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Bruce Momjian 85c6bba2ce docs: add link to pg_start_backup() from pg_basebackup --checkpoint
This references the meaning of the fast/spread checkpoint option.

Per private IM report
2014-04-09 17:45:31 -04:00
Tom Lane f23a5630eb Add an in-core GiST index opclass for inet/cidr types.
This operator class can accelerate subnet/supernet tests as well as
btree-equivalent ordered comparisons.  It also handles a new network
operator inet && inet (overlaps, a/k/a "is supernet or subnet of"),
which is expected to be useful in exclusion constraints.

Ideally this opclass would be the default for GiST with inet/cidr data,
but we can't mark it that way until we figure out how to do a more or
less graceful transition from the current situation, in which the
really-completely-bogus inet/cidr opclasses in contrib/btree_gist are
marked as default.  Having the opclass in core and not default is better
than not having it at all, though.

While at it, add new documentation sections to allow us to officially
document GiST/GIN/SP-GiST opclasses, something there was never a clear
place to do before.  I filled these in with some simple tables listing
the existing opclasses and the operators they support, but there's
certainly scope to put more information there.

Emre Hasegeli, reviewed by Andreas Karlsson, further hacking by me
2014-04-08 15:46:43 -04:00
Robert Haas 02f65617ea doc: Fix typo.
Ian Barwick
2014-04-08 11:47:29 -04:00
Robert Haas 0886fc6a5c Add new to_reg* functions for error-free OID lookups.
These functions won't throw an error if the object doesn't exist,
or if (for functions and operators) there's more than one matching
object.

Yugo Nagata and Nozomi Anzai, reviewed by Amit Khandekar, Marti
Raudsepp, Amit Kapila, and me.
2014-04-08 10:27:56 -04:00
Simon Riggs 7d8f1de1bc Extra warnings and errors for PL/pgSQL
Infrastructure to allow
 plpgsql.extra_warnings
 plpgsql.extra_errors

Initial extra checks only for shadowed_variables

Marko Tiikkaja and Petr Jelinek
Reviewed by Simon Riggs and Pavel Stěhule
2014-04-06 12:21:51 -04:00
Simon Riggs e5550d5fec Reduce lock levels of some ALTER TABLE cmds
VALIDATE CONSTRAINT

CLUSTER ON
SET WITHOUT CLUSTER

ALTER COLUMN SET STATISTICS
ALTER COLUMN SET ()
ALTER COLUMN RESET ()

All other sub-commands use AccessExclusiveLock

Simon Riggs and Noah Misch

Reviews by Robert Haas and Andres Freund
2014-04-06 11:13:43 -04:00
Tom Lane c7b3539599 Fix non-equivalence of VARIADIC and non-VARIADIC function call formats.
For variadic functions (other than VARIADIC ANY), the syntaxes foo(x,y,...)
and foo(VARIADIC ARRAY[x,y,...]) should be considered equivalent, since the
former is converted to the latter at parse time.  They have indeed been
equivalent, in all releases before 9.3.  However, commit 75b39e790 made an
ill-considered decision to record which syntax had been used in FuncExpr
nodes, and then to make equal() test that in checking node equality ---
which caused the syntaxes to not be seen as equivalent by the planner.
This is the underlying cause of bug #9817 from Dmitry Ryabov.

It might seem that a quick fix would be to make equal() disregard
FuncExpr.funcvariadic, but the same commit made that untenable, because
the field actually *is* semantically significant for some VARIADIC ANY
functions.  This patch instead adopts the approach of redefining
funcvariadic (and aggvariadic, in HEAD) as meaning that the last argument
is a variadic array, whether it got that way by parser intervention or was
supplied explicitly by the user.  Therefore the value will always be true
for non-ANY variadic functions, restoring the principle of equivalence.
(However, the planner will continue to consider use of VARIADIC as a
meaningful difference for VARIADIC ANY functions, even though some such
functions might disregard it.)

In HEAD, this change lets us simplify the decompilation logic in
ruleutils.c, since the funcvariadic/aggvariadic flag tells directly whether
to print VARIADIC.  However, in 9.3 we have to continue to cope with
existing stored rules/views that might contain the previous definition.
Fortunately, this just means no change in ruleutils.c, since its existing
behavior effectively ignores funcvariadic for all cases other than VARIADIC
ANY functions.

In HEAD, bump catversion to reflect the fact that FuncExpr.funcvariadic
changed meanings; this is sort of pro forma, since I don't believe any
built-in views are affected.

Unfortunately, this patch doesn't magically fix everything for affected
9.3 users.  After installing 9.3.5, they might need to recreate their
rules/views/indexes containing variadic function calls in order to get
everything consistent with the new definition.  As in the cited bug,
the symptom of a problem would be failure to use a nominally matching
index that has a variadic function call in its definition.  We'll need
to mention this in the 9.3.5 release notes.
2014-04-03 22:02:24 -04:00
Tom Lane 42c6236f37 Fix documentation about joining pg_locks to other views.
The advice to join to pg_prepared_xacts via the transaction column was not
updated when the transaction column was replaced by virtualtransaction.
Since it's not quite obvious how to do that join, give an explicit example.
For consistency also give an example for the adjacent case of joining to
pg_stat_activity.  And link-ify the view references too, just because we
can.  Per bug #9840 from Alexey Bashtanov.

Michael Paquier and Tom Lane
2014-04-03 14:18:25 -04:00
Tom Lane 879808e519 Avoid promising that "ADD COLUMN ... DEFAULT NULL" is free.
The system realizes that DEFAULT NULL is dummy in simple cases, but not if
a cast function (such as a length coercion) needs to be applied.  It's
dubious that suppressing that function call would be appropriate, anyway.
For the moment, let's just adjust the docs to say that you should omit the
DEFAULT clause if you don't want a rewrite to happen.  Per gripe from Amit
Langote.
2014-04-03 12:38:00 -04:00
Tom Lane 6eff0accfe Doc: improve discussion of reverse+forward host name lookup in pg_hba.conf.
Fix some grammatical issues and make it a bit more readable.
2014-04-01 15:20:38 -04:00
Noah Misch 8f5578d0f9 Revert "Secure Unix-domain sockets of "make check" temporary clusters."
About half of the buildfarm members use too-long directory names,
strongly suggesting that this approach is a dead end.
2014-03-29 03:12:00 -04:00
Noah Misch 31c6e54ec9 Secure Unix-domain sockets of "make check" temporary clusters.
Any OS user able to access the socket can connect as the bootstrap
superuser and in turn execute arbitrary code as the OS user running the
test.  Protect against that by placing the socket in the temporary data
directory, which has mode 0700 thanks to initdb.  Back-patch to 8.4 (all
supported versions).  The hazard remains wherever the temporary cluster
accepts TCP connections, notably on Windows.

Attempts to run "make check" from a directory with a long name will now
fail.  An alternative not sharing that problem was to place the socket
in a subdirectory of /tmp, but that is only secure if /tmp is sticky.
The PG_REGRESS_SOCK_DIR environment variable is available as a
workaround when testing from long directory paths.

As a convenient side effect, this lets testing proceed smoothly in
builds that override DEFAULT_PGSOCKET_DIR.  Popular non-default values
like /var/run/postgresql are often unwritable to the build user.

Security: CVE-2014-0067
2014-03-29 00:52:56 -04:00
Noah Misch fbd32b0cab Document platform-specificity of unix_socket_permissions.
Back-patch to 8.4 (all supported versions).
2014-03-29 00:52:31 -04:00
Tom Lane e5a452b3a4 Improve documentation note about Python 2.3 and cdecimal.
Explain exactly what fails (ie, function arguments of type numeric)
if you don't have it.
2014-03-27 17:15:45 -04:00
Tom Lane f3cfc23195 Document that Python 2.3 requires cdecimal module for full functionality.
This has been true for some time, but we were leaving users to discover it
the hard way.

Back-patch to 9.2.  It might've been true before that, but we were claiming
Python 2.2 compatibility before that, so I won't guess at the exact
requirements back then.
2014-03-26 22:43:36 -04:00
Andrew Dunstan f9c6d72cbf Cleanup around json_to_record/json_to_recordset
Set function parameter names and defaults. Add jsonb versions (which the
code already provided for so the actual new code is trivial). Add jsonb
regression tests and docs.

Bump catalog version (which I apparently forgot to do when jsonb was
committed).
2014-03-26 10:18:24 -04:00
Heikki Linnakangas ce9bb92f8f Add -f/--follow option to pg_xlogdump.
This is useful for seeing what WAL records are inserted in real-time, by
pointing pg_xlogdump to a live server.
2014-03-26 13:48:20 +02:00
Magnus Hagander 36f7c3a1e0 Fix typos in pg_basebackup documentation
Joshua Tolley
2014-03-25 11:16:57 +01:00
Bruce Momjian 6c5ced1526 doc: list unlogged tables as a non-durable option 2014-03-24 22:04:44 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 5db55c6bbc Remove wchar.c Asserts that were stricter than the main code
Assert errors were thrown for functions being passed invalid encodings,
while the main code handled it just fine.

Also document that libpq's PQclientEncoding() returns -1 for an encoding
lookup failure.

Per report from Peter Geoghegan
2014-03-24 15:59:38 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 0b5c0f3bc7 docs: Add short "cover density" description
Also, previous commit 1420f3a982 to fix
ts_rank_cd() for stripped lexemes was from a patch created by Alex Hill.
2014-03-24 15:46:59 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 1420f3a982 Fix ts_rank_cd() to ignore stripped lexemes
Previously, stripped lexemes got a default location and could be
considered if mixed with non-stripped lexemes.

BACKWARD INCOMPATIBILITY CHANGE
2014-03-24 14:37:16 -04:00
Fujii Masao cf5d38f4b9 Fix START_REPLICATION syntax in document.
Enclose "TIMELINE tli" part with brackets because it's optional.

Backport to 9.3 where TIMELINE option was introduced.

Noted by Marko Tiikkaja
2014-03-24 19:30:32 +09:00
Heikki Linnakangas 3ed249b741 Fix "the the" typos.
Erik Rijkers
2014-03-24 08:42:13 +02:00
Andrew Dunstan ca07cd59b2 Fix mis-spelling in jsonb docs.
Per Thom Brown.
2014-03-23 18:25:16 -04:00
Andrew Dunstan d9134d0a35 Introduce jsonb, a structured format for storing json.
The new format accepts exactly the same data as the json type. However, it is
stored in a format that does not require reparsing the orgiginal text in order
to process it, making it much more suitable for indexing and other operations.
Insignificant whitespace is discarded, and the order of object keys is not
preserved. Neither are duplicate object keys kept - the later value for a given
key is the only one stored.

The new type has all the functions and operators that the json type has,
with the exception of the json generation functions (to_json, json_agg etc.)
and with identical semantics. In addition, there are operator classes for
hash and btree indexing, and two classes for GIN indexing, that have no
equivalent in the json type.

This feature grew out of previous work by Oleg Bartunov and Teodor Sigaev, which
was intended to provide similar facilities to a nested hstore type, but which
in the end proved to have some significant compatibility issues.

Authors: Oleg Bartunov,  Teodor Sigaev, Peter Geoghegan and Andrew Dunstan.
Review: Andres Freund
2014-03-23 16:40:19 -04:00
Noah Misch 7cbe57c34d Offer triggers on foreign tables.
This covers all the SQL-standard trigger types supported for regular
tables; it does not cover constraint triggers.  The approach for
acquiring the old row mirrors that for view INSTEAD OF triggers.  For
AFTER ROW triggers, we spool the foreign tuples to a tuplestore.

This changes the FDW API contract; when deciding which columns to
populate in the slot returned from data modification callbacks, writable
FDWs will need to check for AFTER ROW triggers in addition to checking
for a RETURNING clause.

In support of the feature addition, refactor the TriggerFlags bits and
the assembly of old tuples in ModifyTable.

Ronan Dunklau, reviewed by KaiGai Kohei; some additional hacking by me.
2014-03-23 02:16:34 -04:00
Fujii Masao fb1d92a9fa Some minor improvements to logical decoding document.
Also improve help message in pg_recvlogical.
2014-03-19 22:13:05 +09:00
Robert Haas 3ee4fcfc63 Logical decoding documentation corrections.
Thom Brown
2014-03-18 14:57:49 -04:00
Robert Haas 49c0864d7e Documentation for logical decoding.
Craig Ringer, Andres Freund, Christian Kruse, with edits by me.
2014-03-18 13:20:01 -04:00
Fujii Masao e726e59dc4 Fix help message and document in pg_receivexlog.
Add SLOTNAME placeholder to --slot option in help message and
document.
2014-03-18 21:15:45 +09:00
Tom Lane 551fb5ac74 Release notes for 9.3.4, 9.2.8, 9.1.13, 9.0.17, 8.4.21. 2014-03-17 15:28:22 -04:00
Fujii Masao 2bccced110 Fix typos in comments.
Thom Brown
2014-03-17 20:47:28 +09:00
Magnus Hagander 0294023a6b Cleanups from the remove-native-krb5 patch
krb_srvname is actually not available anymore as a parameter server-side, since
with gssapi we accept all principals in our keytab. It's still used in libpq for
client side specification.

In passing remove declaration of krb_server_hostname, where all the functionality
was already removed.

Noted by Stephen Frost, though a different solution than his suggestion
2014-03-16 15:22:45 +01:00
Tom Lane e3c9f23250 First-draft release notes for 9.3.4.
As usual, the release notes for older branches will be made by cutting
these down, but put them up for community review first.
2014-03-15 15:58:59 -04:00
Tom Lane f70a78bc1f Allow psql to print COPY command status in more cases.
Previously, psql would print the "COPY nnn" command status only for COPY
commands executed server-side.  Now it will print that for frontend copies
too (including \copy).  However, we continue to suppress the command status
for COPY TO STDOUT, since in that case the copy data has been routed to the
same place that the command status would go, and there is a risk of the
status line being mistaken for another line of COPY data.  Doing that would
break existing scripts, and it doesn't seem worth the benefit --- this case
seems fairly analogous to SELECT, for which we also suppress the command
status.

Kumar Rajeev Rastogi, with substantial review by Amit Khandekar
2014-03-13 13:49:03 -04:00
Heikki Linnakangas 16ff08b794 Fix a couple of typos in docs.
Thom Brown
2014-03-13 15:01:45 +02:00
Fujii Masao 588fb50715 Show PIDs of lock holders and waiters in log_lock_waits log message.
Christian Kruse, reviewed by Kumar Rajeev Rastogi.
2014-03-13 03:26:47 +09:00
Robert Haas a0b4c355c2 test_decoding: Documentation fix.
Andres Freund
2014-03-12 14:11:06 -04:00
Heikki Linnakangas c5608ea26a Allow opclasses to provide tri-valued GIN consistent functions.
With the GIN "fast scan" feature, GIN can skip items without fetching all
the keys for them, if it can prove that they don't match regardless of
those keys. So far, it has done the proving by calling the boolean
consistent function with all combinations of TRUE/FALSE for the unfetched
keys, but since that's O(n^2), it becomes unfeasible with more than a few
keys. We can avoid calling consistent with all the combinations, if we can
tell the operator class implementation directly which keys are unknown.

This commit includes a triConsistent function for the built-in array and
tsvector opclasses.

Alexander Korotkov, with some changes by me.
2014-03-12 17:51:30 +02:00
Robert Haas 5a991ef869 Allow logical decoding via the walsender interface.
In order for this to work, walsenders need the optional ability to
connect to a database, so the "replication" keyword now allows true
or false, for backward-compatibility, and the new value "database"
(which causes the "dbname" parameter to be respected).

walsender needs to loop not only when idle but also when sending
decoded data to the user and when waiting for more xlog data to decode.
This means that there are now three separate loops inside walsender.c;
although some refactoring has been done here, this is still a bit ugly.

Andres Freund, with contributions from Álvaro Herrera, and further
review by me.
2014-03-10 13:50:28 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 19026aadd8 doc: remove extra whitespace in SGML markup 2014-03-08 17:08:01 -05:00
Bruce Momjian 11d205e2bd pg_ctl: improve handling of invalid data directory
Return '4' and report a meaningful error message when a non-existent or
invalid data directory is passed.  Previously, pg_ctl would just report
the server was not running.

Patch by me and Amit Kapila
Report from Peter Eisentraut
2014-03-08 12:15:25 -05:00
Bruce Momjian 3624acd342 docs: small adjustements to recent SELECT and pg_upgrade improvements 2014-03-08 11:26:47 -05:00
Bruce Momjian 8879fa09ee pg_upgrade: document delete problems with tablespaces inside the cluster directory
Per report by Marc Mamin
2014-03-07 22:46:38 -05:00
Bruce Momjian ea43af38dc doc: improve server's keepalive description
Use superior libpq keepalive description for the server-level
parameters.

Per report by Tatsuo Ishii and Marko Tiikkaja
2014-03-07 22:02:38 -05:00
Bruce Momjian b0cb40f93a docs: improve TABLE command by showing supported clauses
Initial patch by Colin 't Hart
2014-03-07 20:56:16 -05:00
Bruce Momjian 4ea2e2d474 release notes: add item missed in 9.2.5 release
Item is "Prevent errors in WAL replay due to references to uninitialized
empty pages".

Report and text by Andres Freund

Backpatch through 9.2.
2014-03-07 13:45:38 -05:00
Heikki Linnakangas 2b8483d69d Fix name of syslog_ident GUC in docs.
Michael Paquier
2014-03-07 10:35:37 +02:00
Bruce Momjian e2224faf17 docs: to_timestamp and to_date do minimal range checking
Initial patch from Steve Crawford
2014-03-05 20:45:27 -05:00