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Author SHA1 Message Date
Thomas Munro 9ccdd7f66e PANIC on fsync() failure.
On some operating systems, it doesn't make sense to retry fsync(),
because dirty data cached by the kernel may have been dropped on
write-back failure.  In that case the only remaining copy of the
data is in the WAL.  A subsequent fsync() could appear to succeed,
but not have flushed the data.  That means that a future checkpoint
could apparently complete successfully but have lost data.

Therefore, violently prevent any future checkpoint attempts by
panicking on the first fsync() failure.  Note that we already
did the same for WAL data; this change extends that behavior to
non-temporary data files.

Provide a GUC data_sync_retry to control this new behavior, for
users of operating systems that don't eject dirty data, and possibly
forensic/testing uses.  If it is set to on and the write-back error
was transient, a later checkpoint might genuinely succeed (on a
system that does not throw away buffers on failure); if the error is
permanent, later checkpoints will continue to fail.  The GUC defaults
to off, meaning that we panic.

Back-patch to all supported releases.

There is still a narrow window for error-loss on some operating
systems: if the file is closed and later reopened and a write-back
error occurs in the intervening time, but the inode has the bad
luck to be evicted due to memory pressure before we reopen, we could
miss the error.  A later patch will address that with a scheme
for keeping files with dirty data open at all times, but we judge
that to be too complicated to back-patch.

Author: Craig Ringer, with some adjustments by Thomas Munro
Reported-by: Craig Ringer
Reviewed-by: Robert Haas, Thomas Munro, Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180427222842.in2e4mibx45zdth5%40alap3.anarazel.de
2018-11-19 17:41:26 +13:00
Alvaro Herrera 3f2393edef Redesign initialization of partition routing structures
This speeds up write operations (INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, COPY, as well
as the future MERGE) on partitioned tables.

This changes the setup for tuple routing so that it does far less work
during the initial setup and pushes more work out to when partitions
receive tuples.  PartitionDispatchData structs for sub-partitioned
tables are only created when a tuple gets routed through it.  The
possibly large arrays in the PartitionTupleRouting struct have largely
been removed.  The partitions[] array remains but now never contains any
NULL gaps.  Previously the NULLs had to be skipped during
ExecCleanupTupleRouting(), which could add a large overhead to the
cleanup when the number of partitions was large.  The partitions[] array
is allocated small to start with and only enlarged when we route tuples
to enough partitions that it runs out of space. This allows us to keep
simple single-row partition INSERTs running quickly.  Redesign

The arrays in PartitionTupleRouting which stored the tuple translation maps
have now been removed.  These have been moved out into a
PartitionRoutingInfo struct which is an additional field in ResultRelInfo.

The find_all_inheritors() call still remains by far the slowest part of
ExecSetupPartitionTupleRouting(). This commit just removes the other slow
parts.

In passing also rename the tuple translation maps from being ParentToChild
and ChildToParent to being RootToPartition and PartitionToRoot. The old
names mislead you into thinking that a partition of some sub-partitioned
table would translate to the rowtype of the sub-partitioned table rather
than the root partitioned table.

Authors: David Rowley and Amit Langote, heavily revised by Álvaro Herrera
Testing help from Jesper Pedersen and Kato Sho.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAKJS1f_1RJyFquuCKRFHTdcXqoPX-PYqAd7nz=GVBwvGh4a6xA@mail.gmail.com
2018-11-16 15:01:05 -03:00
Andres Freund 1a0586de36 Introduce notion of different types of slots (without implementing them).
Upcoming work intends to allow pluggable ways to introduce new ways of
storing table data. Accessing those table access methods from the
executor requires TupleTableSlots to be carry tuples in the native
format of such storage methods; otherwise there'll be a significant
conversion overhead.

Different access methods will require different data to store tuples
efficiently (just like virtual, minimal, heap already require fields
in TupleTableSlot). To allow that without requiring additional pointer
indirections, we want to have different structs (embedding
TupleTableSlot) for different types of slots.  Thus different types of
slots are needed, which requires adapting creators of slots.

The slot that most efficiently can represent a type of tuple in an
executor node will often depend on the type of slot a child node
uses. Therefore we need to track the type of slot is returned by
nodes, so parent slots can create slots based on that.

Relatedly, JIT compilation of tuple deforming needs to know which type
of slot a certain expression refers to, so it can create an
appropriate deforming function for the type of tuple in the slot.

But not all nodes will only return one type of slot, e.g. an append
node will potentially return different types of slots for each of its
subplans.

Therefore add function that allows to query the type of a node's
result slot, and whether it'll always be the same type (whether it's
fixed). This can be queried using ExecGetResultSlotOps().

The scan, result, inner, outer type of slots are automatically
inferred from ExecInitScanTupleSlot(), ExecInitResultSlot(),
left/right subtrees respectively. If that's not correct for a node,
that can be overwritten using new fields in PlanState.

This commit does not introduce the actually abstracted implementation
of different kind of TupleTableSlots, that will be left for a followup
commit.  The different types of slots introduced will, for now, still
use the same backing implementation.

While this already partially invalidates the big comment in
tuptable.h, it seems to make more sense to update it later, when the
different TupleTableSlot implementations actually exist.

Author: Ashutosh Bapat and Andres Freund, with changes by Amit Khandekar
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20181105210039.hh4vvi4vwoq5ba2q@alap3.anarazel.de
2018-11-15 22:00:30 -08:00
Alvaro Herrera 74514bd4a5 geo_ops.c: Clarify comments and function arguments
These functions were not crystal clear about what their respective APIs
are.  Make an effort to improve that.

Emre's patch was correct AFAICT, but I (Álvaro) felt the need to improve
a few comments a bit more.  Any resulting errors are my own.

Per complaint from Coverity, Ning Yu, and Tom Lane.

Author: Emre Hasegeli, Álvaro Herrera
Reviewed-by: Tomas Vondra, Álvaro Herrera
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/26769.1533090136@sss.pgh.pa.us
2018-11-15 12:08:03 -03:00
Thomas Munro aa55183042 Use 64 bit type for BufFileSize().
BufFileSize() can't use off_t, because it's only 32 bits wide on
some systems.  BufFile objects can have many 1GB segments so the
total size can exceed 2^31.  The only known client of the function
is parallel CREATE INDEX, which was reported to fail when building
large indexes on Windows.

Though this is technically an ABI break on platforms with a 32 bit
off_t and we might normally avoid back-patching it, the function is
brand new and thus unlikely to have been discovered by extension
authors yet, and it's fairly thoroughly broken on those platforms
anyway, so just fix it.

Defect in 9da0cc35.  Bug #15460.  Back-patch to 11, where this
function landed.

Author: Thomas Munro
Reported-by: Paul van der Linden, Pavel Oskin
Reviewed-by: Peter Geoghegan
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/15460-b6db80de822fa0ad%40postgresql.org
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAHDGBJP_GsESbTt4P3FZA8kMUKuYxjg57XHF7NRBoKnR%3DCAR-g%40mail.gmail.com
2018-11-15 13:13:57 +13:00
Tom Lane 600b04d6b5 Add a timezone-specific variant of date_trunc().
date_trunc(field, timestamptz, zone_name) performs truncation using
the named time zone as reference, rather than working in the session
time zone as is the default behavior.  It's equivalent to

date_trunc(field, timestamptz at time zone zone_name) at time zone zone_name

but it's faster, easier to type, and arguably easier to understand.

Vik Fearing and Tom Lane

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/6249ffc4-2b22-4c1b-4e7d-7af84fedd7c6@2ndquadrant.com
2018-11-14 15:41:07 -05:00
Michael Paquier b52b7dc250 Refactor code creating PartitionBoundInfo
The code building PartitionBoundInfo based on the constituent partition
data read from catalogs has been located in partcache.c, with a specific
set of routines dedicated to bound types, like sorting or bound data
creation.  All this logic is moved to partbounds.c and relocates all the
bound-specific logistic into it, with partition_bounds_create() as
principal entry point.

Author: Amit Langote
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier, Álvaro Herrera
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3f289da8-6d10-75fe-814a-635e8b191d43@lab.ntt.co.jp
2018-11-14 10:01:49 +09:00
Peter Eisentraut 69ee2ff930 Apply RI trigger skipping tests also for DELETE
The tests added in cfa0f4255b to skip
firing an RI trigger if any old key value is NULL can also be applied
for DELETE.  This should give a performance gain in those cases, and it
also saves a lot of duplicate code in the actual RI triggers.  (That
code was already dead code for the UPDATE cases.)

Reviewed-by: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
2018-11-10 16:14:51 +01:00
Peter Eisentraut 34479d9a36 Remove dead foreign key optimization code
The ri_KeysEqual() calls in the foreign-key trigger functions to
optimize away some updates are useless because since
adfeef55cb those triggers are not enqueued
at all.  (It's also not useful to keep these checks as some kind of
backstop, since it's also semantically correct to just run the full
check even with equal keys.)

Reviewed-by: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
2018-11-10 16:14:51 +01:00
Tom Lane 3d360e20c9 Disallow setting client_min_messages higher than ERROR.
Previously it was possible to set client_min_messages to FATAL or PANIC,
which had the effect of suppressing transmission of regular ERROR messages
to the client.  Perhaps that seemed like a useful option in the past, but
the trouble with it is that it breaks guarantees that are explicitly made
in our FE/BE protocol spec about how a query cycle can end.  While libpq
and psql manage to cope with the omission, that's mostly because they
are not very bright; client libraries that have more semantic knowledge
are likely to get confused.  Notably, pgODBC doesn't behave very sanely.
Let's fix this by getting rid of the ability to set client_min_messages
above ERROR.

In HEAD, just remove the FATAL and PANIC options from the set of allowed
enum values for client_min_messages.  (This change also affects
trace_recovery_messages, but that's OK since these aren't useful values
for that variable either.)

In the back branches, there was concern that rejecting these values might
break applications that are explicitly setting things that way.  I'm
pretty skeptical of that argument, but accommodate it by accepting these
values and then internally setting the variable to ERROR anyway.

In all branches, this allows a couple of tiny simplifications in the
logic in elog.c, so do that.

Also respond to the point that was made that client_min_messages has
exactly nothing to do with the server's logging behavior, and therefore
does not belong in the "When To Log" subsection of the documentation.
The "Statement Behavior" subsection is a better match, so move it there.

Jonah Harris and Tom Lane

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/7809.1541521180@sss.pgh.pa.us
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/15479-ef0f4cc2fd995ca2@postgresql.org
2018-11-08 17:33:43 -05:00
Tom Lane 5d28c9bd73 Disable recheck_on_update optimization to avoid crashes.
The code added by commit c203d6cf8 causes a crash in at least one case,
where a potentially-optimizable expression index has a storage type
different from the input data type.  A cursory code review turned up
numerous other problems that seem impractical to fix on short notice.

Andres argued for revert of that patch some time ago, and if additional
senior committers had been paying attention, that's likely what would
have happened, but we were not :-(

At this point we can't just revert, at least not in v11, because that would
mean an ABI break for code touching relcache entries.  And we should not
remove the (also buggy) support for the recheck_on_update index reloption,
since it might already be used in some databases in the field.  So this
patch just does the as-little-invasive-as-possible measure of disabling
the feature as though recheck_on_update were forced off for all indexes.
I also removed the related regression tests (which would otherwise fail)
and the user-facing documentation of the reloption.

We should undertake a more thorough code cleanup if the patch can't be
fixed, but not under the extreme time pressure of being already overdue
for 11.1 release.

Per report from Ondřej Bouda and subsequent private discussion among
pgsql-release.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20181106185255.776mstcyehnc63ty@alvherre.pgsql
2018-11-06 18:33:28 -05:00
Bruce Momjian b43df566b3 GUC: adjust effective_cache_size SQL descriptions
Follow on patch for commit 3e0f1a4741.

Reported-by: Peter Eisentraut

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/369ec766-b947-51bd-4dad-6fb9e026439f@2ndquadrant.com

Backpatch-through: 9.4
2018-11-06 13:40:03 -05:00
Bruce Momjian 3e0f1a4741 GUC: adjust effective_cache_size docs and SQL description
Clarify that effective_cache_size is both kernel buffers and shared
buffers.

Reported-by: nat@makarevitch.org

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/153685164808.22334.15432535018443165207@wrigleys.postgresql.org

Backpatch-through: 9.3
2018-11-02 09:11:00 -04:00
Magnus Hagander fbec7459aa Fix spelling errors and typos in comments
Author: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
2018-11-02 13:56:52 +01:00
Peter Geoghegan cb6f8a9a72 Adjust trace_sort log messages.
The project message style guide dictates: "When citing the name of an
object, state what kind of object it is".  The parallel CREATE INDEX
patch added a worker number to most of the trace_sort messages within
tuplesort.c without specifying the object type.  Bring these messages
into compliance with the style guide.

We're still treating a leader or serial Tuplesortstate as having worker
number -1.  trace_sort is a developer option, and these two cases are
highly comparable, so this seems appropriate.

Per complaint from Tom Lane.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/8330.1540831863@sss.pgh.pa.us
Backpatch: 11-, where parallel CREATE INDEX was introduced.
2018-11-01 09:18:57 -07:00
Michael Paquier d5eec4eefd Add pg_partition_tree to display information about partitions
This new function is useful to display a full tree of partitions with a
partitioned table given in output, and avoids the need of any complex
WITH RECURSIVE query when looking at partition trees which are
deep multiple levels.

It returns a set of records, one for each partition, containing the
partition's name, its immediate parent's name, a boolean value telling
if the relation is a leaf in the tree and an integer telling its level
in the partition tree with given table considered as root, beginning at
zero for the root, and incrementing by one each time the scan goes one
level down.

Author: Amit Langote
Reviewed-by: Jesper Pedersen, Michael Paquier, Robert Haas
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/8d00e51a-9a51-ad02-d53e-ba6bf50b2e52@lab.ntt.co.jp
2018-10-30 10:25:06 +09:00
Peter Eisentraut 0a8590b2a0 Apply unconstify() in more places
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/08adbe4e-38f8-2c73-55f0-591392371687%402ndquadrant.com
2018-10-25 01:02:46 +01:00
Peter Eisentraut 5d7c703a44 Remove get_attidentity()
All existing uses can get this information more easily from the
relation descriptor, so the detour through the syscache is not
necessary.

Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
2018-10-23 14:47:14 +02:00
Peter Eisentraut c903bb7b1c Remove get_atttypmod()
This has been unused since 2004.  get_atttypetypmodcoll() is often a
better alternative.

Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
2018-10-23 14:47:14 +02:00
Peter Eisentraut e6f5d1accd Drop const cast from dlsym() calls
This workaround might be obsolete.  We'll see if those "older
platforms" mentioned in the comment are still around.

Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/08adbe4e-38f8-2c73-55f0-591392371687%402ndquadrant.com
2018-10-23 14:35:59 +02:00
Tom Lane 350410be45 Add missing quote_identifier calls for CREATE TRIGGER ... REFERENCING.
Mixed-case names for transition tables weren't dumped correctly.
Oversight in commit 8c48375e5, per bug #15440 from Karl Czajkowski.

In passing, I couldn't resist a bit of code beautification.

Back-patch to v10 where this was introduced.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/15440-02d1468e94d63d76@postgresql.org
2018-10-19 00:50:16 -04:00
Thomas Munro 197e4af9d5 Refactor pid, random seed and start time initialization.
Background workers, including parallel workers, were generating
the same sequence of numbers in random().  This showed up as DSM
handle collisions when Parallel Hash created multiple segments,
but any code that calls random() in background workers could be
affected if it cares about different backends generating different
numbers.

Repair by making sure that all new processes initialize the seed
at the same time as they set MyProcPid and MyStartTime in a new
function InitProcessGlobals(), called by the postmaster, its
children and also standalone processes.  Also add a new high
resolution MyStartTimestamp as a potentially useful by-product,
and remove SessionStartTime from struct Port as it is now
redundant.

No back-patch for now, as the known consequences so far are just
a bunch of harmless shm_open(O_EXCL) collisions.

Author: Thomas Munro
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEepm%3D2eJj_6%3DB%2B2tEpGu2nf1BjthCf9nXXUouYvJJ4C5WSwhg%40mail.gmail.com
2018-10-19 13:59:28 +13:00
Tom Lane 48d818ede1 Const-ify a few more large static tables.
Per research by Andres.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20181015200754.7y7zfuzsoux2c4ya@alap3.anarazel.de
2018-10-17 15:32:47 -04:00
Andres Freund 28d750c0cd Reorder FmgrBuiltin members, saving 25% in size.
That's worth it, as fmgr_builtins is frequently accessed, and as
fmgr_builtins is one of the biggest constant variables in a backend.

On most 64bit systems this will change the size of the struct from
32byte to 24bytes. While that could make indexing into the array
marginally more expensive, the higher cache hit ratio is worth more,
especially because these days fmgr_builtins isn't searched with a
binary search anymore (c.f. 212e6f34d5).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20181016201145.aa2dfeq54rhqzron@alap3.anarazel.de
2018-10-16 14:51:18 -07:00
Tom Lane 2c300c6807 Be smarter about age-counter overflow in formatting.c caches.
The previous code here simply threw away whatever it knew about cache
entry ages whenever a counter overflow occurred.  Since the counter
is int width and will be bumped once per format function execution,
overflows are not really so rare as to not be worth thinking about.
Instead, let's deal with the situation by halving all the age values,
essentially rescaling the age metric.  In that way, we retain a
pretty accurate (if not quite perfect) idea of which entries are oldest.
2018-10-16 14:57:14 -04:00
Tom Lane fd85e9f78d Avoid statically allocating formatting.c's format string caches.
This eliminates circa 120KB of static data from Postgres' memory
footprint.  In some usage patterns that space will get allocated
anyway, but in many processes it never will be allocated.

We can improve matters further by allocating only as many cache
entries as we actually use, rather than allocating the whole array
on first use.  However, to avoid wasting lots of space due to
palloc's habit of rounding requests up to power-of-2 sizes, tweak
the maximum cacheable format string length to make the struct sizes
be powers of 2 or just less.  The sizes I chose make the maximums
a little bit less than they were before, but I doubt it matters much.

While at it, rearrange struct FormatNode to avoid wasting quite so
much padding space.  This change actually halves the size of that
struct on 64-bit machines.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20181015200754.7y7zfuzsoux2c4ya@alap3.anarazel.de
2018-10-16 13:11:09 -04:00
Andres Freund 02a30a09f9 Correct constness of system attributes in heap.c & prerequisites.
This allows the compiler / linker to mark affected pages as read-only.

There's a fair number of pre-requisite changes, to allow the const
properly be propagated. Most of consts were already required for
correctness anyway, just not represented on the type-level.  Arguably
we could be more aggressive in using consts in related code, but..

This requires using a few of the types underlying typedefs that
removes pointers (e.g. const NameData *) as declaring the typedefed
type constant doesn't have the same meaning (it makes the variable
const, not what it points to).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20181015200754.7y7zfuzsoux2c4ya@alap3.anarazel.de
2018-10-16 09:44:43 -07:00
Tom Lane 3dfef0c519 Avoid statically allocating gmtsub()'s timezone workspace.
localtime.c's "struct state" is a rather large object, ~23KB.  We were
statically allocating one for gmtsub() to use to represent the GMT
timezone, even though that function is not at all heavily used and is
never reached in most backends.  Let's malloc it on-demand, instead.

This does pose the question of how to handle a malloc failure, but
there's already a well-defined error report convention here, ie
set errno and return NULL.

We have but one caller of pg_gmtime in HEAD, and two in back branches,
neither of which were troubling to check for error.  Make them do so.
The possible errors are sufficiently unlikely (out-of-range timestamp,
and now malloc failure) that I think elog() is adequate.

Back-patch to all supported branches to keep our copies of the IANA
timezone code in sync.  This particular change is in a stanza that
already differs from upstream, so it's a wash for maintenance purposes
--- but only as long as we keep the branches the same.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20181015200754.7y7zfuzsoux2c4ya@alap3.anarazel.de
2018-10-16 11:50:18 -04:00
Andres Freund 62649bad83 Correct constness of a few variables.
This allows the compiler / linker to mark affected pages as read-only.

There's other cases, but they're a bit more invasive, and should go
through some review. These are easy.

They were found with
objdump -j .data -t src/backend/postgres|awk '{print $4, $5, $6}'|sort -r|less

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20181015200754.7y7zfuzsoux2c4ya@alap3.anarazel.de
2018-10-15 21:01:14 -07:00
Tom Lane 13cd7209f7 Simplify use of AllocSetContextCreate() wrapper macro.
We can allow this macro to accept either abbreviated or non-abbreviated
allocation parameters by making use of __VA_ARGS__.  As noted by Andres
Freund, it's unlikely that any compiler would have __builtin_constant_p
but not __VA_ARGS__, so this gives up little or no error checking, and
it avoids a minor but annoying API break for extensions.

With this change, there is no reason for anybody to call
AllocSetContextCreateExtended directly, so in HEAD I renamed it to
AllocSetContextCreateInternal.  It's probably too late for an ABI
break like that in 11, though.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20181012170355.bhxi273skjt6sag4@alap3.anarazel.de
2018-10-12 14:26:56 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera c7d43c4d8a Correct attach/detach logic for FKs in partitions
There was no code to handle foreign key constraints on partitioned
tables in the case of ALTER TABLE DETACH; and if you happened to ATTACH
a partition that already had an equivalent constraint, that one was
ignored and a new constraint was created.  Adding this to the fact that
foreign key cloning reuses the constraint name on the partition instead
of generating a new name (as it probably should, to cater to SQL
standard rules about constraint naming within schemas), the result was a
pretty poor user experience -- the most visible failure was that just
detaching a partition and re-attaching it failed with an error such as

  ERROR:  duplicate key value violates unique constraint "pg_constraint_conrelid_contypid_conname_index"
  DETAIL:  Key (conrelid, contypid, conname)=(26702, 0, test_result_asset_id_fkey) already exists.

because it would try to create an identically-named constraint in the
partition.  To make matters worse, if you tried to drop the constraint
in the now-independent partition, that would fail because the constraint
was still seen as dependent on the constraint in its former parent
partitioned table:
  ERROR:  cannot drop inherited constraint "test_result_asset_id_fkey" of relation "test_result_cbsystem_0001_0050_monthly_2018_09"

This fix attacks the problem from two angles: first, when the partition
is detached, the constraint is also marked as independent, so the drop
now works.  Second, when the partition is re-attached, we scan existing
constraints searching for one matching the FK in the parent, and if one
exists, we link that one to the parent constraint.  So we don't end up
with a duplicate -- and better yet, we don't need to scan the referenced
table to verify that the constraint holds.

To implement this I made a small change to previously planner-only
struct ForeignKeyCacheInfo to contain the constraint OID; also relcache
now maintains the list of FKs for partitioned tables too.

Backpatch to 11.

Reported-by: Michael Vitale (bug #15425)
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/15425-2dbc9d2aa999f816@postgresql.org
2018-10-12 12:37:37 -03:00
Andres Freund cda6a8d01d Remove deprecated abstime, reltime, tinterval datatypes.
These types have been deprecated for a *long* time.

Catversion bump, for obvious reasons.

Author: Andres Freund
Discussion:
    https://postgr.es/m/20181009192237.34wjp3nmw7oynmmr@alap3.anarazel.de
    https://postgr.es/m/20171213080506.cwjkpcz3bkk6yz2u@alap3.anarazel.de
    https://postgr.es/m/25615.1513115237@sss.pgh.pa.us
2018-10-11 11:59:15 -07:00
Andres Freund 86896be60e Move timeofday() implementation out of nabstime.c.
nabstime.c is about to be removed, but timeofday() isn't related to
the rest of the functionality therein, and some find it useful. Move
to timestamp.c.

Discussion:
    https://postgr.es/m/20181009192237.34wjp3nmw7oynmmr@alap3.anarazel.de
    https://postgr.es/m/20180928223240.kgwc4czzzekrpsid%40alap3.anarazel.de
2018-10-11 11:30:59 -07:00
Peter Eisentraut f8c10f616f Turn transaction_isolation into GUC enum
It was previously a string setting that was converted into an enum by
custom code, but using the GUC enum facility seems much simpler and
doesn't change any functionality, except that

    set transaction_isolation='default';

no longer works, but that was never documented and doesn't work with
any other transaction characteristics.  (Note that this is not the
same as RESET or SET TO DEFAULT, which still work.)

Reviewed-by: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/457db615-e84c-4838-310e-43841eb806e5@iki.fi
2018-10-09 21:26:00 +02:00
Michael Paquier c481016201 Add pg_ls_archive_statusdir function
This function lists the contents of the WAL archive status directory,
and is intended to be used by monitoring tools.  Unlike pg_ls_dir(),
access to it can be granted to non-superusers so that those monitoring
tools can observe the principle of least privilege.  Access is also
given by default to members of pg_monitor.

Author:  Christoph Moench-Tegeder
Reviewed-by: Aya Iwata
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180930205920.GA64534@elch.exwg.net
2018-10-09 22:29:09 +09:00
Thomas Munro 212fab9926 Relax transactional restrictions on ALTER TYPE ... ADD VALUE (redux).
Originally committed as 15bc038f (plus some follow-ups), this was
reverted in 28e07270 due to a problem discovered in parallel
workers.  This new version corrects that problem by sending the
list of uncommitted enum values to parallel workers.

Here follows the original commit message describing the change:

To prevent possibly breaking indexes on enum columns, we must keep
uncommitted enum values from getting stored in tables, unless we
can be sure that any such column is new in the current transaction.

Formerly, we enforced this by disallowing ALTER TYPE ... ADD VALUE
from being executed at all in a transaction block, unless the target
enum type had been created in the current transaction.  This patch
removes that restriction, and instead insists that an uncommitted enum
value can't be referenced unless it belongs to an enum type created
in the same transaction as the value.  Per discussion, this should be
a bit less onerous.  It does require each function that could possibly
return a new enum value to SQL operations to check this restriction,
but there aren't so many of those that this seems unmaintainable.

Author: Andrew Dunstan and Tom Lane, with parallel query fix by Thomas Munro
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEepm%3D0Ei7g6PaNTbcmAh9tCRahQrk%3Dr5ZWLD-jr7hXweYX3yg%40mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/4075.1459088427%40sss.pgh.pa.us
2018-10-09 12:51:01 +13:00
Tom Lane 6eb3eb577d Improve snprintf.c's handling of NaN, Infinity, and minus zero.
Up to now, float4out/float8out handled NaN and Infinity cases explicitly,
and invoked psprintf only for ordinary float values.  This was done because
platform implementations of snprintf produce varying representations of
these special cases.  But now that we use snprintf.c always, it's better
to give it the responsibility to produce a uniform representation of
these cases, so that we have uniformity across the board not only in
float4out/float8out.  Hence, move that work into fmtfloat().

Also, teach fmtfloat() to recognize IEEE minus zero and handle it
correctly.  The previous coding worked only accidentally, and would
fail for e.g. "%+f" format (it'd print "+-0.00000").  Now that we're
using snprintf.c everywhere, it's not acceptable for it to do weird
things in corner cases.  (This incidentally avoids a portability
problem we've seen on some really ancient platforms, that native
sprintf does the wrong thing with minus zero.)

Also, introduce a new entry point in snprintf.c to allow float[48]out
to bypass the work of interpreting a well-known format spec, as well
as bypassing the overhead of the psprintf layer.  I modeled this API
loosely on strfromd().  In my testing, this brings float[48]out back
to approximately the same speed they had when using native snprintf,
fixing one of the main performance issues caused by using snprintf.c.

(There is some talk of more aggressive work to improve the speed of
floating-point output conversion, but these changes seem to provide
a better starting point for such work anyway.)

Getting rid of the previous ad-hoc hack for Infinity/NaN in fmtfloat()
allows removing <ctype.h> from snprintf.c's #includes.  I also removed
a few other #includes that I think are historical, though the buildfarm
may expose that as wrong.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/13178.1538794717@sss.pgh.pa.us
2018-10-08 12:19:20 -04:00
Tom Lane 0209f0285d Don't use is_infinite() where isinf() will do.
Places that aren't testing for sign should not use the more expensive
function; it's just wasteful, not to mention being a cognitive load
for readers who may know what isinf() is but not is_infinite().

As things stand, we actually don't need is_infinite() anyplace except
float4out/float8out, which means it could potentially go away altogether
after the changes I proposed in <13178.1538794717@sss.pgh.pa.us>.
2018-10-06 13:18:38 -04:00
Dean Rasheed e954a727f0 Improve the accuracy of floating point statistical aggregates.
When computing statistical aggregates like variance, the common
schoolbook algorithm which computes the sum of the squares of the
values and subtracts the square of the mean can lead to a large loss
of precision when using floating point arithmetic, because the
difference between the two terms is often very small relative to the
terms themselves.

To avoid this, re-work these aggregates to use the Youngs-Cramer
algorithm, which is a proven, numerically stable algorithm that
directly aggregates the sum of the squares of the differences of the
values from the mean in a single pass over the data.

While at it, improve the test coverage to test the aggregate combine
functions used during parallel aggregation.

Per report and suggested algorithm from Erich Schubert.

Patch by me, reviewed by Madeleine Thompson.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/153313051300.1397.9594490737341194671@wrigleys.postgresql.org
2018-10-06 11:20:09 +01:00
Michael Paquier 9cd92d1a33 Add pg_ls_tmpdir function
This lists the contents of a temporary directory associated to a given
tablespace, useful to get information about on-disk consumption caused
by temporary files used by a session query.  By default, pg_default is
scanned, and a tablespace can be specified as argument.

This function is intended to be used by monitoring tools, and, unlike
pg_ls_dir(), access to them can be granted to non-superusers so that
those monitoring tools can observe the principle of least privilege.
Access is also given by default to members of pg_monitor.

Author: Nathan Bossart
Reviewed-by: Laurenz Albe
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/92F458A2-6459-44B8-A7F2-2ADD3225046A@amazon.com
2018-10-05 09:21:48 +09:00
Michael Paquier 09921f397b Refactor user-facing SQL functions signalling backends
This moves the system administration functions for signalling backends
from backend/utils/adt/misc.c into a separate file dedicated to backend
signalling.  No new functionality is introduced in this commit.

Author: Daniel Gustafsson
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier, Álvaro Herrera
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/C2C7C3EC-CC5F-44B6-9C78-637C88BD7D14@yesql.se
2018-10-04 18:27:25 +09:00
Amit Kapila 9bc9f72b28 MAXALIGN the target address where we store flattened value.
The API (EOH_flatten_into) that flattens the expanded value representation
expects the target address to be maxaligned.  All it's usage adhere to that
principle except when serializing datums for parallel query.  Fix that
usage.

Diagnosed-by: Tom Lane
Author: Tom Lane and Amit Kapila
Backpatch-through: 9.6
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/11629.1536550032@sss.pgh.pa.us
2018-10-03 09:15:03 +05:30
Tom Lane 6e35939feb Change rewriter/planner/executor/plancache to depend on RTE rellockmode.
Instead of recomputing the required lock levels in all these places,
just use what commit fdba460a2 made the parser store in the RTE fields.
This already simplifies the code measurably in these places, and
follow-on changes will remove a bunch of no-longer-needed infrastructure.

In a few cases, this change causes us to acquire a higher lock level
than we did before.  This is OK primarily because said higher lock level
should've been acquired already at query parse time; thus, we're saving
a useless extra trip through the shared lock manager to acquire a lesser
lock alongside the original lock.  The only known exception to this is
that re-execution of a previously planned SELECT FOR UPDATE/SHARE query,
for a table that uses ROW_MARK_REFERENCE or ROW_MARK_COPY methods, might
have gotten only AccessShareLock before.  Now it will get RowShareLock
like the first execution did, which seems fine.

While there's more to do, push it in this state anyway, to let the
buildfarm help verify that nothing bad happened.

Amit Langote, reviewed by David Rowley and Jesper Pedersen,
and whacked around a bit more by me

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/468c85d9-540e-66a2-1dde-fec2b741e688@lab.ntt.co.jp
2018-10-02 14:43:09 -04:00
Tom Lane 3d0f68dd30 Fix corner-case failures in has_foo_privilege() family of functions.
The variants of these functions that take numeric inputs (OIDs or
column numbers) are supposed to return NULL rather than failing
on bad input; this rule reduces problems with snapshot skew when
queries apply the functions to all rows of a catalog.

has_column_privilege() had careless handling of the case where the
table OID didn't exist.  You might get something like this:
	select has_column_privilege(9999,'nosuchcol','select');
	ERROR:  column "nosuchcol" of relation "(null)" does not exist
or you might get a crash, depending on the platform's printf's response
to a null string pointer.

In addition, while applying the column-number variant to a dropped
column returned NULL as desired, applying the column-name variant
did not:
	select has_column_privilege('mytable','........pg.dropped.2........','select');
	ERROR:  column "........pg.dropped.2........" of relation "mytable" does not exist
It seems better to make this case return NULL as well.

Also, the OID-accepting variants of has_foreign_data_wrapper_privilege,
has_server_privilege, and has_tablespace_privilege didn't follow the
principle of returning NULL for nonexistent OIDs.  Superusers got TRUE,
everybody else got an error.

Per investigation of Jaime Casanova's report of a new crash in HEAD.
These behaviors have been like this for a long time, so back-patch to
all supported branches.

Patch by me; thanks to Stephen Frost for discussion and review

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAJGNTeP=-6Gyqq5TN9OvYEydi7Fv1oGyYj650LGTnW44oAzYCg@mail.gmail.com
2018-10-02 11:54:12 -04:00
Tom Lane fdba460a26 Create an RTE field to record the query's lock mode for each relation.
Add RangeTblEntry.rellockmode, which records the appropriate lock mode for
each RTE_RELATION rangetable entry (either AccessShareLock, RowShareLock,
or RowExclusiveLock depending on the RTE's role in the query).

This patch creates the field and makes all creators of RTE nodes fill it
in reasonably, but for the moment nothing much is done with it.  The plan
is to replace assorted post-parser logic that re-determines the right
lockmode to use with simple uses of rte->rellockmode.  For now, just add
Asserts in each of those places that the rellockmode matches what they are
computing today.  (In some cases the match isn't perfect, so the Asserts
are weaker than you might expect; but this seems OK, as per discussion.)

This passes check-world for me, but it seems worth pushing in this state
to see if the buildfarm finds any problems in cases I failed to test.

catversion bump due to change of stored rules.

Amit Langote, reviewed by David Rowley and Jesper Pedersen,
and whacked around a bit more by me

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/468c85d9-540e-66a2-1dde-fec2b741e688@lab.ntt.co.jp
2018-09-30 13:55:51 -04:00
Stephen Frost 8bddc86400 Add application_name to connection authorized msg
The connection authorized message has quite a bit of useful information
in it, but didn't include the application_name (when provided), so let's
add that as it can be very useful.

Note that at the point where we're emitting the connection authorized
message, we haven't processed GUCs, so it's not possible to get this by
using log_line_prefix (which pulls from the GUC).  There's also
something to be said for having this included in the connection
authorized message and then not needing to repeat it for every line, as
having it in log_line_prefix would do.

The GUC cleans the application name to pure-ascii, so do that here too,
but pull out the logic for cleaning up a string into its own function
in common and re-use it from those places, and check_cluster_name which
was doing the same thing.

Author: Don Seiler <don@seiler.us>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAHJZqBB_Pxv8HRfoh%2BAB4KxSQQuPVvtYCzMg7woNR3r7dfmopw%40mail.gmail.com
2018-09-28 19:04:50 -04:00
Tom Lane 2b04dfc472 Improve error reporting for unsupported effective_io_concurrency setting.
Give a specific error complaining about lack of posix_fadvise() when
someone tries to set effective_io_concurrency > 0 on platforms
without that.

This probably isn't worth extensive back-patching, but I (tgl) felt
cramming it into v11 was reasonable.

James Robinson

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/153771876450.14994.560017943128223619@wrigleys.postgresql.org
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/A3942987-5BC7-4F05-B54D-2A0EC2914B33@jlr-photo.com
2018-09-28 16:12:13 -04:00
Tom Lane aaf10f32a3 Fix assorted bugs in pg_get_partition_constraintdef().
It failed if passed a nonexistent relation OID, or one that was a non-heap
relation, because of blindly applying heap_open to a user-supplied OID.
This is not OK behavior for a SQL-exposed function; we have a project
policy that we should return NULL in such cases.  Moreover, since
pg_get_partition_constraintdef ought now to work on indexes, restricting
it to heaps is flat wrong anyway.

The underlying function generate_partition_qual() wasn't on board with
indexes having partition quals either, nor for that matter with rels
having relispartition set but yet null relpartbound.  (One wonders
whether the person who wrote the function comment blocks claiming that
these functions allow a missing relpartbound had ever tested it.)

Fix by testing relispartition before opening the rel, and by using
relation_open not heap_open.  (If any other relkinds ever grow the
ability to have relispartition set, the code will work with them
automatically.)  Also, don't reject null relpartbound in
generate_partition_qual.

Back-patch to v11, and all but the null-relpartbound change to v10.
(It's not really necessary to change generate_partition_qual at all
in v10, but I thought s/heap_open/relation_open/ would be a good
idea anyway just to keep the code in sync with later branches.)

Per report from Justin Pryzby.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180927200020.GJ776@telsasoft.com
2018-09-27 18:15:17 -04:00
Andres Freund 27e082b0c6 Clean up in the wake of TupleDescGetSlot() removal / 10763358c3.
The previous commit wasn't careful enough to remove all traces of
TupleDescGetSlot().

Besides fixing the oversight of not removing TupleDescGetSlot()'s
declaration, this also removes FuncCallContext->slot. That was
documented to be for use in combination with TupleDescGetSlot(), a
cursory search over extensions finds no users, and there doesn't seem
to be convincing reasons to keep it around. If we later in the v12
release cycle find users, we can re-consider this part of the commit.

Reported-By: Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180926000413.GC1659@paquier.xyz
2018-09-27 11:38:11 -07:00
Michael Paquier ba16aade33 Switch flags tracking pending interrupts to sig_atomic_t
Those previously used bool, which should be safe on any modern
platforms, however the C standard is clear that it is better to use
sig_atomic_t for variables manipulated in signal handlers.  This commit
adds at the same time PGDLLIMPORT to ClientConnectionLost.

Author: Michael Paquier
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane, Chris Travers, Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180925011311.GD1354@paquier.xyz
2018-09-27 07:47:20 +09:00