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John Naylor c920fe4818 Refer to replication origin roident as "ID" in user facing messages and docs
The table column that stores this is of type oid, but is actually limited
to uint16 and has a different path for creating new values. Some of
the documentation already referred to it as an ID, so let's standardize
on that.

While at it, most format strings already use %u, so for consintency
change the remaining stragglers using %d.

Per suggestions from Tom Lane and Justin Pryzby
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/3437166.1659620465%40sss.pgh.pa.us
Backpatch to v15
2022-08-18 08:57:13 +07:00
Daniel Gustafsson a340359a4f doc: Add a note on PO editors
While PO files can be edited in any text editor, specialized tools for
translation editing can be quite helpful with automating tasks etc. Add
a small note about PO editors to encourage new translators to research
which tool works best for them.

Reviewed-by: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/163490116698.684.10398197970578456928@wrigleys.postgresql.org
2022-08-17 23:41:56 +02:00
Daniel Gustafsson 4a319fce76 doc: Consistently spell case-insensitive
While almost all occurrences of "case-insensitive{ly}" were spelled with
a dash, a few were using "case insensitive{ly}" with a space instead. Fix
by changing these to use a dash to be consistent.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/7657EDEE-5EE2-4AAB-BA95-47B4F71653E1@yesql.se
2022-08-17 10:05:03 +02:00
Daniel Gustafsson 3e7d94fca0 doc: Document pg_trgm being case-insensitive by default
pg_trgm is by default operating case-insensitively but the docs didn't
mention that at all.

Author: Erik Rijkers <er@xs4all.nl>
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
Reported-by: marcmaiwald@googlemail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/166064504415.652.12724576876807446945@wrigleys.postgresql.org
2022-08-17 09:56:02 +02:00
Michael Paquier 93f2349c36 Allow event trigger table_rewrite for ALTER MATERIALIZED VIEW
This event can happen when using SET ACCESS METHOD, as the data files of
the materialized need a full refresh but this command tag was not
updated to reflect that.  The documentation is updated to track this
behavior.

Author: Onder Kalaci
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CACawEhXwHN3X34FiwoYG8vXR-oyUdrp7qcfRWSzS+NPahS5gSw@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 15
2022-08-17 14:55:20 +09:00
Daniel Gustafsson 40ca9073ff doc: Remove reference to tty libpq connstring param
The tty connection string parameter was removed in commit 14d9b3760
but the reference to it in the docs was mistakenly kept.  Fix by
removing it from the libpq documentation.  Backpatch through v14
where the parameter was removed.

Author: Noriyoshi Shinoda <noriyoshi.shinoda@hpe.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/DM4PR84MB173433216FCC2A3961879000EE6B9@DM4PR84MB1734.NAMPRD84.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM
Backpatch-through: 14
2022-08-16 22:54:43 +02:00
Daniel Gustafsson 6cbed0ec79 doc: Add missing parenthesis to keycombo
The SIGINT keycombo for the pg_waldump stats emission was lacking a
closing parenthesis.  Backpatch to 15 where this feature was added.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/EC39E60E-C8B6-4CDF-8BFA-E4D140446B41@yesql.se
Backpatch-through: 15
2022-08-16 12:44:24 +02:00
Tatsuo Ishii f4c32cdd1c doc: fix wrong tag used in create sequence manual.
In ref/create_sequence.sgml <literal> tag was used for nextval function name.
This should have been <function> tag.

Author: Noboru Saito
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAAM3qnJTDFFfRf5JHJ4AYrNcqXgMmj0pbH0%2Bvm%3DYva%2BpJyGymA%40mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 10
2022-08-16 09:20:14 +09:00
Daniel Gustafsson 75ca8c1457 doc: Add unit to pg_shmem_allocations attributes
The unit of size and allocated_size was not documented.  Speciyfing the
unit is in line with how many other (but not all) system view attributes
are documented so fixing by adding the unit which is "bytes".

Author: Euler Taveira <euler@eulerto.com>
Reviewed-by: Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com>
Reported-by: coleman.rik@gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/166033703458.653.1583077816076994614@wrigleys.postgresql.org
2022-08-15 22:30:00 +02:00
Thomas Munro f558088285 Remove HAVE_UNIX_SOCKETS.
Since HAVE_UNIX_SOCKETS is now defined unconditionally, remove the macro
and drop a small amount of dead code.

The last known systems not to have them (as far as I know at least) were
QNX, which we de-supported years ago, and Windows, which now has them.

If a new OS ever shows up with the POSIX sockets API but without working
AF_UNIX, it'll presumably still be able to compile the code, and fail at
runtime with an unsupported address family error.  We might want to
consider adding a HINT that you should turn off the option to use it if
your network stack doesn't support it at that point, but it doesn't seem
worth making the relevant code conditional at compile time.

Also adjust a couple of places in the docs and comments that referred to
builds without Unix-domain sockets, since there aren't any.  Windows
still gets a special mention in those places, though, because we don't
try to use them by default there yet.

Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKG%2BL_3brvh%3D8e0BW_VfX9h7MtwgN%3DnFHP5o7X2oZucY9dg%40mail.gmail.com
2022-08-14 08:46:53 +12:00
Thomas Munro 7e50b4e3c5 Remove configure probe for sys/select.h.
<sys/select.h> is in SUSv3 and every targeted Unix system has it.
Provide an empty header in src/include/port/win32 so that we can
include it unguarded even on Windows.

Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKG%2BL_3brvh%3D8e0BW_VfX9h7MtwgN%3DnFHP5o7X2oZucY9dg%40mail.gmail.com
2022-08-14 00:09:47 +12:00
Bruce Momjian fab54e6c1a doc: add missing role attributes to user management section
Reported-by: Shinya Kato

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1ecdb1ff78e9b03dfce37e85eaca725a@oss.nttdata.com

Author: Shinya Kato

Backpatch-through: 10
2022-08-12 15:43:23 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 115464bb5b doc: add section about heap-only tuples (HOT)
Reported-by: Jonathan S. Katz

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/c59ffbd5-96ac-a5a5-a401-14f627ca1405@postgresql.org

Backpatch-through: 11
2022-08-12 15:05:13 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 50e088d6f2 doc: warn about security issues around log files
Reported-by: Simon Riggs

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CANP8+jJESuuXYq9Djvf-+tx2vY2OFLmfEuu+UvwHNJ1RT7iJCQ@mail.gmail.com

Author: Simon Riggs

Backpatch-through: 10
2022-08-12 12:02:21 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 1886060b98 doc: clarify configuration file for Windows builds
The use of file 'config.pl' was not clearly explained.

Reported-by: liambowen@gmail.com

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/164246013804.31952.4958087335645367498@wrigleys.postgresql.org

Backpatch-through: 10
2022-08-12 11:35:23 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 74e28294cd doc: document the CREATE INDEX "USING" clause
Somehow this was in the syntax but had no description.

Reported-by: robertcorrington@gmail.com

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/164228771825.31954.2719791849363756957@wrigleys.postgresql.org

Backpatch-through: 10
2022-08-12 11:26:03 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 7d66ccee99 doc: clarify CREATE TABLE AS ... IF NOT EXISTS
Mention that the table is not modified if it already exists.

Reported-by: frank_limpert@yahoo.com

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/164441177106.9677.5991676148704507229@wrigleys.postgresql.org

Backpatch-through: 10
2022-08-12 10:59:00 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 4d807bbc4b doc: improve wal_level docs for the 'minimal' level
Reported-by: David G. Johnston

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAKFQuwZ24UcfkoyLLSW3PMGQATomOcw1nuYFRuMev-NoOF+mYw@mail.gmail.com

Author: David G. Johnston

Backpatch-through: 14, partial to 13
2022-08-12 10:30:01 -04:00
Bruce Momjian e2a02a30c4 doc: clarify DROP EXTENSION dependent members text
Member tracking was added in PG 13.

Reported-by: David G. Johnston

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAKFQuwY1YtxQHVWUFYvSnOjZ5VPpXjF33V52bSKEwFjK2K=1Aw@mail.gmail.com

Author: David G. Johnston

Backpatch-through: 13
2022-08-12 09:07:11 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera 3d895bc846
MERGE docs adjustments
Per Justin Pryzby

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220801145257.GA15006@telsasoft.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220714162618.GH18011@telsasoft.com
2022-08-12 13:16:50 +02:00
Amit Kapila 0e60a50e0b Improve the protocol message descriptions for 2PC logical replication.
The messages were using 'two-phase transaction' at some places and
'prepared transaction' at other places. Make them consistently use
'prepared transaction'.

Reported-by: Ekaterina Kiryanova
Author: Peter Smith
Reviewed by: Amit Kapila
Backpatch-through: 15
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/745414e7-efb2-a6ae-5b83-fcbdf35aabc8@postgrespro.ru
2022-08-10 16:41:31 +05:30
Bruce Momjian 356dd2ce5b doc: mention that COPY MATCH requires columns _in_ _order_
Question asked at SCaLE conference.

Reported-by: doc suggestion by Stephen Frost

Backpatch-through: 15
2022-08-09 20:37:53 -04:00
Michael Paquier 0b039e3a84 Fix some inconsistencies with GUC categories
This commit addresses a few things around GUCs:
- The TCP-related parameters (the four tcp_keepalives_* and
client_connection_check_interval are listed in postgresql.conf.sample in
a subsection called "TCP settings" of "CONNECTIONS AND AUTHENTICATION",
but they did not have their own group name in guc.c.
- enable_group_by_reordering, stats_fetch_consistency and
recovery_prefetch had an inconsistent description, missing a dot at the
end.
- In postgresql.conf.sample, "Process title" should not have a section
of its own, but it should be a subsection of "REPORTING AND LOGGING".

This impacts the contents of pg_settings, which could be seen as a
compatibility break, so no backpatch is done.  This is similar to the
cleanup done in a55a984.

Author: Shinya Kato
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/5e0c9c608624eafbba910c344282cb14@oss.nttdata.com
2022-08-09 20:01:44 +09:00
Tom Lane b9b21acc76 In extensions, don't replace objects not belonging to the extension.
Previously, if an extension script did CREATE OR REPLACE and there was
an existing object not belonging to the extension, it would overwrite
the object and adopt it into the extension.  This is problematic, first
because the overwrite is probably unintentional, and second because we
didn't change the object's ownership.  Thus a hostile user could create
an object in advance of an expected CREATE EXTENSION command, and would
then have ownership rights on an extension object, which could be
modified for trojan-horse-type attacks.

Hence, forbid CREATE OR REPLACE of an existing object unless it already
belongs to the extension.  (Note that we've always forbidden replacing
an object that belongs to some other extension; only the behavior for
previously-free-standing objects changes here.)

For the same reason, also fail CREATE IF NOT EXISTS when there is
an existing object that doesn't belong to the extension.

Our thanks to Sven Klemm for reporting this problem.

Security: CVE-2022-2625
2022-08-08 11:12:31 -04:00
Noah Misch d263ced225 Be more prescriptive in new doc about re-archiving of same WAL file.
Nathan Bossart, reviewed by David Steele.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220731065156.GA3694276@rfd.leadboat.com
2022-08-05 08:30:55 -07:00
Thomas Munro 2b1f580ee2 Remove configure probes for symlink/readlink, and dead code.
symlink() and readlink() are in SUSv2 and all targeted Unix systems have
them.  We have partial emulation on Windows.  Code that raised runtime
errors on systems without it has been dead for years, so we can remove
that and also references to such systems in the documentation.

Define HAVE_READLINK and HAVE_SYMLINK macros on Unix.  Our Windows
replacement functions based on junction points can't be used for
relative paths or for non-directories, so the macros can be used to
check for full symlink support.  The places that deal with tablespaces
can just use symlink functions without checking the macros.  (If they
did check the macros, they'd need to provide an #else branch with a
runtime or compile time error, and it'd be dead code.)

Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+hUKGJ3LHeP9w5Fgzdr4G8AnEtJ=z=p6hGDEm4qYGEUX5B6fQ@mail.gmail.com
2022-08-05 09:22:56 +12:00
John Naylor 9f08803828 Fix assorted doc typos
Erik Rijkers and Justin Pryzby

Backpatch to v14

Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/b79bfeff-d0e3-29a3-2576-0e325848dede%40xs4all.nl
2022-08-04 16:09:15 +07:00
John Naylor f217d093fd Clarify DROP EXTENSION docs regarding explicitly dependent routines
Per suggestion from Robert Haas

Backpatch to v14

Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CA%2BTgmoZ1QvHquYHLkMy1oHKqz4-E7QQctj6e0ocq_GP1B5%2B9bA%40mail.gmail.com
2022-08-04 15:48:37 +07:00
Tom Lane ec62ce55a8 Change type "char"'s I/O format for non-ASCII characters.
Previously, a byte with the high bit set was just transmitted
as-is by charin() and charout().  This is problematic if the
database encoding is multibyte, because the result of charout()
won't be validly encoded, which breaks various stuff that
expects all text strings to be validly encoded.  We've
previously decided to enforce encoding validity rather than try
to individually harden each place that might have a problem with
such strings, so it's time to do something about "char".

To fix, represent high-bit-set characters as \ooo (backslash
and three octal digits), following the ancient "escape" format
for bytea.  charin() will continue to accept the old way as well,
though that is only reachable in single-byte encodings.

Add some test cases just so there is coverage for this code.
We'll otherwise leave this question undocumented as it was before,
because we don't really want to encourage end-user use of "char".

For the moment, back-patch into v15 so that this change appears
in 15beta3.  If there's not great pushback we should consider
absorbing this change into the older branches.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2318797.1638558730@sss.pgh.pa.us
2022-08-02 10:29:35 -04:00
Michael Paquier a69959fab2 doc: Fix typos in protocol.sgml
Author: Ekaterina Kiryanova
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/745414e7-efb2-a6ae-5b83-fcbdf35aabc8@postgrespro.ru
Backpatch-through: 15
2022-08-02 19:55:59 +09:00
Andrew Dunstan 7781f4e3e7 Add --schema and --exclude-schema options to vacuumdb.
These two new options can be used to either process all tables in
specific schemas or to skip processing all tables in specific
schemas.  This change also refactors the handling of invalid
combinations of command-line options to a new helper function.

Author: Gilles Darold
Reviewed-by: Justin Pryzby, Nathan Bossart and Michael Paquier.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/929fbf3c-24b8-d454-811f-1d5898ab3e91%40migops.com
2022-07-31 16:46:13 -04:00
Tom Lane 283129e325 Support pg_read_[binary_]file (filename, missing_ok).
There wasn't an especially nice way to read all of a file while
passing missing_ok = true.  Add an additional overloaded variant
to support that use-case.

While here, refactor the C code to avoid a rats-nest of PG_NARGS
checks, instead handling the argument collection in the outer
wrapper functions.  It's a bit longer this way, but far more
straightforward.

(Upon looking at the code coverage report for genfile.c, I was
impelled to also add a test case for pg_stat_file() -- tgl)

Kyotaro Horiguchi

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220607.160520.1984541900138970018.horikyota.ntt@gmail.com
2022-07-29 15:38:49 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera 70a437aa45
doc: avoid saying "inheritance" ...
... when it applies to partitioned relations.  This is almost the
opposite of 0c06534bd6, which removed references to "partition" in
favour of "child".

Author: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
Reviewed-by: Ashutosh Bapat <ashutosh.bapat@enterprisedb.com>
Reviewed-by: Amit Langote <amitlangote09@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220525013248.GO19626@telsasoft.com
2022-07-28 18:21:56 +02:00
Tom Lane 03361a368e Add missing PGDLLEXPORT markings in contrib/pg_prewarm.
After commit 089480c07, it's necessary for background worker entry
points to be marked PGDLLEXPORT, else they aren't findable by
LookupBackgroundWorkerFunction().  Since pg_prewarm lacks any
regression tests, it's not surprising its worker entry points were
overlooked.  (A quick search turned up no other such oversights.)

I added some documentation pointing out the need for this, too.

Robins Tharakan and Tom Lane

CAEP4nAzndnQv3-1QKb=D-hLoK3Rko12HHMFHHtdj2GQAUXO3gw@mail.gmail.com
2022-07-27 12:00:10 -04:00
Robert Haas d8cd0c6c95 Remove the restriction that the relmap must be 512 bytes.
Instead of relying on the ability to atomically overwrite the
entire relmap file in one shot, write a new one and durably
rename it into place. Removing the struct padding and the
calculation showing why the map is exactly 512 bytes, and change
the maximum number of entries to a nearby round number.

Patch by me, reviewed by Andres Freund and Dilip Kumar.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmoZq5%3DLWDK7kHaUbmWXxcaTuw_QwafgG9dr-BaPym_U8WQ%40mail.gmail.com
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAFiTN-ttOXLX75k_WzRo9ar=VvxFhrHi+rJxns997F+yvkm==A@mail.gmail.com
2022-07-26 14:56:25 -04:00
Tom Lane f92944137c Force immediate commit after CREATE DATABASE etc in extended protocol.
We have a few commands that "can't run in a transaction block",
meaning that if they complete their processing but then we fail
to COMMIT, we'll be left with inconsistent on-disk state.
However, the existing defenses for this are only watertight for
simple query protocol.  In extended protocol, we didn't commit
until receiving a Sync message.  Since the client is allowed to
issue another command instead of Sync, we're in trouble if that
command fails or is an explicit ROLLBACK.  In any case, sitting
in an inconsistent state while waiting for a client message
that might not come seems pretty risky.

This case wasn't reachable via libpq before we introduced pipeline
mode, but it's always been an intended aspect of extended query
protocol, and likely there are other clients that could reach it
before.

To fix, set a flag in PreventInTransactionBlock that tells
exec_execute_message to force an immediate commit.  This seems
to be the approach that does least damage to existing working
cases while still preventing the undesirable outcomes.

While here, add some documentation to protocol.sgml that explicitly
says how to use pipelining.  That's latent in the existing docs if
you know what to look for, but it's better to spell it out; and it
provides a place to document this new behavior.

Per bug #17434 from Yugo Nagata.  It's been wrong for ages,
so back-patch to all supported branches.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17434-d9f7a064ce2a88a3@postgresql.org
2022-07-26 13:07:03 -04:00
Fujii Masao 3cabe45a81 doc: Add note about re-archiving of same WAL files in docs.
The server may attempt to re-archive a WAL file that was previously archived.
This commit adds the note about how an archive library should handle such
a re-archiving.

Author: Nathan Bossart
Reviewed-by: David Steele, Kyotaro Horiguchi
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmoaeTe4oUT39A4nt=8LD6UJ5u0vcmGc5+Aksn-4oKRb8-w@mail.gmail.com
2022-07-26 16:02:43 +09:00
Michael Paquier 0a5f06b84d Fix a few issues with REINDEX grammar
This addresses a couple of bugs in the REINDEX grammar, introduced by
83011ce:
- A name was never specified for DATABASE/SYSTEM, even if the query
included one.  This caused such REINDEX queries to always work with any
object name, but we should complain if the object name specified does
not match the name of the database we are connected to.  A test is added
for this case in the main regression test suite, provided by Álvaro.
- REINDEX SYSTEM CONCURRENTLY [name] was getting rejected in the
parser.  Concurrent rebuilds are not supported for catalogs but the
error provided at execution time is more helpful for the user, and
allowing this flavor results in a simplification of the parsing logic.
- REINDEX DATABASE CONCURRENTLY was rebuilding the index in a
non-concurrent way, as the option was not being appended correctly in
the list of DefElems in ReindexStmt (REINDEX (CONCURRENTLY) DATABASE was
working fine.  A test is added in the TAP tests of reindexdb for this
case, where we already have a REINDEX DATABASE CONCURRENTLY query
running on a small-ish instance.  This relies on the work done in
2cbc3c1 for SYSTEM, but here we check if the OIDs of the index relations
match or not after the concurrent rebuild.  Note that in order to get
this part to work, I had to tweak the tests so as the index OID and
names are saved separately.  This change not affect the reliability or
of the coverage of the existing tests.

While on it, I have implemented a tweak in the grammar to reduce the
parsing by one branch, simplifying things even more.

Author: Michael Paquier, Álvaro Herrera
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/YttqI6O64wDxGn0K@paquier.xyz
2022-07-26 10:16:26 +09:00
Andrew Dunstan a45388d6e0 Add xheader_width pset option to psql
The setting controls tha maximum length of the header line in expanded
format output. Possible settings are full, column, page, or an integer.
the default is full, the current behaviour, and in this case the header
line is the length of the widest line of output. column causes the
header to be truncated to the width of the first column, page causes it
to be truncated to the width of the terminal page, and an integer causes
it to be truncated to that value. If the full value is less than the
page or integer value no truncation occurs. If given without an argument
this option prints its current setting.

Platon Pronko, somewhat modified by me.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/f03d38a3-db96-a56e-d1bc-dbbc80bbde4d@gmail.com
2022-07-25 14:25:02 -04:00
Tom Lane 6955bba0ed Doc: improve documentation about random().
We didn't explicitly say that random() uses a randomly-chosen seed
if you haven't called setseed().  Do so.

Also, remove ref/set.sgml's no-longer-accurate (and never very
relevant) statement that the seed value is multiplied by 2^31-1.

Back-patch to v12 where set.sgml's claim stopped being true.
The claim that we use a source of random bits as seed was debatable
before 4203842a1, too, so v12 seems like a good place to stop.

Per question from Carl Sopchak.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/f37bb937-9d99-08f0-4de7-80c91a3cfc2e@sopchak.me
2022-07-23 19:00:33 -04:00
Tom Lane 8efefa7487 Increase minimum supported GNU make version to 3.81.
We've long held the minimum at 3.80, but that's required more than
one workaround.  Commit 0f39b70a6 broke it again, because it turns
out that exporting a target-specific variable didn't work in 3.80.
Considering that 3.81 is now old enough to get a driver's license,
and that the only remaining buildfarm member testing 3.80 (prairiedog)
is likely to be retired soon, let's just stop supporting 3.80.

Adjust docs and Makefile.global's minimum-version check to match.
There are a couple of comments in the Makefiles suggesting that
random things could be done differently after we desupport 3.80,
but I couldn't get excited about changing any of them right now.

Back-patch to v15, as 0f39b70a6 was.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220720172321.GL12702@telsasoft.com
2022-07-23 12:12:42 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera 83011ce7d7
Rework grammar for REINDEX
The part of grammar have grown needlessly duplicative and more complex
that necessary.  Rewrite.

Reviewed-by: Michaël Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220721174212.cmitjpuimx6ssyyj@alvherre.pgsql
2022-07-22 19:23:39 +02:00
Bruce Momjian a4f09ef229 doc: use wording "restore" instead of "reload" of dumps
Reported-by: axel.kluener@gmail.com

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/164736074430.660.3645615289283943146@wrigleys.postgresql.org

Backpatch-through: 11
2022-07-21 14:55:23 -04:00
Dean Rasheed 624aa2a13b Make the name optional in CREATE STATISTICS.
This allows users to omit the statistics name in a CREATE STATISTICS
command, letting the system auto-generate a sensible, unique name,
putting the statistics object in the same schema as the table.

Simon Riggs, reviewed by Matthias van de Meent.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CANbhV-FGD2d_C3zFTfT2aRfX_TaPSgOeKES58RLZx5XzQp5NhA@mail.gmail.com
2022-07-21 19:23:13 +01:00
Bruce Momjian fa6c230ef2 doc: clarify that auth. names are lower case and case-sensitive
This is true even for acronyms that are usually upper case, like LDAP.

Reported-by: Alvaro Herrera

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/202205141521.2nodjabmsour@alvherre.pgsql

Backpatch-through: 10
2022-07-21 13:58:45 -04:00
Amit Kapila 366283961a Allow users to skip logical replication of data having origin.
This patch adds a new SUBSCRIPTION parameter "origin". It specifies
whether the subscription will request the publisher to only send changes
that don't have an origin or send changes regardless of origin. Setting it
to "none" means that the subscription will request the publisher to only
send changes that have no origin associated. Setting it to "any" means
that the publisher sends changes regardless of their origin. The default
is "any".
Usage:
CREATE SUBSCRIPTION sub1 CONNECTION 'dbname=postgres port=9999'
PUBLICATION pub1 WITH (origin = none);

This can be used to avoid loops (infinite replication of the same data)
among replication nodes.

This feature allows filtering only the replication data originating from
WAL but for initial sync (initial copy of table data) we don't have such a
facility as we can only distinguish the data based on origin from WAL. As
a follow-up patch, we are planning to forbid the initial sync if the
origin is specified as none and we notice that the publication tables were
also replicated from other publishers to avoid duplicate data or loops.

We forbid to allow creating origin with names 'none' and 'any' to avoid
confusion with the same name options.

Author: Vignesh C, Amit Kapila
Reviewed-By: Peter Smith, Amit Kapila, Dilip Kumar, Shi yu, Ashutosh Bapat, Hayato Kuroda
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CALDaNm0gwjY_4HFxvvty01BOT01q_fJLKQ3pWP9=9orqubhjcQ@mail.gmail.com
2022-07-21 08:47:38 +05:30
Fujii Masao f2d0c7f18b docs: Improve pg_settings_get_flags docs.
In the docs, the GUC flags that pg_settings_get_flags() reported were
listed using <simplelist>. But the list was treated as separate lines
in the existing function table and didn't look good. For better view,
this commit separates the list from the table entry for
pg_settings_get_flags() and adds the table for it at the bottom of
the existing function table.

Author: Fujii Masao
Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera, Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/f093edf9-6e5a-b119-ee50-6a2c97c79ee8@oss.nttdata.com
2022-07-21 11:58:04 +09:00
Alexander Korotkov f77ff08335 Document the ability to specify TableAM for pgbench
Upcoming custom Table Access Methods (TableAM) need benchmarking.  Despite
pgbench doesn't have an explicit option for TableAM specification, one can
specify it using PGOPTION environmental variable.  The present commit documents
this way to specify TableAM for pgbench.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAC77N6ih%3DLbhZQXV76grEsaVQkBL464Y2Foqq9o%3Df4UBfEOfEQ%40mail.gmail.com
Author: Michel Pelletier, Alexander Korotkov
Reviewed-by: Justin Pryzby, Mason Sharp, Michael Paquier
2022-07-20 15:49:37 +03:00
Dean Rasheed bcedd8f5fc Make subquery aliases optional in the FROM clause.
This allows aliases for sub-SELECTs and VALUES clauses in the FROM
clause to be omitted.

This is an extension of the SQL standard, supported by some other
database systems, and so eases the transition from such systems, as
well as removing the minor inconvenience caused by requiring these
aliases.

Patch by me, reviewed by Tom Lane.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEZATCUCGCf82=hxd9N5n6xGHPyYpQnxW8HneeH+uP7yNALkWA@mail.gmail.com
2022-07-20 09:29:42 +01:00
Thomas Munro 9430fb407b Add wal_sync_method=fdatasync for Windows.
Windows 10 gained support for flushing NTFS files with fdatasync()
semantics.  The main advantage over open_datasync (in Windows API terms
FILE_FLAG_WRITE_THROUGH) is that the latter does not flush SATA drive
caches.  The default setting is not changed, so users have to opt in to
this.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKGJZJVO%3DiX%2Beb-PXi2_XS9ZRqnn_4URh0NUQOwt6-_51xQ%40mail.gmail.com
2022-07-20 13:55:52 +12:00