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Alvaro Herrera 9ce04b50e1
Revert "Catalog NOT NULL constraints" and fallout
This reverts commit e056c557ae and minor later fixes thereof.

There's a few problems in this new feature -- most notably regarding
pg_upgrade behavior, but others as well.  This new feature is not in any
way critical on its own, so instead of scrambling to fix it we revert it
and try again in early 17 with these issues in mind.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3801207.1681057430@sss.pgh.pa.us
2023-04-12 19:29:21 +02:00
Robert Haas 4b1ad19a4e Document BaseBackupSync and BaseBackupWrite wait events.
Commit 3500ccc39b should have done
this, but I overlooked it.

Per complaint from Thomas Munro.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+hUKGJixAHc860Ej9Qzd_z96Z6aoajAgJ18bYfV3Lfn6t9=+Q@mail.gmail.com
2023-04-12 11:26:16 -04:00
Daniel Gustafsson 91199dd281 doc: Reword unexplained abbreviation
The previous wording used MVF to indicate the Most Common Values'
Frequencies, but the abbreviation was never explained or defined.
Reword to mcv_freqs to make the use clearer.

Also add MCF and MCV as acronyms as they were using <acronym>
markup but were missing from the acronyms page.

Reported-by: Eric Mutta <eric.mutta@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/166112292492.654.5377188452604176150@wrigleys.postgresql.org
2023-04-12 16:16:12 +02:00
Michael Paquier 644b848f50 doc: Fix some typos and grammar
This is a first batch of the fixes, for the most obvious fixes.  A
little bit more is under discussion.

Author: Thom Brown, Justin Pryzby
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAA-aLv7xCZ0nBJa-NWe0rxBB28TjFjS2JtjiZMoQ+0wsugG+hQ@mail.gmail.com
2023-04-12 13:03:09 +09:00
Robert Haas bc25d6c54a Document new pg_subscription columns.
Commit 482675987b and commit
c3afe8cf5a forgot to take care
of this.

Noriyoshi Shinoda

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/DM4PR84MB17345D8760165F14A199B81CEE9A9@DM4PR84MB1734.NAMPRD84.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM
2023-04-11 11:00:36 -04:00
David Rowley d866f0374c Doc: use "an SQL" consistently rather than "a SQL"
Similarly to what was done in 04539e73f and 7bdd489d3, we standardized on
SQL being pronounced "es-que-ell" rather than "sequel" in our
documentation.

This fixes the instances of "a SQL" that have crept in during the v16
cycle.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAApHDvpML27UqFXnrYO1MJddsKVMQoiZisPvsAGhKE_tsKXquw%40mail.gmail.com
2023-04-11 18:52:17 +12:00
Tom Lane 4380c2509d Doc: add missed entries in BRIN extensibility tables.
The tables in "71.3. Extensibility" listing the support functions
for bloom and minmax-multi opclasses should include the associated
options function.  While this isn't quite as required as the rest,
you need it for full functionality of the opclass.

Back-patch to v14 where these functions were added.
2023-04-10 15:50:29 -04:00
Peter Geoghegan 5d6728e588 Fix nbtree posting list update desc output.
We cannot use the generic array_desc approach with per-tuple nbtree
posting list update metadata because array_desc can only deal with fixed
width elements (e.g., page offset numbers).  Using array_desc led to
incorrect rmgr descriptions for updates from nbtree DELETE/VACUUM WAL
records.

To fix, add specialized code to describe the update metadata as array
elements in desc output.  We now iterate over the update metadata using
an approach that matches related REDO routines.

Also stop showing the updates offset number array separately in nbtree
DELETE/VACUUM desc output.  It's redundant information, since the same
page offset numbers appear in the description of each individual update
element.  Also make some small tweaks to the way that we format arrays
in all desc routines (not just nbtree desc routines) to make arrays a
little less verbose.

Oversight in commit 1c453cfd, which enhanced the nbtree rmgr desc
routines.

Author: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-WzkbYuvwYKm-Y-72QEh6SPMQcAo9uONv+mR3bMGcu9E_Cg@mail.gmail.com
2023-04-10 11:15:41 -07:00
Tom Lane fbbd7edca8 Doc: adjust examples of EXTRACT() output to match current reality.
EXTRACT(EPOCH), EXTRACT(SECOND), and some related cases print more
trailing zeroes than they used to.  This behavior change happened
with commit a2da77cdb (Change return type of EXTRACT to numeric),
and it was intentional according to the commit log:

    - Return values when extracting fields with possibly fractional
      values, such as second and epoch, now have the full scale that the
      value has internally (so, for example, '1.000000' instead of just
      '1').

It's been like that for two releases now, so while I suggested
changing this back, it's probably better to adjust the documentation
examples.

Per bug #17866 from Евгений Жужнев.  Back-patch to v14 where the
change came in.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17866-18eb70095b1594e2@postgresql.org
2023-04-10 13:09:18 -04:00
Tom Lane 26f36fe844 Doc: avoid using pg_get_publication_tables() in an example.
pg_get_publication_tables() is undocumented because it's only meant
as infrastructure for the pg_publication_tables system view.
That being the case, we should use the view not the bare function
in this sample query.

Shi Yu

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/OSZPR01MB63107E83D07FEDEEABD83A23FD949@OSZPR01MB6310.jpnprd01.prod.outlook.com
2023-04-10 12:22:10 -04:00
Stephen Frost 3d03b24c35 Revert "Add support for Kerberos credential delegation"
This reverts commit 3d4fa227bc.

Per discussion and buildfarm, this depends on APIs that seem to not
be available on at least one platform (NetBSD).  Should be certainly
possible to rework to be optional on that platform if necessary but bit
late for that at this point.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3286097.1680922218@sss.pgh.pa.us
2023-04-08 07:21:35 -04:00
Andres Freund 0fdab27ad6 Allow logical decoding on standbys
Unsurprisingly, this requires wal_level = logical to be set on the primary and
standby. The infrastructure added in 26669757b6 ensures that slots are
invalidated if the primary's wal_level is lowered.

Creating a slot on a standby waits for a xl_running_xact record to be
processed. If the primary is idle (and thus not emitting xl_running_xact
records), that can take a while.  To make that faster, this commit also
introduces the pg_log_standby_snapshot() function. By executing it on the
primary, completion of slot creation on the standby can be accelerated.

Note that logical decoding on a standby does not itself enforce that required
catalog rows are not removed. The user has to use physical replication slots +
hot_standby_feedback or other measures to prevent that. If catalog rows
required for a slot are removed, the slot is invalidated.

See 6af1793954 for an overall design of logical decoding on a standby.

Bumps catversion, for the addition of the pg_log_standby_snapshot() function.

Author: "Drouvot, Bertrand" <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> (in an older version)
Author: Amit Khandekar <amitdkhan.pg@gmail.com> (in an older version)
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reviewed-by: FabrÌzio de Royes Mello <fabriziomello@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
2023-04-08 02:20:05 -07:00
Andres Freund 26669757b6 Handle logical slot conflicts on standby
During WAL replay on the standby, when a conflict with a logical slot is
identified, invalidate such slots. There are two sources of conflicts:
1) Using the information added in 6af1793954, logical slots are invalidated if
   required rows are removed
2) wal_level on the primary server is reduced to below logical

Uses the infrastructure introduced in the prior commit. FIXME: add commit
reference.

Change InvalidatePossiblyObsoleteSlot() to use a recovery conflict to
interrupt use of a slot, if called in the startup process. The new recovery
conflict is added to pg_stat_database_conflicts, as confl_active_logicalslot.

See 6af1793954 for an overall design of logical decoding on a standby.

Bumps catversion for the addition of the pg_stat_database_conflicts column.
Bumps PGSTAT_FILE_FORMAT_ID for the same reason.

Author: "Drouvot, Bertrand" <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Author: Amit Khandekar <amitdkhan.pg@gmail.com> (in an older version)
Reviewed-by: "Drouvot, Bertrand" <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reviewed-by: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Fabrízio de Royes Mello <fabriziomello@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Bharath Rupireddy <bharath.rupireddyforpostgres@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20230407075009.igg7be27ha2htkbt@awork3.anarazel.de
2023-04-08 00:05:44 -07:00
Andres Freund be87200efd Support invalidating replication slots due to horizon and wal_level
Needed for logical decoding on a standby. Slots need to be invalidated because
of the horizon if rows required for logical decoding are removed. If the
primary's wal_level is lowered from 'logical', logical slots on the standby
need to be invalidated.

The new invalidation methods will be used in a subsequent commit.

Logical slots that have been invalidated can be identified via the new
pg_replication_slots.conflicting column.

See 6af1793954 for an overall design of logical decoding on a standby.

Bumps catversion for the addition of the new pg_replication_slots column.

Author: "Drouvot, Bertrand" <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Author: Amit Khandekar <amitdkhan.pg@gmail.com> (in an older version)
Reviewed-by: "Drouvot, Bertrand" <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reviewed-by: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Fabrízio de Royes Mello <fabriziomello@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Bharath Rupireddy <bharath.rupireddyforpostgres@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20230407075009.igg7be27ha2htkbt@awork3.anarazel.de
2023-04-07 22:40:27 -07:00
Thomas Munro d4e71df6d7 Add io_direct setting (developer-only).
Provide a way to ask the kernel to use O_DIRECT (or local equivalent)
where available for data and WAL files, to avoid or minimize kernel
caching.  This hurts performance currently and is not intended for end
users yet.  Later proposed work would introduce our own I/O clustering,
read-ahead, etc to replace the facilities the kernel disables with this
option.

The only user-visible change, if the developer-only GUC is not used, is
that this commit also removes the obscure logic that would activate
O_DIRECT for the WAL when wal_sync_method=open_[data]sync and
wal_level=minimal (which also requires max_wal_senders=0).  Those are
non-default and unlikely settings, and this behavior wasn't (correctly)
documented.  The same effect can be achieved with io_direct=wal.

Author: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Author: Bharath Rupireddy <bharath.rupireddyforpostgres@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
Reviewed-by: Bharath Rupireddy <bharath.rupireddyforpostgres@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKGK1X532hYqJ_MzFWt0n1zt8trz980D79WbjwnT-yYLZpg%40mail.gmail.com
2023-04-08 16:35:07 +12:00
Amit Kapila d73c285af5 Doc: Fix the datatype of the newly added SUBSCRIPTION options.
In docs, the datatype of "password_required" and "run_as_owner" was
incorrectly specified as a string.

Author: Amit Kapila
Reviewed-by: Sawada Masahiko
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAHut+Pu=pnJf=SS1583pknSQ3CbOqLCkWcJCQYt6zxTagHEdmw@mail.gmail.com
2023-04-08 09:42:50 +05:30
Stephen Frost 3d4fa227bc Add support for Kerberos credential delegation
Support GSSAPI/Kerberos credentials being delegated to the server by a
client.  With this, a user authenticating to PostgreSQL using Kerberos
(GSSAPI) credentials can choose to delegate their credentials to the
PostgreSQL server (which can choose to accept them, or not), allowing
the server to then use those delegated credentials to connect to
another service, such as with postgres_fdw or dblink or theoretically
any other service which is able to be authenticated using Kerberos.

Both postgres_fdw and dblink are changed to allow non-superuser
password-less connections but only when GSSAPI credentials have been
delegated to the server by the client and GSSAPI is used to
authenticate to the remote system.

Authors: Stephen Frost, Peifeng Qiu
Reviewed-By: David Christensen
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CO1PR05MB8023CC2CB575E0FAAD7DF4F8A8E29@CO1PR05MB8023.namprd05.prod.outlook.com
2023-04-07 21:58:04 -04:00
Andres Freund ac8d53dae5 Track IO times in pg_stat_io
a9c70b46db and 8aaa04b32S added counting of IO operations to a new view,
pg_stat_io. Now, add IO timing for reads, writes, extends, and fsyncs to
pg_stat_io as well.

This combines the tracking for pgBufferUsage with the tracking for pg_stat_io
into a new function pgstat_count_io_op_time(). This should make it a bit
easier to avoid the somewhat costly instr_time conversion done for
pgBufferUsage.

Author: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reviewed-by: Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/flat/CAAKRu_ay5iKmnbXZ3DsauViF3eMxu4m1oNnJXqV_HyqYeg55Ww%40mail.gmail.com
2023-04-07 17:04:56 -07:00
Peter Geoghegan 7d8219a444 Show more detail in heapam rmgr descriptions.
Add helper functions that output arrays in a standard format, and use
the functions inside heapdesc routines.  This allows tools like
pg_walinspect to show a detailed description of the page offset number
arrays for records like PRUNE and VACUUM (unless there was an FPI).

Also document the conventions that desc routines should follow.  Only
the heapdesc routines follow the conventions for now, so they're just
guidelines for the time being.

Based on a suggestion from Andres Freund.

Author: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/flat/20230109215842.fktuhesvayno6o4g%40awork3.anarazel.de
2023-04-07 16:08:52 -07:00
Tom Lane a290378a37 Add support for Daitch-Mokotoff Soundex in contrib/fuzzystrmatch.
This modernized version of Soundex works significantly better than
the original, particularly for non-English names.

Dag Lem, reviewed by quite a few people along the way

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/yger1atbgfy.fsf@sid.nimrod.no
2023-04-07 17:32:26 -04:00
Tom Lane f3fa31327e Add pg_buffercache_usage_counts() to contrib/pg_buffercache.
It was pointed out that pg_buffercache_summary()'s report of
the overall average usage count isn't that useful, and what
would be more helpful in many cases is to report totals for
each possible usage count.  Add a new function to do it like
that.  Since pg_buffercache 1.4 is already new for v16,
we don't need to create a new extension version; we'll just
define this as part of 1.4.

Nathan Bossart

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20230130233040.GA2800702@nathanxps13
2023-04-07 14:25:53 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera e056c557ae
Catalog NOT NULL constraints
We now create pg_constaint rows for NOT NULL constraints with
contype='n'.

We propagate these constraints during operations such as adding
inheritance relationships, creating and attaching partitions, creating
tables LIKE other tables.  We mostly follow the well-known rules of
conislocal and coninhcount that we have for CHECK constraints, with some
adaptations; for example, as opposed to CHECK constraints, we don't
match NOT NULL ones by name when descending a hierarchy to alter it;
instead we match by column number.  This means we don't require the
constraint names to be identical across a hierarchy.

For now, we omit them from system catalogs.  Maybe this is worth
reconsidering.  We don't support NOT VALID nor DEFERRABLE clauses
either; these can be added as separate features later (this patch is
already large and complicated enough.)

This has been very long in the making.  The first patch was written by
Bernd Helmle in 2010 to add a new pg_constraint.contype value ('n'),
which I (Álvaro) then hijacked in 2011 and 2012, until that one was
killed by the realization that we ought to use contype='c' instead:
manufactured CHECK constraints.  However, later SQL standard
development, as well as nonobvious emergent properties of that design
(mostly, failure to distinguish them from "normal" CHECK constraints as
well as the performance implication of having to test the CHECK
expression) led us to reconsider this choice, so now the current
implementation uses contype='n' again.

In 2016 Vitaly Burovoy also worked on this feature[1] but found no
consensus for his proposed approach, which was claimed to be closer to
the letter of the standard, requiring additional pg_attribute columns to
track the OID of the NOT NULL constraint for that column.
[1] https://postgr.es/m/CAKOSWNkN6HSyatuys8xZxzRCR-KL1OkHS5-b9qd9bf1Rad3PLA@mail.gmail.com

Author: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Author: Bernd Helmle <mailings@oopsware.de>
Reviewed-by: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CACA0E642A0267EDA387AF2B%40%5B172.26.14.62%5D
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/AANLkTinLXMOEMz+0J29tf1POokKi4XDkWJ6-DDR9BKgU@mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20110707213401.GA27098@alvh.no-ip.org
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1343682669-sup-2532@alvh.no-ip.org
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAKOSWNkN6HSyatuys8xZxzRCR-KL1OkHS5-b9qd9bf1Rad3PLA@mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220817181249.q7qvj3okywctra3c@alvherre.pgsql
2023-04-07 19:59:57 +02:00
Tom Lane ff245a3788 Doc: improve descriptions of max_[pred_]locks_per_transaction GUCs.
The old wording described these as being multiplied by max_connections
plus max_prepared_transactions, which hasn't been exactly right for
some time thanks to the addition of various auxiliary processes.
Moreover, exactness here is a bit pointless given that the lock tables
can expand into the initially-unallocated "slop" space in shared
memory.  Rather than trying to track exactly what the code is doing,
let's just use the term "server processes".

Likewise adjust these GUCs' description strings in guc_tables.c.

Wang Wei, reviewed by Nathan Bossart and myself

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/OS3PR01MB6275BDD09C9B875C65FCC5AB9EA39@OS3PR01MB6275.jpnprd01.prod.outlook.com
2023-04-07 13:29:29 -04:00
Tom Lane 888f2ea0a8 Add array_sample() and array_shuffle() functions.
These are useful in Monte Carlo applications.

Martin Kalcher, reviewed/adjusted by Daniel Gustafsson and myself

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/9d160a44-7675-51e8-60cf-6d64b76db831@aboutsource.net
2023-04-07 11:47:07 -04:00
David Rowley ae78cae3be Add --buffer-usage-limit option to vacuumdb
1cbbee033 added BUFFER_USAGE_LIMIT to the VACUUM and ANALYZE commands, so
here we permit that option to be specified in vacuumdb.

In passing, adjust the documents for vacuum_buffer_usage_limit and the
BUFFER_USAGE_LIMIT VACUUM option to mention "kB" rather than "KB".  Do the
same for the ERROR message in ExecVacuum() and
check_vacuum_buffer_usage_limit().  Without that we might tell a user that
the valid minimum value is 128 KB only to reject that because we accept
only "kB" and not "KB".

Also, add a small reminder comment in vacuum.h to try to trigger the
memory of anyone adding new fields to VacuumParams that they might want to
consider if vacuumdb needs to grow a new option too.

Author: Melanie Plageman
Reviewed-by: Justin Pryzby
Reviewed-by: David Rowley
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ZAzTg3iEnubscvbf@telsasoft.com
2023-04-07 12:47:10 +12:00
David Rowley 1cbbee0338 Add VACUUM/ANALYZE BUFFER_USAGE_LIMIT option
Add new options to the VACUUM and ANALYZE commands called
BUFFER_USAGE_LIMIT to allow users more control over how large to make the
buffer access strategy that is used to limit the usage of buffers in
shared buffers.  Larger rings can allow VACUUM to run more quickly but
have the drawback of VACUUM possibly evicting more buffers from shared
buffers that might be useful for other queries running on the database.

Here we also add a new GUC named vacuum_buffer_usage_limit which controls
how large to make the access strategy when it's not specified in the
VACUUM/ANALYZE command.  This defaults to 256KB, which is the same size as
the access strategy was prior to this change.  This setting also
controls how large to make the buffer access strategy for autovacuum.

Per idea by Andres Freund.

Author: Melanie Plageman
Reviewed-by: David Rowley
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund
Reviewed-by: Justin Pryzby
Reviewed-by: Bharath Rupireddy
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20230111182720.ejifsclfwymw2reb@awork3.anarazel.de
2023-04-07 11:40:31 +12:00
Tom Lane 31ae2aa9d2 psql: set SHELL_ERROR and SHELL_EXIT_CODE in more places.
Make the \g, \o, \w, and \copy commands set these variables
when closing a pipe.  We missed doing this in commit b0d8f2d98,
but it seems like a good idea.

There are some remaining places in psql that intentionally don't
update these variables after running a child program:
	* pager invocations
	* backtick evaluation within a prompt
	* \e (edit query buffer)

Corey Huinker and Tom Lane

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CADkLM=eSKwRGF-rnRqhtBORRtL49QsjcVUCa-kLxKTqxypsakw@mail.gmail.com
2023-04-06 17:33:38 -04:00
Tom Lane 00beecfe83 psql: add an optional execution-count limit to \watch.
\watch can now be told to stop after N executions of the query.

With the idea that we might want to add more options to \watch
in future, this patch generalizes the command's syntax to a list
of name=value options, with the interval allowed to omit the name
for backwards compatibility.

Andrey Borodin, reviewed by Kyotaro Horiguchi, Nathan Bossart,
Michael Paquier, Yugo Nagata, and myself

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAAhFRxiZ2-n_L1ErMm9AZjgmUK=qS6VHb+0SaMn8sqqbhF7How@mail.gmail.com
2023-04-06 13:18:14 -04:00
Tomas Vondra 2820adf775 Support long distance matching for zstd compression
zstd compression supports a special mode for finding matched in distant
past, which may result in better compression ratio, at the expense of
using more memory (the window size is 128MB).

To enable this optional mode, use the "long" keyword when specifying the
compression method (--compress=zstd:long).

Author: Justin Pryzby
Reviewed-by: Tomas Vondra, Jacob Champion
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20230224191840.GD1653@telsasoft.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220327205020.GM28503@telsasoft.com
2023-04-06 17:18:42 +02:00
Etsuro Fujita 983ec23007 postgres_fdw: Add support for parallel abort.
postgres_fdw aborts remote (sub)transactions opened on remote server(s)
in a local (sub)transaction one by one when the local (sub)transaction
aborts.  This patch allows it to abort the remote (sub)transactions in
parallel to improve performance.  This is enabled by the server option
"parallel_abort".  The default is false.

Etsuro Fujita, reviewed by David Zhang.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAPmGK15FuPVGx3TGHKShsbPKKtF1y58-ZLcKoxfN-nqLj1dZ%3Dg%40mail.gmail.com
2023-04-06 17:30:00 +09:00
Andres Freund 31966b151e bufmgr: Introduce infrastructure for faster relation extension
The primary bottlenecks for relation extension are:

1) The extension lock is held while acquiring a victim buffer for the new
   page. Acquiring a victim buffer can require writing out the old page
   contents including possibly needing to flush WAL.

2) When extending via ReadBuffer() et al, we write a zero page during the
   extension, and then later write out the actual page contents. This can
   nearly double the write rate.

3) The existing bulk relation extension infrastructure in hio.c just amortized
   the cost of acquiring the relation extension lock, but none of the other
   costs.

Unfortunately 1) cannot currently be addressed in a central manner as the
callers to ReadBuffer() need to acquire the extension lock. To address that,
this this commit moves the responsibility for acquiring the extension lock
into bufmgr.c functions. That allows to acquire the relation extension lock
for just the required time. This will also allow us to improve relation
extension further, without changing callers.

The reason we write all-zeroes pages during relation extension is that we hope
to get ENOSPC errors earlier that way (largely works, except for CoW
filesystems). It is easier to handle out-of-space errors gracefully if the
page doesn't yet contain actual tuples. This commit addresses 2), by using the
recently introduced smgrzeroextend(), which extends the relation, without
dirtying the kernel page cache for all the extended pages.

To address 3), this commit introduces a function to extend a relation by
multiple blocks at a time.

There are three new exposed functions: ExtendBufferedRel() for extending the
relation by a single block, ExtendBufferedRelBy() to extend a relation by
multiple blocks at once, and ExtendBufferedRelTo() for extending a relation up
to a certain size.

To avoid duplicating code between ReadBuffer(P_NEW) and the new functions,
ReadBuffer(P_NEW) now implements relation extension with
ExtendBufferedRel(), using a flag to tell ExtendBufferedRel() that the
relation lock is already held.

Note that this commit does not yet lead to a meaningful performance or
scalability improvement - for that uses of ReadBuffer(P_NEW) will need to be
converted to ExtendBuffered*(), which will be done in subsequent commits.

Reviewed-by: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>
Reviewed-by: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20221029025420.eplyow6k7tgu6he3@awork3.anarazel.de
2023-04-05 16:21:09 -07:00
Daniel Gustafsson 8eda731465 Allow to use system CA pool for certificate verification
This adds a new option to libpq's sslrootcert, "system", which will load
the system trusted CA roots for certificate verification. This is a more
convenient way to achieve this than pointing to the system CA roots
manually since the location can differ by installation and be locally
adjusted by env vars in OpenSSL.

When sslrootcert is set to system, sslmode is forced to be verify-full
as weaker modes aren't providing much security for public CAs.

Changing the location of the system roots by setting environment vars is
not supported by LibreSSL so the tests will use a heuristic to determine
if the system being tested is LibreSSL or OpenSSL.

The workaround in .cirrus.yml is required to handle a strange interaction
between homebrew and the openssl@3 formula; hopefully this can be removed
in the near future.

The original patch was written by Thomas Habets, which was later revived
by Jacob Champion.

Author: Jacob Champion <jchampion@timescale.com>
Author: Thomas Habets <thomas@habets.se>
Reviewed-by: Jelte Fennema <postgres@jeltef.nl>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
Reviewed-by: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CA%2BkHd%2BcJwCUxVb-Gj_0ptr3_KZPwi3%2B67vK6HnLFBK9MzuYrLA%40mail.gmail.com
2023-04-05 23:22:17 +02:00
Tomas Vondra 84adc8e20f pg_dump: Add support for zstd compression
Allow pg_dump to use the zstd compression, in addition to gzip/lz4. Bulk
of the new compression method is implemented in compress_zstd.{c,h},
covering the pg_dump compression APIs. The rest of the patch adds test
and makes various places aware of the new compression method.

The zstd library (which this patch relies on) supports multithreaded
compression since version 1.5. We however disallow that feature for now,
as it might interfere with parallel backups on platforms that rely on
threads (e.g. Windows). This can be improved / relaxed in the future.

This also fixes a minor issue in InitDiscoverCompressFileHandle(), which
was not updated to check if the file already has the .lz4 extension.

Adding zstd compression was originally proposed in 2020 (see the second
thread), but then was reworked to use the new compression API introduced
in e9960732a9. I've considered both threads when compiling the list of
reviewers.

Author: Justin Pryzby
Reviewed-by: Tomas Vondra, Jacob Champion, Andreas Karlsson
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20230224191840.GD1653@telsasoft.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20201221194924.GI30237@telsasoft.com
2023-04-05 21:39:33 +02:00
John Naylor 542b6347bf doc: Update error messages in RLS examples
Since 8b9e9644d, the messages for failed permissions checks report
"table" where appropriate, rather than "relation".

Backpatch to all supported branches
2023-04-05 14:26:03 +07:00
Peter Eisentraut c9f57541d9 doc: Update SQL features/conformance information to SQL:2023
Optional subfeatures have been changed to top-level features, so there
is a bit of a churn in the list for that.

Some existing functions have been added to the standard, so they are
moved from the "other" to the "standard" lists in their sections.

Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/63f285d9-4ec8-0c9e-4bf5-e76334ddc0af@enterprisedb.com
2023-04-05 09:20:25 +02:00
Peter Eisentraut 1993f3feb7 doc: Update SQL keywords list to SQL:2023
Per previous convention (see
ace397e9d2), drop SQL:2011 and only keep
the latest two standards and SQL-92.

Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/63f285d9-4ec8-0c9e-4bf5-e76334ddc0af@enterprisedb.com
2023-04-05 07:55:28 +02:00
Andres Freund 9d2a464a04 meson: docs: Allow configuring simple/website style
The meson docs generation hardcoded using the website style so far. Make it
configurable via a meson option.

Reviewed-by: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
Reported-by: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3fc3bb9b-f7f8-d442-35c1-ec82280c564a@enterprisedb.com
2023-04-04 21:31:27 -07:00
Andres Freund b8059bdf1e docs: html: load stylesheet via custom.css.source
Until now the meson built docs did not have a working reference to the css
stylesheet, it was copied in the make target. Instead of duplicating that for
meson, use the docbook-xsl parameter custom.css.source to reference it. An
additional benefit of that approach is that the stylesheet is now included in
the single-file HTML documentation.

Reported-by: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3fc3bb9b-f7f8-d442-35c1-ec82280c564a@enterprisedb.com
2023-04-04 21:29:45 -07:00
Andres Freund 0012979d98 docs: html: copy images to output as part of xslt build
Until now the meson built HTML docs had non-working references to images. They
were copied in the make target. Instead of duplicating that for meson, copy
them as part of the xslt stylesheet.

Reported-by: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3fc3bb9b-f7f8-d442-35c1-ec82280c564a@enterprisedb.com
2023-04-04 21:29:44 -07:00
Andres Freund ef07d351a1 meson: add docs, docs_pdf options
Detect and report if the tools necessary to build documentation are available
during configure. This is represented as two new options 'docs' and
'docs_pdf', both defaulting to 'auto'.

This should also fix a meson error about the installdocs target, when none of
the doc tools are found.

Reviewed-by: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20230325201414.sh7c6xlut2fpunnv@awork3.anarazel.de
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ZB8331v5IhUA/pNu@telsasoft.com
2023-04-04 21:29:39 -07:00
Andres Freund 0ba827ecfc meson: docs: Preparatory cleanups
These are just minor prerequisite changes for later commits. Kept separate for
easier review.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3fc3bb9b-f7f8-d442-35c1-ec82280c564a@enterprisedb.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20230329224132.fnymznyxmta5ugrs@awork3.anarazel.de
2023-04-04 21:27:47 -07:00
Andres Freund d75c7fbaf9 docs: Remove support for 'htmlhelp' format
We had partial support for generating documentation suitable for .chm
files. However, we only had wired up generating the input files using
docbook-xsl, not generating an actual .chm file. Nor did we document how to do
so.  Additionally, it was very slow to generate htmlhelp, as we never applied
the docbook-xsl stylesheet performance improvements to htmlhelp.

It doesn't look like there's any interest in the htmlhelp output, so remove
it, instead of spending cycles to finish the support.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20230324165822.wcrj3akllbqquy7u@awork3.anarazel.de
2023-04-04 19:25:14 -07:00
Michael Paquier e126d817c7 doc: Add more details about pg_stat_get_xact_blocks_{fetched,hit}
The explanation describing the dependency to system read() calls for
these two functions has been removed in ddfc2d9.  And after more
discussion about d69c404, we have concluded that adding more details
makes them easier to understand.

While on it, use the term "block read requests" (maybe found in cache)
rather than "buffers fetched" and "buffer hits".

Per discussion with Melanie Plageman, Kyotaro Horiguchi, Bertrand
Drouvot and myself.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAAKRu_ZmdiScT4q83OAbfmR5AH-L5zWya3SXjaxiJvhCob-e2A@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 11
2023-04-05 07:59:43 +09:00
Jeff Davis ea1db8ae70 Canonicalize ICU locale names to language tags.
Convert to BCP47 language tags before storing in the catalog, except
during binary upgrade or when the locale comes from an existing
collation or template database.

The resulting language tags can vary slightly between ICU
versions. For instance, "@colBackwards=yes" is converted to
"und-u-kb-true" in older versions of ICU, and to the simpler (but
equivalent) "und-u-kb" in newer versions.

The process of canonicalizing to a language tag also understands more
input locale string formats than ucol_open(). For instance,
"fr_CA.UTF-8" is misinterpreted by ucol_open() and the region is
ignored; effectively treating it the same as the locale "fr" and
opening the wrong collator. Canonicalization properly interprets the
language and region, resulting in the language tag "fr-CA", which can
then be understood by ucol_open().

This commit fixes a problem in prior versions due to ucol_open()
misinterpreting locale strings as described above. For instance,
creating an ICU collation with locale "fr_CA.UTF-8" would store that
string directly in the catalog, which would later be passed to (and
misinterpreted by) ucol_open(). After this commit, the locale string
will be canonicalized to language tag "fr-CA" in the catalog, which
will be properly understood by ucol_open(). Because this fix affects
the resulting collator, we cannot change the locale string stored in
the catalog for existing databases or collations; otherwise we'd risk
corrupting indexes. Therefore, only canonicalize locales for
newly-created (not upgraded) collations/databases. For similar
reasons, do not backport.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/8c7af6820aed94dc7bc259d2aa7f9663518e6137.camel@j-davis.com
Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut
2023-04-04 10:38:58 -07:00
Tom Lane d3d53f955c Add a way to get the current function's OID in pl/pgsql.
Invent "GET DIAGNOSTICS oid_variable = PG_ROUTINE_OID".
This is useful for avoiding the maintenance nuisances that come
with embedding a function's name in its body, as one might do
for logging purposes for example.  Typically users would cast the
result to regproc or regprocedure to get something human-readable,
but we won't pre-judge whether that's appropriate.

Pavel Stehule, reviewed by Kirk Wolak and myself

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAFj8pRA4zMd5pY-B89Gm64bDLRt-L+akOd34aD1j4PEstHHSVQ@mail.gmail.com
2023-04-04 13:33:18 -04:00
Robert Haas 482675987b Add a run_as_owner option to subscriptions.
This option is normally false, but can be set to true to obtain
the legacy behavior where the subscription runs with the permissions
of the subscription owner rather than the permissions of the
table owner. The advantages of this mode are (1) it doesn't require
that the subscription owner have permission to SET ROLE to each
table owner and (2) since no role switching occurs, the
SECURITY_RESTRICTED_OPERATION restrictions do not apply.

On the downside, it allows any table owner to easily usurp
the privileges of the subscription owner - basically, to take
over their account. Because that's generally quite undesirable,
we don't make this mode the default, but we do make it available,
just in case the new behavior causes too many problems for someone.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmoZ-WEeG6Z14AfH7KhmpX2eFh+tZ0z+vf0=eMDdbda269g@mail.gmail.com
2023-04-04 12:03:03 -04:00
Robert Haas 1e10d49b65 Perform logical replication actions as the table owner.
Up until now, logical replication actions have been performed as the
subscription owner, who will generally be a superuser.  Commit
cec57b1a0f documented hazards
associated with that situation, namely, that any user who owns a
table on the subscriber side could assume the privileges of the
subscription owner by attaching a trigger, expression index, or
some other kind of executable code to it. As a remedy, it suggested
not creating configurations where users who are not fully trusted
own tables on the subscriber.

Although that will work, it basically precludes using logical
replication in the way that people typically want to use it,
namely, to replicate a database from one node to another
without necessarily having any restrictions on which database
users can own tables. So, instead, change logical replication to
execute INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, and TRUNCATE operations as the
table owner when they are replicated.

Since this involves switching the active user frequently within
a session that is authenticated as the subscription user, also
impose SECURITY_RESTRICTED_OPERATION restrictions on logical
replication code. As an exception, if the table owner can SET
ROLE to the subscription owner, these restrictions have no
security value, so don't impose them in that case.

Subscription owners are now required to have the ability to
SET ROLE to every role that owns a table that the subscription
is replicating. If they don't, replication will fail. Superusers,
who normally own subscriptions, satisfy this property by default.
Non-superusers users who own subscriptions will need to be
granted the roles that own relevant tables.

Patch by me, reviewed (but not necessarily in its entirety) by
Jelte Fennema, Jeff Davis, and Noah Misch.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmoaSCkg9ww9oppPqqs+9RVqCexYCE6Aq=UsYPfnOoDeFkw@mail.gmail.com
2023-04-04 11:25:23 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 3077324b03 Add missing XML ID attributes
Author: Brar Piening <brar@gmx.de>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/dc813a6f-60d9-991f-eecd-675a0921de11@gmx.de
2023-04-04 16:20:34 +02:00
Andres Freund 8a2b1b1477 bufmgr: Remove buffer-write-dirty tracepoints
The trace point was using the relfileno / fork / block for the to-be-read-in
buffer. Some upcoming work would make that more expensive to provide. We still
have buffer-flush-start/done, which can serve most tracing needs that
buffer-write-dirty could serve.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/f5164e7a-eef6-8972-75a3-8ac622ed0c6e@iki.fi
2023-04-03 18:02:41 -07:00
David Rowley 4830f10243 Disable vacuum's use of a buffer access strategy during failsafe
Traditionally, vacuum always makes use of a buffer access strategy 32
buffers in size.  This means that running vacuums tend not to cause too
many shared buffers to become dirty, however, this can cause vacuums to
run much more slowly than they otherwise could as WAL flushes will occur
more frequently due to having to flush WAL out to the LSN of the dirty
page before that page can be written to disk.

When we are performing failsafe VACUUMs (as added in 1e55e7d17), we really
want to make the vacuum work go as quickly as possible, so here we disable
the buffer access strategy when entering failsafe mode while vacuuming a
relation.

Per idea and analyis from Andres Freund.

In passing, also include some changes I had intended for 32fbe0239.

Author: Melanie Plageman
Reviewed-by: Justin Pryzby, David Rowley
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20230111182720.ejifsclfwymw2reb%40awork3.anarazel.de
2023-04-03 23:05:58 +12:00
David Rowley c8f8d0eb18 Doc: add Buffer Access Strategy to the glossary
It seems useful to add this to the glossary as there's discussion around
adding an option to VACUUM to disable and adjust the size of the buffer
access strategy that VACUUM uses.

Author: Melanie Plageman
Reviewed-by: Justin Pryzby, David Rowley
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ZBYDTrD1kyGg%2BHkS%40telsasoft.com
2023-04-01 10:41:27 +13:00
Peter Geoghegan df4f3ab517 Add show_data option to pg_get_wal_block_info.
Allow users to opt out of returning FPI data and block data from
pg_get_wal_block_info as an optimization.  Testing has shown that this
can make function execution over twice as fast in some cases.

When pg_get_wal_block_info is called with "show_data := false", it
always returns NULL values for its block_data and block_fpi_data bytea
output parameters.  Nothing else changes.  In particular, the function
will still return the usual per-block summary of block data/FPI space
overhead.  Use of "show_data := false" is therefore feasible with all
queries that don't specifically require these raw binary strings.

Follow-up to recent work in commit 122376f0.  There still hasn't been a
stable release with the pg_get_wal_block_info function, so no bump in
the pg_walinspect extension version.

Per suggestion from Melanie Plageman.

Author: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAAKRu_bJvbcYBRj2cN6G2xV7B7-Ja+pjTO1nEnEhRR8OXYiABA@mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-Wzm9shOkEDM10_+qOZkRSQhKVxwBFiehH6EHWQQRd_rDPw@mail.gmail.com
2023-03-31 14:02:52 -07:00
Alvaro Herrera 6ee30209a6
SQL/JSON: support the IS JSON predicate
This patch introduces the SQL standard IS JSON predicate. It operates
on text and bytea values representing JSON, as well as on the json and
jsonb types. Each test has IS and IS NOT variants and supports a WITH
UNIQUE KEYS flag. The tests are:

IS JSON [VALUE]
IS JSON ARRAY
IS JSON OBJECT
IS JSON SCALAR

These should be self-explanatory.

The WITH UNIQUE KEYS flag makes these return false when duplicate keys
exist in any object within the value, not necessarily directly contained
in the outermost object.

Author: Nikita Glukhov <n.gluhov@postgrespro.ru>
Author: Teodor Sigaev <teodor@sigaev.ru>
Author: Oleg Bartunov <obartunov@gmail.com>
Author: Alexander Korotkov <aekorotkov@gmail.com>
Author: Amit Langote <amitlangote09@gmail.com>
Author: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>

Reviewers have included (in no particular order) Andres Freund, Alexander
Korotkov, Pavel Stehule, Andrew Alsup, Erik Rijkers, Zihong Yu,
Himanshu Upadhyaya, Daniel Gustafsson, Justin Pryzby.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAF4Au4w2x-5LTnN_bxky-mq4=WOqsGsxSpENCzHRAzSnEd8+WQ@mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/cd0bb935-0158-78a7-08b5-904886deac4b@postgrespro.ru
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220616233130.rparivafipt6doj3@alap3.anarazel.de
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/abd9b83b-aa66-f230-3d6d-734817f0995d%40postgresql.org
2023-03-31 22:34:04 +02:00
Daniel Gustafsson 558fff0adf pg_regress: Emit TAP compliant output
This converts pg_regress output format to emit TAP compliant output
while keeping it as human readable as possible for use without TAP
test harnesses. As verbose harness related information isn't really
supported by TAP this also reduces the verbosity of pg_regress runs
which makes scrolling through log output in buildfarm/CI runs a bit
easier as well.

As the meson TAP parser conumes whitespace, the leading indentation
for differentiating parallel tests from sequential tests has been
changed to a single character prefix.

This patch has been around for an extended period of time, reviewers
listed below may have been involved in reviewing a version quite
different from the version in this commit.  The original idea for
this patch was a hacking session with Jinbao Chen.

TAP format testing is also enabled in meson as of this.

Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Reviewed-by: Nikolay Shaplov <dhyan@nataraj.su>
Reviewed-by: Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker <ilmari@ilmari.org>
Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/BD4B107D-7E53-4794-ACBA-275BEB4327C9@yesql.se
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220221164736.rq3ornzjdkmwk2wo@alap3.anarazel.de
2023-03-31 13:00:02 +02:00
Amit Kapila ed94e8563e Add XML ID attributes to create_publication.sgml.
This commit adds XML ID attributes to all varlistentries in
create_publication.sgml. This allows us to include links to refer to
publication options, making documents more readable.

Author: Kuroda Hayato
Reviewed-by: Peter Smith, Amit Kapila
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/TYAPR01MB58668219FEA4EC231486A433F58E9@TYAPR01MB5866.jpnprd01.prod.outlook.com
2023-03-31 08:59:55 +05:30
Andres Freund 8aaa04b32d Track shared buffer hits in pg_stat_io
Among other things, this should make it easier to calculate a useful cache hit
ratio by excluding buffer reads via buffer access strategies. As buffer access
strategies reuse buffers (and thus evict the prior buffer contents), it is
normal to see reads on repeated scans of the same data.

Author: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAAKRu_beMa9Hzih40%3DXPYqhDVz6tsgUGTrhZXRo%3Dunp%2Bszb%3DUA%40mail.gmail.com
2023-03-30 19:24:21 -07:00
Peter Geoghegan 122376f028 Show record information in pg_get_wal_block_info.
Expand the output parameters in pg_walinspect's pg_get_wal_block_info
function to return additional information that was previously only
available from pg_walinspect's pg_get_wal_records_info function.  Some
of the details are attributed to individual block references, rather
than aggregated into whole-record values, since the function returns one
row per block reference per WAL record (unlike pg_get_wal_records_info,
which always returns one row per WAL record).

This structure is much easier to work with when writing queries that
track how individual blocks changed over time, or when attributing costs
to individual blocks (not WAL records) is useful.

This is the second time that pg_get_wal_block_info has been enhanced in
recent weeks.  Commit 9ecb134a expanded on the original version of the
function added in commit c31cf1c0 (where it first appeared under the
name pg_get_wal_fpi_info).  There still hasn't been a stable release
since commit c31cf1c0, so no bump in the pg_walinspect extension
version.

Author: Bharath Rupireddy <bharath.rupireddyforpostgres@gmail.com>
Author: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
Reviewed-By: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
Reviewed-By: Kyotaro HORIGUCHI <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CALj2ACVRK5=Z+2ZVsjgTTSkfEnQzCuwny7iigpG7g1btk4Ws2A@mail.gmail.com
2023-03-30 12:26:12 -07:00
Robert Haas 9c487efe35 Fix documentation build for c3afe8cf5a.
This documentation hunk was intended to be part of that commit,
but I goofed.
2023-03-30 12:06:34 -04:00
Robert Haas c3afe8cf5a Add new predefined role pg_create_subscription.
This role can be granted to non-superusers to allow them to issue
CREATE SUBSCRIPTION. The non-superuser must additionally have CREATE
permissions on the database in which the subscription is to be
created.

Most forms of ALTER SUBSCRIPTION, including ALTER SUBSCRIPTION .. SKIP,
now require only that the role performing the operation own the
subscription, or inherit the privileges of the owner. However, to
use ALTER SUBSCRIPTION ... RENAME or ALTER SUBSCRIPTION ... OWNER TO,
you also need CREATE permission on the database. This is similar to
what we do for schemas. To change the owner of a schema, you must also
have permission to SET ROLE to the new owner, similar to what we do
for other object types.

Non-superusers are required to specify a password for authentication
and the remote side must use the password, similar to what is required
for postgres_fdw and dblink.  A superuser who wants a non-superuser to
own a subscription that does not rely on password authentication may
set the new password_required=false property on that subscription. A
non-superuser may not set password_required=false and may not modify a
subscription that already has password_required=false.

This new password_required subscription property works much like the
eponymous postgres_fdw property.  In both cases, the actual semantics
are that a password is not required if either (1) the property is set
to false or (2) the relevant user is the superuser.

Patch by me, reviewed by Andres Freund, Jeff Davis, Mark Dilger,
and Stephen Frost (but some of those people did not fully endorse
all of the decisions that the patch makes).

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmoaDH=0Xj7OBiQnsHTKcF2c4L+=gzPBUKSJLh8zed2_+Dg@mail.gmail.com
2023-03-30 11:37:19 -04:00
Daniel Gustafsson 7f5b19817e Support connection load balancing in libpq
This adds support for load balancing connections with libpq using a
connection parameter: load_balance_hosts=<string>. When setting the
param to random, hosts and addresses will be connected to in random
order. This then results in load balancing across these addresses and
hosts when multiple clients or frequent connection setups are used.

The randomization employed performs two levels of shuffling:

  1. The given hosts are randomly shuffled, before resolving them
     one-by-one.
  2. Once a host its addresses get resolved, the returned addresses
     are shuffled, before trying to connect to them one-by-one.

Author: Jelte Fennema <postgres@jeltef.nl>
Reviewed-by: Aleksander Alekseev <aleksander@timescale.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael Banck <mbanck@gmx.net>
Reviewed-by: Andrey Borodin <amborodin86@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/PR3PR83MB04768E2FF04818EEB2179949F7A69@PR3PR83MB0476.EURPRD83.prod.outlook.
2023-03-29 21:53:38 +02:00
Alvaro Herrera 7081ac46ac
SQL/JSON: add standard JSON constructor functions
This commit introduces the SQL/JSON standard-conforming constructors for
JSON types:

JSON_ARRAY()
JSON_ARRAYAGG()
JSON_OBJECT()
JSON_OBJECTAGG()

Most of the functionality was already present in PostgreSQL-specific
functions, but these include some new functionality such as the ability
to skip or include NULL values, and to allow duplicate keys or throw
error when they are found, as well as the standard specified syntax to
specify output type and format.

Author: Nikita Glukhov <n.gluhov@postgrespro.ru>
Author: Teodor Sigaev <teodor@sigaev.ru>
Author: Oleg Bartunov <obartunov@gmail.com>
Author: Alexander Korotkov <aekorotkov@gmail.com>
Author: Amit Langote <amitlangote09@gmail.com>

Reviewers have included (in no particular order) Andres Freund, Alexander
Korotkov, Pavel Stehule, Andrew Alsup, Erik Rijkers, Zihong Yu,
Himanshu Upadhyaya, Daniel Gustafsson, Justin Pryzby.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAF4Au4w2x-5LTnN_bxky-mq4=WOqsGsxSpENCzHRAzSnEd8+WQ@mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/cd0bb935-0158-78a7-08b5-904886deac4b@postgrespro.ru
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220616233130.rparivafipt6doj3@alap3.anarazel.de
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/abd9b83b-aa66-f230-3d6d-734817f0995d%40postgresql.org
2023-03-29 12:11:36 +02:00
Peter Eisentraut 5aae36dc9c meson: Change default buildtype to debugoptimized
This matches the Autoconf default (-O2 + debug) better.  The previous
default setting "release" used -O3, which resulted in different
compiler warnings.  At least for now, we want to avoid such
divergence.

Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CAFj8pRBJD_Y-XcqwXSbWS24z%2B84FFX7ajhCan9ixc_m4bD63sA%40mail.gmail.com
2023-03-29 09:48:18 +02:00
Amit Kapila 062a844424 Avoid syncing data twice for the 'publish_via_partition_root' option.
When there are multiple publications for a subscription and one of those
publishes via the parent table by using publish_via_partition_root and the
other one directly publishes the child table, we end up copying the same
data twice during initial synchronization. The reason for this was that we
get both the parent and child tables from the publisher and try to copy
the data for both of them.

This patch extends the function pg_get_publication_tables() to take a
publication list as its input parameter. This allows us to exclude a
partition table whose ancestor is published by the same publication list.

This problem does exist in back-branches but we decide to fix it there in
a separate commit if required. The fix for back-branches requires quite
complicated changes to fetch the required table information from the
publisher as we can't update the function pg_get_publication_tables() in
back-branches. We are not sure whether we want to deviate and complicate
the code in back-branches for this problem as there are no field reports
yet.

Author: Wang wei
Reviewed-by: Peter Smith, Jacob Champion, Kuroda Hayato, Vignesh C, Osumi Takamichi, Amit Kapila
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/OS0PR01MB57167F45D481F78CDC5986F794B99@OS0PR01MB5716.jpnprd01.prod.outlook.com
2023-03-29 10:46:58 +05:30
Amit Kapila de5a47af2d Add XML ID attributes to create_subscription.sgml.
Commit ecb696527c added an XML ID attribute to one varlistentry in
create_subscription.sgml. Following 78ee60ed84, this commit adds XML ID
attributes to all varlistentries in create_subscription.sgml.
Additionally, links are added to refer to the subscription options,
enhancing the readability of documents.

Author: Kuroda Hayato
Reviewed-by: Peter Smith, Amit Kapila
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/TYAPR01MB58667AE04D291924671E2051F5879@TYAPR01MB5866.jpnprd01.prod.outlook.com
2023-03-29 09:58:14 +05:30
Jeff Davis 1671f990dd Validate ICU locales.
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
2023-03-28 16:34:29 -07:00
Peter Eisentraut 90189eefc1 Save a few bytes in pg_attribute
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
2023-03-28 10:05:56 +02:00
Daniel Gustafsson 5a91c79755 doc: fix Apple Silicon Homebrew prefix change documentation
Commit 4c8d65408 incorrectly stated that Homebrew has changed its
prefix for Apple M1 machines, but the prefix change applies to all
Apple Silicon based machines.  Fix by writing Apple Silicon instead
of Apple M1.

Reported-by: Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker <ilmari@ilmari.org>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/87mt3ys8ng.fsf@wibble.ilmari.org
2023-03-27 14:16:45 +02:00
Daniel Gustafsson 4c8d654084 doc: Fix XML_CATALOG_FILES env var for Apple M1 machines
Homebrew changed the prefix for Apple M1 based machines, so our
advice for XML_CATALOG_FILES needs to mention both.  More info
on the Homebrew change can be found at:

  https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/issues/9177

Author: Julien Rouhaud <julien.rouhaud@free.fr>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20230327082441.h7pa2vqiobbyo7rd@jrouhaud
2023-03-27 11:56:19 +02:00
Daniel Gustafsson b577743000 Make SCRAM iteration count configurable
Replace the hardcoded value with a GUC such that the iteration
count can be raised in order to increase protection against
brute-force attacks.  The hardcoded value for SCRAM iteration
count was defined to be 4096, which is taken from RFC 7677, so
set the default for the GUC to 4096 to match.  In RFC 7677 the
recommendation is at least 15000 iterations but 4096 is listed
as a SHOULD requirement given that it's estimated to yield a
0.5s processing time on a mobile handset of the time of RFC
writing (late 2015).

Raising the iteration count of SCRAM will make stored passwords
more resilient to brute-force attacks at a higher computational
cost during connection establishment.  Lowering the count will
reduce computational overhead during connections at the tradeoff
of reducing strength against brute-force attacks.

There are however platforms where even a modest iteration count
yields a too high computational overhead, with weaker password
encryption schemes chosen as a result.  In these situations,
SCRAM with a very low iteration count still gives benefits over
weaker schemes like md5, so we allow the iteration count to be
set to one at the low end.

The new GUC is intentionally generically named such that it can
be made to support future SCRAM standards should they emerge.
At that point the value can be made into key:value pairs with
an undefined key as a default which will be backwards compatible
with this.

Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan S. Katz <jkatz@postgresql.org>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/F72E7BC7-189F-4B17-BF47-9735EB72C364@yesql.se
2023-03-27 09:46:29 +02:00
Tom Lane 6eefe2ce46 Doc: clarify introduction to database roles.
Word-smith section 22.1 ("Database Roles") a little bit in hopes
of removing confusion about how the bootstrap superuser's name
is chosen.

While here, I couldn't help noticing that the claim that the bootstrap
superuser is the only initially-existing role has been a lie since
we started to invent predefined roles.  We don't want too much detail
in this very introductory text, but it seems worth changing it to say
that it's the only initially-existing login-capable role.

Per documentation comment from Maja Zaloznik.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/167931662853.3349090.18217722739345182859@wrigleys.postgresql.org
2023-03-26 14:48:04 -04:00
Tom Lane 27f5c712b2 Fix CREATE INDEX progress reporting for multi-level partitioning.
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
2023-03-25 15:34:03 -04:00
Tom Lane f34a893531 Doc: fix another "contents...exceed the available area" PDF warning.
New since yesterday :-(
2023-03-25 13:22:59 -04:00
Tom Lane 7023207cfd Doc: fix examples for pg_input_error_info().
These were causing "contents ... exceed the available area"
warnings in PDF builds, and also didn't quite follow our markup
conventions for function examples.  To fix the overwidth
problem, reduce the number of fields shown in one example,
and also insert &zwsp; to let the header line be broken in
a reasonable place.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20230324194701.dqkzcdtlcikseo22@awork3.anarazel.de
2023-03-24 19:31:21 -04:00
Andres Freund 642d877976 docs: Explain how to silence overly verbose messages by fop
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20230324194701.dqkzcdtlcikseo22@awork3.anarazel.de
2023-03-24 14:18:40 -07:00
Tom Lane 3c05284d83 Invent GENERIC_PLAN option for EXPLAIN.
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
2023-03-24 17:07:22 -04:00
Andres Freund 069ef254f1 meson: docs: add texinfo target 2023-03-23 23:14:31 -07:00
Michael Paquier 36f40ce2dc libpq: Add sslcertmode option to control client certificates
The sslcertmode option controls whether the server is allowed and/or
required to request a certificate from the client.  There are three
modes:
- "allow" is the default and follows the current behavior, where a
configured client certificate is sent if the server requests one
(via one of its default locations or sslcert).  With the current
implementation, will happen whenever TLS is negotiated.
- "disable" causes the client to refuse to send a client certificate
even if sslcert is configured or if a client certificate is available in
one of its default locations.
- "require" causes the client to fail if a client certificate is never
sent and the server opens a connection anyway.  This doesn't add any
additional security, since there is no guarantee that the server is
validating the certificate correctly, but it may helpful to troubleshoot
more complicated TLS setups.

sslcertmode=require requires SSL_CTX_set_cert_cb(), available since
OpenSSL 1.0.2.  Note that LibreSSL does not include it.

Using a connection parameter different than require_auth has come up as
the simplest design because certificate authentication does not rely
directly on any of the AUTH_REQ_* codes, and one may want to require a
certificate to be sent in combination of a given authentication method,
like SCRAM-SHA-256.

TAP tests are added in src/test/ssl/, some of them relying on sslinfo to
check if a certificate has been set.  These are compatible across all
the versions of OpenSSL supported on HEAD (currently down to 1.0.1).

Author: Jacob Champion
Reviewed-by: Aleksander Alekseev, Peter Eisentraut, David G. Johnston,
Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/9e5a8ccddb8355ea9fa4b75a1e3a9edc88a70cd3.camel@vmware.com
2023-03-24 13:34:26 +09:00
Andres Freund f13eb16485 meson: add install-{docs,doc-html,doc-man} targets
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3fc3bb9b-f7f8-d442-35c1-ec82280c564a@enterprisedb.com
2023-03-23 21:20:18 -07:00
Etsuro Fujita 0f0a7183d7 Doc: Improve description of the "batch_size" option for postgres_fdw.
Document that the actual number of rows postgres_fdw inserts at once in
the COPY case is determined in a similar way to the INSERT case, but it
has a restriction that does not apply to the INSERT case.

Follow-up for commit 97da48246.

Reviewed-by: Daniel Gustafsson and Tatsuo Ishii
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAPmGK14NMXDMW4qK9kHUzudN9t71uvrMKPna02X6zwgQJ6E1_g%40mail.gmail.com
2023-03-24 12:55:00 +09:00
Daniel Gustafsson eb2618a03c doc: fix another case of missing productname markup
As a follow-up commit to 0f85db92b9, this adds <productname> markup
to another case of "PostgreSQL".

Author: Hayato Kuroda <kuroda.hayato@fujitsu.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/TYAPR01MB58667A7C8317E267467CC599F5869@TYAPR01MB5866.jpnprd01.prod.outlook.com
2023-03-23 21:35:26 +01:00
Peter Geoghegan ae4fdde135 Count updates that move row to a new page.
Add pgstat counter to track row updates that result in the successor
version going to a new heap page, leaving behind an original version
whose t_ctid points to the new version.  The current count is shown by
the n_tup_newpage_upd column of each of the pg_stat_*_tables views.

The new n_tup_newpage_upd column complements the existing n_tup_hot_upd
and n_tup_upd columns.  Tables that have high n_tup_newpage_upd values
(relative to n_tup_upd) are good candidates for tuning heap fillfactor.

Corey Huinker, with small tweaks by me.

Author: Corey Huinker <corey.huinker@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
Reviewed-By: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CADkLM=ded21M9iZ36hHm-vj2rE2d=zcKpUQMds__Xm2pxLfHKA@mail.gmail.com
2023-03-23 11:16:17 -07:00
Amit Kapila ecb696527c Allow logical replication to copy tables in binary format.
This patch allows copying tables in the binary format during table
synchronization when the binary option for a subscription is enabled.
Previously, tables are copied in text format even if the subscription is
created with the binary option enabled. Copying tables in binary format
may reduce the time spent depending on column types.

A binary copy for initial table synchronization is supported only when
both publisher and subscriber are v16 or later.

Author: Melih Mutlu
Reviewed-by: Peter Smith, Shi yu, Euler Taveira, Vignesh C,  Kuroda Hayato, Osumi Takamichi, Bharath Rupireddy, Hou Zhijie
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAGPVpCQvAziCLknEnygY0v1-KBtg%2BOm-9JHJYZOnNPKFJPompw%40mail.gmail.com
2023-03-23 08:45:51 +05:30
Thomas Munro 8fba928fd7 Improve the naming of Parallel Hash Join phases.
* Commit 3048898e dropped -ING from PHJ wait event names.  Update the
  corresponding barrier phases names to match.

* Rename the "DONE" phases to "FREE".  That's symmetrical with
  "ALLOCATE", and names the activity that actually happens in that phase
  (as we do for the other phases) rather than a state.  The bug fixed by
  commit 8d578b9b might have been more obvious with this name.

* Rename the batch/bucket growth barriers' "ALLOCATE" phases to
  "REALLOCATE", a better description of what they do.

* Update the high level comments about phases to highlight phases
  are executed by a single process with an asterisk (mostly memory
  management phases).

No behavior change, as this is just improving internal identifiers.  The
only user-visible sign of this is that a couple of wait events' display
names change from "...Allocate" to "...Reallocate" in pg_stat_activity,
to stay in sync with the internal names.

Reviewed-by: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKG%2BMDpwF2Eo2LAvzd%3DpOh81wUTsrwU1uAwR-v6OGBB6%2B7g%40mail.gmail.com
2023-03-23 13:14:25 +13:00
Tom Lane 3e51b278db Add "-c name=value" switch to initdb.
This option, or its long form --set, sets the GUC "name" to "value".
The setting applies in the bootstrap and standalone servers run by
initdb, and is also written into the generated postgresql.conf.

This can save an extra editing step when creating a new cluster,
but the real use-case is for coping with situations where the
bootstrap server fails to start due to environmental issues;
for example, if it's necessary to force huge_pages to off.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2844176.1674681919@sss.pgh.pa.us
2023-03-22 13:49:05 -04:00
Michael Paquier d69c404c4c doc: Add description of some missing monitoring functions
This commit adds some documentation about two monitoring functions:
- pg_stat_get_xact_blocks_fetched()
- pg_stat_get_xact_blocks_hit()

The description of these functions has been removed in ddfc2d9, later
simplified by 5f2b089, assuming that all the functions whose
descriptions were removed are used in system views.  Unfortunately, some
of them were are not used in any system views, so they lacked
documentation.

This gap exists in the docs for a long time, so backpatch all the way
down.

Reported-by: Michael Paquier
Author: Bertrand Drouvot
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ZBeeH5UoNkTPrwHO@paquier.xyz
Backpatch-through: 11
2023-03-22 18:31:52 +09:00
Tom Lane b0d8f2d983 Add SHELL_ERROR and SHELL_EXIT_CODE magic variables to psql.
These are set after a \! command or a backtick substitution.
SHELL_ERROR is just "true" for error (nonzero exit status) or "false"
for success, while SHELL_EXIT_CODE records the actual exit status
following standard shell/system(3) conventions.

Corey Huinker, reviewed by Maxim Orlov and myself

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CADkLM=cWao2x2f+UDw15W1JkVFr_bsxfstw=NGea7r9m4j-7rQ@mail.gmail.com
2023-03-21 13:03:56 -04:00
Daniel Gustafsson 0f85db92b9 docs: use consistent markup for PostgreSQL
"PostgreSQL" should use <productname> markup consistenktly, so that
if we do apply styling on it it will be consistently applied.  Fix
by renaming the one exception to the rule.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/F2EF5217-27A3-4962-9AE5-2E6C2CB3D0FF@yesql.se
2023-03-21 17:23:20 +01:00
Peter Eisentraut 4c8044c044 pg_waldump: Allow hexadecimal values for -t/--timeline option
This makes it easier to specify values taken directly from WAL file
names.

The option parsing is arranged in the style of option_parse_int() (but
we need to parse unsigned int), to allow future refactoring in the
same manner.

Reviewed-by: Sébastien Lardière <sebastien@lardiere.net>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/8fef346e-2541-76c3-d768-6536ae052993@lardiere.net
2023-03-21 08:05:23 +01:00
Andres Freund 7730ceb43f meson: rename html_help target to htmlhelp
Reported-by: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3fc3bb9b-f7f8-d442-35c1-ec82280c564a@enterprisedb.com
2023-03-20 17:23:57 -07:00
Tom Lane 72a5b1fc88 Add @extschema:name@ and no_relocate options to extensions.
@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
2023-03-20 18:37:11 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera 30e9f2608a
doc/PDF: Add page breaks for <sect1> in contrib appendix
This better separates the content for each extension/module.

Author: Karl Pinc <kop@karlpinc.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20230120142225.3d3be8a3@slate.karlpinc.com
2023-03-20 14:01:09 +01:00
Tomas Vondra 19d8e2308b Ignore BRIN indexes when checking for HOT updates
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
2023-03-20 11:02:42 +01:00
Peter Eisentraut 0b51d423e9 doc: Additional information about timeline ID hexadecimal format
Timeline IDs are sometimes presented to the user in hexadecimal format
(for example in WAL file names).  Add a few bits of information to
clarify this.

Author: Sébastien Lardière <sebastien@lardiere.net>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/8fef346e-2541-76c3-d768-6536ae052993@lardiere.net
2023-03-20 08:48:46 +01:00
Tom Lane 4f46f870fa Doc: fix documentation example for bytea hex output format.
Per report from rsindlin

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/167907221210.1803488.5939223864945604536@wrigleys.postgresql.org
2023-03-18 16:11:22 -04:00
Tom Lane 75bd846b68 Add functions to do timestamptz arithmetic in a non-default timezone.
Add versions of timestamptz + interval, timestamptz - interval, and
generate_series(timestamptz, ...) in which a timezone can be specified
explicitly instead of defaulting to the TimeZone GUC setting.

The new functions for the first two are named date_add and
date_subtract.  This might seem too generic, but we could use
overloading to add additional variants if that seems useful.

Along the way, improve the docs' pretty inadequate explanation
of how timestamptz +- interval works.

Przemysław Sztoch and Gurjeet Singh; cosmetic changes and most of
the docs work by me

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/01a84551-48dd-1359-bf7e-f6b0203a6bd0@sztoch.pl
2023-03-18 14:12:16 -04:00
Tom Lane bc8cd50fef Fix pg_dump for hash partitioning on enum columns.
Hash partitioning on an enum is problematic because the hash codes are
derived from the OIDs assigned to the enum values, which will almost
certainly be different after a dump-and-reload than they were before.
This means that some rows probably end up in different partitions than
before, causing restore to fail because of partition constraint
violations.  (pg_upgrade dodges this problem by using hacks to force
the enum values to keep the same OIDs, but that's not possible nor
desirable for pg_dump.)

Users can work around that by specifying --load-via-partition-root,
but since that's a dump-time not restore-time decision, one might
find out the need for it far too late.  Instead, teach pg_dump to
apply that option automatically when dealing with a partitioned
table that has hash-on-enum partitioning.

Also deal with a pre-existing issue for --load-via-partition-root
mode: in a parallel restore, we try to TRUNCATE target tables just
before loading them, in order to enable some backend optimizations.
This is bad when using --load-via-partition-root because (a) we're
likely to suffer deadlocks from restore jobs trying to restore rows
into other partitions than they came from, and (b) if we miss getting
a deadlock we might still lose data due to a TRUNCATE removing rows
from some already-completed restore job.

The fix for this is conceptually simple: just don't TRUNCATE if we're
dealing with a --load-via-partition-root case.  The tricky bit is for
pg_restore to identify those cases.  In dumps using COPY commands we
can inspect each COPY command to see if it targets the nominal target
table or some ancestor.  However, in dumps using INSERT commands it's
pretty impractical to examine the INSERTs in advance.  To provide a
solution for that going forward, modify pg_dump to mark TABLE DATA
items that are using --load-via-partition-root with a comment.
(This change also responds to a complaint from Robert Haas that
the dump output for --load-via-partition-root is pretty confusing.)
pg_restore checks for the special comment as well as checking the
COPY command if present.  This will fail to identify the combination
of --load-via-partition-root and --inserts in pre-existing dump files,
but that should be a pretty rare case in the field.  If it does
happen you will probably get a deadlock failure that you can work
around by not using parallel restore, which is the same as before
this bug fix.

Having done this, there seems no remaining reason for the alarmism
in the pg_dump man page about combining --load-via-partition-root
with parallel restore, so remove that warning.

Patch by me; thanks to Julien Rouhaud for review.  Back-patch to
v11 where hash partitioning was introduced.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1376149.1675268279@sss.pgh.pa.us
2023-03-17 13:31:40 -04:00
Michael Paquier 98ae2c84a4 libpq: Remove code for SCM credential authentication
Support for SCM credential authentication has been removed in the
backend in 9.1, and libpq has kept some code to handle it for
compatibility.

Commit be4585b, that did the cleanup of the backend code, has done
so because the code was not really portable originally.  And, as there
are likely little chances that this is used these days, this removes the
remaining code from libpq.  An error will now be raised by libpq if
attempting to connect to a server that returns AUTH_REQ_SCM_CREDS,
instead.

References to SCM credential authentication are removed from the
protocol documentation.  This removes some meson and configure checks.

Author: Michael Paquier
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ZBLH8a4otfqgd6Kn@paquier.xyz
2023-03-17 10:52:26 +09:00
Tom Lane f170b572d2 Doc: mention CREATE+ATTACH PARTITION with CREATE TABLE...PARTITION OF.
Clarify that ATTACH/DETACH PARTITION can be used to perform partition
maintenance with less locking than straight CREATE TABLE/DROP TABLE.
This was already stated in some places, but not emphasized.

Back-patch to v14 where DETACH PARTITION CONCURRENTLY was added.
(We had lower lock levels for ATTACH PARTITION before that, but
this wording wouldn't apply.)

Justin Pryzby, reviewed by Robert Treat and Jakub Wartak;
a little further wordsmithing by me

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220718143304.GC18011@telsasoft.com
2023-03-16 16:50:56 -04:00
Tom Lane 483bdb2afe Support [NO] INDENT option in XMLSERIALIZE().
This adds the ability to pretty-print XML documents ... according to
libxml's somewhat idiosyncratic notions of what's pretty, anyway.
One notable divergence from a strict reading of the spec is that
libxml is willing to collapse empty nodes "<node></node>" to just
"<node/>", whereas SQL and the underlying XML spec say that this
option should only result in whitespace tweaks.  Nonetheless,
it seems close enough to justify using the SQL-standard syntax.

Jim Jones, reviewed by Peter Smith and myself

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2f5df461-dad8-6d7d-4568-08e10608a69b@uni-muenster.de
2023-03-15 16:59:09 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera a0137388cb
doc: Add lists of modules trusted/obsolete
Author: Karl Pinc <kop@karlpinc.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20230102180015.372995a9@slate.karlpinc.com
2023-03-15 09:32:44 +01:00