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* Documentation fixups for dumping statistics.Jeff Davis2025-02-22
| | | | | | | Reported-by: Hayato Kuroda (Fujitsu) <kuroda.hayato@fujitsu.com> Reported-by: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/OSCPR01MB149665630030E7F54FDA8B27BF5C72@OSCPR01MB14966.jpnprd01.prod.outlook.com Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/25d26774-25fa-46f2-9888-c6a707d1fef7@dunslane.net
* Change \conninfo to use tabular formatÁlvaro Herrera2025-02-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | (Initially the proposal was to keep \conninfo alone and add this feature as \conninfo+, but we decided against keeping the original.) Also display more fields than before, though not as many as were suggested during the discussion. In particular, we don't show 'role' nor 'session authorization', for both which a case can probably be made. These can be added as followup commits, if we agree to it. Some (most?) reviewers actually reviewed rather different versions of the patch and do not necessarily endorse the current one. Co-authored-by: Maiquel Grassi <grassi@hotmail.com.br> Co-authored-by: Hunaid Sohail <hunaidpgml@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org> Reviewed-by: Sami Imseih <simseih@amazon.com> Reviewed-by: David G. Johnston <david.g.johnston@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Jim Jones <jim.jones@uni-muenster.de> Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> Reviewed-by: Pavel Luzanov <p.luzanov@postgrespro.ru> Reviewed-by: Dean Rasheed <dean.a.rasheed@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Erik Wienhold <ewie@ewie.name> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CP8P284MB24965CB63DAC00FC0EA4A475EC462@CP8P284MB2496.BRAP284.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM
* Avoid race condition between "GRANT role" and "DROP ROLE".Tom Lane2025-02-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Concurrently dropping either the granted role or the grantee does not stop GRANT from completing, instead resulting in a dangling role reference in pg_auth_members. That's relatively harmless in the short run, but inconsistent catalog entries are not a good thing. This patch solves the problem by adding the granted and grantee roles as explicit shared dependencies of the pg_auth_members entry. That's a bit indirect, but it works because the pg_shdepend code applies the necessary locking and rechecking. Commit 6566133c5 previously established similar handling for the grantor column of pg_auth_members; it's not clear why it didn't cover the other two role OID columns. A side-effect of this approach is that DROP OWNED BY will now drop pg_auth_members entries that mention the target role as either the granted or grantee role. That's clearly appropriate for the grantee, since we'll drop its other privileges too. It doesn't seem too far out of line for the granted role, since we're presumably about to drop it and besides we're removing all reasons why it'd matter to be a member of it. (One could argue that this makes DropRole's code to auto-drop pg_auth_members entries unnecessary, but I chose to leave it in place since perhaps some people's workflows expect that to work without a DROP OWNED BY.) Note to patch readers: CreateRole's first CommandCounterIncrement call is now unconditional, because this change creates another case in which it's needed, and it seemed to be more trouble than it's worth to preserve that micro-optimization. Arguably this is a bug fix, but the fact that it changes the expected contents of pg_shdepend seems like not a great thing to do in the stable branches, and perhaps we don't want the change in DROP OWNED BY semantics there either. On the other hand, I opted not to force a catversion bump in HEAD, because the presence or absence of these entries doesn't matter for most purposes. Reported-by: Virender Singla <virender.cse@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAM6Zo8woa62ZFHtMKox6a4jb8qQ=w87R2L0K8347iE-juQL2EA@mail.gmail.com
* pg_upgrade: Add --set-char-signedness to set the default char signedness of ↵Masahiko Sawada2025-02-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | new cluster. This change adds a new option --set-char-signedness to pg_upgrade. It enables user to set arbitrary signedness during pg_upgrade. This helps cases where user who knew they copied the v17 source cluster from x86 (signedness=true) to ARM (signedness=false) can pg_upgrade properly without the prerequisite of acquiring an x86 VM. Reviewed-by: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CB11ADBC-0C3F-4FE0-A678-666EE80CBB07%40amazon.com
* pg_resetwal: Add --char-signedness option to change the default char signedness.Masahiko Sawada2025-02-21
| | | | | | | | | | | With the newly added option --char-signedness, pg_resetwal updates the default char signedness flag in the controlfile. This option is primarily intended for an upcoming patch that pg_upgrade supports preserving the default char signedness during upgrades, and is not meant for manual operation. Reviewed-by: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CB11ADBC-0C3F-4FE0-A678-666EE80CBB07%40amazon.com
* Add default_char_signedness field to ControlFileData.Masahiko Sawada2025-02-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The signedness of the 'char' type in C is implementation-dependent. For instance, 'signed char' is used by default on x86 CPUs, while 'unsigned char' is used on aarch CPUs. Previously, we accidentally let C implementation signedness affect persistent data. This led to inconsistent results when comparing char data across different platforms. This commit introduces a new 'default_char_signedness' field in ControlFileData to store the signedness of the 'char' type. While this change does not encourage the use of 'char' without explicitly specifying its signedness, this field can be used as a hint to ensure consistent behavior for pre-v18 data files that store data sorted by the 'char' type on disk (e.g., GIN and GiST indexes), especially in cross-platform replication scenarios. Newly created database clusters unconditionally set the default char signedness to true. pg_upgrade (with an upcoming commit) changes this flag for clusters if the source database cluster has signedness=false. As a result, signedness=false setting will become rare over time. If we had known about the problem during the last development cycle that forced initdb (v8.3), we would have made all clusters signed or all clusters unsigned. Making pg_upgrade the only source of signedness=false will cause the population of database clusters to converge toward that retrospective ideal. Bump catalog version (for the catalog changes) and PG_CONTROL_VERSION (for the additions in ControlFileData). Reviewed-by: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CB11ADBC-0C3F-4FE0-A678-666EE80CBB07%40amazon.com
* doc: clarify default checksum behavior in non-master branchesBruce Momjian2025-02-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Also simplify and correct data checksum wording in master now that it is the default. PG 13 did not have the awkward wording. Reported-by: Felix <afripowered@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Laurenz Albe Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/173928241056.707.3989867022954178032@wrigleys.postgresql.org Backpatch-through: 14
* doc: remove non-breaking space in SGML files, causes make errorBruce Momjian2025-02-21
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* doc: Add links to olsen93 and ong90 in bibliographyDaniel Gustafsson2025-02-21
| | | | | | | | | | | The bibliography entries for olsen93 and ong90 lacked links to online copies. While ong90 is available in digital form, the olsen93 thesis is only available as a physical copy in the UCB library. To save people from searching for it, we still link to it via the UCB library page. Reported-by: jian he <jian.universality@gmail.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CACJufxFcJYdRvzgt59N26XjFp2tFFUXu+VN+x8Uo0NbDUCMCbw@mail.gmail.com
* Fix a WARNING for data origin discrepancies.Amit Kapila2025-02-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Previously, a WARNING was issued at the time of defining a subscription with origin=NONE only when the publisher subscribed to the same table from other publishers, indicating potential data origination from different origins. However, the publisher can subscribe to the partition ancestors or partition children of the table from other publishers, which could also result in mixed-origin data inclusion. So, give a WARNING in those cases as well. Reported-by: Sergey Tatarintsev <s.tatarintsev@postgrespro.ru> Author: Hou Zhijie <houzj.fnst@fujitsu.com> Author: Shlok Kyal <shlok.kyal.oss@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Vignesh C <vignesh21@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com> Backpatch-through: 16, where it was introduced Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/5eda6a9c-63cf-404d-8a49-8dcb116a29f3@postgrespro.ru
* Drop opcintype from index AM strategy translation APIPeter Eisentraut2025-02-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The type argument wasn't actually really necessary. It was a remnant of converting the API of the gist strategy translation from using opclass to using opfamily+opcintype (commits c09e5a6a016, 622f678c102). For looking up the gist translation function, we used the convention "amproclefttype = amprocrighttype = opclass's opcintype" (see pg_amproc.h). But each operator family should only have one translation function, and getting the right type for the lookup is sometimes cumbersome and fragile, so this is all unnecessarily complicated. To simplify this, change the gist stategy support procedure to take "any", "any" as argument. (This is arbitrary but seems intuitive. The alternative of using InvalidOid as argument(s) upsets various DDL commands, so it's not practical.) Then we don't need opcintype for the lookup, and we can remove it from all the API layers introduced by commit c09e5a6a016. This also adds some more documentation about the correct signature of the gist support function and adds more checks in gistvalidate(). This was previously underspecified. (It relied implicitly on convention mentioned above.) Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/E72EAA49-354D-4C2E-8EB9-255197F55330@enterprisedb.com
* psql: Add support for pipelinesMichael Paquier2025-02-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | With \bind, \parse, \bind_named and \close, it is possible to issue queries from psql using the extended protocol. However, it was not possible to send these queries using libpq's pipeline mode. This feature has two advantages: - Testing. Pipeline tests were only possible with pgbench, using TAP tests. It now becomes possible to have more SQL tests that are able to stress the backend with pipelines and extended queries. More tests will be added in a follow-up commit that were discussed on some other threads. Some external projects in the community had to implement their own facility to work around this limitation. - Emulation of custom workloads, with more control over the actions taken by a client with libpq APIs. It is possible to emulate more workload patterns to bottleneck the backend with the extended query protocol. This patch adds six new meta-commands to be able to control pipelines: * \startpipeline starts a new pipeline. All extended queries are queued until the end of the pipeline are reached or a sync request is sent and processed. * \endpipeline ends an existing pipeline. All queued commands are sent to the server and all responses are processed by psql. * \syncpipeline queues a synchronisation request, without flushing the commands to the server, equivalent of PQsendPipelineSync(). * \flush, equivalent of PQflush(). * \flushrequest, equivalent of PQsendFlushRequest() * \getresults reads the server's results for the queries in a pipeline. Unsent data is automatically pushed when \getresults is called. It is possible to control the number of results read in a single meta-command execution with an optional parameter, 0 means that all the results should be read. Author: Anthonin Bonnefoy <anthonin.bonnefoy@datadoghq.com> Reviewed-by: Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres@jeltef.nl> Reviewed-by: Kirill Reshke <reshkekirill@gmail.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAO6_XqroE7JuMEm1sWz55rp9fAYX2JwmcP_3m_v51vnOFdsLiQ@mail.gmail.com
* Add support for OAUTHBEARER SASL mechanismDaniel Gustafsson2025-02-20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This commit implements OAUTHBEARER, RFC 7628, and OAuth 2.0 Device Authorization Grants, RFC 8628. In order to use this there is a new pg_hba auth method called oauth. When speaking to a OAuth- enabled server, it looks a bit like this: $ psql 'host=example.org oauth_issuer=... oauth_client_id=...' Visit https://oauth.example.org/login and enter the code: FPQ2-M4BG Device authorization is currently the only supported flow so the OAuth issuer must support that in order for users to authenticate. Third-party clients may however extend this and provide their own flows. The built-in device authorization flow is currently not supported on Windows. In order for validation to happen server side a new framework for plugging in OAuth validation modules is added. As validation is implementation specific, with no default specified in the standard, PostgreSQL does not ship with one built-in. Each pg_hba entry can specify a specific validator or be left blank for the validator installed as default. This adds a requirement on libcurl for the client side support, which is optional to build, but the server side has no additional build requirements. In order to run the tests, Python is required as this adds a https server written in Python. Tests are gated behind PG_TEST_EXTRA as they open ports. This patch has been a multi-year project with many contributors involved with reviews and in-depth discussions: Michael Paquier, Heikki Linnakangas, Zhihong Yu, Mahendrakar Srinivasarao, Andrey Chudnovsky and Stephen Frost to name a few. While Jacob Champion is the main author there have been some levels of hacking by others. Daniel Gustafsson contributed the validation module and various bits and pieces; Thomas Munro wrote the client side support for kqueue. Author: Jacob Champion <jacob.champion@enterprisedb.com> Co-authored-by: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se> Co-authored-by: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se> Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org> Reviewed-by: Antonin Houska <ah@cybertec.at> Reviewed-by: Kashif Zeeshan <kashi.zeeshan@gmail.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/d1b467a78e0e36ed85a09adf979d04cf124a9d4b.camel@vmware.com
* Transfer statistics during pg_upgrade.Jeff Davis2025-02-20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add support to pg_dump for dumping stats, and use that during pg_upgrade so that statistics are transferred during upgrade. In most cases this removes the need for a costly re-analyze after upgrade. Some statistics are not transferred, such as extended statistics or statistics with a custom stakind. Now pg_dump accepts the options --schema-only, --no-schema, --data-only, --no-data, --statistics-only, and --no-statistics; which allow all combinations of schema, data, and/or stats. The options are named this way to preserve compatibility with the previous --schema-only and --data-only options. Statistics are in SECTION_DATA, unless the object itself is in SECTION_POST_DATA. The stats are represented as calls to pg_restore_relation_stats() and pg_restore_attribute_stats(). Author: Corey Huinker, Jeff Davis Reviewed-by: Jian He Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CADkLM=fzX7QX6r78fShWDjNN3Vcr4PVAnvXxQ4DiGy6V=0bCUA@mail.gmail.com Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CADkLM%3DcB0rF3p_FuWRTMSV0983ihTRpsH%2BOCpNyiqE7Wk0vUWA%40mail.gmail.com
* doc: Fix typo in section "WAL configuration"Michael Paquier2025-02-20
| | | | | | | | pg_stat_io has an attribute named fsync_time, not sync_time. Oversight in 2f70871c2bc1. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/Z7RkQ0EfYaqqjgz/@ip-10-97-1-34.eu-west-3.compute.internal
* doc: Add details about object "wal" in pg_stat_ioMichael Paquier2025-02-20
| | | | | | | | | | | | This commit adds a short description of what kind of activity is tracked in pg_stat_io for the object "wal", with a link pointing to the section "WAL configuration" that has a lot of details on the matter. This should perhaps have been added in a051e71e28a1, but things are what they are. Author: Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/Z7RkQ0EfYaqqjgz/@ip-10-97-1-34.eu-west-3.compute.internal
* doc: Recommend pg_stat_io rather than pg_stat_wal in WAL configurationMichael Paquier2025-02-20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Since a051e71e28a1, pg_stat_io is able to track statistics for the WAL activity, providing an equivalent of pg_stat_wal with more granularity for the fsyncs/writes counts and timings, as the data is split across backend types. This commit now recommends pg_stat_io rather than pg_stat_wal in the section "WAL configuration", some of the latter's attributes being candidate for removal in a follow-up commit. Extracted from a larger patch by the same author. Author: Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/Z7RkQ0EfYaqqjgz/@ip-10-97-1-34.eu-west-3.compute.internal
* Add support for LIKE in CREATE FOREIGN TABLEMichael Paquier2025-02-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | LIKE enables the creation of foreign tables based on the column definitions, constraints and objects of the defined source relation(s). This feature mirrors the behavior of CREATE TABLE LIKE, but ignores the INCLUDING sub-options that do not make sense for foreign tables: INDEXES, COMPRESSION, IDENTITY and STORAGE. The supported sub-options are COMMENTS, CONSTRAINTS, DEFAULTS, GENERATED and STATISTICS, mapping with the clauses already supported by the command. Note that the restriction with LIKE in CREATE FOREIGN TABLE was added in a0c6dfeecfcc. Author: Zhang Mingli Reviewed-by: Álvaro Herrera, Sami Imseih, Michael Paquier Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/42d3f855-2275-4361-a42a-826172ca2dc4@Spark
* doc: Fix some issues with JSON_TABLE() examplesAmit Langote2025-02-19
| | | | | | | | | | | 1. Remove an unused PASSING variable. 2. Adjust formatting of JSON data used in an example to be valid under strict mode Reported-by: Miłosz Chmura <mieszko4@gmail.com> Author: Robert Treat <rob@xzilla.net> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/173859550337.1071.4748984213168572913@wrigleys.postgresql.org
* Invalidate inactive replication slots.Amit Kapila2025-02-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This commit introduces idle_replication_slot_timeout GUC that allows inactive slots to be invalidated at the time of checkpoint. Because checkpoints happen checkpoint_timeout intervals, there can be some lag between when the idle_replication_slot_timeout was exceeded and when the slot invalidation is triggered at the next checkpoint. To avoid such lags, users can force a checkpoint to promptly invalidate inactive slots. Note that the idle timeout invalidation mechanism is not applicable for slots that do not reserve WAL or for slots on the standby server that are synced from the primary server (i.e., standby slots having 'synced' field 'true'). Synced slots are always considered to be inactive because they don't perform logical decoding to produce changes. The slots can become inactive for a long period if a subscriber is down due to a system error or inaccessible because of network issues. If such a situation persists, it might be more practical to recreate the subscriber rather than attempt to recover the node and wait for it to catch up which could be time-consuming. Then, external tools could create replication slots (e.g., for migrations or upgrades) that may fail to remove them if an error occurs, leaving behind unused slots that take up space and resources. Manually cleaning them up can be tedious and error-prone, and without intervention, these lingering slots can cause unnecessary WAL retention and system bloat. As the duration of idle_replication_slot_timeout is in minutes, any test using that would be time-consuming. We are planning to commit a follow up patch for tests by using the injection point framework. Author: Nisha Moond <nisha.moond412@gmail.com> Author: Bharath Rupireddy <bharath.rupireddyforpostgres@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Peter Smith <smithpb2250@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Hayato Kuroda <kuroda.hayato@fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: Vignesh C <vignesh21@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Hou Zhijie <houzj.fnst@fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CALj2ACW4aUe-_uFQOjdWCEN-xXoLGhmvRFnL8SNw_TZ5nJe+aw@mail.gmail.com Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/OS0PR01MB5716C131A7D80DAE8CB9E88794FC2@OS0PR01MB5716.jpnprd01.prod.outlook.com
* Update to latest Snowball sources.Tom Lane2025-02-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | It's been some time since we did this, partly because the upstream snowball project hasn't formally tagged a new release since 2021. The main motivation for doing it now is to absorb a bug fix (their commit e322673a841d9abd69994ae8cd20e191090b6ef4), which prevents a null pointer dereference crash if SN_create_env() gets a malloc failure at just the wrong point. We'll patch the back branches with only that change, but we might as well do the full sync dance on HEAD. Aside from a bunch of mostly-minor tweaks to existing stemmers, this update adds a new stemmer for Estonian. It also removes the existing stemmer for Romanian using ISO-8859-2 encoding. Upstream apparently concluded that ISO-8859-2 doesn't provide an adequate representation of some Romanian characters, and the UTF-8 implementation should be used instead. While at it, update the README's instructions for doing a sync, which have not been adjusted during the addition of meson tooling. Thanks to Maksim Korotkov for discovering the null-pointer bug and submitting the fix to upstream snowball. Reported-by: Maksim Korotkov <m.korotkov@postgrespro.ru> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1d1a46-67ab1000-21-80c451@83151435
* doc: add example of sign mismatch with POSIX/ISO-8601 time zonesBruce Momjian2025-02-18
| | | | | | Author: Laurenz Albe Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/eb4d1e15c6822c1937be1491118500dd9201492f.camel@cybertec.at
* Raise a WARNING for max_slot_wal_keep_size in pg_createsubscriber.Amit Kapila2025-02-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | During the pg_createsubscriber execution, it is possible that the required WAL is removed from the primary/publisher node due to 'max_slot_wal_keep_size'. This patch raises a WARNING during the '--dry-run' mode if the 'max_slot_wal_keep_size' is set to a non-default value on the primary/publisher node. Author: Shubham Khanna <khannashubham1197@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Peter Smith <smithpb2250@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Hayato Kuroda <kuroda.hayato@fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: Vignesh C <vignesh21@gmail.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAHv8Rj+deqsQXOMa7Tck8CBQUbsua=+4AuMVQ2=MPM0f-ZHbjA@mail.gmail.com
* Doc: Improve pg_replication_slots.inactive_since description.Amit Kapila2025-02-18
| | | | | | Author: Peter Smith <smithpb2250@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAHut+PssvVMTWVtUPto6HbPO8pgVsvtzndt_FdBomA_Oq4zf3w@mail.gmail.com
* Implement Self-Join EliminationAlexander Korotkov2025-02-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The Self-Join Elimination (SJE) feature removes an inner join of a plain table to itself in the query tree if it is proven that the join can be replaced with a scan without impacting the query result. Self-join and inner relation get replaced with the outer in query, equivalence classes, and planner info structures. Also, the inner restrictlist moves to the outer one with the removal of duplicated clauses. Thus, this optimization reduces the length of the range table list (this especially makes sense for partitioned relations), reduces the number of restriction clauses and, in turn, selectivity estimations, and potentially improves total planner prediction for the query. This feature is dedicated to avoiding redundancy, which can appear after pull-up transformations or the creation of an EquivalenceClass-derived clause like the below. SELECT * FROM t1 WHERE x IN (SELECT t3.x FROM t1 t3); SELECT * FROM t1 WHERE EXISTS (SELECT t3.x FROM t1 t3 WHERE t3.x = t1.x); SELECT * FROM t1,t2, t1 t3 WHERE t1.x = t2.x AND t2.x = t3.x; In the future, we could also reduce redundancy caused by subquery pull-up after unnecessary outer join removal in cases like the one below. SELECT * FROM t1 WHERE x IN (SELECT t3.x FROM t1 t3 LEFT JOIN t2 ON t2.x = t1.x); Also, it can drastically help to join partitioned tables, removing entries even before their expansion. The SJE proof is based on innerrel_is_unique() machinery. We can remove a self-join when for each outer row: 1. At most, one inner row matches the join clause; 2. Each matched inner row must be (physically) the same as the outer one; 3. Inner and outer rows have the same row mark. In this patch, we use the next approach to identify a self-join: 1. Collect all merge-joinable join quals which look like a.x = b.x; 2. Add to the list above the baseretrictinfo of the inner table; 3. Check innerrel_is_unique() for the qual list. If it returns false, skip this pair of joining tables; 4. Check uniqueness, proved by the baserestrictinfo clauses. To prove the possibility of self-join elimination, the inner and outer clauses must match exactly. The relation replacement procedure is not trivial and is partly combined with the one used to remove useless left joins. Tests covering this feature were added to join.sql. Some of the existing regression tests changed due to self-join removal logic. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/flat/64486b0b-0404-e39e-322d-0801154901f3%40postgrespro.ru Author: Andrey Lepikhov <a.lepikhov@postgrespro.ru> Author: Alexander Kuzmenkov <a.kuzmenkov@postgrespro.ru> Co-authored-by: Alexander Korotkov <aekorotkov@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Alena Rybakina <lena.ribackina@yandex.ru> Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> Reviewed-by: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> Reviewed-by: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com> Reviewed-by: Jonathan S. Katz <jkatz@postgresql.org> Reviewed-by: David Rowley <david.rowley@2ndquadrant.com> Reviewed-by: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@enterprisedb.com> Reviewed-by: Konstantin Knizhnik <k.knizhnik@postgrespro.ru> Reviewed-by: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi> Reviewed-by: Hywel Carver <hywel@skillerwhale.com> Reviewed-by: Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at> Reviewed-by: Ronan Dunklau <ronan.dunklau@aiven.io> Reviewed-by: vignesh C <vignesh21@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Zhihong Yu <zyu@yugabyte.com> Reviewed-by: Greg Stark <stark@mit.edu> Reviewed-by: Jaime Casanova <jcasanov@systemguards.com.ec> Reviewed-by: Michał Kłeczek <michal@kleczek.org> Reviewed-by: Alena Rybakina <lena.ribackina@yandex.ru> Reviewed-by: Alexander Korotkov <aekorotkov@gmail.com>
* Add information about WAL buffers being full to EXPLAIN (WAL)Michael Paquier2025-02-17
| | | | | | | | | | This is similar to ce5bcc4a9f26, relying on the addition of wal_buffers_full to WalUsage. This time, the information is added to the output generated by EXPLAIN (WAL). Author: Bertrand Drouvot Reviewed-by: Ilia Evdokimov Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/Z6SOha5YFFgvpwQY@ip-10-97-1-34.eu-west-3.compute.internal
* pg_stat_statements: Add wal_buffers_fullMichael Paquier2025-02-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | wal_buffers_full tracks the number of times WAL buffers become full, giving hints to be able to tune the GUC wal_buffers. Up to now, this information was only available in pg_stat_wal. With this field available in WalUsage since eaf502747bac, exposing it in pg_stat_statements is straight-forward, and it offers more granularity at query level. pg_stat_statements does not need a version bump as one has been done in commit cf54a2c00254 for this development cycle. Author: Bertrand Drouvot Reviewed-by: Ilia Evdokimov Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/Z6SOha5YFFgvpwQY@ip-10-97-1-34.eu-west-3.compute.internal
* Add delay time to VACUUM/ANALYZE (VERBOSE) and autovacuum logs.Nathan Bossart2025-02-14
| | | | | | | | | | | Commit bb8dff9995 added this information to the pg_stat_progress_vacuum and pg_stat_progress_analyze system views. This commit adds the same information to the output of VACUUM and ANALYZE with the VERBOSE option and to the autovacuum logs. Suggested-by: Masahiro Ikeda <ikedamsh@oss.nttdata.com> Author: Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ZmaXmWDL829fzAVX%40ip-10-97-1-34.eu-west-3.compute.internal
* pgcrypto: Add support for CFB mode in AES encryptionDaniel Gustafsson2025-02-14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Cipher Feedback Mode, CFB, is a self-synchronizing stream cipher which is very similar to CBC performed in reverse. Since OpenSSL supports it, we can easily plug it into the existing cipher selection code without any need for infrastructure changes. This patch was simultaneously submitted by Umar Hayat and Vladyslav Nebozhyn, the latter whom suggested the feauture. The committed patch is Umar's version. Author: Umar Hayat <postgresql.wizard@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se> Reviewed-by: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAPBGcbxo9ASzq14VTpQp3mnUJ5omdgTWUJOvWV0L6nNigWE5jw@mail.gmail.com
* Remove unnecessary (char *) casts [string]Peter Eisentraut2025-02-12
| | | | | | | | | | Remove (char *) casts around string functions where the arguments or result already have the right type and the cast is useless (or worse, potentially casts away a qualifier, but this doesn't appear to be the case here). Reviewed-by: Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker <ilmari@ilmari.org> Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/fd1fcedb-3492-4fc8-9e3e-74b97f2db6c7%40eisentraut.org
* Doc: Fix punctuation errorsJohn Naylor2025-02-12
| | | | | | | Author: 斉藤登 <noborusai@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: David G. Johnston <david.g.johnston@gmail.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAAM3qnL6i-BSu5rB2+KiHLjMCOXiQEiPMBvEj7F1CgUzZMooLA@mail.gmail.com Backpatch-through: 13
* Add cost-based vacuum delay time to progress views.Nathan Bossart2025-02-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This commit adds the amount of time spent sleeping due to cost-based delay to the pg_stat_progress_vacuum and pg_stat_progress_analyze system views. A new configuration parameter named track_cost_delay_timing, which is off by default, controls whether this information is gathered. For vacuum, the reported value includes the sleep time of any associated parallel workers. However, parallel workers only report their sleep time once per second to avoid overloading the leader process. Bumps catversion. Author: Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Sami Imseih <samimseih@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Masahiro Ikeda <ikedamsh@oss.nttdata.com> Reviewed-by: Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Sergei Kornilov <sk@zsrv.org> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ZmaXmWDL829fzAVX%40ip-10-97-1-34.eu-west-3.compute.internal
* Limit pgbench COPY FREEZE to ordinary relationsMelanie Plageman2025-02-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | pgbench client-side data generation uses COPY FREEZE to load data for most tables. COPY FREEZE isn't supported for partitioned tables and since pgbench only supports partitioning pgbench_accounts, pgbench used a hard-coded check to skip COPY FREEZE and use plain COPY for a partitioned pgbench_accounts. If the user has manually partitioned one of the other pgbench tables, this causes client-side data generation to error out with: ERROR: cannot perform COPY FREEZE on a partitioned table Fix this by limiting COPY FREEZE to ordinary tables (RELKIND_RELATION). Author: Sergey Tatarintsev <s.tatarintsev@postgrespro.ru> Reviewed-by: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/flat/97f55fca-8a7b-4da8-b413-7d1c57010676%40postgrespro.ru
* Eagerly scan all-visible pages to amortize aggressive vacuumMelanie Plageman2025-02-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Aggressive vacuums must scan every unfrozen tuple in order to advance the relfrozenxid/relminmxid. Because data is often vacuumed before it is old enough to require freezing, relations may build up a large backlog of pages that are set all-visible but not all-frozen in the visibility map. When an aggressive vacuum is triggered, all of these pages must be scanned. These pages have often been evicted from shared buffers and even from the kernel buffer cache. Thus, aggressive vacuums often incur large amounts of extra I/O at the expense of foreground workloads. To amortize the cost of aggressive vacuums, eagerly scan some all-visible but not all-frozen pages during normal vacuums. All-visible pages that are eagerly scanned and set all-frozen in the visibility map are counted as successful eager freezes and those not frozen are counted as failed eager freezes. If too many eager scans fail in a row, eager scanning is temporarily suspended until a later portion of the relation. The number of failures tolerated is configurable globally and per table. To effectively amortize aggressive vacuums, we cap the number of successes as well. Capping eager freeze successes also limits the amount of potentially wasted work if these pages are modified again before the next aggressive vacuum. Once we reach the maximum number of blocks successfully eager frozen, eager scanning is disabled for the remainder of the vacuum of the relation. Original design idea from Robert Haas, with enhancements from Andres Freund, Tomas Vondra, and me Reviewed-by: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> Reviewed-by: Robert Treat <rob@xzilla.net> Reviewed-by: Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/flat/CAAKRu_ZF_KCzZuOrPrOqjGVe8iRVWEAJSpzMgRQs%3D5-v84cXUg%40mail.gmail.com
* config: Rename "Asynchronous Behavior" to "I/O"Andres Freund2025-02-11
| | | | | | | | | | | "I/O" seems more descriptive than "Asynchronous Behavior", given that some of the GUCs in the section don't relate to anything asynchronous. Most other abbreviations in the config sections are un-abbreviated, but "Input/Output" seems less likely to be helpful than just IO or I/O. Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/x3tlw2jk5gm3r3mv47hwrshffyw7halpczkfbk3peksxds7bvc@lguk43z3bsyq
* config: Split "Worker Processes" out of "Asynchronous Behavior"Andres Freund2025-02-11
| | | | | | | | Having all the worker related GUCs in the same section as IO controlling GUCs doesn't really make sense. Create a separate section for them. Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/x3tlw2jk5gm3r3mv47hwrshffyw7halpczkfbk3peksxds7bvc@lguk43z3bsyq
* docs: EUC_TW can be up to four bytes wide, not threeAndres Freund2025-02-10
| | | | | Backpatch-through: 13 Security: CVE-2025-1094
* PDF docs build: avoid spurious "warn" in build logs.Tom Lane2025-02-07
| | | | | | | Improve on e4c886519 so that the string "warn" appears in the output when there's a problem, and not when there isn't. This should silence noise I've been seeing in my buildfarm warning scraper.
* Doc: clarify behavior of timestamptz input some more.Tom Lane2025-02-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | Try to make it absolutely plain that we don't retain the originally specified time zone, only the UTC timestamp. While at it, make glossary entries for "UTC" and "GMT". Author: Robert Treat <rob@xzilla.net> Co-authored-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/173796426022.1064.9135167366862649513@wrigleys.postgresql.org Backpatch-through: 13
* Virtual generated columnsPeter Eisentraut2025-02-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This adds a new variant of generated columns that are computed on read (like a view, unlike the existing stored generated columns, which are computed on write, like a materialized view). The syntax for the column definition is ... GENERATED ALWAYS AS (...) VIRTUAL and VIRTUAL is also optional. VIRTUAL is the default rather than STORED to match various other SQL products. (The SQL standard makes no specification about this, but it also doesn't know about VIRTUAL or STORED.) (Also, virtual views are the default, rather than materialized views.) Virtual generated columns are stored in tuples as null values. (A very early version of this patch had the ambition to not store them at all. But so much stuff breaks or gets confused if you have tuples where a column in the middle is completely missing. This is a compromise, and it still saves space over being forced to use stored generated columns. If we ever find a way to improve this, a bit of pg_upgrade cleverness could allow for upgrades to a newer scheme.) The capabilities and restrictions of virtual generated columns are mostly the same as for stored generated columns. In some cases, this patch keeps virtual generated columns more restricted than they might technically need to be, to keep the two kinds consistent. Some of that could maybe be relaxed later after separate careful considerations. Some functionality that is currently not supported, but could possibly be added as incremental features, some easier than others: - index on or using a virtual column - hence also no unique constraints on virtual columns - extended statistics on virtual columns - foreign-key constraints on virtual columns - not-null constraints on virtual columns (check constraints are supported) - ALTER TABLE / DROP EXPRESSION - virtual column cannot have domain type - virtual columns are not supported in logical replication The tests in generated_virtual.sql have been copied over from generated_stored.sql with the keyword replaced. This way we can make sure the behavior is mostly aligned, and the differences can be visible. Some tests for currently not supported features are currently commented out. Reviewed-by: Jian He <jian.universality@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Dean Rasheed <dean.a.rasheed@gmail.com> Tested-by: Shlok Kyal <shlok.kyal.oss@gmail.com> Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/a368248e-69e4-40be-9c07-6c3b5880b0a6@eisentraut.org
* Disallow COPY FREEZE on foreign tables.Nathan Bossart2025-02-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | This didn't actually work: the COPY succeeds, but the FREEZE optimization isn't applied. There doesn't seem to be an easy way to support FREEZE on foreign tables, so let's follow the precedent established by commit 5c9a5513a3 by raising an error early. This is arguably a bug fix, but due to the lack of reports, the minimal discussion on the mailing list, and the potential to break existing scripts, I am not back-patching it for now. Author: Sami Imseih <samimseih@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Zhang Mingli <zmlpostgres@gmail.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAA5RZ0ujeNgKpE3OrLtR%3DeJGa5LkGMekFzQTwjgw%3DrzaLufQLQ%40mail.gmail.com
* Introduce autovacuum_vacuum_max_threshold.Nathan Bossart2025-02-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | One way autovacuum chooses tables to vacuum is by comparing the number of updated or deleted tuples with a value calculated using autovacuum_vacuum_threshold and autovacuum_vacuum_scale_factor. The threshold specifies the base value for comparison, and the scale factor specifies the fraction of the table size to add to it. This strategy ensures that smaller tables are vacuumed after fewer updates/deletes than larger tables, which is reasonable in many cases but can result in infrequent vacuums on very large tables. This is undesirable for a couple of reasons, such as very large tables incurring a huge amount of bloat between vacuums. This new parameter provides a way to set a limit on the value calculated with autovacuum_vacuum_threshold and autovacuum_vacuum_scale_factor so that very large tables are vacuumed more frequently. By default, it is set to 100,000,000 tuples, but it can be disabled by setting it to -1. It can also be adjusted for individual tables by changing storage parameters. Author: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Frédéric Yhuel <frederic.yhuel@dalibo.com> Reviewed-by: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at> Reviewed-by: Michael Banck <mbanck@gmx.net> Reviewed-by: Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com> Reviewed-by: Sami Imseih <samimseih@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: wenhui qiu <qiuwenhuifx@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Vinícius Abrahão <vinnix.bsd@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Robert Treat <rob@xzilla.net> Reviewed-by: Alena Rybakina <a.rybakina@postgrespro.ru> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/956435f8-3b2f-47a6-8756-8c54ded61802%40dalibo.com
* doc: Update links which returned 404Daniel Gustafsson2025-02-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Two links in the isn module documentation were pointing to tools which had been moved, resulting in 404 error responses. Update to the new URLs for the tools. The link to the Sequoia 2000 page in the history section was no longer working, and since the page is no longer available online update our link to point at the paper instead which is on a stable URL. These links exist in all versions of the documentation so backpatch to all supported branches. Author: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se> Reported-by: charukiewicz@protonmail.com Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/173679670185.705.8565555804465055355@wrigleys.postgresql.org Backpatch-through: 13
* Avoid updating inactive_since for invalid replication slots.Amit Kapila2025-02-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | It is possible for the inactive_since value of an invalid replication slot to be updated multiple times, which is unexpected behavior like during the release of the slot or at the time of restart. This is harmless because invalid slots are not allowed to be accessed but it is not prudent to update invalid slots. We are planning to invalidate slots due to other reasons like idle time and it will look odd that the slot's inactive_since displays the recent time in this field after invalidated due to idle time. So, this patch ensures that the inactive_since field of slots is not updated for invalid slots. In the passing, ensure to use the same inactive_since time for all the slots at restart while restoring them from the disk. Author: Nisha Moond <nisha.moond412@gmail.com> Author: Bharath Rupireddy <bharath.rupireddyforpostgres@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Vignesh C <vignesh21@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Peter Smith <smithpb2250@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Hou Zhijie <houzj.fnst@fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CABdArM7QdifQ_MHmMA=Cc4v8+MeckkwKncm2Nn6tX9wSCQ-+iw@mail.gmail.com
* Add data for WAL in pg_stat_io and backend statisticsMichael Paquier2025-02-04
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This commit adds WAL IO stats to both pg_stat_io view and per-backend IO statistics (pg_stat_get_backend_io()). This change is possible since f92c854cf406, as WAL IO is not counted in blocks in some code paths where its stats data is measured (like WAL read in xlogreader.c). IOContext gains IOCONTEXT_INIT and IOObject IOOBJECT_WAL, with the following combinations allowed: - IOOBJECT_WAL/IOCONTEXT_NORMAL is used to track I/O operations done on already-created WAL segments. - IOOBJECT_WAL/IOCONTEXT_INIT is used for tracking I/O operations done when initializing WAL segments. The core changes are done in pg_stat_io.c, backend statistics inherit them. Backend statistics and pg_stat_io are now available for the WAL writer, the WAL receiver and the WAL summarizer processes. I/O timing data is controlled by the GUC track_io_timing, like the existing data of pg_stat_io for consistency. The timings related to IOOBJECT_WAL show up if the GUC is enabled (disabled by default). Bump pgstats file version, due to the additions in IOObject and IOContext, impacting the amount of data written for the fixed-numbered IO stats kind in the pgstats file. Author: Nazir Bilal Yavuz Reviewed-by: Bertrand Drouvot, Nitin Jadhav, Amit Kapila, Michael Paquier, Melanie Plageman, Bharath Rupireddy Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAN55FZ3AiQ+ZMxUuXnBpd0Rrh1YhwJ5FudkHg=JU0P+-W8T4Vg@mail.gmail.com
* Convert strategies to and from compare typesPeter Eisentraut2025-02-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | For each Index AM, provide a mapping between operator strategies and the system-wide generic concept of a comparison type. For example, for btree, BTLessStrategyNumber maps to and from COMPARE_LT. Numerous places in the planner and executor think directly in terms of btree strategy numbers (and a few in terms of hash strategy numbers.) These should be converted over subsequent commits to think in terms of CompareType instead. (This commit doesn't make any use of this API yet.) Author: Mark Dilger <mark.dilger@enterprisedb.com> Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org> Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/E72EAA49-354D-4C2E-8EB9-255197F55330@enterprisedb.com
* doc: Fix pg_buffercache_evict() titleDaniel Gustafsson2025-01-31
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Use <function> rather than <structname> in the <title> to be consistent with how other functions in this module are documented. Also suffix the function name with () for consistency. Backpatch to v17 where pg_buffercache_evict was introduced. Author: Ashutosh Bapat <ashutosh.bapat.oss@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAExHW5uKWH8CuZc9NCb8XxSQc6uzvACV0cScebm54kF763ERAw@mail.gmail.com Backpatch-through: 17
* Doc: Generated column replication.Amit Kapila2025-01-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | Commit 7054186c4e added the support to publish generated stored columns. This patch adds detailed documentation for that feature. Author: Peter Smith <smithpb2250@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Vignesh C <vignesh21@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org> Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/B80D17B2-2C8E-4C7D-87F2-E5B4BE3C069E%40gmail.com Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAHut+PsYmAvKhUjA1AaR1rxLdeSBKiBko8wKyf4_H8nEEqDuOg@mail.gmail.com
* Rename pubgencols_type to pubgencols in pg_publication.Amit Kapila2025-01-28
| | | | | | | | | | | The column added in commit e65dbc9927, pubgencols_type, was inconsistent with the naming conventions of other columns in the pg_publication catalog. Author: Vignesh C <vignesh21@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Peter Smith <smithpb2250@gmail.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CALDaNm1u-ufVOW-RUsXSooqzkpohxfZYy=z78fbcr_9Pq5hbCg@mail.gmail.com
* Track per-relation cumulative time spent in [auto]vacuum and [auto]analyzeMichael Paquier2025-01-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This commit adds four fields to the statistics of relations, aggregating the amount of time spent for each operation on a relation: - total_vacuum_time, for manual vacuum. - total_autovacuum_time, for vacuum done by the autovacuum daemon. - total_analyze_time, for manual analyze. - total_autoanalyze_time, for analyze done by the autovacuum daemon. This gives users the option to derive the average time spent for these operations with the help of the related "count" fields. Bump catalog version (for the catalog changes) and PGSTAT_FILE_FORMAT_ID (for the additions in PgStat_StatTabEntry). Author: Sami Imseih Reviewed-by: Bertrand Drouvot, Michael Paquier Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAA5RZ0uVOGBYmPEeGF2d1B_67tgNjKx_bKDuL+oUftuoz+=Y1g@mail.gmail.com