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Bruce Momjian 065ea0c30d doc: PG 13 relnotes: fix uuid item 2020-05-15 10:57:14 -04:00
Bruce Momjian e90807085c doc: PG 13 relnotes: final SGML indenting adjustments 2020-05-15 10:40:09 -04:00
Bruce Momjian e936fcb54d doc: remove extra blank line at the top of SGML files
Backpatch-through: 9.5
2020-05-15 09:55:43 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 8d4b23fcae doc: make ref/*.sgml file header comment layout consistent 2020-05-15 08:52:24 -04:00
Bruce Momjian ec5afb0a4e doc: PG 13 relnotes: fix xref link and remove extra word 2020-05-15 08:29:57 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 39e7bcbbff docs: PG 13 relnotes: add links and SGML formatting 2020-05-14 22:36:21 -04:00
Tom Lane 2e619f86a9 Doc: hack on table 26.1 till it fits in PDF format.
I abbreviated the heck out of the column headings, and made a few
small wording changes, to get it to build warning-free.  I can't
say that the result is pretty, but it's probably better than
removing this table entirely.

As of this commit, we have zero "exceed the available area" warnings
in a US-letter PDF build, and one such warning (about an 863-millipoint
overrun) in an A4 build.  I expect to get rid of that one by renaming
wait events, so I'm not doing anything about it at the formatting
level.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/6916.1589146280@sss.pgh.pa.us
2020-05-14 18:44:18 -04:00
Tom Lane 3d14c174cb Doc: tweak examples to silence line-too-long PDF build warnings.
In one or two places it seemed reasonable to modify the example so as
to shorten its output slightly; but for the most part I just added a
&zwsp; after 67 characters, which is the most we can fit on a line
of monospace text in A4 format.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/6916.1589146280@sss.pgh.pa.us
2020-05-14 18:13:08 -04:00
Tom Lane 5cbfce562f Initial pgindent and pgperltidy run for v13.
Includes some manual cleanup of places that pgindent messed up,
most of which weren't per project style anyway.

Notably, it seems some people didn't absorb the style rules of
commit c9d297751, because there were a bunch of new occurrences
of function calls with a newline just after the left paren, all
with faulty expectations about how the rest of the call would get
indented.
2020-05-14 13:06:50 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 1255466f83 doc: PG 13 relnotes: move docbook version change to doc sect. 2020-05-14 11:51:18 -04:00
Michael Paquier 07451e1f1a Doc: Fix some inconsistencies with markups
This addresses some whitespace issues with programlisting, and corrects
the spelling of "Enter PEM pass phrase" to be consistent with the code.

Author: Daniel Gustafsson
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/401F9024-20EA-4239-83C4-6B7AD35F94BD@yesql.se
2020-05-14 20:14:58 +09:00
Tom Lane 4fa8bd392d Doc: split up wait_event table.
The previous design for this table didn't really work in narrow views,
such as PDF output; besides which its reliance on large morerows
values made it a pain to maintain (cf ab3e4fbd5, for example).

I experimented with a couple of ways to fix it, but the best and
simplest is to split it up into a separate table for each event
type category.

I also rearranged the event ordering to be strictly alphabetical,
as nobody would ever be able to find entries otherwise.

There is work afoot to revise the set of event names described
in this table, but this commit just changes the layout, not the
contents.

In passing, add a missing entry to pg_locks.locktype,
and cross-reference that to the related wait event list.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/6916.1589146280@sss.pgh.pa.us
2020-05-13 23:36:58 -04:00
Tom Lane a042750646 Doc: reformat catalog/view description tables.
This changes our catalog and view descriptions to use a style inspired
by the new format for function/operator tables: each table entry is
formatted roughly like a <varlistentry>, with the column name and type
on the first line and then an indented description.  This provides much
more room for expansive descriptions than we had before, and thereby
eliminates a passel of PDF build warnings.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/12984.1588643549@sss.pgh.pa.us
2020-05-13 23:03:39 -04:00
Bruce Momjian d82a5058fd doc: PG 13 relnotes: adjust wal_skip_threshold wording 2020-05-13 22:48:11 -04:00
Bruce Momjian ac3a4866c0 docs: PG 13 relnotes: adjust wal_skip_threshold and UTF8 items 2020-05-12 17:17:21 -04:00
Bruce Momjian b89d90b051 doc: PG 13 relnotes: add documentation section and reformat
Add section about function table reformatting.
2020-05-11 22:58:47 -04:00
Tom Lane 57775e82b2 Doc: hack table 13.2 "Conflicting Lock Modes" till it fits in PDF.
I can't see any way to make this table fit in PDF column width
without either a fundamental redesign or abbreviating EXCLUSIVE.
So I did the latter.

It'd be nicer if the abbreviating didn't leak into the HTML output
as well; but the hackery required to make the output different
seems like more trouble than it's really worth.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/6916.1589146280@sss.pgh.pa.us
2020-05-11 22:00:28 -04:00
Bruce Momjian aa976d3b90 doc: PG 13 relnotes: add duplicate btree optimization details 2020-05-11 21:24:08 -04:00
Bruce Momjian ca4599b0dc doc: PG 13 relnotes: cumulative fixes from email feedback 2020-05-11 21:19:57 -04:00
Tom Lane 4d1563717f Doc: fix remaining over-length entries in SQL keywords table.
Even after the tweaking I did in commit 5545b69ae, some of the
longer keywords mentioned in the SQL standard don't fit the
available space in PDF output.

I experimented with various solutions like putting such keywords
on their own table lines, but everything looked ugly or confusing
or both; worse, the weirdness also appeared in the HTML version,
which (normally) doesn't need it.

The best answer seems to be to insert &zwsp; into long keywords
so that they can be broken into two lines when, and only when,
needed.  It doesn't look too awful if the break happens after
an underscore --- and fortunately, all the problematic keywords
have underscores.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/6916.1589146280@sss.pgh.pa.us
2020-05-11 20:03:55 -04:00
Tom Lane 60c90c16c1 Doc: fix "Unresolved ID reference" warnings, clean up man page cross-refs.
Use xreflabel attributes instead of endterm attributes to control the
appearance of links to subsections of SQL command reference pages.
This is simpler, it matches what we do elsewhere (e.g. for GUC variables),
and it doesn't draw "Unresolved ID reference" warnings from the PDF
toolchain.

Fix some places where the text was absolutely dependent on an <xref>
rendering exactly so, by using a <link> around the required text
instead.  At least one of those spots had already been turned into
bad grammar by subsequent changes, and the whole idea is just too
fragile for my taste.  <xref> does NOT have fixed output, don't write
as if it does.

Consistently include a page-level link in cross-man-page references,
because otherwise they are useless/nonsensical in man-page output.
Likewise, be consistent about mentioning "below" or "above" in same-page
references; we were doing that in about 90% of the cases, but now it's
100%.

Also get rid of another nonfunctional-in-PDF idea, of making
cross-references to functions by sticking ID tags on <row> constructs.
We can put the IDs on <indexterm>s instead --- which is probably not any
more sensible in abstract terms, but it works where the other doesn't.
(There is talk of attaching cross-reference IDs to most or all of
the docs' function descriptions, but for now I just fixed the two
that exist.)

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/14480.1589154358@sss.pgh.pa.us
2020-05-11 14:15:55 -04:00
Tom Lane 336aa51b70 Doc: marginal hacking to remove some PDF build warnings.
This patch eliminates a few more "exceed the available area" warnings
whose causes aren't particularly connected to anything else.

The only one really worthy of comment is that I increased the space
allowed for an <orderedlist>'s numbers, because the default of 1em
doesn't quite work for more than one digit.  The rest are one-off
insertions of &zwsp; and suchlike tweaks, in places where they
shouldn't do any damage to the material.  (In particular, although
I split some long identifiers with zwsp's, there are other nearby
occurrences of each one; so those changes shouldn't hurt greppability
of the document sources.)
2020-05-10 16:20:28 -04:00
Tom Lane 9356e43544 Doc: fix assorted misstatements of fact in catalog & system view docs.
I made up a very crude hack to compare the docs with reality (as
embodied in the system catalogs) ... and indeed they don't match
everywhere.  Missing oid columns, wrong data types, wrong "references"
links, columns listed in the wrong order.  None of this seems quite
important enough to back-patch.
2020-05-09 19:09:44 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 086ffddf36 Fix several DDL issues of generated columns versus inheritance
Several combinations of generated columns and inheritance in CREATE
TABLE were not handled correctly.  Specifically:

- Disallow a child column specifying a generation expression if the
  parent column is a generated column.  The child column definition
  must be unadorned and the parent column's generation expression will
  be copied.

- Prohibit a child column of a generated parent column specifying
  default values or identity.

- Allow a child column of a not-generated parent column specifying
  itself as a generated column.  This previously did not work, but it
  was possible to arrive at the state via other means (involving ALTER
  TABLE), so it seems sensible to support it.

Add tests for each case.  Also add documentation about the rules
involving generated columns and inheritance.

Discussion:
    https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/15830.1575468847%40sss.pgh.pa.us
    https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/2678bad1-048f-519a-ef24-b12962f41807%40enterprisedb.com
    https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CAJvUf_u4h0DxkCMCeEKAWCuzGUTnDP-G5iVmSwxLQSXn0_FWNQ%40mail.gmail.com
2020-05-08 11:31:57 +02:00
Amit Kapila f9463d2a90 Fix inconsistency in pg_buffercache docs.
Commit 6e654546fb avoids locking bufmgr partitions to make pg_buffercache
less disruptive on production systems but forgot to update the docs.

Reported-by: Sawada Masahiko
Author: Sawada Masahiko
Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila
Backpatch-through: 10
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+fd4k6sD8oeP1qJbFAor=rCpYckU9DsywHiYx3x5Hz5Z8Ua_w@mail.gmail.com
2020-05-08 08:33:05 +05:30
Tom Lane b2fd8ebe23 Doc: update remaining tables of functions/operators for new layout.
This converts the contrib documentation to the new style, and mops up
a couple of function tables that were outside chapter 9 in the main
docs.

A few contrib modules choose not to present their functions in the
standard tabular format.  There might be room to rethink those decisions
now that the standard format is more friendly to verbose descriptions.
But I have not undertaken to do that here; I just converted existing
tables.
2020-05-07 14:25:25 -04:00
Bruce Momjian c265ed9b35 doc: PG 13 relnotes: adjust partitioning items
Reported-by: Amit Langote
2020-05-07 13:06:31 -04:00
Bruce Momjian db9e99da2c doc: PG 13 relnotes: adjust wording and Unicode item 2020-05-07 10:01:22 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 545a065880 doc: PG 13 relnotes: adjust partition items and attributions
This merges three partition publication items into two.
2020-05-07 09:00:24 -04:00
Bruce Momjian fb544735f1 doc: PG 13 relnotes, update TOAST item to mention decompression
Reported-by: Andrey M. Borodin

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/D49B37B1-E2B9-4F67-8C6C-5CFD4015E8C5@yandex-team.ru
2020-05-06 19:34:22 -04:00
Bruce Momjian c3d1fdb598 pgbench: document that the default data loading is client-side
Reported-by: Fabien COELHO

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/alpine.DEB.2.22.394.2005051811320.2183756@pseudo
2020-05-06 19:07:29 -04:00
Tom Lane 90be091480 Doc: remove now-redundant align specifications in colspecs.
In the wake of commit f21599311, we don't need to set table columns'
align specs retail.  Undo a few such settings I'd added in commit
5545b69ae.  (The column width adjustments stay, though.)
2020-05-06 15:58:23 -04:00
Tom Lane f21599311e Doc: further fooling-about with rendering of tables in PDF output.
I concluded that we really just ought to force all tables in PDF output
to default to "left" alignment (instead of "justify"); that is what the
HTML toolchain does and that's what most people have been designing the
tables to look good with.  There are few if any places where "justify"
produces better-looking output, and there are many where it looks
horrible.  So change stylesheet-fo.xsl to make that true.

Also tweak column widths in a few more tables to make them look better
and avoid "exceed the available area" warnings.  This commit fixes
basically everything that can be fixed through that approach.  The
remaining tables that give warnings either are scheduled for redesign
as per recent discussions, or need a fundamental rethink because they
Just Don't Work in a narrow view.
2020-05-06 12:23:54 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 7dc37ccea8 doc: PG 13 relnotes, fix markup 2020-05-05 17:45:34 -04:00
Bruce Momjian d08ac7d85f doc: PG 13 renotes: adjust attribution and pgbench item 2020-05-05 17:43:35 -04:00
Bruce Momjian e0acac67da doc: PG 13 relnotes, add pgbench script item 2020-05-05 17:21:57 -04:00
Bruce Momjian b0e02f47cd doc: PG 13 relnotes, add attributions and wording changes 2020-05-05 16:31:45 -04:00
Tom Lane bb20f2c80d Doc: warn that timezone abbreviations don't work in recovery_target_time.
Moving this setting into the main configuration file was ill-considered,
perhaps, because that typically causes it to be set before
timezone_abbreviations has been set.  Which in turn means that zone
abbreviations don't work, only full zone names.

We could imagine hacking things so that such cases do work, but the
stability of the hack would be questionable, and the value isn't really
that high.  Instead just document that you should use a numeric zone
offset or a full zone name.

Per bug #16404 from Reijo Suhonen.
Back-patch to v12 where this was changed.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16404-4603a99603fbd04c@postgresql.org
2020-05-05 16:07:01 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 98c017c576 doc: PG 13 release note adjustments, Justin Pryzby v2
Reported-by: Justin Pryzby
2020-05-05 14:40:27 -04:00
Bruce Momjian ab3f2f45d2 doc: PG 13 retnote adjustments
Reported-by: Justin Pryzby
2020-05-05 13:18:07 -04:00
Bruce Momjian d4329a60d5 doc: normalize contributor names in PG 13 release notes 2020-05-05 12:42:55 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 61dfa72749 doc: update PG 13 release notes for glossary and NO DEPENDS 2020-05-05 11:42:28 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 3114d26bfb doc: Fix PG 13 release note markup 2020-05-05 10:33:50 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 41297fa7d8 doc: update PG 13 release notes after first draft
Minor corrections from individuals.
2020-05-05 10:32:52 -04:00
Michael Paquier c5114e42fa Doc: Outline REPLICATION before SUPERUSER privilege
The following docs are updated:
- High-availaility section
- pg_basebackup
- pg_receivewal

Per the principle of least privilege, we want to encourage users to
interact with those areas using roles that have replication rights, but
superusers were mentioned first.

Author: Daniel Gustafsson
Reviewed-by: Fujii Masao, Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ECEBD212-7101-41EB-84F3-2F356E4B6401@yesql.se
2020-05-05 14:16:01 +09:00
Bruce Momjian 849ac35813 doc: first draft of PG 13 release notes
This still needs markup, indenting, and word wrap.
2020-05-04 23:09:48 -04:00
Amit Kapila 69bfaf2e1d Change the display of WAL usage statistics in Explain.
In commit 33e05f89c5, we have added the option to display WAL usage
statistics in Explain and auto_explain.  The display format used two spaces
between each field which is inconsistent with Buffer usage statistics which
is using one space between each field.  Change the format to make WAL usage
statistics consistent with Buffer usage statistics.

This commit also changed the usage of "full page writes" to
"full page images" for WAL usage statistics to make it consistent with
other parts of code and docs.

Author: Julien Rouhaud, Amit Kapila
Reviewed-by: Justin Pryzby, Kyotaro Horiguchi and Amit Kapila
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAB-hujrP8ZfUkvL5OYETipQwA=e3n7oqHFU=4ZLxWS_Cza3kQQ@mail.gmail.com
2020-05-05 08:00:53 +05:30
Tom Lane 5545b69ae6 Doc: improve PDF presentation of some tables by adjusting column widths.
The PDF toolchain defaults to laying out all columns of a table with
equal widths, in contrast to the HTML rendering which automatically
varies the column widths to fit the data.  In many places, this
results in very badly laid-out tables, with lots of useless whitespace
in some places and text that overruns its cell in other places.

For tables that have reasonably static content, we can improve
matters by adding <colspec> entries to hand-assign the column widths.
This commit does that for a few of the tables that were worst off;
it eliminates close to 200 "contents ... exceed the available area"
warnings in an A4 PDF build.

I also forced align="left" in these tables, overriding the PDF
toolchain's default which is evidently "justify".  (The HTML toolchain
seems to default to that already.)  Anyplace where things are tight
enough that we need to worry about this, forced justification tends to
look truly awful.
2020-05-04 16:16:48 -04:00
Tom Lane 47046763c3 Doc: standardize markup a bit more.
We had a mishmash of <replaceable>, <replaceable class="parameter">,
and <parameter> markup for operator/function arguments.  Use <parameter>
consistently for things that are in fact names of parameters (including
OUT parameters), reserving <replaceable> for things that aren't.  The
latter class includes some made-up-by-the-docs type class names, like
"numeric_type", as well as placeholders for arguments that don't have
well-defined types.  Possibly we could do better with those categories
as well, but for the moment I'm content not to have parameter names
marked up in different ways in different places.

(This commit aligns the earlier sections of chapter 9 with a policy
that I'd arrived at while working on commit 1ad23335f, which is why
the last few sections need no changes.)
2020-05-04 13:48:30 -04:00
Tom Lane 1ad23335f3 Doc: update sections 9.22 - 9.30 for new function table layout.
With the usual quota of minor and less-minor editorial changes.
2020-05-04 12:18:11 -04:00
Tomas Vondra e685ca63ca Remove pg_xact from pg_stat_reset_slru docs
This should have been included in 2e08d314ed.

Reported-by: Fujii Masao
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200119143707.gyinppnigokesjok@development
2020-05-02 15:26:47 +02:00
Tom Lane d66935448f Doc: update sections 9.17 - 9.21 for new function table layout.
With the usual quota of minor editorial changes.
2020-05-01 16:16:46 -04:00
Michael Paquier 78bad97faa Improve various aspects of pg_rewind documentation
The pg_rewind docs currently assert that the state of the target's
data directory after rewind is equivalent to the source's data
directory.  This clarifies the documentation to describe that the base
state is further back in time and that the target's data directory will
include the current state from the source of any copied blocks since the
point of divergence.

This commit also improves the section "How It Works":
- Describe the update of the pg_control file.
- Reorganize the list of files and directories ignored during the
rewind.

Author: James Coleman
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAAaqYe-sgqCos7MXF4XiY8rUPy3CEmaCY9EvfhX-DhPhPBF5_A@mail.gmail.com
2020-05-01 17:40:41 +09:00
Tom Lane 30e82f1bc9 Doc: update sections 9.14 - 9.16 for new function table layout.
Minor editorial changes in the first two sections; larger ones
in the JSON section.
2020-04-30 12:53:44 -04:00
Michael Paquier 401aad6704 Rename connection parameters to control min/max SSL protocol version in libpq
The libpq parameters ssl{max|min}protocolversion are renamed to use
underscores, to become ssl_{max|min}_protocol_version.  The related
environment variables still use the names introduced in commit ff8ca5f
that added the feature.

Per complaint from Peter Eisentraut (this was also mentioned by me in
the original patch review but the issue got discarded).

Author: Daniel Gustafsson
Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut, Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/b319e449-318d-e691-4997-1327e166fcc4@2ndquadrant.com
2020-04-30 13:39:10 +09:00
Tom Lane 4ad047a6ea Doc: re-re-revise markup for tables of functions.
Make the markup a bit less ad-hoc.  A function-table cell now contains
several <para> units, and we label the ones that contain function
signatures with role="func_signature".  The CSS or FO stylesheets then
key off of that to decide how to set the indentation.  A very useful
win from this approach is that we can have more than one signature
entry per table cell, simplifying the documentation of closely-related
operators and functions.

This patch mostly just replaces the markup in the tables I converted so
far.  But I did alter a couple of places where multiple signatures were
helpful.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/5561.1587922854@sss.pgh.pa.us
2020-04-30 00:34:12 -04:00
Tom Lane 5ac2475548 Doc: render &pi; more nicely in PDF output.
We need to select symbol font explicitly, or it comes out misaligned.

Alexander Lakhin, Tom Lane

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/10598.1587928415@sss.pgh.pa.us
2020-04-27 11:00:28 -04:00
Tom Lane 459f4076c8 Doc: improve documentation of websearch_to_tqsuery().
It wasn't totally clear about punctuation other than what's
specified being ignored.

Pavel Borisov and Tom Lane

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CALT9ZEFsBdsogVjG40Z4KfM1Um=wj1FE9hJ00GK3oVfzz0sFNg@mail.gmail.com
2020-04-26 11:45:54 -04:00
Tom Lane f8d3e2ab27 Doc: update section 9.13 for new function table layout.
This includes the usual amount of editorial cleanup, such as
correcting wrong or less-helpful-than-they-could-be examples.

I moved the two tsvector-updating triggers into "9.28 Trigger
Functions", which seems like a better home for them.  (I believe
that section didn't exist when this text was originally written.)
2020-04-24 15:51:43 -04:00
Tom Lane 5b0aa112a8 Doc: update section 9.12 for new function table layout.
Also rearrange that page a bit for more consistency and less
duplication.

In passing, fix erroneous examples of the results of abbrev(cidr)
in datatype.sgml, and do a bit of copy-editing there.
2020-04-23 15:12:42 -04:00
Tom Lane 1cc34640ca Doc: improve description of geometric multiplication/division.
David Johnston reminded me that the per-point calculations being done
by these operators are equivalent to complex multiplication/division.
(Once I would've recognized that immediately, but it's been too long
since I did any of that sort of math.)

Also put in a footnote mentioning that "rotation" of a box doesn't do
what you might expect, as I'd griped about in the referenced thread.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/158110996889.1089.4224139874633222837@wrigleys.postgresql.org
2020-04-22 21:32:46 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 92c12e46d5 docs: land height is "elevation", not "altitude"
See https://mapscaping.com/blogs/geo-candy/what-is-the-difference-between-elevation-relief-and-altitude
No patching of regression tests.

Reported-by: taf1@cornell.edu

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/158506544539.679.2278386310645558048@wrigleys.postgresql.org

Backpatch-through: 9.5
2020-04-22 16:23:19 -04:00
Tom Lane 791090bd77 Doc: update section 9.11 for new function table layout.
This also makes an attempt to flesh out the docs for some of the more
severely underdocumented geometric operators and functions.

This effort exposed that the point <^ point (point_below) and
point >^ point (point_above) operators are misnamed; they should be
<<| and |>>, because they act like the other operators named that
way and not like the other operators named <^ and >^.  But I just
documented them that way; fixing it is matter for another patch.

The haphazard datatype coverage of many of the operators is also
now depressingly obvious.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/158110996889.1089.4224139874633222837@wrigleys.postgresql.org
2020-04-22 14:43:26 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera 8803506c41
Document partitiong tables ancillary object handling some more
Add a couple of lines to make it explicit that indexes, constraints,
triggers are added, removed, or left alone.

Backpatch to pg11.

Author: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Reviewed-by: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200421162038.GA18628@alvherre.pgsql
2020-04-21 17:14:18 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera afccd76f1c
Fix detaching partitions with cloned row triggers
When a partition is detached, any triggers that had been cloned from its
parent were not properly disentangled from its parent triggers.
This resulted in triggers that could not be dropped because they
depended on the trigger in the trigger in the no-longer-parent table:
  ALTER TABLE t DETACH PARTITION t1;
  DROP TRIGGER trig ON t1;
    ERROR:  cannot drop trigger trig on table t1 because trigger trig on table t requires it
    HINT:  You can drop trigger trig on table t instead.

Moreover the table can no longer be re-attached to its parent, because
the trigger name is already taken:
  ALTER TABLE t ATTACH PARTITION t1 FOR VALUES FROM (1)TO(2);
    ERROR:  trigger "trig" for relation "t1" already exists

The former is a bug introduced in commit 86f575948c.  (The latter is
not necessarily a bug, but it makes the bug more uncomfortable.)

To avoid the complexity that would be needed to tell whether the trigger
has a local definition that has to be merged with the one coming from
the parent table, establish the behavior that the trigger is removed
when the table is detached.

Backpatch to pg11.

Author: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
Reviewed-by: Amit Langote <amitlangote09@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/20200408152412.GZ2228@telsasoft.com
2020-04-21 13:57:00 -04:00
Fujii Masao 67f82e966b Mention pg_promote() as a method to trigger promotion in documentation.
Previously in the "Standby Server Operation" section, pg_ctl promote and
protmote_trigger_file were documented as a method to trigger standby
promotion, but pg_promote() function not.

This commit also adds parentheses into <function>pg_promote</function>
in some docs to make it clearer that a function is being referred to.

Author: Masahiro Ikeda
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier, Laurenz Albe, Tom Lane, Fujii Masao
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/de0068417a9f4046bac693cbcc00bdc9@oss.nttdata.com
2020-04-21 14:05:43 +09:00
Bruce Momjian f192312dc0 doc: change SGML markup "figure" to "example"
Reported-by: Jürgen Purtz

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/709d7809-d7f4-8175-47f3-4d131341bba8@purtz.de

Author: Jürgen Purtz

Backpatch-through: 9.5
2020-04-20 21:41:13 -04:00
Tom Lane 1ec42696be Doc: update sections 9.7 and 9.8 for new function table layout.
Also some mop-up in section 9.9.
2020-04-20 18:44:12 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera 5fc703946b
Add ALTER .. NO DEPENDS ON
Commit f2fcad27d5 (9.6 era) added the ability to mark objects as
dependent an extension, but forgot to add a way for such dependencies to
be removed.  This commit fixes that oversight.

Strictly speaking this should be backpatched to 9.6, but due to lack of
demand we're not doing so at this time.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200217225333.GA30974@alvherre.pgsql
Reviewed-by: ahsan hadi <ahsan.hadi@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Ibrar Ahmed <ibrar.ahmad@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
2020-04-20 13:42:12 -04:00
Tom Lane 4157f73b4b Doc: update sections 9.5 and 9.6 for new function table layout.
Along the way, update the older examples for bytea to use "hex"
output format.  That lets us get rid of the lame disclaimer about
how the examples assume bytea_output = escape, which was only half
true anyway because none of the more-recently-added examples had
paid any attention to that.
2020-04-20 12:29:32 -04:00
Tom Lane 9aece5cd05 Doc: update the rest of section 9.4 for new function table layout.
Notably, this replaces the previous handwaving about these functions'
behavior with "character"-type inputs with some actual facts.
2020-04-19 17:44:49 -04:00
Tom Lane 81e83216d5 Doc: update sections 9.1-9.3 for new function table layout.
I took the opportunity to do some copy-editing in this area as well,
and to add some new material such as a note about BETWEEN's syntactical
peculiarities.

Of note is that quite a few of the examples of transcendental functions
needed to be updated, because the displayed output no longer matched
what you get on a modern server.  I believe some of these cases are
side-effects of the new Ryu algorithm in float8out.  Others appear to be
because the examples predate the addition of type numeric, and were
expecting that float8 calculations would be done although the given
syntax would actually lead to calling the numeric function nowadays.
2020-04-19 12:17:27 -04:00
Tom Lane 00f4aba46d Doc: sync functableentry markup choices with website style.
Jonathan Katz felt that slightly different indentation settings made
for a better-looking result, so sync stylesheet-fo.xsl (for PDF) and
stylesheet.css (for non-website-style HTML) with those choices.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/31464.1587156281@sss.pgh.pa.us
2020-04-18 15:36:43 -04:00
Tom Lane 737d69ffc3 Doc: revise formatting of function/operator tables.
The table layout ideas proposed in commit e894c6183 were not as widely
popular as I'd hoped.  After discussion, we've settled on a layout
that's effectively a single-column table with cell contents much like a
<varlistentry> description of the function or operator; though we're not
actually using <varlistentry>, because it'd add way too much vertical
space.  Instead the effect is accomplished using line-break processing
instructions to separate the description and example(s), plus CSS or FO
customizations to produce indentation of all but the first line in each
cell.  While technically this is a bit grotty, it does have the
advantage that we won't need to write nearly as much boilerplate markup.

This patch updates tables 9.30, 9.31, and 9.33 (which were touched by
the previous patch) to the revised style, and additionally converts
table 9.10.  A lot of work still remains to do, but hopefully it won't
be too controversial.

Thanks to Andrew Dunstan, Pierre Giraud, Robert Haas, Alvaro Herrera,
David Johnston, Jonathan Katz, Isaac Morland for valuable ideas.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/8691.1586798003@sss.pgh.pa.us
2020-04-17 20:50:40 -04:00
Fujii Masao 4db819ba40 Add index term for backup manifest in documentation.
Author: Fujii Masao
Reviewed-by: Robert Haas
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/951743d0-fd7e-8e2b-d489-1368a58b7304@oss.nttdata.com
2020-04-17 18:37:38 +09:00
Amit Kapila 24d2d38b1e Fix the usage of parallel and full options of vacuum command.
Earlier we were inconsistent in allowing the usage of parallel and
full options.  Change it such that we disallow them only when they are
combined in a way that we don't support.

In passing, improve the comments in some of the existing tests of parallel
vacuum.

Reported-by: Tushar Ahuja
Author: Justin Pryzby, Amit Kapila
Reviewed-by: Sawada Masahiko, Michael Paquier, Mahendra Singh Thalor and
Amit Kapila
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/58c8d171-e665-6fa3-a9d3-d9423b694dae%40enterprisedb.com
2020-04-16 10:55:02 +05:30
Fujii Masao a2ac73e7be Code review for backup manifest.
This commit prevents pg_basebackup from receiving backup_manifest file
when --no-manifest is specified. Previously, when pg_basebackup was
writing a tarfile to stdout, it tried to receive backup_manifest file even
when --no-manifest was specified, and reported an error.

Also remove unused -m option from pg_basebackup.

Also fix typo in BASE_BACKUP command documentation.

Author: Fujii Masao
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier, Robert Haas
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/01e3ed3a-8729-5aaa-ca84-e60e3ca59db8@oss.nttdata.com
2020-04-15 11:15:12 +09:00
Robert Haas 149f2ae88a Document the backup manifest file format.
Patch by me, at the request of Andres Freund. Reviewed by
Justin Pryzby, Erik Rijkers, Álvaro Herrera, and Andrew
Dunstan.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/20200327203225.hcm6ag4grwsiruea@alap3.anarazel.de
2020-04-14 13:41:32 -04:00
Michael Paquier 8128b0c152 Fix collection of typos and grammar mistakes in the tree, volume 2
This fixes some comments and documentation new as of Postgres 13, and is
a follow-up of the work done in dd0f37e.

Author: Justin Pryzby
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200408165653.GF2228@telsasoft.com
2020-04-14 14:45:43 +09:00
Amit Kapila a6fea120a7 Comments and doc fixes for commit 40d964ec99.
Reported-by: Justin Pryzby
Author: Justin Pryzby, with few changes by me
Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila and Sawada Masahiko
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200322021801.GB2563@telsasoft.com
2020-04-14 08:10:27 +05:30
Alvaro Herrera e56d717d8a
Silence Perl warning
Now that warnings are enabled across the board, this code that tries to
print an undef variable emits one.  Silently printing the empty string
achieves the previous behavior.

Author: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Dunstan <andrew.dunstan@2ndquadrant.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/E1jO1VT-0008Qk-TM@gemulon.postgresql.org
2020-04-13 19:57:40 -04:00
Andrew Dunstan 7be5d8df1f Use perl warnings pragma consistently
We've had a mixture of the warnings pragma, the -w switch on the shebang
line, and no warnings at all. This patch removes the -w swicth and add
the warnings pragma to all perl sources missing it. It raises the
severity of the TestingAndDebugging::RequireUseWarnings  perlcritic
policy to level 5, so that we catch any future violations.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200412074245.GB623763@rfd.leadboat.com
2020-04-13 11:55:45 -04:00
Robert Haas 7a6b017b34 Rename pg_validatebackup to pg_verifybackup some more.
The previous commit missed an instance.

Noriyoshi Shinoda

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/TU4PR8401MB115291AE850BA7CF1AEB2F0BEEDD0@TU4PR8401MB1152.NAMPRD84.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM
2020-04-13 10:51:40 -04:00
Amit Kapila ef08ca113f Cosmetic fixups for WAL usage work.
Reported-by: Justin Pryzby and Euler Taveira
Author: Justin Pryzby and Julien Rouhaud
Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAB-hujrP8ZfUkvL5OYETipQwA=e3n7oqHFU=4ZLxWS_Cza3kQQ@mail.gmail.com
2020-04-13 15:31:16 +05:30
Tom Lane e894c61836 Doc: introduce new layout for tables of functions and operators.
We've long fought with the draconian space limitations of our
traditional table layout for describing SQL functions and operators.
This commit introduces a new approach, though so far I've only applied
it to a few of those tables.  The new way makes use of DocBook's support
for different layouts in different rows of a table, and allows the
descriptions and examples for a function or operator to run to several
lines without as much ugliness and wasted space as before.

The core layout concept is now

     Name              Signature
                      Description
                 Example     Example Result

so that a function or operator really has three table rows not one,
but we group them to look like one row by having the name column
have only one entry for all three rows.  (Actually, there could be
four or more rows if you wanted to have more than one example, which
is another thing that was painful before but works easily now.)
This is handled by a "morerows" annotation on the name entry, which
isn't perfect (notably, the toolchain is not smart enough to avoid
breaking these row groups across PDF pages) but there seems no better
solution in DocBook.  The name column is normally fairly narrow,
allowing plenty of space for the other column(s), and not wasting too
much space when one of the other components runs to multiple lines.

The varying row layout is managed by defining named "spans" and then
tagging entries with a "spanname" of "name", "sig", "desc", "example",
or "exresult".  This provides a bit of semantic annotation to go with
the formatting improvement, which seems like a good thing.  (It seems
that we have to re-define these spans afresh for each table, which is
annoying, but it's not any worse than the duplication involved in
the table headers.  At least that gives us an opportunity to vary the
relative column widths per-table, which is handy since function tables
sometimes need much wider name columns than operator tables.)

Signature entries should be written in the style
    <function>fname</function>(<type>typename</type> ...)
    <returnvalue>typename</returnvalue>
The <returnvalue> tag produces a right arrow before the result type
name.  (I'll document that convention in a user-visible place later.)

While this provides significantly more horizontal space than before
for examples, it's still true that PDF output is a lot narrower than
typical webpage viewing windows, so some examples need to be broken
in places where there is no whitespace.  I've added &zwsp; markers in
suitable places to allow the tables to render warning-free in PDF.

I've so far converted only the date/time operator, date/time function,
and enum function tables in sections 9.9 and 9.10; these were chosen
to provide a reasonable sample of the formatting problems that need
to be solved.  Assuming that this looks good on the website and doesn't
provoke howls of anguish, I'll work on the other similar tables in the
near future.

There's a moderate amount of new editorial content in this patch along
with the raw formatting changes; for instance I had to write text
descriptions for operators that lacked them.  I failed to resist the
temptation to improve some other descriptions and examples, too.

Patch by me, with thanks to Alexander Lakhin for assistance with
figuring out some formatting issues.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/9326.1581457869@sss.pgh.pa.us
2020-04-12 18:03:20 -04:00
Tom Lane 88d934f038 Doc: introduce and document "&zwsp;" for allowing optional line breaks.
We already had a couple of places using zero-width spaces for formatting
hackery, and we're going to need more if we ever want the PDF manuals to
look decent.  But please let's not write hard-coded Unicode escapes.
We can avoid that by using a custom entity, which also provides a place
to put a teeny bit of documentation about what it is and how to use it.

I'd previously posted a patch using "&break;" for this, but on reflection
that would be horrible to grep for.  Instead let's use "&zwsp;", based
on the name of the Unicode symbol ("zero width space").

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/9326.1581457869@sss.pgh.pa.us
2020-04-12 14:03:24 -04:00
Robert Haas dbc60c5593 Rename pg_validatebackup to pg_verifybackup.
Also, use "verify" rather than "validate" to refer to the process
being undertaken here. Per discussion, that is a more appropriate
term.

Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/172c9d9b-1d0a-1b94-1456-376b1e017322@2ndquadrant.com
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmobLgMh6p8FmLbj_rv9Uhd7tPrLnAyLgGd2SoSj=qD-bVg@mail.gmail.com
2020-04-12 11:26:05 -04:00
Peter Geoghegan 26640c4071 Doc: Fix contrib/amcheck tip.
Fixes an oversight in commit 20fbb711.
2020-04-11 21:07:20 -07:00
Andrew Gierth 8a47b775a1 doc: restore intentional typo
Commit ac8623760 "fixed" a typo in an example of what would happen in
the event of a typo. Restore the original typo and add a comment about
its intentionality. Backpatch to 12 where the error was introduced.

Per report from irc user Nicolás Alvarez.
2020-04-11 08:04:57 +01:00
Peter Geoghegan 20fbb711ef Add contrib/amcheck debug message.
Add a DEBUG1 message indicating that verification of the index structure
is underway.  Also reduce the severity level of the existing "tree
level" debug message to DEBUG1.  It should never have been made DEBUG2.
Any B-Tree index with more than a couple of levels will generally also
have so many pages that the per-page DEBUG2 messages will become
completely unmanageable.

In passing, add a new "Tip" to the docs that advises users that run into
corruption that the debug messages might provide useful additional
context.
2020-04-10 17:44:08 -07:00
Tom Lane f333d35428 Doc: clarify locking requirements for ALTER TABLE ADD FOREIGN KEY.
The docs explained that a SHARE ROW EXCLUSIVE lock is needed on the
referenced table, but failed to say the same about the table being
altered.  Since the page says that ACCESS EXCLUSIVE lock is taken
unless otherwise stated, this left readers with the wrong conclusion.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/834603375.3470346.1586482852542@mail.yahoo.com
2020-04-10 13:12:58 -04:00
Tom Lane 7c91e9055d Doc: sync CREATE GROUP syntax synopsis with CREATE ROLE.
CREATE GROUP is an exact alias for CREATE ROLE, and CREATE USER is
almost an exact alias, as can easily be confirmed by checking the
code.  So the man page syntax descriptions ought to match up.  The
last few additions of role options seem to have forgotten to update
create_group.sgml, though.  Fix that, and add a naggy reminder to
create_role.sgml in hopes of not forgetting again.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/158647836143.655.9853963229391401576@wrigleys.postgresql.org
2020-04-10 10:44:09 -04:00
Michael Paquier dd0f37ecce Fix collection of typos and grammar mistakes in the tree
This fixes some comments and documentation new as of Postgres 13.

Author: Justin Pryzby
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200408165653.GF2228@telsasoft.com
2020-04-10 11:18:39 +09:00
Tom Lane a4d4f59196 Doc: improve documentation about ts_headline() function.
Now that I've had my nose in that code, I thought the docs about
it left something to be desired.
2020-04-09 15:11:08 -04:00
Fujii Masao c4f82a779d Fix typo in pg_validatebackup documentation.
Author: Fujii Masao
Reviewed-by: Robert Haas
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/78f76a3d-1a28-a97d-0394-5c96985dd1c0@oss.nttdata.com
2020-04-09 22:38:24 +09:00
Fujii Masao 58ad961f19 Add note in pg_stat_statements documentation about planning statistics.
The added note explains that the numbers of planning and execution in
the statement are not always expected to match because their statistics are
updated at their respective end phase, and only for successful operations.

Author: Pascal Legrand, Julien Rouhaud, tweaked a bit by Fujii Masao
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1585857868967-0.post@n3.nabble.com
2020-04-09 12:56:36 +09:00
Peter Eisentraut 83fd4532a7 Allow publishing partition changes via ancestors
To control whether partition changes are replicated using their own
identity and schema or an ancestor's, add a new parameter that can be
set per publication named 'publish_via_partition_root'.

This allows replicating a partitioned table into a different partition
structure on the subscriber.

Author: Amit Langote <amitlangote09@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Rafia Sabih <rafia.pghackers@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>
Reviewed-by: Petr Jelinek <petr@2ndquadrant.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CA+HiwqH=Y85vRK3mOdjEkqFK+E=ST=eQiHdpj43L=_eJMOOznQ@mail.gmail.com
2020-04-08 11:19:23 +02:00
Alexander Korotkov 1aac32df89 Revert 0f5ca02f53
0f5ca02f53 introduces 3 new keywords.  It appears to be too much for relatively
small feature.  Given now we past feature freeze, it's already late for
discussion of the new syntax.  So, revert.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/28209.1586294824%40sss.pgh.pa.us
2020-04-08 11:37:27 +03:00
Etsuro Fujita c8434d64ce Allow partitionwise joins in more cases.
Previously, the partitionwise join technique only allowed partitionwise
join when input partitioned tables had exactly the same partition
bounds.  This commit extends the technique to some cases when the tables
have different partition bounds, by using an advanced partition-matching
algorithm introduced by this commit.  For both the input partitioned
tables, the algorithm checks whether every partition of one input
partitioned table only matches one partition of the other input
partitioned table at most, and vice versa.  In such a case the join
between the tables can be broken down into joins between the matching
partitions, so the algorithm produces the pairs of the matching
partitions, plus the partition bounds for the join relation, to allow
partitionwise join for computing the join.  Currently, the algorithm
works for list-partitioned and range-partitioned tables, but not
hash-partitioned tables.  See comments in partition_bounds_merge().

Ashutosh Bapat and Etsuro Fujita, most of regression tests by Rajkumar
Raghuwanshi, some of the tests by Mark Dilger and Amul Sul, reviewed by
Dmitry Dolgov and Amul Sul, with additional review at various points by
Ashutosh Bapat, Mark Dilger, Robert Haas, Antonin Houska, Amit Langote,
Justin Pryzby, and Tomas Vondra

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAFjFpRdjQvaUEV5DJX3TW6pU5eq54NCkadtxHX2JiJG_GvbrCA@mail.gmail.com
2020-04-08 10:25:00 +09:00
Alvaro Herrera c655077639
Allow users to limit storage reserved by replication slots
Replication slots are useful to retain data that may be needed by a
replication system.  But experience has shown that allowing them to
retain excessive data can lead to the primary failing because of running
out of space.  This new feature allows the user to configure a maximum
amount of space to be reserved using the new option
max_slot_wal_keep_size.  Slots that overrun that space are invalidated
at checkpoint time, enabling the storage to be released.

Author: Kyotaro HORIGUCHI <horiguchi.kyotaro@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Reviewed-by: Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jehan-Guillaume de Rorthais <jgdr@dalibo.com>
Reviewed-by: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170228.122736.123383594.horiguchi.kyotaro@lab.ntt.co.jp
2020-04-07 18:35:00 -04:00
Tom Lane b63c293bcb Allow psql's \g and \gx commands to transiently change \pset options.
We invented \gx to allow the "\pset expanded" flag to be forced on
for the duration of one command output, but that turns out to not
be nearly enough to satisfy the demand for variant output formats.
Hence, make it possible to change any pset option(s) for the duration
of a single command output, by writing "option=value ..." inside
parentheses, for example
	\g (format=csv csv_fieldsep='\t') somefile

\gx can now be understood as a shorthand for including expanded=on
inside the parentheses.

Patch by me, expanding on a proposal by Pavel Stehule

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAFj8pRBx9OnBPRJVtfA5ycUpySge-XootAXAsv_4rrkHxJ8eRg@mail.gmail.com
2020-04-07 17:46:29 -04:00
Alexander Korotkov 0f5ca02f53 Implement waiting for given lsn at transaction start
This commit adds following optional clause to BEGIN and START TRANSACTION
commands.

  WAIT FOR LSN lsn [ TIMEOUT timeout ]

New clause pospones transaction start till given lsn is applied on standby.
This clause allows user be sure, that changes previously made on primary would
be visible on standby.

New shared memory struct is used to track awaited lsn per backend.  Recovery
process wakes up backend once required lsn is applied.

Author: Ivan Kartyshov, Anna Akenteva
Reviewed-by: Craig Ringer, Thomas Munro, Robert Haas, Kyotaro Horiguchi
Reviewed-by: Masahiko Sawada, Ants Aasma, Dmitry Ivanov, Simon Riggs
Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila, Alexander Korotkov
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/0240c26c-9f84-30ea-fca9-93ab2df5f305%40postgrespro.ru
2020-04-07 23:51:10 +03:00
Alvaro Herrera 357889eb17
Support FETCH FIRST WITH TIES
WITH TIES is an option to the FETCH FIRST N ROWS clause (the SQL
standard's spelling of LIMIT), where you additionally get rows that
compare equal to the last of those N rows by the columns in the
mandatory ORDER BY clause.

There was a proposal by Andrew Gierth to implement this functionality in
a more powerful way that would yield more features, but the other patch
had not been finished at this time, so we decided to use this one for
now in the spirit of incremental development.

Author: Surafel Temesgen <surafel3000@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Reviewed-by: Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@2ndquadrant.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CALAY4q9ky7rD_A4vf=FVQvCGngm3LOes-ky0J6euMrg=_Se+ag@mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/87o8wvz253.fsf@news-spur.riddles.org.uk
2020-04-07 16:22:13 -04:00
Tom Lane 26a944cf29 Adjust bytea get_bit/set_bit to use int8 not int4 for bit numbering.
Since the existing bit number argument can't exceed INT32_MAX, it's
not possible for these functions to manipulate bits beyond the first
256MB of a bytea value.  Lift that restriction by redeclaring the
bit number arguments as int8 (which requires a catversion bump,
hence is not back-patchable).

The similarly-named functions for bit/varbit don't really have a
problem because we restrict those types to at most VARBITMAXLEN bits;
hence leave them alone.

While here, extend the encode/decode functions in utils/adt/encode.c
to allow dealing with values wider than 1GB.  This is not a live bug
or restriction in current usage, because no input could be more than
1GB, and since none of the encoders can expand a string more than 4X,
the result size couldn't overflow uint32.  But it might be desirable
to support more in future, so make the input length values size_t
and the potential-output-length values uint64.

Also add some test cases to improve the miserable code coverage
of these functions.

Movead Li, editorialized some by me; also reviewed by Ashutosh Bapat

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200312115135445367128@highgo.ca
2020-04-07 15:57:58 -04:00
Thomas Munro 4c04be9b05 Introduce xid8-based functions to replace txid_XXX.
The txid_XXX family of fmgr functions exposes 64 bit transaction IDs to
users as int8.  Now that we have an SQL type xid8 for FullTransactionId,
define a new set of functions including pg_current_xact_id() and
pg_current_snapshot() based on that.  Keep the old functions around too,
for now.

It's a bit sneaky to use the same C functions for both, but since the
binary representation is identical except for the signedness of the
type, and since older functions are the ones using the wrong signedness,
and since we'll presumably drop the older ones after a reasonable period
of time, it seems reasonable to switch to FullTransactionId internally
and share the code for both.

Reviewed-by: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@oss.nttdata.com>
Reviewed-by: Takao Fujii <btfujiitkp@oss.nttdata.com>
Reviewed-by: Yoshikazu Imai <imai.yoshikazu@fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Mark Dilger <mark.dilger@enterprisedb.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20190725000636.666m5mad25wfbrri%40alap3.anarazel.de
2020-04-07 12:04:32 +12:00
Thomas Munro aeec457de8 Add SQL type xid8 to expose FullTransactionId to users.
Similar to xid, but 64 bits wide.  This new type is suitable for use in
various system views and administration functions.

Reviewed-by: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@oss.nttdata.com>
Reviewed-by: Takao Fujii <btfujiitkp@oss.nttdata.com>
Reviewed-by: Yoshikazu Imai <imai.yoshikazu@fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Mark Dilger <mark.dilger@enterprisedb.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20190725000636.666m5mad25wfbrri%40alap3.anarazel.de
2020-04-07 12:03:59 +12:00
Tomas Vondra d2d8a229bc Implement Incremental Sort
Incremental Sort is an optimized variant of multikey sort for cases when
the input is already sorted by a prefix of the requested sort keys. For
example when the relation is already sorted by (key1, key2) and we need
to sort it by (key1, key2, key3) we can simply split the input rows into
groups having equal values in (key1, key2), and only sort/compare the
remaining column key3.

This has a number of benefits:

- Reduced memory consumption, because only a single group (determined by
  values in the sorted prefix) needs to be kept in memory. This may also
  eliminate the need to spill to disk.

- Lower startup cost, because Incremental Sort produce results after each
  prefix group, which is beneficial for plans where startup cost matters
  (like for example queries with LIMIT clause).

We consider both Sort and Incremental Sort, and decide based on costing.

The implemented algorithm operates in two different modes:

- Fetching a minimum number of tuples without check of equality on the
  prefix keys, and sorting on all columns when safe.

- Fetching all tuples for a single prefix group and then sorting by
  comparing only the remaining (non-prefix) keys.

We always start in the first mode, and employ a heuristic to switch into
the second mode if we believe it's beneficial - the goal is to minimize
the number of unnecessary comparions while keeping memory consumption
below work_mem.

This is a very old patch series. The idea was originally proposed by
Alexander Korotkov back in 2013, and then revived in 2017. In 2018 the
patch was taken over by James Coleman, who wrote and rewrote most of the
current code.

There were many reviewers/contributors since 2013 - I've done my best to
pick the most active ones, and listed them in this commit message.

Author: James Coleman, Alexander Korotkov
Reviewed-by: Tomas Vondra, Andreas Karlsson, Marti Raudsepp, Peter Geoghegan, Robert Haas, Thomas Munro, Antonin Houska, Andres Freund, Alexander Kuzmenkov
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAPpHfdscOX5an71nHd8WSUH6GNOCf=V7wgDaTXdDd9=goN-gfA@mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAPpHfds1waRZ=NOmueYq0sx1ZSCnt+5QJvizT8ndT2=etZEeAQ@mail.gmail.com
2020-04-06 21:35:10 +02:00
Peter Eisentraut f1ac27bfda Add logical replication support to replicate into partitioned tables
Mainly, this adds support code in logical/worker.c for applying
replicated operations whose target is a partitioned table to its
relevant partitions.

Author: Amit Langote <amitlangote09@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Rafia Sabih <rafia.pghackers@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>
Reviewed-by: Petr Jelinek <petr@2ndquadrant.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CA+HiwqH=Y85vRK3mOdjEkqFK+E=ST=eQiHdpj43L=_eJMOOznQ@mail.gmail.com
2020-04-06 15:15:52 +02:00
Amit Kapila 33e05f89c5 Add the option to report WAL usage in EXPLAIN and auto_explain.
This commit adds a new option WAL similar to existing option BUFFERS in the
EXPLAIN command.  This option allows to include information on WAL record
generation added by commit df3b181499 in EXPLAIN output.

This also allows the WAL usage information to be displayed via
the auto_explain module.  A new parameter auto_explain.log_wal controls
whether WAL usage statistics are printed when an execution plan is logged.
This parameter has no effect unless auto_explain.log_analyze is enabled.

Author: Julien Rouhaud
Reviewed-by: Dilip Kumar and Amit Kapila
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAB-hujrP8ZfUkvL5OYETipQwA=e3n7oqHFU=4ZLxWS_Cza3kQQ@mail.gmail.com
2020-04-06 08:02:15 +05:30
Amit Kapila 6b466bf5f2 Allow pg_stat_statements to track WAL usage statistics.
This commit adds three new columns in pg_stat_statements output to
display WAL usage statistics added by commit df3b181499.

This commit doesn't bump the version of pg_stat_statements as the
same is done for this release in commit 17e0328224.

Author: Kirill Bychik and Julien Rouhaud
Reviewed-by: Julien Rouhaud, Fujii Masao, Dilip Kumar and Amit Kapila
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAB-hujrP8ZfUkvL5OYETipQwA=e3n7oqHFU=4ZLxWS_Cza3kQQ@mail.gmail.com
2020-04-05 07:34:04 +05:30
Noah Misch c6b92041d3 Skip WAL for new relfilenodes, under wal_level=minimal.
Until now, only selected bulk operations (e.g. COPY) did this.  If a
given relfilenode received both a WAL-skipping COPY and a WAL-logged
operation (e.g. INSERT), recovery could lose tuples from the COPY.  See
src/backend/access/transam/README section "Skipping WAL for New
RelFileNode" for the new coding rules.  Maintainers of table access
methods should examine that section.

To maintain data durability, just before commit, we choose between an
fsync of the relfilenode and copying its contents to WAL.  A new GUC,
wal_skip_threshold, guides that choice.  If this change slows a workload
that creates small, permanent relfilenodes under wal_level=minimal, try
adjusting wal_skip_threshold.  Users setting a timeout on COMMIT may
need to adjust that timeout, and log_min_duration_statement analysis
will reflect time consumption moving to COMMIT from commands like COPY.

Internally, this requires a reliable determination of whether
RollbackAndReleaseCurrentSubTransaction() would unlink a relation's
current relfilenode.  Introduce rd_firstRelfilenodeSubid.  Amend the
specification of rd_createSubid such that the field is zero when a new
rel has an old rd_node.  Make relcache.c retain entries for certain
dropped relations until end of transaction.

Bump XLOG_PAGE_MAGIC, since this introduces XLOG_GIST_ASSIGN_LSN.
Future servers accept older WAL, so this bump is discretionary.

Kyotaro Horiguchi, reviewed (in earlier, similar versions) by Robert
Haas.  Heikki Linnakangas and Michael Paquier implemented earlier
designs that materially clarified the problem.  Reviewed, in earlier
designs, by Andrew Dunstan, Andres Freund, Alvaro Herrera, Tom Lane,
Fujii Masao, and Simon Riggs.  Reported by Martijn van Oosterhout.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20150702220524.GA9392@svana.org
2020-04-04 12:25:34 -07:00
Peter Eisentraut 552fcebff0 Revert "Improve handling of parameter differences in physical replication"
This reverts commit 246f136e76.

That patch wasn't quite complete enough.

Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/E1jIpJu-0007Ql-CL%40gemulon.postgresql.org
2020-04-04 09:08:12 +02:00
Robert Haas 0d8c9c1210 Generate backup manifests for base backups, and validate them.
A manifest is a JSON document which includes (1) the file name, size,
last modification time, and an optional checksum for each file backed
up, (2) timelines and LSNs for whatever WAL will need to be replayed
to make the backup consistent, and (3) a checksum for the manifest
itself. By default, we use CRC-32C when checksumming data files,
because we are trying to detect corruption and user error, not foil an
adversary. However, pg_basebackup and the server-side BASE_BACKUP
command now have options to select a different algorithm, so users
wanting a cryptographic hash function can select SHA-224, SHA-256,
SHA-384, or SHA-512. Users not wanting file checksums at all can
disable them, or disable generating of the backup manifest altogether.
Using a cryptographic hash function in place of CRC-32C consumes
significantly more CPU cycles, which may slow down backups in some
cases.

A new tool called pg_validatebackup can validate a backup against the
manifest. If no checksums are present, it can still check that the
right files exist and that they have the expected sizes. If checksums
are present, it can also verify that each file has the expected
checksum. Additionally, it calls pg_waldump to verify that the
expected WAL files are present and parseable. Only plain format
backups can be validated directly, but tar format backups can be
validated after extracting them.

Robert Haas, with help, ideas, review, and testing from David Steele,
Stephen Frost, Andrew Dunstan, Rushabh Lathia, Suraj Kharage, Tushar
Ahuja, Rajkumar Raghuwanshi, Mark Dilger, Davinder Singh, Jeevan
Chalke, Amit Kapila, Andres Freund, and Noah Misch.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmoZV8dw1H2bzZ9xkKwdrk8+XYa+DC9H=F7heO2zna5T6qg@mail.gmail.com
2020-04-03 15:05:59 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera 347d2b07fc
Add a glossary to the documentation
More work is still needed, but this is a good start.

Co-authored-by: Corey Huinker <corey.huinker@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Jürgen Purtz <juergen@purtz.de>
Co-authored-by: Roger Harkavy <rogerharkavy@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Reviewed-by: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CADkLM=eP6HOeqDjn0FdXuGRusQu4oWH_LFsKjjafmhvWD=aSpQ@mail.gmail.com
2020-04-03 13:23:20 -03:00
Fujii Masao 18808f8c89 Add wait events for recovery conflicts.
This commit introduces new wait events RecoveryConflictSnapshot and
RecoveryConflictTablespace. The former is reported while waiting for
recovery conflict resolution on a vacuum cleanup. The latter is reported
while waiting for recovery conflict resolution on dropping tablespace.

Also this commit changes the code so that the wait event Lock is reported
while waiting in ResolveRecoveryConflictWithVirtualXIDs() for recovery
conflict resolution on a lock. Basically the wait event Lock is reported
during that wait, but previously was not reported only when that wait
happened in ResolveRecoveryConflictWithVirtualXIDs().

Author: Masahiko Sawada
Reviewed-by: Fujii Masao
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+fd4k4mXWTwfQLS3RPwGr4xnfAEs1ysFfgYHvmmoUgv6Zxvmg@mail.gmail.com
2020-04-03 12:15:56 +09:00
Michael Paquier 9d8ef98800 Add support for \aset in pgbench
This option is similar to \gset, except that it is able to store all
results from combined SQL queries into separate variables.  If a query
returns multiple rows, the last result is stored and if a query returns
no rows, nothing is stored.

While on it, add a TAP test for \gset to check for a failure when a
query returns multiple rows.

Author: Fabien Coelho
Reviewed-by: Ibrar Ahmed, Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/alpine.DEB.2.21.1904081914200.2529@lancre
2020-04-03 11:45:15 +09:00
Robert Haas ac44367efb pg_waldump: Add a --quiet option.
The primary motivation for this change is that it will be used by the
upcoming patch to add backup manifests, but it also seems to have some
potential more general use.

Andres Freund and Robert Haas

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/20200330020814.nspra4mvby42yoa4@alap3.anarazel.de
2020-04-02 20:25:04 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 8da1538b39 doc: remove unnecessary INNER keyword
A join that was added in commit 9b2009c4cf that did not use the INNER
keyword but the existing query used it.  It was cleaner to remove the
existing INNER keyword.

Reported-by: Peter Eisentraut

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a1ffbfda-59d2-5732-e5fb-3df8582b6434@2ndquadrant.com

Backpatch-through: 9.5
2020-04-02 17:42:09 -04:00
Bruce Momjian c713dc2f7b doc: remove comma, related to commit 92d31085e9
Reported-by: Peter Eisentraut

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/750b8832-d123-7f9b-931e-43ce8321b2d7@2ndquadrant.com

Backpatch-through: 9.5
2020-04-02 17:27:43 -04:00
Tom Lane 0b34e7d307 Improve user control over truncation of logged bind-parameter values.
This patch replaces the boolean GUC log_parameters_on_error introduced
by commit ba79cb5dc with an integer log_parameter_max_length_on_error,
adding the ability to specify how many bytes to trim each logged
parameter value to.  (The previous coding hard-wired that choice at
64 bytes.)

In addition, add a new parameter log_parameter_max_length that provides
similar control over truncation of query parameters that are logged in
response to statement-logging options, as opposed to errors.  Previous
releases always logged such parameters in full, possibly causing log
bloat.

For backwards compatibility with prior releases,
log_parameter_max_length defaults to -1 (log in full), while
log_parameter_max_length_on_error defaults to 0 (no logging).

Per discussion, log_parameter_max_length is SUSET since the DBA should
control routine logging behavior, but log_parameter_max_length_on_error
is USERSET because it also affects errcontext data sent back to the
client.

Alexey Bashtanov, editorialized a little by me

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/b10493cc-a399-a03a-67c7-068f2791ee50@imap.cc
2020-04-02 15:04:51 -04:00
Tomas Vondra 2c220ca46f Fix typo in SLRU stats documentation
Author: Noriyoshi Shinoda
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/20200119143707.gyinppnigokesjok@development
2020-04-02 14:26:27 +02:00
Peter Eisentraut 2991ac5fc9 Add SQL functions for Unicode normalization
This adds SQL expressions NORMALIZE() and IS NORMALIZED to convert and
check Unicode normal forms, per SQL standard.

To support fast IS NORMALIZED tests, we pull in a new data file
DerivedNormalizationProps.txt from Unicode and build a lookup table
from that, using techniques similar to ones already used for other
Unicode data.  make update-unicode will keep it up to date.  We only
build and use these tables for the NFC and NFKC forms, because they
are too big for NFD and NFKD and the improvement is not significant
enough there.

Reviewed-by: Daniel Verite <daniel@manitou-mail.org>
Reviewed-by: Andreas Karlsson <andreas@proxel.se>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/c1909f27-c269-2ed9-12f8-3ab72c8caf7a@2ndquadrant.com
2020-04-02 08:56:27 +02:00
Peter Eisentraut 580a446c21 doc: Update for Unix-domain sockets on Windows
Update the documentation to reflect that Unix-domain sockets are now
usable on Windows.
2020-04-02 08:01:30 +02:00
Fujii Masao 17e0328224 Allow pg_stat_statements to track planning statistics.
This commit makes pg_stat_statements support new GUC
pg_stat_statements.track_planning. If this option is enabled,
pg_stat_statements tracks the planning statistics of the statements,
e.g., the number of times the statement was planned, the total time
spent planning the statement, etc. This feature is useful to check
the statements that it takes a long time to plan. Previously since
pg_stat_statements tracked only the execution statistics, we could
not use that for the purpose.

The planning and execution statistics are stored at the end of
each phase separately. So there are not always one-to-one relationship
between them. For example, if the statement is successfully planned
but fails in the execution phase, only its planning statistics are stored.
This may cause the users to be able to see different pg_stat_statements
results from the previous version. To avoid this,
pg_stat_statements.track_planning needs to be disabled.

This commit bumps the version of pg_stat_statements to 1.8
since it changes the definition of pg_stat_statements function.

Author: Julien Rouhaud, Pascal Legrand, Thomas Munro, Fujii Masao
Reviewed-by: Sergei Kornilov, Tomas Vondra, Yoshikazu Imai, Haribabu Kommi, Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAHGQGwFx_=DO-Gu-MfPW3VQ4qC7TfVdH2zHmvZfrGv6fQ3D-Tw@mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEepm=0e59Y_6Q_YXYCTHZkqOc6H2pJ54C_Xe=VFu50Aqqp_sA@mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/DB6PR0301MB21352F6210E3B11934B0DCC790B00@DB6PR0301MB2135.eurprd03.prod.outlook.com
2020-04-02 11:20:19 +09:00
Tomas Vondra 28cac71bd3 Collect statistics about SLRU caches
There's a number of SLRU caches used to access important data like clog,
commit timestamps, multixact, asynchronous notifications, etc. Until now
we had no easy way to monitor these shared caches, compute hit ratios,
number of reads/writes etc.

This commit extends the statistics collector to track this information
for a predefined list of SLRUs, and also introduces a new system view
pg_stat_slru displaying the data.

The list of built-in SLRUs is fixed, but additional SLRUs may be defined
in extensions. Unfortunately, there's no suitable registry of SLRUs, so
this patch simply defines a fixed list of SLRUs with entries for the
built-in ones and one entry for all additional SLRUs. Extensions adding
their own SLRU are fairly rare, so this seems acceptable.

This patch only allows monitoring of SLRUs, not tuning. The SLRU sizes
are still fixed (hard-coded in the code) and it's not entirely clear
which of the SLRUs might need a GUC to tune size. In a way, allowing us
to determine that is one of the goals of this patch.

Bump catversion as the patch introduces new functions and system view.

Author: Tomas Vondra
Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/20200119143707.gyinppnigokesjok@development
2020-04-02 02:34:21 +02:00
Tom Lane a80818605e Improve selectivity estimation for assorted match-style operators.
Quite a few matching operators such as JSONB's @> used "contsel" and
"contjoinsel" as their selectivity estimators.  That was a bad idea,
because (a) contsel is only a stub, yielding a fixed default estimate,
and (b) that default is 0.001, meaning we estimate these operators as
five times more selective than equality, which is surely pretty silly.

There's a good model for improving this in ltree's ltreeparentsel():
for any "var OP constant" query, we can try applying the operator
to all of the column's MCV and histogram values, taking the latter
as being a random sample of the non-MCV values.  That code is
actually 100% generic, except for the question of exactly what
default selectivity ought to be plugged in when we don't have stats.

Hence, migrate the guts of ltreeparentsel() into the core code, provide
wrappers "matchingsel" and "matchingjoinsel" with a more-appropriate
default estimate, and use those for the non-geometric operators that
formerly used contsel (mostly JSONB containment operators and tsquery
matching).

Also apply this code to some match-like operators in hstore, ltree, and
pg_trgm, including the former users of ltreeparentsel as well as ones
that improperly used contsel.  Since commit 911e70207 just created new
versions of those extensions that we haven't released yet, we can sneak
this change into those new versions instead of having to create an
additional generation of update scripts.

Patch by me, reviewed by Alexey Bashtanov

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/12237.1582833074@sss.pgh.pa.us
2020-04-01 10:32:33 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 369623492d Update SQL features count
The previously listed total of 179 does not appear to be correct for
SQL:2016 anymore.  (Previous SQL versions had slightly different
feature sets, so it's plausible that it was once correct.)  The
currently correct count is the number of rows in the respective tables
in appendix F in SQL parts 2 and 11, minus 2 features that are listed
twice.  Thus the correct count is currently 177.  This also matches
the number of Core entries the built documentation currently shows, so
it's internally consistent.
2020-04-01 14:43:45 +02:00
Alexander Korotkov 4d276ba94f Fix typo in contrib/intarray documentation
Reported-by: Erik Rijkers
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/82529ecf9bcc58d5b5cf9f3ffb699881%40xs4all.nl
2020-04-01 15:07:53 +03:00
Alexander Korotkov 3eabc62312 Correct CREATE INDEX documentation for opclass parameters
Old versions of opclass parameters patch supported ability to specify DEFAULT
as the opclass name in CREATE INDEX command.  This ability was removed in the
final version, but 911e702077 still mentions that in the documentation.
2020-04-01 15:01:26 +03:00
Alexander Korotkov 3f1802e1fd Documentation corrections for opclass parameters
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200331024419.GB14618%40telsasoft.com
Author: Justin Pryzby
2020-04-01 14:43:41 +03:00
Michael Paquier a7e8ece41c Add -c/--restore-target-wal to pg_rewind
pg_rewind needs to copy from the source cluster to the target cluster a
set of relation blocks changed from the previous checkpoint where WAL
forked up to the end of WAL on the target.  Building this list of
relation blocks requires a range of WAL segments that may not be present
anymore on the target's pg_wal, causing pg_rewind to fail.  It is
possible to work around this issue by copying manually the WAL segments
needed but this may lead to some extra and actually useless work.

This commit introduces a new option allowing pg_rewind to use a
restore_command while doing the rewind by grabbing the parameter value
of restore_command from the target cluster configuration.  This allows
the rewind operation to be more reliable, so as only the WAL segments
needed by the rewind are restored from the archives.

In order to be able to do that, a new routine is added to src/common/ to
allow frontend tools to restore files from archives using an
already-built restore command.  This version is more simple than the
backend equivalent as there is no need to handle the non-recovery case.

Author: Alexey Kondratov
Reviewed-by: Andrey Borodin, Andres Freund, Alvaro Herrera, Alexander
Korotkov, Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a3acff50-5a0d-9a2c-b3b2-ee36168955c1@postgrespro.ru
2020-04-01 10:57:03 +09:00
Bruce Momjian 92d31085e9 doc: remove mention of bitwise operators as solely type-limited
There are other operators that have limited number data type support, so
just remove the sentence.

Reported-by: Sergei Agalakov

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/158032651854.19851.16261832706661813796@wrigleys.postgresql.org

Backpatch-through: 9.5
2020-03-31 18:44:29 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 009e422c1b doc: clarify hierarchy of objects: global, db, schema, etc.
The previous wording was confusing because it wasn't in decreasing order
and had to backtrack.  Also clarify role/user wording.

Reported-by: jbird@nuna.com

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/158057750885.1123.2806779262588618988@wrigleys.postgresql.org

Backpatch-through: 9.5
2020-03-31 18:10:39 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 046fd4f364 doc: clarify when row-level locks are released
They are released just like table-level locks.  Also clean up wording.
(Uses wording "rolled back to".)

Reported-by: me@sillymon.ch

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/158074944048.1095.4309647363871637715@wrigleys.postgresql.org

Backpatch-through: 9.5
2020-03-31 17:57:44 -04:00
Bruce Momjian c2da793fd2 Revert erroroneous commit 834b80464d; my apologies
Backpatch-through: master
2020-03-31 17:32:00 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 834b80464d dummy commit 2020-03-31 17:24:02 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 9b2009c4cf doc: add namespace column to pg_buffercache example query
Without the namespace, the table name could be ambiguous.

Reported-by: adunham@arbormetrix.com

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/158155175140.23798.2189464781144503491@wrigleys.postgresql.org

Backpatch-through: 9.5
2020-03-31 17:16:33 -04:00
Bruce Momjian d97d55460b doc: clarify which table creation is used for inheritance part.
Previously people might assume that the partition syntax version of
CREATE TABLE is to be used for the inheritance partition table example;
mention that the non-partitioned version should be used.

Reported-by: mib@nic.at

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/158089540905.1098.15071165437284409576@wrigleys.postgresql.org

Backpatch-through: 10
2020-03-31 17:07:44 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 33cd0e5ea6 doc: adjust UPDATE/DELETE's FROM/USING to match SELECT's FROM
Previously the syntax and wording were unclear.

Reported-by: Alexey Bashtanov

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/968d4724-8e58-788f-7c45-f7b1813824cc@imap.cc

Backpatch-through: 9.5
2020-03-31 16:31:44 -04:00
Tom Lane 70dc4c509b Fix lquery's NOT handling, and add ability to quantify non-'*' items.
The existing implementation of the ltree ~ lquery match operator is
sufficiently complex and undocumented that it's hard to tell exactly
what it does.  But one thing it clearly gets wrong is the combination
of NOT symbols (!) and '*' symbols.  A pattern such as '*.!foo.*'
should, by any ordinary understanding of regular expression behavior,
match any ltree that has at least one label that's not "foo".  As best
we can tell by experimentation, what it's actually matching is any
ltree in which *no* label is "foo".  That's surprising, and not at all
what the documentation says.

Now, that's arguably a useful behavior, so if we rewrite to fix the
bug we should provide some other way to get it.  To do so, add the
ability to attach lquery quantifiers to non-'*' items as well as '*'s.
Then the pattern '!foo{,}' expresses "any ltree in which no label is
foo".  For backwards compatibility, the default quantifier for non-'*'
items has to be "{1}", although the default for '*' items is '{,}'.
I wouldn't have done it like that in a green field, but it's not
totally horrible.

Armed with that, rewrite checkCond() from scratch.  Treating '*' and
non-'*' items alike makes it simpler, not more complicated, so that
the function actually gets a lot shorter than it was.

Filip Rembiałkowski, Tom Lane, Nikita Glukhov, per a very
ancient bug report from M. Palm

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAP_rww=waX2Oo6q+MbMSiZ9ktdj6eaJj0cQzNu=Ry2cCDij5fw@mail.gmail.com
2020-03-31 11:14:42 -04:00
Magnus Hagander 087d3d0583 Fix assorted typos
Author: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
2020-03-31 16:00:06 +02:00
Peter Eisentraut de3bbfcc96 Fix INSERT OVERRIDING USER VALUE behavior
The original implementation disallowed using OVERRIDING USER VALUE on
identity columns defined as GENERATED ALWAYS, which is not per
standard.  So allow that now.

Expand documentation and tests around this.

Author: Dean Rasheed <dean.a.rasheed@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>
Reviewed-by: Vik Fearing <vik@postgresfriends.org>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CAEZATCVrh2ufCwmzzM%3Dk_OfuLhTTPBJCdFkimst2kry4oHepuQ%40mail.gmail.com
2020-03-31 08:50:39 +02:00
Alexander Korotkov 911e702077 Implement operator class parameters
PostgreSQL provides set of template index access methods, where opclasses have
much freedom in the semantics of indexing.  These index AMs are GiST, GIN,
SP-GiST and BRIN.  There opclasses define representation of keys, operations on
them and supported search strategies.  So, it's natural that opclasses may be
faced some tradeoffs, which require user-side decision.  This commit implements
opclass parameters allowing users to set some values, which tell opclass how to
index the particular dataset.

This commit doesn't introduce new storage in system catalog.  Instead it uses
pg_attribute.attoptions, which is used for table column storage options but
unused for index attributes.

In order to evade changing signature of each opclass support function, we
implement unified way to pass options to opclass support functions.  Options
are set to fn_expr as the constant bytea expression.  It's possible due to the
fact that opclass support functions are executed outside of expressions, so
fn_expr is unused for them.

This commit comes with some examples of opclass options usage.  We parametrize
signature length in GiST.  That applies to multiple opclasses: tsvector_ops,
gist__intbig_ops, gist_ltree_ops, gist__ltree_ops, gist_trgm_ops and
gist_hstore_ops.  Also we parametrize maximum number of integer ranges for
gist__int_ops.  However, the main future usage of this feature is expected
to be json, where users would be able to specify which way to index particular
json parts.

Catversion is bumped.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/d22c3a18-31c7-1879-fc11-4c1ce2f5e5af%40postgrespro.ru
Author: Nikita Glukhov, revised by me
Reviwed-by: Nikolay Shaplov, Robert Haas, Tom Lane, Tomas Vondra, Alvaro Herrera
2020-03-30 19:17:23 +03:00
Peter Eisentraut 246f136e76 Improve handling of parameter differences in physical replication
When certain parameters are changed on a physical replication primary,
this is communicated to standbys using the XLOG_PARAMETER_CHANGE WAL
record.  The standby then checks whether its own settings are at least
as big as the ones on the primary.  If not, the standby shuts down
with a fatal error.

The correspondence of settings between primary and standby is required
because those settings influence certain shared memory sizings that
are required for processing WAL records that the primary might send.
For example, if the primary sends a prepared transaction, the standby
must have had max_prepared_transaction set appropriately or it won't
be able to process those WAL records.

However, fatally shutting down the standby immediately upon receipt of
the parameter change record might be a bit of an overreaction.  The
resources related to those settings are not required immediately at
that point, and might never be required if the activity on the primary
does not exhaust all those resources.  If we just let the standby roll
on with recovery, it will eventually produce an appropriate error when
those resources are used.

So this patch relaxes this a bit.  Upon receipt of
XLOG_PARAMETER_CHANGE, we still check the settings but only issue a
warning and set a global flag if there is a problem.  Then when we
actually hit the resource issue and the flag was set, we issue another
warning message with relevant information.  At that point we pause
recovery, so a hot standby remains usable.  We also repeat the last
warning message once a minute so it is harder to miss or ignore.

Reviewed-by: Sergei Kornilov <sk@zsrv.org>
Reviewed-by: Masahiko Sawada <masahiko.sawada@2ndquadrant.com>
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/4ad69a4c-cc9b-0dfe-0352-8b1b0cd36c7b@2ndquadrant.com
2020-03-30 09:53:45 +02:00
Tom Lane 122b0ccfef Doc: correct misstatement about ltree label maximum length.
The documentation says that the max length is 255 bytes, but
code inspection says it's actually 255 characters; and relevant
lengths are stored as uint16 so that that works.
2020-03-29 18:54:19 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut e1ff780485 Document color support
Add a documentation appendix that explains the PG_COLOR and PG_COLORS
environment variables.

Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/bbdcce43-bd2e-5599-641b-9b44b9e0add4@2ndquadrant.com
2020-03-29 11:15:11 +02:00
Tom Lane 95f7ddfdad Protect against overflow of ltree.numlevel and lquery.numlevel.
These uint16 fields could be overflowed by excessively long input,
producing strange results.  Complain for invalid input.

Likewise check for out-of-range values of the repeat counts in lquery.
(We don't try too hard on that one, notably not bothering to detect
if atoi's result has overflowed.)

Also detect length overflow in ltree_concat.

In passing, be more consistent about whether "syntax error" messages
include the type name.  Also, clarify the documentation about what
the size limit is.

This has been broken for a long time, so back-patch to all supported
branches.

Nikita Glukhov, reviewed by Benjie Gillam and Tomas Vondra

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAP_rww=waX2Oo6q+MbMSiZ9ktdj6eaJj0cQzNu=Ry2cCDij5fw@mail.gmail.com
2020-03-28 17:09:51 -04:00
David Rowley b07642dbcd Trigger autovacuum based on number of INSERTs
Traditionally autovacuum has only ever invoked a worker based on the
estimated number of dead tuples in a table and for anti-wraparound
purposes. For the latter, with certain classes of tables such as
insert-only tables, anti-wraparound vacuums could be the first vacuum that
the table ever receives. This could often lead to autovacuum workers being
busy for extended periods of time due to having to potentially freeze
every page in the table. This could be particularly bad for very large
tables. New clusters, or recently pg_restored clusters could suffer even
more as many large tables may have the same relfrozenxid, which could
result in large numbers of tables requiring an anti-wraparound vacuum all
at once.

Here we aim to reduce the work required by anti-wraparound and aggressive
vacuums in general, by triggering autovacuum when the table has received
enough INSERTs. This is controlled by adding two new GUCs and reloptions;
autovacuum_vacuum_insert_threshold and
autovacuum_vacuum_insert_scale_factor. These work exactly the same as the
existing scale factor and threshold controls, only base themselves off the
number of inserts since the last vacuum, rather than the number of dead
tuples. New controls were added rather than reusing the existing
controls, to allow these new vacuums to be tuned independently and perhaps
even completely disabled altogether, which can be done by setting
autovacuum_vacuum_insert_threshold to -1.

We make no attempt to skip index cleanup operations on these vacuums as
they may trigger for an insert-mostly table which continually doesn't have
enough dead tuples to trigger an autovacuum for the purpose of removing
those dead tuples. If we were to skip cleaning the indexes in this case,
then it is possible for the index(es) to become bloated over time.

There are additional benefits to triggering autovacuums based on inserts,
as tables which never contain enough dead tuples to trigger an autovacuum
are now more likely to receive a vacuum, which can mark more of the table
as "allvisible" and encourage the query planner to make use of Index Only
Scans.

Currently, we still obey vacuum_freeze_min_age when triggering these new
autovacuums based on INSERTs. For large insert-only tables, it may be
beneficial to lower the table's autovacuum_freeze_min_age so that tuples
are eligible to be frozen sooner. Here we've opted not to zero that for
these types of vacuums, since the table may just be insert-mostly and we
may otherwise freeze tuples that are still destined to be updated or
removed in the near future.

There was some debate to what exactly the new scale factor and threshold
should default to. For now, these are set to 0.2 and 1000, respectively.
There may be some motivation to adjust these before the release.

Author: Laurenz Albe, Darafei Praliaskouski
Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera, Masahiko Sawada, Chris Travers, Andres Freund, Justin Pryzby
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAC8Q8t%2Bj36G_bLF%3D%2B0iMo6jGNWnLnWb1tujXuJr-%2Bx8ZCCTqoQ%40mail.gmail.com
2020-03-28 19:20:12 +13:00
Alvaro Herrera 1e6148032e
Allow walreceiver configuration to change on reload
The parameters primary_conninfo, primary_slot_name and
wal_receiver_create_temp_slot can now be changed with a simple "reload"
signal, no longer requiring a server restart.  This is achieved by
signalling the walreceiver process to terminate and having it start
again with the new values.

Thanks to Andres Freund, Kyotaro Horiguchi, Fujii Masao for discussion.

Author: Sergei Kornilov <sk@zsrv.org>
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Reviewed-by: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/19513901543181143@sas1-19a94364928d.qloud-c.yandex.net
2020-03-27 19:51:37 -03:00
Alvaro Herrera 092c6936de
Set wal_receiver_create_temp_slot PGC_POSTMASTER
Commit 3297308278 gave walreceiver the ability to create and use a
temporary replication slot, and made it controllable by a GUC (enabled
by default) that can be changed with SIGHUP.  That's useful but has two
problems: one, it's possible to cause the origin server to fill its disk
if the slot doesn't advance in time; and also there's a disconnect
between state passed down via the startup process and GUCs that
walreceiver reads directly.

We handle the first problem by setting the option to disabled by
default.  If the user enables it, its on their head to make sure that
disk doesn't fill up.

We handle the second problem by passing the flag via startup rather than
having walreceiver acquire it directly, and making it PGC_POSTMASTER
(which ensures a walreceiver always has the fresh value).  A future
commit can relax this (to PGC_SIGHUP again) by having the startup
process signal walreceiver to shutdown whenever the value changes.

Author: Sergei Kornilov <sk@zsrv.org>
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Reviewed-by: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200122055510.GH174860@paquier.xyz
2020-03-27 16:20:33 -03:00
Alvaro Herrera 2f9eb31320
pg_dump: Allow dumping data of specific foreign servers
The new command-line switch --include-foreign-data=PATTERN lets the user
specify foreign servers from which to dump foreign table data.  This can
be refined by further inclusion/exclusion switches, so that the user has
full control over which tables to dump.

A limitation is that this doesn't work in combination with parallel
dumps, for implementation reasons.  This might be lifted in the future,
but requires shuffling some code around.

Author: Luis Carril <luis.carril@swarm64.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
Reviewed-by: Surafel Temesgen <surafel3000@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: vignesh C <vignesh21@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndQuadrant.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/LEJPR01MB0185483C0079D2F651B16231E7FC0@LEJPR01MB0185.DEUPRD01.PROD.OUTLOOK.DE
2020-03-25 13:19:31 -03:00
Tom Lane e3a87b4991 Re-implement the ereport() macro using __VA_ARGS__.
Now that we require C99, we can depend on __VA_ARGS__ to work, and
revising ereport() to use it has several significant benefits:

* The extra parentheses around the auxiliary function calls are now
optional.  Aside from being a bit less ugly, this removes a common
gotcha for new contributors, because in some cases the compiler errors
you got from forgetting them were unintelligible.

* The auxiliary function calls are now evaluated as a comma expression
list rather than as extra arguments to errfinish().  This means that
compilers can be expected to warn about no-op expressions in the list,
allowing detection of several other common mistakes such as forgetting
to add errmsg(...) when converting an elog() call to ereport().

* Unlike the situation with extra function arguments, comma expressions
are guaranteed to be evaluated left-to-right, so this removes platform
dependency in the order of the auxiliary function calls.  While that
dependency hasn't caused us big problems in the past, this change does
allow dropping some rather shaky assumptions around errcontext() domain
handling.

There's no intention to make wholesale changes of existing ereport
calls, but as proof-of-concept this patch removes the extra parens
from a couple of calls in postgres.c.

While new code can be written either way, code intended to be
back-patched will need to use extra parens for awhile yet.  It seems
worth back-patching this change into v12, so as to reduce the window
where we have to be careful about that by one year.  Hence, this patch
is careful to preserve ABI compatibility; a followup HEAD-only patch
will make some additional simplifications.

Andres Freund and Tom Lane

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+fd4k6N8EjNvZpM8nme+y+05mz-SM8Z_BgkixzkA34R+ej0Kw@mail.gmail.com
2020-03-24 11:49:00 -04:00
Tom Lane ab3e4fbd54 Doc: fix broken markup.
Sloppiness in commit cedffbdb8, noted by Erikjan Rijkers.
(It's fairly unfortunate that xmllint doesn't catch this.)

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2e3dc9e4bfa4802d2c9f5fe15bde44de@xs4all.nl
2020-03-24 10:27:09 -04:00
Andres Freund cedffbdb8b Report wait event for cost-based vacuum delay.
Author: Justin Pryzby
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200321040750.GD13662@telsasoft.com
2020-03-23 22:53:22 -07:00
Fujii Masao 496ee647ec Prefer standby promotion over recovery pause.
Previously if a promotion was triggered while recovery was paused,
the paused state continued. Also recovery could be paused by executing
pg_wal_replay_pause() even while a promotion was ongoing. That is,
recovery pause had higher priority over a standby promotion.
But this behavior was not desirable because most users basically wanted
the recovery to complete as soon as possible and the server to become
the master when they requested a promotion.

This commit changes recovery so that it prefers a promotion over
recovery pause. That is, if a promotion is triggered while recovery
is paused, the paused state ends and a promotion continues. Also
this commit makes recovery pause functions like pg_wal_replay_pause()
throw an error if they are executed while a promotion is ongoing.

Internally, this commit adds new internal function PromoteIsTriggered()
that returns true if a promotion is triggered. Since the name of
this function and the existing function IsPromoteTriggered() are
confusingly similar, the commit changes the name of IsPromoteTriggered()
to IsPromoteSignaled, as more appropriate name.

Author: Fujii Masao
Reviewed-by: Atsushi Torikoshi, Sergei Kornilov
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/00c194b2-dbbb-2e8a-5b39-13f14048ef0a@oss.nttdata.com
2020-03-24 12:46:48 +09:00
Fujii Masao b8e20d6dab Add wait events for WAL archive and recovery pause.
This commit introduces new wait events BackupWaitWalArchive and
RecoveryPause. The former is reported while waiting for the WAL files
required for the backup to be successfully archived. The latter is
reported while waiting for recovery in pause state to be resumed.

Author: Fujii Masao
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier, Atsushi Torikoshi, Robert Haas
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/f0651f8c-9c96-9f29-0ff9-80414a15308a@oss.nttdata.com
2020-03-24 11:12:21 +09:00
Fujii Masao 67e0adfb3f Report NULL as total backup size if it's not estimated.
Previously 0 was reported in pg_stat_progress_basebackup.total_backup
if the total backup size was not estimated. Per discussion, our consensus
is that NULL is better choise as the value in total_backup in that case.
So this commit makes pg_stat_progress_basebackup view report NULL
in total_backup column if the estimation is disabled.

Bump catversion.

Author: Fujii Masao
Reviewed-by: Amit Langote, Magnus Hagander, Alvaro Herrera
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CABUevExnhOD89zBDuPvfAAh243RzNpwCPEWNLtMYpKHMB8gbAQ@mail.gmail.com
2020-03-24 10:43:41 +09:00
Bruce Momjian 0830d21f5b docs: add backend_type to file-fdw CSV log example
backend_type was added to the CVS log output in commit 70a7b4776b.

Reported-by: Fabrízio de Royes Mello

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAFcNs+ruvRks3BV1j7yQ-MvxsswmKJa0cVh2yK5Dd-xXVM8wPw@mail.gmail.com

Backpatch-through: master
2020-03-23 18:38:42 -04:00
Tom Lane fe60480068 Doc: explain that LIKE et al can be used in ANY (sub-select) etc.
This wasn't stated anywhere, and it's perhaps not that obvious,
since we get questions about it from time to time.  Also undocumented
was that the parser actually translates these into operators.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAFj8pRBkvZ71BqGKZnBBG4=0cKG+s50Dy+DYmrizUKEpAtdc+w@mail.gmail.com
2020-03-23 12:42:15 -04:00
Tom Lane 980a70b976 Fix our getopt_long's behavior for a command line argument of just "-".
src/port/getopt_long.c failed on such an argument, always seeing it
as an unrecognized switch.  This is unhelpful; better is to treat such
an item as a non-switch argument.  That behavior is what we find in
GNU's getopt_long(); it's what src/port/getopt.c does; and it is
required by POSIX for getopt(), which getopt_long() ought to be
generally a superset of.  Moreover, it's expected by ecpg, which
intends an argument of "-" to mean "read from stdin".  So fix it.

Also add some documentation about ecpg's behavior in this area, since
that was miserably underdocumented.  I had to reverse-engineer it
from the code.

Per bug #16304 from James Gray.  Back-patch to all supported branches,
since this has been broken forever.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16304-c662b00a1322db7f@postgresql.org
2020-03-23 11:58:00 -04:00
Michael Paquier c81bd3b9a5 Doc: Fix type of some storage parameters in CREATE TABLE page
autovacuum_vacuum_scale_factor and autovacuum_analyze_scale_factor have
been documented as "float4", but "floating type" is used in this case
for GUCs and relation options in the documentation.

Author: Atsushi Torikoshi
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CACZ0uYFf_p9BpbjLccx3CA=eM1Hk2Te=ULY4iptGLUhL-JxCPA@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 9.5
2020-03-23 13:38:03 +09:00
Noah Misch de9396326e Revert "Skip WAL for new relfilenodes, under wal_level=minimal."
This reverts commit cb2fd7eac2.  Per
numerous buildfarm members, it was incompatible with parallel query, and
a test case assumed LP64.  Back-patch to 9.5 (all supported versions).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200321224920.GB1763544@rfd.leadboat.com
2020-03-22 09:24:09 -07:00
Noah Misch cb2fd7eac2 Skip WAL for new relfilenodes, under wal_level=minimal.
Until now, only selected bulk operations (e.g. COPY) did this.  If a
given relfilenode received both a WAL-skipping COPY and a WAL-logged
operation (e.g. INSERT), recovery could lose tuples from the COPY.  See
src/backend/access/transam/README section "Skipping WAL for New
RelFileNode" for the new coding rules.  Maintainers of table access
methods should examine that section.

To maintain data durability, just before commit, we choose between an
fsync of the relfilenode and copying its contents to WAL.  A new GUC,
wal_skip_threshold, guides that choice.  If this change slows a workload
that creates small, permanent relfilenodes under wal_level=minimal, try
adjusting wal_skip_threshold.  Users setting a timeout on COMMIT may
need to adjust that timeout, and log_min_duration_statement analysis
will reflect time consumption moving to COMMIT from commands like COPY.

Internally, this requires a reliable determination of whether
RollbackAndReleaseCurrentSubTransaction() would unlink a relation's
current relfilenode.  Introduce rd_firstRelfilenodeSubid.  Amend the
specification of rd_createSubid such that the field is zero when a new
rel has an old rd_node.  Make relcache.c retain entries for certain
dropped relations until end of transaction.

Back-patch to 9.5 (all supported versions).  This introduces a new WAL
record type, XLOG_GIST_ASSIGN_LSN, without bumping XLOG_PAGE_MAGIC.  As
always, update standby systems before master systems.  This changes
sizeof(RelationData) and sizeof(IndexStmt), breaking binary
compatibility for affected extensions.  (The most recent commit to
affect the same class of extensions was
089e4d405d0f3b94c74a2c6a54357a84a681754b.)

Kyotaro Horiguchi, reviewed (in earlier, similar versions) by Robert
Haas.  Heikki Linnakangas and Michael Paquier implemented earlier
designs that materially clarified the problem.  Reviewed, in earlier
designs, by Andrew Dunstan, Andres Freund, Alvaro Herrera, Tom Lane,
Fujii Masao, and Simon Riggs.  Reported by Martijn van Oosterhout.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20150702220524.GA9392@svana.org
2020-03-21 09:38:26 -07:00
Bruce Momjian a6d7e9fb28 docs: use alias in WHERE clause of full text search example
The current doc query specified an alias in the FROM clause and used in
it the target list, but not in the WHERE clause.

Reported-by: axykon@gmail.com

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/158316348159.30450.16075357948244298217@wrigleys.postgresql.org

Backpatch-through: 9.5
2020-03-20 20:19:32 -04:00
Tom Lane 24e2885ee3 Introduce "anycompatible" family of polymorphic types.
This patch adds the pseudo-types anycompatible, anycompatiblearray,
anycompatiblenonarray, and anycompatiblerange.  They work much like
anyelement, anyarray, anynonarray, and anyrange respectively, except
that the actual input values need not match precisely in type.
Instead, if we can find a common supertype (using the same rules
as for UNION/CASE type resolution), then the parser automatically
promotes the input values to that type.  For example,
"myfunc(anycompatible, anycompatible)" can match a call with one
integer and one bigint argument, with the integer automatically
promoted to bigint.  With anyelement in the definition, the user
would have had to cast the integer explicitly.

The new types also provide a second, independent set of type variables
for function matching; thus with "myfunc(anyelement, anyelement,
anycompatible) returns anycompatible" the first two arguments are
constrained to be the same type, but the third can be some other
type, and the result has the type of the third argument.  The need
for more than one set of type variables was foreseen back when we
first invented the polymorphic types, but we never did anything
about it.

Pavel Stehule, revised a bit by me

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAFj8pRDna7VqNi8gR+Tt2Ktmz0cq5G93guc3Sbn_NVPLdXAkqA@mail.gmail.com
2020-03-19 11:43:11 -04:00
Fujii Masao fab13dc50b Make pg_basebackup ask the server to estimate the total backup size, by default.
This commit changes pg_basebackup so that it specifies PROGRESS option in
BASE_BACKUP replication command whether --progress is specified or not.
This causes the server to estimate the total backup size and report it in
pg_stat_progress_basebackup.backup_total, by default. This is reasonable
default because the time required for the estimation would not be so large
in most cases.

Also this commit adds new option --no-estimate-size to pg_basebackup.
This option prevents the server from the estimation, and so is useful to
avoid such estimation time if it's too long.

Author: Fujii Masao
Reviewed-by: Magnus Hagander, Amit Langote
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CABUevEyDPPSjP7KRvfTXPdqOdY5aWNkqsB5aAXs3bco5ZwtGHg@mail.gmail.com
2020-03-19 17:09:00 +09:00
Fujii Masao 1d253bae57 Rename the recovery-related wait events.
This commit renames RecoveryWalAll and RecoveryWalStream wait events to
RecoveryWalStream and RecoveryRetrieveRetryInterval, respectively,
in order to make the names and what they are more consistent. For example,
previously RecoveryWalAll was reported as a wait event while the recovery
was waiting for WAL from a stream, and which was confusing because the name
was very different from the situation where the wait actually could happen.

The names of macro variables for those wait events also are renamed
accordingly.

This commit also changes the category of RecoveryRetrieveRetryInterval to
Timeout from Activity because the wait event is reported while waiting based
on wal_retrieve_retry_interval.

Author: Fujii Masao
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi, Atsushi Torikoshi
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/124997ee-096a-5d09-d8da-2c7a57d0816e@oss.nttdata.com
2020-03-19 15:32:55 +09:00
Jeff Davis 1f39bce021 Disk-based Hash Aggregation.
While performing hash aggregation, track memory usage when adding new
groups to a hash table. If the memory usage exceeds work_mem, enter
"spill mode".

In spill mode, new groups are not created in the hash table(s), but
existing groups continue to be advanced if input tuples match. Tuples
that would cause a new group to be created are instead spilled to a
logical tape to be processed later.

The tuples are spilled in a partitioned fashion. When all tuples from
the outer plan are processed (either by advancing the group or
spilling the tuple), finalize and emit the groups from the hash
table. Then, create new batches of work from the spilled partitions,
and select one of the saved batches and process it (possibly spilling
recursively).

Author: Jeff Davis
Reviewed-by: Tomas Vondra, Adam Lee, Justin Pryzby, Taylor Vesely, Melanie Plageman
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/507ac540ec7c20136364b5272acbcd4574aa76ef.camel@j-davis.com
2020-03-18 15:42:02 -07:00
Alvaro Herrera 487e9861d0
Enable BEFORE row-level triggers for partitioned tables
... with the limitation that the tuple must remain in the same
partition.

Reviewed-by: Ashutosh Bapat
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200227165158.GA2071@alvherre.pgsql
2020-03-18 18:58:05 -03:00
Peter Eisentraut a2b1faa0f2 Implement type regcollation
This will be helpful for a following commit and it's also just
generally useful, like the other reg* types.

Author: Julien Rouhaud
Reviewed-by: Thomas Munro and Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEepm%3D0uEQCpfq_%2BLYFBdArCe4Ot98t1aR4eYiYTe%3DyavQygiQ%40mail.gmail.com
2020-03-18 21:21:00 +01:00
Tomas Vondra c31132d87c Document pg_statistic_ext.stxstattarget
Commit d06215d03b added a new attribute to pg_statistic_ext catalog, but
failed to add it to document it properly.

Reported-by: Noriyoshi Shinoda <noriyoshi.shinoda@hpe.com>
2020-03-18 16:48:12 +01:00
Fujii Masao dbe0d9892c Correct the descriptions of recovery-related wait events in docs.
This commit corrects the descriptions of RecoveryWalAll and RecoveryWalStream
wait events in the documentation.

Back-patch to v10 where those wait events were added.

Author: Fujii Masao
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi, Atsushi Torikoshi
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/124997ee-096a-5d09-d8da-2c7a57d0816e@oss.nttdata.com
2020-03-18 23:07:17 +09:00
Peter Eisentraut 8408e3a557 doc: Update documentation about reg* types
Add missing index entries, add missing information on pg_upgrade man
page, order things alphabetical instead of (apparently) in the order
they were implemented, reduce repetitiveness a bit.
2020-03-18 14:54:29 +01:00
Fujii Masao 1558413432 Update the description of type of check_option reloption in docs.
Commit 773df883e8 changed the type of check_option reloption
from string to enum. But it forgot to update the description of
the type in the documentation.

Author: Atsushi Torikoshi
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CACZ0uYFvHF4n6yxF390YZgr4Q0Z0c2w0ihu=DLb8ipNOnNcqzQ@mail.gmail.com
2020-03-18 18:28:22 +09:00
Peter Geoghegan dbbb55385c Doc: Correct deduplicate_items varlistentry id.
Use a varlistentry id for the deduplicate_items storage parameter that
is derived from the name of the parameter itself.

This oversight happened because the storage parameter was renamed
relatively late during the development of the patch that became commit
0d861bbb.
2020-03-17 15:53:05 -07:00
Tom Lane 31d846e026 Doc: clarify behavior of "anyrange" pseudo-type.
I noticed that we completely failed to document the restriction
that an "anyrange" result type has to be inferred from an "anyrange"
input.  The docs also were less clear than they could be about the
relationship between "anyrange" and "anyarray".

It's been like this all along, so back-patch.
2020-03-17 15:05:16 -04:00
Tom Lane 0bc8cebdb8 Use pkg-config, if available, to locate libxml2 during configure.
If pkg-config is installed and knows about libxml2, use its information
rather than asking xml2-config.  Otherwise proceed as before.  This
patch allows "configure --with-libxml" to succeed on platforms that
have pkg-config but not xml2-config, which is likely to soon become
a typical situation.

The old mechanism can be forced by setting XML2_CONFIG explicitly
(hence, build processes that were already doing so will certainly
not need adjustment).  Also, it's now possible to set XML2_CFLAGS
and XML2_LIBS explicitly to override both programs.

There is a small risk of this breaking existing build processes,
if there are multiple libxml2 installations on the machine and
pkg-config disagrees with xml2-config about which to use.  The
only case where that seems really likely is if a builder has tried
to select a non-default xml2-config by putting it early in his PATH
rather than setting XML2_CONFIG.  Plan to warn against that in the
minor release notes.

Back-patch to v10; before that we had no pkg-config infrastructure,
and it doesn't seem worth adding it for this.

Hugh McMaster and Tom Lane; Peter Eisentraut also made an earlier
attempt at this, from which I lifted most of the docs changes.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAN9BcdvfUwc9Yx5015bLH2TOiQ-M+t_NADBSPhMF7dZ=pLa_iw@mail.gmail.com
2020-03-17 12:09:26 -04:00
Fujii Masao 28e0a103a8 Add the type information for index storage parameters to the documentation.
Author: Atsushi Torikoshi
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CACZ0uYFQebs4WT5eu3dK4qm_2PurZuvB++8nDvSBG0ebRWmbdg@mail.gmail.com
2020-03-17 16:06:59 +09:00
Tom Lane b4570d33aa Avoid holding a directory FD open across assorted SRF calls.
This extends the fixes made in commit 085b6b667 to other SRFs with the
same bug, namely pg_logdir_ls(), pgrowlocks(), pg_timezone_names(),
pg_ls_dir(), and pg_tablespace_databases().

Also adjust various comments and documentation to warn against
expecting to clean up resources during a ValuePerCall SRF's final
call.

Back-patch to all supported branches, since these functions were
all born broken.

Justin Pryzby, with cosmetic tweaks by me

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200308173103.GC1357@telsasoft.com
2020-03-16 21:05:52 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera 8b6d94cf6c
Document pg_ls_*dir hiding of directories and special files
It's strange that a directory-listing function does not list all entries
in a directory, so let's at least document it.  This involves

pg_ls_logdir
pg_ls_waldir
pg_ls_archive_statusdir
pg_ls_tmpdir

Backpatch as far back as it applies cleanly (and as far as as each
function exists).  REL_10_STABLE uses different wording, but hopefully
people are not reading docs so old to write new apps anyway.

Author: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200305161838.GJ684@telsasoft.com
2020-03-16 19:12:14 -03:00
Thomas Munro fc34b0d9de Introduce a maintenance_io_concurrency setting.
Introduce a GUC and a tablespace option to control I/O prefetching, much
like effective_io_concurrency, but for work that is done on behalf of
many client sessions.

Use the new setting in heapam.c instead of the hard-coded formula
effective_io_concurrency + 10 introduced by commit 558a9165e0.  Go with
a default value of 10 for now, because it's a round number pretty close
to the value used for that existing case.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKGJUw08dPs_3EUcdO6M90GnjofPYrWp4YSLaBkgYwS-AqA%40mail.gmail.com
2020-03-16 17:14:26 +13:00
Peter Eisentraut 70a7b4776b Add backend type to csvlog and optionally log_line_prefix
The backend type, which corresponds to what
pg_stat_activity.backend_type shows, is added as a column to the
csvlog and can optionally be added to log_line_prefix using the new %b
placeholder.

Reviewed-by: Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Kuntal Ghosh <kuntalghosh.2007@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
Reviewed-by: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/c65e5196-4f04-4ead-9353-6088c19615a3@2ndquadrant.com
2020-03-15 11:20:21 +01:00
Tomas Vondra 8f321bd16c Use functional dependencies to estimate ScalarArrayOpExpr
Until now functional dependencies supported only simple equality clauses
and clauses that can be trivially translated to equalities. This commit
allows estimation of some ScalarArrayOpExpr (IN/ANY) clauses.

For IN clauses we can do this thanks to using operator with equality
semantics, which means an IN clause

    WHERE c IN (1, 2, ..., N)

can be translated to

    WHERE (c = 1 OR c = 2 OR ... OR c = N)

IN clauses are now considered compatible with functional dependencies,
and rely on the same assumption of consistency of queries with data
(which is an assumption we already used for simple equality clauses).
This applies also to ALL clauses with an equality operator, which can be
considered equivalent to IN clause.

ALL clauses are still considered incompatible, although there's some
discussion about maybe relaxing this in the future.

Author: Pierre Ducroquet
Reviewed-by: Tomas Vondra, Dean Rasheed
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/13902317.Eha0YfKkKy%40pierred-pdoc
2020-03-14 16:12:41 +01:00
Tom Lane dbf95c843a Doc: fix mistaken reference to "PG_ARGNULL_xxx()" macro.
This should of course be just "PG_ARGISNULL()".

Also reorder a couple of paras to make the discussion of PG_ARGISNULL
less disjointed.

Back-patch to v10 where the error was introduced.

Laurenz Albe and Tom Lane, per an anonymous docs comment

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/158399487096.5708.10696365251766477013@wrigleys.postgresql.org
2020-03-13 12:49:10 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 340de72780 doc: Remove unused title ids
FOP issues warnings about them.  These aren't even used, so just
remove them.  For the ones that are actually used, we'll come up with
a different solution.

Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/e29b580e-79ab-a371-5ea4-6946e4d3af0b%402ndQuadrant.com
2020-03-13 15:45:37 +01:00
Alexander Korotkov d114cc5387 Improve checking of child pages in contrib/amcheck.
This commit eliminates lossiness in check for missing parent downlinks in
B-tree.  Instead of collecting lossy bitmap, we check for missing downlinks
while visiting child pages referenced by downlinks of target level.  We
traverse from previous child page to the subsequent child page by right links.
Intermediate pages are candidates to have lost parent downlinks.

Also this commit introduces matching of child high key to the pivot key of
it's parent.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAPpHfduoF-c4RhOyOm%3D4-Y367%2B8txq9Q6iM_ty0OYc8si1Abww%40mail.gmail.com
Author: Alexander Korotkov
Reviewed-by: Peter Geoghegan
2020-03-11 12:00:31 +03:00
Tom Lane c8e8b2f9df Marginal comments and docs cleanup.
Fix up some imprecise comments and poor markup from ba79cb5dc.  Also try
to convert the documentation of log_min_duration_sample and friends into
passable English.
2020-03-10 17:34:09 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 17b9e7f9fe Support adding partitioned tables to publication
When a partitioned table is added to a publication, changes of all of
its partitions (current or future) are published via that publication.

This change only affects which tables a publication considers as its
members.  The receiving side still sees the data coming from the
individual leaf partitions.  So existing restrictions that partition
hierarchies can only be replicated one-to-one are not changed by this.

Author: Amit Langote <amitlangote09@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Rafia Sabih <rafia.pghackers@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CA+HiwqH=Y85vRK3mOdjEkqFK+E=ST=eQiHdpj43L=_eJMOOznQ@mail.gmail.com
2020-03-10 09:09:32 +01:00
Peter Eisentraut 71d60e2aa0 Add tg_updatedcols to TriggerData
This allows a trigger function to determine for an UPDATE trigger
which columns were actually updated.  This allows some optimizations
in generic trigger functions such as lo_manage and
tsvector_update_trigger.

Reviewed-by: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/11c5f156-67a9-0fb5-8200-2a8018eb2e0c@2ndquadrant.com
2020-03-09 09:34:55 +01:00
Michael Paquier 5aaa584f81 Doc: fix some description of environment variables with frontend tools
This addresses a couple of issues in the documentation:
- Description of PG_COLOR was missing for some tools (pg_archivecleanup
and pg_test_fsync), while the other descriptions had grammar mistakes.
- pgbench supports more environment variables: PGUSER, PGHOST and
PGPORT.
- vacuumlo, oid2name and pgbench support coloring (HEAD only)

Author: Michael Paquier
Reviewed-by: Fabien Coelho, Daniel Gustafsson, Juan José Santamaría
Flecha
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200304075418.GJ2593@paquier.xyz
Backpatch-through: 12
2020-03-09 10:53:22 +09:00
Tom Lane 806eb92c01 Add an "absval" parameter to allow contrib/dict_int to ignore signs.
Jeff Janes

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAMkU=1xRcs_BUPzR0+V3WndaCAv0E_m3h6aUEJ8NF-sY1nnHsw@mail.gmail.com
2020-03-08 18:35:06 -04:00
Alexander Korotkov b0b5e20cd8 Show opclass and opfamily related information in psql
This commit provides psql commands for listing operator classes, operator
families and its contents in psql.  New commands will be useful for exploring
capabilities of both builtin opclasses/opfamilies as well as
opclasses/opfamilies defined in extensions.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1529675324.14193.5.camel%40postgrespro.ru
Author: Sergey Cherkashin, Nikita Glukhov, Alexander Korotkov
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier, Alvaro Herrera, Arthur Zakirov
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi, Andres Freund
2020-03-08 13:33:16 +03:00
Peter Eisentraut 7e39b968f1 doc: Remove unused ids
Some reference pages contained id attributes on refname elements.
These were apparently copied around from ancient times, but they don't
serve a purpose.  FOP issues minor warnings about them.  So it's
easiest to just remove them.
2020-03-07 14:04:09 +01:00
Peter Eisentraut 33e27c3785 doc: Add information about new SQL part SQL/MDA 2020-03-07 10:57:03 +01:00
Tom Lane 36058a3c55 Create contrib/bool_plperl to provide a bool transform for PL/Perl[U].
plperl's default handling of bool arguments or results is not terribly
satisfactory, since Perl doesn't consider the string 'f' to be false.
Ideally we'd just fix that, but the backwards-compatibility hazard
would be substantial.  Instead, build a TRANSFORM module that can
be optionally applied to provide saner semantics.

Perhaps usefully, this is also about the minimum possible skeletal
example of a plperl transform module; so it might be a better starting
point for user-written transform modules than hstore_plperl or
jsonb_plperl.

Ivan Panchenko

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1583013317.881182688@f390.i.mail.ru
2020-03-06 17:11:23 -05:00
Tom Lane a6525588b7 Allow Unicode escapes in any server encoding, not only UTF-8.
SQL includes provisions for numeric Unicode escapes in string
literals and identifiers.  Previously we only accepted those
if they represented ASCII characters or the server encoding
was UTF-8, making the conversion to internal form trivial.
This patch adjusts things so that we'll call the appropriate
encoding conversion function in less-trivial cases, allowing
the escape sequence to be accepted so long as it corresponds
to some character available in the server encoding.

This also applies to processing of Unicode escapes in JSONB.
However, the old restriction still applies to client-side
JSON processing, since that hasn't got access to the server's
encoding conversion infrastructure.

This patch includes some lexer infrastructure that simplifies
throwing errors with error cursors pointing into the middle of
a string (or other complex token).  For the moment I only used
it for errors relating to Unicode escapes, but we might later
expand the usage to some other cases.

Patch by me, reviewed by John Naylor.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2393.1578958316@sss.pgh.pa.us
2020-03-06 14:17:43 -05:00
Tom Lane fe30e7ebfa Allow ALTER TYPE to change some properties of a base type.
Specifically, this patch allows ALTER TYPE to:
* Change the default TOAST strategy for a toastable base type;
* Promote a non-toastable type to toastable;
* Add/remove binary I/O functions for a type;
* Add/remove typmod I/O functions for a type;
* Add/remove a custom ANALYZE statistics functions for a type.

The first of these can be done by the type's owner; all the others
require superuser privilege since misuse could cause problems.

The main motivation for this patch is to allow extensions to
upgrade the feature sets of their data types, so the set of
alterable properties is biased towards that use-case.  However
it's also true that changing some other properties would be
a lot harder, as they get baked into physical storage and/or
stored expressions that depend on the type.

Along the way, refactor GenerateTypeDependencies() to make it easier
to call, refactor DefineType's volatility checks so they can be shared
by AlterType, and teach typcache.c that it might have to reload data
from the type's pg_type row, a scenario it never handled before.
Also rearrange alter_type.sgml a bit for clarity (put the
composite-type operations together).

Tomas Vondra and Tom Lane

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200228004440.b23ein4qvmxnlpht@development
2020-03-06 12:19:29 -05:00
Tom Lane bb03010b9f Remove the "opaque" pseudo-type and associated compatibility hacks.
A long time ago, it was necessary to declare datatype I/O functions,
triggers, and language handler support functions in a very type-unsafe
way involving a single pseudo-type "opaque".  We got rid of those
conventions in 7.3, but there was still support in various places to
automatically convert such functions to the modern declaration style,
to be able to transparently re-load dumps from pre-7.3 servers.
It seems unnecessary to continue to support that anymore, so take out
the hacks; whereupon the "opaque" pseudo-type itself is no longer
needed and can be dropped.

This is part of a group of patches removing various server-side kluges
for transparently upgrading pre-8.0 dump files.  Since we've had few
complaints about dropping pg_dump's support for dumping from pre-8.0
servers (commit 64f3524e2), it seems okay to now remove these kluges.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/4110.1583255415@sss.pgh.pa.us
2020-03-05 15:48:56 -05:00
Tom Lane d677550493 Allow to_date/to_timestamp to recognize non-English month/day names.
to_char() has long allowed the TM (translation mode) prefix to
specify output of translated month or day names; but that prefix
had no effect in input format strings.  Now it does.  to_date()
and to_timestamp() will now recognize the same month or day names
that to_char() would output for the same format code.  Matching is
case-insensitive (per the active collation's notion of what that
means), just as it has always been for English month/day names
without the TM prefix.

(As per the discussion thread, there are lots of cases that this
feature will not handle, such as alternate day names.  But being
able to accept what to_char() will output seems useful enough.)

In passing, fix some shaky English and violations of message
style guidelines in jsonpath errors for the .datetime() method,
which depends on this code.

Juan José Santamaría Flecha, reviewed and modified by me,
with other commentary from Alvaro Herrera, Tomas Vondra,
Arthur Zakirov, Peter Eisentraut, Mark Dilger.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAC+AXB3u1jTngJcoC1nAHBf=M3v-jrEfo86UFtCqCjzbWS9QhA@mail.gmail.com
2020-03-03 11:06:47 -05:00
Fujii Masao 61b7394045 Fix typo in monitoring.sgml.
Author: Noriyoshi Shinoda
2020-03-03 15:01:47 +09:00