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* Validate ICU locales.Jeff Davis2023-03-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | For ICU collations, ensure that the locale's language exists in ICU, and that the locale can be opened. Basic validation helps avoid minor mistakes and misspellings, which often fall back to the root locale instead of the intended locale. It's even more important to avoid such mistakes in ICU versions 54 and earlier, where the same (misspelled) locale string could fall back to different locales depending on the environment. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/11b1eeb7e7667fdd4178497aeb796c48d26e69b9.camel@j-davis.com Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/df2efad0cae7c65180df8e5ebb709e5eb4f2a82b.camel@j-davis.com Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut
* Save a few bytes in pg_attributePeter Eisentraut2023-03-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Change the columns attndims, attstattarget, and attinhcount from int32 to int16, and reorder a bit. This saves some space (currently 4 bytes) in pg_attribute and tuple descriptors, which translates into small performance benefits and/or room for new columns in pg_attribute needed by future features. attndims and attinhcount are never realistically used with values larger than int16. Just to be sure, add some overflow checks. attstattarget is currently limited explicitly to 10000. For consistency, pg_constraint.coninhcount is also changed like attinhcount. Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/d07ffc2b-e0e8-77f7-38fb-be921dff71af%40enterprisedb.com
* Reject attempts to alter composite types used in indexes.Tom Lane2023-03-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | find_composite_type_dependencies() ignored indexes, which is a poor decision because an expression index could have a stored column of a composite (or other container) type even when the underlying table does not. Teach it to detect such cases and error out. We have to work a bit harder than for other relations because the pg_depend entry won't identify the specific index column of concern, but it's not much new code. This does not address bug #17872's original complaint that dropping a column in such a type might lead to violations of the uniqueness property that a unique index is supposed to ensure. That seems of much less concern to me because it won't lead to crashes. Per bug #17872 from Alexander Lakhin. Back-patch to all supported branches. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17872-d0fbb799dc3fd85d@postgresql.org
* Add SysCacheGetAttrNotNull for guaranteed not-null attrsDaniel Gustafsson2023-03-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | When extracting an attr from a cached tuple in the syscache with SysCacheGetAttr the isnull parameter must be checked in case the attr cannot be NULL. For cases when this is known beforehand, a wrapper is introduced which perform the errorhandling internally on behalf of the caller, invoking an elog in case of a NULL attr. Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com> Reviewed-by: David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/AD76405E-DB45-46B6-941F-17B1EB3A9076@yesql.se
* Fix CREATE INDEX progress reporting for multi-level partitioning.Tom Lane2023-03-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The "partitions_total" and "partitions_done" fields were updated as though the current level of partitioning was the only one. In multi-level cases, not only could partitions_total change over the course of the command, but partitions_done could go backwards or exceed the currently-reported partitions_total. Fix by setting partitions_total to the total number of direct and indirect children once at command start, and then just incrementing partitions_done at appropriate points. Invent a new progress monitoring function "pgstat_progress_incr_param" to simplify doing the latter. We can avoid adding cost for the former when doing CREATE INDEX, because ProcessUtility already enumerates the children and it's pretty easy to pass the count down to DefineIndex. In principle the same could be done in ALTER TABLE, but that's structurally difficult; for now, just eat the cost of an extra find_all_inheritors scan in that case. Ilya Gladyshev and Justin Pryzby Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a15f904a70924ffa4ca25c3c744cff31e0e6e143.camel@gmail.com
* Invent GENERIC_PLAN option for EXPLAIN.Tom Lane2023-03-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This provides a very simple way to see the generic plan for a parameterized query. Without this, it's necessary to define a prepared statement and temporarily change plan_cache_mode, which is a bit tedious. One thing that's a bit of a hack perhaps is that we disable execution-time partition pruning when the GENERIC_PLAN option is given. That's because the pruning code may attempt to fetch the value of one of the parameters, which would fail. Laurenz Albe, reviewed by Julien Rouhaud, Christoph Berg, Michel Pelletier, Jim Jones, and myself Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/0a29b954b10b57f0d135fe12aa0909bd41883eb0.camel@cybertec.at
* Support language tags in older ICU versions (53 and earlier).Jeff Davis2023-03-21
| | | | | | | | | | | By calling uloc_canonicalize() before parsing the attributes, the existing locale attribute parsing logic works on language tags as well. Fix a small memory leak, too. Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/60da0cecfb512a78b8666b31631a636215d8ce73.camel@j-davis.com Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut
* Add @extschema:name@ and no_relocate options to extensions.Tom Lane2023-03-20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | @extschema:name@ extends the existing @extschema@ feature so that we can also insert the schema name of some required extension, thus making cross-extension references robust even if they are in different schemas. However, this has the same hazard as @extschema@: if the schema name is embedded literally in an installed object, rather than being looked up once during extension script execution, then it's no longer safe to relocate the other extension to another schema. To deal with that without restricting things unnecessarily, add a "no_relocate" option to extension control files. This allows an extension to specify that it cannot handle relocation of some of its required extensions, even if in themselves those extensions are relocatable. We detect "no_relocate" requests of dependent extensions during ALTER EXTENSION SET SCHEMA. Regina Obe, reviewed by Sandro Santilli and myself Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/003001d8f4ae$402282c0$c0678840$@pcorp.us
* Ignore BRIN indexes when checking for HOT updatesTomas Vondra2023-03-20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When determining whether an index update may be skipped by using HOT, we can ignore attributes indexed by block summarizing indexes without references to individual tuples that need to be cleaned up. A new type TU_UpdateIndexes provides a signal to the executor to determine which indexes to update - no indexes, all indexes, or only the summarizing indexes. This also removes rd_indexattr list, and replaces it with rd_attrsvalid flag. The list was not used anywhere, and a simple flag is sufficient. This was originally committed as 5753d4ee32, but then got reverted by e3fcca0d0d because of correctness issues. Original patch by Josef Simanek, various fixes and improvements by Tomas Vondra and me. Authors: Matthias van de Meent, Josef Simanek, Tomas Vondra Reviewed-by: Tomas Vondra, Alvaro Herrera Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/05ebcb44-f383-86e3-4f31-0a97a55634cf@enterprisedb.com Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAFp7QwpMRGcDAQumN7onN9HjrJ3u4X3ZRXdGFT0K5G2JWvnbWg%40mail.gmail.com
* Fix typoPeter Eisentraut2023-03-17
| | | | | | Introduced in de4d456b40. Reported-by: Erik Rijkers <er@xs4all.nl>
* Improve several permission-related error messages.Peter Eisentraut2023-03-17
| | | | | | | | | Mainly move some detail from errmsg to errdetail, remove explicit mention of superuser where appropriate, since that is implied in most permission checks, and make messages more uniform. Author: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com> Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20230316234701.GA903298@nathanxps13
* Small code simplificationPeter Eisentraut2023-03-16
| | | | | Author: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com> Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20230310000313.GA3992372%40nathanxps13
* Don't try to read default for a non-existent attributeAndrew Dunstan2023-03-15
| | | | | | Oversight in commit 9f8377f7a2 for COPY .. DEFAULT per report from Alexander Lakhin
* Fix fractional vacuum_cost_delay.Thomas Munro2023-03-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Commit 4753ef37 changed vacuum_delay_point() to use the WaitLatch() API, to fix the problem that vacuum could keep running for a very long time after the postmaster died. Unfortunately, that broke commit caf626b2's support for fractional vacuum_cost_delay, which shipped in PostgreSQL 12. WaitLatch() works in whole milliseconds. For now, revert the change from commit 4753ef37, but add an explicit check for postmaster death. That's an extra system call on systems other than Linux and FreeBSD, but that overhead doesn't matter much considering that we willingly went to sleep and woke up again. (In later work, we might add higher resolution timeouts to the latch API so that we could do this with our standard programming pattern, but that wouldn't be back-patched.) Back-patch to 14, where commit 4753ef37 arrived. Reported-by: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAAKRu_b-q0hXCBUCAATh0Z4Zi6UkiC0k2DFgoD3nC-r3SkR3tg%40mail.gmail.com
* Add a DEFAULT option to COPY FROMAndrew Dunstan2023-03-13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | This allows for a string which if an input field matches causes the column's default value to be inserted. The advantage of this is that the default can be inserted in some rows and not others, for which non-default data is available. The file_fdw extension is also modified to take allow use of this option. Israel Barth Rubio Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAO_rXXAcqesk6DsvioOZ5zmeEmpUN5ktZf-9=9yu+DTr0Xr8Uw@mail.gmail.com
* Fix concurrent update issues with MERGE.Dean Rasheed2023-03-13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If MERGE attempts an UPDATE or DELETE on a table with BEFORE ROW triggers, or a cross-partition UPDATE (with or without triggers), and a concurrent UPDATE or DELETE happens, the merge code would fail. In some cases this would lead to a crash, while in others it would cause the wrong merge action to be executed, or no action at all. The immediate cause of the crash was the trigger code calling ExecGetUpdateNewTuple() as part of the EPQ mechanism, which fails because during a merge ri_projectNew is NULL, since merge has its own per-action projection information, which ExecGetUpdateNewTuple() knows nothing about. Fix by arranging for the trigger code to exit early, returning the TM_Result and TM_FailureData information, if a concurrent modification is detected, allowing the merge code to do the necessary EPQ handling in its own way. Similarly, prevent the cross-partition update code from doing any EPQ processing for a merge, allowing the merge code to work out what it needs to do. This leads to a number of simplifications in nodeModifyTable.c. Most notably, the ModifyTableContext->GetUpdateNewTuple() callback is no longer needed, and mergeGetUpdateNewTuple() can be deleted, since there is no longer any requirement for get-update-new-tuple during a merge. Similarly, ModifyTableContext->cpUpdateRetrySlot is no longer needed. Thus ExecGetUpdateNewTuple() and the retry_slot handling of ExecCrossPartitionUpdate() can be restored to how they were in v14, before the merge code was added, and ExecMergeMatched() no longer needs any special-case handling for cross-partition updates. While at it, tidy up ExecUpdateEpilogue() a bit, making it handle recheckIndexes locally, rather than passing it in as a parameter, ensuring that it is freed properly. This dates back to when it was split off from ExecUpdate() to support merge. Per bug #17809 from Alexander Lakhin, and follow-up investigation of bug #17792, also from Alexander Lakhin. Back-patch to v15, where MERGE was introduced, taking care to preserve backwards-compatibility of the trigger API in v15 for any extensions that might use it. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17809-9e6650bef133f0fe%40postgresql.org https://postgr.es/m/17792-0f89452029662c36%40postgresql.org
* Ensure COPY TO on an RLS-enabled table copies no more than it should.Tom Lane2023-03-10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | The COPY documentation is quite clear that "COPY relation TO" copies rows from only the named table, not any inheritance children it may have. However, if you enabled row-level security on the table then this stopped being true, because the code forgot to apply the ONLY modifier in the "SELECT ... FROM relation" query that it constructs in order to allow RLS predicates to be attached. Fix that. Report and patch by Antonin Houska (comment adjustments and test case by me). Back-patch to all supported branches. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3472.1675251957@antos
* Disallow specifying ICU rules unless locale provider is ICUPeter Eisentraut2023-03-09
| | | | | | Follow-up for 30a53b7929; this was not checked in all cases. Reported-by: Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>
* Allow tailoring of ICU locales with custom rulesPeter Eisentraut2023-03-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | This exposes the ICU facility to add custom collation rules to a standard collation. New options are added to CREATE COLLATION, CREATE DATABASE, createdb, and initdb to set the rules. Reviewed-by: Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at> Reviewed-by: Daniel Verite <daniel@manitou-mail.org> Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/821c71a4-6ef0-d366-9acf-bb8e367f739f@enterprisedb.com
* Clean up commentsPeter Eisentraut2023-03-08
| | | | | | Reformat some of the comments in MergeAttributes(). A lot of code has been added here over time, and the comments could use a bit of editing to make the code flow read better.
* Improve readability of code PROCESS_MAIN in vacuum_rel()Michael Paquier2023-03-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | 4211fbd has been handling PROCESS_MAIN in vacuum_rel() with an "if/else if" structure to avoid an extra level of indentation, but this has been found as being rather parse to read. This commit updates the code so as we check for PROCESS_MAIN in a single place and then handle its subpaths, FULL or non-FULL vacuums. Some comments are added to make that clearer for the reader. Reported-by: Melanie Plageman Author: Nathan Bossart Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier, Melanie Plageman Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20230306194009.5cn6sp3wjotd36nu@liskov
* Make get_extension_schema() availableMichael Paquier2023-03-07
| | | | | | | | | | | This routine is able to retrieve the OID of the schema used with an extension (pg_extension.extnamespace), or InvalidOid if this information is not available. plpgsql_check embeds a copy of this code when performing checks on functions, as one out-of-core example. Author: Pavel Stehule Reviewed-by: Julien Rouhaud Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAFj8pRD+9x55hjDoi285jCcjPc8uuY_D+FLn5RpXggdz+4O2sQ@mail.gmail.com
* Fill EState.es_rteperminfos more systematically.Tom Lane2023-03-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | While testing a fix for bug #17823, I discovered that EvalPlanQualStart failed to copy es_rteperminfos from the parent EState, resulting in failure if anything in EPQ execution wanted to consult that information. This led me to conclude that commit a61b1f748 had been too haphazard about where to fill es_rteperminfos, and that we need to be sure that that happens exactly where es_range_table gets filled. So I changed the signature of ExecInitRangeTable to help ensure that this new requirement doesn't get missed. (Indeed, pgoutput.c was also failing to fill it. Maybe we don't ever need it there, but I wouldn't bet on that.) No test case yet; one will arrive with the fix for #17823. But that needs to be back-patched, while this fix is HEAD-only. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17823-b64909cf7d63de84@postgresql.org
* Add PROCESS_MAIN to VACUUMMichael Paquier2023-03-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Disabling this option is useful to run VACUUM (with or without FULL) on only the toast table of a relation, bypassing the main relation. This option is enabled by default. Running directly VACUUM on a toast table was already possible without this feature, by using the non-deterministic name of a toast relation (as of pg_toast.pg_toast_N, where N would be the OID of the parent relation) in the VACUUM command, and it required a scan of pg_class to know the name of the toast table. So this feature is basically a shortcut to be able to run VACUUM or VACUUM FULL on a toast relation, using only the name of the parent relation. A new switch called --no-process-main is added to vacuumdb, to work as an equivalent of PROCESS_MAIN. Regression tests are added to cover VACUUM and VACUUM FULL, looking at pg_stat_all_tables.vacuum_count to see how many vacuums have run on each table, main or toast. Author: Nathan Bossart Reviewed-by: Masahiko Sawada Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20221230000028.GA435655@nathanxps13
* Avoid failure when altering state of partitioned foreign-key triggers.Tom Lane2023-03-04
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Beginning in v15, if you apply ALTER TABLE ENABLE/DISABLE TRIGGER to a partitioned table, it also affects the partitions' cloned versions of the affected trigger(s). The initial implementation of this located the clones by name, but that fails on foreign-key triggers which have names incorporating their own OIDs. We can fix that, and also make the behavior more bulletproof in the face of user-initiated trigger renames, by identifying the cloned triggers by tgparentid. Following the lead of earlier commits in this area, I took care not to break ABI in the v15 branch, even though I rather doubt there are any external callers of EnableDisableTrigger. While here, update the documentation, which was not touched when the semantics were changed. Per bug #17817 from Alan Hodgson. Back-patch to v15; older versions do not have this behavior. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17817-31dfb7c2100d9f3d@postgresql.org
* Fix outdated references to guc.cDaniel Gustafsson2023-03-02
| | | | | | | | | Commit 0a20ff54f split out the GUC variables from guc.c into a new file guc_tables.c. This updates comments referencing guc.c regarding variables which are now in guc_tables.c. Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/6B50C70C-8C1F-4F9A-A7C0-EEAFCC032406@yesql.se
* Fix corruption of templates after CREATE DATABASE .. STRATEGY WAL_LOGMichael Paquier2023-02-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | WAL_LOG does a scan of the template's pg_class to determine the set of relations that need to be copied from a template database to the new one. However, as coded in 9c08aea, this copy strategy would load the pages of pg_class without considering it as a permanent relation, causing the loaded pages to never be flushed when they should. Any modification of the template's pg_class, mostly through DDLs, would then be missed, causing corruptions. STRATEGY = WAL_LOG is the default over FILE_COPY since it has been introduced, so any changes done to pg_class on a database template would be gone. Updates of database templates should be a rare thing, so the impact of this bug should be hopefully limited. The pre-14 default strategy FILE_COPY is safe, and can be used as a workaround. Ryo Matsumura has found and analyzed the issue, and Nathan has written a test able to reproduce the failure (with few tweaks from me). Backpatch down to 15, where STRATEGY = WAL_LOG has been introduced. Author: Nathan Bossart, Ryo Matsumura Reviewed-by: Dilip Kumar, Michael Paquier Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/TYCPR01MB6868677E499C9AD5123084B5E8A39@TYCPR01MB6868.jpnprd01.prod.outlook.com Backpatch-through: 15
* Fix check for child column generation status matching parent.Tom Lane2023-02-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In commit 8bf6ec3ba, I mistakenly supposed that MergeAttributes' loop over saved_schema was reprocessing column definitions that had already been checked earlier: there is a variant syntax for creating a child partition in which that's not true. So we need to duplicate the full check appearing further up. (Actually, I believe that the "if (restdef->identity)" part is not reachable, because we reject identity on partitions earlier. But it seems wise to keep the check, in case that's ever relaxed, and to keep this code in sync with the other instance.) Per report from Alexander Lakhin. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/4a8200ca-8378-653e-38ed-b2e1f1611aa6@gmail.com
* Rename force_parallel_mode to debug_parallel_queryDavid Rowley2023-02-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | force_parallel_mode is meant to be used to allow us to exercise the parallel query infrastructure to ensure that it's working as we expect. It seems some users think this GUC is for forcing the query planner into picking a parallel plan regardless of the costs. A quick look at the documentation would have made them realize that they were wrong, but the GUC is likely too conveniently named which, evidently, seems to often result in users expecting that it forces the planner into usefully parallelizing queries. Here we rename the GUC to something which casual users are less likely to mistakenly think is what they need to make their query run more quickly. For now, the old name can still be used. We'll revisit if the old name mapping can be removed once the buildfarm configs are all updated. Reviewed-by: John Naylor Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAApHDvrsOi92_uA7PEaHZMH-S4Xv+MGhQWA+GrP8b1kjpS1HjQ@mail.gmail.com
* Fix various typos in code and testsMichael Paquier2023-02-09
| | | | | | | | Most of these are recent, and the documentation portions are new as of v16 so there is no need for a backpatch. Author: Justin Pryzby Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20230208155644.GM1653@telsasoft.com
* Remove useless casts to (void *) in arguments of some system functionsPeter Eisentraut2023-02-07
| | | | | | | | The affected functions are: bsearch, memcmp, memcpy, memset, memmove, qsort, repalloc Reviewed-by: Corey Huinker <corey.huinker@gmail.com> Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/fd9adf5d-b1aa-e82f-e4c7-263c30145807%40enterprisedb.com
* Remove dead NoMovementScanDirection codeDavid Rowley2023-02-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Here remove some dead code from heapgettup() and heapgettup_pagemode() which was trying to support NoMovementScanDirection scans. This code can never be reached as standard_ExecutorRun() never calls ExecutePlan with NoMovementScanDirection. Additionally, plans which were scanning an unordered index would use NoMovementScanDirection rather than ForwardScanDirection. There was no real need for this, so here we adjust this so we use ForwardScanDirection for unordered index scans. A comment in pathnodes.h claimed that NoMovementScanDirection was used for PathKey reasons, but if that was true, it no longer is, per code in build_index_paths(). This does change the non-text format of the EXPLAIN output so that unordered index scans now have a "Forward" scan direction rather than "NoMovement". The text format of EXPLAIN has not changed. Author: Melanie Plageman Reviewed-by: Tom Lane, David Rowley Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAAKRu_bvkhka0CZQun28KTqhuUh5ZqY=_T8QEqZqOL02rpi2bw@mail.gmail.com
* Make Vars be outer-join-aware.Tom Lane2023-01-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Traditionally we used the same Var struct to represent the value of a table column everywhere in parse and plan trees. This choice predates our support for SQL outer joins, and it's really a pretty bad idea with outer joins, because the Var's value can depend on where it is in the tree: it might go to NULL above an outer join. So expression nodes that are equal() per equalfuncs.c might not represent the same value, which is a huge correctness hazard for the planner. To improve this, decorate Var nodes with a bitmapset showing which outer joins (identified by RTE indexes) may have nulled them at the point in the parse tree where the Var appears. This allows us to trust that equal() Vars represent the same value. A certain amount of klugery is still needed to cope with cases where we re-order two outer joins, but it's possible to make it work without sacrificing that core principle. PlaceHolderVars receive similar decoration for the same reason. In the planner, we include these outer join bitmapsets into the relids that an expression is considered to depend on, and in consequence also add outer-join relids to the relids of join RelOptInfos. This allows us to correctly perceive whether an expression can be calculated above or below a particular outer join. This change affects FDWs that want to plan foreign joins. They *must* follow suit when labeling foreign joins in order to match with the core planner, but for many purposes (if postgres_fdw is any guide) they'd prefer to consider only base relations within the join. To support both requirements, redefine ForeignScan.fs_relids as base+OJ relids, and add a new field fs_base_relids that's set up by the core planner. Large though it is, this commit just does the minimum necessary to install the new mechanisms and get check-world passing again. Follow-up patches will perform some cleanup. (The README additions and comments mention some stuff that will appear in the follow-up.) Patch by me; thanks to Richard Guo for review. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/830269.1656693747@sss.pgh.pa.us
* Revert "Add eager and lazy freezing strategies to VACUUM."Peter Geoghegan2023-01-25
| | | | | | | | | This reverts commit 4d417992613949af35530b4e8e83670c4e67e1b2. Broad concerns about regressions caused by eager freezing strategy have been raised. Whether or not these concerns can be worked through in any time frame is far from certain. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20230126004347.gepcmyenk2csxrri@awork3.anarazel.de
* Make auto_explain print the query identifier in verbose modeMichael Paquier2023-01-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When auto_explain.log_verbose is on, auto_explain should print in the logs plans equivalent to the EXPLAIN (VERBOSE). However, when compute_query_id is on, query identifiers were not showing up, being only handled by EXPLAIN (VERBOSE). This brings auto_explain on par with EXPLAIN regarding that. Note that like EXPLAIN, auto_explain does not show the query identifier when compute_query_id=regress. The change is done so as the choice of printing the query identifier is done in ExplainPrintPlan() rather than in ExplainOnePlan(), to avoid a duplication of the logic dealing with the query ID. auto_explain is the only in-core caller of ExplainPrintPlan(). While looking at the area, I have noticed that more consolidation between EXPLAIN and auto_explain would be in order for the logging of the plan duration and the buffer usage. This refactoring is left as a future change. Author: Atsushi Torikoshi Reviewed-by: Justin Pryzby, Julien Rouhaud Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1ea21936981f161bccfce05765c03bee@oss.nttdata.com
* Add eager and lazy freezing strategies to VACUUM.Peter Geoghegan2023-01-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Eager freezing strategy avoids large build-ups of all-visible pages. It makes VACUUM trigger page-level freezing whenever doing so will enable the page to become all-frozen in the visibility map. This is useful for tables that experience continual growth, particularly strict append-only tables such as pgbench's history table. Eager freezing significantly improves performance stability by spreading out the cost of freezing over time, rather than doing most freezing during aggressive VACUUMs. It complements the insert autovacuum mechanism added by commit b07642db. VACUUM determines its freezing strategy based on the value of the new vacuum_freeze_strategy_threshold GUC (or reloption) with logged tables. Tables that exceed the size threshold use the eager freezing strategy. Unlogged tables and temp tables always use eager freezing strategy, since the added cost is negligible there. Non-permanent relations won't incur any extra overhead in WAL written (for the obvious reason), nor in pages dirtied (since any extra freezing will only take place on pages whose PD_ALL_VISIBLE bit needed to be set either way). VACUUM uses lazy freezing strategy for logged tables that fall under the GUC size threshold. Page-level freezing triggers based on the criteria established in commit 1de58df4, which added basic page-level freezing. Eager freezing is strictly more aggressive than lazy freezing. Settings like vacuum_freeze_min_age still get applied in just the same way in every VACUUM, independent of the strategy in use. The only mechanical difference between eager and lazy freezing strategies is that only the former applies its own additional criteria to trigger freezing pages. Note that even lazy freezing strategy will trigger freezing whenever a page happens to have required that an FPI be written during pruning, provided that the page will thereby become all-frozen in the visibility map afterwards (due to the FPI optimization from commit 1de58df4). The vacuum_freeze_strategy_threshold default setting is 4GB. This is a relatively low setting that prioritizes performance stability. It will be reviewed at the end of the Postgres 16 beta period. Author: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie> Reviewed-By: Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com> Reviewed-By: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> Reviewed-By: Matthias van de Meent <boekewurm+postgres@gmail.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-WzkFok_6EAHuK39GaW4FjEFQsY=3J0AAd6FXk93u-Xq3Fg@mail.gmail.com
* Adjust interaction of CREATEROLE with role properties.Robert Haas2023-01-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Previously, a CREATEROLE user without SUPERUSER could not alter REPLICATION users in any way, and could not set the BYPASSRLS attribute. However, they could manipulate the CREATEDB property even if they themselves did not possess it. With this change, a CREATEROLE user without SUPERUSER can set or clear the REPLICATION, BYPASSRLS, or CREATEDB property on a new role or a role that they have rights to manage if and only if that property is set for their own role. This implements the standard idea that you can't give permissions you don't have (but you can give the ones you do have). We might in the future want to provide more powerful ways to constrain what a CREATEROLE user can do - for example, to limit whether CONNECTION LIMIT can be set or the values to which it can be set - but that is left as future work. Patch by me, reviewed by Nathan Bossart, Tushar Ahuja, and Neha Sharma. Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmobX=LHg_J5aT=0pi9gJy=JdtrUVGAu0zhr-i5v5nNbJDg@mail.gmail.com
* Track logrep apply workers' last start times to avoid useless waits.Tom Lane2023-01-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Enforce wal_retrieve_retry_interval on a per-subscription basis, rather than globally, and arrange to skip that delay in case of an intentional worker exit. This probably makes little difference in the field, where apply workers wouldn't be restarted often; but it has a significant impact on the runtime of our logical replication regression tests (even though those tests use artificially-small wal_retrieve_retry_interval settings already). Nathan Bossart, with mostly-cosmetic editorialization by me Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20221122004119.GA132961@nathanxps13
* Allow REPLICA IDENTITY to be set on an index that's not (yet) valid.Tom Lane2023-01-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The motivation for this change is that when pg_dump dumps a partitioned index that's marked REPLICA IDENTITY, it generates a command sequence that applies REPLICA IDENTITY before the partitioned index has been marked valid, causing restore to fail. We could perhaps change pg_dump to not do it like that, but that would be difficult and would not fix existing dump files with the problem. There seems to be very little reason for the backend to disallow this anyway --- the code ignores indisreplident when the index isn't valid --- so instead let's fix it by allowing the case. Commit 9511fb37a previously expressed a concern that allowing indisreplident to be set on invalid indexes might allow us to wind up in a situation where a table could have indisreplident set on multiple indexes. I'm not sure I follow that concern exactly, but in any case the only way that could happen is because relation_mark_replica_identity is too trusting about the existing set of markings being valid. Let's just rip out its early-exit code path (which sure looks like premature optimization anyway; what are we doing expending code to make redundant ALTER TABLE ... REPLICA IDENTITY commands marginally faster and not-redundant ones marginally slower?) and fix it to positively guarantee that no more than one index is marked indisreplident. The pg_dump failure can be demonstrated in all supported branches, so back-patch all the way. I chose to back-patch 9511fb37a as well, just to keep indisreplident handling the same in all branches. Per bug #17756 from Sergey Belyashov. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17756-dd50e8e0c8dd4a40@postgresql.org
* Use appendStringInfoSpaces in more placesDavid Rowley2023-01-20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This adjusts a few places which were appending a string constant containing spaces onto a StringInfo. We have appendStringInfoSpaces for that job, so let's use that instead. For the change to jsonb.c's add_indent() function, appendStringInfoString was being called inside a loop to append 4 spaces on each loop. This meant that enlargeStringInfo would get called once per loop. Here it should be much more efficient to get rid of the loop and just calculate the number of spaces with "level * 4" and just append all the spaces in one go. Here we additionally adjust the appendStringInfoSpaces function so it makes use of memset rather than a while loop to apply the required spaces to the StringInfo. One of the problems with the while loop was that it was incrementing one variable and decrementing another variable once per loop. That's more work than what's required to get the job done. We may as well use memset for this rather than trying to optimize the existing loop. Some testing has shown memset is faster even for very small sizes. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAApHDvp_rKkvwudBKgBHniNRg67bzXVjyvVKfX0G2zS967K43A@mail.gmail.com
* Get rid of the "new" and "old" entries in a view's rangetable.Tom Lane2023-01-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The rule system needs "old" and/or "new" pseudo-RTEs in rule actions that are ON INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE. Historically it's put such entries into the ON SELECT rules of views as well, but those are really quite vestigial. The only thing we've used them for is to carry the view's relid forward to AcquireExecutorLocks (so that we can re-lock the view to verify it hasn't changed before re-using a plan) and to carry its relid and permissions data forward to execution-time permissions checks. What we can do instead of that is to retain these fields of the RTE_RELATION RTE for the view even after we convert it to an RTE_SUBQUERY RTE. This requires a tiny amount of extra complication in the planner and AcquireExecutorLocks, but on the other hand we can get rid of the logic that moves that data from one place to another. The principal immediate benefit of doing this, aside from a small saving in the pg_rewrite data for views, is that these pseudo-RTEs no longer trigger ruleutils.c's heuristic about qualifying variable names when the rangetable's length is more than 1. That results in quite a number of small simplifications in regression test outputs, which are all to the good IMO. Bump catversion because we need to dump a few more fields of RTE_SUBQUERY RTEs. While those will always be zeroes anyway in stored rules (because we'd never populate them until query rewrite) they are useful for debugging, and it seems like we'd better make sure to transmit such RTEs accurately in plans sent to parallel workers. I don't think the executor actually examines these fields after startup, but someday it might. This is a second attempt at committing 1b4d280ea. The difference from the first time is that now we can add some filtering rules to AdjustUpgrade.pm to allow cross-version upgrade testing to pass despite all the cosmetic changes in CREATE VIEW outputs. Amit Langote (filtering rules by me) Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+HiwqEf7gPN4Hn+LoZ4tP2q_Qt7n3vw7-6fJKOf92tSEnX6Gg@mail.gmail.com Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/891521.1673657296@sss.pgh.pa.us
* Fix MAINTAIN privileges for toast tables and partitions.Jeff Davis2023-01-14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Commit 60684dd8 left loose ends when it came to maintaining toast tables or partitions. For toast tables, simply skip the privilege check if the toast table is an indirect target of the maintenance command, because the main table privileges have already been checked. For partitions, allow the maintenance command if the user has the MAINTAIN privilege on the partition or any parent. Also make CLUSTER emit "skipping" messages when the user doesn't have privileges, similar to VACUUM. Author: Nathan Bossart Reported-by: Pavel Luzanov Reviewed-by: Pavel Luzanov, Ted Yu Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20230113231339.GA2422750@nathanxps13
* Clean up useless "skipping" messages for VACUUM/ANALYZE.Jeff Davis2023-01-13
| | | | | | | | | | When VACUUM/ANALYZE are run on an entire database, it warns of skipping relations for which the user doesn't have sufficient privileges. That only makes sense for tables, so skip such messages for indexes, etc. Reviewed-by: Nathan Bossart Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/c0a85c2e83158560314b576b6241c8ed0aea1745.camel%40j-davis.com
* Simplify permissions for LOCK TABLE.Jeff Davis2023-01-13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | The prior behavior was confusing and hard to document. For instance, if you had UPDATE privileges, you could lock a table in any lock mode except ACCESS SHARE mode. Now, if granted a privilege to lock at a given mode, one also has privileges to lock at a less-conflicting mode. MAINTAIN, UPDATE, DELETE, and TRUNCATE privileges allow any lock mode. INSERT privileges allow ROW EXCLUSIVE (or below). SELECT privileges allow ACCESS SHARE. Reviewed-by: Nathan Bossart Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/9550c76535404a83156252b25a11babb4792ea1e.camel%40j-davis.com
* Revert "Get rid of the "new" and "old" entries in a view's rangetable."Tom Lane2023-01-11
| | | | | | | | | | | This reverts commit 1b4d280ea1eb7ddb2e16654d5fa16960bb959566. It's broken the buildfarm members that run cross-version-upgrade tests, because they're not prepared to deal with cosmetic differences between CREATE VIEW commands emitted by older servers and HEAD. Even if we had a solution to that, which we don't, it'd take some time to roll it out to the affected animals. This improvement isn't valuable enough to justify addressing that problem on an emergency basis, so revert it for now.
* Get rid of the "new" and "old" entries in a view's rangetable.Tom Lane2023-01-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The rule system needs "old" and/or "new" pseudo-RTEs in rule actions that are ON INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE. Historically it's put such entries into the ON SELECT rules of views as well, but those are really quite vestigial. The only thing we've used them for is to carry the view's relid forward to AcquireExecutorLocks (so that we can re-lock the view to verify it hasn't changed before re-using a plan) and to carry its relid and permissions data forward to execution-time permissions checks. What we can do instead of that is to retain these fields of the RTE_RELATION RTE for the view even after we convert it to an RTE_SUBQUERY RTE. This requires a tiny amount of extra complication in the planner and AcquireExecutorLocks, but on the other hand we can get rid of the logic that moves that data from one place to another. The principal immediate benefit of doing this, aside from a small saving in the pg_rewrite data for views, is that these pseudo-RTEs no longer trigger ruleutils.c's heuristic about qualifying variable names when the rangetable's length is more than 1. That results in quite a number of small simplifications in regression test outputs, which are all to the good IMO. Bump catversion because we need to dump a few more fields of RTE_SUBQUERY RTEs. While those will always be zeroes anyway in stored rules (because we'd never populate them until query rewrite) they are useful for debugging, and it seems like we'd better make sure to transmit such RTEs accurately in plans sent to parallel workers. I don't think the executor actually examines these fields after startup, but someday it might. Amit Langote Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+HiwqEf7gPN4Hn+LoZ4tP2q_Qt7n3vw7-6fJKOf92tSEnX6Gg@mail.gmail.com
* Improve handling of inherited GENERATED expressions.Tom Lane2023-01-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In both partitioning and traditional inheritance, require child columns to be GENERATED if and only if their parent(s) are. Formerly we allowed the case of an inherited column being GENERATED when its parent isn't, but that results in inconsistent behavior: the column can be directly updated through an UPDATE on the parent table, leading to it containing a user-supplied value that might not match the generation expression. This also fixes an oversight that we enforced partition-key-columns-can't- be-GENERATED against parent tables, but not against child tables that were dynamically attached to them. Also, remove the restriction that the child's generation expression be equivalent to the parent's. In the wake of commit 3f7836ff6, there doesn't seem to be any reason that we need that restriction, since generation expressions are always computed per-table anyway. By removing this, we can also allow a child to merge multiple inheritance parents with inconsistent generation expressions, by overriding them with its own expression, much as we've long allowed for DEFAULT expressions. Since we're rejecting a case that we used to accept, this doesn't seem like a back-patchable change. Given the lack of field complaints about the inconsistent behavior, it's likely that no one is doing this anyway, but we won't change it in minor releases. Amit Langote and Tom Lane Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2793383.1672944799@sss.pgh.pa.us
* Add new GUC createrole_self_grant.Robert Haas2023-01-10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Can be set to the empty string, or to either or both of "set" or "inherit". If set to a non-empty value, a non-superuser who creates a role (necessarily by relying up the CREATEROLE privilege) will grant that role back to themselves with the specified options. This isn't a security feature, because the grant that this feature triggers can also be performed explicitly. Instead, it's a user experience feature. A superuser would necessarily inherit the privileges of any created role and be able to access all such roles via SET ROLE; with this patch, you can configure createrole_self_grant = 'set, inherit' to provide a similar experience for a user who has CREATEROLE but not SUPERUSER. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmobN59ct+Emmz6ig1Nua2Q-_o=r6DSD98KfU53kctq_kQw@mail.gmail.com
* Restrict the privileges of CREATEROLE users.Robert Haas2023-01-10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Previously, CREATEROLE users were permitted to make nearly arbitrary changes to roles that they didn't create, with certain exceptions, particularly superuser roles. Instead, allow CREATEROLE users to make such changes to roles for which they possess ADMIN OPTION, and to grant membership only in roles for which they possess ADMIN OPTION. When a CREATEROLE user who is not a superuser creates a role, grant ADMIN OPTION on the newly-created role to the creator, so that they can administer roles they create or for which they have been given privileges. With these changes, CREATEROLE users still have very significant powers that unprivileged users do not receive: they can alter, rename, drop, comment on, change the password for, and change security labels on roles. However, they can now do these things only for roles for which they possess appropriate privileges, rather than all non-superuser roles; moreover, they cannot grant a role such as pg_execute_server_program unless they themselves possess it. Patch by me, reviewed by Mark Dilger. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmobN59ct+Emmz6ig1Nua2Q-_o=r6DSD98KfU53kctq_kQw@mail.gmail.com
* Perform apply of large transactions by parallel workers.Amit Kapila2023-01-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently, for large transactions, the publisher sends the data in multiple streams (changes divided into chunks depending upon logical_decoding_work_mem), and then on the subscriber-side, the apply worker writes the changes into temporary files and once it receives the commit, it reads from those files and applies the entire transaction. To improve the performance of such transactions, we can instead allow them to be applied via parallel workers. In this approach, we assign a new parallel apply worker (if available) as soon as the xact's first stream is received and the leader apply worker will send changes to this new worker via shared memory. The parallel apply worker will directly apply the change instead of writing it to temporary files. However, if the leader apply worker times out while attempting to send a message to the parallel apply worker, it will switch to "partial serialize" mode - in this mode, the leader serializes all remaining changes to a file and notifies the parallel apply workers to read and apply them at the end of the transaction. We use a non-blocking way to send the messages from the leader apply worker to the parallel apply to avoid deadlocks. We keep this parallel apply assigned till the transaction commit is received and also wait for the worker to finish at commit. This preserves commit ordering and avoid writing to and reading from files in most cases. We still need to spill if there is no worker available. This patch also extends the SUBSCRIPTION 'streaming' parameter so that the user can control whether to apply the streaming transaction in a parallel apply worker or spill the change to disk. The user can set the streaming parameter to 'on/off', or 'parallel'. The parameter value 'parallel' means the streaming will be applied via a parallel apply worker, if available. The parameter value 'on' means the streaming transaction will be spilled to disk. The default value is 'off' (same as current behaviour). In addition, the patch extends the logical replication STREAM_ABORT message so that abort_lsn and abort_time can also be sent which can be used to update the replication origin in parallel apply worker when the streaming transaction is aborted. Because this message extension is needed to support parallel streaming, parallel streaming is not supported for publications on servers < PG16. Author: Hou Zhijie, Wang wei, Amit Kapila with design inputs from Sawada Masahiko Reviewed-by: Sawada Masahiko, Peter Smith, Dilip Kumar, Shi yu, Kuroda Hayato, Shveta Mallik Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAA4eK1+wyN6zpaHUkCLorEWNx75MG0xhMwcFhvjqm2KURZEAGw@mail.gmail.com