In pg_replication_slot, change output from normal/reserved/lost to
reserved/extended/unreserved/ lost, which better expresses the possible
states particularly near the time where segments are no longer safe but
checkpoint has not run yet.
Under the new definition, reserved means the slot is consuming WAL
that's still under the normal WAL size constraints; extended means it's
consuming WAL that's being protected by wal_keep_segments or the slot
itself, whose size is below max_slot_wal_keep_size; unreserved means the
WAL is no longer safe, but checkpoint has not yet removed those files.
Such as slot is in imminent danger, but can still continue for a little
while and may catch up to the reserved WAL space.
Also, there were some bugs in the calculations used to report the
status; fixed those.
Backpatch to 13.
Reported-by: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@oss.nttdata.com>
Author: Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@oss.nttdata.com>
Reviewed-by: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200616.120236.1809496990963386593.horikyota.ntt@gmail.com
Both INDEX_CLEANUP and TRUNCATE have been available since v12, and are
enabled by default except if respectively vacuum_index_cleanup and
vacuum_truncate are disabled for a given relation. This change adds
support for disabling these options from vacuumdb.
Author: Nathan Bossart
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier, Masahiko Sawada
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/6F7F17EF-B1F2-4681-8D03-BA96365717C0@amazon.com
Defining duplicates as "close by" to each other was unclear. Simplify
the definition.
Backpatch: 13-, where deduplication was introduced (by commit 0d861bbb)
911e702077 added opclass options and adjusted documentation for each
particular affected opclass. However, documentation for extendability was
not adjusted. This commit adjusts documentation for interfaces of index AMs
and opclasses.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-WzmQnW6%2Bz5F9AW%2BSz%2BzEcEvXofTwh_A9J3%3D_WA-FBP0wYg%40mail.gmail.com
Author: Alexander Korotkov
Reported-by: Peter Geoghegan
Reviewed-by: Peter Geoghegan
The IANA time zone folk have deprecated use of a "posixrules" file in
the tz database. While for now it's our choice whether to keep
supplying one in our own builds, installations built with
--with-system-tzdata will soon be needing to cope with that file not
being present, at least on some platforms.
This causes a problem for the horology test, which expected the
nonstandard POSIX zone spec "CST7CDT" to apply pre-2007 US daylight
savings rules. That does happen if the posixrules file supplies such
information, but otherwise the test produces undesired results.
To fix, add an explicit transition date rule that matches 2005 practice.
(We could alternatively have switched the test to use some real time
zone, but it seems useful to have coverage of this type of zone spec.)
While at it, update a documentation example that also relied on
"CST7CDT"; use a real-world zone name instead. Also, document why
the zone names EST5EDT, CST6CDT, MST7MDT, PST8PDT aren't subject to
similar failures when "posixrules" is missing.
Back-patch to all supported branches, since the hazard is the same
for all.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1665379.1592581287@sss.pgh.pa.us
Mostly in response to Jürgen Purtz critique of previous definitions,
though I added many other changes.
Author: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Reviewed-by: Jürgen Purtz <juergen@purtz.de>
Reviewed-by: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
Reviewed-by: Erik Rijkers <er@xs4all.nl>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/c1e06008-2132-30f4-9b38-877e8683d418@purtz.de
We'd glossed over most of this complexity for years, but it's hard
to avoid writing it all down now, so that we can explain what happens
when there's no "posixrules" file in the IANA time zone database.
That was at best a tiny minority situation till now, but it's likely
to become quite common in the future, so we'd better explain it.
Nonetheless, we don't really encourage people to use POSIX zone specs;
picking a named zone is almost always what you really want, unless
perhaps you're stuck with an out-of-date zone database. Therefore,
let's shove all this detail into an appendix.
Patch by me; thanks to Robert Haas for help with some awkward wording.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1390.1562258309@sss.pgh.pa.us
Don't use fread(), since that doesn't necessarily set errno. We could
use read() instead, but it's even better to use pg_pread(), which
allows us to avoid some extra calls to seek to the desired location in
the file.
Also, advertise a wait event while reading from a file, as we do for
most other places where we're reading data from files.
Patch by me, reviewed by Hamid Akhtar.
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmobBw-3573vMosGj06r72ajHsYeKtksT_oTxH8XvTL7DxA@mail.gmail.com
Our documentation failed to point out that REPEATABLE READ is really
snapshot isolation, which might be important to some users. Point to
the standard reference paper for this complicated topic.
Likewise, add a reference to the VLDB paper about PostgreSQL SSI, for
technical information about our SSI implementation and how it compares
to S2PL.
While here, add a note about catalog access using a lower isolation
level, per recent user complaint.
Back-patch to all releases.
Reported-by: Kyle Kingsbury <aphyr@jepsen.io>
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reviewed-by: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
Reviewed-by: Tatsuo Ishii <ishii@sraoss.co.jp>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/db7b729d-0226-d162-a126-8a8ab2dc4443%40jepsen.io
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16454-9408996bb1750faf%40postgresql.org
This patch removes the hardcoded check for superuser privileges when
executing replication origin functions. Instead, execution is revoked
from public, meaning that those functions can be executed by a superuser
and that access to them can be granted.
Author: Martín Marqués
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi, Michael Paquier, Masahiko Sawada
Discussion: https:/postgr.es/m/CAPdiE1xJMZOKQL3dgHMUrPqysZkgwzSMXETfKkHYnBAB7-0VRQ@mail.gmail.com
plpgsql has always executed the query given in a RETURN QUERY command
by opening it as a cursor and then fetching a few rows at a time,
which it turns around and dumps into the function's result tuplestore.
The point of this was to keep from blowing out memory with an oversized
SPITupleTable result (note that while a tuplestore can spill tuples
to disk, SPITupleTable cannot). However, it's rather inefficient, both
because of extra data copying and because of executor entry/exit
overhead. In recent versions, a new performance problem has emerged:
use of a cursor prevents use of a parallel plan for the executed query.
We can improve matters by skipping use of a cursor and having the
executor push result tuples directly into the function's result
tuplestore. However, a moderate amount of new infrastructure is needed
to make that idea work:
* We can use the existing tstoreReceiver.c DestReceiver code to funnel
executor output to the tuplestore, but it has to be extended to support
plpgsql's requirement for possibly applying a tuple conversion map.
* SPI needs to be extended to allow use of a caller-supplied
DestReceiver instead of its usual receiver that puts tuples into
a SPITupleTable. Two new API calls are needed to handle both the
RETURN QUERY and RETURN QUERY EXECUTE cases.
I also felt that I didn't want these new API calls to use the legacy
method of specifying query parameter values with "char" null flags
(the old ' '/'n' convention); rather they should accept ParamListInfo
objects containing the parameter type and value info. This required
a bit of additional new infrastructure since we didn't yet have any
parse analysis callback that would interpret $N parameter symbols
according to type data supplied in a ParamListInfo. There seems to be
no harm in letting makeParamList install that callback by default,
rather than leaving a new ParamListInfo's parserSetup hook as NULL.
(Indeed, as of HEAD, I couldn't find anyplace that was using the
parserSetup field at all; plpgsql was using parserSetupArg for its
own purposes, but parserSetup seemed to be write-only.)
We can actually get plpgsql out of the business of using legacy null
flags altogether, and using ParamListInfo instead of its ad-hoc
PreparedParamsData structure; but this requires inventing one more
SPI API call that can replace SPI_cursor_open_with_args. That seems
worth doing, though.
SPI_execute_with_args and SPI_cursor_open_with_args are now unused
anywhere in the core PG distribution. Perhaps someday we could
deprecate/remove them. But cleaning up the crufty bits of the SPI
API is a task for a different patch.
Per bug #16040 from Jeremy Smith. This is unfortunately too invasive to
consider back-patching. Patch by me; thanks to Hamid Akhtar for review.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16040-eaacad11fecfb198@postgresql.org
Eliminate enable_groupingsets_hash_disk, which was primarily useful
for testing grouping sets that use HashAgg and spill. Instead, hack
the table stats to convince the planner to choose hashed aggregation
for grouping sets that will spill to disk. Suggested by Melanie
Plageman.
Rename enable_hashagg_disk to hashagg_avoid_disk_plan, and invert the
meaning of on/off. The new name indicates more strongly that it only
affects the planner. Also, the word "avoid" is less definite, which
should avoid surprises when HashAgg still needs to use the
disk. Change suggested by Justin Pryzby, though I chose a different
GUC name.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAAKRu_aisiENMsPM2gC4oUY1hHG3yrCwY-fXUg22C6_MJUwQdA%40mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200610021544.GA14879@telsasoft.com
Backpatch-through: 13
In PostgreSQL 10, we stopped using System V semaphores on Linux
systems. Update the example we give of an error message from a
misconfigured system to show what people are most likely to see these
days.
Back-patch to 10, where PREFERRED_SEMAPHORES=UNNAMED_POSIX arrived.
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKGLmJUSwybaPQv39rB8ABpqJq84im2UjZvyUY4feYhpWMw%40mail.gmail.com
Whitespace between tags is significant, and in some cases it creates
extra vertical space in man pages. The fix is either to remove some
newlines or in some cases to reword slightly to avoid the awkward
markup layout.
Remove obsolete instructions for old operating system versions, and
update the text to reflect the defaults on modern systems.
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>
Reviewed-by: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKGLmJUSwybaPQv39rB8ABpqJq84im2UjZvyUY4feYhpWMw%40mail.gmail.com
The preferred terminology has been support "function", not procedure,
for some time, so change that over. The command stays \dAp, since
\dAf is already something else.
The group of wal_init_zero and wal_recycle is WAL_SETTINGS in guc.c,
but previously their documents were located in
"Replication"/"Sending Servers" section. This commit moves them to
the proper section "Write Ahead Log"/"Settings".
Back-patch to v12 where wal_init_zero and wal_recycle parameters
were introduced.
Author: Fujii Masao
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/b5190ab4-a169-6a42-0e49-aed0807c8976@oss.nttdata.com
The documentation of REINDEX includes a complete description of
CONCURRENTLY and its advantages as well as its disadvantages, but
reindexdb was not really clear about all that.
From discussion with Tom Lane, based on a report from Andrey Klychkov.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1590486572.205117372@f500.i.mail.ru
Backpatch-through: 12
This commit updates the "Viewing Statistics" section more like
the existing catalogs chapter.
- Change its layout so that an introductory paragrap is put above
the table for each statistics view. Previously the explanations
were below the tables.
- Separate each view to different section and add index terms for them.
Author: Fujii Masao
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/6f8a482c-b3fa-4ed9-21c3-6d222a2cb87d@oss.nttdata.com
These were missed when these were added to pg_hba.conf in PG 12;
updates docs and pg_hba.conf.sample.
Reported-by: Arthur Nascimento
Bug: 16380
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200421182736.GG19613@momjian.us
Backpatch-through: 12
Explain that the followings are tracked only when track_io_timing GUC
is enabled.
- blk_read_time and blk_write_time in pg_stat_database
- time spent reading and writing data file blocks in EXPLAIN output
with BUFFERS option
Whther track_io_timing is enabled affects also blk_read_time and
blk_write_time in pg_stat_statements, but which was already documented.
Author: Atsushi Torikoshi
Reviewed-by: Fujii Masao
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CACZ0uYHo_NwbxpLH76OGF-O=13tkR0ZM0zeyGEhZ+JEXZVRyCA@mail.gmail.com
The B-Tree index deduplication strategy used during CREATE INDEX and
REINDEX differs from the lazy strategy used by retail inserts. Make
that clear by adding a new paragraph to the B-Tree implementation
section of the documentation.
In passing, do some copy-editing of nearby deduplication documentation.
The description missed a comma and lacked an explanation of what happens
with REPLICA IDENTITY USING INDEX when the dependent index is dropped.
Author: Marina Polyakova
Reviewed-by: Daniel Gustafsson, Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ad1a0badc32658b1bbb07aa312346a1d@postgrespro.ru
Backpatch-through: 9.5
Synchronize the event names for parallel hash join waits with other
event names, by getting rid of the slashes and dropping "-ing"
suffixes. Rename ClogGroupUpdate to XactGroupUpdate, to match the
new SLRU name. Move the ProcSignalBarrier event to the IPC category;
it doesn't belong under IO.
Also a bit more wordsmithing in the wait event documentation tables.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/4505.1589640417@sss.pgh.pa.us
d140f2f3 has renamed receivedUpto to flushedUpto, and has added
writtenUpto to the WAL receiver's shared memory information, but
pg_stat_wal_receiver was not consistent with that. This commit renames
received_lsn to flushed_lsn, and adds a new column called written_lsn.
Bump catalog version.
Author: Michael Paquier
Reviewed-by: Álvaro Herrera
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200515090817.GA212736@paquier.xyz
libpq's exports.txt was overlooked in commit 36d108761, which the
buildfarm is quite unhappy about.
Also, I'd gathered that the plan included renaming PQgetSSLKeyPassHook
to PQgetSSLKeyPassHook_OpenSSL, but that didn't happen in the patch
as committed. I'm taking it on my own authority to do so now, since
the window before beta1 is closing fast.
4dc6355210 provided a way for libraries and clients to modify how libpq
handles client certificate passphrases, by installing a hook. However,
these routines are quite specific to how OpenSSL works, so it's
misleading and not future-proof to have these names not refer to OpenSSL.
Change all the names to add "_OpenSSL" after "Hook", and fix the docs
accordingly.
Author: Daniel Gustafsson
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/981DE552-E399-45C2-9F60-3F0E3770CC61@yesql.se
It's just weird that this name wasn't chosen to look like an
identifier. The suspicion that it wasn't thought about too
hard is reinforced by the fact that it wasn't documented in
the pg_locks view (until I did so, a day or two back).
Update, and add a comment reminding future adjusters of this
array to fix the docs too.
Do some desultory wordsmithing on various entries in the wait
events tables.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/24595.1589326879@sss.pgh.pa.us
This was mostly confusing, especially since some wait events in
this class had the suffix and some did not.
While at it, stop exposing MainLWLockNames[] as a globally visible
name; any code using that directly is almost certainly wrong, as
its name has been misleading for some time.
(GetLWLockIdentifier() is what to use instead.)
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/28683.1589405363@sss.pgh.pa.us
Choose names that fit into the conventions for wait event names
(particularly, that multi-word names are in the style MultiWordName)
and hopefully convey more information to non-hacker users than the
previous names did.
Also rename SerializablePredicateLockListLock to
SerializablePredicateListLock; the old name was long enough to cause
table formatting problems, plus the double occurrence of "Lock" seems
confusing/error-prone.
Also change a couple of particularly opaque LWLock field names.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/28683.1589405363@sss.pgh.pa.us
Originally, the names assigned to SLRUs had no purpose other than
being shmem lookup keys, so not a lot of thought went into them.
As of v13, though, we're exposing them in the pg_stat_slru view and
the pg_stat_reset_slru function, so it seems advisable to take a bit
more care. Rename them to names based on the associated on-disk
storage directories (which fortunately we *did* think about, to some
extent; since those are also visible to DBAs, consistency seems like
a good thing). Also rename the associated LWLocks, since those names
are likewise user-exposed now as wait event names.
For the most part I only touched symbols used in the respective modules'
SimpleLruInit() calls, not the names of other related objects. This
renaming could have been taken further, and maybe someday we will do so.
But for now it seems undesirable to change the names of any globally
visible functions or structs, so some inconsistency is unavoidable.
(But I *did* terminate "oldserxid" with prejudice, as I found that
name both unreadable and not descriptive of the SLRU's contents.)
Table 27.12 needs re-alphabetization now, but I'll leave that till
after the other LWLock renamings I have in mind.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/28683.1589405363@sss.pgh.pa.us
Add some more terms, clarify some definitions, remove redundant terms,
move a couple of terms to keep alphabetical order.
Co-authored-by: Jürgen Purtz <juergen@purtz.de>
Co-authored-by: Erik Rijkers <er@xs4all.nl>
Co-authored-by: Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/7b9b469e804777ac9df4d37716db935e@xs4all.nl
I abbreviated the heck out of the column headings, and made a few
small wording changes, to get it to build warning-free. I can't
say that the result is pretty, but it's probably better than
removing this table entirely.
As of this commit, we have zero "exceed the available area" warnings
in a US-letter PDF build, and one such warning (about an 863-millipoint
overrun) in an A4 build. I expect to get rid of that one by renaming
wait events, so I'm not doing anything about it at the formatting
level.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/6916.1589146280@sss.pgh.pa.us
In one or two places it seemed reasonable to modify the example so as
to shorten its output slightly; but for the most part I just added a
&zwsp; after 67 characters, which is the most we can fit on a line
of monospace text in A4 format.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/6916.1589146280@sss.pgh.pa.us
Includes some manual cleanup of places that pgindent messed up,
most of which weren't per project style anyway.
Notably, it seems some people didn't absorb the style rules of
commit c9d297751, because there were a bunch of new occurrences
of function calls with a newline just after the left paren, all
with faulty expectations about how the rest of the call would get
indented.
The previous design for this table didn't really work in narrow views,
such as PDF output; besides which its reliance on large morerows
values made it a pain to maintain (cf ab3e4fbd5, for example).
I experimented with a couple of ways to fix it, but the best and
simplest is to split it up into a separate table for each event
type category.
I also rearranged the event ordering to be strictly alphabetical,
as nobody would ever be able to find entries otherwise.
There is work afoot to revise the set of event names described
in this table, but this commit just changes the layout, not the
contents.
In passing, add a missing entry to pg_locks.locktype,
and cross-reference that to the related wait event list.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/6916.1589146280@sss.pgh.pa.us
This changes our catalog and view descriptions to use a style inspired
by the new format for function/operator tables: each table entry is
formatted roughly like a <varlistentry>, with the column name and type
on the first line and then an indented description. This provides much
more room for expansive descriptions than we had before, and thereby
eliminates a passel of PDF build warnings.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/12984.1588643549@sss.pgh.pa.us
I can't see any way to make this table fit in PDF column width
without either a fundamental redesign or abbreviating EXCLUSIVE.
So I did the latter.
It'd be nicer if the abbreviating didn't leak into the HTML output
as well; but the hackery required to make the output different
seems like more trouble than it's really worth.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/6916.1589146280@sss.pgh.pa.us
Even after the tweaking I did in commit 5545b69ae, some of the
longer keywords mentioned in the SQL standard don't fit the
available space in PDF output.
I experimented with various solutions like putting such keywords
on their own table lines, but everything looked ugly or confusing
or both; worse, the weirdness also appeared in the HTML version,
which (normally) doesn't need it.
The best answer seems to be to insert &zwsp; into long keywords
so that they can be broken into two lines when, and only when,
needed. It doesn't look too awful if the break happens after
an underscore --- and fortunately, all the problematic keywords
have underscores.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/6916.1589146280@sss.pgh.pa.us
Use xreflabel attributes instead of endterm attributes to control the
appearance of links to subsections of SQL command reference pages.
This is simpler, it matches what we do elsewhere (e.g. for GUC variables),
and it doesn't draw "Unresolved ID reference" warnings from the PDF
toolchain.
Fix some places where the text was absolutely dependent on an <xref>
rendering exactly so, by using a <link> around the required text
instead. At least one of those spots had already been turned into
bad grammar by subsequent changes, and the whole idea is just too
fragile for my taste. <xref> does NOT have fixed output, don't write
as if it does.
Consistently include a page-level link in cross-man-page references,
because otherwise they are useless/nonsensical in man-page output.
Likewise, be consistent about mentioning "below" or "above" in same-page
references; we were doing that in about 90% of the cases, but now it's
100%.
Also get rid of another nonfunctional-in-PDF idea, of making
cross-references to functions by sticking ID tags on <row> constructs.
We can put the IDs on <indexterm>s instead --- which is probably not any
more sensible in abstract terms, but it works where the other doesn't.
(There is talk of attaching cross-reference IDs to most or all of
the docs' function descriptions, but for now I just fixed the two
that exist.)
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/14480.1589154358@sss.pgh.pa.us
This patch eliminates a few more "exceed the available area" warnings
whose causes aren't particularly connected to anything else.
The only one really worthy of comment is that I increased the space
allowed for an <orderedlist>'s numbers, because the default of 1em
doesn't quite work for more than one digit. The rest are one-off
insertions of &zwsp; and suchlike tweaks, in places where they
shouldn't do any damage to the material. (In particular, although
I split some long identifiers with zwsp's, there are other nearby
occurrences of each one; so those changes shouldn't hurt greppability
of the document sources.)
I made up a very crude hack to compare the docs with reality (as
embodied in the system catalogs) ... and indeed they don't match
everywhere. Missing oid columns, wrong data types, wrong "references"
links, columns listed in the wrong order. None of this seems quite
important enough to back-patch.
This converts the contrib documentation to the new style, and mops up
a couple of function tables that were outside chapter 9 in the main
docs.
A few contrib modules choose not to present their functions in the
standard tabular format. There might be room to rethink those decisions
now that the standard format is more friendly to verbose descriptions.
But I have not undertaken to do that here; I just converted existing
tables.
In the wake of commit f21599311, we don't need to set table columns'
align specs retail. Undo a few such settings I'd added in commit
5545b69ae. (The column width adjustments stay, though.)
I concluded that we really just ought to force all tables in PDF output
to default to "left" alignment (instead of "justify"); that is what the
HTML toolchain does and that's what most people have been designing the
tables to look good with. There are few if any places where "justify"
produces better-looking output, and there are many where it looks
horrible. So change stylesheet-fo.xsl to make that true.
Also tweak column widths in a few more tables to make them look better
and avoid "exceed the available area" warnings. This commit fixes
basically everything that can be fixed through that approach. The
remaining tables that give warnings either are scheduled for redesign
as per recent discussions, or need a fundamental rethink because they
Just Don't Work in a narrow view.
Moving this setting into the main configuration file was ill-considered,
perhaps, because that typically causes it to be set before
timezone_abbreviations has been set. Which in turn means that zone
abbreviations don't work, only full zone names.
We could imagine hacking things so that such cases do work, but the
stability of the hack would be questionable, and the value isn't really
that high. Instead just document that you should use a numeric zone
offset or a full zone name.
Per bug #16404 from Reijo Suhonen.
Back-patch to v12 where this was changed.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16404-4603a99603fbd04c@postgresql.org
The following docs are updated:
- High-availaility section
- pg_basebackup
- pg_receivewal
Per the principle of least privilege, we want to encourage users to
interact with those areas using roles that have replication rights, but
superusers were mentioned first.
Author: Daniel Gustafsson
Reviewed-by: Fujii Masao, Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ECEBD212-7101-41EB-84F3-2F356E4B6401@yesql.se
In commit 33e05f89c5, we have added the option to display WAL usage
statistics in Explain and auto_explain. The display format used two spaces
between each field which is inconsistent with Buffer usage statistics which
is using one space between each field. Change the format to make WAL usage
statistics consistent with Buffer usage statistics.
This commit also changed the usage of "full page writes" to
"full page images" for WAL usage statistics to make it consistent with
other parts of code and docs.
Author: Julien Rouhaud, Amit Kapila
Reviewed-by: Justin Pryzby, Kyotaro Horiguchi and Amit Kapila
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAB-hujrP8ZfUkvL5OYETipQwA=e3n7oqHFU=4ZLxWS_Cza3kQQ@mail.gmail.com
The PDF toolchain defaults to laying out all columns of a table with
equal widths, in contrast to the HTML rendering which automatically
varies the column widths to fit the data. In many places, this
results in very badly laid-out tables, with lots of useless whitespace
in some places and text that overruns its cell in other places.
For tables that have reasonably static content, we can improve
matters by adding <colspec> entries to hand-assign the column widths.
This commit does that for a few of the tables that were worst off;
it eliminates close to 200 "contents ... exceed the available area"
warnings in an A4 PDF build.
I also forced align="left" in these tables, overriding the PDF
toolchain's default which is evidently "justify". (The HTML toolchain
seems to default to that already.) Anyplace where things are tight
enough that we need to worry about this, forced justification tends to
look truly awful.
We had a mishmash of <replaceable>, <replaceable class="parameter">,
and <parameter> markup for operator/function arguments. Use <parameter>
consistently for things that are in fact names of parameters (including
OUT parameters), reserving <replaceable> for things that aren't. The
latter class includes some made-up-by-the-docs type class names, like
"numeric_type", as well as placeholders for arguments that don't have
well-defined types. Possibly we could do better with those categories
as well, but for the moment I'm content not to have parameter names
marked up in different ways in different places.
(This commit aligns the earlier sections of chapter 9 with a policy
that I'd arrived at while working on commit 1ad23335f, which is why
the last few sections need no changes.)
The pg_rewind docs currently assert that the state of the target's
data directory after rewind is equivalent to the source's data
directory. This clarifies the documentation to describe that the base
state is further back in time and that the target's data directory will
include the current state from the source of any copied blocks since the
point of divergence.
This commit also improves the section "How It Works":
- Describe the update of the pg_control file.
- Reorganize the list of files and directories ignored during the
rewind.
Author: James Coleman
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAAaqYe-sgqCos7MXF4XiY8rUPy3CEmaCY9EvfhX-DhPhPBF5_A@mail.gmail.com
The libpq parameters ssl{max|min}protocolversion are renamed to use
underscores, to become ssl_{max|min}_protocol_version. The related
environment variables still use the names introduced in commit ff8ca5f
that added the feature.
Per complaint from Peter Eisentraut (this was also mentioned by me in
the original patch review but the issue got discarded).
Author: Daniel Gustafsson
Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut, Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/b319e449-318d-e691-4997-1327e166fcc4@2ndquadrant.com
Make the markup a bit less ad-hoc. A function-table cell now contains
several <para> units, and we label the ones that contain function
signatures with role="func_signature". The CSS or FO stylesheets then
key off of that to decide how to set the indentation. A very useful
win from this approach is that we can have more than one signature
entry per table cell, simplifying the documentation of closely-related
operators and functions.
This patch mostly just replaces the markup in the tables I converted so
far. But I did alter a couple of places where multiple signatures were
helpful.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/5561.1587922854@sss.pgh.pa.us
This includes the usual amount of editorial cleanup, such as
correcting wrong or less-helpful-than-they-could-be examples.
I moved the two tsvector-updating triggers into "9.28 Trigger
Functions", which seems like a better home for them. (I believe
that section didn't exist when this text was originally written.)
Also rearrange that page a bit for more consistency and less
duplication.
In passing, fix erroneous examples of the results of abbrev(cidr)
in datatype.sgml, and do a bit of copy-editing there.
David Johnston reminded me that the per-point calculations being done
by these operators are equivalent to complex multiplication/division.
(Once I would've recognized that immediately, but it's been too long
since I did any of that sort of math.)
Also put in a footnote mentioning that "rotation" of a box doesn't do
what you might expect, as I'd griped about in the referenced thread.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/158110996889.1089.4224139874633222837@wrigleys.postgresql.org
This also makes an attempt to flesh out the docs for some of the more
severely underdocumented geometric operators and functions.
This effort exposed that the point <^ point (point_below) and
point >^ point (point_above) operators are misnamed; they should be
<<| and |>>, because they act like the other operators named that
way and not like the other operators named <^ and >^. But I just
documented them that way; fixing it is matter for another patch.
The haphazard datatype coverage of many of the operators is also
now depressingly obvious.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/158110996889.1089.4224139874633222837@wrigleys.postgresql.org
Add a couple of lines to make it explicit that indexes, constraints,
triggers are added, removed, or left alone.
Backpatch to pg11.
Author: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Reviewed-by: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200421162038.GA18628@alvherre.pgsql
When a partition is detached, any triggers that had been cloned from its
parent were not properly disentangled from its parent triggers.
This resulted in triggers that could not be dropped because they
depended on the trigger in the trigger in the no-longer-parent table:
ALTER TABLE t DETACH PARTITION t1;
DROP TRIGGER trig ON t1;
ERROR: cannot drop trigger trig on table t1 because trigger trig on table t requires it
HINT: You can drop trigger trig on table t instead.
Moreover the table can no longer be re-attached to its parent, because
the trigger name is already taken:
ALTER TABLE t ATTACH PARTITION t1 FOR VALUES FROM (1)TO(2);
ERROR: trigger "trig" for relation "t1" already exists
The former is a bug introduced in commit 86f575948c. (The latter is
not necessarily a bug, but it makes the bug more uncomfortable.)
To avoid the complexity that would be needed to tell whether the trigger
has a local definition that has to be merged with the one coming from
the parent table, establish the behavior that the trigger is removed
when the table is detached.
Backpatch to pg11.
Author: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
Reviewed-by: Amit Langote <amitlangote09@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/20200408152412.GZ2228@telsasoft.com
Previously in the "Standby Server Operation" section, pg_ctl promote and
protmote_trigger_file were documented as a method to trigger standby
promotion, but pg_promote() function not.
This commit also adds parentheses into <function>pg_promote</function>
in some docs to make it clearer that a function is being referred to.
Author: Masahiro Ikeda
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier, Laurenz Albe, Tom Lane, Fujii Masao
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/de0068417a9f4046bac693cbcc00bdc9@oss.nttdata.com
Commit f2fcad27d5 (9.6 era) added the ability to mark objects as
dependent an extension, but forgot to add a way for such dependencies to
be removed. This commit fixes that oversight.
Strictly speaking this should be backpatched to 9.6, but due to lack of
demand we're not doing so at this time.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200217225333.GA30974@alvherre.pgsql
Reviewed-by: ahsan hadi <ahsan.hadi@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Ibrar Ahmed <ibrar.ahmad@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Along the way, update the older examples for bytea to use "hex"
output format. That lets us get rid of the lame disclaimer about
how the examples assume bytea_output = escape, which was only half
true anyway because none of the more-recently-added examples had
paid any attention to that.
I took the opportunity to do some copy-editing in this area as well,
and to add some new material such as a note about BETWEEN's syntactical
peculiarities.
Of note is that quite a few of the examples of transcendental functions
needed to be updated, because the displayed output no longer matched
what you get on a modern server. I believe some of these cases are
side-effects of the new Ryu algorithm in float8out. Others appear to be
because the examples predate the addition of type numeric, and were
expecting that float8 calculations would be done although the given
syntax would actually lead to calling the numeric function nowadays.
Jonathan Katz felt that slightly different indentation settings made
for a better-looking result, so sync stylesheet-fo.xsl (for PDF) and
stylesheet.css (for non-website-style HTML) with those choices.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/31464.1587156281@sss.pgh.pa.us
The table layout ideas proposed in commit e894c6183 were not as widely
popular as I'd hoped. After discussion, we've settled on a layout
that's effectively a single-column table with cell contents much like a
<varlistentry> description of the function or operator; though we're not
actually using <varlistentry>, because it'd add way too much vertical
space. Instead the effect is accomplished using line-break processing
instructions to separate the description and example(s), plus CSS or FO
customizations to produce indentation of all but the first line in each
cell. While technically this is a bit grotty, it does have the
advantage that we won't need to write nearly as much boilerplate markup.
This patch updates tables 9.30, 9.31, and 9.33 (which were touched by
the previous patch) to the revised style, and additionally converts
table 9.10. A lot of work still remains to do, but hopefully it won't
be too controversial.
Thanks to Andrew Dunstan, Pierre Giraud, Robert Haas, Alvaro Herrera,
David Johnston, Jonathan Katz, Isaac Morland for valuable ideas.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/8691.1586798003@sss.pgh.pa.us