The idea of EvalPlanQual is that we replace the query's scan of the
result relation with a single injected tuple, and see if we get a
tuple out, thereby implying that the injected tuple still passes the
query quals. (In join cases, other relations in the query are still
scanned normally.) This logic was not updated when commit 86dc90056
made it possible for a single DML query plan to have multiple result
relations, when the query target relation has inheritance or partition
children. We replaced the output for the current result relation
successfully, but other result relations were still scanned normally;
thus, if any other result relation contained a tuple satisfying the
quals, we'd think the EPQ check passed, even if it did not pass for
the injected tuple itself. This would lead to update or delete
actions getting performed when they should have been skipped due to
a conflicting concurrent update in READ COMMITTED isolation mode.
Fix by blocking all sibling result relations from emitting tuples
during an EvalPlanQual recheck. In the back branches, the fix is
complicated a bit by the need to not change the size of struct
EPQState (else we'd have ABI-breaking changes in offsets in
struct ModifyTableState). Like the back-patches of 3f7836ff6
and 4b3e37993, add a separately palloc'd struct to avoid that.
The logic is the same as in HEAD otherwise.
This is only a live bug back to v14 where 86dc90056 came in.
However, I chose to back-patch the test cases further, on the
grounds that this whole area is none too well tested. I skipped
doing so in v11 though because none of the test applied cleanly,
and it didn't quite seem worth extra work for a branch with only
six months to live.
Per report from Ante Krešić (via Aleksander Alekseev)
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAJ7c6TMBTN3rcz4=AjYhLPD_w3FFT0Wq_C15jxCDn8U4tZnH1g@mail.gmail.com
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.orghttps://postgr.es/m/17792-0f89452029662c36%40postgresql.org
If UPDATE is forced to retry after an EvalPlanQual check, it neglected
to repeat GENERATED-column computations, even though those might well
have changed since we're dealing with a different tuple than before.
Fixing this is mostly a matter of looping back a bit further when
we retry. In v15 and HEAD that's most easily done by altering the API
of ExecUpdateAct so that it includes computing GENERATED expressions.
Also, if an UPDATE in a partitioned table turns into a cross-partition
INSERT operation, we failed to recompute GENERATED columns. That's a
bug since 8bf6ec3ba allowed partitions to have different generation
expressions; although it seems to have no ill effects before that.
Fixing this is messier because we can now have situations where the same
query needs both the UPDATE-aligned set of GENERATED columns and the
INSERT-aligned set, and it's unclear which set will be generated first
(else we could hack things by forcing the INSERT-aligned set to be
generated, which is indeed how fe9e658f4 made it work for MERGE).
The best fix seems to be to build and store separate sets of expressions
for the INSERT and UPDATE cases. That would create ABI issues in the
back branches, but so far it seems we can leave this alone in the back
branches.
Per bug #17823 from Hisahiro Kauchi. The first part of this affects all
branches back to v12 where GENERATED columns were added.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17823-b64909cf7d63de84@postgresql.org
1. Make sure that we don't decrement SxactGlobalXminCount twice when
the SXACT_FLAG_RO_SAFE optimization is reached in a parallel query.
This could trigger a sanity check failure in assert builds. Non-assert
builds recompute the count in SetNewSxactGlobalXmin(), so the problem
was hidden, explaining the lack of field reports. Add a new isolation
test to exercise that case.
2. Remove an assertion that the DOOMED flag can't be set on a partially
released SERIALIZABLEXACT. Instead, ignore the flag (our transaction
was already determined to be read-only safe, and DOOMED is in fact set
during partial release, and there was already an assertion that it
wasn't set sooner). Improve an existing isolation test so that it
reaches that case (previously it wasn't quite testing what it was
supposed to be testing; see discussion).
Back-patch to 12. Bug #17116. Defects in commit 47a338cf.
Reported-by: Alexander Lakhin <exclusion@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17116-d6ca217acc180e30%40postgresql.org
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
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
It seems that drop-index-concurrently-1 has started to forget what it was
originally meant to be testing. d2d8a229b, which added incremental sorts
changed the expected plan to be an Index Scan plan instead of a Seq Scan
plan. This occurred as the primary key index of the table in question
provided presorted input and, because that index happened to be the
cheapest input path due to enable_seqscan being disabled, the incremental
sort changes just added a Sort on top of that. It seems based on the name
of the PREPAREd statement that the intention here is that the query
produces a seqscan plan.
The reason this test has become broken seems to be due to how the test was
originally coded. The test was trying to force a seqscan plan by
performing some casting to make it so the test_dc index couldn't be used
to perform the required filtering. Trying to coax the planner into using
a plan which has costed in a disable_cost seems like it's always going to
be flakey as small changes in costs are drowned out by the large
disable_cost combined with add_path's STD_FUZZ_FACTOR. Here we get rid of
the casts that we're using to try to trick the planner into a seqscan and
instead toggle enable_seqscan as and when required to get the desired
plan.
Additionally, rename a few things in the test and add some additional
wording to the comments to try and make it more clear in the future what
we expect this test to be doing.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAApHDvrbDhObhLV+=U_K_-t+2Av2av1aL9d+2j_3AO-XndaviA@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 13, where d2d8a229b changed the expected test output
To run all tests that support running against existing server:
$ meson test --setup running
To run just the main pg_regress tests against existing server:
$ meson test --setup running regress-running/regress
To ensure the 'running' setup continues to work, test it as part of the
freebsd CI task.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-Wz=XDQcmLoo7RR_i6FKQdDmcyb9q5gStnfuuQXrOGhB2sQ@mail.gmail.com
Matviews have been discarded from needing predicate locks since 3bf3ab8
and their introduction. At this point, there was no concurrent flavor
of REFRESH yet, hence there was no meaning in having materialized views
look at read/write conflicts with concurrent transactions using
themselves the serializable isolation level because they could only be
refreshed with an access exclusive lock. CONCURRENTLY, on the contrary,
allows reads and writes during a refresh as it holds a share update
exclusive lock.
Some isolation tests are added to show the effect of the change, with a
combination of one table and a matview based on it, using a mix of
REFRESH CONCURRENTLY and read/write queries.
This could arguably be considered as a bug, but as it is a subtle
behavior change potentially impacting applications no backpatch is
done.
Author: Yugo Nagata
Reviewed-by: Richard Guo, Dilip Kumar, Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220726164434.42d4e33911b4b4fcf751c4e7@sraoss.co.jp
The generated resource files aren't exactly the same ones as the old
buildsystems generate. Previously "InternalName" and "OriginalFileName" were
mostly wrong / not set (despite being required), but that was hard to fix in
at least the make build. Additionally, the meson build falls back to a
"auto-generated" description when not set, and doesn't set it in a few cases -
unlikely that anybody looks at these descriptions in detail.
Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Author: Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>
Autoconf is showing its age, fewer and fewer contributors know how to wrangle
it. Recursive make has a lot of hard to resolve dependency issues and slow
incremental rebuilds. Our home-grown MSVC build system is hard to maintain for
developers not using Windows and runs tests serially. While these and other
issues could individually be addressed with incremental improvements, together
they seem best addressed by moving to a more modern build system.
After evaluating different build system choices, we chose to use meson, to a
good degree based on the adoption by other open source projects.
We decided that it's more realistic to commit a relatively early version of
the new build system and mature it in tree.
This commit adds an initial version of a meson based build system. It supports
building postgres on at least AIX, FreeBSD, Linux, macOS, NetBSD, OpenBSD,
Solaris and Windows (however only gcc is supported on aix, solaris). For
Windows/MSVC postgres can now be built with ninja (faster, particularly for
incremental builds) and msbuild (supporting the visual studio GUI, but
building slower).
Several aspects (e.g. Windows rc file generation, PGXS compatibility, LLVM
bitcode generation, documentation adjustments) are done in subsequent commits
requiring further review. Other aspects (e.g. not installing test-only
extensions) are not yet addressed.
When building on Windows with msbuild, builds are slower when using a visual
studio version older than 2019, because those versions do not support
MultiToolTask, required by meson for intra-target parallelism.
The plan is to remove the MSVC specific build system in src/tools/msvc soon
after reaching feature parity. However, we're not planning to remove the
autoconf/make build system in the near future. Likely we're going to keep at
least the parts required for PGXS to keep working around until all supported
versions build with meson.
Some initial help for postgres developers is at
https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Meson
With contributions from Thomas Munro, John Naylor, Stone Tickle and others.
Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Author: Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com>
Author: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
Reviewed-By: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20211012083721.hvixq4pnh2pixr3j@alap3.anarazel.de
On slow machines the modified test could end up switching the order in which
transactional stats are reported in one session and non-transactional stats in
another session. As stats handling of truncate is implemented as setting
live/dead rows 0, the order in which a truncate's stats changes are applied,
relative to normal stats updates, matters. The handling of stats for truncate
hasn't changed due to shared memory stats, this is longstanding behavior.
We might want to improve truncate's stats handling in the future, but for now
just change the order of forced flushed to make the test stable.
Reported-By: Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/YoZf7U/WmfmFYFEx@msg.df7cb.de
This commit adds two isolation tests for CLUSTER, using:
- A normal table, making sure that CLUSTER blocks and completes if the
table is locked by a concurrent session.
- A partitioned table with a partition owned by a different user. If
the partitioned table is locked by a concurrent session, CLUSTER on the
partitioned table should block. If the partition owned by a different
user is locked, CLUSTER on its partitioned table should complete and
skip the partition. 3f19e17 has added an early check to ignore such a
partition with a SQL regression test, but this was not checking that
CLUSTER should not block.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/YlqveniXn9AI6RFZ@paquier.xyz
With -DCATCACHE_FORCE_RELEASE a few tests failed. Those were trying to test
behavior in the absence of invalidation processing and
-DCATCACHE_FORCE_RELEASE obviously adds a lot of invalidation processing. The
test already tried to handle debug_discard_caches > 0, by disabling it for
individual tests.
Instead hide potentially problematic function calls in a wrapper function that
catches the does-not-exist error. The error isn't the actually interesting
bit, it's whether the stats entry still exist afterwards.
I confirmed that the tests still catches leaked function stats if I nuke the
protections against that in pgstat_function.c.
Per buildfarm animal prion.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220407165709.jgdkrzqlkcwue6ko@alap3.anarazel.de
Modify the subroutines called by RI trigger functions that want to check
if a given referenced value exists in the referenced relation to simply
scan the foreign key constraint's unique index, instead of using SPI to
execute
SELECT 1 FROM referenced_relation WHERE ref_key = $1
This saves a lot of work, especially when inserting into or updating a
referencing relation.
This rewrite allows to fix a PK row visibility bug caused by a partition
descriptor hack which requires ActiveSnapshot to be set to come up with
the correct set of partitions for the RI query running under REPEATABLE
READ isolation. We now set that snapshot indepedently of the snapshot
to be used by the PK index scan, so the two no longer interfere. The
buggy output in src/test/isolation/expected/fk-snapshot.out of the
relevant test case added by commit 00cb86e75d has been corrected.
(The bug still exists in branch 14, however, but this fix is too
invasive to backpatch.)
Author: Amit Langote <amitlangote09@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Corey Huinker <corey.huinker@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Li Japin <japinli@hotmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Reviewed-by: Zhihong Yu <zyu@yugabyte.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+HiwqGkfJfYdeq5vHPh6eqPKjSbfpDDY+j-kXYFePQedtSLeg@mail.gmail.com
They are to check the behavior of RI_FKey_check() and
ri_Check_Pk_Match(). A test case whereby RI_FKey_check() queries a
partitioned PK table under REPEATABLE READ isolation produces wrong
output due to a bug of the partition-descriptor logic and that is noted
as such in the comment in the test. A subsequent commit will fix the
bug and replace the buggy output by the correct one.
Author: Amit Langote <amitlangote09@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1627848.1636676261@sss.pgh.pa.us
It might be worth instead splitting the test up to produce a smaller
alternative output file. But that's not trivial either, due to the number of
steps defined. And more than I want to do tonight.
Per buildfarm.
When VACUUM set relfrozenxid before now, it set it to whatever value was
used to determine which tuples to freeze -- the FreezeLimit cutoff.
This approach was very naive. The relfrozenxid invariant only requires
that new relfrozenxid values be <= the oldest extant XID remaining in
the table (at the point that the VACUUM operation ends), which in
general might be much more recent than FreezeLimit.
VACUUM now carefully tracks the oldest remaining XID/MultiXactId as it
goes (the oldest remaining values _after_ lazy_scan_prune processing).
The final values are set as the table's new relfrozenxid and new
relminmxid in pg_class at the end of each VACUUM. The oldest XID might
come from a tuple's xmin, xmax, or xvac fields. It might even come from
one of the table's remaining MultiXacts.
Final relfrozenxid values must still be >= FreezeLimit in an aggressive
VACUUM (FreezeLimit still acts as a lower bound on the final value that
aggressive VACUUM can set relfrozenxid to). Since standard VACUUMs
still make no guarantees about advancing relfrozenxid, they might as
well set relfrozenxid to a value from well before FreezeLimit when the
opportunity presents itself. In general standard VACUUMs may now set
relfrozenxid to any value > the original relfrozenxid and <= OldestXmin.
Credit for the general idea of using the oldest extant XID to set
pg_class.relfrozenxid at the end of VACUUM goes to Andres Freund.
Author: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
Reviewed-By: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reviewed-By: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-WzkymFbz6D_vL+jmqSn_5q1wsFvFrE+37yLgL_Rkfd6Gzg@mail.gmail.com
MERGE performs actions that modify rows in the target table using a
source table or query. MERGE provides a single SQL statement that can
conditionally INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE rows -- a task that would otherwise
require multiple PL statements. For example,
MERGE INTO target AS t
USING source AS s
ON t.tid = s.sid
WHEN MATCHED AND t.balance > s.delta THEN
UPDATE SET balance = t.balance - s.delta
WHEN MATCHED THEN
DELETE
WHEN NOT MATCHED AND s.delta > 0 THEN
INSERT VALUES (s.sid, s.delta)
WHEN NOT MATCHED THEN
DO NOTHING;
MERGE works with regular tables, partitioned tables and inheritance
hierarchies, including column and row security enforcement, as well as
support for row and statement triggers and transition tables therein.
MERGE is optimized for OLTP and is parameterizable, though also useful
for large scale ETL/ELT. MERGE is not intended to be used in preference
to existing single SQL commands for INSERT, UPDATE or DELETE since there
is some overhead. MERGE can be used from PL/pgSQL.
MERGE does not support targetting updatable views or foreign tables, and
RETURNING clauses are not allowed either. These limitations are likely
fixable with sufficient effort. Rewrite rules are also not supported,
but it's not clear that we'd want to support them.
Author: Pavan Deolasee <pavan.deolasee@gmail.com>
Author: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Author: Amit Langote <amitlangote09@gmail.com>
Author: Simon Riggs <simon.riggs@enterprisedb.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> (earlier versions)
Reviewed-by: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie> (earlier versions)
Reviewed-by: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> (earlier versions)
Reviewed-by: Japin Li <japinli@hotmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
Reviewed-by: Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@enterprisedb.com>
Reviewed-by: Zhihong Yu <zyu@yugabyte.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CANP8+jKitBSrB7oTgT9CY2i1ObfOt36z0XMraQc+Xrz8QB0nXA@mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-WzkJdBuxj9PO=2QaO9-3h3xGbQPZ34kJH=HukRekwM-GZg@mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20201231134736.GA25392@alvherre.pgsql
DROP INDEX needs to lock the index's table before the index itself,
else it will deadlock against ordinary queries that acquire the
relation locks in that order. This is correctly mechanized for
plain indexes by RangeVarCallbackForDropRelation; but in the case of
a partitioned index, we neglected to lock the child tables in advance
of locking the child indexes. We can fix that by traversing the
inheritance tree and acquiring the needed locks in RemoveRelations,
after we have acquired our locks on the parent partitioned table and
index.
While at it, do some refactoring to eliminate confusion between
the actual and expected relkind in RangeVarCallbackForDropRelation.
We can save a couple of syscache lookups too, by having that function
pass back info that RemoveRelations will need.
Back-patch to v11 where partitioned indexes were added.
Jimmy Yih, Gaurab Dey, Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/BYAPR05MB645402330042E17D91A70C12BD5F9@BYAPR05MB6454.namprd05.prod.outlook.com
When cleaning up temporary objects during process exit the cleanup could fail
with:
FATAL: cannot fetch toast data without an active snapshot
The bug is caused by RemoveTempRelationsCallback() not setting up a
snapshot. If an object with toasted catalog data needs to be cleaned up,
init_toast_snapshot() could fail with the above error.
Most of the time however the the problem is masked due to cached catalog
snapshots being returned by GetOldestSnapshot(). But dropping an object can
cause catalog invalidations to be emitted. If no further catalog accesses are
necessary between the invalidation processing and the next toast datum
deletion, the bug becomes visible.
It's easy to miss this bug because it typically happens after clients
disconnect and the FATAL error just ends up in the log.
Luckily temporary table cleanup at the next use of the same temporary schema
or during DISCARD ALL does not have the same problem.
Fix the bug by pushing a snapshot in RemoveTempRelationsCallback(). Also add
isolation tests for temporary object cleanup, including objects with toasted
catalog data.
A future HEAD only commit will add an assertion trying to make this more
visible.
Reported-By: Miles Delahunty
Author: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAOFAq3BU5Mf2TTvu8D9n_ZOoFAeQswuzk7yziAb7xuw_qyw5gw@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch: 10-
Redefine a scanned page as any heap page that actually gets pinned by
VACUUM's first pass over the heap, regardless of whether or not the page
was cleanup locked. Although it's fundamentally impossible to prune a
heap page without a cleanup lock (since we cannot safely defragment the
page), we can do just about everything else. The only notable further
exception is freezing tuples, though even that is arguably a consequence
of not being able to prune (not a separate issue).
VACUUM now does as much of the same processing as possible for pages
that could not be cleanup locked. Any failure to do specific required
processing is treated as a special case exception, which will be rare in
practice. We now collect any preexisting LP_DEAD items (left behind by
earlier opportunistic pruning) in the dead_items array for these heap
pages, and count their tuples in the usual way. Steps used to decide if
we'll attempt relation truncation are performed in the usual way for
no-cleanup-lock scanned pages, too.
Although eliminating these special cases is intrinsically useful, it's
even more useful as an enabler of further simplifications. The only
essential difference between aggressive and non-aggressive is that only
aggressive is _guaranteed_ to be able to advance relfrozenxid up to
FreezeLimit. Advancing relfrozenxid is always useful, but before now
non-aggressive VACUUMs threw away the opportunity to do so whenever a
cleanup lock could not be acquired on any page, no matter what the
details were. This was very pessimistic.
It isn't actually necessary to "behave aggressively" to maintain the
ability to advance relfrozenxid when a cleanup lock isn't immediately
available (most of the time). The non-aggressive case will now make
sure that it isn't safe to advance relfrozenxid (without waiting) using
only a share lock. It will usually notice that there are no tuples that
need to be frozen anyway, just like in the aggressive case -- and so it
no longer wastes an opportunity to advance relfrozenxid over nothing.
(The non-aggressive case still won't wait for a cleanup lock when there
really are tuples on the page that need to be frozen, since that really
would amount to "behaving aggressively".)
VACUUM currently has a tendency to set heap pages to all-visible in the
visibility map before it freezes all of the tuples on the page. Only a
subsequent aggressive VACUUM will visit these pages to freeze their
tuples, usually only when the tuple XIDs are much older than the
vacuum_freeze_min_age GUC (FreezeLimit cutoff) is supposed to allow.
And so non-aggressive VACUUMs are still far less likely to be able to
advance relfrozenxid in practice, even with the enhancements from this
commit. This remaining issue will be addressed by future work that
overhauls the criteria for freezing tuples. Once that's in place,
almost every VACUUM operation will be able to advance relfrozenxid in
practice.
Author: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
Reviewed-By: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reviewed-By: Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-Wznp=c=Opj8Z7RMR3G=ec3_JfGYMN_YvmCEjoPCHzWbx0g@mail.gmail.com
Before, SQL-level boolean constants were represented by a string with
a cast, and internal Boolean values in DDL commands were usually
represented by Integer nodes. This takes the place of both of these
uses, making the intent clearer and having some amount of type safety.
Reviewed-by: Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/8c1a2e37-c68d-703c-5a83-7a6077f4f997@enterprisedb.com
When writing / debugging an isolation test it sometimes is useful to see which
session holds what lock etc. To make it easier, both as part of spec files and
interactively, append the session name to application_name. Since b1907d688
application_name already contains the test name, this appends the session's
name to that.
insert-conflict-specconflict did something like this manually, which can now
be removed.
As we have done lately with other test infrastructure improvements, backpatch
this change, to make it easier to backpatch tests.
Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reviewed-By: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Reviewed-By: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20211211012052.2blmzcmxnxqawd2z@alap3.anarazel.de
Backpatch: 10-, to make backpatching of tests easier.
REINDEX CONCURRENTLY run on a toast index or a toast relation could
corrupt the target indexes rebuilt, as a backend running in parallel
that manipulates toast values would directly release the lock on the
toast relation when its local operation is done, rather than releasing
the lock once the transaction that manipulated the toast values
committed.
The fix done here is simple: we now hold a ROW EXCLUSIVE lock on the
toast relation when saving or deleting a toast value until the
transaction working on them is committed, so as a concurrent reindex
happening in parallel would be able to wait for any activity and see any
new rows inserted (or deleted).
An isolation test is added to check after the case fixed here, which is
a bit fancy by design as it relies on allow_system_table_mods to rename
the toast table and its index to fixed names. This way, it is possible
to reindex them directly without any dependency on the OID of the
underlying relation. Note that this could not use a DO block either, as
REINDEX CONCURRENTLY cannot be run in a transaction block. The test is
backpatched down to 13, where it is possible, thanks to c4a7a39, to use
allow_system_table_mods in a test suite.
Reported-by: Alexey Ermakov
Analyzed-by: Andres Freund, Noah Misch
Author: Michael Paquier
Reviewed-by: Nathan Bossart
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17268-d2fb426e0895abd4@postgresql.org
Backpatch-through: 12
In 741d7f104, I tried to make the reports from canceled steps come out
after the pg_cancel_backend() steps, since that was the most common
ordering before. However, that doesn't ensure that a canceled step
doesn't report even later, as shown in a recent failure on buildfarm
member idiacanthus. Rather than complicating things even more with
additional annotations, let's just force the cancel's effect to be
reported first. It's not *that* unnatural-looking.
Back-patch to v14 where these test cases appeared.
Report: https://buildfarm.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/show_log.pl?nm=idiacanthus&dt=2021-07-02%2001%3A40%3A04
specscanner.l leaked a kilobyte of memory per token of the spec file.
Apparently somebody thought that the introductory code block would be
executed once; but it's once per yylex() call.
A couple of functions in isolationtester.c leaked small amounts of
memory due to not bothering to free one-time allocations. Might
as well improve these so that valgrind gives this program a clean
bill of health. Also get rid of an ugly static variable.
Coverity complained about one of the one-time leaks, which led me
to try valgrind'ing isolationtester, which led to discovery of the
larger leak.
For no obvious reason, isolationtester has always insisted that
session and step names be written with double quotes. This is
fairly tedious and does little for test readability, especially
since the names that people actually choose almost always look
like normal identifiers. Hence, let's tweak the lexer to allow
SQL-like identifiers not only double-quoted strings.
(They're SQL-like, not exactly SQL, because I didn't add any
case-folding logic. Also there's no provision for U&"..." names,
not that anyone's likely to care.)
There is one incompatibility introduced by this change: if you write
"foo""bar" with no space, that used to be taken as two identifiers,
but now it's just one identifier with an embedded quote mark.
I converted all the src/test/isolation/ specfiles to remove
unnecessary double quotes, but stopped there because my
eyes were glazing over already.
Like 741d7f104, back-patch to all supported branches, so that this
isn't a stumbling block for back-patching isolation test changes.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/759113.1623861959@sss.pgh.pa.us
Previously, isolationtester displayed SQL query results using some
ad-hoc code that clearly hadn't had much effort expended on it.
Field values longer than 14 characters weren't separated from
the next field, and usually caused misalignment of the columns
too. Also there was no visual separation of a query's result
from subsequent isolationtester output. This made test result
files confusing and hard to read.
To improve matters, let's use libpq's PQprint() function. Although
that's long since unused by psql, it's still plenty good enough
for the purpose here.
Like 741d7f104, back-patch to all supported branches, so that this
isn't a stumbling block for back-patching isolation test changes.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/582362.1623798221@sss.pgh.pa.us
We've long contended with isolation test results that aren't entirely
stable. Some test scripts insert long delays to try to force stable
results, which is not terribly desirable; but other erratic failure
modes remain, causing unrepeatable buildfarm failures. I've spent a
fair amount of time trying to solve this by improving the server-side
support code, without much success: that way is fundamentally unable
to cope with diffs that stem from chance ordering of arrival of
messages from different server processes.
We can improve matters on the client side, however, by annotating
the test scripts themselves to show the desired reporting order
of events that might occur in different orders. This patch adds
three types of annotations to deal with (a) test steps that might or
might not complete their waits before the isolationtester can see them
waiting; (b) test steps in different sessions that can legitimately
complete in either order; and (c) NOTIFY messages that might arrive
before or after the completion of a step in another session. We might
need more annotation types later, but this seems to be enough to deal
with the instabilities we've seen in the buildfarm. It also lets us
get rid of all the long delays that were previously used, cutting more
than a minute off the runtime of the isolation tests.
Back-patch to all supported branches, because the buildfarm
instabilities affect all the branches, and because it seems desirable
to keep isolationtester's capabilities the same across all branches
to simplify possible future back-patching of tests.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/327948.1623725828@sss.pgh.pa.us
aborted-keyrevoke_2.out was apparently needed when it was added (in
commit 0ac5ad513) to handle the case of serializable transaction mode.
However, the output in serializable mode actually matches the regular
aborted-keyrevoke.out file, and AFAICT has done so for a long time.
There's no need to keep dragging this variant along.
This should have been updated in d2d8a229b, but it was overlooked.
According to 31a877f18 which added it, this file is meant to show the
results you get under default_transaction_isolation = serializable.
We've largely lost track of that goal in other isolation tests, but
as long as we've got this one, it should be right.
Noted while fooling about with the isolationtester.
Tom Lane
David Rowley
Dean Rasheed
Thomas Munro
Jeff Davis
Bruce Momjian
Andrew Dunstan
Andres Freund
Michael Paquier
Peter Geoghegan
Alvaro Herrera
John Naylor
Noah Misch
Peter Eisentraut