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* Prevent intermittent hang in recovery from bgwriter interaction.Simon Riggs2011-03-23
| | | | | | Startup process waited for cleanup lock but when hot_standby = off the pid was not registered, so that the bgwriter would not wake the waiting process as intended.
* When two base backups are started at the same time with pg_basebackup,Heikki Linnakangas2011-03-21
| | | | | | | | ensure that they use different checkpoints as the starting point. We use the checkpoint redo location as a unique identifier for the base backup in the end-of-backup record, and in the backup history file name. Bug spotted by Fujii Masao.
* Revise collation derivation method and expression-tree representation.Tom Lane2011-03-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | All expression nodes now have an explicit output-collation field, unless they are known to only return a noncollatable data type (such as boolean or record). Also, nodes that can invoke collation-aware functions store a separate field that is the collation value to pass to the function. This avoids confusion that arises when a function has collatable inputs and noncollatable output type, or vice versa. Also, replace the parser's on-the-fly collation assignment method with a post-pass over the completed expression tree. This allows us to use a more complex (and hopefully more nearly spec-compliant) assignment rule without paying for it in extra storage in every expression node. Fix assorted bugs in the planner's handling of collations by making collation one of the defining properties of an EquivalenceClass and by converting CollateExprs into discardable RelabelType nodes during expression preprocessing.
* Remove bogus semicolons in recoveryPausesHere.Robert Haas2011-03-18
| | | | | Without this, the startup process goes into a tight loop, consuming 100% of one CPU and failing to respond to interrupts.
* Add pause_at_recovery_target to recovery.conf.sample; improve docs.Robert Haas2011-03-17
| | | | | Fujii Masao, but with the proposed behavior change reverted, and the rest adjusted accordingly.
* Clarify C comment that O_SYNC/O_FSYNC are really the same settting, asBruce Momjian2011-03-10
| | | | opposed to O_DSYNC.
* Emit a LOG message when pausing at the recovery target.Robert Haas2011-03-10
| | | | Fujii Masao
* Remove collation information from TypeName, where it does not belong.Tom Lane2011-03-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The initial collations patch treated a COLLATE spec as part of a TypeName, following what can only be described as brain fade on the part of the SQL committee. It's a lot more reasonable to treat COLLATE as a syntactically separate object, so that it can be added in only the productions where it actually belongs, rather than needing to reject it in a boatload of places where it doesn't belong (something the original patch mostly failed to do). In addition this change lets us meet the spec's requirement to allow COLLATE anywhere in the clauses of a ColumnDef, and it avoids unfriendly behavior for constructs such as "foo::type COLLATE collation". To do this, pull collation information out of TypeName and put it in ColumnDef instead, thus reverting most of the collation-related changes in parse_type.c's API. I made one additional structural change, which was to use a ColumnDef as an intermediate node in AT_AlterColumnType AlterTableCmd nodes. This provides enough room to get rid of the "transform" wart in AlterTableCmd too, since the ColumnDef can carry the USING expression easily enough. Also fix some other minor bugs that have crept in in the same areas, like failure to copy recently-added fields of ColumnDef in copyfuncs.c. While at it, document the formerly secret ability to specify a collation in ALTER TABLE ALTER COLUMN TYPE, ALTER TYPE ADD ATTRIBUTE, and ALTER TYPE ALTER ATTRIBUTE TYPE; and correct some misstatements about what the default collation selection will be when COLLATE is omitted. BTW, the three-parameter form of format_type() should go away too, since it just contributes to the confusion in this area; but I'll do that in a separate patch.
* Truncate predicate lock manager's SLRU lazily at checkpoint. That's saferHeikki Linnakangas2011-03-08
| | | | | | | | than doing it aggressively whenever the tail-XID pointer is advanced, because this way we don't need to do it while holding SerializableXactHashLock. This also fixes bug #5915 spotted by YAMAMOTO Takashi, and removes an obsolete comment spotted by Kevin Grittner.
* If recovery_target_timeline is set to 'latest' and standby mode is enabled,Heikki Linnakangas2011-03-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | periodically rescan the archive for new timelines, while waiting for new WAL segments to arrive. This allows you to set up a standby server that follows the TLI change if another standby server is promoted to master. Before this, you had to restart the standby server to make it notice the new timeline. This patch only scans the archive for TLI changes, it won't follow a TLI change in streaming replication. That is much needed too, but it would be a much bigger patch than I dare to sneak in this late in the release cycle. There was discussion on improving the sanity checking of the WAL segments so that the system would notice more reliably if the new timeline isn't an ancestor of the current one, but that is not included in this patch. Reviewed by Fujii Masao.
* Efficient transaction-controlled synchronous replication.Simon Riggs2011-03-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If a standby is broadcasting reply messages and we have named one or more standbys in synchronous_standby_names then allow users who set synchronous_replication to wait for commit, which then provides strict data integrity guarantees. Design avoids sending and receiving transaction state information so minimises bookkeeping overheads. We synchronize with the highest priority standby that is connected and ready to synchronize. Other standbys can be defined to takeover in case of standby failure. This version has very strict behaviour; more relaxed options may be added at a later date. Simon Riggs and Fujii Masao, with reviews by Yeb Havinga, Jaime Casanova, Heikki Linnakangas and Robert Haas, plus the assistance of many other design reviewers.
* Fix incorrect access to pg_index.indcollation.Tom Lane2011-03-06
| | | | | | | | | Since this field is after a variable-length field, it can't simply be accessed via the C struct for pg_index. Fortunately, the relcache already did the dirty work of pulling the information out to where it can be accessed easily, so this is a one-line fix. Andres Freund
* You must hold a lock on the heap page when you callHeikki Linnakangas2011-03-04
| | | | | | CheckForSerializableConflictOut(), because it can set hint bits. YAMAMOTO Takashi
* Fix bugs in Serializable Snapshot Isolation.Heikki Linnakangas2011-03-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Change the way UPDATEs are handled. Instead of maintaining a chain of tuple-level locks in shared memory, copy any existing locks on the old tuple to the new tuple at UPDATE. Any existing page-level lock needs to be duplicated too, as a lock on the new tuple. That was neglected previously. Store xmin on tuple-level predicate locks, to distinguish a lock on an old already-recycled tuple from a new tuple at the same physical location. Failure to distinguish them caused loops in the tuple-lock chains, as reported by YAMAMOTO Takashi. Although we don't use the chain representation of UPDATEs anymore, it seems like a good idea to store the xmin to avoid some false positives if no other reason. CheckSingleTargetForConflictsIn now correctly handles the case where a lock that's being held is not reflected in the local lock table. That happens if another backend acquires a lock on our behalf due to an UPDATE or a page split. PredicateLockPageCombine now retains locks for the page that is being removed, rather than removing them. This prevents a potentially dangerous false-positive inconsistency where the local lock table believes that a lock is held, but it is actually not. Dan Ports and Kevin Grittner
* Refactor the executor's API to support data-modifying CTEs better.Tom Lane2011-02-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The originally committed patch for modifying CTEs didn't interact well with EXPLAIN, as noted by myself, and also had corner-case problems with triggers, as noted by Dean Rasheed. Those problems show it is really not practical for ExecutorEnd to call any user-defined code; so split the cleanup duties out into a new function ExecutorFinish, which must be called between the last ExecutorRun call and ExecutorEnd. Some Asserts have been added to these functions to help verify correct usage. It is no longer necessary for callers of the executor to call AfterTriggerBeginQuery/AfterTriggerEndQuery for themselves, as this is now done by ExecutorStart/ExecutorFinish respectively. If you really need to suppress that and do it for yourself, pass EXEC_FLAG_SKIP_TRIGGERS to ExecutorStart. Also, refactor portal commit processing to allow for the possibility that PortalDrop will invoke user-defined code. I think this is not actually necessary just yet, since the portal-execution-strategy logic forces any non-pure-SELECT query to be run to completion before we will consider committing. But it seems like good future-proofing.
* Named restore point improvements.Robert Haas2011-02-24
| | | | | | | | Emit a log message when creating a named restore point, and improve documentation for pg_create_restore_point(). Euler Taveira de Oliveira, per suggestions from Thom Brown, with some additional wordsmithing by me.
* Un-break building with BTREE_BUILD_STATS.Tom Lane2011-02-18
| | | | | | This has been broken for awhile, but not clear it's worth back-patching. Euler Taveira de Oliveira
* Add backwards-compatible declarations of some core GIN support functions.Tom Lane2011-02-16
| | | | | | | | | These are needed to support reloading dumps of 9.0 installations containing contrib/intarray or contrib/tsearch2. Since not only regular dump/reload but binary upgrade would fail, it seems worth the trouble to carry these stubs for awhile. Note that the contrib opclasses referencing these functions will still work fine, since GIN doesn't actually pay any attention to the declared signature of a support function.
* Hot Standby feedback for avoidance of cleanup conflicts on standby.Simon Riggs2011-02-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Standby optionally sends back information about oldestXmin of queries which is then checked and applied to the WALSender's proc->xmin. GetOldestXmin() is modified slightly to agree with GetSnapshotData(), so that all backends on primary include WALSender within their snapshots. Note this does nothing to change the snapshot xmin on either master or standby. Feedback piggybacks on the standby reply message. vacuum_defer_cleanup_age is no longer used on standby, though parameter still exists on primary, since some use cases still exist. Simon Riggs, review comments from Fujii Masao, Heikki Linnakangas, Robert Haas
* pg_ctl promoteRobert Haas2011-02-15
| | | | Fujii Masao, reviewed by Robert Haas, Stephen Frost, and Magnus Hagander.
* PITR can stop at a named restore point when recovery target = timeSimon Riggs2011-02-15
| | | | | | | though must not update the last transaction timestamp. Plus comment and message cleanup for recent named restore point. Fujii Masao, minor changes by me
* Send status updates back from standby server to master, indicating how farHeikki Linnakangas2011-02-10
| | | | | | | | | | the standby has written, flushed, and applied the WAL. At the moment, this is for informational purposes only, the values are only shown in pg_stat_replication system view, but in the future they will also be needed for synchronous replication. Extracted from Simon riggs' synchronous replication patch by Robert Haas, with some tweaking by me.
* Implement NOWAIT option for BASE_BACKUP commandMagnus Hagander2011-02-09
| | | | | | | | | | Specifying this option makes the server not wait for the xlog to be archived, or emit a warning that it can't, instead leaving the responsibility with the client. This is useful when the log is being streamed using the streaming protocol in parallel with the backup, without having log archiving enabled.
* Per-column collation supportPeter Eisentraut2011-02-08
| | | | | | | | This adds collation support for columns and domains, a COLLATE clause to override it per expression, and B-tree index support. Peter Eisentraut reviewed by Pavel Stehule, Itagaki Takahiro, Robert Haas, Noah Misch
* Named restore points in recovery. Users can record named points, thenSimon Riggs2011-02-08
| | | | | | | new recovery.conf parameter recovery_target_name allows PITR to specify named points as recovery targets. Jaime Casanova, reviewed by Euler Taveira de Oliveira, plus minor edits
* Basic Recovery Control functions for use in Hot Standby. Pause, Resume,Simon Riggs2011-02-08
| | | | | | | Status check functions only. Also, new recovery.conf parameter to pause_at_recovery_target, default on. Simon Riggs, reviewed by Fujii Masao
* Remove rare corner case for data loss when triggering standby server.Simon Riggs2011-02-08
| | | | | | | | | | | If the standby was streaming when trigger file arrives, check also in the archive for additional WAL files. This is a corner case since it is unlikely that we would trigger a failover while the master is still available and sending data to standby, while at the same time running in archive mode and also while the streaming standby has fallen behind archive. Someone would eventually be unlucky; we must plug all gaps however small. Fujii Masao
* Implement genuine serializable isolation level.Heikki Linnakangas2011-02-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Until now, our Serializable mode has in fact been what's called Snapshot Isolation, which allows some anomalies that could not occur in any serialized ordering of the transactions. This patch fixes that using a method called Serializable Snapshot Isolation, based on research papers by Michael J. Cahill (see README-SSI for full references). In Serializable Snapshot Isolation, transactions run like they do in Snapshot Isolation, but a predicate lock manager observes the reads and writes performed and aborts transactions if it detects that an anomaly might occur. This method produces some false positives, ie. it sometimes aborts transactions even though there is no anomaly. To track reads we implement predicate locking, see storage/lmgr/predicate.c. Whenever a tuple is read, a predicate lock is acquired on the tuple. Shared memory is finite, so when a transaction takes many tuple-level locks on a page, the locks are promoted to a single page-level lock, and further to a single relation level lock if necessary. To lock key values with no matching tuple, a sequential scan always takes a relation-level lock, and an index scan acquires a page-level lock that covers the search key, whether or not there are any matching keys at the moment. A predicate lock doesn't conflict with any regular locks or with another predicate locks in the normal sense. They're only used by the predicate lock manager to detect the danger of anomalies. Only serializable transactions participate in predicate locking, so there should be no extra overhead for for other transactions. Predicate locks can't be released at commit, but must be remembered until all the transactions that overlapped with it have completed. That means that we need to remember an unbounded amount of predicate locks, so we apply a lossy but conservative method of tracking locks for committed transactions. If we run short of shared memory, we overflow to a new "pg_serial" SLRU pool. We don't currently allow Serializable transactions in Hot Standby mode. That would be hard, because even read-only transactions can cause anomalies that wouldn't otherwise occur. Serializable isolation mode now means the new fully serializable level. Repeatable Read gives you the old Snapshot Isolation level that we have always had. Kevin Grittner and Dan Ports, reviewed by Jeff Davis, Heikki Linnakangas and Anssi Kääriäinen
* Log restartpoints in the same fashion as checkpoints.Robert Haas2011-02-02
| | | | | | | | | Prior to 9.0, restartpoints never created, deleted, or recycled WAL files, but now they can. This code makes log_checkpoints treat checkpoints and restartpoints symmetrically. It also adjusts up the documentation of the parameter to mention restartpoints. Fujii Masao. Docs by me, as suggested by Itagaki Takahiro.
* Support multiple concurrent pg_basebackup backups.Heikki Linnakangas2011-01-31
| | | | | | | | | With this patch, pg_basebackup doesn't write a backup_label file in the data directory, so it doesn't interfere with a pg_start/stop_backup() based backup anymore. backup_label is still included in the backup, but it is injected directly into the tar stream. Heikki Linnakangas, reviewed by Fujii Masao and Magnus Hagander.
* Allow the wal_buffers setting to be auto-tuned to a reasonable value.Tom Lane2011-01-22
| | | | | | | | | If wal_buffers is initially set to -1 (which is now the default), it's replaced by 1/32nd of shared_buffers, with a minimum of 8 (the old default) and a maximum of the XLOG segment size. The allowed range for manual settings is still from 4 up to whatever will fit in shared memory. Greg Smith, with implementation correction by me.
* Split pg_start_backup() and pg_stop_backup() into two piecesMagnus Hagander2011-01-09
| | | | | | | | | | Move the actual functionality into a separate function that's easier to call internally, and change the SQL-callable function to be a wrapper calling this. Also create a pg_abort_backup() function, only callable internally, that does only the most vital parts of pg_stop_backup(), making it safe(r) to call from error handlers.
* Fix crash in the new GiST insertion code, when an update splits the root page.Heikki Linnakangas2011-01-09
| | | | This bug was exercised by contrib/intarray/bench, as noted by Tom Lane.
* Refactor GIN's handling of duplicate search entries.Tom Lane2011-01-08
| | | | | | | | The original coding could combine duplicate entries only when they originated from the same qual condition. In particular it could not combine cases where multiple qual conditions all give rise to full-index scan requests, which is an expensive case well worth optimizing. Refactor so that duplicates are recognized across all the quals.
* Fix GIN to support null keys, empty and null items, and full index scans.Tom Lane2011-01-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Per my recent proposal(s). Null key datums can now be returned by extractValue and extractQuery functions, and will be stored in the index. Also, placeholder entries are made for indexable items that are NULL or contain no keys according to extractValue. This means that the index is now always complete, having at least one entry for every indexed heap TID, and so we can get rid of the prohibition on full-index scans. A full-index scan is implemented much the same way as partial-match scans were already: we build a bitmap representing all the TIDs found in the index, and then drive the results off that. Also, introduce a concept of a "search mode" that can be requested by extractQuery when the operator requires matching to empty items (this is just as cheap as matching to a single key) or requires a full index scan (which is not so cheap, but it sure beats failing or giving wrong answers). The behavior remains backward compatible for opclasses that don't return any null keys or request a non-default search mode. Using these features, we can now make the GIN index opclass for anyarray behave in a way that matches the actual anyarray operators for &&, <@, @>, and = ... which it failed to do before in assorted corner cases. This commit fixes the core GIN code and ginarrayprocs.c, updates the documentation, and adds some simple regression test cases for the new behaviors using the array operators. The tsearch and contrib GIN opclass support functions still need to be looked over and probably fixed. Another thing I intend to fix separately is that this is pretty inefficient for cases where more than one scan condition needs a full-index search: we'll run duplicate GinScanEntrys, each one of which builds a large bitmap. There is some existing logic to merge duplicate GinScanEntrys but it needs refactoring to make it work for entries belonging to different scan keys. Note that most of gin.h has been split out into a new file gin_private.h, so that gin.h doesn't export anything that's not supposed to be used by GIN opclasses or the rest of the backend. I did quite a bit of other code beautification work as well, mostly fixing comments and choosing more appropriate names for things.
* Improve recovery.conf.sample comments.Robert Haas2011-01-07
| | | | Jehan-Guillaume de Rorthais, with some additional wordsmithing by me.
* Update comments in RecordTransactionCommit() to mention unlogged tables.Robert Haas2011-01-03
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* Basic foreign table support.Robert Haas2011-01-01
| | | | | | | | | | | Foreign tables are a core component of SQL/MED. This commit does not provide a working SQL/MED infrastructure, because foreign tables cannot yet be queried. Support for foreign table scans will need to be added in a future patch. However, this patch creates the necessary system catalog structure, syntax support, and support for ancillary operations such as COMMENT and SECURITY LABEL. Shigeru Hanada, heavily revised by Robert Haas
* Stamp copyrights for year 2011.Bruce Momjian2011-01-01
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* Avoid unnecessary public struct declaration in slru.hAlvaro Herrera2010-12-30
| | | | | | | | Instead, declare a public wrapper of the sole function using it for external callers, so that they don't have to always pass a NULL argument. Author: Kevin Grittner
* Support unlogged tables.Robert Haas2010-12-29
| | | | | | | The contents of an unlogged table are WAL-logged; thus, they are not available on standby servers and are truncated whenever the database system enters recovery. Indexes on unlogged tables are also unlogged. Unlogged GiST indexes are not currently supported.
* Add REPLICATION privilege for ROLEsMagnus Hagander2010-12-29
| | | | | | | | | | | This privilege is required to do Streaming Replication, instead of superuser, making it possible to set up a SR slave that doesn't have write permissions on the master. Superuser privileges do NOT override this check, so in order to use the default superuser account for replication it must be explicitly granted the REPLICATION permissions. This is backwards incompatible change, in the interest of higher default security.
* Remove quotes from boolean recovery.conf.sample parameters, now that theBruce Momjian2010-12-24
| | | | | quotes are not required. This now matches postgresql.conf's specification of booleans.
* Rewrite the GiST insertion logic so that we don't need the post-recoveryHeikki Linnakangas2010-12-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | cleanup stage to finish incomplete inserts or splits anymore. There was two reasons for the cleanup step: 1. When a new tuple was inserted to a leaf page, the downlink in the parent needed to be updated to contain (ie. to be consistent with) the new key. Updating the parent in turn might require recursively updating the parent of the parent. We now handle that by updating the parent while traversing down the tree, so that when we insert the leaf tuple, all the parents are already consistent with the new key, and the tree is consistent at every step. 2. When a page is split, we need to insert the downlink for the new right page(s), and update the downlink for the original page to not include keys that moved to the right page(s). We now handle that by setting a new flag, F_FOLLOW_RIGHT, on the non-rightmost pages in the split. When that flag is set, scans always follow the rightlink, regardless of the NSN mechanism used to detect concurrent page splits. That way the tree is consistent right after split, even though the downlink is still missing. This is very similar to the way B-tree splits are handled. When the downlink is inserted in the parent, the flag is cleared. To keep the insertion algorithm simple, when an insertion sees an incomplete split, indicated by the F_FOLLOW_RIGHT flag, it finishes the split before doing anything else. These changes allow removing the whole "invalid tuple" mechanism, but I retained the scan code to still follow invalid tuples correctly. While we don't create any such tuples anymore, we want to handle them gracefully in case you pg_upgrade a GiST index that has them. If we encounter any on an insert, though, we just throw an error saying that you need to REINDEX. The issue that got me into doing this is that if you did a checkpoint while an insert or split was in progress, and the checkpoint finishes quickly so that there is no WAL record related to the insert between RedoRecPtr and the checkpoint record, recovery from that checkpoint would not know to finish the incomplete insert. IOW, we have the same issue we solved with the rm_safe_restartpoint mechanism during normal operation too. It's highly unlikely to happen in practice, and this fix is far too large to backpatch, so we're just going to live with in previous versions, but this refactoring fixes it going forward. With this patch, you don't get the annoying 'index "FOO" needs VACUUM or REINDEX to finish crash recovery' notices anymore if you crash at an unfortunate moment.
* Allow transactions that don't write WAL to commit asynchronously.Robert Haas2010-12-20
| | | | | | | | This case can arise if a transaction has written data, but only to temporary tables. Loss of the commit record in case of a crash won't matter, because the temporary tables will be lost anyway. Reviewed by Heikki Linnakangas and Simon Riggs.
* Instrument checkpoint sync calls.Robert Haas2010-12-14
| | | | Greg Smith, reviewed by Jeff Janes
* Generalize concept of temporary relations to "relation persistence".Robert Haas2010-12-13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This commit replaces pg_class.relistemp with pg_class.relpersistence; and also modifies the RangeVar node type to carry relpersistence rather than istemp. It also removes removes rd_istemp from RelationData and instead performs the correct computation based on relpersistence. For clarity, we add three new macros: RelationNeedsWAL(), RelationUsesLocalBuffers(), and RelationUsesTempNamespace(), so that we can clarify the purpose of each check that previous depended on rd_istemp. This is intended as infrastructure for the upcoming unlogged tables patch, as well as for future possible work on global temporary tables.
* Use symbolic names not octal constants for file permission flags.Tom Lane2010-12-10
| | | | | | | | Purely cosmetic patch to make our coding standards more consistent --- we were doing symbolic some places and octal other places. This patch fixes all C-coded uses of mkdir, chmod, and umask. There might be some other calls I missed. Inconsistency noted while researching tablespace directory permissions issue.
* Self review of previous patch. Fix assumption that xmax >= xmin.Simon Riggs2010-12-09
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* Reduce spurious Hot Standby conflicts from never-visible records.Simon Riggs2010-12-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | Hot Standby conflicts only with tuples that were visible at some point. So ignore tuples from aborted transactions or for tuples updated/deleted during the inserting transaction when generating the conflict transaction ids. Following detailed analysis and test case by Noah Misch. Original report covered btree delete records, correctly observed by Heikki Linnakangas that this applies to other cases also. Fix covers all sources of cleanup records via common code.