Commit Graph

15818 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Robert Haas 751b8d23b7 pg_basebackup: Allow client-side LZ4 (de)compression.
LZ4 compression can now be performed on the client using
pg_basebackup -Ft --compress client-lz4, and LZ4 decompression of
a backup compressed on the server can be performed on the client
using pg_basebackup -Fp --compress server-lz4.

Dipesh Pandit, reviewed and tested by Jeevan Ladhe and Tushar Ahuja,
with a few corrections - and some documentation - by me.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAN1g5_FeDmiA9D8wdG2W6Lkq5CpubxOAqTmd2et9hsinTJtsMQ@mail.gmail.com
2022-02-11 09:41:42 -05:00
Robert Haas dab298471f Add suport for server-side LZ4 base backup compression.
LZ4 compression can be a lot faster than gzip compression, so users
may prefer it even if the compression ratio is not as good. We will
want pg_basebackup to support LZ4 compression and decompression on the
client side as well, and there is a pending patch for that, but it's
by a different author, so I am committing this part separately for
that reason.

Jeevan Ladhe, reviewed by Tushar Ahuja and by me.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CANm22Cg9cArXEaYgHVZhCnzPLfqXCZLAzjwTq7Fc0quXRPfbxA@mail.gmail.com
2022-02-11 08:29:38 -05:00
Tomas Vondra 0da92dc530 Logical decoding of sequences
This extends the logical decoding to also decode sequence increments.
We differentiate between sequences created in the current (in-progress)
transaction, and sequences created earlier. This mixed behavior is
necessary because while sequences are not transactional (increments are
not subject to ROLLBACK), relfilenode changes are. So we do this:

* Changes for sequences created in the same top-level transaction are
  treated as transactional, i.e. just like any other change from that
  transaction, and discarded in case of a rollback.

* Changes for sequences created earlier are applied immediately, as if
  performed outside any transaction. This applies also after ALTER
  SEQUENCE, which may create a new relfilenode.

Moreover, if we ever get support for DDL replication, the sequence
won't exist until the transaction gets applied.

Sequences created in the current transaction are tracked in a simple
hash table, identified by a relfilenode. That means a sequence may
already exist, but if a transaction does ALTER SEQUENCE then the
increments for the new relfilenode will be treated as transactional.

For each relfilenode we track the XID of (sub)transaction that created
it, which is needed for cleanup at transaction end. We don't need to
check the XID to decide if an increment is transactional - if we find a
match in the hash table, it has to be the same transaction.

This requires two minor changes to WAL-logging. Firstly, we need to
ensure the sequence record has a valid XID - until now the the increment
might have XID 0 if it was the first change in a subxact. But the
sequence might have been created in the same top-level transaction. So
we ensure the XID is assigned when WAL-logging increments.

The other change is addition of "created" flag, marking increments for
newly created relfilenodes. This makes it easier to maintain the hash
table of sequences that need transactional handling.
Note: This is needed because of subxacts. A XID 0 might still have the
sequence created in a different subxact of the same top-level xact.

This does not include any changes to test_decoding and/or the built-in
replication - those will be committed in separate patches.

A patch adding decoding of sequences was originally submitted by Cary
Huang. This commit reworks various important aspects (e.g. the WAL
logging and transactional/non-transactional handling). However, the
original patch and reviews were very useful.

Author: Tomas Vondra, Cary Huang
Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut, Hannu Krosing, Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/d045f3c2-6cfb-06d3-5540-e63c320df8bc@enterprisedb.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1710ed7e13b.cd7177461430746.3372264562543607781@highgo.ca
2022-02-10 18:43:51 +01:00
Robert Haas 0d4513b613 Remove server support for the previous base backup protocol.
Commit cc333f3233 added a new COPY
sub-protocol for taking base backups, but retained support for the
previous protocol. For the same reasons articulated in the message
for commit 9cd28c2e5f, remove support
for the previous protocol from the server.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmoazKcKUWtqVa0xZqSzbKgTH+X-aw4V7GyLD68EpDLMh8A@mail.gmail.com
2022-02-10 12:12:43 -05:00
Robert Haas 9cd28c2e5f Remove server support for old BASE_BACKUP command syntax.
Commit 0ba281cb4b added a new syntax
for the BASE_BACKUP command, with extensible options, but maintained
support for the legacy syntax. This isn't important for PostgreSQL,
where pg_basebackup works with older server versions but not newer
ones, but it could in theory matter for out-of-core users of the
replication protocol.

Discussion on pgsql-hackers, however, suggests that no one is aware
of any out-of-core use of the BASE_BACKUP command, and the consensus
is in favor of removing support for the old syntax to simplify the
code, so do that.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmoazKcKUWtqVa0xZqSzbKgTH+X-aw4V7GyLD68EpDLMh8A@mail.gmail.com
2022-02-10 10:48:33 -05:00
Fujii Masao 400fc6b648 Add min() and max() aggregates for xid8.
Bump catalog version.

Author: Ken Kato
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi, Fujii Masao
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/47d77b18c44f87f8222c4c7a3e2dee6b@oss.nttdata.com
2022-02-10 12:33:41 +09:00
Daniel Gustafsson f48385c132 Fix typo in archive modules docs
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/4F8E8D8F-45CA-4833-AB19-CC6105326583@yesql.se
2022-02-09 15:36:46 +01:00
Michael Paquier 38bfae3652 pg_upgrade: Move all the files generated internally to a subdirectory
Historically, the location of any files generated by pg_upgrade, as of
the per-database logs and internal dumps, has been the current working
directory, leaving all those files behind when using --retain or on a
failure.

Putting all those contents in a targeted subdirectory makes the whole
easier to debug, and simplifies the code in charge of cleaning up the
logs.  Note that another reason is that this facilitates the move of
pg_upgrade to TAP with a fixed location for all the logs to grab if the
test fails repeatedly.

Initially, we thought about being able to specify the output directory
with a new option, but we have settled on using a subdirectory located
at the root of the new cluster's data folder, "pg_upgrade_output.d",
instead, as at the end the new data directory is the location of all the
data generated by pg_upgrade.  There is a take with group permissions
here though: if the new data folder has been initialized with this
option, we need to create all the files and paths with the correct
permissions or a base backup taken after a pg_upgrade --retain would
fail, meaning that GetDataDirectoryCreatePerm() has to be called before
creating the log paths, before a couple of sanity checks on the clusters
and before getting the socket directory for the cluster's host settings.
The idea of the new location is based on a suggestion from Peter
Eisentraut.

Also thanks to Andrew Dunstan, Peter Eisentraut, Daniel Gustafsson, Tom
Lane and Bruce Momjian for the discussion (in alphabetical order).

Author: Justin Pryzby
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20211212025017.GN17618@telsasoft.com
2022-02-06 12:27:29 +09:00
Tom Lane cbadfc1f8a Doc: be clearer that foreign-table partitions need user-added constraints.
A very well-informed user might deduce this from what we said already,
but I'd bet against it.  Lay it out explicitly.

While here, rewrite the comment about tuple routing to be more
intelligible to an average SQL user.

Per bug #17395 from Alexander Lakhin.  Back-patch to v11.  (The text
in this area is different in v10 and I'm not sufficiently excited
about this point to adapt the patch.)

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17395-8c326292078d1a57@postgresql.org
2022-02-05 12:55:44 -05:00
Robert Haas 5ef1eefd76 Allow archiving via loadable modules.
Running a shell command for each file to be archived has a lot of
overhead and may not offer as much error checking as you want, or the
exact semantics that you want. So, offer the option to call a loadable
module for each file to be archived, rather than running a shell command.

Also, add a 'basic_archive' contrib module as an example implementation
that archives to a local directory.

Nathan Bossart, with a little bit of kibitzing by me.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/20220202224433.GA1036711@nathanxps13
2022-02-03 14:05:02 -05:00
Peter Eisentraut 94aa7cc5f7 Add UNIQUE null treatment option
The SQL standard has been ambiguous about whether null values in
unique constraints should be considered equal or not.  Different
implementations have different behaviors.  In the SQL:202x draft, this
has been formalized by making this implementation-defined and adding
an option on unique constraint definitions UNIQUE [ NULLS [NOT]
DISTINCT ] to choose a behavior explicitly.

This patch adds this option to PostgreSQL.  The default behavior
remains UNIQUE NULLS DISTINCT.  Making this happen in the btree code
is pretty easy; most of the patch is just to carry the flag around to
all the places that need it.

The CREATE UNIQUE INDEX syntax extension is not from the standard,
it's my own invention.

I named all the internal flags, catalog columns, etc. in the negative
("nulls not distinct") so that the default PostgreSQL behavior is the
default if the flag is false.

Reviewed-by: Maxim Orlov <orlovmg@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Pavel Borisov <pashkin.elfe@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/84e5ee1b-387e-9a54-c326-9082674bde78@enterprisedb.com
2022-02-03 11:48:21 +01:00
Bruce Momjian 9d179d9c23 doc: clarify syntax notation, particularly parentheses
Also move TCL syntax to the PL/tcl section.

Reported-by: davs2rt@gmail.com

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/164308146320.12460.3590769444508751574@wrigleys.postgresql.org

Backpatch-through: 10
2022-02-02 21:53:52 -05:00
Peter Eisentraut 87669de72c Some cleanup for change of collate and ctype fields to type text
Some cleanup for commit 54637508f87bd5f07fb9406bac6b08240283be3b:
Reformat pg_database.dat to reflect the new field order.  Also update
the corresponding example in bki.sgml.  Reorder the way the fields are
filled in dbcommands.c to correspond to the new order.
2022-02-02 11:58:55 +01:00
Peter Eisentraut cb2bab14ff doc: Fix mistake in PL/Python documentation
Small thinko introduced by 94aceed317

Reported-by: nassehk@gmail.com
2022-02-02 09:14:26 +01:00
Tom Lane a5a9d77b8b Doc: modernize documentation for lo_create()/lo_creat().
At this point lo_creat() is a legacy function with little if any
real use-case, so describing it first doesn't make much sense.
Describe lo_create() first, and then explain lo_creat() as a
backwards-compatibility alternative.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/164353261519.713.8748040527537500758@wrigleys.postgresql.org
2022-02-01 10:57:38 -05:00
Michael Paquier d10e41d423 Introduce pg_settings_get_flags() to find flags associated to a GUC
The most meaningful flags are shown, which are the ones useful for the
user and for automating and extending the set of tests supported
currently by check_guc.

This script may actually be removed in the future, but we are not
completely sure yet if and how we want to support the remaining sanity
checks performed there, that are now integrated in the main regression
test suite as of this commit.

Thanks also to Peter Eisentraut and Kyotaro Horiguchi for the
discussion.

Bump catalog version.

Author: Justin Pryzby
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20211129030833.GJ17618@telsasoft.com
2022-01-31 08:56:41 +09:00
Tom Lane 02b8048ba5 psql: improve tab-complete's handling of variant SQL names.
This patch improves tab completion's ability to deal with
valid variant spellings of SQL identifiers.  Notably:

* Unquoted upper-case identifiers are now downcased as the backend
would do, allowing them to be completed correctly.

* Tab completion can now match identifiers that are quoted even
though they don't need to be; for example "f<TAB> now completes
to "foo" if that's the only available name.  Previously, only
names that require quotes would be offered.

* Schema-qualified identifiers are now supported where SQL syntax
allows it; many lesser-used completion rules neglected this.

* Completion operations that refer back to some previously-typed
name (for example, to complete names of columns belonging to a
previously-mentioned table) now allow variant spellings of the
previous name too.

In addition, performance of tab completion queries has been
improved for databases containing many objects, although
you'd only be likely to notice with a heavily-loaded server.

Authors of future tab-completion patches should note that this
commit changes many details about how tab completion queries
must be written:

* Tab completion queries now deal in raw object names; do not
use quote_ident().

* The name-matching restriction in a query must now be written
as "outputcol LIKE '%s'", not "substring(outputcol,1,%d)='%s'".

* The SchemaQuery mechanism has been extended so that it can
handle queries that refer back to a previous name.  Most completion
queries that do that should be converted to SchemaQuery form.
Only consider using a literal query if the previous name can
never be schema-qualified.  Don't use a literal query if the
name-to-be-completed can validly be schema-qualified, either.

* Use set_completion_reference() to specify which word is the previous
name to consider, for either a SchemaQuery or a literal query.

* If you want to offer some keywords in addition to a query result
(for example, offer COLUMN in addition to column names after
"ALTER TABLE t RENAME"), do not use the old hack of tacking the
keywords on with UNION.  Instead use the new QUERY_PLUS macros
to write such keywords separately from the query proper.  The
"addon" macro arguments that used to be used for this purpose
are gone.

* If your query returns something that's not a SQL identifier
(such as an attribute number or enum label), use the new
QUERY_VERBATIM macros to prevent the result from incorrectly
getting double-quoted.  You may still need to use quote_literal
in such a query, too.

Tom Lane and Haiying Tang

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a63cbd45e3884cf9b3961c2a6a95dcb7@G08CNEXMBPEKD05.g08.fujitsu.local
2022-01-30 13:33:23 -05:00
Robert Haas 7f6772317b Adjust server-side backup to depend on pg_write_server_files.
I had made it depend on superuser, but that seems clearly inferior.
Also document the permissions requirement in the straming replication
protocol section of the documentation, rather than only in the
section having to do with pg_basebackup.

Idea and patch from Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/87bkzw160u.fsf@wibble.ilmari.org
2022-01-28 12:31:40 -05:00
Robert Haas d45099425e Allow server-side compression to be used with -Fp.
If you have a low-bandwidth connection between the client and the
server, it's reasonable to want to compress on the server side but
then decompress and extract the backup on the client side. This
commit allows you do to do just that.

Dipesh Pandit, with minor and mostly cosmetic changes by me.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAN1g5_HiSh8ajUMd4ePtGyCXo89iKZTzaNyzP_qv1eJbi4YHXA@mail.gmail.com
2022-01-28 08:41:25 -05:00
Peter Eisentraut 43f33dc018 Add HEADER support to COPY text format
The COPY CSV format supports the HEADER option to output a header
line.  This patch adds the same option to the default text format.  On
input, the HEADER option causes the first line to be skipped, same as
with CSV.

Author: Rémi Lapeyre <remi.lapeyre@lenstra.fr>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CAF1-J-0PtCWMeLtswwGV2M70U26n4g33gpe1rcKQqe6wVQDrFA@mail.gmail.com
2022-01-28 09:44:47 +01:00
Peter Eisentraut 9a50f2e51c doc: Update ALTER COLLATION wording
The original text on refreshing collation versions was written
specifically for ICU, and then information for other providers was
incrementally tacked on at the end.  Reword this to be a bit more
general and less reflective of how it was added.
2022-01-28 08:21:36 +01:00
Peter Eisentraut c9cfc861fc Remove some trailing whitespace in documentation files 2022-01-27 18:31:01 +01:00
Peter Eisentraut 54637508f8 Change collate and ctype fields to type text
This changes the data type of the catalog fields datcollate, datctype,
collcollate, and collctype from name to text.  There wasn't ever a
really good reason for them to be of type name; presumably this was
just carried over from when they were fixed-size fields in pg_control,
first into the corresponding pg_database fields, and then to
pg_collation.  The values are not identifiers or object names, and we
don't ever look them up that way.

Changing to type text saves space in the typical case, since locale
names are typically only a few bytes long.  But it is also possible
that an ICU locale name with several customization options appended
could be longer than 63 bytes, so this also enables that case, which
was previously probably broken.

Reviewed-by: Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/5e756dd6-0e91-d778-96fd-b1bcb06c161a@2ndquadrant.com
2022-01-27 08:54:25 +01:00
Tom Lane bd233bdd8d Replace use of deprecated Python module distutils.sysconfig, take 2.
With Python 3.10, configure spits out warnings about the module
distutils.sysconfig being deprecated and scheduled for removal in
Python 3.12.  Change the uses in configure to use the module sysconfig
instead.  The logic stays largely the same, although we have to
rely on INCLUDEPY instead of the deprecated get_python_inc function.

Note that sysconfig exists since Python 2.7, so this moves the minimum
required version up from Python 2.6.  Also, sysconfig didn't exist in
Python 3.1, so the minimum 3.x version is now 3.2.

We should consider back-patching this if it gives no further trouble,
as the no-longer-supported versions are old enough to probably not
be interesting to anyone.

Peter Eisentraut, Tom Lane, Andres Freund

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/c74add3c-09c4-a9dd-1a03-a846e5b2fc52@enterprisedb.com
2022-01-25 18:52:44 -05:00
Robert Haas e1f860f134 Tidy up a few cosmetic issues related to pg_basebackup.
Commit 0ad8032910 failed to update
the pg_basebackup documentation to mention that "client-" or
"server-" can now be prepended to the compression method name. Fix
it there, and also in the --help output that you get from running
the binary.

Also in the documentation, there's an old issue that the arguments to
--checkpoint shouldn't be marked as parameters, because "fast" and
"spread" are literal strings. Fix that too.

Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker, partly as per a report from
Shinoda Noriyoshi.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/PH7PR84MB1885C1CF433057807551172BEE5F9@PH7PR84MB1885.NAMPRD84.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM
2022-01-25 14:59:37 -05:00
Michael Paquier 410aa248e5 Fix various typos, grammar and code style in comments and docs
This fixes a set of issues that have accumulated over the past months
(or years) in various code areas.  Most fixes are related to some recent
additions, as of the development of v15.

Author: Justin Pryzby
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220124030001.GQ23027@telsasoft.com
2022-01-25 09:40:04 +09:00
Robert Haas 0ad8032910 Server-side gzip compression.
pg_basebackup's --compression option now lets you write either
"client-gzip" or "server-gzip" instead of just "gzip" to specify
where the compression should be performed. If you write simply
"gzip" it's taken to mean "client-gzip" unless you also use
--target, in which case it is interpreted to mean "server-gzip",
because that's the only thing that makes any sense in that case.

To make this work, the BASE_BACKUP command now takes new
COMPRESSION and COMPRESSION_LEVEL options.

At present, pg_basebackup cannot decompress .gz files, so
server-side compression will cause a failure if (1) -Ft is not
used or (2) -R is used or (3) -D- is used without --no-manifest.

Along the way, I removed the information message added by commit
5c649fe153 which occurred if you
specified no compression level and told you that the default level
had been used instead. That seemed like more output than most
people would want.

Also along the way, this adds a check to the server for
unrecognized base backup options. This repairs a bug introduced
by commit 0ba281cb4b.

This commit also adds some new test cases for pg_verifybackup.
They take a server-side backup with and without compression, and
then extract the backup if we have the OS facilities available
to do so, and then run pg_verifybackup on the extracted
directory. That is a good test of the functionality added by
this commit and also improves test coverage for the backup target
patch (commit 3500ccc39b) and for
pg_verifybackup itself.

Patch by me, with a bug fix by Jeevan Ladhe.  The patch set of which
this is a part has also had review and/or testing from Tushar Ahuja,
Suraj Kharage, Dipesh Pandit, and Mark Dilger.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+Tgmoa-ST7fMLsVJduOB7Eub=2WjfpHS+QxHVEpUoinf4bOSg@mail.gmail.com
2022-01-24 15:13:18 -05:00
Robert Haas aa01051418 pg_upgrade: Preserve database OIDs.
Commit 9a974cbcba arranged to preserve
relfilenodes and tablespace OIDs. For similar reasons, also arrange
to preserve database OIDs.

One problem is that, up until now, the OIDs assigned to the template0
and postgres databases have not been fixed. This could be a problem
when upgrading, because pg_upgrade might try to migrate a database
from the old cluster to the new cluster while keeping the OID and find
a different database with that OID, resulting in a failure. If it finds
a database with the same name and the same OID that's OK: it will be
dropped and recreated. But the same OID and a different name is a
problem.

To prevent that, fix the OIDs for postgres and template0 to specific
values less than 16384. To avoid running afoul of this rule, these
values should not be changed in future releases. It's not a problem
that these OIDs aren't fixed in existing releases, because the OIDs
that we're assigning here weren't used for either of these databases
in any previous release. Thus, there's no chance that an upgrade of
a cluster from any previous release will collide with the OIDs we're
assigning here. And going forward, the OIDs will always be fixed, so
the only potential collision is with a system database having the
same name and the same OID, which is OK.

This patch lets users assign a specific OID to a database as well,
provided however that it can't be less than 16384. I (rhaas) thought
it might be better not to expose this capability to users, but the
consensus was otherwise, so the syntax is documented. Letting users
assign OIDs below 16384 would not be OK, though, because a
user-created database with a low-numbered OID might collide with a
system-created database in a future release. We therefore prohibit
that.

Shruthi KC, based on an earlier patch from Antonin Houska, reviewed
and with some adjustments by me.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmoYgTwYcUmB=e8+hRHOFA0kkS6Kde85+UNdon6q7bt1niQ@mail.gmail.com
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAASxf_Mnwm1Dh2vd5FAhVX6S1nwNSZUB1z12VddYtM++H2+p7w@mail.gmail.com
2022-01-24 14:23:43 -05:00
Tom Lane 4f02cbcb68 Doc: add cross-references between array_to_string and string_to_array.
These functions aren't exact inverses, but they're closely related;
yet we document them in two different sections.  Add cross-ref
<link>s to improve that situation.

While here, move the strpos and substr entries to re-alphabetize
Table 9.10.  Also, drop an ancient compatibility note about
string_to_array, which wasn't even on the right page, so probably
few people ever saw it.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/164287017550.704.5840412183184961677@wrigleys.postgresql.org
2022-01-22 15:44:51 -05:00
Michael Paquier 5c649fe153 Extend the options of pg_basebackup to control compression
The option --compress is extended to accept a compression method and an
optional compression level, as of the grammar METHOD[:LEVEL].  The
methods currently support are "none" and "gzip", for client-side
compression.  Any of those methods use only an integer value for the
compression level, but any method implemented in the future could use
more specific keywords if necessary.

This commit keeps the logic backward-compatible.  Hence, the following
compatibility rules apply for the new format of the option --compress:
* -z/--gzip is a synonym of --compress=gzip.
* --compress=NUM implies:
** --compress=none if NUM = 0.
** --compress=gzip:NUM if NUM > 0.

Note that there are also plans to extend more this grammar with
server-side compression.

Reviewed-by: Robert Haas, Magnus Hagander, Álvaro Herrera, David
G. Johnston, Georgios Kokolatos
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/Yb3GEgWwcu4wZDuA@paquier.xyz
2022-01-21 11:08:43 +09:00
Tom Lane 512fc2dd79 Revert "Make configure prefer python3 to plain python."
This reverts commit f201da39ed.
The buildfarm is not ready for python3, evidently, so we'll
give the owners some more time to get set up.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2872c9a0-4b0a-1354-d5f6-94d6f85ba354@enterprisedb.com
2022-01-20 17:32:21 -05:00
Robert Haas 3500ccc39b Support base backup targets.
pg_basebackup now has a --target=TARGET[:DETAIL] option. If specfied,
it is sent to the server as the value of the TARGET option to the
BASE_BACKUP command. If DETAIL is included, it is sent as the value of
the new TARGET_DETAIL option to the BASE_BACKUP command.  If the
target is anything other than 'client', pg_basebackup assumes that it
will now be the server's job to write the backup in a location somehow
defined by the target, and that it therefore needs to write nothing
locally. However, the server will still send messages to the client
for progress reporting purposes.

On the server side, we now support two additional types of backup
targets.  There is a 'blackhole' target, which just throws away the
backup data without doing anything at all with it. Naturally, this
should only be used for testing and debugging purposes, since you will
not actually have a backup when it finishes running. More usefully,
there is also a 'server' target, so you can now use something like
'pg_basebackup -Xnone -t server:/SOME/PATH' to write a backup to some
location on the server. We can extend this to more types of targets
in the future, and might even want to create an extensibility
mechanism for adding new target types.

Since WAL fetching is handled with separate client-side logic, it's
not part of this mechanism; thus, backups with non-default targets
must use -Xnone or -Xfetch.

Patch by me, with a bug fix by Jeevan Ladhe.  The patch set of which
this is a part has also had review and/or testing from Tushar Ahuja,
Suraj Kharage, Dipesh Pandit, and Mark Dilger.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmoaYZbz0=Yk797aOJwkGJC-LK3iXn+wzzMx7KdwNpZhS5g@mail.gmail.com
2022-01-20 10:46:33 -05:00
Robert Haas ab4fd4f868 Remove 'datlastsysoid'.
It hasn't been used for anything for a long time. Up until recently,
we still queried it when dumping very old servers, but since
commit 30e7c175b8, there's no longer any
code at all that cares about it.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+Tgmoa14=BRq0WEd0eevjEMn9EkghDB1FZEkBw7+UAb7tF49A@mail.gmail.com
2022-01-20 09:01:12 -05:00
Michael Paquier b2a76bb7d0 doc: Mention the level of locks taken on objects in COMMENT
This information was nowhere to be found.  This adds one note on the
page of COMMENT, and one note in the section dedicated to explicit
locking, both telling that a SHARE UPDATE EXCLUSIVE lock is taken on the
object commented.

Author: Nikolai Berkoff
Reviewed-by: Laurenz Albe
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/_0HDHIGcCdCsUyXn22QwI2FEuNR6Fs71rtgGX6hfyBlUh5rrnE2qMmvIFu9EY4Pijr2gUmJEAXCjuNU2Oxku9TryLp9CdHllpsCfN3gD0-Y=@pm.me
Backpatch-through: 10
2022-01-20 16:54:47 +09:00
Tom Lane f201da39ed Make configure prefer python3 to plain python.
This avoids possibly selecting Python 2.x on systems that have
both Python 2 and Python 3.  We used to feel that what "python"
links to is a user choice that we should honor.  However, we're
about to cease support for Python 2, so users will no longer have
any choice of that sort.  This small change is being made ahead
of the big Python-2-ectomy so that we can see how much of the
buildfarm is not yet prepared for that.  Systems with only
Python 2 will continue to build that way, for now.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2872c9a0-4b0a-1354-d5f6-94d6f85ba354@enterprisedb.com
2022-01-19 15:38:58 -05:00
Michael Paquier 44129c0432 doc: Fix description of pg_replication_origin_oid() in error case
This function returns NULL if the replication origin given in input
argument does not exist, contrary to what the docs described
previously.

Author: Ian Barwick
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAB8KJ=htJjBL=103URqjOxV2mqb4rjphDpMeKdyKq_QXt6h05w@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 10
2022-01-19 10:37:40 +09:00
Tom Lane 5987feb70b Make PQcancel use the PGconn's tcp_user_timeout and keepalives settings.
If connectivity to the server has been lost or become flaky, the
user might well try to send a query cancel.  It's highly annoying
if PQcancel hangs up in such a case, but that's exactly what's likely
to happen.  To ameliorate this problem, apply the PGconn's
tcp_user_timeout and keepalives settings to the TCP connection used
to send the cancel.  This should be safe on Unix machines, since POSIX
specifies that setsockopt() is async-signal-safe.  We are guessing
that WSAIoctl(SIO_KEEPALIVE_VALS) is similarly safe on Windows.
(Note that at least in psql and our other frontend programs, there's
no safety issue involved anyway, since we run PQcancel in its own
thread rather than in a signal handler.)

Most of the value here comes from the expectation that tcp_user_timeout
will be applied as a connection timeout.  That appears to happen on
Linux, even though its tcp(7) man page claims differently.  The
keepalive options probably won't help much, but as long as we can
apply them for not much code, we might as well.

Jelte Fennema, reviewed by Fujii Masao and myself

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/AM5PR83MB017870DE81FC84D5E21E9D1EF7AA9@AM5PR83MB0178.EURPRD83.prod.outlook.com
2022-01-18 14:13:13 -05:00
Robert Haas cc333f3233 Modify pg_basebackup to use a new COPY subprotocol for base backups.
In the new approach, all files across all tablespaces are sent in a
single COPY OUT operation. The CopyData messages are no longer raw
archive content; rather, each message is prefixed with a type byte
that describes its purpose, e.g. 'n' signifies the start of a new
archive and 'd' signifies archive or manifest data. This protocol
is significantly more extensible than the old approach, since we can
later create more message types, though not without concern for
backward compatibility.

The new protocol sends a few things to the client that the old one
did not. First, it sends the name of each archive explicitly, instead
of letting the client compute it. This is intended to make it easier
to write future patches that might send archives in a format other
that tar (e.g. cpio, pax, tar.gz). Second, it sends explicit progress
messages rather than allowing the client to assume that progress is
defined by the number of bytes received. This will help with future
features where the server compresses the data, or sends it someplace
directly rather than transmitting it to the client.

The old protocol is still supported for compatibility with previous
releases. The new protocol is selected by means of a new
TARGET option to the BASE_BACKUP command. Currently, the
only supported target is 'client'. Support for additional
targets will be added in a later commit.

Patch by me. The patch set of which this is a part has had review
and/or testing from Jeevan Ladhe, Tushar Ahuja, Suraj Kharage,
Dipesh Pandit, and Mark Dilger.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmoaYZbz0=Yk797aOJwkGJC-LK3iXn+wzzMx7KdwNpZhS5g@mail.gmail.com
2022-01-18 13:47:49 -05:00
Peter Eisentraut dda42ff8e6 Revert "Replace use of deprecated Python module distutils.sysconfig"
This reverts commit e0e567a106.

On various platforms, the new approach using the sysconfig module
reported incorrect values for the include directory, and so any
Python-related compilations failed.  Revert for now and revisit later.
2022-01-18 17:42:29 +01:00
Peter Eisentraut e0e567a106 Replace use of deprecated Python module distutils.sysconfig
With Python 3.10, configure spits out warnings about the module
distutils.sysconfig being deprecated and scheduled for removal in
Python 3.12.  Change the uses in configure to use the module sysconfig
instead.  The logic stays the same.

Note that sysconfig exists since Python 2.7, so this moves the minimum
required version up from Python 2.6.

Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/c74add3c-09c4-a9dd-1a03-a846e5b2fc52%40enterprisedb.com
2022-01-18 06:37:02 +01:00
Michael Paquier 2158628864 Add support for --no-table-access-method in pg_{dump,dumpall,restore}
The logic is similar to default_tablespace in some ways, so as no SET
queries on default_table_access_method are generated before dumping or
restoring an object (table or materialized view support table AMs) when
specifying this new option.

This option is useful to enforce the use of a default access method even
if some tables included in a dump use an AM different than the system's
default.

There are already two cases in the TAP tests of pg_dump with a table and
a materialized view that use a non-default table AM, and these are
extended that the new option does not generate SET clauses on
default_table_access_method.

Author: Justin Pryzby
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20211207153930.GR17618@telsasoft.com
2022-01-17 14:51:46 +09:00
Thomas Munro f47ed79cc8 Test replay of regression tests, attempt II.
See commit message for 123828a7fa.  The
only change this time is the order of the arguments passed to
pg_regress.  The previously version broke in the build farm environment
due to the contents of EXTRA_REGRESS_OPTS (see also commit 8cade04c
which had to do something similar).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKGKpRWQ9SxdxxDmTBCJoR0YnFpMBe7kyzY8SUQk%2BHeskxg%40mail.gmail.com
2022-01-17 16:34:55 +13:00
Michael Paquier dc686681e0 Introduce log_destination=jsonlog
"jsonlog" is a new value that can be added to log_destination to provide
logs in the JSON format, with its output written to a file, making it
the third type of destination of this kind, after "stderr" and
"csvlog".  The format is convenient to feed logs to other applications.
There is also a plugin external to core that provided this feature using
the hook in elog.c, but this had to overwrite the output of "stderr" to
work, so being able to do both at the same time was not possible.  The
files generated by this log format are suffixed with ".json", and use
the same rotation policies as the other two formats depending on the
backend configuration.

This takes advantage of the refactoring work done previously in ac7c807,
bed6ed3, 8b76f89 and 2d77d83 for the backend parts, and 72b76f7 for the
TAP tests, making the addition of any new file-based format rather
straight-forward.

The documentation is updated to list all the keys and the values that
can exist in this new format.  pg_current_logfile() also required a
refresh for the new option.

Author: Sehrope Sarkuni, Michael Paquier
Reviewed-by: Nathan Bossart, Justin Pryzby
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH7T-aqswBM6JWe4pDehi1uOiufqe06DJWaU5=X7dDLyqUExHg@mail.gmail.com
2022-01-17 10:16:53 +09:00
Tomas Vondra 269b532aef Add stxdinherit flag to pg_statistic_ext_data
Add pg_statistic_ext_data.stxdinherit flag, so that for each extended
statistics definition we can store two versions of data - one for the
relation alone, one for the whole inheritance tree. This is analogous to
pg_statistic.stainherit, but we failed to include such flag in catalogs
for extended statistics, and we had to work around it (see commits
859b3003de, 36c4bc6e72 and 20b9fa308e).

This changes the relationship between the two catalogs storing extended
statistics objects (pg_statistic_ext and pg_statistic_ext_data). Until
now, there was a simple 1:1 mapping - for each definition there was one
pg_statistic_ext_data row, and this row was inserted while creating the
statistics (and then updated during ANALYZE). With the stxdinherit flag,
we don't know how many rows there will be (child relations may be added
after the statistics object is defined), so there may be up to two rows.

We could make CREATE STATISTICS to always create both rows, but that
seems wasteful - without partitioning we only need stxdinherit=false
rows, and declaratively partitioned tables need only stxdinherit=true.
So we no longer initialize pg_statistic_ext_data in CREATE STATISTICS,
and instead make that a responsibility of ANALYZE. Which is what we do
for regular statistics too.

Patch by me, with extensive improvements and fixes by Justin Pryzby.

Author: Tomas Vondra, Justin Pryzby
Reviewed-by: Tomas Vondra, Justin Pryzby
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210923212624.GI831%40telsasoft.com
2022-01-16 13:38:01 +01:00
Tom Lane 4483b2cf29 Remove standby_schedule and associated test files.
Since this test schedule is not run by default, it's next door to
unused.  Moreover, its test coverage is very thin, and what there is
is just about entirely superseded by the src/test/recovery tests.
Let's drop it instead of carrying obsolete tests.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3911012.1641246643@sss.pgh.pa.us
2022-01-15 15:54:10 -05:00
Peter Geoghegan 49c9d9fcfa Unify VACUUM VERBOSE and autovacuum logging.
The log_autovacuum_min_duration instrumentation used its own dedicated
code for logging, which was not reused by VACUUM VERBOSE.  This was
highly duplicative, and sometimes led to each code path using slightly
different accounting for essentially the same information.

Clean things up by making VACUUM VERBOSE reuse the same instrumentation
code.  This code restructuring changes the structure of the VACUUM
VERBOSE output itself, but that seems like an overall improvement.  The
most noticeable change in VACUUM VERBOSE output is that it no longer
outputs a distinct message per index per round of index vacuuming.  Most
of the same information (about each index) is now shown in its new
per-operation summary message.  This is far more legible.

A few details are no longer displayed by VACUUM VERBOSE, but that's no
real loss in practice, especially in the common case where we don't need
multiple index scans/rounds of vacuuming.  This super fine-grained
information is still available via DEBUG2 messages, which might still be
useful in debugging scenarios.

VACUUM VERBOSE now shows new instrumentation, which is typically very
useful: all of the log_autovacuum_min_duration instrumentation that it
missed out on before now.  This includes information about WAL overhead,
buffers hit/missed/dirtied information, and I/O timing information.

VACUUM VERBOSE still retains a few INFO messages of its own.  This is
limited to output concerning the progress of heap rel truncation, as
well as some basic information about parallel workers.  These details
are still potentially quite useful.  They aren't a good fit for the log
output, which must summarize the whole operation.

Author: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
Reviewed-By: Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-WzmW4Me7_qR4X4ka7pxP-jGmn7=Npma_-Z-9Y1eD0MQRLw@mail.gmail.com
2022-01-14 16:50:34 -08:00
Thomas Munro dccee0f2b7 Revert "Test replay of regression tests."
This reverts commit 123828a7fa.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKG%2BGBC-6QhOKt6Y7ccrXSjbRHB7Di295%3D0rAGhE7a7hSrQ%40mail.gmail.com
2022-01-15 00:44:32 +13:00
Thomas Munro 123828a7fa Test replay of regression tests.
Add a new TAP test under src/test/recovery to run the standard
regression tests while a streaming replica replays the WAL.  This
provides a basic workout for WAL decoding and redo code, and compares
the replicated result.

Optionally, enable (expensive) wal_consistency_checking if listed in
the env variable PG_TEST_EXTRA.

Reviewed-by: 綱川 貴之 (Takayuki Tsunakawa) <tsunakawa.takay@fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Reviewed-by: Anastasia Lubennikova <lubennikovaav@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKGKpRWQ9SxdxxDmTBCJoR0YnFpMBe7kyzY8SUQk%2BHeskxg%40mail.gmail.com
2022-01-15 00:09:24 +13:00
Thomas Munro 7170f2159f Allow "in place" tablespaces.
Provide a developer-only GUC allow_in_place_tablespaces, disabled by
default.  When enabled, tablespaces can be created with an empty
LOCATION string, meaning that they should be created as a directory
directly beneath pg_tblspc.  This can be used for new testing scenarios,
in a follow-up patch.  Not intended for end-user usage, since it might
confuse backup tools that expect symlinks.

Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKGKpRWQ9SxdxxDmTBCJoR0YnFpMBe7kyzY8SUQk%2BHeskxg%40mail.gmail.com
2022-01-15 00:09:24 +13:00
Fujii Masao 379a28b56a doc: Add "(process)" to the term "WAL receiver" in glossary.
This commit changes the term "WAL receiver" to "WAL receiver (process)"
in the glossary, so that users can easily understand WAL receiver is
obviously a process.

Author: Fujii Masao
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/51b76596-ab4f-c9f0-1005-60ce1bb14b6b@oss.nttdata.com
2022-01-13 12:17:33 +09:00