SPI_commit previously left it up to the caller to recover from any error
occurring during commit. Since that's complicated and requires use of
low-level xact.c facilities, it's not too surprising that no caller got
it right. Let's move the responsibility for cleanup into spi.c. Doing
that requires redefining SPI_commit as starting a new transaction, so
that it becomes equivalent to SPI_commit_and_chain except that you get
default transaction characteristics instead of preserving the prior
transaction's characteristics. We can make this pretty transparent
API-wise by redefining SPI_start_transaction() as a no-op. Callers
that expect to do something in between might be surprised, but
available evidence is that no callers do so.
Having made that API redefinition, we can fix this mess by having
SPI_commit[_and_chain] trap errors and start a new, clean transaction
before re-throwing the error. Likewise for SPI_rollback[_and_chain].
Some cleanup is also needed in AtEOXact_SPI, which was nowhere near
smart enough to deal with SPI contexts nested inside a committing
context.
While plperl and pltcl need no changes beyond removing their now-useless
SPI_start_transaction() calls, plpython needs some more work because it
hadn't gotten the memo about catching commit/rollback errors in the
first place. Such an error resulted in longjmp'ing out of the Python
interpreter, which leaks Python stack entries at present and is reported
to crash Python 3.11 altogether. Add the missing logic to catch such
errors and convert them into Python exceptions.
This is a back-patch of commit 2e517818f. That's now aged long enough
to reduce the concerns about whether it will break something, and we
do need to ensure that supported branches will work with Python 3.11.
Peter Eisentraut and Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3375ffd8-d71c-2565-e348-a597d6e739e3@enterprisedb.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17416-ed8fe5d7213d6c25@postgresql.org
The previous wording was "the underlying data type's default collation
is used", which is wrong or at least misleading. The domain inherits
the base type's collation behavior, which if "default" actually can
mean that we use some non-default collation obtained from elsewhere.
Per complaint from Jian He.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CACJufxHMR8_4WooDPjjvEdaxB2hQ5a49qthci8fpKP0MKemVRQ@mail.gmail.com
This reverts commits a04ccf6df et al. in the back branches only.
There was some disagreement already over whether to back-patch
157f8739a, on the grounds that it is the sort of behavioral
change that we don't like to back-patch. Furthermore, it now
looks like the logic needs some more work, which we don't have
time for before the upcoming 14.4 release. Revert for now, and
perhaps reconsider later.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17504-76b68018e130415e@postgresql.org
The patch introducing jsonpath dropped a para about that between
two related examples, and didn't bother updating the introductory
sentences that it falsified. The grammar was pretty shaky as well.
psql --single-transaction is able to handle multiple -c and -f switches
in a single transaction since d5563d7d, but this had the surprising
behavior of forcing a transaction COMMIT even if psql failed with an
error in the client (for example incorrect path given to \copy), which
would generate an error, but still commit any changes that were already
applied in the backend. This commit makes the behavior more consistent,
by enforcing a transaction ROLLBACK if any commands fail, both
client-side and backend-side, so as no changes are applied if one error
happens in any of them.
Some tests are added on HEAD to provide some coverage about all that.
Backend-side errors are unreliable as IPC::Run can complain on SIGPIPE
if psql quits before reading a query result, but that should work
properly in the case where any errors come from psql itself, which is
what the original report is about.
Reported-by: Christoph Berg
Author: Kyotaro Horiguchi, Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17504-76b68018e130415e@postgresql.org
Backpatch-through: 10
The previous entry invited confusion between what uniq() does
by itself and what it does when combined with sort(). The latter
usage is pretty useful so we should show it, but add an additional
example to clarify the results of uniq() alone.
Per suggestion from Martin Kalcher. Back-patch to v13, where
we switched to formatting that supports multiple examples.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/165407884456.573551.8779012279828726162@wrigleys.postgresql.org
The example given for anyelement <@ anymultirange didn't return
true as claimed; adjust it so it does.
In passing, change a couple of sample results where the modern
numeric-based logic produces a different number of trailing zeroes
than before.
Erik Rijkers
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/cc35735d-1ec1-5bb3-9e27-cddbab7afa23@xs4all.nl
The PostgreSQL limitations section of the documents mentioned the limit
on the number of columns that can exist in a table. Users might be
surprised to find that there's also a limit on the number of columns that
can exist in a targetlist. Users may experience restrictions which
surprise them if they happened to select a large number of columns from
several tables with many columns. Here we document that there is a
limitation on this and mention what that limit actually is.
Wording proposal by Alvaro Herrera
Reported-by: Vladimir Sitnikov
Author: Dave Crammer
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAB=Je-E18aTYpNqje4mT0iEADpeGLSzwUvo3H9kRRuDdsNo4aQ@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 12, where the limitations section was added
This reverts commit d9d076222f "VACUUM: ignore indexing operations
with CONCURRENTLY".
These changes caused indexes created with the CONCURRENTLY option to
miss heap tuples that were HOT-updated and HOT-pruned during the index
creation. Before these changes, HOT pruning would have been prevented
by the Xmin of the transaction creating the index, but because this
change was precisely to allow the Xmin to move forward ignoring that
backend, now other backends scanning the table can prune them. This is
not a problem for VACUUM (which requires a lock that conflicts with a
CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY operation), but HOT-prune can definitely
occur. In other words, Xmin advancement was sped up, but at the cost of
corrupting the resulting index.
Regrettably, this means that the new feature in PG14 that RIC/CIC on
very large tables no longer force VACUUM to retain very old tuples goes
away. We might try to implement it again in a later release, but for
now the risk of indexes missing tuples is too high and there's no easy
fix.
Backpatch to 14, where this change appeared.
Reported-by: Peter Slavov <pet.slavov@gmail.com>
Diagnosys-by: Andrey Borodin <x4mmm@yandex-team.ru>
Diagnosys-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Diagnosys-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17485-396609c6925b982d%40postgresql.org
runtime.sgml contains a passing reference to the minimum server
version that pg_dump[all] can dump from. That was 7.0 for many
years, but when 64f3524e2 raised it to 8.0, we missed updating this
bit. Then when 30e7c175b raised it to 9.2, we missed it again.
Given that track record, I'm not too hopeful that we'll remember
to fix this in future changes ... but for now, make the docs match
reality in each branch.
Noted by Daniel Westermann.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/GV0P278MB041917EB3E2FE8704B5AE2C6D2DC9@GV0P278MB0419.CHEP278.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM
The information generated when track_activities is accessible to
superusers, roles with the privileges of pg_read_all_stats, as well as
roles one has the privileges of. The original text did not outline the
last point, while the change done in ac1ae47 was unclear about the
second point.
Per discussion with Nathan Bossart.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220521185743.GA886636@nathanxps13
Backpatch-through: 10
The form taking anymultirange had not been documented. This was
fixed in HEAD in b21c4cf95, but that should have been back-patched
to v14 since the function was added there. Do so now.
Also, the form taking anyrange was incorrectly documented as
returning anymultirange, when it returns anyrange.
Remove b21c4cf95 from the v15 release notes, since it no longer
qualifies as new-in-v15.
Noted by Shay Rojansky.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CADT4RqAktzP7t6SFf0Xqm9YhahzvsmxFbzXe-gFOd=+_CHm0JA@mail.gmail.com
Foreign tables can be partitioned, but previous documentation commits
left the syntax synopsis both incomplete and incorrect.
Justin Pryzby and Amit Langote
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/20220521130922.GX19626@telsasoft.com
The description of track_activities mentioned that it is visible to
superusers and that the information related to the current session can
be seen, without telling about pg_read_all_stats. Roles that are
granted the privileges of pg_read_all_stats can also see this
information, so mention it in the docs.
Author: Ian Barwick
Reviewed-by: Nathan Bossart
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAB8KJ=jhPyYFu-A5r-ZGP+Ax715mUKsMxAGcEQ9Cx_mBAmrPow@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 10
It wasn't previously mentioned that the index is created as invalid,
which is confusing to new users.
Backpatch to 14 (only because of a conflict in 13).
Author: Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>
Reported-by: Lauren Fliksteen <dancernerd32@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Rajakavitha Kodhandapani <krajakavitha@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/165290238488.670.7500177735573254738@wrigleys.postgresql.org
The documentation didn't specify the name of the per-user service file
on Windows, and extrapolating from the pattern used for other config
files gave the wrong answer. The fact that it isn't consistent with the
others sure seems like a bug, but it's far too late to change that now;
we'd just penalize people who worked it out in the past. So, simply
document the true state of affairs.
In passing, fix some gratuitous differences between the discussions
of the service file and the password file.
Julien Rouhaud, per question from Dominique Devienne.
Backpatch to all supported branches. I (tgl) also chose to back-patch
the part of commit ba356a397 that touched libpq.sgml's description of
the service file --- in hindsight, I'm not sure why I didn't do so at
the time, as it includes some fairly essential information.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAFCRh-_mdLrh8eYVzhRzu4c8bAFEBn=rwoHOmFJcQOTsCy5nig@mail.gmail.com
psql, pg_dump, and pg_amcheck share code to process object name
patterns like 'foo*.bar*' to match all tables with names starting in
'bar' that are in schemas starting with 'foo'. Before v14, any number
of extra name parts were silently ignored, so a command line '\d
foo.bar.baz.bletch.quux' was interpreted as '\d bletch.quux'. In v14,
as a result of commit 2c8726c4b0, we
instead treated this as a request for table quux in a schema named
'foo.bar.baz.bletch'. That caused problems for people like Justin
Pryzby who were accustomed to copying strings of the form
db.schema.table from messages generated by PostgreSQL itself and using
them as arguments to \d.
Accordingly, revise things so that if an object name pattern contains
more parts than we're expecting, we throw an error, unless there's
exactly one extra part and it matches the current database name.
That way, thisdb.myschema.mytable is accepted as meaning just
myschema.mytable, but otherdb.myschema.mytable is an error, and so
is some.random.garbage.myschema.mytable.
Mark Dilger, per report from Justin Pryzby and discussion among
various people.
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20211013165426.GD27491%40telsasoft.com
It's more accurate to say that the query identifier is not shown when
compute_query_id = regress rather than to say it is hidden.
This change (ebf6c5249) appeared in v14, so it makes sense to backpatch
this small adjustment to keep the documents consistent between v14 and
master.
Author: Justin Pryzby
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220411020336.GB26620@telsasoft.com
Backpatch-through: 14, where compute_query_id = regress was added
Google seems to like to return textsearch.html for queries about
GIN and GiST indexes, even though it's not a primary reference
for either. It seems likely that that's because those keywords
appear in the page title. Since "GIN and GiST Index Types" is
not a very apposite title for this material anyway, rename the
section in hopes of stopping that.
Also provide explicit links to the GIN and GiST chapters, to help
anyone who finds their way to this page regardless.
Per gripe from Jan Piotrowski. Back-patch to supported branches.
(Unfortunately Google is likely to continue returning the 9.1
version of this page, but improving that situation is a matter
for the www team.)
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/164978902252.1276550.9330175733459697101@wrigleys.postgresql.org
It's misleading to call the data directory the "synchronized data
directory" when discussing a crash scenario when using pg_rewind's
--no-sync option. Here we just remove the word "synchronized" to avoid
any possible confusion.
Author: Justin Pryzby
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220411020336.GB26620@telsasoft.com
Backpatch-through: 12, where --no-sync was added
Remove circular "25.1.5.1. Multixacts And Wraparound" link that
references the section that the link itself appears in. An explanation
of MultiXactId age appears only a few sentences before the link, so
there's no question that the link is superfluous at best.
Oversight in commit d5409295.
Author: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
Backpatch: 14-
When dealing with partitioned tables, counters for partitioned tables
are not updated when modifying child tables. This means autoanalyze may
not update optimizer statistics for the parent relations, which can
result in poor plans for some queries.
It's worth documenting this limitation, so that people are aware of it
and can take steps to mitigate it (e.g. by setting up a script executing
ANALYZE regularly).
Backpatch to v10. Older branches are affected too, of couse, but we no
longer maintain those.
Author: Justin Pryzby
Reviewed-by: Zhihong Yu, Tomas Vondra
Backpatch-through: 10
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210913035409.GA10647%40telsasoft.com
If we run out of space in the checkpointer sync request queue (which is
hopefully rare on real systems, but common with very small buffer pool),
we wait for it to drain. While waiting, we should report that as a wait
event so that users know what is going on, and also handle postmaster
death, since otherwise the loop might never terminate if the
checkpointer has exited.
Back-patch to 12. Although the problem exists in earlier releases too,
the code is structured differently before 12 so I haven't gone any
further for now, in the absence of field complaints.
Reported-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220226213942.nb7uvb2pamyu26dj%40alap3.anarazel.de
The checkpointer shouldn't ignore its latch. Other backends may be
waiting for it to drain the request queue. Hopefully real systems don't
have a full queue often, but the condition is reached easily when
shared_buffers is small.
This involves defining a new wait event, which will appear in the
pg_stat_activity view often due to spread checkpoints.
Back-patch only to 14. Even though the problem exists in earlier
branches too, it's hard to hit there. In 14 we stopped using signal
handlers for latches on Linux, *BSD and macOS, which were previously
hiding this problem by interrupting the sleep (though not reliably, as
the signal could arrive before the sleep begins; precisely the problem
latches address).
Reported-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220226213942.nb7uvb2pamyu26dj%40alap3.anarazel.de
ALTER ROUTINE triggers the events ddl_command_start and ddl_command_end,
and DROP ROUTINE triggers sql_drop, ddl_command_start and
ddl_command_end, but this was not mention on the matrix table.
Reported-by: Leslie Lemaire
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/164647533363.646.5802968483136493025@wrigleys.postgresql.org
Backpatch-through: 11
This change makes libpq apply the same private-key-file ownership
and permissions checks that we have used in the backend since commit
9a83564c5. Namely, that the private key can be owned by either the
current user or root (with different file permissions allowed in the
two cases). This allows system-wide management of key files, which
is just as sensible on the client side as the server, particularly
when the client is itself some application daemon.
Sync the comments about this between libpq and the backend, too.
Back-patch of a59c79564 and 50f03473e into all supported branches.
David Steele
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/f4b7bc55-97ac-9e69-7398-335e212f7743@pgmasters.net
"regress" is a new mode added to compute_query_id aimed at facilitating
regression testing when a module computing query IDs is loaded into the
backend, like pg_stat_statements. It works the same way as "auto",
meaning that query IDs are computed if a module enables it, except that
query IDs are hidden in EXPLAIN outputs to ensure regression output
stability.
Like any GUCs of the kind (force_parallel_mode, etc.), this new
configuration can be added to an instance's postgresql.conf, or just
passed down with PGOPTIONS at command level. compute_query_id uses an
enum for its set of option values, meaning that this addition ensures
ABI compatibility.
Using this new configuration mode allows installcheck-world to pass when
running the tests on an instance with pg_stat_statements enabled,
stabilizing the test output while checking the paths doing query ID
computations.
Reported-by: Anton Melnikov
Reviewed-by: Julien Rouhaud
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1634283396.372373993@f75.i.mail.ru
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/YgHlxgc/OimuPYhH@paquier.xyz
Backpatch-through: 14
Currently, during UPDATE, the unchanged replica identity key attributes
are not logged separately because they are getting logged as part of the
new tuple. But if they are stored externally then the untoasted values are
not getting logged as part of the new tuple and logical replication won't
be able to replicate such UPDATEs. So we need to log such attributes as
part of the old_key_tuple during UPDATE.
Reported-by: Haiying Tang
Author: Dilip Kumar and Amit Kapila
Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera, Haiying Tang, Andres Freund
Backpatch-through: 10
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/OS0PR01MB611342D0A92D4F4BF26C0F47FB229@OS0PR01MB6113.jpnprd01.prod.outlook.com
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
Michael Paquier
Bruce Momjian
Alvaro Herrera
Tom Lane
Etsuro Fujita
David Rowley
Magnus Hagander
Robert Haas
Peter Geoghegan
Daniel Gustafsson
Tomas Vondra
Thomas Munro
Amit Kapila