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* Fix dbtoepub output file namePeter Eisentraut2019-02-21
| | | | | | | | | | In previous releases, the input file of dbtoepub was postgres.xml, and dbtoepub knows to derive the output file name postgres.epub from that automatically. But now the intput file is postgres.sgml (since postgres.sgml is itself an XML file and we no longer need the intermediate postgres.xml file), but dbtoepub doesn't know how to deal with the .sgml suffix, so the automatically derived output file name becomes postgres.sgml.epub. Fix by adding an explicit -o option.
* Doc: Update the documentation for FSM behavior for small tables.Amit Kapila2019-02-20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | In commit b0eaa4c51b, we have avoided the creation of FSM for small tables. So the functions that use FSM to compute the free space can return zero for such tables. This was previously also possible for the cases where the vacuum has not been triggered to update FSM. This commit updates the comments in code and documentation to reflect this behavior. Author: John Naylor Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CACPNZCtba-3m1q3A8gxA_vxg=T7gQf7gMbpR4Ciy5LntY-j+0Q@mail.gmail.com
* Provide an extra-float-digits setting for pg_dump / pg_dumpallAndrew Dunstan2019-02-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Changes made by commit 02ddd49 mean that dumps made against pre version 12 instances are no longer comparable with those made against version 12 or later instances. This makes cross-version upgrade testing fail in the buildfarm. Experimentation has shown that the error is cured if the dumps are made when extra_float_digits is set to 0. Hence this patch allows for it to be explicitly set rather than relying on pg_dump's builtin default (3 in almost all cases). This feature might have other uses, but should not normally be used. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/c76f7051-8fd3-ec10-7579-1f8842305b85@2ndQuadrant.com
* Add bytea datatype to ECPG.Michael Meskes2019-02-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | So far ECPG programs had to treat binary data for bytea column as 'char' type. But this meant converting from/to escaped format with PQunescapeBytea/ PQescapeBytea() and therefore forcing users to add unnecessary code and cost for the conversion in runtime. By adding a dedicated datatype for bytea most of this special handling is no longer needed. Author: Matsumura-san ("Matsumura, Ryo" <matsumura.ryo@jp.fujitsu.com>) Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/flat/03040DFF97E6E54E88D3BFEE5F5480F737A141F9@G01JPEXMBYT04
* Fix documentation for dblink_error_message() return valueJoe Conway2019-02-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | The dblink documentation claims that an empty string is returned if there has been no error, however OK is actually returned in that case. Also, clarify that an async error may not be seen unless dblink_is_busy() or dblink_get_result() have been called first. Backpatch to all supported branches. Reported-by: realyota Backpatch-through: 9.4 Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/153371978486.1298.2091761143788088262@wrigleys.postgresql.org
* Doc: remove ancient comment.Tatsuo Ishii2019-02-17
| | | | | | | | There's a very old comment in rules.sgml added back to 2003. It expected to a feature coming back but it never happened. So now we can safely remove the comment. Back-patched to all supported branches. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20190211.191004.219630835457494660.t-ishii%40sraoss.co.jp
* Fix CLogTruncationLock documentation.Noah Misch2019-02-17
| | | | Back-patch to v10, which introduced the lock.
* Remove float8-small-is-zero regression test variant.Andrew Gierth2019-02-16
| | | | | | Since this was also the variant used as an example in the docs, update the docs to use float4-misrounded-input as an example instead, since that is now the only remaining variant file.
* Allow user control of CTE materialization, and change the default behavior.Tom Lane2019-02-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Historically we've always materialized the full output of a CTE query, treating WITH as an optimization fence (so that, for example, restrictions from the outer query cannot be pushed into it). This is appropriate when the CTE query is INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE, or is recursive; but when the CTE query is non-recursive and side-effect-free, there's no hazard of changing the query results by pushing restrictions down. Another argument for materialization is that it can avoid duplicate computation of an expensive WITH query --- but that only applies if the WITH query is called more than once in the outer query. Even then it could still be a net loss, if each call has restrictions that would allow just a small part of the WITH query to be computed. Hence, let's change the behavior for WITH queries that are non-recursive and side-effect-free. By default, we will inline them into the outer query (removing the optimization fence) if they are called just once. If they are called more than once, we will keep the old behavior by default, but the user can override this and force inlining by specifying NOT MATERIALIZED. Lastly, the user can force the old behavior by specifying MATERIALIZED; this would mainly be useful when the query had deliberately been employing WITH as an optimization fence to prevent a poor choice of plan. Andreas Karlsson, Andrew Gierth, David Fetter Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/87sh48ffhb.fsf@news-spur.riddles.org.uk
* Add DECLARE STATEMENT support to ECPG.Michael Meskes2019-02-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | DECLARE STATEMENT is a statement that lets users declare an identifier pointing at a connection. This identifier will be used in other embedded dynamic SQL statement such as PREPARE, EXECUTE, DECLARE CURSOR and so on. When connecting to a non-default connection, the AT clause can be used in a DECLARE STATEMENT once and is no longer needed in every dynamic SQL statement. This makes ECPG applications easier and more efficient. Moreover, writing code without designating connection explicitly improves portability. Authors: Ideriha-san ("Ideriha, Takeshi" <ideriha.takeshi@jp.fujitsu.com>) Kuroda-san ("Kuroda, Hayato" <kuroda.hayato@jp.fujitsu.com>) Discussion: https://postgr.es/m4E72940DA2BF16479384A86D54D0988A565669DF@G01JPEXMBKW04
* doc: Update README.linksPeter Eisentraut2019-02-15
| | | | | | | | | The guideline to "not use text with <ulink> so the URL appears in printed output" is obsolete, since the URL appears as a footnote in printed output in that case. Reported-by: Chapman Flack <chap@anastigmatix.net> Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/5C4B1F2F.2000106@anastigmatix.net
* Change floating-point output format for improved performance.Andrew Gierth2019-02-13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Previously, floating-point output was done by rounding to a specific decimal precision; by default, to 6 or 15 decimal digits (losing information) or as requested using extra_float_digits. Drivers that wanted exact float values, and applications like pg_dump that must preserve values exactly, set extra_float_digits=3 (or sometimes 2 for historical reasons, though this isn't enough for float4). Unfortunately, decimal rounded output is slow enough to become a noticable bottleneck when dealing with large result sets or COPY of large tables when many floating-point values are involved. Floating-point output can be done much faster when the output is not rounded to a specific decimal length, but rather is chosen as the shortest decimal representation that is closer to the original float value than to any other value representable in the same precision. The recently published Ryu algorithm by Ulf Adams is both relatively simple and remarkably fast. Accordingly, change float4out/float8out to output shortest decimal representations if extra_float_digits is greater than 0, and make that the new default. Applications that need rounded output can set extra_float_digits back to 0 or below, and take the resulting performance hit. We make one concession to portability for systems with buggy floating-point input: we do not output decimal values that fall exactly halfway between adjacent representable binary values (which would rely on the reader doing round-to-nearest-even correctly). This is known to be a problem at least for VS2013 on Windows. Our version of the Ryu code originates from https://github.com/ulfjack/ryu/ at commit c9c3fb1979, but with the following (significant) modifications: - Output format is changed to use fixed-point notation for small exponents, as printf would, and also to use lowercase 'e', a minimum of 2 exponent digits, and a mandatory sign on the exponent, to keep the formatting as close as possible to previous output. - The output of exact midpoint values is disabled as noted above. - The integer fast-path code is changed somewhat (since we have fixed-point output and the upstream did not). - Our project style has been largely applied to the code with the exception of C99 declaration-after-statement, which has been retained as an exception to our present policy. - Most of upstream's debugging and conditionals are removed, and we use our own configure tests to determine things like uint128 availability. Changing the float output format obviously affects a number of regression tests. This patch uses an explicit setting of extra_float_digits=0 for test output that is not expected to be exactly reproducible (e.g. due to numerical instability or differing algorithms for transcendental functions). Conversions from floats to numeric are unchanged by this patch. These may appear in index expressions and it is not yet clear whether any change should be made, so that can be left for another day. This patch assumes that the only supported floating point format is now IEEE format, and the documentation is updated to reflect that. Code by me, adapting the work of Ulf Adams and other contributors. References: https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3192369 Reviewed-by: Tom Lane, Andres Freund, Donald Dong Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/87r2el1bx6.fsf@news-spur.riddles.org.uk
* Clarify docs about limitations of constraint exclusion with partitionsMichael Paquier2019-02-12
| | | | | | | | | | | The current wording can confuse the reader about constraint exclusion being available at query execution, but this only applies to partition pruning. Reported-by: Shouyu Luo Author: David Rowley Reviewed-by: Chapman Flack, Amit Langote Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/15629-2ef8b22e61f8333f@postgresql.org
* Allow extensions to generate lossy index conditions.Tom Lane2019-02-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | For a long time, indxpath.c has had the ability to extract derived (lossy) index conditions from certain operators such as LIKE. For just as long, it's been obvious that we really ought to make that capability available to extensions. This commit finally accomplishes that, by adding another API for planner support functions that lets them create derived index conditions for their functions. As proof of concept, the hardwired "special index operator" code formerly present in indxpath.c is pushed out to planner support functions attached to LIKE and other relevant operators. A weak spot in this design is that an extension needs to know OIDs for the operators, datatypes, and opfamilies involved in the transformation it wants to make. The core-code prototypes use hard-wired OID references but extensions don't have that option for their own operators etc. It's usually possible to look up the required info, but that may be slow and inconvenient. However, improving that situation is a separate task. I want to do some additional refactorization around selfuncs.c, but that also seems like a separate task. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/15193.1548028093@sss.pgh.pa.us
* Move max_wal_senders out of max_connections for connection slot handlingMichael Paquier2019-02-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Since its introduction, max_wal_senders is counted as part of max_connections when it comes to define how many connection slots can be used for replication connections with a WAL sender context. This can lead to confusion for some users, as it could be possible to block a base backup or replication from happening because other backend sessions are already taken for other purposes by an application, and superuser-only connection slots are not a correct solution to handle that case. This commit makes max_wal_senders independent of max_connections for its handling of PGPROC entries in ProcGlobal, meaning that connection slots for WAL senders are handled using their own free queue, like autovacuum workers and bgworkers. One compatibility issue that this change creates is that a standby now requires to have a value of max_wal_senders at least equal to its primary. So, if a standby created enforces the value of max_wal_senders to be lower than that, then this could break failovers. Normally this should not be an issue though, as any settings of a standby are inherited from its primary as postgresql.conf gets normally copied as part of a base backup, so parameters would be consistent. Author: Alexander Kukushkin Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi, Petr Jelínek, Masahiko Sawada, Oleksii Kliukin Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAFh8B=nBzHQeYAu0b8fjK-AF1X4+_p6GRtwG+cCgs6Vci2uRuQ@mail.gmail.com
* Redesign the partition dependency mechanism.Tom Lane2019-02-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The original setup for dependencies of partitioned objects had serious problems: 1. It did not verify that a drop cascading to a partition-child object also cascaded to at least one of the object's partition parents. Now, normally a child object would share all its dependencies with one or another parent (e.g. a child index's opclass dependencies would be shared with the parent index), so that this oversight is usually harmless. But if some dependency failed to fit this pattern, the child could be dropped while all its parents remain, creating a logically broken situation. (It's easy to construct artificial cases that break it, such as attaching an unrelated extension dependency to the child object and then dropping the extension. I'm not sure if any less-artificial cases exist.) 2. Management of partition dependencies during ATTACH/DETACH PARTITION was complicated and buggy; for example, after detaching a partition table it was possible to create cases where a formerly-child index should be dropped and was not, because the correct set of dependencies had not been reconstructed. Less seriously, because multiple partition relationships were represented identically in pg_depend, there was an order-of-traversal dependency on which partition parent was cited in error messages. We also had some pre-existing order-of-traversal hazards for error messages related to internal and extension dependencies. This is cosmetic to users but causes testing problems. To fix #1, add a check at the end of the partition tree traversal to ensure that at least one partition parent got deleted. To fix #2, establish a new policy that partition dependencies are in addition to, not instead of, a child object's usual dependencies; in this way ATTACH/DETACH PARTITION need not cope with adding or removing the usual dependencies. To fix the cosmetic problem, distinguish between primary and secondary partition dependency entries in pg_depend, by giving them different deptypes. (They behave identically except for having different priorities for being cited in error messages.) This means that the former 'I' dependency type is replaced with new 'P' and 'S' types. This also fixes a longstanding bug that after handling an internal dependency by recursing to the owning object, findDependentObjects did not verify that the current target was now scheduled for deletion, and did not apply the current recursion level's objflags to it. Perhaps that should be back-patched; but in the back branches it would only matter if some concurrent transaction had removed the internal-linkage pg_depend entry before the recursive call found it, or the recursive call somehow failed to find it, both of which seem unlikely. Catversion bump because the contents of pg_depend change for partitioning relationships. Patch HEAD only. It's annoying that we're not fixing #2 in v11, but there seems no practical way to do so given that the problem is exactly a poor choice of what entries to put in pg_depend. We can't really fix that while staying compatible with what's in pg_depend in existing v11 installations. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-Wzkypv1R+teZrr71U23J578NnTBt2X8+Y=Odr4pOdW1rXg@mail.gmail.com
* Build out the planner support function infrastructure.Tom Lane2019-02-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add support function requests for estimating the selectivity, cost, and number of result rows (if a SRF) of the target function. The lack of a way to estimate selectivity of a boolean-returning function in WHERE has been a recognized deficiency of the planner since Berkeley days. This commit finally fixes it. In addition, non-constant estimates of cost and number of output rows are now possible. We still fall back to looking at procost and prorows if the support function doesn't service the request, of course. To make concrete use of the possibility of estimating output rowcount for SRFs, this commit adds support functions for array_unnest(anyarray) and the integer variants of generate_series; the lack of plausible rowcount estimates for those, even when it's obvious to a human, has been a repeated subject of complaints. Obviously, much more could now be done in this line, but I'm mostly just trying to get the infrastructure in place. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/15193.1548028093@sss.pgh.pa.us
* Create the infrastructure for planner support functions.Tom Lane2019-02-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Rename/repurpose pg_proc.protransform as "prosupport". The idea is still that it names an internal function that provides knowledge to the planner about the behavior of the function it's attached to; but redesign the API specification so that it's not limited to doing just one thing, but can support an extensible set of requests. The original purpose of simplifying a function call is handled by the first request type to be invented, SupportRequestSimplify. Adjust all the existing transform functions to handle this API, and rename them fron "xxx_transform" to "xxx_support" to reflect the potential generalization of what they do. (Since we never previously provided any way for extensions to add transform functions, this change doesn't create an API break for them.) Also add DDL and pg_dump support for attaching a support function to a user-defined function. Unfortunately, DDL access has to be restricted to superusers, at least for now; but seeing that support functions will pretty much have to be written in C, that limitation is just theoretical. (This support is untested in this patch, but a follow-on patch will add cases that exercise it.) Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/15193.1548028093@sss.pgh.pa.us
* Call set_rel_pathlist_hook before generate_gather_paths, not after.Tom Lane2019-02-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The previous ordering of these steps satisfied the nominal requirement that set_rel_pathlist_hook could editorialize on the whole set of Paths constructed for a base relation. In practice, though, trying to change the set of partial paths was impossible. Adding one didn't work because (a) it was too late to be included in Gather paths made by the core code, and (b) calling add_partial_path after generate_gather_paths is unsafe, because it might try to delete a path it thinks is dominated, but that is already embedded in some Gather path(s). Nor could the hook safely remove partial paths, for the same reason that they might already be embedded in Gathers. Better to call extensions first, let them add partial paths as desired, and then gather. In v11 and up, we already doubled down on that ordering by postponing gathering even further for single-relation queries; so even if the hook wished to editorialize on Gather path construction, it could not. Report and patch by KaiGai Kohei. Back-patch to 9.6 where Gather paths were added. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAOP8fzahwpKJRTVVTqo2AE=mDTz_efVzV6Get_0=U3SO+-ha1A@mail.gmail.com
* Doc: fix thinko in description of how to escape a backslash in bytea.Tom Lane2019-02-08
| | | | | | | | Also clean up some discussion that had been left in a very confused state thanks to half-hearted adjustments for the change to standard_conforming_strings being the default. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/154954987367.1297.4358910045409218@wrigleys.postgresql.org
* Add pg_partition_root to display top-most parent of a partition treeMichael Paquier2019-02-08
| | | | | | | | | | This is useful when looking at partition trees with multiple layers, and combined with pg_partition_tree, it provides the possibility to show up an entire tree by just knowing one member at any level. Author: Michael Paquier Reviewed-by: Álvaro Herrera, Amit Langote Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20181207014015.GP2407@paquier.xyz
* Split create_foreignscan_path() into three functions.Tom Lane2019-02-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Up to now postgres_fdw has been using create_foreignscan_path() to generate not only base-relation paths, but also paths for foreign joins and foreign upperrels. This is wrong, because create_foreignscan_path() calls get_baserel_parampathinfo() which will only do the right thing for baserels. It accidentally fails to fail for unparameterized paths, which are the only ones postgres_fdw (thought it) was handling, but we really need different APIs for the baserel and join cases. In HEAD, the best thing to do seems to be to split up the baserel, joinrel, and upperrel cases into three functions so that they can have different APIs. I haven't actually given create_foreign_join_path a different API in this commit: we should spend a bit of time thinking about just what we want to do there, since perhaps FDWs would want to do something different from the build-up-a-join-pairwise approach that get_joinrel_parampathinfo expects. In the meantime, since postgres_fdw isn't prepared to generate parameterized joins anyway, just give it a defense against trying to plan joins with lateral refs. In addition (and this is what triggered this whole mess) fix bug #15613 from Srinivasan S A, by teaching file_fdw and postgres_fdw that plain baserel foreign paths still have outer refs if the relation has lateral_relids. Add some assertions in relnode.c to catch future occurrences of the same error --- in particular, to catch other FDWs doing that, but also as backstop against core-code mistakes like the one fixed by commit bdd9a99aa. Bug #15613 also needs to be fixed in the back branches, but the appropriate fix will look quite a bit different there, since we don't want to assume that existing FDWs get the word right away. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/15613-092be1be9576c728@postgresql.org
* Allow some recovery parameters to be changed with reloadPeter Eisentraut2019-02-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Change archive_cleanup_command promote_trigger_file recovery_end_command recovery_min_apply_delay from PGC_POSTMASTER to PGC_SIGHUP. This did not require any further changes. Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz> Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/ca28011a-cfaa-565c-d622-c1907c33ecf7%402ndquadrant.com
* Doc: Update the documentation for row movement behavior across partitions.Amit Kapila2019-02-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | In commit f16241bef7c, we have changed the behavior for concurrent updates that move row to a different partition, but forgot to update the docs. Previously when an UPDATE command causes a row to move from one partition to another, there is a chance that another concurrent UPDATE or DELETE misses this row. However, now we raise a serialization failure error in such a case. Reported-by: David Rowley Author: David Rowley and Amit Kapila Backpatch-through: 11 where it was introduced Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAKJS1f-iVhGD4-givQWpSROaYvO3c730W8yoRMTF9Gc3craY3w@mail.gmail.com
* Doc: in each release branch, keep only that branch's own release notes.Tom Lane2019-02-04
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Historically we've had each release branch include all prior branches' notes, including minor-release changes, back to the beginning of the project. That's basically an O(N^2) proposition, and it was starting to catch up with us: as of HEAD the back-branch release notes alone accounted for nearly 30% of the documentation. While there's certainly some value in easy access to back-branch notes, this is getting out of hand. Hence, switch over to the rule that each branch contains only its own release notes. So as to not make older notes too hard to find, each branch will provide URLs for the immediately preceding branches' release notes on the project website. There might be value in providing aggregated notes across all branches somewhere on the website, but that's a task for another day. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/cbd4aeb5-2d9c-8b84-e968-9e09393d4c83@postgresql.org
* Avoid creation of the free space map for small heap relations, take 2.Amit Kapila2019-02-04
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Previously, all heaps had FSMs. For very small tables, this means that the FSM took up more space than the heap did. This is wasteful, so now we refrain from creating the FSM for heaps with 4 pages or fewer. If the last known target block has insufficient space, we still try to insert into some other page before giving up and extending the relation, since doing otherwise leads to table bloat. Testing showed that trying every page penalized performance slightly, so we compromise and try every other page. This way, we visit at most two pages. Any pages with wasted free space become visible at next relation extension, so we still control table bloat. As a bonus, directly attempting one or two pages can even be faster than consulting the FSM would have been. Once the FSM is created for a heap we don't remove it even if somebody deletes all the rows from the corresponding relation. We don't think it is a useful optimization as it is quite likely that relation will again grow to the same size. Author: John Naylor, Amit Kapila Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila Tested-by: Mithun C Y Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAJVSVGWvB13PzpbLEecFuGFc5V2fsO736BsdTakPiPAcdMM5tQ@mail.gmail.com
* Clarify behavior of initdb's --allow-group-access on Windows in docsMichael Paquier2019-02-04
| | | | | | | | | | The option is ignored on Windows, and GUC data_directory_mode already mentioned that within its description in the documentation. Author: Michael Paquier Reported-by: Haribabu Kommi, David Steele Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAJrrPGefxTG43yk6BrOC7ZcMnCTccG9+inCSncvyys_t8Ev9cQ@mail.gmail.com Backpatch-through: 11
* Add shared_memory_type GUC.Thomas Munro2019-02-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Since 9.3 we have used anonymous shared mmap for our main shared memory region, except in EXEC_BACKEND builds. Provide a GUC so that users can opt for System V shared memory once again, like in 9.2 and earlier. A later patch proposes to add huge/large page support for AIX, which requires System V shared memory and provided the motivation to revive this possibility. It may also be useful on some BSDs. Author: Andres Freund (revived and documented by Thomas Munro) Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/HE1PR0202MB28126DB4E0B6621CC6A1A91286D90%40HE1PR0202MB2812.eurprd02.prod.outlook.com Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2AE143D2-87D3-4AD1-AC78-CE2258230C05%40FreeBSD.org
* Add PG_CFLAGS, PG_CXXFLAGS, and PG_LDFLAGS variables to PGXSMichael Paquier2019-02-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add PG_CFLAGS, PG_CXXFLAGS, and PG_LDFLAGS variables to pgxs.mk which will be appended or prepended to the corresponding make variables. Notably, there was previously no way to pass custom CXXFLAGS to third party extension module builds, COPT and PROFILE supporting only CFLAGS and LDFLAGS. Backpatch all the way down to ease integration with existing extensions. Author: Christoph Berg Reviewed-by: Andres Freund, Tom Lane, Michael Paquier Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20181113104005.GA32154@msg.credativ.de Backpatch-through: 9.4
* Improve installation instructions with pg_ctl in documentationMichael Paquier2019-02-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | The documentation includes sections to be able to initialize and start Postgres via a couple of commands. Some of its recommendations involve using directly "postgres", which is inconsistent with the recommendation given by initdb. At the same time make some other command calls more consistent with the rest, by using an absolute path when creating a database. Author: Andreas Scherbaum Reviewed-by: Michael Banck, Ryan Lambert
* Add more columns to pg_stat_sslPeter Eisentraut2019-02-01
| | | | | | | | | | Add columns client_serial and issuer_dn to pg_stat_ssl. These allow uniquely identifying the client certificate. Rename the existing column clientdn to client_dn, to make the naming more consistent and easier to read. Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/398754d8-6bb5-c5cf-e7b8-22e5f0983caf@2ndquadrant.com/
* Add --min-xid-age and --min-mxid-age options to vacuumdbMichael Paquier2019-01-31
| | | | | | | | | | | | | These two new options can be used to improve the selectivity of relations to vacuum or analyze even further depending on the age of respectively their transaction ID or multixact ID, so as it is possible to prioritize tables to prevent wraparound of one or the other. Combined with --table, it is possible to target a subset of tables to choose as potential processing targets. Author: Nathan Bossart Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier, Masahiko Sawada Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/FFE5373C-E26A-495B-B5C8-911EC4A41C5E@amazon.com
* Improve wording about WAL files in tar mode of pg_basebackupMagnus Hagander2019-01-29
| | | | | Author: Alex Kliukin Reviewed-By: Michael Paquier, Magnus Hagander
* doc: Add link from sslinfo to pg_stat_sslPeter Eisentraut2019-01-28
| | | | | Reviewed-by: Kyotaro HORIGUCHI <horiguchi.kyotaro@lab.ntt.co.jp> Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/398754d8-6bb5-c5cf-e7b8-22e5f0983caf@2ndquadrant.com/
* Revert "Avoid creation of the free space map for small heap relations."Amit Kapila2019-01-28
| | | | This reverts commit ac88d2962a96a9c7e83d5acfc28fe49a72812086.
* Avoid creation of the free space map for small heap relations.Amit Kapila2019-01-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Previously, all heaps had FSMs. For very small tables, this means that the FSM took up more space than the heap did. This is wasteful, so now we refrain from creating the FSM for heaps with 4 pages or fewer. If the last known target block has insufficient space, we still try to insert into some other page before giving up and extending the relation, since doing otherwise leads to table bloat. Testing showed that trying every page penalized performance slightly, so we compromise and try every other page. This way, we visit at most two pages. Any pages with wasted free space become visible at next relation extension, so we still control table bloat. As a bonus, directly attempting one or two pages can even be faster than consulting the FSM would have been. Once the FSM is created for a heap we don't remove it even if somebody deletes all the rows from the corresponding relation. We don't think it is a useful optimization as it is quite likely that relation will again grow to the same size. Author: John Naylor with design inputs and some code contribution by Amit Kapila Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila Tested-by: Mithun C Y Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAJVSVGWvB13PzpbLEecFuGFc5V2fsO736BsdTakPiPAcdMM5tQ@mail.gmail.com
* Change function call information to be variable length.Andres Freund2019-01-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Before this change FunctionCallInfoData, the struct arguments etc for V1 function calls are stored in, always had space for FUNC_MAX_ARGS/100 arguments, storing datums and their nullness in two arrays. For nearly every function call 100 arguments is far more than needed, therefore wasting memory. Arg and argnull being two separate arrays also guarantees that to access a single argument, two cachelines have to be touched. Change the layout so there's a single variable-length array with pairs of value / isnull. That drastically reduces memory consumption for most function calls (on x86-64 a two argument function now uses 64bytes, previously 936 bytes), and makes it very likely that argument value and its nullness are on the same cacheline. Arguments are stored in a new NullableDatum struct, which, due to padding, needs more memory per argument than before. But as usually far fewer arguments are stored, and individual arguments are cheaper to access, that's still a clear win. It's likely that there's other places where conversion to NullableDatum arrays would make sense, e.g. TupleTableSlots, but that's for another commit. Because the function call information is now variable-length allocations have to take the number of arguments into account. For heap allocations that can be done with SizeForFunctionCallInfoData(), for on-stack allocations there's a new LOCAL_FCINFO(name, nargs) macro that helps to allocate an appropriately sized and aligned variable. Some places with stack allocation function call information don't know the number of arguments at compile time, and currently variably sized stack allocations aren't allowed in postgres. Therefore allow for FUNC_MAX_ARGS space in these cases. They're not that common, so for now that seems acceptable. Because of the need to allocate FunctionCallInfo of the appropriate size, older extensions may need to update their code. To avoid subtle breakages, the FunctionCallInfoData struct has been renamed to FunctionCallInfoBaseData. Most code only references FunctionCallInfo, so that shouldn't cause much collateral damage. This change is also a prerequisite for more efficient expression JIT compilation (by allocating the function call information on the stack, allowing LLVM to optimize it away); previously the size of the call information caused problems inside LLVM's optimizer. Author: Andres Freund Reviewed-By: Tom Lane Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180605172952.x34m5uz6ju6enaem@alap3.anarazel.de
* Fix psql's "\g target" meta-command to work with COPY TO STDOUT.Tom Lane2019-01-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Previously, \g would successfully execute the COPY command, but the target specification if any was ignored, so that the data was always dumped to the regular query output target. This seems like a clear bug, so let's not just fix it but back-patch it. While at it, adjust the documentation for \copy to recommend "COPY ... TO STDOUT \g foo" as a plausible alternative. Back-patch to 9.5. The problem exists much further back, but the code associated with \g was refactored enough in 9.5 that we'd need a significantly different patch for 9.4, and it doesn't seem worth the trouble. Daniel Vérité, reviewed by Fabien Coelho Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/15dadc39-e050-4d46-956b-dcc4ed098753@manitou-mail.org
* Allow UNLISTEN in hot-standby mode.Tom Lane2019-01-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Since LISTEN is (still) disallowed, UNLISTEN must be a no-op in a hot-standby session, and so there's no harm in allowing it. This change allows client code to not worry about whether it's connected to a primary or standby server when performing session-state-reset type activities. (Note that DISCARD ALL, which includes UNLISTEN, was already allowed, making it inconsistent to reject UNLISTEN.) Per discussion, back-patch to all supported versions. Shay Rojansky, reviewed by Mi Tar Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CADT4RqCf2gA_TJtPAjnGzkC3ZiexfBZiLmA-mV66e4UyuVv8bA@mail.gmail.com
* Allow generalized expression syntax for partition boundsPeter Eisentraut2019-01-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Previously, only literals were allowed. This change allows general expressions, including functions calls, which are evaluated at the time the DDL command is executed. Besides offering some more functionality, it simplifies the parser structures and removes some inconsistencies in how the literals were handled. Author: Kyotaro Horiguchi, Tom Lane, Amit Langote Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com> Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/9f88b5e0-6da2-5227-20d0-0d7012beaa1c@lab.ntt.co.jp/
* Fix portability problem in pgbench.Tom Lane2019-01-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The pgbench regression test supposed that srandom() with a specific value would result in deterministic output from random(), as required by POSIX. It emerges however that OpenBSD is too smart to be constrained by mere standards, so their random() emits nondeterministic output anyway. While a workaround does exist, what seems like a better fix is to stop relying on the platform's srandom()/random() altogether, so that what you get from --random-seed=N is not merely deterministic but platform independent. Hence, use a separate pg_jrand48() random sequence in place of random(). Also adjust the regression test case that's supposed to detect nondeterminism so that it's more likely to detect it; the original choice of random_zipfian parameter tended to produce the same output all the time even if the underlying behavior wasn't deterministic. In passing, improve pgbench's docs about random_zipfian(). Back-patch to v11 where this code was introduced. Fabien Coelho and Tom Lane Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/4615.1547792324@sss.pgh.pa.us
* Doc: fix typo in URL of OASIS group web site.Tatsuo Ishii2019-01-23
| | | | | | | In other places that has been changed from http://www.oasis-open.org/ https://www.oasis-open.org/ but there's a place where the change was missed. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20190121.222844.399814306477973879.t-ishii%40sraoss.co.jp
* Adjust documentation for vacuumdb --disable-page-skippingMichael Paquier2019-01-22
| | | | | | | | This makes the description more consistent with the other options, and the mapping with VACUUM is intuitive. Author: Nathan Bossart Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/FFE5373C-E26A-495B-B5C8-911EC4A41C5E@amazon.com
* Rephrase references to "time qualification".Andres Freund2019-01-21
| | | | | | | | | Now that the relevant code has, for other reasons, moved out of tqual.[ch], it seems time to refer to visiblity rather than time qualification. Author: Andres Freund Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180703070645.wchpu5muyto5n647@alap3.anarazel.de
* Add 'id' to Acknowledgments sectionAlvaro Herrera2019-01-21
| | | | | Per note from Erik Rijkers Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3db724af16ee009ab7f812a6a1d9354e@xs4all.nl
* Allow COPY FROM to filter data using WHERE conditionsTomas Vondra2019-01-20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Extends the COPY FROM command with a WHERE condition, which allows doing various types of filtering while importing the data (random sampling, condition on a data column, etc.). Until now such filtering required either preprocessing of the input data, or importing all data and then filtering in the database. COPY FROM ... WHERE is an easy-to-use and low-overhead alternative for most simple cases. Author: Surafel Temesgen Reviewed-by: Tomas Vondra, Masahiko Sawada, Lim Myungkyu Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CALAY4q_DdpWDuB5-Zyi-oTtO2uSk8pmy+dupiRe3AvAc++1imA@mail.gmail.com
* Restrict the use of temporary namespace in two-phase transactionsMichael Paquier2019-01-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Attempting to use a temporary table within a two-phase transaction is forbidden for ages. However, there have been uncovered grounds for a couple of other object types and commands which work on temporary objects with two-phase commit. In short, trying to create, lock or drop an object on a temporary schema should not be authorized within a two-phase transaction, as it would cause its state to create dependencies with other sessions, causing all sorts of side effects with the existing session or other sessions spawned later on trying to use the same temporary schema name. Regression tests are added to cover all the grounds found, the original report mentioned function creation, but monitoring closer there are many other patterns with LOCK, DROP or CREATE EXTENSION which are involved. One of the symptoms resulting in combining both is that the session which used the temporary schema is not able to shut down completely, waiting for being able to drop the temporary schema, something that it cannot complete because of the two-phase transaction involved with temporary objects. In this case the client is able to disconnect but the session remains alive on the backend-side, potentially blocking connection backend slots from being used. Other problems reported could also involve server crashes. This is back-patched down to v10, which is where 9b013dc has introduced MyXactFlags, something that this patch relies on. Reported-by: Alexey Bashtanov Author: Michael Paquier Reviewed-by: Masahiko Sawada Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/5d910e2e-0db8-ec06-dd5f-baec420513c3@imap.cc Backpatch-through: 10
* Replace references to mailinglists with @lists.postgresql.orgMagnus Hagander2019-01-17
| | | | | The namespace for all lists have changed a while ago, so all references should use the correct address.
* Remove references to MajordomoMagnus Hagander2019-01-17
| | | | | Lists are not handled by Majordomo anymore and haven't been for a while, so remove the reference and instead direct people to the list server.
* Doc: enhance pgbench manual.Tatsuo Ishii2019-01-17
| | | | | | | Clarify the difference between "prepared mode" and other query modes. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20181030.103654.2249812451112831300.t-ishii@sraoss.co.jp Reviewed by: Fabien Coelh and Alvaro Herrera.
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