relations that
+ behavior of the default access control system. Relations that
are used due to rules get checked against the
permissions of the rule owner, not the user invoking the rule.
This means, that a user does only need the required permissions
For the things that can be implemented by both,
it depends on the usage of the database, which is the best.
A trigger is fired for any row affected once. A rule manipulates
- the parsetree or generates an additional one. So if many
+ the parse tree or generates an additional one. So if many
rows are affected in one statement, a rule issuing one extra
query would usually do a better job than a trigger that is
called for any single row and must execute his operations
Both tables have many
- thousands of rows and the index on hostname is unique.
- The hostname column contains the full qualified domain
+ thousands of rows and the index on hostname
+ The hostname
name of the computer. The rule/trigger should constraint
delete rows from software that reference the deleted host.
Since the trigger is called for each individual row
DELETE FROM software WHERE hostname = $1;
- in a prepared and saved plan and pass the hostname in
+ in a prepared and saved plan and pass the hostname
the parameter. The rule would be written as
So there would be not that much difference in speed between
the trigger and the rule implementation. With the next delete
- we want to get rid of all the 2000 computers where the hostname starts
+ we want to get rid of all the 2000 computers where the hostname
with 'old'. There are two possible queries to do that. One is
This shows, that the planner does not realize that the
- qualification for the hostname on computer could also be
+ qualification for the hostname
used for an index scan on software when there are
multiple qualification expressions combined with AND, what
he does in the regexp version of the query. The trigger will
over computer and 2000 index scans for the software. The
rule implementation will do it with two queries over indexes.
And it depends on the overall size of the software table if
- the rule will still be faster in the seqscan situation. 2000
+ the rule will still be faster in the sequential scan situation. 2000
query executions over the SPI manager take some time, even
if all the index blocks to look them up will soon appear in
the cache.
Again this could result in many rows to be deleted from
computer. So the trigger will again fire many queries into
- the executor. But the rule plan will again be the Nest loop over
- two IndexScan' s. Only using another index on computer:
+ the executor. But the rule plan will again be the nested loop over
+ two index scan s. Only using another index on computer:
Nestloop
create a rule as in the shoelace_log example is to do it with
a rule qualification. That results in an extra query that is
performed always, even if the attribute of interest cannot
- change at all because it does not appear in the targetlist
+ change at all because it does not appear in the target list
of the initial query. When this is enabled again, it will be
one more advantage of rules over triggers. Optimization of
a trigger must fail by definition in this case, because the
a trigger only allows to specify it on row level, so whenever a
row is touched, the trigger must be called to make its
decision. The rule system will know it by looking up the
- targetlist and will suppress the additional query completely
+ target list and will suppress the additional query completely
if the attribute isn't touched. So the rule, qualified or not,
will only do its scans if there ever could be something to do.
That is, an aggregate can be
defined in terms of state that is modified whenever an
input item is processed. To define a new aggregate
- function, one selects a datatype for the state value,
+ function, one selects a data type for the state value,
an initial value for the state, and a state transition
function. The state transition function is just an
ordinary function that could also be used outside the
- Thus, in addition to the input and result datatypes seen by a user
- of the aggregate, there is an internal state-value datatype that
+ Thus, in addition to the input and result data types seen by a user
+ of the aggregate, there is an internal state-value data type that
may be different from both the input and result types.
example of this kind of aggregate. "Sum" starts at
zero and always adds the current row's value to
its running total. For example, if we want to make a Sum
- aggregate to work on a datatype for complex numbers,
- we only need the addition function for that datatype.
+ aggregate to work on a data type for complex numbers,
+ we only need the addition function for that data type.
The aggregate definition is:
state condition) if there are no non-null input values.
Perhaps we want to return NULL in that case instead --- SQL92
expects "Sum" to behave that way. We can do this simply by
- omitting the "initcond" phrase, so that the initial state
- condition is NULL. Ordinarily this would mean that the sfunc
+ omitting the initcond
+ condition is NULL. Ordinarily this would mean that the sfunc
would need to check for a NULL state-condition input, but for
"Sum" and some other simple aggregates like "Max" and "Min",
it's sufficient to insert the first non-null input value into
in the prosrc attribute of the
pg_proc table entry. This may be the source
text in the procedural language itself (like for PL/Tcl), a
- pathname to a file, or anything else that tells the call handler
+ path name to a file, or anything else that tells the call handler
what to do in detail.
|
amcanmulticol
- does AM support multi- column indexes?
+ does AM support multicolumn indexes?
|
amindexnulls
The above example assumes that you want to make this new opclass the
- default B-tree opclass for the complex datatype.
+ default B-tree opclass for the complex data type.
If you don't, just set opcdefault to false instead.
opckeytype is not described here; it should always
be zero for B-tree opclasses.
are being defined. We can only have one operator named, say, = and
taking type complex for both operands. In this case
we don't have any other operator = for complex ,
- but if we were building a practical datatype we'd probably want = to
+ but if we were building a practical data type we'd probably want = to
be the ordinary equality operation for complex numbers. In that case,
we'd need to use some other operator name for complex_abs_eq.
Second, although Postgres can cope with operators having
- the same name as long as they have different input datatypes, C can only
+ the same name as long as they have different input data types, C can only
cope with one global routine having a given name, period. So we shouldn't
name the C function something simple like abs_eq .
- Usually it's a good practice to include the datatype name in the C
- function name, so as not to conflict with functions for other datatypes.
+ Usually it's a good practice to include the data type name in the C
+ function name, so as not to conflict with functions for other data types.
Third, we could have made the Postgres name of the function
abs_eq , relying on Postgres to distinguish it
- by input datatypes from any other Postgres function of the same name.
+ by input data types from any other Postgres function of the same name.
To keep the example simple, we make the function have the same names
at the C level and Postgres level.
commutator of the operator being defined. We say that operator A is the
commutator of operator B if (x A y) equals (y B x) for all possible input
values x,y. Notice that B is also the commutator of A. For example,
- operators '<' and '>' for a particular datatype are usually each others'
+ operators '<' and '>' for a particular data type are usually each others'
commutators, and operator '+' is usually commutative with itself.
But operator '-' is usually not commutative with anything.
is the negator of operator B if both return boolean results and
(x A y) equals NOT (x B y) for all possible inputs x,y.
Notice that B is also the negator of A.
- For example, '<' and '>=' are a negator pair for most datatypes.
+ For example, '<' and '>=' are a negator pair for most data types.
An operator can never be validly be its own negator.
- You can use scalarltsel and scalargtsel for comparisons on datatypes that
+ You can use scalarltsel and scalargtsel for comparisons on data types that
have some sensible means of being converted into numeric scalars for
- range comparisons. If possible, add the datatype to those understood
- by the routine convert_to_scalar() in src/backend/utils/adt/selfuncs.c .
- (Eventually, this routine should be replaced by per-datatype functions
+ range comparisons. If possible, add the data type to those understood
+ by the routine convert_to_scalar() in src/backend/utils/adt/selfuncs.c
+ (Eventually, this routine should be replaced by per-data- type functions
identified through a column of the pg_type table; but that hasn't happened
yet.) If you do not do this, things will still work, but the optimizer's
estimates won't be as good as they could be.
There are additional selectivity functions designed for geometric
- operators in src/backend/utils/adt/geo_selfuncs.c : areasel, positionsel,
+ operators in src/backend/utils/adt/geo_selfuncs.c
and contsel. At this writing these are just stubs, but you may want
to use them (or even better, improve them) anyway.
There are also machine-dependent ways in which a hash join might fail
- to do the right thing. For example, if your datatype
+ to do the right thing. For example, if your data type
is a structure in which there may be uninteresting pad bits, it's unsafe
to mark the equality operator HASHES. (Unless, perhaps, you write
your other operators to ensure that the unused bits are always zero.)
- Another example is that the FLOAT datatypes are unsafe for hash
- joins. On machines that meet the IEEE floating point standard, minus
+ Another example is that the FLOAT data types are unsafe for hash
+ joins. On machines that meet the
IEEE floating point standard, minus
zero and plus zero are different values (different bit patterns) but
they are defined to compare equal. So, if float equality were marked
HASHES, a minus zero and a plus zero would probably not be matched up
The bottom line is that you should probably only use HASHES for
- equality operators that are (or could be) implemented by memcmp() .
+ equality operators that are (or could be) implemented by memcmp()
it is possible to mergejoin two
distinct data types so long as they are logically compatible. For
example, the int2-versus-int4 equality operator is mergejoinable.
- We only need sorting operators that will bring both datatypes into a
+ We only need sorting operators that will bring both data types into a
logically compatible sequence.
When specifying merge sort operators, the current operator and both
referenced operators must return boolean; the SORT1 operator must have
- both input datatypes equal to the current operator's left argument type,
+ both input data types equal to the current operator's left argument type,
and the SORT2 operator must have
- both input datatypes equal to the current operator's right argument type.
+ both input data types equal to the current operator's right argument type.
(As with COMMUTATOR and NEGATOR, this means that the operator name is
sufficient to specify the operator, and the system is able to make dummy
operator entries if you happen to define the equality operator before
There must be '<' and '>' ordering operators having the same left and
- right input datatypes as the mergejoinable operator itself. These
+ right input data types as the mergejoinable operator itself. These
operators must be named '<' and '>'; you do
not have any choice in the matter, since there is no provision for
specifying them explicitly. Note that if the left and right data types
For the languages supplied with the standard distribution, the
shell script createlang may be used instead
- of carrying out the details by hand. For example, to install PL/pgSQL
+ of carrying out the details by hand. For example, to install
PL/pgSQL into the template1 database, use
createlang plpgsql template1
executed inside the database backend, the
TRUSTED flag should only be given for
languages that do not allow access to database backends
- internals or the filesystem. The languages PL/pgSQL ,
- PL/Tcl, and PL/Perl are known to be trusted; the language PL/TclU
+ internals or the file
system. The languages PL/pgSQL ,
+
PL/Tcl , and
PL/Perl are known to be trusted; the language
PL/TclU should not be marked trusted.
In a default
Postgres installation, the
- handler for the PL/pgSQL language is built and installed into the
+ handler for the
PL/pgSQL language is built and installed into the
library
directory. If Tcl/Tk support is configured
in, the handlers for PL/Tcl and PL/TclU are also built and installed in
the same location. Likewise, the PL/Perl handler is built and installed
The following command tells the database where to find the
- shared object for the PL/pgSQL language's call handler function.
+ shared object for the
PL/pgSQL language's call handler function.
CREATE FUNCTION plpgsql_call_handler () RETURNS OPAQUE AS
then defines that the previously declared call handler function
should be invoked for functions and trigger procedures where the
- language attribute is 'plpgsql' .
+ language attribute is plpgsql
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