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Peter Eisentraut
3164721462 SSL: Support ECDH key exchange
This sets up ECDH key exchange, when compiling against OpenSSL that
supports EC.  Then the ECDHE-RSA and ECDHE-ECDSA cipher suites can be
used for SSL connections.  The latter one means that EC keys are now
usable.

The reason for EC key exchange is that it's faster than DHE and it
allows to go to higher security levels where RSA will be horribly slow.

There is also new GUC option ssl_ecdh_curve that specifies the curve
name used for ECDH.  It defaults to "prime256v1", which is the most
common curve in use in HTTPS.

From: Marko Kreen <markokr@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@gmail.com>
2013-12-07 15:11:44 -05:00
Fujii Masao
91484409bd Expose qurey ID in pg_stat_statements view.
The query ID is the internal hash identifier of the statement,
and was not available in pg_stat_statements view so far.

Daniel Farina, Sameer Thakur and Peter Geoghegan, reviewed by me.
2013-12-08 02:06:02 +09:00
Peter Eisentraut
ef3267523d SSL: Add configuration option to prefer server cipher order
By default, OpenSSL (and SSL/TLS in general) lets the client cipher
order take priority.  This is OK for browsers where the ciphers were
tuned, but few PostgreSQL client libraries make the cipher order
configurable.  So it makes sense to have the cipher order in
postgresql.conf take priority over client defaults.

This patch adds the setting "ssl_prefer_server_ciphers" that can be
turned on so that server cipher order is preferred.  Per discussion,
this now defaults to on.

From: Marko Kreen <markokr@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@gmail.com>
2013-12-07 08:13:50 -05:00
Bruce Momjian
8fe3d90d34 docs: update partition encryption options
Text from Adam Vande More
2013-12-06 09:47:39 -05:00
Bruce Momjian
fa4add50c4 docs: clarify SSL certificate authority chain docs
Previously, the requirements of how intermediate certificates were
handled and their chain to root certificates was unclear.
2013-12-06 09:42:08 -05:00
Bruce Momjian
5043fc8251 doc: split long query into multiple lines
Report from Erik Rijkers
2013-12-04 10:03:13 -05:00
Bruce Momjian
9e0a97f1c8 libpq: change PQconndefaults() to ignore invalid service files
Previously missing or invalid service files returned NULL.  Also fix
pg_upgrade to report "out of memory" for a null return from
PQconndefaults().

Patch by Steve Singer, rewritten by me
2013-12-03 11:12:25 -05:00
Peter Eisentraut
95e3d50539 doc: Refine documentation about recovery command exist status
Add more documentation about how different exit codes and signals are
handled in each case.

Reviewed-by: Peter Geoghegan <pg@heroku.com>
2013-12-02 22:31:41 -05:00
Tom Lane
02bb4bbc66 Update release notes for 9.3.2, 9.2.6, 9.1.11, 9.0.15, 8.4.19. 2013-12-02 15:53:55 -05:00
Bruce Momjian
54916b99f7 doc: update wording of ineffective SET and ABORT commands
Wording by Alvaro Herrera
2013-12-02 12:51:58 -05:00
Tom Lane
b8b7b723f2 Improve draft release notes.
Per suggestions from Andres Freund.  Also fix spelling of
Sergey Burladyan's name.
2013-12-02 12:17:46 -05:00
Tom Lane
23e796de15 Draft release notes for 9.3.2.
I'm putting these up for review before I start to extract the relevant
subsets for the older branches.  It'll be easier to make any suggested
wording improvements at this stage.
2013-12-01 18:46:16 -05:00
Peter Eisentraut
3c81b5c1d2 doc: Disable preface.autolabel in XSLT
The makes the output more consistent with the existing DSSSL setup.
2013-12-01 17:13:23 -05:00
Tom Lane
4796035402 Editorial corrections to the October 2013 minor-release notes.
This is mostly to fix incorrect migration instructions: since the preceding
minor releases advised reindexing some GIST indexes, it's important that
we back-link to that advice rather than earlier instances.

Also improve some bug descriptions and fix a few typos.

No back-patch yet; these files will get copied into the back branches
later in the release process.
2013-11-30 16:57:25 -05:00
Peter Eisentraut
1eafea5d1b doc: Simplify handling of variablelists in XSLT build
The previously used custom template is no longer necessary because
parameters provided by the standard style sheet can achieve the same
outcome.
2013-11-29 22:42:47 -05:00
Peter Eisentraut
50107ee7a5 doc: Enhance documentation of ssl_ciphers setting a bit 2013-11-29 09:06:28 -05:00
Peter Eisentraut
384eb1d40d doc: Allow selecting web site CSS style sheet in XSLT HTML build 2013-11-28 22:45:08 -05:00
Peter Eisentraut
b6ecde8ed4 doc: Set chunk.first.sections in XSLT, for consistency with DSSSL output 2013-11-27 22:42:04 -05:00
Bruce Momjian
9ef780d4d7 pg_buffercache docs: adjust order of fields
Adjust order of fields to match view order.

Jaime Casanova
2013-11-27 22:33:59 -05:00
Peter Eisentraut
a607b6903e doc: Put data types in alphabetical order
From: Andreas Karlsson <andreas@proxel.se>
2013-11-27 21:50:27 -05:00
Kevin Grittner
89ba815092 Minor correction of READ COMMITTED isolation level docs.
Per report from AK
2013-11-27 14:34:12 -06:00
Michael Meskes
2390f2b2d3 Documentation fix for ecpg.
The latest fixes removed a limitation that was still in the docs, so Zoltan updated the docs, too.
2013-11-27 11:03:59 +01:00
Fujii Masao
d1b88f6b36 Add --xlogdir option to pg_basebackup, for specifying the pg_xlog directory.
Haribabu kommi, slightly modified by me.
2013-11-27 14:00:16 +09:00
Fujii Masao
551c78281b Fix typo in release note.
Backpatch to 9.1.

Josh Kupershmidt
2013-11-27 13:48:01 +09:00
Peter Eisentraut
85ed91ee7d Implement information_schema.parameters.parameter_default column
Reviewed-by: Ali Dar <ali.munir.dar@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Amit Khandekar <amit.khandekar@enterprisedb.com>
Reviewed-by: Rodolfo Campero <rodolfo.campero@anachronics.com>
2013-11-26 23:21:35 -05:00
Peter Eisentraut
3803ff985c doc: Add id to index in XSLT build
That way, the HTML file name of the index will be the same as currently
for the DSSSL build.
2013-11-26 23:02:40 -05:00
Bruce Momjian
a6542a4b68 Change SET LOCAL/CONSTRAINTS/TRANSACTION and ABORT behavior
Change SET LOCAL/CONSTRAINTS/TRANSACTION behavior outside of a
transaction block from error (post-9.3) to warning.  (Was nothing in <=
9.3.)  Also change ABORT outside of a transaction block from notice to
warning.
2013-11-25 19:19:40 -05:00
Michael Meskes
05b476c298 More improvement to comment parsing in ecpg.
ECPG is not supposed to allow and output nested comments in C. These comments
are only allowed in the SQL parts and must not be written into the C file.
Also the different handling of different comments is documented.
2013-11-25 15:38:09 +01:00
Peter Eisentraut
a5036ca998 PL/Tcl: Add event trigger support
From: Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri@2ndQuadrant.fr>
2013-11-23 21:32:00 -05:00
Tom Lane
784e762e88 Support multi-argument UNNEST(), and TABLE() syntax for multiple functions.
This patch adds the ability to write TABLE( function1(), function2(), ...)
as a single FROM-clause entry.  The result is the concatenation of the
first row from each function, followed by the second row from each
function, etc; with NULLs inserted if any function produces fewer rows than
others.  This is believed to be a much more useful behavior than what
Postgres currently does with multiple SRFs in a SELECT list.

This syntax also provides a reasonable way to combine use of column
definition lists with WITH ORDINALITY: put the column definition list
inside TABLE(), where it's clear that it doesn't control the ordinality
column as well.

Also implement SQL-compliant multiple-argument UNNEST(), by turning
UNNEST(a,b,c) into TABLE(unnest(a), unnest(b), unnest(c)).

The SQL standard specifies TABLE() with only a single function, not
multiple functions, and it seems to require an implicit UNNEST() which is
not what this patch does.  There may be something wrong with that reading
of the spec, though, because if it's right then the spec's TABLE() is just
a pointless alternative spelling of UNNEST().  After further review of
that, we might choose to adopt a different syntax for what this patch does,
but in any case this functionality seems clearly worthwhile.

Andrew Gierth, reviewed by Zoltán Böszörményi and Heikki Linnakangas, and
significantly revised by me
2013-11-21 19:37:20 -05:00
Bruce Momjian
22967d8003 docs: update page format to specify page checksum field
Backpatch to 9.3

Per report from Steffen Hildebrandt
2013-11-19 16:54:42 -05:00
Tom Lane
f901bb50e3 Add make_date() and make_time() functions.
Pavel Stehule, reviewed by Jeevan Chalke and Atri Sharma
2013-11-17 15:06:50 -05:00
Tom Lane
6cb86143e8 Allow aggregates to provide estimates of their transition state data size.
Formerly the planner had a hard-wired rule of thumb for guessing the amount
of space consumed by an aggregate function's transition state data.  This
estimate is critical to deciding whether it's OK to use hash aggregation,
and in many situations the built-in estimate isn't very good.  This patch
adds a column to pg_aggregate wherein a per-aggregate estimate can be
provided, overriding the planner's default, and infrastructure for setting
the column via CREATE AGGREGATE.

It may be that additional smarts will be required in future, perhaps even
a per-aggregate estimation function.  But this is already a step forward.

This is extracted from a larger patch to improve the performance of numeric
and int8 aggregates.  I (tgl) thought it was worth reviewing and committing
this infrastructure separately.  In this commit, all built-in aggregates
are given aggtransspace = 0, so no behavior should change.

Hadi Moshayedi, reviewed by Pavel Stehule and Tomas Vondra
2013-11-16 16:03:40 -05:00
Robert Haas
71dd54ada9 doc: Restore proper alphabetical order.
Colin 't Hart
2013-11-15 08:46:12 -05:00
Tom Lane
5d924f067c Clarify CREATE FUNCTION documentation about handling of typmods.
The previous text was a bit misleading, as well as unnecessarily vague
about what information would be discarded.  Per gripe from Craig Skinner.
2013-11-13 13:30:15 -05:00
Bruce Momjian
cd8115e009 docs: clarify MVCC introduction to allow for per-statement snapshots 2013-11-13 10:14:08 -05:00
Robert Haas
9cab81b572 doc: Fix typo.
Reported by Thom Brown.
2013-11-12 10:24:43 -05:00
Peter Eisentraut
001e114b8d Fix whitespace issues found by git diff --check, add gitattributes
Set per file type attributes in .gitattributes to fine-tune whitespace
checks.  With the associated cleanups, the tree is now clean for git
2013-11-10 14:48:29 -05:00
Robert Haas
636b868f17 doc: Clarify under what circumstances pg_dump needs superuser access.
Inspired by, but different from, a patch from Ivan Lezhnjov IV
2013-11-08 15:08:11 -05:00
Robert Haas
07cacba983 Add the notion of REPLICA IDENTITY for a table.
Pending patches for logical replication will use this to determine
which columns of a tuple ought to be considered as its candidate key.

Andres Freund, with minor, mostly cosmetic adjustments by me
2013-11-08 12:30:43 -05:00
Tom Lane
bb45c64041 Support default arguments and named-argument notation for window functions.
These things didn't work because the planner omitted to do the necessary
preprocessing of a WindowFunc's argument list.  Add the few dozen lines
of code needed to handle that.

Although this sounds like a feature addition, it's really a bug fix because
the default-argument case was likely to crash previously, due to lack of
checking of the number of supplied arguments in the built-in window
functions.  It's not a security issue because there's no way for a
non-superuser to create a window function definition with defaults that
refers to a built-in C function, but nonetheless people might be annoyed
that it crashes rather than producing a useful error message.  So
back-patch as far as the patch applies easily, which turns out to be 9.2.
I'll put a band-aid in earlier versions as a separate patch.

(Note that these features still don't work for aggregates, and fixing that
case will be harder since we represent aggregate arg lists as target lists
not bare expression lists.  There's no crash risk though because CREATE
AGGREGATE doesn't accept defaults, and we reject named-argument notation
when parsing an aggregate call.)
2013-11-06 13:33:09 -05:00
Tom Lane
920c8261d5 Improve the error message given for modifying a window with frame clause.
For rather inscrutable reasons, SQL:2008 disallows copying-and-modifying a
window definition that has any explicit framing clause.  The error message
we gave for this only made sense if the referencing window definition
itself contains an explicit framing clause, which it might well not.
Moreover, in the context of an OVER clause it's not exactly obvious that
"OVER (windowname)" implies copy-and-modify while "OVER windowname" does
not.  This has led to multiple complaints, eg bug #5199 from Iliya
Krapchatov.  Change to a hopefully more intelligible error message, and
in the case where we have just "OVER (windowname)", add a HINT suggesting
that omitting the parentheses will fix it.  Also improve the related
documentation.  Back-patch to all supported branches.
2013-11-05 21:58:08 -05:00
Tom Lane
45f64f1bbf Remove CTimeZone/HasCTZSet, root and branch.
These variables no longer have any useful purpose, since there's no reason
to special-case brute force timezones now that we have a valid
session_timezone setting for them.  Remove the variables, and remove the
SET/SHOW TIME ZONE code that deals with them.

The user-visible impact of this is that SHOW TIME ZONE will now show a
POSIX-style zone specification, in the form "<+-offset>-+offset", rather
than an interval value when a brute-force zone has been set.  While perhaps
less intuitive, this is a better definition than before because it's
actually possible to give that string back to SET TIME ZONE and get the
same behavior, unlike what used to happen.

We did not previously mention the angle-bracket syntax when describing
POSIX timezone specifications; add some documentation so that people
can figure out what these strings do.  (There's still quite a lot of
undocumented functionality there, but anybody who really cares can
go read the POSIX spec to find out about it.  In practice most people
seem to prefer Olsen-style city names anyway.)
2013-11-01 13:57:31 -04:00
Tom Lane
c2b51cf190 Improve documentation about usage of FDW validator functions.
SGML documentation, as well as code comments, failed to note that an FDW's
validator will be applied to foreign-table options for foreign tables using
the FDW.

Etsuro Fujita
2013-10-28 10:28:35 -04:00
Tom Lane
438df52df9 Suppress duplicate-index-entry warning introduced by previous commit.
We don't need two index entries for lo_create pointing at the same section.
It's a bit pedantic for the toolchain to warn about this, but warn it does.
2013-10-28 10:00:28 -04:00
Noah Misch
c50b7c09d8 Add large object functions catering to SQL callers.
With these, one need no longer manipulate large object descriptors and
extract numeric constants from header files in order to read and write
large object contents from SQL.

Pavel Stehule, reviewed by Rushabh Lathia.
2013-10-27 22:56:54 -04:00
Heikki Linnakangas
75fdcec145 Improve documentation of random() function.
Move random() and setseed() to a separate table, to have them grouped
together. Also add a notice that random() is not cryptographically secure.

Original patch by Honza Horak, although I didn't use his version.
2013-10-24 15:40:23 +03:00
Peter Eisentraut
a5963efa8f doc: Improve setup for documentation building with FOP
Add a makefile rule for building PDFs with FOP.  Two new build targets
in doc/src/sgml are postgres-A4-fop.pdf and postgres-US-fop.pdf.

Run .fo output through xmllint for reformatting, so that errors are
easier to find.  (The default output has hardly any line breaks, so you
might be looking for an error in column 20000.)

Set some XSLT parameters to optimize for building with FOP.

Remove some redundant or somewhat useless chapterinfo/author
information, because it renders strangely with the FO stylesheet.

Reviewed-by: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
2013-10-21 06:43:08 -04:00
Robert Haas
cab5dc5daf Allow only some columns of a view to be auto-updateable.
Previously, unless all columns were auto-updateable, we wouldn't
inserts, updates, or deletes, or at least not without a rule or trigger;
now, we'll allow inserts and updates that target only the auto-updateable
columns, and deletes even if there are no auto-updateable columns at
all provided the view definition is otherwise suitable.

Dean Rasheed, reviewed by Marko Tiikkaja
2013-10-18 10:35:36 -04:00
Robert Haas
523beaa11b Provide a reliable mechanism for terminating a background worker.
Although previously-introduced APIs allow the process that registers a
background worker to obtain the worker's PID, there's no way to prevent
a worker that is not currently running from being restarted.  This
patch introduces a new API TerminateBackgroundWorker() that prevents
the background worker from being restarted, terminates it if it is
currently running, and causes it to be unregistered if or when it is
not running.

Patch by me.  Review by Michael Paquier and KaiGai Kohei.
2013-10-18 10:23:11 -04:00