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Michael Paquier 1ba841072e doc: Improve description of index vacuuming with GUCs
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
2021-09-25 15:10:24 +09:00
Michael Paquier 1ab70b11e6 doc: Add missing markup in CREATE EVENT TRIGGER page
Reported-by: rir
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210924183658.3syyitp3yuxjv2fp@localhost
Backpatch-through: 9.6
2021-09-25 14:48:03 +09:00
Michael Paquier 43c1c4f65e Introduce GUC shared_memory_size_in_huge_pages
This runtime-computed GUC shows the number of huge pages required
for the server's main shared memory area, taking advantage of the
work done in 0c39c29 and 0bd305e.  This is useful for users to estimate
the amount of huge pages required for a server as it becomes possible to
do an estimation without having to start the server and potentially
allocate a large chunk of shared memory.

The number of huge pages is calculated based on the existing GUC
huge_page_size if set, or by using the system's default by looking at
/proc/meminfo on Linux.  There is nothing new here as this commit reuses
the existing calculation methods, and just exposes this information
directly to the user.  The routine calculating the huge page size is
refactored to limit the number of files with platform-specific flags.

This new GUC's name was the most popular choice based on the discussion
done.  This is only supported on Linux.

I have taken the time to test the change on Linux, Windows and MacOS,
though for the last two ones large pages are not supported.  The first
one calculates correctly the number of pages depending on the existing
GUC huge_page_size or the system's default.

Thanks to Andres Freund, Robert Haas, Kyotaro Horiguchi, Tom Lane,
Justin Pryzby (and anybody forgotten here) for the discussion.

Author: Nathan Bossart
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/F2772387-CE0F-46BF-B5F1-CC55516EB885@amazon.com
2021-09-21 10:31:58 +09:00
Alvaro Herrera d3014fff4c
Doc: add glossary term for "auxiliary process"
Add entries for existing processes not documented, too, and adjust
existing definitions for consistency.

Per question from Bharath Rupireddy.

Author: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
Author: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CALj2ACVpYCT0M+k8zqrAa4ZQZV+ce5s6G=yajwoS1m=h-jj8NQ@mail.gmail.com
2021-09-20 12:22:02 -03:00
Tom Lane 5577cd571a Doc: minor improvements for "Formatting" section.
Add more-specific links into the source tree.
2021-09-20 10:48:02 -04:00
Tom Lane d5eeb51bc0 Doc: fix typos.
"PGcon" should be "PGconn".  Noted by D. Frey.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/163191739352.4680.16994248583642672629@wrigleys.postgresql.org
2021-09-19 11:36:53 -04:00
Michael Paquier 0c39c29207 Support "postgres -C" with runtime-computed GUCs
Until now, the -C option of postgres was handled before a small subset
of GUCs computed at runtime are initialized, leading to incorrect
results as GUC machinery would fall back to default values for such
parameters.

For example, data_checksums could report "off" for a cluster as the
control file is not loaded yet.  Or wal_segment_size would show a
segment size at 16MB even if initdb --wal-segsize used something else.
Worse, the command would fail to properly report the recently-introduced
shared_memory, that requires to load shared_preload_libraries as these
could ask for a chunk of shared memory.

Support for runtime GUCs comes with a limitation, as the operation is
now allowed on a running server.  One notable reason for this is that
_PG_init() functions of loadable libraries are called before all
runtime-computed GUCs are initialized, and this is not guaranteed to be
safe to do on running servers.  For the case of shared_memory_size,
where we want to know how much memory would be used without allocating
it, this limitation is fine.  Another case where this will help is for
huge pages, with the introduction of a different GUC to evaluate the
amount of huge pages required for a server before starting it, without
having to allocate large chunks of memory.

This feature is controlled with a new GUC flag, and four parameters are
classified as runtime-computed as of this change:
- data_checksums
- shared_memory_size
- data_directory_mode
- wal_segment_size

Some TAP tests are added to provide some coverage here, using
data_checksums in the tests of pg_checksums.

Per discussion with Andres Freund, Justin Pryzby, Magnus Hagander and
more.

Author: Nathan Bossart
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/F2772387-CE0F-46BF-B5F1-CC55516EB885@amazon.com
2021-09-16 10:59:26 +09:00
Daniel Gustafsson 379591fecf doc: Clarify refresh options for DROP PUBLICATION
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
2021-09-15 09:54:45 +02:00
Tom Lane 2e4eae87d0 Send NOTIFY signals during CommitTransaction.
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
2021-09-14 17:18:25 -04:00
Tom Lane 1882d6cca1 Doc: improve documentation of CREATE/ALTER SUBSCRIPTION.
Improve the descriptions of some options.  Fix sloppy grammar and markup.

Peter Smith and Tom Lane

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAHut+PtPJDSOxtuMGpO2yDrRPKxcYGL4n7HqJP9HernZE=Cj+g@mail.gmail.com
2021-09-13 14:27:02 -04:00
Amit Kapila fee1040fe3 Doc: Change optional parameters grouping in Create Subscription.
The subscription parameters are rearranged into two groups:
a) those that control what happens during Create Subscription
b) those that control the replication behavior

This makes the documentation of Create Subscription easier to follow.

Author: Peter Smith
Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAHut+PtPJDSOxtuMGpO2yDrRPKxcYGL4n7HqJP9HernZE=Cj+g@mail.gmail.com
2021-09-13 08:29:10 +05:30
Noah Misch b073c3ccd0 Revoke PUBLIC CREATE from public schema, now owned by pg_database_owner.
This switches the default ACL to what the documentation has recommended
since CVE-2018-1058.  Upgrades will carry forward any old ownership and
ACL.  Sites that declined the 2018 recommendation should take a fresh
look.  Recipes for commissioning a new database cluster from scratch may
need to create a schema, grant more privileges, etc.  Out-of-tree test
suites may require such updates.

Reviewed by Peter Eisentraut.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20201031163518.GB4039133@rfd.leadboat.com
2021-09-09 23:38:09 -07:00
Michael Paquier bd1788051b Introduce GUC shared_memory_size
This runtime-computed GUC shows the size of the server's main shared
memory area, taking into account the amount of shared memory allocated
by extensions as this is calculated after processing
shared_preload_libraries.

Author: Nathan Bossart
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/F2772387-CE0F-46BF-B5F1-CC55516EB885@amazon.com
2021-09-08 12:02:30 +09:00
Magnus Hagander d6c916f020 Consistently use read-only instead of "read only"
This affects one message and some documentation that used the format
"read only", unlike everything else that used read-only.

Backpatch-through: 14
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CABUevExuxKwn0YM3+wdSeQSvK6CRrJ-hewocGVX3R4-xVX4eMw@mail.gmail.com
2021-09-07 22:04:39 +02:00
Fujii Masao 449ab63505 postgres_fdw: Allow application_name of remote connection to be set via GUC.
This commit adds postgres_fdw.application_name GUC which specifies
a value for application_name configuration parameter used
when postgres_fdw establishes a connection to a foreign server.
This GUC setting always overrides application_name option of
the foreign server object. This GUC is useful when we want to
specify our own application_name per remote connection.

Previously application_name of a remote connection could be set
basically only via options of a server object. But which meant that
every session connecting to the same foreign server basically
should use the same application_name. Also if we want to change
the setting, we had to execute "ALTER SERVER ... OPTIONS ..." command.
It was inconvenient.

Author: Hayato Kuroda
Reviewed-by: Masahiro Ikeda, Fujii Masao
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/TYCPR01MB5870D1E8B949DAF6D3B84E02F5F29@TYCPR01MB5870.jpnprd01.prod.outlook.com
2021-09-07 12:27:30 +09:00
Fujii Masao e04267844a Enhance pg_stat_reset_single_table_counters function.
This commit allows pg_stat_reset_single_table_counters() to reset statistics
for a single relation shared across all databases in the cluster to zero.

Bump catalog version.

Author: B Sadhu Prasad Patro
Reviewed-by: Mahendra Singh Thalor, Himanshu Upadhyaya, Dilip Kumar, Fujii Masao
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAFF0-CGy7EHeF=AqqkGMF85cySPQBgDcvNk73G2O0vL94O5U5A@mail.gmail.com
2021-09-02 14:01:06 +09:00
Michael Paquier 163074ea84 doc: Replace some uses of "which" by "that" in parallel.sgml
This makes the documentation more accurate grammatically.

Author: Elena Indrupskaya
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1c994b3d-951e-59bb-1ac2-7b9221c0e4cf@postgrespro.ru
Backpatch-through: 9.6
2021-09-02 11:35:38 +09:00
Tatsuo Ishii 06ba4a63b8 Use COPY FREEZE in pgbench for faster benchmark table population.
While populating the pgbench_accounts table, plain COPY was
unconditionally used. By changing it to COPY FREEZE, the time for
VACUUM is significantly reduced, thus the total time of "pgbench -i"
is also reduced. This only happens if pgbench runs against PostgreSQL
14 or later because COPY FREEZE in previous versions of PostgreSQL does
not bring the benefit. Also if partitioning is used, COPY FREEZE
cannot be used. In this case plain COPY will be used too.

Author: Tatsuo Ishii
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210308.143907.2014279678657453983.t-ishii@gmail.com
Reviewed-by: Fabien COELHO, Laurenz Albe, Peter Geoghegan, Dean Rasheed
2021-09-02 10:39:09 +09:00
Tom Lane 469150a240 Doc: clarify how triggers relate to transactions.
Laurenz Albe, per gripe from Nathan Long.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/161953360822.695.15805897835151971142@wrigleys.postgresql.org
2021-09-01 17:24:59 -04:00
Stephen Frost f01727290f docs: Add command tags for SQL commands
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
2021-08-27 18:25:26 -04:00
Daniel Gustafsson 10d2695b0c docs: clarify bgw_restart_time documentation
Author: Dave Cramer <davecramer@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CADK3HHLZmqAQZ2ByPDQQ9yhGqax36kksq6sDkV0yYzsxw6ipvQ@mail.gmail.com
2021-08-27 22:50:19 +02:00
Peter Eisentraut e2799528d4 Change Texinfo output to UTF-8
Since the whole documentation tool chain is now UTF-8 and there is an
increasing number of non-ISO-8859-1 characters in the text, keeping
the Texinfo output in ISO 8859-1 just creates unnecessary
complications.  Depending on the platform, there are conversion
failures and thus build failures, or weirdly converted characters.  By
changing the output to UTF-8, the whole encoding conversion business
is sidestepped.
2021-08-27 18:20:40 +02:00
Etsuro Fujita 255ed90fd2 Doc: Tweak function prototype indentation for consistency. 2021-08-25 13:00:00 +09:00
Amit Kapila 1046a69b30 Fix Alter Subscription's Add/Drop Publication behavior.
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
2021-08-24 08:25:21 +05:30
Daniel Gustafsson 9a9c8b9201 Remove --quiet option from pg_amcheck
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
2021-08-20 12:44:54 +02:00
Amit Kapila 0ac1aee0d7 Fix typo in protocol.sgml.
The 'Stream Stop' message is misspelled as 'Stream End' in the docs.

Author: Masahiko Sawada
Backpatch-through: 14, where it was introduced
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAD21AoDeScrsHhLyEPYqN3sydg6PxAPVBboK=30xJfUVihNZDA@mail.gmail.com
2021-08-19 09:03:11 +05:30
Daniel Gustafsson 76987bad33 Doc: Fix typo in logical decoding example
Fixes one occurrence of "atleast" in the logical decoding example section.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/5467E625-1369-48CF-BE62-3BB69395C1F1@yesql.se
2021-08-18 19:44:57 +02:00
Heikki Linnakangas e9a79c220b doc: \123 and \x12 escapes in COPY are in database encoding.
The backslash sequences, including \123 and \x12 escapes, are interpreted
after encoding conversion. The docs failed to mention that.

Backpatch to all supported versions.

Reported-by: Andreas Grob
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/17142-9181542ca1df75ab%40postgresql.org
2021-08-17 10:00:06 +03:00
Alvaro Herrera 6f8127b739
Revert analyze support for partitioned tables
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
2021-08-16 17:27:52 -04:00
Daniel Gustafsson ea499f3d28 Clarify initdb --sync-only help message and docs
The initdb help message for --sync-only was a bit terse, and not
really self-explanatory. Make it clearer that initdb --sync-only
will exit after syncing, and expand the docs with a note on when
the option can be useful. Also align the help output with others
that exit immediately.

Author: Nathan Bossart, Gurjeet Singh
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CABwTF4U6hbNNE1bv=LxQdJybmUdZ5NJQ9rKY9tN82NXM8QH+iQ@mail.gmail.com
2021-08-16 13:38:01 +02:00
Andres Freund 80a8f95b3b Remove support for background workers without BGWORKER_SHMEM_ACCESS.
Background workers without shared memory access have been broken on
EXEC_BACKEND / windows builds since shortly after background workers have been
introduced, without that being reported. Clearly they are not commonly used.

The problem is that bgworker startup requires to be attached to shared memory
in EXEC_BACKEND child processes. StartBackgroundWorker() detaches from shared
memory for unconnected workers, but at that point we already have initialized
subsystems referencing shared memory.

Fixing this problem is not entirely trivial, so removing the option to not be
connected to shared memory seems the best way forward. In most use cases the
advantages of being connected to shared memory far outweigh the disadvantages.

As there have been no reports about this issue so far, we have decided that it
is not worth trying to address the problem in the back branches.

Per discussion with Alvaro Herrera, Robert Haas and Tom Lane.

Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210802065116.j763tz3vz4egqy3w@alap3.anarazel.de
2021-08-13 05:49:26 -07:00
Daniel Gustafsson 512f4ca6c6 Fix sslsni connparam boolean check
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
2021-08-13 10:32:17 +02:00
Daniel Gustafsson 72bbff4cd6 Add alternative output for OpenSSL 3 without legacy loaded
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
2021-08-10 15:08:46 +02:00
David Rowley deb6ffd4fd Doc: Fix misleading statement about VACUUM memory limits
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
2021-08-09 16:45:35 +12:00
Bruce Momjian d8a75b1308 doc: mention pg_upgrade extension script
Since commit e462856a7a, pg_upgrade automatically creates a script to
update extensions, so mention that instead of ALTER EXTENSION.

Backpatch-through: 9.6
2021-08-08 21:05:46 -04:00
Tom Lane cf5ce5aa70 Doc: remove bogus <indexterm> items.
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.
2021-08-08 15:35:30 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 05e60aece3 Fix wording 2021-08-06 20:55:59 +02:00
Etsuro Fujita aa769f80ed postgres_fdw: Fix issues with generated columns in foreign tables.
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
2021-08-05 20:00:00 +09:00
Amit Kapila 63cf61cdeb Add prepare API support for streaming transactions in logical replication.
Commit a8fd13cab0 added support for prepared transactions to built-in
logical replication via a new option "two_phase" for a subscription. The
"two_phase" option was not allowed with the existing streaming option.

This commit permits the combination of "streaming" and "two_phase"
subscription options. It extends the pgoutput plugin and the subscriber
side code to add the prepare API for streaming transactions which will
apply the changes accumulated in the spool-file at prepare time.

Author: Peter Smith and Ajin Cherian
Reviewed-by: Vignesh C, Amit Kapila, Greg Nancarrow
Tested-By: Haiying Tang
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/02DA5F5E-CECE-4D9C-8B4B-418077E2C010@postgrespro.ru
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAMGcDxeqEpWj3fTXwqhSwBdXd2RS9jzwWscO-XbeCfso6ts3+Q@mail.gmail.com
2021-08-04 07:47:06 +05:30
Tom Lane 6424337073 Add assorted new regexp_xxx SQL functions.
This patch adds new functions regexp_count(), regexp_instr(),
regexp_like(), and regexp_substr(), and extends regexp_replace()
with some new optional arguments.  All these functions follow
the definitions used in Oracle, although there are small differences
in the regexp language due to using our own regexp engine -- most
notably, that the default newline-matching behavior is different.
Similar functions appear in DB2 and elsewhere, too.  Aside from
easing portability, these functions are easier to use for certain
tasks than our existing regexp_match[es] functions.

Gilles Darold, heavily revised by me

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/fc160ee0-c843-b024-29bb-97b5da61971f@darold.net
2021-08-03 13:08:49 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 95ab1e0a9d interval: round values when spilling to months
Previously spilled units greater than months were truncated to months.
Also document the spill behavior.

Reported-by: Bryn Llewelly

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/BDAE4B56-3337-45A2-AC8A-30593849D6C0@yugabyte.com

Backpatch-through: master
2021-08-03 12:10:29 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 5090d709f1 pg_upgrade: improve docs about extension upgrades
The previous wording was unclear about the steps needed to upgrade
extensions, and how to update them after pg_upgrade.

Reported-by: Dave Cramer

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CADK3HHKawwbOcGwMGnDuAf3-U8YfvTcS8jqDv3UM=niijs3MMA@mail.gmail.com

Backpatch-through: 9.6
2021-08-03 11:27:33 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 691272cae9 doc: mention inheritance's tableoid can be used in partitioning
Previously tableoid was not mentioned in the partition doc section.  We
only had a link to the "all the normal rules" of inheritance section.

Reported-by: michal.palenik@freemap.sk

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/162627031219.693.11508199541771263335@wrigleys.postgresql.org

Backpatch-through: 10
2021-08-03 11:11:51 -04:00
Bruce Momjian cfbbb8610d doc: add example of using pg_dump with GNU split and gzip
This is only possible with GNU split, not other versions like BSD split.

Reported-by: jim@jdoherty.net

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/162653459215.701.6323855956817776386@wrigleys.postgresql.org

Backpatch-through: 9.6
2021-08-03 10:57:32 -04:00
Tom Lane a5cb4f9829 Doc: minor improvements for logical replication protocol documentation.
Where appropriate, annotate message field data types with the backend
code's name for the data type, eg XLogRecPtr or TimestampTz.  Previously
we just said "Int64" which didn't provide as much info.

Also clarify references to object OIDs, and make use of the existing
convention to denote the value of a field that must have a fixed value.

Vignesh C, reviewed by Peter Smith and Euler Taveira.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CALDaNm0+fatx57KFcBopUZWQpH_tz3WKKfm-_eiTwcXui5BnhQ@mail.gmail.com
2021-08-02 11:32:17 -04:00
Tom Lane 64a1f22565 Doc: alphabetize the regexp_foo() function descriptions in 9.7.3.
For no visible reason (other than historical accident no doubt),
regexp_replace() was out of order.  Re-order to match the way
that these functions are listed in 9.4.  (That means substring()
remains first, because it's SQL-standard and the rest aren't.)
I've not touched the text other than to move it.  This is just
to reduce confusion in the diffs for upcoming additions.
2021-07-31 15:35:27 -04:00
Jeff Davis 14d474e079 Improve documentation for START_REPLICATION ... LOGICAL.
The starting point may not be exactly what the client requested; it
may be at the slot's confirmed_flush_lsn.

Also, upgrade the message from DEBUG1 to LOG when this happens.

Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/c5c861d576f2511732f8002c76245da587110b1c.camel%40j-davis.com
2021-07-30 15:12:20 -07:00
John Naylor 5fcf3945bd Fix range check in ECPG numeric to int conversion
The previous coding guarded against -INT_MAX instead of INT_MIN,
leading to -2147483648 being rejected as out of range.

Per bug #17128 from Kevin Sweet

Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/17128-55a8a879727a3e3a%40postgresql.org
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane
Backpatch to all supported branches
2021-07-30 15:39:22 -04:00
Tom Lane 3dddb2a821 Doc: add a glossary entry for "domain".
Anton Voloshin and Jürgen Purtz, reviewed by Laurenz Albe

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2ea65bdf-1380-f088-02bd-ff1a31ed265c@postgrespro.ru
2021-07-30 14:50:21 -04:00
Daniel Gustafsson fcf4c0ae1d docs: Fix bit_count example output
The returnvalue for the bit_count(::bytea) example was assuming a
non-default value of standard_conforming_strings.  This was fixed
in the tests in commit ebedd0c78.

Author: wangzk.fnstxz@fujitsu.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/OSZPR01MB6551FFAC1088C82C3D799BE0FAEB9@OSZPR01MB6551.jpnprd01.prod.outlook.com
Backpatch-through: 14
2021-07-29 21:39:40 +02:00
John Naylor 3ba70d4e15 Disallow negative strides in date_bin()
It's not clear what the semantics of negative strides would be, so throw
an error instead.

Per report from Bauyrzhan Sakhariyev

Reviewed-by: Tom Lane, Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAKpL73vZmLuFVuwF26FJ%2BNk11PVHhAnQRoREFcA03x7znRoFvA%40mail.gmail.com
Backpatch to v14
2021-07-28 12:10:12 -04:00
David Rowley 8709228775 Doc: Clarify lock levels taken during ATTACH PARTITION
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
2021-07-28 15:02:37 +12:00
Michael Paquier b0483263dd Add support for SET ACCESS METHOD in ALTER TABLE
The logic used to support a change of access method for a table is
similar to changes for tablespace or relation persistence, requiring a
table rewrite with an exclusive lock of the relation changed.  Table
rewrites done in ALTER TABLE already go through the table AM layer when
scanning tuples from the old relation and inserting them into the new
one, making this implementation straight-forward.

Note that partitioned tables are not supported as these have no access
methods defined.

Author: Justin Pryzby, Jeff Davis
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier, Vignesh C
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210228222530.GD20769@telsasoft.com
2021-07-28 10:10:44 +09:00
Fujii Masao 0e1275fb07 Avoid using ambiguous word "non-negative" in error messages.
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
2021-07-28 01:20:16 +09:00
Bruce Momjian 6feebcb6b4 doc: for various substring funcs, document if only first match
Reported-by: troy@frericks.us

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/162614304115.701.2392941350859387646@wrigleys.postgresql.org

Backpatch-through: 13
2021-07-26 22:54:35 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 74cf7d46a9 pg_resetxlog: add option to set oldest xid & use by pg_upgrade
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
2021-07-26 22:38:15 -04:00
Dean Rasheed 085f931f52 Allow numeric scale to be negative or greater than precision.
Formerly, when specifying NUMERIC(precision, scale), the scale had to
be in the range [0, precision], which was per SQL spec. This commit
extends the range of allowed scales to [-1000, 1000], independent of
the precision (whose valid range remains [1, 1000]).

A negative scale implies rounding before the decimal point. For
example, a column might be declared with a scale of -3 to round values
to the nearest thousand. Note that the display scale remains
non-negative, so in this case the display scale will be zero, and all
digits before the decimal point will be displayed.

A scale greater than the precision supports fractional values with
zeros immediately after the decimal point.

Take the opportunity to tidy up the code that packs, unpacks and
validates the contents of a typmod integer, encapsulating it in a
small set of new inline functions.

Bump the catversion because the allowed contents of atttypmod have
changed for numeric columns. This isn't a change that requires a
re-initdb, but negative scale values in the typmod would confuse old
backends.

Dean Rasheed, with additional improvements by Tom Lane. Reviewed by
Tom Lane.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEZATCWdNLgpKihmURF8nfofP0RFtAKJ7ktY6GcZOPnMfUoRqA@mail.gmail.com
2021-07-26 14:13:47 +01:00
Michael Paquier efe0802209 doc: Fix command example to run regression tests with PGOPTIONS
The documentation mentioned the use of log_checkpoints, that cannot be
used in this context.  This commit replaces log_checkpoints with
force_parallel_mode, a developer option useful to perform checks related
to parallelism.

Oversight in 854434c.

Author: Haiying Tang
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/OS0PR01MB6113954B883ACEB2DDC973F2FBE59@OS0PR01MB6113.jpnprd01.prod.outlook.com
Backpatch-through: 14
2021-07-26 16:26:47 +09:00
Alvaro Herrera 80ba4bb383
Make ALTER TRIGGER RENAME consistent for partitioned tables
Renaming triggers on partitioned tables had two problems: first,
it did not recurse to renaming the triggers on the partitions; and
second, it failed to prohibit renaming clone triggers.  Having triggers
with different names in partitions is pointless, and furthermore pg_dump
would not preserve names for partitions anyway.

Not backpatched -- making the ALTER TRIGGER throw an error in stable
versions might cause problems for existing scripts.

Co-authored-by: Arne Roland <A.Roland@index.de>
Co-authored-by: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Reviewed-by: Zhihong Yu <zyu@yugabyte.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/d0fd7040c2fb4de1a111b9d9ccc456b8@index.de
2021-07-22 18:33:47 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera 73c5d2bfee
Rework installation instructions again
Dept. of second thoughts: the new verbiage added in commit aaec237b1a
is targeted at the wrong audience.  Remove the bits about git and talk
about how to get tarballs only.  People looking for the git repo can
look in the appendix.  That'll need to be expanded, but this commit
doesn't do that.

In passing, fix a couple of typos that snuck in with the previous
commit.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/713760.1626891263@sss.pgh.pa.us
2021-07-22 18:03:26 -04:00
Tom Lane 7fa1e1ef74 Doc: improve documentation about exponentiation operator.
Now that we're not having to wedge this into the straitjacket of
the old operator table format, we can add another example to
clarify the point about left-to-right associativity.

Per suggestion from mdione at grulic.org.ar.

https://postgr.es/m/162661954599.693.13700316547731859171@wrigleys.postgresql.org
2021-07-21 18:04:15 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera aaec237b1a
Improve installation instructions a bit
Reported-by: Daniel Westermann
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/GV0P278MB04835AAEACF894617574EB6BD25A9@GV0P278MB0483.CHEP278.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM
2021-07-21 13:56:15 -04:00
Fujii Masao 90b6c339b2 doc: Document that only superusers can use pg_import_system_collations().
Back-patch to v10 where pg_import_system_collations() was added.

Author: Atsushi Torikoshi
Reviewed-by: Fujii Masao
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/b7f484692a3e283710032e68b7f40617@oss.nttdata.com
2021-07-21 13:52:37 +09:00
Peter Geoghegan dd498998a3 Doc: vacuum_multixact_failsafe_age is multixact-based.
Oversight in commit 1e55e7d1, which added a wraparound failsafe
mechanism to VACUUM.

Backpatch: 14-, where VACUUM failsafe was introduced.
2021-07-19 17:20:25 -07:00
Michael Paquier d121663561 doc: Mention CASCADE/RESTRICT for DROP STATISTICS
This grammar has no effect as there are no dependencies on statistics,
but it is supported by the parser.  This is more consistent with the
other DROP commands.

Author: Vignesh C
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CALDaNm1LA=yNmzcSfy+0oe6CEAgsxXRf_-UutE3ZncFi8QkFNQ@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 10
2021-07-19 12:39:38 +09:00
Alexander Korotkov 9e3c217bd9 Support for unnest(multirange)
It has been spotted that multiranges lack of ability to decompose them into
individual ranges.  Subscription and proper expanded object representation
require substantial work, and it's too late for v14.  This commit
provides the implementation of unnest(multirange), which is quite trivial.
unnest(multirange) is defined as a polymorphic procedure.

Catversion is bumped.

Reported-by: Jonathan S. Katz
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/flat/60258efe-bd7e-4886-82e1-196e0cac5433%40postgresql.org
Author: Alexander Korotkov
Reviewed-by: Justin Pryzby, Jonathan S. Katz, Zhihong Yu, Tom Lane
Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera
2021-07-18 21:07:24 +03:00
Tom Lane 665c5855e5 Doc: document the current-transaction-modes GUCs.
We had documentation of default_transaction_isolation et al,
but for some reason not of transaction_isolation et al.
AFAICS this is just an ancient oversight, so repair.

Per bug #17077 from Yanliang Lei.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17077-ade8e166a01e1374@postgresql.org
2021-07-17 11:52:54 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 46111fb7b5 doc: Spell checking 2021-07-16 12:39:45 +02:00
Daniel Gustafsson 830ef61bd8 docs: fix inconsistencies in markup and case
Ensure to properly mark up function parameters in text with <parameter>,
avoid using <acronym> for terms which aren't acronyms and properly place
the ", and" in a value list. The acronym removal is a follow-up to commit
fb72a7b8c3 which removed it for minmax-multi.  In passing, also fix an
incorrectly cased word.

Author: Ekaterina Kiryanova <e.kiryanova@postgrespro.ru>
Reviewed-by: Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/c050ecbc-80b2-b360-3c1d-9fe6a6a11bb5@postgrespro.ru
Backpatch-through: v14
2021-07-15 23:22:58 +02:00
Tom Lane a49d081235 Replace explicit PIN entries in pg_depend with an OID range test.
As of v14, pg_depend contains almost 7000 "pin" entries recording
the OIDs of built-in objects.  This is a fair amount of bloat for
every database, and it adds time to pg_depend lookups as well as
initdb.  We can get rid of all of those entries in favor of an OID
range check, i.e. "OIDs below FirstUnpinnedObjectId are pinned".

(template1 and the public schema are exceptions.  Those exceptions
are now wired into IsPinnedObject() instead of initdb's code for
filling pg_depend, but it's the same amount of cruft either way.)

The contents of pg_shdepend are modified likewise.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3737988.1618451008@sss.pgh.pa.us
2021-07-15 11:41:47 -04:00
Magnus Hagander b4deefc39b Clarify description of pg_stat_statements columns
Reported-By: Peter Eisentraut
Backpatch-through: 14
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/8f5e63b8-e8ed-0f80-d8c4-68222624c200@enterprisedb.com
2021-07-14 11:11:11 +02:00
Amit Kapila a8fd13cab0 Add support for prepared transactions to built-in logical replication.
To add support for streaming transactions at prepare time into the
built-in logical replication, we need to do the following things:

* Modify the output plugin (pgoutput) to implement the new two-phase API
callbacks, by leveraging the extended replication protocol.

* Modify the replication apply worker, to properly handle two-phase
transactions by replaying them on prepare.

* Add a new SUBSCRIPTION option "two_phase" to allow users to enable
two-phase transactions. We enable the two_phase once the initial data sync
is over.

We however must explicitly disable replication of two-phase transactions
during replication slot creation, even if the plugin supports it. We
don't need to replicate the changes accumulated during this phase,
and moreover, we don't have a replication connection open so we don't know
where to send the data anyway.

The streaming option is not allowed with this new two_phase option. This
can be done as a separate patch.

We don't allow to toggle two_phase option of a subscription because it can
lead to an inconsistent replica. For the same reason, we don't allow to
refresh the publication once the two_phase is enabled for a subscription
unless copy_data option is false.

Author: Peter Smith, Ajin Cherian and Amit Kapila based on previous work by Nikhil Sontakke and Stas Kelvich
Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila, Sawada Masahiko, Vignesh C, Dilip Kumar, Takamichi Osumi, Greg Nancarrow
Tested-By: Haiying Tang
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/02DA5F5E-CECE-4D9C-8B4B-418077E2C010@postgrespro.ru
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAA4eK1+opiV4aFTmWWUF9h_32=HfPOW9vZASHarT0UA5oBrtGw@mail.gmail.com
2021-07-14 07:33:50 +05:30
David Rowley 83f4fcc655 Change the name of the Result Cache node to Memoize
"Result Cache" was never a great name for this node, but nobody managed
to come up with another name that anyone liked enough.  That was until
David Johnston mentioned "Node Memoization", which Tom Lane revised to
just "Memoize".  People seem to like "Memoize", so let's do the rename.

Reviewed-by: Justin Pryzby
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210708165145.GG1176@momjian.us
Backpatch-through: 14, where Result Cache was introduced
2021-07-14 12:43:58 +12:00
Tom Lane d68a003912 Rename debug_invalidate_system_caches_always to debug_discard_caches.
The name introduced by commit 4656e3d66 was agreed to be unreasonably
long.  To match this change, rename initdb's recently-added
--clobber-cache option to --discard-caches.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1374320.1625430433@sss.pgh.pa.us
2021-07-13 15:01:01 -04:00
Thomas Munro 7c09d2797e Add PSQL_WATCH_PAGER for psql's \watch command.
Allow a pager to be used by the \watch command.  This works but isn't
very useful with traditional pagers like "less", so use a different
environment variable.  The popular open source tool "pspg" (also by
Pavel) knows how to display the output if you set PSQL_WATCH_PAGER="pspg
--stream".

To make \watch react quickly when the user quits the pager or presses
^C, and also to increase the accuracy of its timing and decrease the
rate of useless context switches, change the main loop of the \watch
command to use sigwait() rather than a sleeping/polling loop, on Unix.

Supported on Unix only for now (like pspg).

Author: Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>
Author: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAFj8pRBfzUUPz-3gN5oAzto9SDuRSq-TQPfXU_P6h0L7hO%2BEhg%40mail.gmail.com
2021-07-13 11:43:21 +12:00
Peter Eisentraut 5b60cf35f5 doc: Fix typo in function prototype 2021-07-12 22:16:33 +02:00
Alvaro Herrera ab09679429
libpq: Fix sending queries in pipeline aborted state
When sending queries in pipeline mode, we were careless about leaving
the connection in the right state so that PQgetResult would behave
correctly; trying to read further results after sending a query after
having read a result with an error would sometimes hang.  Fix by
ensuring internal libpq state is changed properly.  All the state
changes were being done by the callers of pqAppendCmdQueueEntry(); it
would have become too repetitious to have this logic in each of them, so
instead put it all in that function and relieve callers of the
responsibility.

Add a test to verify this case.  Without the code fix, this new test
hangs sometimes.

Also, document that PQisBusy() would return false when no queries are
pending result.  This is not intuitively obvious, and NULL would be
obtained by calling PQgetResult() at that point, which is confusing.
Wording by Boris Kolpackov.

In passing, fix bogus use of "false" to mean "0", per Ranier Vilela.

Backpatch to 14.

Author: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Reported-by: Boris Kolpackov <boris@codesynthesis.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/boris.20210624103805@codesynthesis.com
2021-07-09 15:57:59 -04:00
Fujii Masao 9d2a775734 doc: Fix description about pg_stat_statements.track_planning.
This commit fixes wrong wording like "a fewer kinds"
in the description about track_planning option.

Back-patch to v13 where pg_stat_statements.track_planning was added.

Author: Justin Pryzby
Reviewed-by: Julien Rouhaud, Fujii Masao
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210418233615.GB7256@telsasoft.com
2021-07-07 21:54:47 +09:00
Fujii Masao d854720df6 postgres_fdw: Tighten up allowed values for batch_size, fetch_size options.
Previously the values such as '100$%$#$#', '9,223,372,' were accepted and
treated as valid integers for postgres_fdw options batch_size and fetch_size.
Whereas this is not the case with fdw_startup_cost and fdw_tuple_cost options
for which an error is thrown. This was because endptr was not used
while converting strings to integers using strtol.

This commit changes the logic so that it uses parse_int function
instead of strtol as it serves the purpose by returning false in case
if it is unable to convert the string to integer. Note that
this function also rounds off the values such as '100.456' to 100 and
'100.567' or '100.678' to 101.

While on this, use parse_real for fdw_startup_cost and fdw_tuple_cost options.

Since parse_int and parse_real are being used for reloptions and GUCs,
it is more appropriate to use in postgres_fdw rather than using strtol
and strtod directly.

Back-patch to v14.

Author: Bharath Rupireddy
Reviewed-by: Ashutosh Bapat, Tom Lane, Kyotaro Horiguchi, Fujii Masao
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CALj2ACVMO6wY5Pc4oe1OCgUOAtdjHuFsBDw8R5uoYR86eWFQDA@mail.gmail.com
2021-07-07 11:13:40 +09:00
Tom Lane 955b3e0f92 Allow CustomScan providers to say whether they support projections.
Previously, all CustomScan providers had to support projections,
but there may be cases where this is inconvenient.  Add a flag
bit to say if it's supported.

Important item for the release notes: this is non-backwards-compatible
since the default is now to assume that CustomScan providers can't
project, instead of assuming that they can.  It's fail-soft, but could
result in visible performance penalties due to adding unnecessary
Result nodes.

Sven Klemm, reviewed by Aleksander Alekseev; some cosmetic fiddling
by me.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAMCrgp1kyakOz6c8aKhNDJXjhQ1dEjEnp+6KNT3KxPrjNtsrDg@mail.gmail.com
2021-07-06 18:10:20 -04:00
Tom Lane ab2e19987f Doc: add info about timestamps with fractional-minute UTC offsets.
Our code has supported fractional-minute UTC offsets for ages, but
there was no mention of the possibility in the main docs, and only
a very indirect reference in Appendix B.  Improve that.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/162543102827.697.5755498651217979813@wrigleys.postgresql.org
2021-07-06 10:34:51 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 903d9aa780 doc: Fix quoting markup 2021-07-05 08:26:00 +02:00
Amit Kapila e360aa0530 Doc: Hash Indexes.
A new chapter for Hash Indexes, designed to help users understand how
they work and when to use them.

Backpatch-through 10 where we have made hash indexes durable.

Author: Simon Riggs
Reviewed-By: Justin Pryzby, Amit Kapila
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CANbhV-HRjNPYgHo--P1ewBrFJ-GpZPb9_25P7=Wgu7s7hy_sLQ@mail.gmail.com
2021-07-05 09:36:11 +05:30
Michael Paquier 0f06359fb3 doc: Mention requirement to --enable-tap-tests on section for TAP tests
Author: Greg Sabino Mullane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAKAnmmJYH2FBn_+Vwd2FD5SaKn8hjhAXOCHpZc6n4wXaUaW_SA@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 9.6
2021-07-04 20:59:04 +09:00
David Rowley ec34040af1 Doc: mention that VACUUM can't utilize over 1GB of RAM
Document that setting maintenance_work_mem to values over 1GB has no
effect on VACUUM.

Reported-by: Martín Marqués
Author: Laurenz Albe
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CABeG9LsZ2ozUMcqtqWu_-GiFKB17ih3p8wBHXcpfnHqhCnsc7A%40mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 9.6, oldest supported release
2021-07-04 22:28:38 +12:00
Bruce Momjian d390bb62a6 doc: adjust "cities" example to be consistent with other SQL
Reported-by: tom@crystae.net

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/162345756191.14472.9754568432103008703@wrigleys.postgresql.org

Backpatch-through: 9.6
2021-07-02 20:42:46 -04:00
Bruce Momjian c552e171d1 docs: clarify new aggressive vacuum mode for multi-xacts
Reported-by: eric.mutta@gmail.com

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/162395467510.686.11947486273299446208@wrigleys.postgresql.org

Backpatch-through: 14
2021-07-02 18:00:30 -04:00
Michael Paquier 70685385d7 Use WaitLatch() instead of pg_usleep() at end-of-vacuum truncation
This has the advantage to make a process more responsive when the
postmaster dies, even if the wait time was rather limited as there was
only a 50ms timeout here.  Another advantage of this change is for
monitoring, as we gain a new wait event for the end-of-vacuum
truncation.

Author: Bharath Rupireddy
Reviewed-by: Aleksander Alekseev, Thomas Munro, Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CALj2ACU4AdPCq6NLfcA-ZGwX7pPCK5FgEj-CAU0xCKzkASSy_A@mail.gmail.com
2021-07-02 12:58:34 +09:00
Peter Eisentraut 1708f6b38a doc: Remove inappropriate <acronym> tags 2021-07-01 22:24:15 +02:00
Andrew Dunstan 7355c241ed
add missing tag from commit b8c4261e5e 2021-07-01 15:47:46 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut c0fdc96370 doc: Clean up title case use 2021-07-01 21:29:34 +02:00
Andrew Dunstan b8c4261e5e
Add new make targets world-bin and install-world-bin
These are the same as world and install-world respectively, but without
building or installing the documentation. There are many reasons for
wanting to be able to do this, including speed, lack of documentation
building tools, and wanting to build other formats of the documentation.
Plans for simplifying the buildfarm client code include using these
targets.

Backpatch to all live branches.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/6a421136-d462-b043-a8eb-e75b2861f3df@dunslane.net
2021-07-01 15:12:21 -04:00
Tom Lane b741f4c3ee Add --clobber-cache option to initdb, for CCA testing.
Commit 4656e3d66 replaced the "#define CLOBBER_CACHE_ALWAYS"
testing mechanism with a GUC, which has been a great help for
doing cache-clobber testing in more efficient ways; but there
is a gap in the implementation.  The only way to do cache-clobber
testing during an initdb run is to use the old method with #define,
because one can't set the GUC from outside.  Improve this by
adding a switch to initdb for the purpose.

(Perhaps someday we should let initdb pass through arbitrary
"-c NAME=VALUE" switches.  Quoting difficulties dissuaded me
from attempting that right now, though.)

Back-patch to v14 where 4656e3d66 came in.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1582507.1624227029@sss.pgh.pa.us
2021-07-01 13:33:05 -04:00
Heikki Linnakangas c8bf5098cb Allow specifying pg_waldump --rmgr option multiple times.
Before, if you specified multiple --rmgr options, only the last one took
effect. It seems more sensible to select all the specified resource
managers.

Reviewed-By: Daniel Gustafsson, Julien Rouhaud
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/98344bc2-e222-02ad-a75b-81ffc614c155%40iki.fi
2021-07-01 15:32:57 +03:00
Fujii Masao 3465c8a869 doc: Improve descriptions of tup_returned and tup_fetched in pg_stat_database
Previously the descriptions of tup_returned and tup_fetched columns
in pg_stat_database view were confusing. This commit improves them
so that they represent the following formulas of those columns
more accurately.

* pg_stat_database.tup_returned
    = sum(pg_stat_all_tables.seq_tup_read)
    + sum(pg_stat_all_indexes.idx_tup_read)

* pg_stat_database.tup_fetched
    = sum(pg_stat_all_tables.idx_tup_fetch)

In these formulas, note that the counters for some system catalogs
like pg_database shared across all databases of a cluster are excluded
from the calculations of sum.

Author: Masahiro Ikeda
Reviewed-by: Fujii Masao
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/9eeeccdb-5dd7-90f9-2807-a4b5d2b76ca3@oss.nttdata.com
2021-06-30 20:57:07 +09:00
Fujii Masao 61d599ede7 doc: Add type information for postgres_fdw parameters.
Author: Shinya Kato
Reviewed-by: Fujii Masao
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/TYAPR01MB2896DEB25C3B0D57F6139768C40F9@TYAPR01MB2896.jpnprd01.prod.outlook.com
2021-06-30 19:33:18 +09:00
Amit Kapila cda03cfed6 Allow enabling two-phase option via replication protocol.
Extend the replication command CREATE_REPLICATION_SLOT to support the
TWO_PHASE option. This will allow decoding commands like PREPARE
TRANSACTION, COMMIT PREPARED and ROLLBACK PREPARED for slots created with
this option. The decoding of the transaction happens at prepare command.

This patch also adds support of two-phase in pg_recvlogical via a new
option --two-phase.

This option will also be used by future patches that allow streaming of
transactions at prepare time for built-in logical replication. With this,
the out-of-core logical replication solutions can enable replication of
two-phase transactions via replication protocol.

Author: Ajin Cherian
Reviewed-By: Jeff Davis, Vignesh C, Amit Kapila
Discussion:
https://postgr.es/m/02DA5F5E-CECE-4D9C-8B4B-418077E2C010@postgrespro.ru
https://postgr.es/m/64b9f783c6e125f18f88fbc0c0234e34e71d8639.camel@j-davis.com
2021-06-30 08:45:47 +05:30
Michael Paquier 4c9f50d116 Optimize pg_checksums --enable where checksum is already set
This commit prevents pg_checksums to do a rewrite of a block if it has
no need to, in the case where the computed checksum matches with what's
already stored in the block read.  This is helpful to accelerate
successive runs of the tool when the previous ones got interrupted, for
example.

The number of blocks and files written is tracked and reported by the
tool once finished.  Note that the final flush of the data folder
happens even if no blocks are written, as it could be possible that a
previous interrupted run got stopped while doing a flush.

Author: Greg Sabino Mullane
Reviewed-by: Paquier Michael, Julien Rouhaud
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAKAnmmL+k6goxmVzQJB+0bAR0PN1sgo6GDUXJhyhUmVMze1QAw@mail.gmail.com
2021-06-30 09:58:59 +09:00
Alvaro Herrera a7192326c7
Add PQsendFlushRequest to libpq
This new libpq function allows the application to send an 'H' message,
which instructs the server to flush its outgoing buffer.

This hasn't been needed so far because the Sync message already requests
a buffer; and I failed to realize that this was needed in pipeline mode
because PQpipelineSync also causes the buffer to be flushed.  However,
sometimes it is useful to request a flush without establishing a
synchronization point.

Backpatch to 14, where pipeline mode was introduced in libpq.

Reported-by: Boris Kolpackov <boris@codesynthesis.com>
Author: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/202106252350.t76x73nt643j@alvherre.pgsql
2021-06-29 14:37:39 -04:00
Michael Paquier 4035cd5d4e Add support for LZ4 with compression of full-page writes in WAL
The logic is implemented so as there can be a choice in the compression
used when building a WAL record, and an extra per-record bit is used to
track down if a block is compressed with PGLZ, LZ4 or nothing.

wal_compression, the existing parameter, is changed to an enum with
support for the following backward-compatible values:
- "off", the default, to not use compression.
- "pglz" or "on", to compress FPWs with PGLZ.
- "lz4", the new mode, to compress FPWs with LZ4.

Benchmarking has showed that LZ4 outclasses easily PGLZ.  ZSTD would be
also an interesting choice, but going just with LZ4 for now makes the
patch minimalistic as toast compression is already able to use LZ4, so
there is no need to worry about any build-related needs for this
implementation.

Author: Andrey Borodin, Justin Pryzby
Reviewed-by: Dilip Kumar, Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3037310D-ECB7-4BF1-AF20-01C10BB33A33@yandex-team.ru
2021-06-29 11:17:55 +09:00