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 (or 2.4, before v13).
Also, sysconfig didn't exist in Python 3.1, so the minimum 3.x
version is now 3.2.
Back-patch of commit bd233bdd8 into all supported branches.
In v10, this also includes back-patching v11's beff4bb9c, primarily
because this opinion is clearly out-of-date:
While at it, get rid of the code's assumption that both the major and
minor numbers contain exactly one digit. That will foreseeably be
broken by Python 3.10 in perhaps four or five years. That's far enough
out that we probably don't need to back-patch this.
Peter Eisentraut, Tom Lane, Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/c74add3c-09c4-a9dd-1a03-a846e5b2fc52@enterprisedb.com
I had a brain fade in commit d32899157, and used 2:30AM as the
example timestamp for both spring-forward and fall-back cases.
But it's not actually ambiguous at all in the fall-back case,
because that transition is from 2AM to 1AM under USA rules.
Fix the example to use 1:30AM, which *is* ambiguous.
Noted while answering a question from Aleksander Alekseev.
Back-patch to all supported branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2191355.1641828552@sss.pgh.pa.us
The link used in the documentation is dead, and the only options to have
an access to this part of the SQL specification are not free. Like any
other books referred, just remove the link to keep some neutrality but
keep its reference.
Reported-by: Erik Rijkers
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/989abd7d-af30-ab52-1201-bf0b4f33b872@xs4all.nl
Backpatch-through: 12
catalog/pg_class.h was stating that REPLICA_IDENTITY_INDEX with a
dropped index is equivalent to REPLICA_IDENTITY_DEFAULT. The code tells
a different story, as it is equivalent to REPLICA_IDENTITY_NOTHING.
The behavior exists since the introduction of replica identities, and
fe7fd4e even added tests for this case but I somewhat forgot to fix this
comment.
While on it, this commit reorganizes the documentation about replica
identities on the ALTER TABLE page, and a note is added about the case
of dropped indexes with REPLICA_IDENTITY_INDEX.
Author: Michael Paquier, Wei Wang
Reviewed-by: Euler Taveira
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/OS3PR01MB6275464AD0A681A0793F56879E759@OS3PR01MB6275.jpnprd01.prod.outlook.com
Backpatch-through: 10
edc2332 has introduced in vcregress.pl some control on the environment
variables LZ4, TAR and GZIP_PROGRAM to allow any TAP tests to be able
use those commands. This makes the settings more consistent with
src/Makefile.global.in, as the same default gets used for Make and MSVC
builds.
Each parameter can be changed in buildenv.pl, but as a default gets
assigned after loading buldenv.pl, it is not possible to unset any of
these, and using an empty value would not work with "||=" either. As
some environments may not have a compatible command in their PATH (tar
coming from MinGW is an issue, for one), this could break tests without
an exit path to bypass any failing test. This commit changes things so
as the default values for LZ4, TAR and GZIP_PROGRAM are assigned before
loading buildenv.pl, not after. This way, we keep the same amount of
compatibility as a GNU build with the same defaults, and it becomes
possible to unset any of those values.
While on it, this adds some documentation about those three variables in
the section dedicated to the TAP tests for MSVC.
Per discussion with Andrew Dunstan.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/YbGYe483803il3X7@paquier.xyz
Backpatch-through: 10
In commit 791090bd7, I made an effort to fill in documentation
for all geometric operators listed in pg_operator. However,
it now appears that at least some of the omissions may have been
intentional, because some of those operator entries point at
unimplemented stub functions. Remove those from the docs again.
(In HEAD, poly_distance stays, because c5c192d7b just added an
implementation for it.)
Per complaint from Anton Voloshin.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3426566.1638832718@sss.pgh.pa.us
List types numeric and timestamptz, which don't seem to have ever been
included here. Restore bigint, which was no-doubt-accidentally deleted
in v12. Fix some errors, or at least obsolete usages (nobody declares
float arguments as "float8*" anymore, even though they might be that
under the hood). Re-alphabetize. Remove the seeming claim that this
is a complete list of built-in types.
Per question from Oskar Stenberg.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/HE1PR03MB2971DE2527ECE1E99D6C19A8F96E9@HE1PR03MB2971.eurprd03.prod.outlook.com
ssl_crl_file and ssl_crl_dir are both used to for client certificate
revocation, not server certificates. The description for the params
could be easily misread to mean the opposite however, as evidenced
by the bugreport leading to this fix. Similarly, expand sslcrl and
and sslcrldir to explicitly mention server certificates. While there
also mention sslcrldir where previously only sslcrl was discussed.
Backpatch down to v10, with the CRL dir fixes down to 14 where they
were introduced.
Author: Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20211202.135441.590555657708629486.horikyota.ntt@gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CABWY_HCBUCjY1EJHrEGePGEaSZ5b29apgTohCyygtsqe_ySYng@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 10
ATTACHing a table into a partition tree whose root is published using a
publication with publish_via_partition_root set to true does not result in
the table's existing contents being replicated. This happens because
subscriber doesn't consider replicating the newly attached partition as
the root table is already in a 'ready' state.
This behavior was introduced in PG13 (83fd4532a7) where we allowed to
publish partition changes via ancestors.
We can consider fixing this limitation in the future.
Author: Amit Langote
Reviewed-by: Hou Zhijie, Amit Kapila
Backpatch-through: 13
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/OS0PR01MB5716E97F00732B52DC2BBC2594989@OS0PR01MB5716.jpnprd01.prod.outlook.com
Remove the confusing use of ORDER BY in an example materialized
view. It adds nothing to the example, but might encourage
people to follow bad practice. Clarify REFRESH MATERIALIZED
VIEW's note about whether view ordering is retained (it isn't).
Maciek Sakrejda
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAOtHd0D-OvrUU0C=4hX28p4BaSE1XL78BAQ0VcDaLLt8tdUzsg@mail.gmail.com
Clarify that the results of nextval and setval are not guaranteed
persistent until the calling transaction commits. Some people
seem to have drawn the opposite conclusion from the statement that
these functions are never rolled back, so re-word to avoid saying
it quite that way.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAKU4AWohO=NfM-4KiZWvdc+z3c1C9FrUBR6xnReFJ6sfy0i=Lw@mail.gmail.com
Documentation and any code paths related to VS are updated to keep the
whole consistent. Similarly to 2017 and 2019, the version of VS and the
version of nmake that we use to determine which code paths to use for
the build are still inconsistent in their own way.
Backpatch down to 10, so as buildfarm members are able to use this new
version of Visual Studio on all the stable branches supported.
Author: Hans Buschmann
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1633101364685.39218@nidsa.net
Backpatch-through: 10
The "See also" section on the reference page for CREATE PUBLICATION
didn't match the cross references on CREATE SUBSCRIPTION and their
ALTER counterparts. Fixed by adding an xref to the CREATE and ALTER
SUBSCRIPTION pages. Backpatch down to v10 where CREATE PUBLICATION
was introduced.
Author: Peter Smith <smithpb2250@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAHut+PvGWd3-Ktn96c-z6uq-8TGVVP=TPOkEovkEfntoo2mRhw@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 10
protocol.sgml documented the layout for Type messages, but completely
dropped the ball otherwise, failing to explain what they are, when
they are sent, or what they're good for. While at it, do a little
copy-editing on the description of Relation messages.
In passing, adjust the comment for apply_handle_type() to make it
clearer that we choose not to do anything when receiving a Type
message, not that we think it has no use whatsoever.
Per question from Stefen Hillman.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAPgW8pMknK5pup6=T4a_UG=Cz80Rgp=KONqJmTdHfaZb0RvnFg@mail.gmail.com
libpq collects up to a bufferload of data whenever it reads data from
the socket. When SSL or GSS encryption is requested during startup,
any additional data received with the server's yes-or-no reply
remained in the buffer, and would be treated as already-decrypted data
once the encryption handshake completed. Thus, a man-in-the-middle
with the ability to inject data into the TCP connection could stuff
some cleartext data into the start of a supposedly encryption-protected
database session.
This could probably be abused to inject faked responses to the
client's first few queries, although other details of libpq's behavior
make that harder than it sounds. A different line of attack is to
exfiltrate the client's password, or other sensitive data that might
be sent early in the session. That has been shown to be possible with
a server vulnerable to CVE-2021-23214.
To fix, throw a protocol-violation error if the internal buffer
is not empty after the encryption handshake.
Our thanks to Jacob Champion for reporting this problem.
Security: CVE-2021-23222
As usual, the release notes for other branches will be made by cutting
these down, but put them up for community review first.
Also as usual for a .1 release, there are some entries here that
are not really relevant for v14 because they already appeared in 14.0.
Those'll be removed later.
The documentation was imprecise about the starting LSN used for WAL
streaming if nothing can be found in the local archive directory
defined with the pg_receivewal command, so be more talkative on this
matter.
Extracted from a larger patch by the same author.
Author: Ronan Dunklau, Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18708360.4lzOvYHigE@aivenronan
Backpatch-through: 10
Avoid calling contrib/amcheck functions with relations that are
unsuitable for checking. Specifically, don't attempt verification of
temporary relations, or indexes whose pg_index entry indicates that the
index is invalid, or not ready.
These relations are not supported by any of the contrib/amcheck
functions, for reasons that are pretty fundamental. For example, the
implementation of REINDEX CONCURRENTLY can add its own "transient"
pg_index entries, which has rather unclear implications for the B-Tree
verification functions, at least in the general case -- so they just
treat it as an error. It falls to the amcheck caller (in this case
pg_amcheck) to deal with the situation at a higher level.
pg_amcheck now simply treats these conditions as additional "visibility
concerns" when it queries system catalogs. This is a little arbitrary.
It seems to have the least problems among any of the available
alternatives.
Author: Mark Dilger <mark.dilger@enterprisedb.com>
Reported-By: Alexander Lakhin <exclusion@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
Reviewed-By: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Bug: #17212
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17212-34dd4a1d6bba98bf@postgresql.org
Backpatch: 14-, where pg_amcheck was introduced.
queries.sgml failed to mention the rather important point that
INTERSECT binds more tightly than UNION or EXCEPT. I thought
it could also use more discussion of the role of parentheses
in these constructs.
Per gripe from Christopher Painter-Wakefield.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/163338891727.12510.3939775743980651160@wrigleys.postgresql.org
The old URL was HTTP 404 and the git link didn't build. Also update two
other ICU links. If we ever get a good link we will add it back.
Reported-by: Anton Voloshin
Author: Laurenz Albe
Backpatch-through: 10
gist.sgml and xindex.sgml hadn't been fully updated for the
addition of a sortsupport support function (commit 16fa9b2b3).
xindex.sgml also missed that the compress and decompress support
functions are optional, an apparently far older oversight.
In passing, fix gratuitous inconsistencies in wording and
capitalization.
Noted by E. Rogov. Back-patch to v14; the residual issues
before that aren't significant enough to bother with.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/163335322905.12519.5711557029494638051@wrigleys.postgresql.org
Prior to v14, we insisted that the query in RETURN QUERY be of a type
that returns tuples. (For instance, INSERT RETURNING was allowed,
but not plain INSERT.) That happened indirectly because we opened a
cursor for the query, so spi.c checked SPI_is_cursor_plan(). As a
consequence, the error message wasn't terribly on-point, but at least
it was there.
Commit 2f48ede08 lost this detail. Instead, plain RETURN QUERY
insisted that the query be a SELECT (by checking for SPI_OK_SELECT)
while RETURN QUERY EXECUTE failed to check the query type at all.
Neither of these changes was intended.
The only convenient place to check this in the EXECUTE case is inside
_SPI_execute_plan, because we haven't done parse analysis until then.
So we need to pass down a flag saying whether to enforce that the
query returns tuples. Fortunately, we can squeeze another boolean
into struct SPIExecuteOptions without an ABI break, since there's
padding space there. (It's unlikely that any extensions would
already be using this new struct, but preserving ABI in v14 seems
like a smart idea anyway.)
Within spi.c, it seemed like _SPI_execute_plan's parameter list
was already ridiculously long, and I didn't want to make it longer.
So I thought of passing SPIExecuteOptions down as-is, allowing that
parameter list to become much shorter. This makes the patch a bit
more invasive than it might otherwise be, but it's all internal to
spi.c, so that seems fine.
Per report from Marc Bachmann. Back-patch to v14 where the
faulty code came in.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1F2F75F0-27DF-406F-848D-8B50C7EEF06A@gmail.com
Commit 9868167500 added pg_stat_replication_slots view to monitor
ReorderBuffer stats but mistakenly added it under
"Dynamic Statistics Views" section in the docs whereas it belongs to
"Collected Statistics Views" section.
Author: Amit Kapila
Reviewed-by: Masahiko Sawada
Backpatch-through: 14, where it was introduced
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAA4eK1Kb5ur=OC-G4cAsqPOjoVe+S8LNw1WmUY8Owasjk8o5WQ@mail.gmail.com
Be a little more vocal about the risks of remote collations not
matching local ones. Actually fixing these risks seems hard,
and I've given up on the idea that it might be back-patchable.
So the best we can do for the back branches is add documentation.
Per discussion of bug #16583 from Jiří Fejfar.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2438715.1632510693@sss.pgh.pa.us
OpenSSL 3 introduced the concept of providers to support modularization,
and moved the outdated ciphers to the new legacy provider. In case it's
not loaded in the users openssl.cnf file there will be a lot of regress
test failures, so add alternative outputs covering those.
Also document the need to load the legacy provider in order to use older
ciphers with OpenSSL-enabled pgcrypto.
This will be backpatched to all supported version once there is sufficient
testing in the buildfarm of OpenSSL 3.
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/FEF81714-D479-4512-839B-C769D2605F8A@yesql.se
Index vacuums may happen multiple times depending on the number of dead
tuples stored, as of maintenance_work_mem for a manual VACUUM. For
autovacuum, this is controlled by autovacuum_work_mem instead, if set.
The documentation mentioned the former, but not the latter in the
context of autovacuum.
Reported-by: Nikolai Berkoff
Author: Laurenz Albe, Euler Taveira
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/161545365522.10134.12195402324485546870@wrigleys.postgresql.org
Backpatch-through: 9.6
Improve various item descriptions. Rearrange some things into
(IMO) more logical order. Fix missing markup and dubious
choices of link destinations. Drop a couple of items that
were later back-patched or otherwise don't seem to need
to be documented here.
The available refresh options are specified as refresh_options under
REFRESH PUBLICATION, and DROP PUBLICATION itself has an option named
refresh. Clarify what we mean by refresh options to avoid confusion.
Backpatch through v14 where ALTER SUBSCRIPTION ... DROP PUBLICATION
was introduced.
Author: Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Smith <smithpb2250@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAD21AoCm1wJ3A8Q9EmBjRbShYkJ+o+Oa_z9O0hvwhvhUa2BSyg@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 14
Formerly, we sent signals for outgoing NOTIFY messages within
ProcessCompletedNotifies, which was also responsible for sending
relevant ones of those messages to our connected client. It therefore
had to run during the main-loop processing that occurs just before
going idle. This arrangement had two big disadvantages:
* Now that procedures allow intra-command COMMITs, it would be
useful to send NOTIFYs to other sessions immediately at COMMIT
(though, for reasons of wire-protocol stability, we still shouldn't
forward them to our client until end of command).
* Background processes such as replication workers would not send
NOTIFYs at all, since they never execute the client communication
loop. We've had requests to allow triggers running in replication
workers to send NOTIFYs, so that's a problem.
To fix these things, move transmission of outgoing NOTIFY signals
into AtCommit_Notify, where it will happen during CommitTransaction.
Also move the possible call of asyncQueueAdvanceTail there, to
ensure we don't bloat the async SLRU if a background worker sends
many NOTIFYs with no one listening.
We can also drop the call of asyncQueueReadAllNotifications,
allowing ProcessCompletedNotifies to go away entirely. That's
because commit 790026972 added a call of ProcessNotifyInterrupt
adjacent to PostgresMain's call of ProcessCompletedNotifies,
and that does its own call of asyncQueueReadAllNotifications,
meaning that we were uselessly doing two such calls (inside two
separate transactions) whenever inbound notify signals coincided
with an outbound notify. We need only set notifyInterruptPending
to ensure that ProcessNotifyInterrupt runs, and we're done.
The existing documentation suggests that custom background workers
should call ProcessCompletedNotifies if they want to send NOTIFY
messages. To avoid an ABI break in the back branches, reduce it
to an empty routine rather than removing it entirely. Removal
will occur in v15.
Although the problems mentioned above have existed for awhile,
I don't feel comfortable back-patching this any further than v13.
There was quite a bit of churn in adjacent code between 12 and 13.
At minimum we'd have to also backpatch 51004c717, and a good deal
of other adjustment would also be needed, so the benefit-to-risk
ratio doesn't look attractive.
Per bug #15293 from Michael Powers (and similar gripes from others).
Artur Zakirov and Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/153243441449.1404.2274116228506175596@wrigleys.postgresql.org
Commit 6c3ffd6 added a couple new predefined roles but didn't properly
wrap the SQL commands mentioned in the description of those roles with
command tags, so add them now.
Backpatch-through: 14
Reported-by: Michael Banck
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/606d8b1c.1c69fb81.3df04.1a99@mx.google.com
The current refresh behavior tries to just refresh added/dropped
publications but that leads to removing wrong tables from subscription. We
can't refresh just the dropped publication because it is quite possible
that some of the tables are removed from publication by that time and now
those will remain as part of the subscription. Also, there is a chance
that the tables that were part of the publication being dropped are also
part of another publication, so we can't remove those.
So, we decided that by default, add/drop commands will also act like
REFRESH PUBLICATION which means they will refresh all the publications. We
can keep the old behavior for "add publication" but it is better to be
consistent with "drop publication".
Author: Hou Zhijie
Reviewed-by: Masahiko Sawada, Amit Kapila
Backpatch-through: 14, where it was introduced
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/OS0PR01MB5716935D4C2CC85A6143073F94EF9@OS0PR01MB5716.jpnprd01.prod.outlook.com
Using --quiet in combination with --no-strict-names didn't work as
documented, a warning message was still emitted. Since the --quiet
flag was working in an unconventional way to other utilities, fix
by removing the functionality instead.
Backpatch through 14 where pg_amcheck was introduced.
Bug: 17148
Reported-by: Chen Jiaoqian <chenjq.jy@fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17148-b5087318e2b04fc6@postgresql.org
Backpatch-through: 14
This reverts the following commits:
1b5617eb84 Describe (auto-)analyze behavior for partitioned tables
0e69f705cc Set pg_class.reltuples for partitioned tables
41badeaba8 Document ANALYZE storage parameters for partitioned tables
0827e8af70 autovacuum: handle analyze for partitioned tables
There are efficiency issues in this code when handling databases with
large numbers of partitions, and it doesn't look like there isn't any
trivial way to handle those. There are some other issues as well. It's
now too late in the cycle for nontrivial fixes, so we'll have to let
Postgres 14 users continue to manually deal with ANALYZE their
partitioned tables, and hopefully we can fix the issues for Postgres 15.
I kept [most of] be280cdad2 ("Don't reset relhasindex for partitioned
tables on ANALYZE") because while we added it due to 0827e8af70, it is
a good bugfix in its own right, since it affects manual analyze as well
as autovacuum-induced analyze, and there's no reason to revert it.
I retained the addition of relkind 'p' to tables included by
pg_stat_user_tables, because reverting that would require a catversion
bump.
Also, in pg14 only, I keep a struct member that was added to
PgStat_TabStatEntry to avoid breaking compatibility with existing stat
files.
Backpatch to 14.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210722205458.f2bug3z6qzxzpx2s@alap3.anarazel.de
The check for sslsni only checked for existence of the parameter
but not for the actual value of the param. This meant that the
SNI extension was always turned on. Fix by inspecting the value
of sslsni and only activate the SNI extension iff sslsni has been
enabled. Also update the docs to be more in line with how other
boolean params are documented.
Backpatch to 14 where sslsni was first implemented.
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane
Backpatch-through: 14, where sslni was added
In ec34040af I added a mention that there was no point in setting
maintenance_work_limit to anything higher than 1GB for vacuum, but that
was incorrect as ginInsertCleanup() also looks at what
maintenance_work_mem is set to during VACUUM and that's not limited to
1GB.
Here I attempt to make it more clear that the limitation is only around
the number of dead tuple identifiers that we can collect during VACUUM.
I've also added a note to autovacuum_work_mem to mention this limitation.
I didn't do that in ec34040af as I'd had some wrong-headed ideas about
just limiting the maximum value for that GUC to 1GB.
Author: David Rowley
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAApHDvpGwOAvunp-E-bN_rbAs3hmxMoasm5pzkYDbf36h73s7w@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 9.6, same as ec34040af
Since commit e462856a7a, pg_upgrade automatically creates a script to
update extensions, so mention that instead of ALTER EXTENSION.
Backpatch-through: 9.6
Copy-and-pasteo in 665c5855e, evidently. The 9.6 docs toolchain
whined about duplicate index entries, though our modern toolchain
doesn't. In any case, these GUCs surely are not about the
default settings of these values.
postgres_fdw imported generated columns from the remote tables as plain
columns, and caused failures like "ERROR: cannot insert a non-DEFAULT
value into column "foo"" when inserting into the foreign tables, as it
tried to insert values into the generated columns. To fix, we do the
following under the assumption that generated columns in a postgres_fdw
foreign table are defined so that they represent generated columns in
the underlying remote table:
* Send DEFAULT for the generated columns to the foreign server on insert
or update, not generated column values computed on the local server.
* Add to postgresImportForeignSchema() an option "import_generated" to
include column generated expressions in the definitions of foreign
tables imported from a foreign server. The option is true by default.
The assumption seems reasonable, because that would make a query of the
postgres_fdw foreign table return values for the generated columns that
are consistent with the generated expression.
While here, fix another issue in postgresImportForeignSchema(): it tried
to include column generated expressions as column default expressions in
the foreign table definitions when the import_default option was enabled.
Per bug #16631 from Daniel Cherniy. Back-patch to v12 where generated
columns were added.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16631-e929fe9db0ffc7cf%40postgresql.org
It wasn't all that clear which lock levels, if any, would be held on the
DEFAULT partition during an ATTACH PARTITION operation.
Also, clarify which locks will be taken if the DEFAULT partition or the
table being attached are themselves partitioned tables.
Here I'm only backpatching to v12 as before then we obtained an ACCESS
EXCLUSIVE lock on the partitioned table. It seems much less relevant to
mention which locks are taken on other tables when the partitioned table
itself is locked with an ACCESS EXCLUSIVE lock.
Author: Matthias van de Meent, David Rowley
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEze2WiTB6iwrV8W_J=fnrnZ7fowW3qu-8iQ8zCHP3FiQ6+o-A@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 12
The error messages using the word "non-negative" are confusing
because it's ambiguous about whether it accepts zero or not.
This commit improves those error messages by replacing it with
less ambiguous word like "greater than zero" or
"greater than or equal to zero".
Also this commit added the note about the word "non-negative" to
the error message style guide, to help writing the new error messages.
When postgres_fdw option fetch_size was set to zero, previously
the error message "fetch_size requires a non-negative integer value"
was reported. This error message was outright buggy. Therefore
back-patch to all supported versions where such buggy error message
could be thrown.
Reported-by: Hou Zhijie
Author: Bharath Rupireddy
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi, Fujii Masao
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/OS0PR01MB5716415335A06B489F1B3A8194569@OS0PR01MB5716.jpnprd01.prod.outlook.com
Add pg_resetxlog -u option to set the oldest xid in pg_control.
Previously -x set this value be -2 billion less than the -x value.
However, this causes the server to immediately scan all relation's
relfrozenxid so it can advance pg_control's oldest xid to be inside the
autovacuum_freeze_max_age range, which is inefficient and might disrupt
diagnostic recovery. pg_upgrade will use this option to better create
the new cluster to match the old cluster.
Reported-by: Jason Harvey, Floris Van Nee
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20190615183759.GB239428@rfd.leadboat.com, 87da83168c644fd9aae38f546cc70295@opammb0562.comp.optiver.com
Author: Bertrand Drouvot
Backpatch-through: 9.6
