It inserts a new value into an jsonb array at arbitrary position or
a new key to jsonb object.
Author: Dmitry Dolgov
Reviewers: Petr Jelinek, Vitaly Burovoy, Andrew Dunstan
API and mechanism to allow generic messages to be inserted into WAL that are
intended to be read by logical decoding plugins. This commit adds an optional
new callback to the logical decoding API.
Messages are either text or bytea. Messages can be transactional, or not, and
are identified by a prefix to allow multiple concurrent decoding plugins.
(Not to be confused with Generic WAL records, which are intended to allow crash
recovery of extensible objects.)
Author: Petr Jelinek and Andres Freund
Reviewers: Artur Zakirov, Tomas Vondra, Simon Riggs
Discussion: 5685F999.6010202@2ndquadrant.com
Previously synchronous replication offered only the ability to confirm
that all changes made by a transaction had been transferred to at most
one synchronous standby server.
This commit extends synchronous replication so that it supports multiple
synchronous standby servers. It enables users to consider one or more
standby servers as synchronous, and increase the level of transaction
durability by ensuring that transaction commits wait for replies from
all of those synchronous standbys.
Multiple synchronous standby servers are configured in
synchronous_standby_names which is extended to support new syntax of
'num_sync ( standby_name [ , ... ] )', where num_sync specifies
the number of synchronous standbys that transaction commits need to
wait for replies from and standby_name is the name of a standby
server.
The syntax of 'standby_name [ , ... ]' which was used in 9.5 or before
is also still supported. It's the same as new syntax with num_sync=1.
This commit doesn't include "quorum commit" feature which was discussed
in pgsql-hackers. Synchronous standbys are chosen based on their priorities.
synchronous_standby_names determines the priority of each standby for
being chosen as a synchronous standby. The standbys whose names appear
earlier in the list are given higher priority and will be considered as
synchronous. Other standby servers appearing later in this list
represent potential synchronous standbys.
The regression test for multiple synchronous standbys is not included
in this commit. It should come later.
Authors: Sawada Masahiko, Beena Emerson, Michael Paquier, Fujii Masao
Reviewed-By: Kyotaro Horiguchi, Amit Kapila, Robert Haas, Simon Riggs,
Amit Langote, Thomas Munro, Sameer Thakur, Suraj Kharage, Abhijit Menon-Sen,
Rajeev Rastogi
Many thanks to the various individuals who were involved in
discussing and developing this feature.
This introduces a new dependency type which marks an object as depending
on an extension, such that if the extension is dropped, the object
automatically goes away; and also, if the database is dumped, the object
is included in the dump output. Currently the grammar supports this for
indexes, triggers, materialized views and functions only, although the
utility code is generic so adding support for more object types is a
matter of touching the parser rules only.
Author: Abhijit Menon-Sen
Reviewed-by: Alexander Korotkov, Álvaro Herrera
Discussion: http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20160115062649.GA5068@toroid.org
has_parallel_hazard() was ignoring the proparallel markings for
aggregates, which is no good. Fix that. There was no way to mark
an aggregate as actually being parallel-safe, either, so add a
PARALLEL option to CREATE AGGREGATE.
Patch by me, reviewed by David Rowley.
Experimentation shows this only costs about 6kB, which seems well
worth it given the major performance effects that can be caused
by insufficient alignment, especially on larger systems.
Discussion: 14166.1458924422@sss.pgh.pa.us
This lets us use parallel aggregate for a variety of useful cases
that didn't work before, like sum(int8), sum(numeric), several
versions of avg(), and various other functions.
Add some regression tests, as well, testing the general sanity of
these and future catalog entries.
David Rowley, reviewed by Tomas Vondra, with a few further changes
by me.
Previously non-exclusive backups had to be done using the replication protocol
and pg_basebackup. With this commit it's now possible to make them using
pg_start_backup/pg_stop_backup as well, as long as the backup program can
maintain a persistent connection to the database.
Doing this, backup_label and tablespace_map are returned as results from
pg_stop_backup() instead of being written to the data directory. This makes
the server safe from a crash during an ongoing backup, which can be a problem
with exclusive backups.
The old syntax of the functions remain and work exactly as before, but since the
new syntax is safer this should eventually be deprecated and removed.
Only reference documentation is included. The main section on backup still needs
to be rewritten to cover this, but since that is already scheduled for a separate
large rewrite, it's not included in this patch.
Reviewed by David Steele and Amit Kapila
As noted by Julian Schauder in bug #14063, the configuration-file parser
doesn't support embedded newlines in string literals. While there might
someday be a good reason to remove that restriction, there doesn't seem
to be one right now. However, ALTER SYSTEM SET could accept strings
containing newlines, since many of the variable-specific value-checking
routines would just see a newline as whitespace. This led to writing a
postgresql.auto.conf file that was broken and had to be removed manually.
Pending a reason to work harder, just throw an error if someone tries this.
In passing, fix several places in the ALTER SYSTEM logic that failed to
provide an errcode() for an ereport(), and thus would falsely log the
failure as an internal XX000 error.
Back-patch to 9.4 where ALTER SYSTEM was introduced.
Alex Shulgin complained that the underlying strategy wasn't all that
apparent, particularly not the fact that we intentionally have two
code paths depending on whether we think the column has a limited set
of possible values or not. Try to make it clearer.
On reflection, the pre-existing logic in ANALYZE is specifically meant to
compare the frequency of a candidate MCV against the estimated frequency of
a random distinct value across the whole table. The change to compare it
against the average frequency of values actually seen in the sample doesn't
seem very principled, and if anything it would make us less likely not more
likely to consider a value an MCV. So revert that, but keep the aspect of
considering only nonnull values, which definitely is correct.
In passing, rename the local variables in these stanzas to
"ndistinct_table", to avoid confusion with the "ndistinct" that appears at
an outer scope in compute_scalar_stats.
This elevel is useful for logging audit messages and similar information
that should not be passed to the client. It's equivalent to LOG in terms
of decisions about logging priority in the postmaster log, but messages
with this elevel will never be sent to the client.
In the current implementation, it's just an alias for the longstanding
COMMERROR elevel (or more accurately, we've made COMMERROR an alias for
this). At some point it might be interesting to allow a LOG_ONLY flag to
be attached to any elevel, but that would be considerably more complicated,
and it's not clear there's enough use-cases to justify the extra work.
For now, let's just take the easy 90% solution.
David Steele, reviewed by Fabien Coelho, Petr Jelínek, and myself
The first iteration of the signal-checking loop would compute sigmask(0)
which expands to 1<<(-1) which is undefined behavior according to the
C standard. The lack of field reports of trouble suggest that it
evaluates to 0 on all existing Windows compilers, but that's hardly
something to rely on. Since signal 0 isn't a queueable signal anyway,
we can just make the loop iterate from 1 instead, and save a few cycles
as well as avoiding the undefined behavior.
In passing, avoid evaluating the volatile expression UNBLOCKED_SIGNAL_QUEUE
twice in a row; there's no reason to waste cycles like that.
Noted by Aleksander Alekseev, though this isn't his proposed fix.
Back-patch to all supported branches.
When adjusting the estimate for the number of distinct values from a
rel in a grouped query to take into account the selectivity of the
rel's restrictions, use a formula that is less likely to produce
under-estimates.
The old formula simply multiplied the number of distinct values in the
rel by the restriction selectivity, which would be correct if the
restrictions were fully correlated with the grouping expressions, but
can produce significant under-estimates in cases where they are not
well correlated.
The new formula is based on the random selection probability, and so
assumes that the restrictions are not correlated with the grouping
expressions. This is guaranteed to produce larger estimates, and of
course risks over-estimating in cases where the restrictions are
correlated, but that has less severe consequences than
under-estimating, which might lead to a HashAgg that consumes an
excessive amount of memory.
This could possibly be improved upon in the future by identifying
correlated restrictions and using a hybrid of the old and new
formulae.
Author: Tomas Vondra, with some hacking be me
Reviewed-by: Mark Dilger, Alexander Korotkov, Dean Rasheed and Tom Lane
Discussion: http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/56CD0381.5060502@2ndquadrant.com
If archive_timeout > 0 we should avoid logging XLOG_RUNNING_XACTS if idle.
Bug 13685 reported by Laurence Rowe, investigated in detail by Michael Paquier,
though this is not his proposed fix.
20151016203031.3019.72930@wrigleys.postgresql.org
Simple non-invasive patch to allow later backpatch to 9.4 and 9.5
Replay of XLOG_BTREE_VACUUM during Hot Standby was previously thought to require
complex interlocking that matched the requirements on the master. This required
an O(N) operation that became a significant problem with large indexes, causing
replication delays of seconds or in some cases minutes while the
XLOG_BTREE_VACUUM was replayed.
This commit skips the pin scan that was previously required, by observing in
detail when and how it is safe to do so, with full documentation. The pin
scan is skipped only in replay; the VACUUM code path on master is not
touched here and WAL is identical.
The current commit applies in all cases, effectively replacing commit
687f2cd7a0.
As with the previous patch, large numbers of null rows could skew this
calculation unfavorably, causing us to discard values that have a
legitimate claim to be MCVs, since our definition of MCV is that it's
most common among the non-null population of the column. Hence, make
the numerator of avgcount be the number of non-null sample values not
the number of sample rows; likewise for maxmincount in the
compute_scalar_stats variant.
Also, make the denominator be the number of distinct values actually
observed in the sample, rather than reversing it back out of the computed
stadistinct. This avoids depending on the accuracy of the Haas-Stokes
approximation, and really it's what we want anyway; the threshold should
depend only on what we see in the sample, not on what we extrapolate
about the contents of the whole column.
Alex Shulgin, reviewed by Tomas Vondra and myself
Previously, we included null rows in the values of n and N that went
into the formula, which amounts to considering null as a value in its
own right; but the d and f1 values do not include nulls. This is
inconsistent, and it contributes to significant underestimation of
ndistinct when the column is mostly nulls. In any case stadistinct
is defined as the number of distinct non-null values, so we should
exclude nulls when doing this computation.
This is an aboriginal bug in our application of the Haas-Stokes formula,
but we'll refrain from back-patching for fear of destabilizing plan
choices in released branches.
While at it, make the code a bit more readable by omitting unnecessary
casts and intermediate variables.
Observation and original patch by Tomas Vondra, adjusted to fix both
uses of the formula by Alex Shulgin, cosmetic improvements by me
Our actual convention, contrary to what I said in 59a2111b23, is not to
quote type names, as evidenced by unquoted use of format_type_be()
result value in error messages. Remove quotes from recently tweaked
messages accordingly.
Per note from Tom Lane
This interface is designed to give an access to WAL for extensions which
could implement new access method, for example. Previously it was
impossible because restoring from custom WAL would need to access system
catalog to find a redo custom function. This patch suggests generic way
to describe changes on page with standart layout.
Bump XLOG_PAGE_MAGIC because of new record type.
Author: Alexander Korotkov with a help of Petr Jelinek, Markus Nullmeier and
minor editorization by my
Reviewers: Petr Jelinek, Alvaro Herrera, Teodor Sigaev, Jim Nasby,
Michael Paquier
Previously, the planner would reject an index-only scan if any restriction
clause for its table used a column not available from the index, even
if that restriction clause would later be dropped from the plan entirely
because it's implied by the index's predicate. This is a fairly common
situation for partial indexes because predicates using columns not included
in the index are often the most useful kind of predicate, and we have to
duplicate (or at least imply) the predicate in the WHERE clause in order
to get the index to be considered at all. So index-only scans were
essentially unavailable with such partial indexes.
To fix, we have to do detection of implied-by-predicate clauses much
earlier in the planner. This patch puts it in check_index_predicates
(nee check_partial_indexes), meaning it gets done for every partial index,
whereas we previously only considered this issue at createplan time,
so that the work was only done for an index actually selected for use.
That could result in a noticeable planning slowdown for queries against
tables with many partial indexes. However, testing suggested that there
isn't really a significant cost, especially not with reasonable numbers
of partial indexes. We do get a small additional benefit, which is that
cost_index is more accurate since it correctly discounts the evaluation
cost of clauses that will be removed. We can also avoid considering such
clauses as potential indexquals, which saves useless matching cycles in
the case where the predicate columns aren't in the index, and prevents
generating bogus plans that double-count the clause's selectivity when
the columns are in the index.
Tomas Vondra and Kyotaro Horiguchi, reviewed by Kevin Grittner and
Konstantin Knizhnik, and whacked around a little by me
When decoding from a logical slot, it's necessary for xlog reading to be
able to read xlog from historical (i.e. not current) timelines;
otherwise, decoding fails after failover, because the archives are in
the historical timeline. This is required to make "failover logical
slots" possible; it currently has no other use, although theoretically
it could be used by an extension that creates a slot on a standby and
continues to replay from the slot when the standby is promoted.
This commit includes a module in src/test/modules with functions to
manipulate the slots (which is not otherwise possible in SQL code) in
order to enable testing, and a new test in src/test/recovery to ensure
that the behavior is as expected.
Author: Craig Ringer
Reviewed-By: Oleksii Kliukin, Andres Freund, Petr Jelínek
Some minor tweaks and comment additions, for cleanliness sake and to
avoid having the upcoming timeline-following patch be polluted with
unrelated cleanup.
Extracted from a larger patch by Craig Ringer, reviewed by Andres
Freund, with some additions by myself.
Formerly, the geometric I/O routines such as box_in and point_out relied
directly on strtod() and sprintf() for conversion of the float8 component
values of their data types. However, the behavior of those functions is
pretty platform-dependent, especially for edge-case values such as
infinities and NaNs. This was exposed by commit acdf2a8b37, which
added test cases involving boxes with infinity endpoints, and immediately
failed on Windows and AIX buildfarm members. We solved these problems
years ago in the main float8in and float8out functions, so let's fix it
by making the geometric types use that code instead of depending directly
on the platform-supplied functions.
To do this, refactor the float8in code so that it can be used to parse
just part of a string, and as a convenience make the guts of float8out
usable without going through DirectFunctionCall.
While at it, get rid of geo_ops.c's fairly shaky assumptions about the
maximum output string length for a double, by having it build results in
StringInfo buffers instead of fixed-length strings.
In passing, convert all the "invalid input syntax for type foo" messages
in this area of the code into "invalid input syntax for type %s" to reduce
the number of distinct translatable strings, per recent discussion.
We would have needed a fair number of the latter anyway for code-sharing
reasons, so we might as well just go whole hog.
Note: this patch is by no means intended to guarantee that the geometric
types uniformly behave sanely for infinity or NaN component values.
But any bugs we have in that line were there all along, they were just
harder to reach in a platform-independent way.
My compiler doesn't like the lack of initialization of "flag", and
I think it's right: if there were zero keys we'd have an undefined
result. The AND of zero items is TRUE, so initialize to TRUE.
Patch implements quad-tree over boxes, naive approach of 2D quad tree will not
work for any non-point objects because splitting space on node is not
efficient. The idea of pathc is treating 2D boxes as 4D points, so,
object will not overlap (in 4D space).
The performance tests reveal that this technique especially beneficial
with too much overlapping objects, so called "spaghetti data".
Author: Alexander Lebedev with editorization by Emre Hasegeli and me
During scan sometimes it would be very helpful to know some information about
parent node or all ancestor nodes. Right now reconstructedValue could be used
but it's not a right usage of it (range opclass uses that).
traversalValue is arbitrary piece of memory in separate MemoryContext while
reconstructedVale should have the same type as indexed column.
Subsequent patches for range opclass and quad4d tree will use it.
Author: Alexander Lebedev, Teodor Sigaev
In this mode, the master waits for the transaction to be applied on
the remote side, not just written to disk. That means that you can
count on a transaction started on the standby to see all commits
previously acknowledged by the master.
To make this work, the standby sends a reply after replaying each
commit record generated with synchronous_commit >= 'remote_apply'.
This introduces a small inefficiency: the extra replies will be sent
even by standbys that aren't the current synchronous standby. But
previously-existing synchronous_commit levels make no attempt at all
to optimize which replies are sent based on what the primary cares
about, so this is no worse, and at least avoids any extra replies for
people not using the feature at all.
Thomas Munro, reviewed by Michael Paquier and by me. Some additional
tweaks by me.
interval_mul() attempts to prevent its calculations from producing silly
results, but it forgot that zero times infinity yields NaN in IEEE
arithmetic. Hence, a case like '1 second'::interval * 'infinity'::float8
produced a NaN for the months product, which didn't trigger the range
check, resulting in bogus and possibly platform-dependent output.
This isn't terribly obvious to the naked eye because if you try that
exact case, you get "interval out of range" which is what you expect
--- but if you look closer, the error is coming from interval_out not
interval_mul. interval_mul has allowed a bogus value into the system.
Fix by adding isnan tests.
Noted while testing Vitaly Burovoy's fix for infinity input to
to_timestamp(). Given the lack of field complaints, I doubt this
is worth a back-patch.
With the original SQL-function implementation, such cases failed because
we don't support infinite intervals. Converting the function to C lets
us bypass the interval representation, which should be a bit faster as
well as more flexible.
Vitaly Burovoy, reviewed by Anastasia Lubennikova
resulttypeLen and resulttypeByVal must be set correctly when serializing
aggregates, not just when finalizing them. This was in David's final
patch but I downloaded the wrong version by mistake and failed to spot
the error.
David Rowley
This is necessary infrastructure for supporting parallel aggregation
for aggregates whose transition type is "internal". Such values
can't be passed between cooperating processes, because they are
just pointers.
David Rowley, reviewed by Tomas Vondra and by me.
Whenever this function is used with the FORMAT_MESSAGE_FROM_SYSTEM flag,
it's good practice to include FORMAT_MESSAGE_IGNORE_INSERTS as well.
Otherwise, if the message contains any %n insertion markers, the function
will try to fetch argument strings to substitute --- which we are not
passing, possibly leading to a crash. This is exactly analogous to the
rule about not giving printf() a format string you're not in control of.
Noted and patched by Christian Ullrich.
Back-patch to all supported branches.
When tsearch was implemented I did several mistakes in hostname/email
definition rules:
1) allow underscore in hostname what prohibited by RFC
2) forget to allow leading digits separated by hyphen (like 123-x.com)
in hostname
3) do no allow underscore/hyphen after leading digits in localpart of email
Artur's patch resolves two last issues, but by the way allows hosts name like
123_x.com together with 123-x.com. RFC forbids underscore usage in hostname
but pg allows that since initial tsearch version in core, although only
for non-digits. Patch syncs support digits and nondigits in both hostname and
email.
Forbidding underscore in hostname may break existsing usage of tsearch and,
anyhow, it should be done by separate patch.
Author: Artur Zakirov
BUG: #13964
Per discussion, the new extensible node framework is thought to be
better designed than the custom path/scan/scanstate stuff we added
in PostgreSQL 9.5. Rework the latter to be more like the former.
This is not backward-compatible, but we generally don't promise that
for C APIs, and there probably aren't many people using this yet
anyway.
KaiGai Kohei, reviewed by Petr Jelinek and me. Some further
cosmetic changes by me.
Commit fbe5a3fb73 accidentally changed
this behavior; put things back the way they were, and add some
regression tests.
Report by Andres Freund; patch by Ashutosh Bapat, with a bit of
kibitzing by me.
Change the slightly different variations of the message
function FOO must return type BAR
to a single wording, removing the variability in type name so that they
all create a single translation entry; since the type name is not to be
translated, there's no point in it being part of the message anyway.
Also, change them all to use the same quoting convention, namely that
the function name is not to be quoted but the type name is. (I'm not
quite sure why this is so, but it's the clear majority.)
Some similar messages such as "encoding conversion function FOO must ..."
are also changed.
In the plancache, we check if the environment we planned the query under
has changed in a way which requires us to re-plan, such as when the user
for whom the plan was prepared changes and RLS is being used (and,
therefore, there may be different policies to apply).
Unfortunately, while those values were set and checked, they were not
being reset when the query was re-planned and therefore, in cases where
we change role, re-plan, and then change role again, we weren't
re-planning again. This leads to potentially incorrect policies being
applied in cases where role-specific policies are used and a given query
is planned under one role and then executed under other roles, which
could happen under security definer functions or when a common user and
query is planned initially and then re-used across multiple SET ROLEs.
Further, extensions which made use of CopyCachedPlan() may suffer from
similar issues as the RLS-related fields were not properly copied as
part of the plan and therefore RevalidateCachedQuery() would copy in the
current settings without invalidating the query.
Fix by using the same approach used for 'search_path', where we set the
correct values in CompleteCachedPlan(), check them early on in
RevalidateCachedQuery() and then properly reset them if re-planning.
Also, copy through the values during CopyCachedPlan().
Pointed out by Ashutosh Bapat. Reviewed by Michael Paquier.
Back-patch to 9.5 where RLS was introduced.
Security: CVE-2016-2193
Fix up check for high-bit-set characters, which provoked "comparison is
always true due to limited range of data type" warnings on some compilers,
and was unlike the way we do it elsewhere anyway. Fix omission of "$"
from the set of valid identifier continuation characters. Get rid of
sanitize_text(), which was utterly inconsistent with any other error report
anywhere in the system, and wasn't even well designed on its own terms
(double-quoting the result string without escaping contained double quotes
doesn't seem very well thought out). Fix up error messages, which didn't
follow the message style guidelines very well, and were overly specific in
situations where the actual mistake might not be what they said. Improve
documentation.
(I started out just intending to fix the compiler warning, but the more
I looked at the patch the less I liked it.)
If the referenced rel was proven empty, we'd compute 0/0 here, which
results in the function returning NaN. That's a bit more serious
than the other zero-divide case. Still, it only seems to be possible
in HEAD, so no back-patch.
Per report from Piotr Stefaniak. I looked through the rest of selfuncs.c
and found no other likely trouble spots.
This avoids a possible divide-by-zero in the following calculation,
and rounding the number to an integer seems like saner behavior anyway.
Assuming IEEE math, the division would yield +Infinity which would get
replaced by 1.0 at the bottom of the function, so nothing really
interesting would ensue; but avoiding divide-by-zero seems like a
good idea on general principles.
Per report from Piotr Stefaniak. No back-patch since this seems
mostly cosmetic.
cost_subplan() supposed that the given subplan must have plan_rows > 0,
which as far as I can tell was true until recent refactoring of the
code in createplan.c; but now that code allows the Result for a provably
empty subquery to have plan_rows = 0. Rather than undo that change,
put in a clamp to prevent zero divide.
get_cheapest_fractional_path() likewise supposed that best_path->rows > 0.
This assumption has been wrong for longer. It's actually harmless given
IEEE float math, because a positive value divided by zero gives +Infinity
and compare_fractional_path_costs() will do the right thing with that.
Still, best not to assume that.
final_cost_nestloop() also seems to have some risks in this area, so
borrow the clamping logic already present in the mergejoin cost functions.
Lastly, remove unnecessary clamp_row_est() in planner.c's calls to
get_number_of_groups(). The only thing that function does with path_rows
is pass it to estimate_num_groups() which already has an internal clamp,
so we don't need the extra call; and if we did, the callers are arguably
the wrong place for it anyway.
First two items reported by Piotr Stefaniak, the others are products
of my nosing around for similar problems. No back-patch since there's
no evidence that problems arise in the back branches.
We don't really want to encourage people to write numeric SQLSTATEs in
programs; that's unreadable and error-prone. Copy plpgsql's infrastructure
for converting between SQLSTATEs and exception names shown in Appendix A,
and modify examples in tests and documentation to do it that way.
This avoids leaving dangling links in pg_operator; which while fairly
harmless are also unsightly.
While we're at it, simplify OperatorUpd, which went through
heap_modify_tuple for no very good reason considering it had already made
a tuple copy it could just scribble on.
Roma Sokolov, reviewed by Tomas Vondra, additional hacking by Robert Haas
and myself.
In commit 9118d03a8c we taught the planner to postpone evaluation of
set-returning functions in a SELECT's targetlist until after any sort done
to satisfy ORDER BY. However, if we postpone some SRFs this way while
others do not get postponed (because they're sort or group key columns)
we will break the traditional behavior by which all SRFs in the tlist run
in-step during ExecTargetList(), so that you get the least common multiple
of their periods not the product. Fix make_sort_input_target() so it will
not split up SRF evaluation in such cases.
There is still a hazard of similar odd behavior if there's a SRF in a
grouping column and another one that isn't, but that was true before
and we're just trying to preserve bug-compatibility with the traditional
behavior. This whole area is overdue to be rethought and reimplemented,
but we'll try to avoid changing behavior until then.
Per report from Regina Obe.
This completes (at least for now) the project of getting rid of ad-hoc
linkages among the src/bin/ subdirectories. Everything they share is now
in src/fe_utils/ and is included from a static library at link time.
A side benefit is that we can restore the FLEX_NO_BACKUP check for
psqlscanslash.l. We might need to think of another way to do that check
if we ever need to build two lexers with that property in the same source
directory, but there's no foreseeable reason to need that.
Compilers that don't know that elog(ERROR) doesn't return complained
that this function might fail to return a value. Per buildfarm.
While at it, const-ify the function's declaration, since the intent
is evidently to always return a constant string.
This enables external code to create access methods. This is useful so
that extensions can add their own access methods which can be formally
tracked for dependencies, so that DROP operates correctly. Also, having
explicit support makes pg_dump work correctly.
Currently only index AMs are supported, but we expect different types to
be added in the future.
Authors: Alexander Korotkov, Petr Jelínek
Reviewed-By: Teodor Sigaev, Petr Jelínek, Jim Nasby
Commitfest-URL: https://commitfest.postgresql.org/9/353/
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAPpHfdsXwZmojm6Dx+TJnpYk27kT4o7Ri6X_4OSWcByu1Rm+VA@mail.gmail.com
Now that we have src/common/ for code shared between frontend and backend,
we can get rid of (most of) the klugy ways that the keyword table and
keyword lookup code were formerly shared between different uses.
This is a first step towards a more general plan of getting rid of
special-purpose kluges for sharing code in src/bin/.
I chose to merge kwlookup.c back into keywords.c, as it once was, and
always has been so far as keywords.h is concerned. We could have
kept them separate, but there is noplace that uses ScanKeywordLookup
without also wanting access to the backend's keyword list, so there
seems little point.
ecpg is still a bit weird, but at least now the trickiness is documented.
I think that the MSVC build script should require no adjustments beyond
what's done here ... but we'll soon find out.
Unfortunately, every version of glibc thus far tested has bugs whereby
strcoll() ordering does not match strxfrm() ordering as required by
the standard. This can result in, for example, corrupted indexes.
Disabling abbreviated keys in these cases slows down non-C-collation
string sorting considerably, but there seems to be no practical
alternative. Users who are confident that their libc implementations
are solid in this regard can re-enable the optimization by compiling
with TRUST_STRXFRM.
Users who have built indexes using PostgreSQL 9.5 or PostgreSQL 9.5.1
should REINDEX if there is a possibility that they may have been
affected by this problem.
Report by Marc-Olaf Jaschke. Investigation mostly by Tom Lane, with
help from Peter Geoghegan, Noah Misch, Stephen Frost, and me. Patch
by me, reviewed by Peter Geoghegan and Tom Lane.
Without this, contention on the freelist can become a pretty serious
problem on large servers.
Aleksander Alekseev, reviewed by Anastasia Lubennikova, Dilip Kumar,
and me.
User-facing (even tested by regression tests) error conditions were thrown
with elog(), hence had wrong SQLSTATE and were untranslatable. And the
error message texts weren't up to project style, either.
jsonb_set() could produce wrong answers or incorrect error reports, or in
the worst case even crash, when trying to convert a path-array element into
an integer for use as an array subscript. Per report from Vitaly Burovoy.
Back-patch to 9.5 where the faulty code was introduced (in commit
c6947010ce).
Michael Paquier
In commit afb9249d06, we (probably I) made ExecLockRows assign
null test tuples to all relations of the query while setting up to do an
EvalPlanQual recheck for a newly-updated locked row. This was sheerest
brain fade: we should only set test tuples for relations that are lockable
by the LockRows node, and in particular empty test tuples are only sensible
for inheritance child relations that weren't the source of the current
tuple from their inheritance tree. Setting a null test tuple for an
unrelated table causes it to return NULLs when it should not, as exhibited
in bug #14034 from Bronislav Houdek. To add insult to injury, doing it the
wrong way required two loops where one would suffice; so the corrected code
is even a bit shorter and faster.
Add a regression test case based on his example, and back-patch to 9.5
where the bug was introduced.
Parallel workers can now partially aggregate the data and pass the
transition values back to the leader, which can combine the partial
results to produce the final answer.
David Rowley, based on earlier work by Haribabu Kommi. Reviewed by
Álvaro Herrera, Tomas Vondra, Amit Kapila, James Sewell, and me.
Commit ac1d794 ("Make idle backends exit if the postmaster dies.")
introduced a regression on, at least, large linux systems. Constantly
adding the same postmaster_alive_fds to the OSs internal datastructures
for implementing poll/select can cause significant contention; leading
to a performance regression of nearly 3x in one example.
This can be avoided by using e.g. linux' epoll, which avoids having to
add/remove file descriptors to the wait datastructures at a high rate.
Unfortunately the current latch interface makes it hard to allocate any
persistent per-backend resources.
Replace, with a backward compatibility layer, WaitLatchOrSocket with a
new WaitEventSet API. Users can allocate such a Set across multiple
calls, and add more than one file-descriptor to wait on. The latter has
been added because there's upcoming postgres features where that will be
helpful.
In addition to the previously existing poll(2), select(2),
WaitForMultipleObjects() implementations also provide an epoll_wait(2)
based implementation to address the aforementioned performance
problem. Epoll is only available on linux, but that is the most likely
OS for machines large enough (four sockets) to reproduce the problem.
To actually address the aforementioned regression, create and use a
long-lived WaitEventSet for FE/BE communication. There are additional
places that would benefit from a long-lived set, but that's a task for
another day.
Thanks to Amit Kapila, who helped make the windows code I blindly wrote
actually work.
Reported-By: Dmitry Vasilyev Discussion:
CAB-SwXZh44_2ybvS5Z67p_CDz=XFn4hNAD=CnMEF+QqkXwFrGg@mail.gmail.com20160114143931.GG10941@awork2.anarazel.de
Previously latches for windows and unix had been implemented in
different files. A later patch introduce an expanded wait
infrastructure, keeping the implementation separate would introduce too
much duplication.
This basically just moves the functions, without too much change. The
reason to keep this separate is that it allows blame to continue working
a little less badly; and to make review a tiny bit easier.
Discussion: 20160114143931.GG10941@awork2.anarazel.de
Modern Perl has removed psed from its core distribution, so it might not
be readily available on some build platforms. We therefore replace its
use with a Perl script generated by s2p, which is equivalent to the sed
script. The latter is retained for non-MSVC builds to avoid creating a
new hard dependency on Perl for non-Windows tarball builds.
Backpatch to all live branches.
Michael Paquier and me.
Make some minor formatting adjustments to make it easier to diff these
files and see that they indeed implement the same flex rules (at least
to the extent that we want them to be the same).
(Someday it'd be nice to make ecpg's pgc.l more easily diff'able too,
but today is not that day.)
Also run relevant parts of these files and psqlscanslash.l through
pgindent.
No actual behavioral changes here, just obsessive neatnik-ism.
Now that we know about the %top{} trick, we can revert to building flex
lexers as separate .o files. This is worth doing for a couple of reasons
besides sheer cleanliness. We can narrow the scope of the -Wno-error flag
that's forced on scan.c. Also, since these grammar and lexer files are
so large, splitting them into separate build targets should have some
advantages in build speed, particularly in parallel or ccache'd builds.
We have quite a few other .l files that could be changed likewise, but the
above arguments don't apply to them, so the benefit of fixing them seems
pretty minimal. Leave the rest for some other day.
We used to require the server key file to have permissions 0600 or less
for best security. But some systems (such as Debian) have certificate
and key files managed by the operating system that can be shared with
other services. In those cases, the "postgres" user is made a member of
a special group that has access to those files, and the server key file
has permissions 0640. To accommodate that kind of setup, also allow the
key file to have permissions 0640 but only if owned by root.
From: Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org>
Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
The distinction between "archive" and "hot_standby" existed only because
at the time "hot_standby" was added, there was some uncertainty about
stability. This is now a long time ago. We would like to move forward
with simplifying the replication configuration, but this distinction is
in the way, because a primary server cannot tell (without asking a
standby or predicting the future) which one of these would be the
appropriate level.
Pick a new name for the combined setting to make it clearer that it
covers all (non-logical) backup and replication uses. The old values
are still accepted but are converted internally.
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: David Steele <david@pgmasters.net>
This avoids a good number of, individually quite fast, system calls in
scenarios with many quick queries. Besides the aesthetic benefit of
seing fewer superflous system calls with strace, it also improves
performance by ~2% measured by pgbench -M prepared -c 96 -j 8 -S (scale
100).
Without having benchmarked it, this patch also adjust the windows code,
as that makes it easier to unify the unix/windows codepaths in a later
patch. There's little reason to diverge in behaviour between the
platforms.
Discussion: CA+TgmoYc1Zm+Szoc_Qbzi92z2c1vRHZmjhfPn5uC=w8bXv6Avg@mail.gmail.com
Reviewed-By: Robert Haas
This allows for easier testing of the different primitives; in
preparation for adding a new primitive.
Discussion: 20160114143931.GG10941@awork2.anarazel.de
Reviewed-By: Robert Haas
postgres_fdw can now sent an UPDATE or DELETE statement directly to
the foreign server in simple cases, rather than sending a SELECT FOR
UPDATE statement and then updating or deleting rows one-by-one.
Etsuro Fujita, reviewed by Rushabh Lathia, Shigeru Hanada, Kyotaro
Horiguchi, Albe Laurenz, Thom Brown, and me.
This means that, for example, "SELECT expensive_func(a) FROM bigtab
WHERE something" can compute expensive_func(a) in the workers rather
than the leader if it happens to be parallel-safe, which figures to be
a big win in some practical cases.
Currently, we can only do this if the entire target list is
parallel-safe. If we worked harder, we might be able to evaluate
parallel-safe targets in the worker and any parallel-restricted
targets in the leader, but that would be more complicated, and there
aren't that many parallel-restricted functions that people are likely
to use in queries anyway. I think. So just do the simple thing for
the moment.
Robert Haas, Amit Kapila, and Tom Lane
I'm committing these changes separately so that it's clear what is
Peter's original work versus what I changed. This is a followup to
commit 0011c0091e, and these changes
are all by me.
Introduce a new memory context which stores tuple data, and reset it
at the end of each merge pass; this helps avoid memory fragmentation
and, consequently, overallocation. Also, for the final merge patch,
eliminate memory context chunk header overhead entirely by allocating
all of the memory used for buffering tuples during the merge in a
single chunk. Since this modestly increases the number of tuples we
can store, grow the memtuples array a bit so that we're less likely to
run short of slots there.
Peter Geoghegan. Review and testing of patches in this series by
Jeff Janes, Greg Stark, Mithun Cy, and me.
In HEAD, fix incorrect field width for hours part of OF when tm_gmtoff is
negative. This was introduced by commit 2d87eedc1d as a result of
falsely applying a pattern that's correct when + signs are omitted, which
is not the case for OF.
In 9.4, fix missing abs() call that allowed a sign to be attached to the
minutes part of OF. This was fixed in 9.5 by 9b43d73b3f, but for
inscrutable reasons not back-patched.
In all three versions, ensure that the sign of tm_gmtoff is correctly
reported even when the GMT offset is less than 1 hour.
Add regression tests, which evidently we desperately need here.
Thomas Munro and Tom Lane, per report from David Fetter
- allow to use non-ascii characters as affix flag. Non-numeric affix flags now
are stored as string instead of numeric value of character.
- allow to use 0 as affix flag in numeric encoded affixes
That adds support for arabian, hungarian, turkish and
brazilian portuguese languages.
Author: Artur Zakirov with heavy editorization by me
Somebody had apparently once figured that casting to unsigned int would
produce the right output for negative inputs, but that would only be
true if 2^32 were a multiple of 7, which of course it ain't. We need
to use a signed division and then correct the sign of the remainder.
AFAICT, the only case where this would arise currently is when doing
ISO-week calculations for dates in 4714BC, where we'd compute a
negative Julian date representing 4714-01-04BC and then do some
arithmetic with it. Since we don't even really document support for
such dates, this is not of much consequence. But we may as well
get it right.
Per report from Vitaly Burovoy.
Tighten the semantics of boundary-case timestamptz so that we allow
timestamps >= '4714-11-24 00:00+00 BC' and < 'ENDYEAR-01-01 00:00+00 AD'
exactly, no more and no less, but it is allowed to enter timestamps
within that range using non-GMT timezone offsets (which could make the
nominal date 4714-11-23 BC or ENDYEAR-01-01 AD). This eliminates
dump/reload failure conditions for timestamps near the endpoints.
To do this, separate checking of the inputs for date2j() from the
final range check, and allow the Julian date code to handle a range
slightly wider than the nominal range of the datatypes.
Also add a bunch of checks to detect out-of-range dates and timestamps
that formerly could be returned by operations such as date-plus-integer.
All C-level functions that return date, timestamp, or timestamptz should
now be proof against returning a value that doesn't pass IS_VALID_DATE()
or IS_VALID_TIMESTAMP().
Vitaly Burovoy, reviewed by Anastasia Lubennikova, and substantially
whacked around by me
Vinayak Pokale provided a patch for a copy-and-paste error in a
comment. I noticed that I'd use the word "automatically" nearby where
I meant to talk about things being "atomic". Rahila Syed spotted a
misplaced counter update. Fix all that stuff.
INSERT ... ON CONFLICT's precheck may have to wait on the outcome of
another insertion, which may or may not itself be a speculative
insertion. This wait is not necessarily associated with an exclusion
constraint, but was always reported that way in log messages if the wait
happened to involve a tuple that had no speculative token.
Initially discovered through use of ON CONFLICT DO NOTHING, where
spurious references to exclusion constraints in log messages were more
likely.
Patch by Peter Geoghegan.
Reviewed by Julien Rouhaud.
Back-patch to 9.5 where INSERT ... ON CONFLICT was added.
There's a lot more that could be done here yet - in particular, this
reports only very coarse-grained information about the index vacuuming
phase - but even as it stands, the new pg_stat_progress_vacuum can
tell you quite a bit about what a long-running vacuum is actually
doing.
Amit Langote and Robert Haas, based on earlier work by Vinayak Pokale
and Rahila Syed.
This is basically like the just-added create_upper_paths_hook, but
control is funneled only to the FDW responsible for all the baserels
of the current query; so providing such a callback is much less likely
to add useless overhead than using the hook function is.
The documentation is a bit sketchy. We'll likely want to improve it,
and/or adjust the call conventions, when we get some experience with
actually using this callback. Hopefully somebody will find time to
experiment with it before 9.6 feature freeze.
We don't support any parallel write operations at present, so choosing
a parallel plan causes us to error out. Also, add a new regression
test that uses EXPLAIN ANALYZE SELECT INTO; if we'd had this previously,
force_parallel_mode testing would have caught this issue.
Mithun Cy and Robert Haas
In the initial revision of the upper-planner pathification work, the only
available way for an FDW or custom-scan provider to inject Paths
representing post-scan-join processing was to insert them during scan-level
GetForeignPaths or similar processing. While that's not impossible, it'd
require quite a lot of duplicative processing to look forward and see if
the extension would be capable of implementing the whole query. To improve
matters for custom-scan providers, provide a hook function at the point
where the core code is about to start filling in upperrel Paths. At this
point Paths are available for the whole scan/join tree, which should reduce
the amount of redundant effort considerably.
(An alternative design that was suggested was to provide a separate hook
for each post-scan-join processing step, but that seems messy and not
clearly more useful.)
Following our time-honored tradition, there's no documentation for this
hook outside the source code.
As-is, this hook is only meant for custom scan providers, which we can't
assume very much about. A followon patch will implement an FDW callback
to let FDWs do the same thing in a somewhat more structured fashion.
Although the default choice of rel->reltarget should typically be
sufficient for scan or join paths, it's not at all sufficient for the
purposes PathTargets were invented for; in particular not for
upper-relation Paths. So break API compatibility by adding a PathTarget
argument to create_foreignscan_path(). To ease updating of existing
code, accept a NULL value of the argument as selecting rel->reltarget.
In commit 19a541143a I did not make PathTarget a subtype of Node,
and embedded a RelOptInfo's reltarget directly into it rather than having
a separately-allocated Node. In hindsight that was misguided
micro-optimization, enabled by the fact that at that point we didn't have
any Paths with custom PathTargets. Now that PathTarget processing has
been fleshed out some more, it's easier to see that it's better to have
PathTarget as an indepedent Node type, even if it does cost us one more
palloc to create a RelOptInfo. So change it while we still can.
This commit just changes the representation, without doing anything more
interesting than that.
Commit 23a27b039d widened the rows-stored counters to uint64, but
that's academic unless we allow the tuple pointer array to exceed 1GB.
(It might be a good idea to provide some other limit on how much storage
a SPITupleTable can eat. On the other hand, there are plenty of other
ways to drive a backend into swap hell.)
Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker
The old code is bad for two reasons. First, it has an off-by-one
error. Second, it won't help if you aren't running with assertions
enabled. Per discussion, we want a check here in that case too.
Author: KaiGai Kohei, adjusted by me.
Reviewed-by: Petr Jelinek
Discussion: 56E0D547.1030101@2ndquadrant.com
Commit d88976cfa1 removed this code from ginFreeScanKeys():
- if (entry->list)
- pfree(entry->list);
evidently in the belief that that ItemPointer array is allocated in the
keyCtx and so would be reclaimed by the following MemoryContextReset.
Unfortunately, it isn't and it won't. It'd likely be a good idea for
that to become so, but as a simple and back-patchable fix in the
meantime, restore this code to ginFreeScanKeys().
Also, add a similar pfree to where startScanEntry() is about to zero out
entry->list. I am not sure if there are any code paths where this
change prevents a leak today, but it seems like cheap future-proofing.
In passing, make the initial allocation of so->entries[] use palloc
not palloc0. The code doesn't depend on unused entries being zero;
if it did, the array-enlargement code in ginFillScanEntry() would be
wrong. So using palloc0 initially can only serve to confuse readers
about what the invariant is.
Per report from Felipe de Jesús Molina Bravo, via Jaime Casanova in
<CAJGNTeMR1ndMU2Thpr8GPDUfiHTV7idELJRFusA5UXUGY1y-eA@mail.gmail.com>
This longstanding functionality evidently got lost in commit
3d6d1b5855. Noted while studying an OOM report from Jaime
Casanova. Backpatch to 9.5 where the bug was introduced.
This patch widens SPI_processed, EState's es_processed field, PortalData's
portalPos field, FuncCallContext's call_cntr and max_calls fields,
ExecutorRun's count argument, PortalRunFetch's result, and the max number
of rows in a SPITupleTable to uint64, and deals with (I hope) all the
ensuing fallout. Some of these values were declared uint32 before, and
others "long".
I also removed PortalData's posOverflow field, since that logic seems
pretty useless given that portalPos is now always 64 bits.
The user-visible results are that command tags for SELECT etc will
correctly report tuple counts larger than 4G, as will plpgsql's GET
GET DIAGNOSTICS ... ROW_COUNT command. Queries processing more tuples
than that are still not exactly the norm, but they're becoming more
common.
Most values associated with FETCH/MOVE distances, such as PortalRun's count
argument and the count argument of most SPI functions that have one, remain
declared as "long". It's not clear whether it would be worth promoting
those to int64; but it would definitely be a large dollop of additional
API churn on top of this, and it would only help 32-bit platforms which
seem relatively less likely to see any benefit.
Andreas Scherbaum, reviewed by Christian Ullrich, additional hacking by me
Buildfarm members gaur and pademelon are old enough not to know about
MAP_FAILED; which is used in 428b1d6. Include portability/mem.h to fix;
as already done in a bunch of other places.
CitusDB is using these and don't wish to redesign their code right now.
I am not on board with this being a good idea, or a good precedent,
but I lack the energy to fight about it.
It is frequently useful for volatile, set-returning, or expensive functions
in a SELECT's targetlist to be postponed till after ORDER BY and LIMIT are
done. Otherwise, the functions might be executed for every row of the
table despite the presence of LIMIT, and/or be executed in an unexpected
order. For example, in
SELECT x, nextval('seq') FROM tab ORDER BY x LIMIT 10;
it's probably desirable that the nextval() values are ordered the same
as x, and that nextval() is not run more than 10 times.
In the past, Postgres was inconsistent in this area: you would get the
desirable behavior if the ordering were performed via an indexscan, but
not if it had to be done by an explicit sort step. Getting the desired
behavior reliably required contortions like
SELECT x, nextval('seq')
FROM (SELECT x FROM tab ORDER BY x) ss LIMIT 10;
This patch conditionally postpones evaluation of pure-output target
expressions (that is, those that are not used as DISTINCT, ORDER BY, or
GROUP BY columns) so that they effectively occur after sorting, even if an
explicit sort step is necessary. Volatile expressions and set-returning
expressions are always postponed, so as to provide consistent semantics.
Expensive expressions (costing more than 10 times typical operator cost,
which by default would include any user-defined function) are postponed
if there is a LIMIT or if there are expressions that must be postponed.
We could be more aggressive and postpone any nontrivial expression, but
there are costs associated with doing so: it requires an extra Result plan
node which adds some overhead, and postponement changes the volume of data
going through the sort step, perhaps for the worse. Since we tend not to
have very good estimates of the output width of nontrivial expressions,
it's hard to have much confidence in our ability to predict whether
postponement would increase or decrease the cost of the sort; therefore
this patch doesn't attempt to make decisions conditionally on that.
Between these factors and a general desire not to change query behavior
when there's not a demonstrable benefit, it seems best to be conservative
about applying postponement. We might tweak the decision rules in the
future, though.
Konstantin Knizhnik, heavily rewritten by me
Some dictionaries have duplicated base words with different affix set, we
just merge that sets into one set. But previously merging of sets of affixes
was actually a concatenation of strings but it's wrong for numeric
representation of affixes because such representation uses comma to
separate affixes.
Author: Artur Zakirov
Adds several tsvector editting function: convert tsvector to/from text array,
set weight for given lexemes, delete lexeme(s), unnest, filter lexemes
with given weights
Author: Stas Kelvich with some editorization by me
Reviewers: Tomas Vondram, Teodor Sigaev
Teach make_group_input_target() and make_window_input_target() to work
entirely with the PathTarget representation of tlists, rather than
constructing a tlist and immediately deconstructing it into PathTarget
format. In itself this only saves a few palloc's; the bigger picture is
that it opens the door for sharing cost_qual_eval work across all of
planner.c's constructions of PathTargets. I'll come back to that later.
In support of this, flesh out tlist.c's infrastructure for PathTargets
a bit more.
emit_log_hook could only see the translated text, making it harder to identify
which message was being sent. Pass original text to allow the exact message to
be identified, whichever language is used for logging.
Discussion: 20160216.184755.59721141.horiguchi.kyotaro@lab.ntt.co.jp
Author: Kyotaro Horiguchi
The old code is wrong, because it returns a pointer to an automatic
variable. And it's also more clever than we really need to be
considering that the case it's worrying about should never happen.
Up to now checkpoints were written in the order they're in the
BufferDescriptors. That's nearly random in a lot of cases, which
performs badly on rotating media, but even on SSDs it causes slowdowns.
To avoid that, sort checkpoints before writing them out. We currently
sort by tablespace, relfilenode, fork and block number.
One of the major reasons that previously wasn't done, was fear of
imbalance between tablespaces. To address that balance writes between
tablespaces.
The other prime concern was that the relatively large allocation to sort
the buffers in might fail, preventing checkpoints from happening. Thus
pre-allocate the required memory in shared memory, at server startup.
This particularly makes it more efficient to have checkpoint flushing
enabled, because that'll often result in a lot of writes that can be
coalesced into one flush.
Discussion: alpine.DEB.2.10.1506011320000.28433@sto
Author: Fabien Coelho and Andres Freund
Currently writes to the main data files of postgres all go through the
OS page cache. This means that some operating systems can end up
collecting a large number of dirty buffers in their respective page
caches. When these dirty buffers are flushed to storage rapidly, be it
because of fsync(), timeouts, or dirty ratios, latency for other reads
and writes can increase massively. This is the primary reason for
regular massive stalls observed in real world scenarios and artificial
benchmarks; on rotating disks stalls on the order of hundreds of seconds
have been observed.
On linux it is possible to control this by reducing the global dirty
limits significantly, reducing the above problem. But global
configuration is rather problematic because it'll affect other
applications; also PostgreSQL itself doesn't always generally want this
behavior, e.g. for temporary files it's undesirable.
Several operating systems allow some control over the kernel page
cache. Linux has sync_file_range(2), several posix systems have msync(2)
and posix_fadvise(2). sync_file_range(2) is preferable because it
requires no special setup, whereas msync() requires the to-be-flushed
range to be mmap'ed. For the purpose of flushing dirty data
posix_fadvise(2) is the worst alternative, as flushing dirty data is
just a side-effect of POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED, which also removes the pages
from the page cache. Thus the feature is enabled by default only on
linux, but can be enabled on all systems that have any of the above
APIs.
While desirable and likely possible this patch does not contain an
implementation for windows.
With the infrastructure added, writes made via checkpointer, bgwriter
and normal user backends can be flushed after a configurable number of
writes. Each of these sources of writes controlled by a separate GUC,
checkpointer_flush_after, bgwriter_flush_after and backend_flush_after
respectively; they're separate because the number of flushes that are
good are separate, and because the performance considerations of
controlled flushing for each of these are different.
A later patch will add checkpoint sorting - after that flushes from the
ckeckpoint will almost always be desirable. Bgwriter flushes are most of
the time going to be random, which are slow on lots of storage hardware.
Flushing in backends works well if the storage and bgwriter can keep up,
but if not it can have negative consequences. This patch is likely to
have negative performance consequences without checkpoint sorting, but
unfortunately so has sorting without flush control.
Discussion: alpine.DEB.2.10.1506011320000.28433@sto
Author: Fabien Coelho and Andres Freund
All along, this function should have treated WindowFuncs in a manner
similar to Aggrefs, ie with an option whether or not to recurse into them.
By not considering the case, it was always recursing, which is OK for most
callers (although I suspect that the case in prepare_sort_from_pathkeys
might represent a bug). But now we need return-without-recursing behavior
as well. There are also more than a few callers that should never see a
WindowFunc, and now we'll get some error checking on that.
Commit a892234f83 gave us enough
infrastructure to avoid vacuuming pages where every tuple on the
page is already frozen. So, replace the notion of a scan_all or
whole-table vacuum with the less onerous notion of an "aggressive"
vacuum, which will pages that are all-visible, but still skip those
that are all-frozen.
This should greatly reduce the cost of anti-wraparound vacuuming
on large clusters where the majority of data is never touched
between one cycle and the next, because we'll no longer have to
read all of those pages only to find out that we don't need to
do anything with them.
Patch by me, reviewed by Masahiko Sawada.
In commit 1d97c19a0f and later c1d9579dd8, we extended
pull_var_clause's API by adding enum-type arguments. That's sort of a pain
to maintain, though, because it means every time we add a new behavior we
must touch every last one of the call sites, even if there's a reasonable
default behavior that most of them could use. Let's switch over to using a
bitmask of flags, instead; that seems more maintainable and might save a
nanosecond or two as well. This commit changes no behavior in itself,
though I'm going to follow it up with one that does add a new behavior.
In passing, remove flatten_tlist(), which has not been used since 9.1
and would otherwise need the same API changes.
Removing these enums means that optimizer/tlist.h no longer needs to
depend on optimizer/var.h. Changing that caused a number of C files to
need addition of #include "optimizer/var.h" (probably we can thank old
runs of pgrminclude for that); but on balance it seems like a good change
anyway.
Earlier version committed in 9.0 caused spurious waits in some cases.
New infrastructure for lock waits in 9.3 used to correct and improve this.
Jeff Janes based upon a proposal by Simon Riggs, who also reviewed
Additional review comments from Amit Kapila
When a process is waiting for a heavyweight lock, we will now indicate
the type of heavyweight lock for which it is waiting. Also, you can
now see when a process is waiting for a lightweight lock - in which
case we will indicate the individual lock name or the tranche, as
appropriate - or for a buffer pin.
Amit Kapila, Ildus Kurbangaliev, reviewed by me. Lots of helpful
discussion and suggestions by many others, including Alexander
Korotkov, Vladimir Borodin, and many others.
The Visual Studio 2013 CRT generates invalid code when it makes a 64-bit
build that is later used on a CPU that supports AVX2 instructions using a
version of Windows before 7SP1/2008R2SP1.
Detect this combination, and in those cases turn off the generation of
FMA3, per recommendation from the Visual Studio team.
The bug is actually in the CRT shipping with Visual Studio 2013, but
Microsoft have stated they're only fixing it in newer major versions.
The fix is therefor conditioned specifically on being built with this
version of Visual Studio, and not previous or later versions.
Author: Christian Ullrich
Previously 2PC header was fixed at 200 bytes, which in most cases wasted
WAL space for a workload using 2PC heavily.
Pavan Deolasee, reviewed by Petr Jelinek
There's no point in pstrdup'ing the result of TextDatumGetCString,
since that's necessarily already a freshly-palloc'd C string.
These particular calls are unlikely to be of any consequence
performance-wise, but still they're a bad precedent that can confuse
future patch authors.
Noted by Chapman Flack.
Renaming a file using rename(2) is not guaranteed to be durable in face
of crashes. Use the previously added durable_rename()/durable_link_or_rename()
in various places where we previously just renamed files.
Most of the changed call sites are arguably not critical, but it seems
better to err on the side of too much durability. The most prominent
known case where the previously missing fsyncs could cause data loss is
crashes at the end of a checkpoint. After the actual checkpoint has been
performed, old WAL files are recycled. When they're filled, their
contents are fdatasynced, but we did not fsync the containing
directory. An OS/hardware crash in an unfortunate moment could then end
up leaving that file with its old name, but new content; WAL replay
would thus not replay it.
Reported-By: Tomas Vondra
Author: Michael Paquier, Tomas Vondra, Andres Freund
Discussion: 56583BDD.9060302@2ndquadrant.com
Backpatch: All supported branches
Renaming a file using rename(2) is not guaranteed to be durable in face
of crashes; especially on filesystems like xfs and ext4 when mounted
with data=writeback. To be certain that a rename() atomically replaces
the previous file contents in the face of crashes and different
filesystems, one has to fsync the old filename, rename the file, fsync
the new filename, fsync the containing directory. This sequence is not
generally adhered to currently; which exposes us to data loss risks. To
avoid having to repeat this arduous sequence, introduce
durable_rename(), which wraps all that.
Also add durable_link_or_rename(). Several places use link() (with a
fallback to rename()) to rename a file, trying to avoid replacing the
target file out of paranoia. Some of those rename sequences need to be
durable as well. There seems little reason extend several copies of the
same logic, so centralize the link() callers.
This commit does not yet make use of the new functions; they're used in
a followup commit.
Author: Michael Paquier, Andres Freund
Discussion: 56583BDD.9060302@2ndquadrant.com
Backpatch: All supported branches
An index search using a row comparison such as ROW(a, b) > ROW('x', 'y')
would stop upon reaching a NULL entry in the "b" column, ignoring the
fact that there might be non-NULL "b" values associated with later values
of "a". This happens because _bt_mark_scankey_required() marks the
subsidiary scankey for "b" as required, which is just wrong: it's for
a column after the one with the first inequality key (namely "a"), and
thus can't be considered a required match.
This bit of brain fade dates back to the very beginnings of our support
for indexed ROW() comparisons, in 2006. Kind of astonishing that no one
came across it before Glen Takahashi, in bug #14010.
Back-patch to all supported versions.
Note: the given test case doesn't actually fail in unpatched 9.1, evidently
because the fix for bug #6278 (i.e., stopping at nulls in either scan
direction) is required to make it fail. I'm sure I could devise a case
that fails in 9.1 as well, perhaps with something involving making a cursor
back up; but it doesn't seem worth the trouble.
Teodor Sigaev
Tom Lane
Fujii Masao
Simon Riggs
Alvaro Herrera
Robert Haas
Magnus Hagander
Peter Eisentraut
Dean Rasheed
Noah Misch
Stephen Frost
Andres Freund
Andrew Dunstan