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* Fix typos in documentation and for one wait eventMichael Paquier2019-01-15
| | | | | | | | | These have been found while cross-checking for the use of unique words in the documentation, and a wait event was not getting generated in a way consistent to what the documentation provided. Author: Alexander Lakhin Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/9b5a3a85-899a-ae62-dbab-1e7943aa5ab1@gmail.com
* Make INSTALL makefile rule more robustPeter Eisentraut2019-01-13
| | | | | | | | With the previous rule, if pandoc was missing, a zero-length output file would be created without an error from make. To improve that, write the rule as two separate commands without a pipe. Reported-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
* configure: Update python search orderPeter Eisentraut2019-01-13
| | | | | | | | Some systems don't ship with "python" by default anymore, only "python3" or "python2" or some combination, so include those in the configure search. Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/1457.1543184081%40sss.pgh.pa.us#c9cc1199338fd6a257589c6dcea6cf8d
* Change default of recovery_target_timeline to 'latest'Peter Eisentraut2019-01-13
| | | | | | | | | This is what one usually wants for recovery and almost always wants for a standby. Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/6dd2c23a-4162-8469-410f-bfe146e28c0c@2ndquadrant.com/ Reviewed-by: David Steele <david@pgmasters.net> Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
* doc: Correct documentation of install-time environment variablesPeter Eisentraut2019-01-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Since approximately PostgreSQL 10, it is no longer required that environment variables at installation time such as PERL, PYTHON, TCLSH be "full path names", so change that phrasing in the installation instructions. (The exact time of change appears to differ for PERL and the others, but it works consistently in PostgreSQL 10.) Also while we're here document the defaults for PERL and PYTHON, but since the search list for TCLSH is so long, let's leave that out so we don't need to maintain a copy of that list in the installation instructions.
* Create INSTALL file using PandocPeter Eisentraut2019-01-11
| | | | | | | | | | | Replace using lynx with using pandoc. Pandoc creates better looking output and it avoids the delicate locale/encoding issues of lynx because it always uses UTF-8 for both input and output. Note: requires Pandoc >=1.13 Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/dcfaa74d-8037-bb32-f9e0-3fea7ccf4551@2ndquadrant.com/ Reviewed-by: Mi Tar <mmitar@gmail.com>
* Add value 'current' for recovery_target_timelinePeter Eisentraut2019-01-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | This value represents the default behavior of using the current timeline. Previously, this was represented by an empty string. (Before the removal of recovery.conf, this setting could not be chosen explicitly but was used when recovery_target_timeline was not mentioned at all.) Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/6dd2c23a-4162-8469-410f-bfe146e28c0c@2ndquadrant.com/ Reviewed-by: David Steele <david@pgmasters.net> Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
* Extend pg_stat_statements_reset to reset statistics specific to aAmit Kapila2019-01-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | particular user/db/query. The function pg_stat_statements_reset() is extended to accept userid, dbid, and queryid as input parameters. Now, it can discard the statistics gathered so far by pg_stat_statements corresponding to the specified userid, dbid, and queryid. If no parameter is specified or all the specified parameters have default value aka 0, it will discard all statistics as per the old behavior. The new behavior is useful to get the fresh statistics for a specific user/database/query without resetting all the existing statistics. Author: Haribabu Kommi, with few additional changes by me Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier, Amit Kapila and Fujii Masao Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAJrrPGcyh-gkFswyc6C661K6cknL0XkNqVT0sQt2mFNMR4HRKA@mail.gmail.com
* pgbench: add \cset and \gset commandsAlvaro Herrera2019-01-10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | These commands allow assignment of values produced by queries to pgbench variables, where they can be used by further commands. \gset terminates a command sequence (just like a bare semicolon); \cset separates multiple queries in a compound command, like an escaped semicolon (\;). A prefix can be provided to the \-command and is prepended to the name of each output column to produce the final variable name. This feature allows pgbench scripts to react meaningfully to the actual database contents, allowing more powerful benchmarks to be written. Authors: Fabien Coelho, Álvaro Herrera Reviewed-by: Amit Langote <Langote_Amit_f8@lab.ntt.co.jp> Reviewed-by: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> Reviewed-by: Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> Reviewed-by: Tatsuo Ishii <ishii@sraoss.co.jp> Reviewed-by: Rafia Sabih <rafia.sabih@enterprisedb.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/alpine.DEB.2.20.1607091005330.3412@sto
* Update docs & tests to reflect that unassigned OLD/NEW are now NULL.Tom Lane2019-01-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | For a long time, plpgsql has allowed trigger functions to parse references to OLD and NEW even if the current trigger event type didn't assign a value to one or the other variable; but actually executing such a reference would fail. The v11 changes to use "expanded records" for DTYPE_REC variables changed the behavior so that the unassigned variable now reads as a null composite value. While this behavioral change was more or less unintentional, it seems that leaving it like this is better than adding code and complexity to be bug-compatible with the old way. The change doesn't break any code that worked before, and it eliminates a gotcha that often required extra code to work around. Hence, update the docs to say that these variables are "null" not "unassigned" when not relevant to the event type. And add a regression test covering the behavior, so that we'll notice if we ever break it again. Per report from Kristjan Tammekivi. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAABK7uL-uC9ZxKBXzo_68pKt7cECfNRv+c35CXZpjq6jCAzYYA@mail.gmail.com
* Doc: update our docs about kernel IPC parameters on *BSD.Tom Lane2019-01-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | runtime.sgml said that you couldn't change SysV IPC parameters on OpenBSD except by rebuilding the kernel. That's definitely wrong in OpenBSD 6.x, and excavation in their man pages says it changed in OpenBSD 3.3. Update NetBSD and OpenBSD sections to recommend adjustment of the SEMMNI and SEMMNS settings, which are painfully small by default on those platforms. (The discussion thread contemplated recommending that people select POSIX semaphores instead, but the performance consequences of that aren't really clear, so I'll refrain.) Remove pointless discussion of SEMMNU and SEMMAP from the FreeBSD section. Minor other wordsmithing. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/27582.1546928073@sss.pgh.pa.us
* Add --disable-page-skipping and --skip-locked to vacuumdbMichael Paquier2019-01-08
| | | | | | | | | DISABLE_PAGE_SKIPPING is available since v9.6, and SKIP_LOCKED since v12. They lacked equivalents for vacuumdb, so this closes the gap. Author: Nathan Bossart Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier, Masahiko Sawada Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/FFE5373C-E26A-495B-B5C8-911EC4A41C5E@amazon.com
* Doc: fix meaning of acronym "btree".Tatsuo Ishii2019-01-08
| | | | | | | Acronym "btree" better means "multi-way balanced tree" rather than "multi-way binary tree". Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20190105.183532.1686260542006440682.t-ishii%40sraoss.co.jp
* doc: document that INFO messages always go to client.Andrew Gierth2019-01-07
| | | | | | | | In passing add a couple of links to the message severity table. Backpatch because it's always been this way. Author: Karl O. Pinc <kop@meme.com>
* Move the built-in conversions into the initial catalog data.Tom Lane2019-01-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Instead of running a SQL script to create the standard conversion functions and pg_conversion entries, put those entries into the initial data in postgres.bki. This shaves a few percent off the runtime of initdb, and also allows accurate comments to be attached to the conversion functions; the previous script labeled them with machine-generated comments that were not quite right for multi-purpose conversion functions. Also, we can get rid of the duplicative Makefile and MSVC perl implementations of the generation code for that SQL script. A functional change is that these pg_proc and pg_conversion entries are now "pinned" by initdb. Leaving them unpinned was perhaps a good thing back while the conversions feature was under development, but there seems no valid reason for it now. Also, the conversion functions are now marked as immutable, where before they were volatile by virtue of lacking any explicit specification. That seems like it was just an oversight. To avoid using magic constants in pg_conversion.dat, extend genbki.pl to allow encoding names to be converted, much as it does for language, access method, etc names. John Naylor Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAJVSVGWtUqxpfAaxS88vEGvi+jKzWZb2EStu5io-UPc4p9rSJg@mail.gmail.com
* Use symbolic references for pg_language OIDs in the bootstrap data.Tom Lane2019-01-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch teaches genbki.pl to replace pg_language names by OIDs in much the same way as it already does for pg_am names etc, and converts pg_proc.dat to use such symbolic references in the prolang column. Aside from getting rid of a few more magic numbers in the initial catalog data, this means that Gen_fmgrtab.pl no longer needs to read pg_language.dat, since it doesn't have to know the OID of the "internal" language; now it's just looking for the string "internal". No need for a catversion bump, since the contents of postgres.bki don't actually change at all. John Naylor Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAJVSVGWtUqxpfAaxS88vEGvi+jKzWZb2EStu5io-UPc4p9rSJg@mail.gmail.com
* Switch pg_regress to output unified diffs by defaultPeter Eisentraut2019-01-02
| | | | | Author: Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org> Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/20170406223103.ixihdedf6d6d4kbk@alap3.anarazel.de/
* Update copyright for 2019Bruce Momjian2019-01-02
| | | | Backpatch-through: certain files through 9.4
* Remove configure switch --disable-strong-randomMichael Paquier2019-01-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This removes a portion of infrastructure introduced by fe0a0b5 to allow compilation of Postgres in environments where no strong random source is available, meaning that there is no linking to OpenSSL and no /dev/urandom (Windows having its own CryptoAPI). No systems shipped this century lack /dev/urandom, and the buildfarm is actually not testing this switch at all, so just remove it. This simplifies particularly some backend code which included a fallback implementation using shared memory, and removes a set of alternate regression output files from pgcrypto. Author: Michael Paquier Reviewed-by: Tom Lane Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20181230063219.GG608@paquier.xyz
* Use a separate random seed for SQL random()/setseed() functions.Tom Lane2018-12-29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Previously, the SQL random() function depended on libc's random(3), and setseed() invoked srandom(3). This results in interference between these functions and backend-internal uses of random(3). We'd never paid too much mind to that, but in the wake of commit 88bdbd3f7 which added log_statement_sample_rate, the interference arguably has a security consequence: if log_statement_sample_rate is active then an unprivileged user could probably control which if any of his SQL commands get logged, by issuing setseed() at the right times. That seems bad. To fix this reliably, we need random() and setseed() to use their own private random state variable. Standard random(3) isn't amenable to such usage, so let's switch to pg_erand48(). It's hard to say whether that's more or less "random" than any particular platform's version of random(3), but it does have a wider seed value and a longer period than are required by POSIX, so we can hope that this isn't a big downgrade. Also, we should now have uniform behavior of random() across platforms, which is worth something. While at it, upgrade the per-process seed initialization method to use pg_strong_random() if available, greatly reducing the predictability of the initial seed value. (I'll separately do something similar for the internal uses of random().) In addition to forestalling the possible security problem, this has a benefit in the other direction, which is that we can now document setseed() as guaranteeing a reproducible sequence of random() values. Previously, because of the possibility of internal calls of random(3), we could not promise any such thing. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3859.1545849900@sss.pgh.pa.us
* Clarify referential actions in docs of CREATE/ALTER TABLEMichael Paquier2018-12-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | The documentation of ON DELETE and ON UPDATE uses the term "action", which is also used on the ALTER TABLE page for other purposes. This commit renames the term to "referential_action", which is more consistent with the SQL specification. The new term is now used on the documentation of both CREATE TABLE and ALTER TABLE for consistency. Reported-by: Brigitte Blanc-Lafay Author: Lætitia Avrot Reviewed-by: Álvaro Herrera Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAB_COdiHEVVs0uB+uYCjjYUwQ4YFFekppq+Xqv6qAM8+cd42gA@mail.gmail.com
* Doc: fix ancient mistake in search_path documentation.Tom Lane2018-12-20
| | | | | | | | | | | "$user" in a search_path string is replaced by CURRENT_USER not SESSION_USER. (It actually was SESSION_USER in the initial implementation, but we changed it shortly later, and evidently forgot to fix the docs to match.) Noted by antonov@stdpr.ru Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/159151fb45d490c8d31ea9707e9ba99d@stdpr.ru
* Make type "name" collation-aware.Tom Lane2018-12-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The "name" comparison operators now all support collations, making them functionally equivalent to "text" comparisons, except for the different physical representation of the datatype. They do, in fact, mostly share the varstr_cmp and varstr_sortsupport infrastructure, which has been slightly enlarged to handle the case. To avoid changes in the default behavior of the datatype, set name's typcollation to C_COLLATION_OID not DEFAULT_COLLATION_OID, so that by default comparisons to a name value will continue to use strcmp semantics. (This would have been the case for system catalog columns anyway, because of commit 6b0faf723, but doing this makes it true for user-created name columns as well. In particular, this avoids locale-dependent changes in our regression test results.) In consequence, tweak a couple of places that made assumptions about collatable base types always having typcollation DEFAULT_COLLATION_OID. I have not, however, attempted to relax the restriction that user- defined collatable types must have that. Hence, "name" doesn't behave quite like a user-defined type; it acts more like a domain with COLLATE "C". (Conceivably, if we ever get rid of the need for catalog name columns to be fixed-length, "name" could actually become such a domain over text. But that'd be a pretty massive undertaking, and I'm not volunteering.) Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/15938.1544377821@sss.pgh.pa.us
* Doc: fix incorrect example of collecting arguments with fmgr macros.Tom Lane2018-12-19
| | | | | | Thinko in commit f66912b0a. Back-patch to v10, as that was. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/154522283371.15419.15167411691473730460@wrigleys.postgresql.org
* Doc: fix typo in "Generic File Access Functions" section.Tatsuo Ishii2018-12-19
| | | | | Issue reported by me and fix by Tom Lane. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20181219.080458.1434575730369741406.t-ishii%40sraoss.co.jp
* Update project link of pgBadger in documentationMichael Paquier2018-12-18
| | | | | | | The project has moved to a new place. Reported-by: Peter Neave Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/154474118231.5066.16352227860913505754@wrigleys.postgresql.org
* Fix tablespace handling for partitioned tablesAlvaro Herrera2018-12-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When partitioned tables were introduced, we failed to realize that by copying the tablespace handling for other relation kinds with no physical storage we were causing the secondary effect that their partitions would not automatically inherit the tablespace setting. This is surprising and unhelpful, so change it to adopt the behavior introduced in pg11 (commit 33e6c34c3267) for partitioned indexes: the parent relation remembers the tablespace specification, which is then used for any new partitions that don't declare one. Because this commit changes behavior of the TABLESPACE clause for partitioned tables (it's no longer a no-op), it is not backpatched. Author: David Rowley, Álvaro Herrera Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAKJS1f9SxVzqDrGD1teosFd6jBMM0UEaa14_8mRvcWE19Tu0hA@mail.gmail.com
* Clarify runtime pruning in EXPLAINAlvaro Herrera2018-12-17
| | | | | | Author: Amit Langote Reviewed-by: David Rowley Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/002dec69-9afb-b621-5630-235eceafe0bd@lab.ntt.co.jp
* Make pg_statistic and related code account more honestly for collations.Tom Lane2018-12-14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When we first put in collations support, we basically punted on teaching pg_statistic, ANALYZE, and the planner selectivity functions about that. They've just used DEFAULT_COLLATION_OID independently of the actual collation of the data. It's time to improve that, so: * Add columns to pg_statistic that record the specific collation associated with each statistics slot. * Teach ANALYZE to use the column's actual collation when comparing values for statistical purposes, and record this in the appropriate slot. (Note that type-specific typanalyze functions are now expected to fill stats->stacoll with the appropriate collation, too.) * Teach assorted selectivity functions to use the actual collation of the stats they are looking at, instead of just assuming it's DEFAULT_COLLATION_OID. This should give noticeably better results in selectivity estimates for columns with nondefault collations, at least for query clauses that use that same collation (which would be the default behavior in most cases). It's still true that comparisons with explicit COLLATE clauses different from the stored data's collation won't be well-estimated, but that's no worse than before. Also, this patch does make the first step towards doing better with that, which is that it's now theoretically possible to collect stats for a collation other than the column's own collation. Patch by me; thanks to Peter Eisentraut for review. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/14706.1544630227@sss.pgh.pa.us
* Introduce new extended routines for FDW and foreign server lookupsMichael Paquier2018-12-14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | The cache lookup routines for foreign-data wrappers and foreign servers are extended with an extra argument to handle a set of flags. The only value which can be used now is to indicate if a missing object should result in an error or not, and are designed to be extensible on need. Those new routines are added into the existing set of user-visible FDW APIs and documented in consequence. They will be used for future patches to improve the SQL interface for object addresses. Author: Michael Paquier Reviewed-by: Álvaro Herrera Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAB7nPqSZxrSmdHK-rny7z8mi=EAFXJ5J-0RbzDw6aus=wB5azQ@mail.gmail.com
* Doc: improve documentation about ALTER LARGE OBJECT requirements.Tom Lane2018-12-11
| | | | | | | | Unlike other ALTER ref pages, this one neglected to mention that ALTER OWNER requires being a member of the new owning role. Per bug #15546 from Stefan Kadow. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/15546-0558c75fd2025e7c@postgresql.org
* Doc: remove obsolete reference to recursive expression evaluation.Tom Lane2018-12-10
| | | | | | John Naylor Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAJVSVGUPH-0q5feP4v9b+Y8K3HGTn3bEd5KV7VbyUj-oFdSLzA@mail.gmail.com
* Add timestamp of last received message from standby to pg_stat_replicationMichael Paquier2018-12-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | The timestamp generated by the standby at message transmission has been included in the protocol since its introduction for both the status update message and hot standby feedback message, but it has never appeared in pg_stat_replication. Seeing this timestamp does not matter much with a cluster which has a lot of activity, but on a mostly-idle cluster, this makes monitoring able to react faster than the configured timeouts. Author: MyungKyu LIM Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier, Masahiko Sawada Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1657809367.407321.1533027417725.JavaMail.jboss@ep2ml404
* Doc: document that we expect CHECK constraint conditions to be immutable.Tom Lane2018-12-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This restriction is implicit in the check-only-once implementation we use for table and domain constraints, but it wasn't spelled out anywhere, nor was there any advice about how to alter a constraint's behavior safely. Improve that. I was also dissatisfied with the documentation of ALTER DOMAIN VALIDATE CONSTRAINT, which entirely failed to explain the use of that feature; and thence decided that ALTER TABLE VALIDATE CONSTRAINT could be documented better as well. Perhaps we should back-patch this, along with the related commit 36d442a25, but for now I refrained. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/12539.1544107316@sss.pgh.pa.us
* Doc: remove obsolete statements about system OID columns in ALTER TABLE.Tom Lane2018-12-07
| | | | Missed in commit 578b22971.
* Doc: make cross-reference to format() function more specific.Tom Lane2018-12-07
| | | | | | Jeff Janes Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAMkU=1w7Tn2M9BhK+rt8Shtz1AkU+ty7By8gj5C==z65=U4vyQ@mail.gmail.com
* Improve planner stats documentationStephen Frost2018-12-06
| | | | | | | | It was pointed out that in the planner stats documentation under Extended Statistics, one of the sentences was a bit awkward. Improve that by rewording it slightly. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/154409976780.14137.2785644488950047100@wrigleys.postgresql.org
* Change true/false to on/off.Tatsuo Ishii2018-12-06
| | | | | | | | We prefer to use on/off than true/false for boolean configuration parameters in the documentation, but there were a few places where true/false were still used. Dicussion: https://postgr.es/m/20181202.072508.618341295047874293.t-ishii%40sraoss.co.jp
* Fix invalid value of synchronous_commit in description of flush_lagMichael Paquier2018-12-05
| | | | | | | "remote_flush" has never been a valid user-facing value, but "on" is. Author: Maksim Milyutin Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/27b3b80c-3615-2d76-02c5-44566b53136c@gmail.com
* Refactor documentation about privileges to centralize the info.Tom Lane2018-12-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | Expand section 5.6 "Privileges" to include the full definition of each privilege type, and an explanation of aclitem privilege displays, along with some helpful summary tables. Most of this material came out of the GRANT reference page, although some of it is new. Adjust a bunch of links that were pointing to GRANT to point to 5.6. Fabien Coelho and Tom Lane, reviewed by Bradley DeJong Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/alpine.DEB.2.21.1807311735200.20743@lancre
* Add PGXS options to control TAP and isolation tests, take twoMichael Paquier2018-12-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The following options are added for extensions: - TAP_TESTS, to allow an extention to run TAP tests which are the ones present in t/*.pl. A subset of tests can always be run with the existing PROVE_TESTS for developers. - ISOLATION, to define a list of isolation tests. - ISOLATION_OPTS, to pass custom options to isolation_tester. A couple of custom Makefile rules have been accumulated across the tree to cover the lack of facility in PGXS for a couple of releases when using those test suites, which are all now replaced with the new flags, without reducing the test coverage. Note that tests of contrib/bloom/ are not enabled yet, as those are proving unstable in the buildfarm. Author: Michael Paquier Reviewed-by: Adam Berlin, Álvaro Herrera, Tom Lane, Nikolay Shaplov, Arthur Zakirov Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180906014849.GG2726@paquier.xyz
* Add a --socketdir option to pg_upgrade.Tom Lane2018-12-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This allows control of the directory in which the postmaster sockets are created for the temporary postmasters started by pg_upgrade. The default location remains the current working directory, which is typically fine, but if it is deeply nested then its pathname might be too long to be a socket name. In passing, clean up some messiness in pg_upgrade's option handling, particularly the confusing and undocumented way that configuration-only datadirs were handled. And fix check_required_directory's substantially under-baked cleanup of directory pathnames. Daniel Gustafsson, reviewed by Hironobu Suzuki, some code cleanup by me Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/E72DD5C3-2268-48A5-A907-ED4B34BEC223@yesql.se
* Document handling of invalid/ambiguous timestamp input near DST boundaries.Tom Lane2018-11-29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | The source code comments documented this, but the user-facing docs, not so much. Add a section to Appendix B that discusses it. In passing, improve a couple other things in Appendix B --- notably, a long-obsolete claim that time zone abbreviations are looked up in a fixed table. Per bug #15527 from Michael Davidson. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/15527-f1be0b4dc99ebbe7@postgresql.org
* Add log_statement_sample_rate parameterAlvaro Herrera2018-11-29
| | | | | | | | | | This allows to set a lower log_min_duration_statement value without incurring excessive log traffic (which reduces performance). This can be useful to analyze workloads with lots of short queries. Author: Adrien Nayrat Reviewed-by: David Rowley, Vik Fearing Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/c30ee535-ee1e-db9f-fa97-146b9f62caed@anayrat.info
* doc: Add appendix detailing some limits of PostgreSQLPeter Eisentraut2018-11-29
| | | | | | | | | This used to be on the web site but was removed. The documentation is a better place for it anyway. Author: David Rowley <david.rowley@2ndquadrant.com> Reviewed-by: John Naylor <jcnaylor@gmail.com> Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CAKJS1f_dKdejdKB94nKZC9S5NzB-UZRcAKkE84e=JEEecDuotg@mail.gmail.com/
* Add pg_partition_tree to documentation indexMichael Paquier2018-11-29
| | | | | | | | This fixes an oversight from d5eec4ee. Author: Michael Paquier Reviewed-by: Amit Langote Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20181129072719.GC9004@paquier.xyz
* Only allow one recovery target settingPeter Eisentraut2018-11-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The previous recovery.conf regime accepted multiple recovery_target* settings and used the last one. This does not translate well to the general GUC system. Specifically, under EXEC_BACKEND, the settings are written out not in any particular order, so the order in which they were originally set is not available to new processes. Rather than redesign the GUC system, it was decided to abandon the old behavior and only allow one recovery target setting. A second setting will cause an error. However, it is allowed to set the same parameter multiple times or unset a parameter and set a different one. Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/27802171543235530%40iva2-6ec8f0a6115e.qloud-c.yandex.net#701a59c837ad0bf8c244344aaf3ef5a4
* doc: fix wording for plpgsql, add "and"Bruce Momjian2018-11-26
| | | | | | | | Reported-by: Anthony Greene Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAPRNmnsSZ4QL75FUjcS8ND_oV+WjgyPbZ4ch2RUwmW6PWzF38w@mail.gmail.com Backpatch-through: 9.4
* Fix typo introduced in 578b229718.Andres Freund2018-11-26
| | | | | Author: Andreas Karlsson Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/0917c86f-e906-27c0-740e-abc581480823@proxel.se
* Fix sample output for hash_metapage_info queryAlvaro Herrera2018-11-26
| | | | | | | One output column was duplicated. Couldn't resist fixing the version number while at it. Reported-by: Gianni Ciolli
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