There is no reason to insist that direct arguments must match before
we can merge transition states of two aggregate calls. They're only
used during the finalfn call, so we can treat them as like the finalfn
itself. This allows, eg, merging of
select
percentile_cont(0.25) within group (order by a),
percentile_disc(0.5) within group (order by a)
from ...
This didn't matter (and could not have been tested) before we allowed
state merging of OSAs otherwise.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAB4ELO5RZhOamuT9Xsf72ozbenDLLXZKSk07FiSVsuJNZB861A@mail.gmail.com
The built-in OSAs all share the same transition function, so they can
share transition state as long as the final functions cooperate to not
do the sort step more than once. To avoid running the tuplesort object
in randomAccess mode unnecessarily, add a bit of infrastructure to
nodeAgg.c to let the aggregate functions find out whether the transition
state is actually being shared or not.
This doesn't work for the hypothetical aggregates, since those inject
a hypothetical row that isn't traceable to the shared input state.
So they remain marked aggfinalmodify = 'w'.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAB4ELO5RZhOamuT9Xsf72ozbenDLLXZKSk07FiSVsuJNZB861A@mail.gmail.com
An aggregate's input expression(s) are not supposed to be evaluated
at all for a row where its FILTER test fails ... but commit 8ed3f11bb
overlooked that requirement. Reshuffle so that aggregates having a
filter clause evaluate their arguments separately from those without.
This still gets the benefit of doing only one ExecProject in the
common case of multiple Aggrefs, none of which have filters.
While at it, arrange for filter clauses to be included in the common
ExecProject evaluation, thus perhaps buying a little bit even when
there are filters.
Back-patch to v10 where the bug was introduced.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/30065.1508161354@sss.pgh.pa.us
While poking around in the aggregate logic, I noticed that commit
8ed3f11bb broke the logic in nodeAgg.c that purports to detect nested
aggregates, by moving initialization of regular aggregate argument
expressions out of the code segment that checks for that.
You could argue that this check is unnecessary, but it's not much code
so I'm inclined to keep it as a backstop against parser and planner
bugs. However, there's certainly zero value in checking only some of
the subexpressions.
We can make the check complete again, and as a bonus make it a good
deal more bulletproof against future mistakes of the same ilk, by
moving it out to the outermost level of ExecInitAgg. This means we
need to check only once per Agg node not once per aggregate, which
also seems like a good thing --- if the check does find something
wrong, it's not urgent that we report it before the plan node
initialization finishes.
Since this requires remembering the original length of the aggs list,
I deleted a long-obsolete stanza that changed numaggs from 0 to 1.
That's so old it predates our decision that palloc(0) is a valid
operation, in (digs...) 2004, see commit 24a1e20f1.
In passing improve a few comments.
Back-patch to v10, just in case.
Up to now, there's been hard-wired assumptions that normal aggregates'
final functions never modify their transition states, while ordered-set
aggregates' final functions always do. This has always been a bit
limiting, and in particular it's getting in the way of improving the
built-in ordered-set aggregates to allow merging of transition states.
Therefore, let's introduce catalog and CREATE AGGREGATE infrastructure
that lets the finalfn's behavior be declared explicitly.
There are now three possibilities for the finalfn behavior: it's purely
read-only, it trashes the transition state irrecoverably, or it changes
the state in such a way that no more transfn calls are possible but the
state can still be passed to other, compatible finalfns. There are no
examples of this third case today, but we'll shortly make the built-in
OSAs act like that.
This change allows user-defined aggregates to explicitly disclaim support
for use as window functions, and/or to prevent transition state merging,
if their implementations cannot handle that. While it was previously
possible to handle the window case with a run-time error check, there was
not any way to prevent transition state merging, which in retrospect is
something commit 804163bc2 should have provided for. But better late
than never.
In passing, split out pg_aggregate.c's extern function declarations into
a new header file pg_aggregate_fn.h, similarly to what we've done for
some other catalog headers, so that pg_aggregate.h itself can be safe
for frontend files to include. This lets pg_dump use the symbolic
names for relevant constants.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/4834.1507849699@sss.pgh.pa.us
The following are the individual improvements:
1) Avoidance of FunctionCallInfo based function calls, replaced by
more efficient functions with a native C argument interface.
2) Don't extract columns from a cache entry's tuple whenever matching
entries - instead store them as a Datum array. This also allows to
get rid of having to build dummy tuples for negative & list
entries, and of a hack for dealing with cstring vs. text weirdness.
3) Reorder members of catcache.h struct, so imortant entries are more
likely to be on one cacheline.
4) Allowing the compiler to specialize critical SearchCatCache for a
specific number of attributes allows to unroll loops and avoid
other nkeys dependant initialization.
5) Only initializing the ScanKey when necessary, i.e. catcache misses,
greatly reduces cache unnecessary cpu cache misses.
6) Split of the cache-miss case from the hash lookup, reducing stack
allocations etc in the common case.
7) CatCTup and their corresponding heaptuple are allocated in one
piece.
This results in making cache lookups themselves roughly three times as
fast - full-system benchmarks obviously improve less than that.
I've also evaluated further techniques:
- replace open coded hash with simplehash - the list walk right now
shows up in profiles. Unfortunately it's not easy to do so safely as
an entry's memory location can change at various times, which
doesn't work well with the refcounting and cache invalidation.
- Cacheline-aligning CatCTup entries - helps some with performance,
but the win isn't big and the code for it is ugly, because the
tuples have to be freed as well.
- add more proper functions, rather than macros for
SearchSysCacheCopyN etc., but right now they don't show up in
profiles.
The reason the macro wrapper for syscache.c/h have to be changed,
rather than just catcache, is that doing otherwise would require
exposing the SysCache array to the outside. That might be a good idea
anyway, but it's for another day.
Author: Andres Freund
Reviewed-By: Robert Haas
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170914061207.zxotvyopetm7lrrp@alap3.anarazel.de
If a Parallel Bitmap Heap scan's chain of leftmost descendents
includes a BitmapOr whose first child is a BitmapAnd, the prior coding
would mistakenly create a non-shared TIDBitmap and then try to perform
shared iteration.
Report by Tomas Vondra. Patch by Dilip Kumar.
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/50e89684-8ad9-dead-8767-c9545bafd3b6@2ndquadrant.com
I (tgl) objected to the obscure implementation introduced in commit
1c497fa72. This one seems a bit less action-at-a-distance-y, at the
price of repeating a few lines of code.
Improve the comments about what the function is doing, too.
Amit Khandekar, whacked around a bit more by me
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAJ3gD9egYTyHUH0nTMxm8-1m3RvdqEbaTyGC-CUNtYf7tKNDaQ@mail.gmail.com
After calling ldap_unbind_s() we probably shouldn't try to use the LDAP
connection again to call ldap_get_option(), even if it failed. The OpenLDAP
man page for ldap_unbind[_s] says "Once it is called, the connection to the
LDAP server is closed, and the ld structure is invalid." Otherwise, as a
general rule we should probably call ldap_unbind() before returning in all
paths to avoid leaking resources. It is unlikely there is any practical
leak problem since failure to authenticate currently results in the backend
exiting soon afterwards.
Author: Thomas Munro
Reviewed-By: Alvaro Herrera, Peter Eisentraut
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170914141205.eup4kxzlkagtmfac%40alvherre.pgsql
The previous convention doesn't lend itself to creating ResultRelInfos
lazily, as we already do in ExecGetTriggerResultRel. This patch
doesn't make anything lazier than before, but the pending patch for
UPDATE tuple routing proposes to do so (and there might be other
opportunities as well).
Amit Khandekar with some adjustments by me.
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmoYPVP9Lyf6vUFA5DwxS4c--x6LOj2y36BsJaYtp62eXPQ@mail.gmail.com
If we merge the transition calculations for two different aggregates,
it's reasonable to assume that the transition function should not care
which of those Aggref structs it gets from AggGetAggref(). It is not
reasonable to make the same assumption about an aggregate final function,
however. Commit 804163bc2 broke this, as it will pass whichever Aggref
was first associated with the transition state in both cases.
This doesn't create an observable bug so far as the core system is
concerned, because the only existing uses of AggGetAggref() are in
ordered-set aggregates that happen to not pay attention to anything
but the input properties of the Aggref; and besides that, we disabled
sharing of transition calculations for OSAs yesterday. Nonetheless,
if some third-party code were using AggGetAggref() in a normal aggregate,
they would be entitled to call this a bug. Hence, back-patch the fix
to 9.6 where the problem was introduced.
In passing, improve some of the comments about transition state sharing.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAB4ELO5RZhOamuT9Xsf72ozbenDLLXZKSk07FiSVsuJNZB861A@mail.gmail.com
This ought to work, but the built-in OSAs are not capable of coping,
because their final-functions destructively modify their transition
state (specifically, the contained tuplesort object). That was fine
when those functions were written, but commit 804163bc2 moved the
goalposts without telling orderedsetaggs.c.
We should fix the built-in OSAs to support this, but it will take
a little work, especially if we don't want to sacrifice performance
in the normal non-shared-state case. Given that it took a year after
9.6 release for anyone to notice this bug, we should not prioritize
sharable-state over nonsharable-state performance. And a proper fix
is likely to be more complicated than we'd want to back-patch, too.
Therefore, let's just put in this stop-gap patch to prevent nodeAgg.c
from choosing to use shared state for OSAs. We can revert it in HEAD
when we get a better fix.
Report from Lukas Eder, diagnosis by me, patch by David Rowley.
Back-patch to 9.6 where the problem was introduced.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAB4ELO5RZhOamuT9Xsf72ozbenDLLXZKSk07FiSVsuJNZB861A@mail.gmail.com
There's three categories of changes leading to better performance:
- Splitting the per-attribute part of SendRowDescriptionMessage into a
v2 and a v3 version allows avoiding branches for every attribute.
- Preallocating the size of the buffer to be big enough for all
attributes and then using pq_write* avoids unnecessary buffer
size checks & resizing.
- Reusing a persistently allocated StringInfo for all
SendRowDescriptionMessage() invocations avoids repeated allocations
& reallocations.
Author: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170914063418.sckdzgjfrsbekae4@alap3.anarazel.de
This takes advantage of the infrastructure introduced by commit
81c5e46c49 to greatly reduce the
likelihood that two different queries will end up with the same query
ID. It's still possible, of course, but whereas before it the chances
of a collision reached 25% around 50,000 queries, it will now take
more than 3 billion queries.
Backward incompatibility: Because the type exposed at the SQL level is
int8, users may now see negative query IDs in the pg_stat_statements
view (and also, query IDs more than 4 billion, which was the old
limit).
Patch by me, reviewed by Michael Paquier and Peter Geoghegan.
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmobG_Kp4cBKFmsznUAaM1GWW6hhRNiZC0KjRMOOeYnz5Yw@mail.gmail.com
This avoids newly allocating, and then possibly growing, the
stringbuffer for every row. For wide rows this can substantially
reduce memory allocator overhead, at the price of not immediately
reducing memory usage after outputting an especially wide row.
Author: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170914063418.sckdzgjfrsbekae4@alap3.anarazel.de
There's three prongs to achieve greater efficiency here:
1) Allow reusing a stringbuffer across pq_beginmessage/endmessage,
with the new pq_beginmessage_reuse/endmessage_reuse. This can be
beneficial both because it avoids allocating the initial buffer,
and because it's more likely to already have an correctly sized
buffer.
2) Replacing pq_sendint() with pq_sendint$width() inline
functions. Previously unnecessary and unpredictable branches in
pq_sendint() were needed. Additionally the replacement functions
are implemented more efficiently. pq_sendint is now deprecated, a
separate commit will convert all in-tree callers.
3) Add pq_writeint$width(), pq_writestring(). These rely on sufficient
space in the StringInfo's buffer, avoiding individual space checks
& potential individual resizing. To allow this to be used for
strings, expose mbutil.c's MAX_CONVERSION_GROWTH.
Followup commits will make use of these facilities.
Author: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170914063418.sckdzgjfrsbekae4@alap3.anarazel.de
In a lot of the places having appendBinaryStringInfo() maintain a
trailing NUL byte wasn't actually meaningful, e.g. when appending an
integer which can contain 0 in one of its bytes.
Removing this yields some small speedup, but more importantly will be
more consistent when providing faster variants of pq_sendint etc.
Author: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170914063418.sckdzgjfrsbekae4@alap3.anarazel.de
resowner/README contained advice to use a PG_TRY block to restore the
old CurrentResourceOwner value anywhere that that variable is transiently
changed. That advice was only inconsistently followed, however, and
on reflection it seems like unnecessary overhead. We don't bother
with such a convention for transient CurrentMemoryContext changes,
on the grounds that any (sub)transaction abort will start out by
resetting CurrentMemoryContext to what it wants. But the same is
true of CurrentResourceOwner, so there seems no need to treat it
differently.
Hence, remove PG_TRY blocks that exist only to restore CurrentResourceOwner
before re-throwing the error. There are a couple of places that restore
it along with some other actions, and I left those alone; the restore is
probably unnecessary but no noticeable gain will result from removing it.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/5236.1507583529@sss.pgh.pa.us
The previous coding in ProcessInterrupts() could lead to
idle_in_transaction_session_timeout being ignored, when
statement_timeout occurred earlier.
The problem was that ProcessInterrupts() would return before
processing the transaction timeout if QueryCancelPending was set while
QueryCancelHoldoffCount != 0 - which is the case when reading new
commands from the client. Ergo when the idle transaction timeout would
hit.
Fix that by removing the early return. Alternatively the transaction
timeout code could have been moved up, but that early return seems
like an issue that could hit other cases too.
Author: Lukas Fittl
Bug: #14821
Discussion:
https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20170921010956.17345.61461%40wrigleys.postgresql.orghttps://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAP53PkxQnv3OWJpyNPGJYT62uY=n1=2CF_Lpc6gVOFnc0-gazw@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch: 9.6-, where idle_in_transaction_session_timeout was introduced.
The GRANT reference page, which lists the default privileges for new
objects, failed to mention that USAGE is granted by default for data
types and domains. As a lesser sin, it also did not specify anything
about the initial privileges for sequences, FDWs, foreign servers,
or large objects. Fix that, and add a comment to acldefault() in the
probably vain hope of getting people to maintain this list in future.
Noted by Laurenz Albe, though I editorialized on the wording a bit.
Back-patch to all supported branches, since they all have this behavior.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1507620895.4152.1.camel@cybertec.at
Up to now async.c has used TransactionIdIsInProgress() to detect whether
a notify message's source transaction is still running. However, that
function has a quick-exit path that reports that XIDs before RecentXmin
are no longer running. If a listening backend is doing nothing but
listening, and not running any queries, there is nothing that will advance
its value of RecentXmin. Once 2 billion transactions elapse, the
RecentXmin check causes active transactions to be reported as not running.
If they aren't committed yet according to CLOG, async.c decides they
aborted and discards their messages. The timing for that is a bit tight
but it can happen when multiple backends are sending notifies concurrently.
The net symptom therefore is that a sufficiently-long-surviving
listen-only backend starts to miss some fraction of NOTIFY traffic,
but only under heavy load.
The only function that updates RecentXmin is GetSnapshotData().
A brute-force fix would therefore be to take a snapshot before
processing incoming notify messages. But that would add cycles,
as well as contention for the ProcArrayLock. We can be smarter:
having taken the snapshot, let's use that to check for running
XIDs, and not call TransactionIdIsInProgress() at all. In this
way we reduce the number of ProcArrayLock acquisitions from one
per message to one per notify interrupt; that's the same under
light load but should be a benefit under heavy load. Light testing
says that this change is a wash performance-wise for normal loads.
I looked around for other callers of TransactionIdIsInProgress()
that might be at similar risk, and didn't find any; all of them
are inside transactions that presumably have already taken a
snapshot.
Problem report and diagnosis by Marko Tiikkaja, patch by me.
Back-patch to all supported branches, since it's been like this
since 9.0.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170926182935.14128.65278@wrigleys.postgresql.org
The previous placement of the fallback implementation in libpgcommon
was problematic, because libpqport functions need strnlen
functionality.
Move replacement into libpgport. Provide strnlen() under its posix
name, instead of pg_strnlen(). Fix stupid configure bug, executing the
test only when compiled with threading support.
Author: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/E1e1gR2-0005fB-SI@gemulon.postgresql.org
Previously nodeProjectSet only released memory once per input tuple,
rather than once per returned tuple. If the computation of an
individual returned tuple requires a lot of memory, that can lead to
problems.
Instead change things so that the expression context can be reset once
per output tuple, which requires a new memory context to store SRF
arguments in.
This is a longstanding issue, but was hard to fix before 9.6, due to
the way tSRFs where evaluated. But it's fairly easy to fix now. We
could backpatch this into 10, but given there've been fewc omplaints
that doesn't seem worth the risk so far.
Reported-By: Lucas Fairchild
Author: Andres Freund, per discussion with Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/4514.1507318623@sss.pgh.pa.us
copy_file() reads and writes data 64KB at a time (with default BLCKSZ),
and historically has issued a pg_flush_data request after each write.
This turns out to interact really badly with macOS's new APFS file
system: a large file copy takes over 100X longer than it ought to on
APFS, as reported by Brent Dearth. While that's arguably a macOS bug,
it's not clear whether Apple will do anything about it in the near
future, and in any case experimentation suggests that issuing flushes
a bit less often can be helpful on other platforms too.
Hence, rearrange the logic in copy_file() so that flush requests are
issued once per N writes rather than every time through the loop.
I set the FLUSH_DISTANCE to 32MB on macOS (any less than that still
results in a noticeable speed degradation on APFS), but 1MB elsewhere.
In limited testing on Linux and FreeBSD, this seems slightly faster
than the previous code, and certainly no worse. It helps noticeably
on macOS even with the older HFS filesystem.
A simpler change would have been to just increase the size of the
copy buffer without changing the loop logic, but that seems likely
to trash the processor cache without really helping much.
Back-patch to 9.6 where we introduced msync() as an implementation
option for pg_flush_data(). The problem seems specific to APFS's
mmap/msync support, so I don't think we need to go further back.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CADkxhTNv-j2jw2g8H57deMeAbfRgYBoLmVuXkC=YCFBXRuCOww@mail.gmail.com
If the operator is a strict btree equality operator, and X isn't volatile,
then the clause must yield true for any non-null value of X, or null if X
is null. At top level of a WHERE clause, we can ignore the distinction
between false and null results, so it's valid to simplify the clause to
"X IS NOT NULL". This is a useful improvement mainly because we'll get
a far better selectivity estimate in most cases.
Because such cases seldom arise in well-written queries, it is unappetizing
to expend a lot of planner cycles looking for them ... but it turns out
that there's a place we can shoehorn this in practically for free, because
equivclass.c already has to detect and reject candidate equivalences of the
form X = X. That doesn't catch every place that it would be valid to
simplify to X IS NOT NULL, but it catches the typical case. Working harder
doesn't seem justified.
Patch by me, reviewed by Petr Jelinek
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAMjNa7cC4X9YR-vAJS-jSYCajhRDvJQnN7m2sLH1wLh-_Z2bsw@mail.gmail.com
The logical decoding functions do BeginInternalSubTransaction and
RollbackAndReleaseCurrentSubTransaction to clean up after themselves.
It turns out that AtEOSubXact_SPI has an unrecognized assumption that
we always need to cancel the active SPI operation in the SPI context
that surrounds the subtransaction (if there is one). That's true
when the RollbackAndReleaseCurrentSubTransaction call is coming from
the SPI-using function itself, but not when it's happening inside
some unrelated function invoked by a SPI query. In practice the
affected callers are the various PLs.
To fix, record the current subtransaction ID when we begin a SPI
operation, and clean up only if that ID is the subtransaction being
canceled.
Also, remove AtEOSubXact_SPI's assertion that it must have cleaned
up the surrounding SPI context's active tuptable. That's proven
wrong by the same test case.
Also clarify (or, if you prefer, reinterpret) the calling conventions
for _SPI_begin_call and _SPI_end_call. The memory context cleanup
in the latter means that these have always had the flavor of a matched
resource-management pair, but they weren't documented that way before.
Per report from Ben Chobot.
Back-patch to 9.4 where logical decoding came in. In principle,
the SPI changes should go all the way back, since the problem dates
back to commit 7ec1c5a86. But given the lack of field complaints
it seems few people are using internal subtransactions in this way.
So I don't feel a need to take any risks in 9.2/9.3.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/73FBA179-C68C-4540-9473-71E865408B15@silentmedia.com
Both ExecMakeFunctionResultSet() and evaluation of simple expressions
need to be done in the per-tuple memory context, not per-query, else
we leak data until end of query. This is a consideration that was
missed while refactoring code in the ProjectSet patch (note that in
pre-v10, ExecMakeFunctionResult is called in the per-tuple context).
Per bug #14843 from Ben M. Diagnosed independently by Andres and myself.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20171005230321.28561.15927@wrigleys.postgresql.org
Sloppy loop coding in set_status_by_pages() resulted in fetching one array
element more than it should from the subxids[] array. The odds of this
resulting in SIGSEGV are pretty small, but we've certainly seen that happen
with similar mistakes elsewhere. While at it, we can get rid of an extra
TransactionIdToPage() calculation per loop.
Per report from David Binderman. Back-patch to all supported branches,
since this code is quite old.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/HE1PR0802MB2331CBA919CBFFF0C465EB429C710@HE1PR0802MB2331.eurprd08.prod.outlook.com
When some tuple versions in an update chain are frozen due to them being
older than freeze_min_age, the xmax/xmin trail can become broken. This
breaks HOT (and probably other things). A subsequent VACUUM can break
things in more serious ways, such as leaving orphan heap-only tuples
whose root HOT redirect items were removed. This can be seen because
index creation (or REINDEX) complain like
ERROR: XX000: failed to find parent tuple for heap-only tuple at (0,7) in table "t"
Because of relfrozenxid contraints, we cannot avoid the freezing of the
early tuples, so we must cope with the results: whenever we see an Xmin
of FrozenTransactionId, consider it a match for whatever the previous
Xmax value was.
This problem seems to have appeared in 9.3 with multixact changes,
though strictly speaking it seems unrelated.
Since 9.4 we have commit 37484ad2a "Change the way we mark tuples as
frozen", so the fix is simple: just compare the raw Xmin (still stored
in the tuple header, since freezing merely set an infomask bit) to the
Xmax. But in 9.3 we rewrite the Xmin value to FrozenTransactionId, so
the original value is lost and we have nothing to compare the Xmax with.
To cope with that case we need to compare the Xmin with FrozenXid,
assume it's a match, and hope for the best. Sadly, since you can
pg_upgrade a 9.3 instance containing half-frozen pages to newer
releases, we need to keep the old check in newer versions too, which
seems a bit brittle; I hope we can somehow get rid of that.
I didn't optimize the new function for performance. The new coding is
probably a bit slower than before, since there is a function call rather
than a straight comparison, but I'd rather have it work correctly than
be fast but wrong.
This is a followup after 20b6552242 fixed a few related problems.
Apparently, in 9.6 and up there are more ways to get into trouble, but
in 9.3 - 9.5 I cannot reproduce a problem anymore with this patch, so
there must be a separate bug.
Reported-by: Peter Geoghegan
Diagnosed-by: Peter Geoghegan, Michael Paquier, Daniel Wood,
Yi Wen Wong, Álvaro
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-Wznm4rCrhFAiwKPWTpEw2bXDtgROZK7jWWGucXeH3D1fmA@mail.gmail.com
Instead of joining two partitioned tables in their entirety we can, if
it is an equi-join on the partition keys, join the matching partitions
individually. This involves teaching the planner about "other join"
rels, which are related to regular join rels in the same way that
other member rels are related to baserels. This can use significantly
more CPU time and memory than regular join planning, because there may
now be a set of "other" rels not only for every base relation but also
for every join relation. In most practical cases, this probably
shouldn't be a problem, because (1) it's probably unusual to join many
tables each with many partitions using the partition keys for all
joins and (2) if you do that scenario then you probably have a big
enough machine to handle the increased memory cost of planning and (3)
the resulting plan is highly likely to be better, so what you spend in
planning you'll make up on the execution side. All the same, for now,
turn this feature off by default.
Currently, we can only perform joins between two tables whose
partitioning schemes are absolutely identical. It would be nice to
cope with other scenarios, such as extra partitions on one side or the
other with no match on the other side, but that will have to wait for
a future patch.
Ashutosh Bapat, reviewed and tested by Rajkumar Raghuwanshi, Amit
Langote, Rafia Sabih, Thomas Munro, Dilip Kumar, Antonin Houska, Amit
Khandekar, and by me. A few final adjustments by me.
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAFjFpRfQ8GrQvzp3jA2wnLqrHmaXna-urjm_UY9BqXj=EaDTSA@mail.gmail.com
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAFjFpRcitjfrULr5jfuKWRPsGUX0LQ0k8-yG0Qw2+1LBGNpMdw@mail.gmail.com
If the table attached as a partition is itself partitioned, individual
partitions might have constraints strong enough to skip scanning the
table even if the table actually attached does not. This is pretty
cheap to check, and possibly a big win if it works out.
Amit Langote, with test case changes by me.
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/1f08b844-0078-aa8d-452e-7af3bf77d05f@lab.ntt.co.jp
Haribabu Kommi, reviewed by Dilip Kumar and Rafia Sabih. Various
cosmetic changes by me to explain why this appears to be safe but
allowing inserts in parallel mode in general wouldn't be. Also, I
removed the REFRESH MATERIALIZED VIEW case from Haribabu's patch,
since I'm not convinced that case is OK, and hacked on the
documentation somewhat.
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAJrrPGdo5bak6qnPWe8Kpi8g_jfQEs-G4SYmG9y+OFaw2-dPvA@mail.gmail.com
Remove obsolete references to get_rel_oids(). Avoid listing specific
relkinds in the comments, since we seem unable to keep such things
in sync with the code, and it's not all that helpful anyhow.
Noted by Michael Paquier, though I rewrote the comments a bit more.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAB7nPqTWiN9zwKTaOrsnKiGDChqRt7C1+CiiDk4N4OMn92rs6A@mail.gmail.com
A lot of semi-internal code just prints out numeric SPI error codes,
which is not very helpful. We already have an API function to convert
the codes to a string, so let's make more use of that.
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>
These are two completely unrelated code paths, so it doesn't make sense
to pack them into one function.
Add attribute noreturn to ri_ReportViolation().
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>
Turns out we have enough functions that the binary search is quite
noticeable in profiles.
Thus have Gen_fmgrtab.pl build a new mapping from a builtin function's
oid to an index in the existing fmgr_builtins array. That keeps the
additional memory usage at a reasonable amount.
Author: Andres Freund, with input from Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170914065128.a5sk7z4xde5uy3ei@alap3.anarazel.de
Not much to say about this; does what it says on the tin.
However, formerly, if there was a column list then the ANALYZE action was
implied; now it must be specified, or you get an error. This is because
it would otherwise be a bit unclear what the user meant if some tables
have column lists and some don't.
Nathan Bossart, reviewed by Michael Paquier and Masahiko Sawada, with some
editorialization by me
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/E061A8E3-5E3D-494D-94F0-E8A9B312BBFC@amazon.com
Commit 597a87ccc introduced a latch pointer variable to replace use
of a long-lived shared latch in the shared WalRcvData structure.
This was not well thought out, because there are now hazards of the
pointer variable changing while it's being inspected by another
process. This could obviously lead to a core dump in code like
if (WalRcv->latch)
SetLatch(WalRcv->latch);
and there's a more remote risk of a torn read, if we have any
platforms where reading/writing a pointer is not atomic.
An actual problem would occur only if the walreceiver process
exits (gracefully) while the startup process is trying to
signal it, but that seems well within the realm of possibility.
To fix, treat the pointer variable (not the referenced latch)
as being protected by the WalRcv->mutex spinlock. There
remains a race condition that we could apply SetLatch to a
process latch that no longer belongs to the walreceiver, but
I believe that's harmless: at worst it'd cause an extra wakeup
of the next process to use that PGPROC structure.
Back-patch to v10 where the faulty code was added.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/22735.1507048202@sss.pgh.pa.us
1. Since commit b1a9bad9e7 we had pstrdup() inside a
spinlock-protected critical section; reported by Andreas Seltenreich.
Turn those into strlcpy() to stack-allocated variables instead.
Backpatch to 9.6.
2. Since commit 9ed551e0a4 we had a pfree() uselessly inside a
spinlock-protected critical section. Tom Lane noticed in code review.
Move down. Backpatch to 9.6.
3. Since commit 64233902d2 we had GetCurrentTimestamp() (a kernel
call) inside a spinlock-protected critical section. Tom Lane noticed in
code review. Move it up. Backpatch to 9.2.
4. Since commit 1bb2558046 we did elog(PANIC) while holding spinlock.
Tom Lane noticed in code review. Release spinlock before dying.
Backpatch to 9.2.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/87h8vhtgj2.fsf@ansel.ydns.eu
All postgres internal usages are replaced, it's just libpq example
usages that haven't been converted. External users of libpq can't
generally rely on including postgres internal headers.
Note that this includes replacing open-coded byte swapping of 64bit
integers (using two 32 bit swaps) with a single 64bit swap.
Where it looked applicable, I have removed netinet/in.h and
arpa/inet.h usage, which previously provided the relevant
functionality. It's perfectly possible that I missed other reasons for
including those, the buildfarm will tell.
Author: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170927172019.gheidqy6xvlxb325@alap3.anarazel.de
Allowing arrays with a domain type as their element type was left un-done
in the original domain patch, but not for any very good reason. This
omission leads to such surprising results as array_agg() not working on
a domain column, because the parser can't identify a suitable output type
for the polymorphic aggregate.
In order to fix this, first clean up the APIs of coerce_to_domain() and
some internal functions in parse_coerce.c so that we consistently pass
around a CoercionContext along with CoercionForm. Previously, we sometimes
passed an "isExplicit" boolean flag instead, which is strictly less
information; and coerce_to_domain() didn't even get that, but instead had
to reverse-engineer isExplicit from CoercionForm. That's contrary to the
documentation in primnodes.h that says that CoercionForm only affects
display and not semantics. I don't think this change fixes any live bugs,
but it makes things more consistent. The main reason for doing it though
is that now build_coercion_expression() receives ccontext, which it needs
in order to be able to recursively invoke coerce_to_target_type().
Next, reimplement ArrayCoerceExpr so that the node does not directly know
any details of what has to be done to the individual array elements while
performing the array coercion. Instead, the per-element processing is
represented by a sub-expression whose input is a source array element and
whose output is a target array element. This simplifies life in
parse_coerce.c, because it can build that sub-expression by a recursive
invocation of coerce_to_target_type(). The executor now handles the
per-element processing as a compiled expression instead of hard-wired code.
The main advantage of this is that we can use a single ArrayCoerceExpr to
handle as many as three successive steps per element: base type conversion,
typmod coercion, and domain constraint checking. The old code used two
stacked ArrayCoerceExprs to handle type + typmod coercion, which was pretty
inefficient, and adding yet another array deconstruction to do domain
constraint checking seemed very unappetizing.
In the case where we just need a single, very simple coercion function,
doing this straightforwardly leads to a noticeable increase in the
per-array-element runtime cost. Hence, add an additional shortcut evalfunc
in execExprInterp.c that skips unnecessary overhead for that specific form
of expression. The runtime speed of simple cases is within 1% or so of
where it was before, while cases that previously required two levels of
array processing are significantly faster.
Finally, create an implicit array type for every domain type, as we do for
base types, enums, etc. Everything except the array-coercion case seems
to just work without further effort.
Tom Lane, reviewed by Andrew Dunstan
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/9852.1499791473@sss.pgh.pa.us
get_rel_oids used to not take any relation locks at all, but that stopped
being a good idea with commit 3c3bb9933, which inserted a syscache lookup
into the function. A concurrent DROP TABLE could now produce "cache lookup
failed", which we don't want to have happen in normal operation. The best
solution seems to be to transiently take a lock on the relation named by
the RangeVar (which also makes the result of RangeVarGetRelid a lot less
spongy). But we shouldn't hold the lock beyond this function, because we
don't want VACUUM to lock more than one table at a time. (That would not
be a big problem right now, but it will become one after the pending
feature patch to allow multiple tables to be named in VACUUM.)
In passing, adjust vacuum_rel and analyze_rel to document that we don't
trust the passed RangeVar to be accurate, and allow the RangeVar to
possibly be NULL --- which it is anyway for a whole-database VACUUM,
though we accidentally didn't crash for that case.
The passed RangeVar is in fact inaccurate when dealing with a child
partition, as of v10, and it has been wrong for a whole long time in the
case of vacuum_rel() recursing to a TOAST table. None of these things
present visible bugs up to now, because the passed RangeVar is in fact
only consulted for autovacuum logging, and in that particular context it's
always accurate because autovacuum doesn't let vacuum.c expand partitions
nor recurse to toast tables. Still, this seems like trouble waiting to
happen, so let's nail the door at least partly shut. (Further cleanup
is planned, in HEAD only, as part of the pending feature patch.)
Fix some sadly inaccurate/obsolete comments too. Back-patch to v10.
Michael Paquier and Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/25023.1506107590@sss.pgh.pa.us
Avoid the coding pattern "*op->resvalue = f();", as some compilers think
that requires them to evaluate "op->resvalue" before the function call.
Unless there are lots of free registers, this can lead to a useless
register spill and reload across the call.
I changed all the cases like this in ExecInterpExpr(), but didn't bother
in the out-of-line opcode eval subroutines, since those are presumably
not as performance-critical.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2508.1506630094@sss.pgh.pa.us
Add bgw_type field to background worker structure. It is intended to be
set to the same value for all workers of the same type, so they can be
grouped in pg_stat_activity, for example.
The backend_type column in pg_stat_activity now shows bgw_type for a
background worker. The ps listing also no longer calls out that a
process is a background worker but just show the bgw_type. That way,
being a background worker is more of an implementation detail now that
is not shown to the user. However, most log messages still refer to
'background worker "%s"'; otherwise constructing sensible and
translatable log messages would become tricky.
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
At the time replacement_sort_tuples was introduced, there were still
cases where replacement selection sort noticeably outperformed using
quicksort even for the first run. However, those cases seem to have
evaporated as a result of further improvements made since that time
(and perhaps also advances in CPU technology). So remove replacement
selection and the controlling GUC entirely. This makes tuplesort.c
noticeably simpler and probably paves the way for further
optimizations someone might want to do later.
Peter Geoghegan, with review and testing by Tomas Vondra and me.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-WzmmNjG_K0R9nqYwMq3zjyJJK+hCbiZYNGhAy-Zyjs64GQ@mail.gmail.com
Vacuum calls page-level HOT prune to remove dead HOT tuples before doing
liveness checks (HeapTupleSatisfiesVacuum) on the remaining tuples. But
concurrent transaction commit/abort may turn DEAD some of the HOT tuples
that survived the prune, before HeapTupleSatisfiesVacuum tests them.
This happens to activate the code that decides to freeze the tuple ...
which resuscitates it, duplicating data.
(This is especially bad if there's any unique constraints, because those
are now internally violated due to the duplicate entries, though you
won't know until you try to REINDEX or dump/restore the table.)
One possible fix would be to simply skip doing anything to the tuple,
and hope that the next HOT prune would remove it. But there is a
problem: if the tuple is older than freeze horizon, this would leave an
unfrozen XID behind, and if no HOT prune happens to clean it up before
the containing pg_clog segment is truncated away, it'd later cause an
error when the XID is looked up.
Fix the problem by having the tuple freezing routines cope with the
situation: don't freeze the tuple (and keep it dead). In the cases that
the XID is older than the freeze age, set the HEAP_XMAX_COMMITTED flag
so that there is no need to look up the XID in pg_clog later on.
An isolation test is included, authored by Michael Paquier, loosely
based on Daniel Wood's original reproducer. It only tests one
particular scenario, though, not all the possible ways for this problem
to surface; it be good to have a more reliable way to test this more
fully, but it'd require more work.
In message https://postgr.es/m/20170911140103.5akxptyrwgpc25bw@alvherre.pgsql
I outlined another test case (more closely matching Dan Wood's) that
exposed a few more ways for the problem to occur.
Backpatch all the way back to 9.3, where this problem was introduced by
multixact juggling. In branches 9.3 and 9.4, this includes a backpatch
of commit e5ff9fefcd50 (of 9.5 era), since the original is not
correctable without matching the coding pattern in 9.5 up.
Reported-by: Daniel Wood
Diagnosed-by: Daniel Wood
Reviewed-by: Yi Wen Wong, Michaël Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/E5711E62-8FDF-4DCA-A888-C200BF6B5742@amazon.com
float8_numeric() and float4_numeric() failed to consider the possibility
that the input is an IEEE infinity. The results depended on the
platform-specific behavior of sprintf(): on most platforms you'd get
something like
ERROR: invalid input syntax for type numeric: "inf"
but at least on Windows it's possible for the conversion to succeed and
deliver a finite value (typically 1), due to a nonstandard output format
from sprintf and lack of syntax error checking in these functions.
Since our numeric type lacks the concept of infinity, a suitable conversion
is impossible; the best thing to do is throw an explicit error before
letting sprintf do its thing.
While at it, let's use snprintf not sprintf. Overrunning the buffer
should be impossible if sprintf does what it's supposed to, but this
is cheap insurance against a stack smash if it doesn't.
Problem reported by Taiki Kondo. Patch by me based on fix suggestion
from KaiGai Kohei. Back-patch to all supported branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/12A9442FBAE80D4E8953883E0B84E088C8C7A2@BPXM01GP.gisp.nec.co.jp
This reverts commit 15bc038f9, along with the followon commits 1635e80d3
and 984c92074 that tried to clean up the problems exposed by bug #14825.
The result was incomplete because it failed to address parallel-query
requirements. With 10.0 release so close upon us, now does not seem like
the time to be adding more code to fix that. I hope we can un-revert this
code and add the missing parallel query support during the v11 cycle.
Back-patch to v10.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170922185904.1448.16585@wrigleys.postgresql.org
posix_fallocate() is not quite a drop-in replacement for fallocate(),
because it is defined to return the error code as its function result,
not in "errno". I (tgl) missed this because RHEL6's version seems
to set errno as well. That is not the case on more modern Linuxen,
though, as per buildfarm results.
Aside from fixing the return-convention confusion, remove the test
for ENOSYS; we expect that glibc will mask that for posix_fallocate,
though it does not for fallocate. Keep the test for EINTR, because
POSIX specifies that as a possible result, and buildfarm results
suggest that it can happen in practice.
Back-patch to 9.4, like the previous commit.
Thomas Munro
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1002664500.12301802.1471008223422.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com
The blacklist mechanism added by the preceding commit directly fixes
most of the practical cases that the same-transaction test was meant
to cover. What remains is use-cases like
begin;
create type e as enum('x');
alter type e add value 'y';
-- use 'y' somehow
commit;
However, because the same-transaction test is heuristic, it fails on
small variants of that, such as renaming the type or changing its
owner. Rather than try to explain the behavior to users, let's
remove it and just have a rule that the newly added value can't be
used before being committed, full stop. Perhaps later it will be
worth the implementation effort and overhead to have a more accurate
test for type-was-created-in-this-transaction. We'll wait for some
field experience with v10 before deciding to do that.
Back-patch to v10.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170922185904.1448.16585@wrigleys.postgresql.org
Commit 15bc038f9 allowed ALTER TYPE ADD VALUE to be executed inside
transaction blocks, by disallowing the use of the added value later
in the same transaction, except under limited circumstances. However,
the test for "limited circumstances" was heuristic and could reject
references to enum values that were created during CREATE TYPE AS ENUM,
not just later. This breaks the use-case of restoring pg_dump scripts
in a single transaction, as reported in bug #14825 from Balazs Szilfai.
We can improve this by keeping a "blacklist" table of enum value OIDs
created by ALTER TYPE ADD VALUE during the current transaction. Any
visible-but-uncommitted value whose OID is not in the blacklist must
have been created by CREATE TYPE AS ENUM, and can be used safely
because it could not have a lifespan shorter than its parent enum type.
This change also removes the restriction that a renamed enum value
can't be used before being committed (unless it was on the blacklist).
Andrew Dunstan, with cosmetic improvements by me.
Back-patch to v10.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170922185904.1448.16585@wrigleys.postgresql.org
A FOR ALL TABLES publication naturally considers all base tables to be a
candidate for replication. This includes transient heaps that are
created during a table rewrite during DDL. This causes failures on the
subscriber side because it will not have a table like pg_temp_16386 to
receive data (and if it did, it would be the wrong table).
The prevent this problem, we filter out any tables that match this
naming pattern and match an actual table from FOR ALL TABLES
publications. This is only a heuristic, meaning that user tables that
match that naming could accidentally be omitted. A more robust solution
might require an explicit marking of such tables in pg_class somehow.
Reported-by: yxq <yxq@o2.pl>
Bug: #14785
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reviewed-by: Petr Jelinek <petr.jelinek@2ndquadrant.com>
This was intended as infrastructure for weakening VACUUM's locking
requirements, similar to what was done for btree indexes in commit
2ed5b87f96. However, for hash indexes,
it seems that the improvements which are possible are actually
extremely marginal. Furthermore, performing the LSN cross-check will
end up skipping cleanup far more often than is necessary; we only care
about page modifications due to a VACUUM, but the LSN check will fail
if ANY modification has occurred. So, rather than pressing forward
with that "optimization", just rip the LSN field out.
Patch by me, reviewed by Ashutosh Sharma and Amit Kapila
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAA4eK1JxqqcuC5Un7YLQVhOYSZBS+t=3xqZuEkt5RyquyuxpwQ@mail.gmail.com
On Linux, shared memory segments created with shm_open() are backed by
swap files created in tmpfs. If the swap file needs to be extended,
but there's no tmpfs space left, you get a very unfriendly SIGBUS trap.
To avoid this, force allocation of the full request size when we create
the segment. This adds a few cycles, but none that we wouldn't expend
later anyway, assuming the request isn't hugely bigger than the actual
need.
Make this code #ifdef __linux__, because (a) there's not currently a
reason to think the same problem exists on other platforms, and (b)
applying posix_fallocate() to an FD created by shm_open() isn't very
portable anyway.
Back-patch to 9.4 where the DSM code came in.
Thomas Munro, per a bug report from Amul Sul
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1002664500.12301802.1471008223422.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com
If construct_array() or construct_md_array() were given a dimension of
zero, they'd produce an array that contains no elements but has positive
dimension. This violates a general expectation that empty arrays should
have ndims = 0; in particular, while arrays like this print as empty,
they don't compare equal to other empty arrays.
Up to now we've expected callers to avoid making such calls and instead
be careful to call construct_empty_array() if there would be no elements.
But this has always been an easily missed case, and we've repeatedly had to
fix callers to do it right. In bug #14826, Erwin Brandstetter pointed out
yet another such oversight, in ts_lexize(); and a bit of examination of
other call sites found at least two more with similar issues. So let's
fix the problem centrally and permanently by changing these two functions
to construct a proper zero-D empty array whenever the array would be empty.
This renders a few explicit calls of construct_empty_array() redundant,
but the only such place I found that really seemed worth changing was in
ExecEvalArrayExpr().
Although this fixes some very old bugs, no back-patch: the problem is
pretty minor and the risk of changing behavior seems to outweigh the
benefit in stable branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170923125723.1448.39412@wrigleys.postgresql.org
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20570.1506198383@sss.pgh.pa.us
There is no reason to ever prevent the use of SortSupport on Windows
when ICU locales are used. We previously avoided SortSupport on Windows
with UTF-8 server encoding and a non C-locale due to restrictions in
Windows' libc functionality.
This is now considered to be a restriction in one platform's libc
collation provider, and not a more general platform restriction.
Reported-by: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
Invoke vacuum(), as well as "work item" processing, in the PortalContext
that do_autovacuum() has manufactured, which will be reset before each
such invocation. This ensures cleanup of any memory leaked by these
operations. It also avoids the rather dangerous practice of calling
vacuum() in a context that vacuum() itself will destroy while it runs.
There's no known live bug there, but it's not hard to imagine introducing
one if we leave it like this.
Tom Lane, reviewed by Michael Paquier and Alvaro Herrera
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/13849.1506114543@sss.pgh.pa.us
The file handling functions from fd.c were called with a diverse mix of
notations for the file permissions when they were opening new files.
Almost all files created by the server should have the same permissions
set. So change the API so that e.g. OpenTransientFile() automatically
uses the standard permissions set, and OpenTransientFilePerm() is a new
function that takes an explicit permissions set for the few cases where
it is needed. This also saves an unnecessary argument for call sites
that are just opening an existing file.
While we're reviewing these APIs, get rid of the FileName typedef and
use the standard const char * for the file name and mode_t for the file
mode. This makes these functions match other file handling functions
and removes an unnecessary layer of mysteriousness. We can also get rid
of a few casts that way.
Author: David Steele <david@pgmasters.net>
In two cases, we set a different umask for some piece of code and
restore it afterwards. But if the contained code errors out, the umask
is not restored. So add TRY/CATCH blocks to fix that.
Commit 09cb5c0e7d added a similar
optimization to btree back in 2006, but nobody bothered to implement
the same thing for hash indexes, probably because they weren't
WAL-logged and had lots of other performance problems as well. As
with the corresponding btree case, this eliminates the problem of
potentially needing to refind our position within the page, and cuts
down on pin/unpin traffic as well.
Ashutosh Sharma, reviewed by Alexander Korotkov, Jesper Pedersen,
Amit Kapila, and me. Some final edits to comments and README by
me.
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAE9k0Pm3KTx93K8_5j6VMzG4h5F+SyknxUwXrN-zqSZ9X8ZS3w@mail.gmail.com
Adjust commentary in regc_pg_locale.c to remove mention of the possibility
of not having <wctype.h> functions, since we no longer consider that.
Eliminate duplicate code in wparser_def.c by generalizing the p_iswhat
macro to take a parameter saying what to return for non-ASCII chars
in C locale. (That's not really a consequence of the
USE_WIDE_UPPER_LOWER-ectomy, but I noticed it while doing that.)
These functions are required by SUS v2, which is our minimum baseline
for Unix platforms, and are present on all interesting Windows versions
as well. Even our oldest buildfarm members have them. Thus, we were not
testing the "!USE_WIDE_UPPER_LOWER" code paths, which explains why the bug
fixed in commit e6023ee7f escaped detection. Per discussion, there seems
to be no more real-world value in maintaining this option. Hence, remove
the configure-time tests for wcstombs() and towlower(), remove the
USE_WIDE_UPPER_LOWER symbol, and remove all the !USE_WIDE_UPPER_LOWER code.
There's not actually all that much of the latter, but simplifying the #if
nests is a win in itself.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170921052928.GA188913@rfd.leadboat.com
The placement of the ifdef blocks in formatting.c was pretty bogus, so
the code failed to compile if USE_WIDE_UPPER_LOWER was not defined.
Reported-by: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
Reported-by: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
Previously, the code didn't think about this case and would just try to
analyze such a column twice. That would fail at the point of inserting
the second version of the pg_statistic row, with obscure error messsages
like "duplicate key value violates unique constraint" or "tuple already
updated by self", depending on context and PG version. We could allow
the case by ignoring duplicate column specifications, but it seems better
to reject it explicitly.
The bogus error messages seem like arguably a bug, so back-patch to
all supported versions.
Nathan Bossart, per a report from Michael Paquier, and whacked
around a bit by me.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/E061A8E3-5E3D-494D-94F0-E8A9B312BBFC@amazon.com
These variables are only ever written to in assertion-enabled builds,
and the latest Microsoft compilers complain about such variables in
non-assertion-enabled builds.
Apparently they don't worry so much about variables that are written to
but not read from, so most of our PG_USED_FOR_ASSERTS_ONLY variables
don't cause the problem.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/7800.1505950322@sss.pgh.pa.us
This is not used for anything yet, but it is necessary infrastructure
for partition-wise join and for partition pruning without constraint
exclusion.
Ashutosh Bapat, reviewed by Amit Langote and with quite a few changes,
mostly cosmetic, by me. Additional review and testing of this patch
series by Antonin Houska, Amit Khandekar, Rafia Sabih, Rajkumar
Raghuwanshi, Thomas Munro, and Dilip Kumar.
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAFjFpRfneFG3H+F6BaiXemMrKF+FY-POpx3Ocy+RiH3yBmXSNw@mail.gmail.com
pg_newlocale_from_collation() used malloc() and strdup() directly,
which is generally not per backend coding style, and it didn't bother
to check for failure results, but would just SIGSEGV instead. Also,
if one of the numerous error checks in the middle of the function
failed, the already-allocated memory would be leaked permanently.
Admittedly, it's not a lot of memory, but it could build up if this
function were called repeatedly for a bad collation.
The first two problems are easily cured by palloc'ing in TopMemoryContext
instead of calling libc directly. We can fairly easily dodge the leakage
problem for the struct pg_locale_struct by filling in a temporary variable
and allocating permanent storage only once we reach the bottom of the
function. It's harder to get rid of the potential leakage for ICU's copy
of the collcollate string, but at least that's only allocated after most
of the error checks; so live with that aspect.
Back-patch to v10 where this code came in, with one or another of the
ICU patches.
Remove gratuitous differences in the process names shown in
pg_stat_activity.backend_type and the ps output.
Reviewed-by: Takayuki Tsunakawa <tsunakawa.takay@jp.fujitsu.com>
For performance reasons a larger segment size than the default 16MB
can be useful. A larger segment size has two main benefits: Firstly,
in setups using archiving, it makes it easier to write scripts that
can keep up with higher amounts of WAL, secondly, the WAL has to be
written and synced to disk less frequently.
But at the same time large segment size are disadvantageous for
smaller databases. So far the segment size had to be configured at
compile time, often making it unrealistic to choose one fitting to a
particularly load. Therefore change it to a initdb time setting.
This includes a breaking changes to the xlogreader.h API, which now
requires the current segment size to be configured. For that and
similar reasons a number of binaries had to be taught how to recognize
the current segment size.
Author: Beena Emerson, editorialized by Andres Freund
Reviewed-By: Andres Freund, David Steele, Kuntal Ghosh, Michael
Paquier, Peter Eisentraut, Robert Hass, Tushar Ahuja
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAOG9ApEAcQ--1ieKbhFzXSQPw_YLmepaa4hNdnY5+ZULpt81Mw@mail.gmail.com
The preceding patch allowed us to remove useless GiST support functions.
This patch actually does that for all the no-op cases in the core GiST
code. This buys us whatever performance gain is to be had, and more
importantly exercises the preceding patch.
There remain no-op functions in the contrib GiST opclasses, but those
will take more work to remove.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAJEAwVELVx9gYscpE=Be6iJxvdW5unZ_LkcAaVNSeOwvdwtD=A@mail.gmail.com
There are common use-cases in which the compress and/or decompress
functions can be omitted, with the result being that we make no
data transformation when storing or retrieving index values.
Previously, you had to provide a no-op function anyway, but this
patch allows such opclass support functions to be omitted.
Furthermore, if the compress function is omitted, then the core code
knows that the stored representation is the same as the original data.
This means we can allow index-only scans without requiring a fetch
function to be provided either. Previously you had to provide a
no-op fetch function if you wanted IOS to work.
This reportedly provides a small performance benefit in such cases,
but IMO the real reason for doing it is just to reduce the amount of
useless boilerplate code that has to be written for GiST opclasses.
Andrey Borodin, reviewed by Dmitriy Sarafannikov
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAJEAwVELVx9gYscpE=Be6iJxvdW5unZ_LkcAaVNSeOwvdwtD=A@mail.gmail.com
The use of strnlen rather than strlen was just paranoia. Instead of
giving up on the paranoia, just implement the safeguard
differently. And add a comment explaining why we're careful.
Author: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/E1duOkJ-0001Mc-U5@gemulon.postgresql.org
Previously multi-byte aware truncation was done on every
pgstat_report_activity() call - proving to be a bottleneck for
workloads with long query strings that execute quickly.
Instead move the truncation to the read side, which commonly is
executed far less frequently. That's possible because all server
encodings allow to determine the length of a multi-byte string from
the first byte.
Rename PgBackendStatus.st_activity to st_activity_raw so existing
extension users of the field break - their code has to be adjusted to
use pgstat_clip_activity().
Author: Andres Freund
Tested-By: Khuntal Ghosh
Reviewed-By: Robert Haas, Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170912071948.pa7igbpkkkviecpz@alap3.anarazel.de
Previously statement_timeout, in the extended protocol, affected all
messages till a Sync message. For clients that pipeline/batch query
execution that's problematic.
Instead disable timeout after each Execute message, and enable, if
necessary, the timer in start_xact_command(). As that's done only for
Execute and not Parse / Bind, pipelining the latter two could still
cause undesirable timeouts. But a survey of protocol implementations
shows that all drivers issue Sync messages when preparing, and adding
timeout rearming to both is fairly expensive for the common parse /
bind / execute sequence.
Author: Tatsuo Ishii, editorialized by Andres Freund
Reviewed-By: Takayuki Tsunakawa, Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170222.115044.1665674502985097185.t-ishii@sraoss.co.jp
The bug was caused by not re-reading the control file during crash
recovery restarts, which lead to an attempt to pfree() shared memory
contents. The fix is to re-read the control file, which seems good
anyway.
It's unclear as of this moment, whether we want to keep the
refactoring introduced in the commit referenced above, or come up with
an alternative approach. But fixing the bug in the mean time seems
like a good idea regardless.
A followup commit will introduce regression test coverage for crash
restarts.
Reported-By: Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/14134.1505572349@sss.pgh.pa.us
Make the btree page-flags test macros (P_ISLEAF and friends) return clean
boolean values, rather than values that might not fit in a bool. Use them
in a few places that were randomly referencing the flag bits directly.
In passing, change access/nbtree/'s only direct use of BUFFER_LOCK_SHARE to
BT_READ. (Some think we should go the other way, but as long as we have
BT_READ/BT_WRITE, let's use them consistently.)
Masahiko Sawada, reviewed by Doug Doole
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAD21AoBmWPeN=WBB5Jvyz_Nt3rmW1ebUyAnk3ZbJP3RMXALJog@mail.gmail.com
By project convention, these names should include "P" when dealing with a
pointer type; that is, if the result of a GETARG macro is of type FOO *,
it should be called PG_GETARG_FOO_P not just PG_GETARG_FOO. Some newer
types such as JSONB and ranges had not followed the convention, and a
number of contrib modules hadn't gotten that memo either. Rename the
offending macros to improve consistency.
In passing, fix a few places that thought PG_DETOAST_DATUM() returns
a Datum; it does not, it returns "struct varlena *". Applying
DatumGetPointer to that happens not to cause any bad effects today,
but it's formally wrong. Also, adjust an ltree macro that was designed
without any thought for what pgindent would do with it.
This is all cosmetic and shouldn't have any impact on generated code.
Mark Dilger, some further tweaks by me
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/EA5676F4-766F-4F38-8348-ECC7DB427C6A@gmail.com
If we failed to get a background worker slot, the code just walked
away from the logicalrep-worker slot it already had, leaving that
looking like the worker is still starting up. This led to an indefinite
hang in subscription startup, as reported by Thomas Munro. We must
release the slot on failure.
Also fix a thinko: we must capture the worker slot's generation before
releasing LogicalRepWorkerLock the first time, else testing to see if
it's changed is pretty meaningless.
BTW, the CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS() in WaitForReplicationWorkerAttach is a
ticking time bomb, even without considering the possibility of elog(ERROR)
in one of the other functions it calls. Really, this entire business needs
a redesign with some actual thought about error recovery. But for now
I'm just band-aiding the case observed in testing.
Back-patch to v10 where this code was added.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEepm=2bP3TBMFBArP6o20AZaRduWjMnjCjt22hSdnA-EvrtCw@mail.gmail.com
When ALTER SUBSCRIPTION DISABLE is run in the same transaction before
DROP SUBSCRIPTION, the latter will hang because workers will still be
running, not having seen the DISABLE committed, and DROP SUBSCRIPTION
will wait until the workers have vacated the replication origin slots.
Previously, DROP SUBSCRIPTION killed the logical replication workers
immediately only if it was going to drop the replication slot, otherwise
it scheduled the worker killing for the end of the transaction, as a
result of 7e174fa793. This, however,
causes the present problem. To fix, kill the workers immediately in all
cases. This covers all cases: A subscription that doesn't have a
replication slot must be disabled. It was either disabled in the same
transaction, or it was already disabled before the current transaction,
but then there shouldn't be any workers left and this won't make a
difference.
Reported-by: Arseny Sher <a.sher@postgrespro.ru>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/87mv6av84w.fsf%40ars-thinkpad
AfterTriggerEndQuery correctly notes that the query_stack could get
repalloc'd during a trigger firing, but it nonetheless passes the address
of a query_stack entry to afterTriggerInvokeEvents, so that if such a
repalloc occurs, afterTriggerInvokeEvents is already working with an
obsolete dangling pointer while it scans the rest of the events. Oops.
The only code at risk is its "delete_ok" cleanup code, so we can
prevent unsafe behavior by passing delete_ok = false instead of true.
However, that could have a significant performance penalty, because the
point of passing delete_ok = true is to not have to re-scan possibly
a large number of dead trigger events on the next time through the loop.
There's more than one way to skin that cat, though. What we can do is
delete all the "chunks" in the event list except the last one, since
we know all events in them must be dead. Deleting the chunks is work
we'd have had to do later in AfterTriggerEndQuery anyway, and it ends
up saving rescanning of just about the same events we'd have gotten
rid of with delete_ok = true.
In v10 and HEAD, we also have to be careful to mop up any per-table
after_trig_events pointers that would become dangling. This is slightly
annoying, but I don't think that normal use-cases will traverse this code
path often enough for it to be a performance problem.
It's pretty hard to hit this in practice because of the unlikelihood
of the query_stack getting resized at just the wrong time. Nonetheless,
it's definitely a live bug of ancient standing, so back-patch to all
supported branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2891.1505419542@sss.pgh.pa.us
Commit 0f79440fb introduced mechanism to keep AFTER STATEMENT triggers
from firing more than once per statement, which was formerly possible
if more than one FK enforcement action had to be applied to a given
table. Add a similar mechanism for BEFORE STATEMENT triggers, so that
we don't have the unexpected situation of firing BEFORE STATEMENT
triggers more often than AFTER STATEMENT.
As with the previous patch, back-patch to v10.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/22315.1505584992@sss.pgh.pa.us
The elements of RecordCacheArray are TupleDesc, not TupleDesc *.
Those are actually the same size, so that this error is harmless,
but it's still wrong --- and it might bite us someday, if TupleDesc
ever became a struct, say.
Per Coverity.
The standard says that all changes of the same kind (insert, update, or
delete) caused in one table by a single SQL statement should be reported
in a single transition table; and by that, they mean to include foreign key
enforcement actions cascading from the statement's direct effects. It's
also reasonable to conclude that if the standard had wCTEs, they would say
that effects of wCTEs applying to the same table as each other or the outer
statement should be merged into one transition table. We weren't doing it
like that.
Hence, arrange to merge tuples from multiple update actions into a single
transition table as much as we can. There is a problem, which is that if
the firing of FK enforcement triggers and after-row triggers with
transition tables is interspersed, we might need to report more tuples
after some triggers have already seen the transition table. It seems like
a bad idea for the transition table to be mutable between trigger calls.
There's no good way around this without a major redesign of the FK logic,
so for now, resolve it by opening a new transition table each time this
happens.
Also, ensure that AFTER STATEMENT triggers fire just once per statement,
or once per transition table when we're forced to make more than one.
Previous versions of Postgres have allowed each FK enforcement query
to cause an additional firing of the AFTER STATEMENT triggers for the
referencing table, but that's certainly not per spec. (We're still
doing multiple firings of BEFORE STATEMENT triggers, though; is that
something worth changing?)
Also, forbid using transition tables with column-specific UPDATE triggers.
The spec requires such transition tables to show only the tuples for which
the UPDATE trigger would have fired, which means maintaining multiple
transition tables or else somehow filtering the contents at readout.
Maybe someday we'll bother to support that option, but it looks like a
lot of trouble for a marginal feature.
The transition tables are now managed by the AfterTriggers data structures,
rather than being directly the responsibility of ModifyTable nodes. This
removes a subtransaction-lifespan memory leak introduced by my previous
band-aid patch 3c4359521.
In passing, refactor the AfterTriggers data structures to reduce the
management overhead for them, by using arrays of structs rather than
several parallel arrays for per-query-level and per-subtransaction state.
I failed to resist the temptation to do some copy-editing on the SGML
docs about triggers, above and beyond merely documenting the effects
of this patch.
Back-patch to v10, because we don't want the semantics of transition
tables to change post-release.
Patch by me, with help and review from Thomas Munro.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170909064853.25630.12825@wrigleys.postgresql.org
This code is unsafe, as proven by buildfarm failures, because it tries
to access shared memory that might already be gone. It's also unnecessary,
because we're about to exit the process anyway and so the record type cache
should never be accessed again. The idea was to lay some foundations for
someday recycling workers --- which would require attaching to a different
shared tupdesc registry --- but that will require considerably more
thought. In the meantime let's save some bytes by just removing the
nonfunctional code.
Problem identification, and proposal to fix by removing functionality
from the detach function, by Thomas Munro. I went a bit further by
removing the function altogether.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/E1dsguX-00056N-9x@gemulon.postgresql.org
Tuples can have type RECORDOID and a typmod number that identifies a blessed
TupleDesc in a backend-private cache. To support the sharing of such tuples
through shared memory and temporary files, provide a typmod registry in
shared memory.
To achieve that, introduce per-session DSM segments, created on demand when a
backend first runs a parallel query. The per-session DSM segment has a
table-of-contents just like the per-query DSM segment, and initially the
contents are a shared record typmod registry and a DSA area to provide the
space it needs to grow.
State relating to the current session is accessed via a Session object
reached through global variable CurrentSession that may require significant
redesign further down the road as we figure out what else needs to be shared
or remodelled.
Author: Thomas Munro
Reviewed-By: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEepm=0ZtQ-SpsgCyzzYpsXS6e=kZWqk3g5Ygn3MDV7A8dabUA@mail.gmail.com
Previously we read the control file in multiple places. But soon the
segment size will be configurable and stored in the control file, and
that needs to be available earlier than it currently is needed.
Instead of adding yet another place where it's read, refactor things
so there's a single processing of the control file during startup (in
EXEC_BACKEND that's every individual backend's startup).
Author: Andres Freund
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/20170913092828.aozd3gvvmw67gmyc@alap3.anarazel.de
Flattening the partitioning hierarchy at this stage makes various
desirable optimizations difficult. The original use case for this
patch was partition-wise join, which wants to match up the partitions
in one partitioning hierarchy with those in another such hierarchy.
However, it now seems that it will also be useful in making partition
pruning work using the PartitionDesc rather than constraint exclusion,
because with a flattened expansion, we have no easy way to figure out
which PartitionDescs apply to which leaf tables in a multi-level
partition hierarchy.
As it turns out, we end up creating both rte->inh and !rte->inh RTEs
for each intermediate partitioned table, just as we previously did for
the root table. This seems unnecessary since the partitioned tables
have no storage and are not scanned. We might want to go back and
rejigger things so that no partitioned tables (including the parent)
need !rte->inh RTEs, but that seems to require some adjustments not
related to the core purpose of this patch.
Ashutosh Bapat, reviewed by me and by Amit Langote. Some final
adjustments by me.
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAFjFpRd=1venqLL7oGU=C1dEkuvk2DJgvF+7uKbnPHaum1mvHQ@mail.gmail.com
With this change, the order of leaf partitions as returned by
RelationGetPartitionDispatchInfo should now be the same as the
order used by expand_inherited_rtentry. This will make it simpler
for future patches to match up the partition dispatch information
with the planner data structures. The new code is also, in my
opinion anyway, simpler and easier to understand.
Amit Langote, reviewed by Amit Khandekar. I also reviewed and
made a few cosmetic revisions.
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/d98d4761-5071-1762-501e-0e15047c714b@lab.ntt.co.jp
During the development of d47cfef711 the CFI()s in ExecScan() were
moved back and forth, ending up in the wrong place. Thus queries that
largely spend their time in ExecScan(), and have neither projection
nor a qual, can't be cancelled in a timely manner.
Reported-By: Jeff Janes
Author: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAMkU=1weDXp8eLLPt9SO1LEUsJYYK9cScaGhLKpuN+WbYo9b5g@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch: 10, as d47cfef711
Historically, the selectivity functions have simply not distinguished
< from <=, or > from >=, arguing that the fraction of the population that
satisfies the "=" aspect can be considered to be vanishingly small, if the
comparison value isn't any of the most-common-values for the variable.
(If it is, the code path that executes the operator against each MCV will
take care of things properly.) But that isn't really true unless we're
dealing with a continuum of variable values, and in practice we seldom are.
If "x = const" would estimate a nonzero number of rows for a given const
value, then it follows that we ought to estimate different numbers of rows
for "x < const" and "x <= const", even if the const is not one of the MCVs.
Handling this more honestly makes a significant difference in edge cases,
such as the estimate for a tight range (x BETWEEN y AND z where y and z
are close together).
Hence, split scalarltsel into scalarltsel/scalarlesel, and similarly
split scalargtsel into scalargtsel/scalargesel. Adjust <= and >=
operator definitions to reference the new selectivity functions.
Improve the core ineq_histogram_selectivity() function to make a
correction for equality. (Along the way, I learned quite a bit about
exactly why that function gives good answers, which I tried to memorialize
in improved comments.)
The corresponding join selectivity functions were, and remain, just stubs.
But I chose to split them similarly, to avoid confusion and to prevent the
need for doing this exercise again if someone ever makes them less stubby.
In passing, change ineq_histogram_selectivity's clamp for extreme
probability estimates so that it varies depending on the histogram
size, instead of being hardwired at 0.0001. With the default histogram
size of 100 entries, you still get the old clamp value, but bigger
histograms should allow us to put more faith in edge values.
Tom Lane, reviewed by Aleksander Alekseev and Kuntal Ghosh
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/12232.1499140410@sss.pgh.pa.us
The previous error message when attempting to run a general SQL command
in a physical replication WAL sender was a bit sloppy.
Reported-by: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>
Commit 83aaac41c6 introduced the use of
LDAP_NO_ATTRS to avoid requesting a dummy attribute when doing search+bind
LDAP authentication. It turns out that not all LDAP implementations define
that macro, but its value is fixed by the protocol so we can define it
ourselves if it's missing.
Author: Thomas Munro
Reported-By: Ashutosh Sharma
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAE9k0Pm6FKCfPCiAr26-L_SMGOA7dT_k0%2B3pEbB8%2B-oT39xRpw%40mail.gmail.com
Before, only filters of the form "(<ldapsearchattribute>=<user>)"
could be used to search an LDAP server. Introduce ldapsearchfilter
so that more general filters can be configured using patterns, like
"(|(uid=$username)(mail=$username))" and "(&(uid=$username)
(objectClass=posixAccount))". Also allow search filters to be included
in an LDAP URL.
Author: Thomas Munro
Reviewed-By: Peter Eisentraut, Mark Cave-Ayland, Magnus Hagander
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEepm=0XTkYvMci0WRubZcf_1am8=gP=7oJErpsUfRYcKF2gwg@mail.gmail.com
This allows the compiler/linker to move the static variables to a
read-only segment. Not all the signature changes are necessary, but
it seems better to apply const in a consistent manner.
Reviewed-By: Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170910232154.asgml44ji2b7lv3d@alap3.anarazel.de
AFTER triggers using transition tables crashed if they were fired due
to a foreign key ON CASCADE update. This is because ExecEndModifyTable
flushes the transition tables, on the assumption that any trigger that
could need them was already fired during ExecutorFinish. Normally
that's true, because we don't allow transition-table-using triggers
to be deferred. However, foreign key CASCADE updates force any
triggers on the referencing table to be deferred to the outer query
level, by means of the EXEC_FLAG_SKIP_TRIGGERS flag. I don't recall
all the details of why it's like that and am pretty loath to redesign
it right now. Instead, just teach ExecEndModifyTable to skip destroying
the TransitionCaptureState when that flag is set. This will allow the
transition table data to survive until end of the current subtransaction.
This isn't a terribly satisfactory solution, because (1) we might be
leaking the transition tables for much longer than really necessary,
and (2) as things stand, an AFTER STATEMENT trigger will fire once per
RI updating query, ie once per row updated or deleted in the referenced
table. I suspect that is not per SQL spec. But redesigning this is a
research project that we're certainly not going to get done for v10.
So let's go with this hackish answer for now.
In passing, tweak AfterTriggerSaveEvent to not save the transition_capture
pointer into the event record for a deferrable trigger. This is not
necessary to fix the current bug, but it avoids letting dangling pointers
to long-gone transition tables persist in the trigger event queue. That's
at least a safety feature. It might also allow merging shared trigger
states in more cases than before.
I added a regression test that demonstrates the crash on unpatched code,
and also exposes the behavior of firing the AFTER STATEMENT triggers
once per row update.
Per bug #14808 from Philippe Beaudoin. Back-patch to v10.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170909064853.25630.12825@wrigleys.postgresql.org
This code isn't used, and there's no clear reason why anybody would ever
want to use it. These traversal mechanisms don't yield a visitation order
that is semantically meaningful for any external purpose, nor are they
any faster or simpler than the left-to-right or right-to-left traversals.
(In fact, some rough testing suggests they are slower :-(.) Moreover,
these mechanisms are impossible to test in any arm's-length fashion; doing
so requires knowledge of the red-black tree's internal implementation.
Hence, let's just jettison them.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17735.1505003111@sss.pgh.pa.us
The previous coding of get_qual_for_list() was careful to copy everything
it was using from the input data structure. The new version missed
making a copy of pass-by-ref datum values that it's inserting into Consts.
This is not optional, however, as revealed by buildfarm failures on
machines running -DRELCACHE_FORCE_RELEASE: we're copying from a relcache
entry that could go away before the required lifespan of our output
expression. I'm pretty sure -DCLOBBER_CACHE_ALWAYS machines won't like
this either, but none of them have reported in yet.
map_partition_varattnos() failed to set its found_whole_row output
parameter if the given expression list was NIL. This seems to be
a pre-existing bug that chanced to be exposed by commit 6f6b99d13.
It might be unreachable in v10, but I have little faith in that
proposition, so back-patch.
Per buildfarm.
In commit fccebe421, we hacked get_actual_variable_range() to scan the
index with SnapshotDirty, so that if there are many uncommitted tuples
at the end of the index range, it wouldn't laboriously scan through all
of them looking for a live value to return. However, that didn't fix it
for the case of many recently-dead tuples at the end of the index;
SnapshotDirty recognizes those as committed dead and so we're back to
the same problem.
To improve the situation, invent a "SnapshotNonVacuumable" snapshot type
and use that instead. The reason this helps is that, if the snapshot
rejects a given index entry, we know that the indexscan will mark that
index entry as killed. This means the next get_actual_variable_range()
scan will proceed past that entry without visiting the heap, making the
scan a lot faster. We may end up accepting a recently-dead tuple as
being the estimated extremal value, but that doesn't seem much worse than
the compromise we made before to accept not-yet-committed extremal values.
The cost of the scan is still proportional to the number of dead index
entries at the end of the range, so in the interval after a mass delete
but before VACUUM's cleaned up the mess, it's still possible for
get_actual_variable_range() to take a noticeable amount of time, if you've
got enough such dead entries. But the constant factor is much much better
than before, since all we need to do with each index entry is test its
"killed" bit.
We chose to back-patch commit fccebe421 at the time, but I'm hesitant to
do so here, because this form of the problem seems to affect many fewer
people. Also, even when it happens, it's less bad than the case fixed
by commit fccebe421 because we don't get the contention effects from
expensive TransactionIdIsInProgress tests.
Dmitriy Sarafannikov, reviewed by Andrey Borodin
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/05C72CF7-B5F6-4DB9-8A09-5AC897653113@yandex.ru
It is equivalent in ANSI C to write (*funcptr) () and funcptr(). These
two styles have been applied inconsistently. After discussion, we'll
use the more verbose style for plain function pointer variables, to make
it clear that it's a variable, and the shorter style when the function
pointer is in a struct (s.func() or s->func()), because then it's clear
that it's not a plain function name, and otherwise the excessive
punctuation makes some of those invocations hard to read.
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/f52c16db-14ed-757d-4b48-7ef360b1631d@2ndquadrant.com
This doesn't allow routing tuple to the foreign partitions themselves,
but it permits tuples to be routed to regular partitions despite the
presence of foreign partitions in the same inheritance hierarchy.
Etsuro Fujita, reviewed by Amit Langote and by me.
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/bc3db4c1-1693-3b8a-559f-33ad2b50b7ad@lab.ntt.co.jp
Issuing a savepoint-related command in a Query message that contains
multiple SQL statements led to a FATAL exit with a complaint about
"unexpected state STARTED". This is a shortcoming of commit 4f896dac1,
which attempted to prevent such misbehaviors in multi-statement strings;
its quick hack of marking the individual statements as "not top-level"
does the wrong thing in this case, and isn't a very accurate description
of the situation anyway.
To fix, let's introduce into xact.c an explicit model of what happens for
multi-statement Query strings. This is an "implicit transaction block
in progress" state, which for many purposes works like the normal
TBLOCK_INPROGRESS state --- in particular, IsTransactionBlock returns true,
causing the desired result that PreventTransactionChain will throw error.
But in case of error abort it works like TBLOCK_STARTED, allowing the
transaction to be cancelled without need for an explicit ROLLBACK command.
Commit 4f896dac1 is reverted in toto, so that we go back to treating the
individual statements as "top level". We could have left it as-is, but
this allows sharpening the error message for PreventTransactionChain
calls inside functions.
Except for getting a normal error instead of a FATAL exit for savepoint
commands, this patch should result in no user-visible behavioral change
(other than that one error message rewording). There are some things
we might want to do in the line of changing the appearance or wording of
error and warning messages around this behavior, which would be much
simpler to do now that it's an explicitly modeled state. But I haven't
done them here.
Although this fixes a long-standing bug, no backpatch. The consequences
of the bug don't seem severe enough to justify the risk that this commit
itself creates some new issue.
Patch by me, but it owes something to previous investigation by
Takayuki Tsunakawa, who also reported the bug in the first place.
Also thanks to Michael Paquier for reviewing.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/0A3221C70F24FB45833433255569204D1F6BE40D@G01JPEXMBYT05
Index columns are referenced by ordinal number rather than name, e.g.
CREATE INDEX coord_idx ON measured (x, y, (z + t));
ALTER INDEX coord_idx ALTER COLUMN 3 SET STATISTICS 1000;
Incompatibility note for release notes:
\d+ for indexes now also displays Stats Target
Authors: Alexander Korotkov, with contribution by Adrien NAYRAT
Review: Adrien NAYRAT, Simon Riggs
Wordsmith: Simon Riggs
The NAMEDTUPLESTORE patch piggybacked on the infrastructure for
TABLEFUNC/VALUES/CTE RTEs, none of which can ever have dropped columns,
so the possibility was ignored most places. Fix that, including adding a
specification to parsenodes.h about what it's supposed to look like.
In passing, clean up assorted comments that hadn't been maintained
properly by said patch.
Per bug #14799 from Philippe Beaudoin. Back-patch to v10.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170906120005.25630.84360@wrigleys.postgresql.org
The parenthesized style has only been used in a few modules. Change
that to use the style that is predominant across the whole tree.
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Ryan Murphy <ryanfmurphy@gmail.com>
Throttling for sending a base backup in walsender is broken for the case
where there is a lot of WAL traffic, because the latch used to put the
walsender to sleep is also signalled by regular WAL traffic (and each
signal causes an additional batch of data to be sent); the net effect is
that there is no or little actual throttling. This is undesirable, so
rewrite the sleep into a loop to achieve the desired effeect.
Author: Jeff Janes, small tweaks by me
Reviewed-by: Antonin Houska
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAMkU=1xH6mde-yL-Eo1TKBGNd0PB1-TMxvrNvqcAkN-qr2E9mw@mail.gmail.com
Some compilers complain, not unreasonably, about left-shifting an
int32 "1" and then assigning the result to an int64. In practice
I sure hope that this data structure never gets large enough that
an overflow would actually occur; but let's cast the constant to
the right type to avoid the hazard.
In passing, fix a typo in dshash.h.
Amit Kapila, adjusted as per comment from Thomas Munro.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAA4eK1+5vfVMYtjK_NX8O3-42yM3o80qdqWnQzGquPrbq6mb+A@mail.gmail.com
Move the responsibility for creating/destroying TupleQueueReaders into
execParallel.c, to avoid duplicative coding in nodeGather.c and
nodeGatherMerge.c. Also, instead of having DestroyTupleQueueReader do
shm_mq_detach, do it in the caller (which is now only ExecParallelFinish).
This means execParallel.c does both the attaching and detaching of the
tuple-queue-reader shm_mqs, which seems less weird than the previous
arrangement.
These changes also eliminate a vestigial memory leak (of the pei->tqueue
array). It's now demonstrable that rescans of Gather or GatherMerge don't
leak memory.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/8670.1504192177@sss.pgh.pa.us
Add the maxrss field to the getrusage output (log_*_stats). This was
previously omitted because of portability concerns, but we feel this
might not be a concern anymore.
based on patch by Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
Commit 0e141c0fbb introduced a mechanism
to reduce contention on ProcArrayLock by having a single process clear
XIDs in the procArray on behalf of multiple processes, reducing the
need to hand the lock around. A previous attempt to introduce a similar
mechanism for CLogControlLock in ccce90b398
crashed and burned, but the design problem which resulted in those
failures is believed to have been corrected in this version.
Amit Kapila, with some cosmetic changes by me. See the previous commit
message for additional credits.
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAA4eK1KudxzgWhuywY_X=yeSAhJMT4DwCjroV5Ay60xaeB2Eew@mail.gmail.com
Do for replication origins what the previous commit did for replication
slots: restore the original behavior of replication origin drop to raise
an error rather than blocking, because users might be depending on the
original behavior. Maintain the blocking behavior when invoked
internally from logical replication subscription handling.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170830133922.tlpo3lgfejm4n2cs@alvherre.pgsql
Commit 9915de6c1c changed the default behavior of
DROP_REPLICATION_SLOT so that it would wait until any session holding
the slot active would release it, instead of raising an error. But
users are already depending on the original behavior, so revert to it by
default and add a WAIT option to invoke the new behavior.
Per complaint from Simone Gotti, in
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEvsy6Wgdf90O6pUvg2wSVXL2omH5OPC-38OD4Zzgk-FXavj3Q@mail.gmail.com
This will be useful for hash partitioning, which needs a way to seed
the hash functions to avoid problems such as a hash index on a hash
partitioned table clumping all values into a small portion of the
bucket space; it's also useful for anything that wants a 64-bit hash
value rather than a 32-bit hash value.
Just in case somebody wants a 64-bit hash value that is compatible
with the existing 32-bit hash values, make the low 32-bits of the
64-bit hash value match the 32-bit hash value when the seed is 0.
Robert Haas and Amul Sul
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+Tgmoafx2yoJuhCQQOL5CocEi-w_uG4S2xT0EtgiJnPGcHW3g@mail.gmail.com
Rescanning a GatherMerge led to leaking some memory in the executor's
query-lifespan context, because most of the node's working data structures
were simply abandoned and rebuilt from scratch. In practice, this might
never amount to much, given the cost of relaunching worker processes ---
but it's still pretty messy, so let's fix it.
We can rearrange things so that the tuple arrays are simply cleared and
reused, and we don't need to rebuild the TupleTableSlots either, just
clear them. One small complication is that because we might get a
different number of workers on each iteration, we can't keep the old
convention that the leader's gm_slots[] entry is the last one; the leader
might clobber a TupleTableSlot that we need for a worker in a future
iteration. Hence, adjust the logic so that the leader has slot 0 always,
while the active workers have slots 1..n.
Back-patch to v10 to keep all the existing versions of nodeGatherMerge.c
in sync --- because of the renumbering of the slots, there would otherwise
be a very large risk that any future backpatches in this module would
introduce bugs.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/8670.1504192177@sss.pgh.pa.us
Previously, we expanded the inheritance hierarchy in the order in
which find_all_inheritors had locked the tables, but that turns out
to block quite a bit of useful optimization. For example, a
partition-wise join can't count on two tables with matching bounds
to get expanded in the same order.
Where possible, this change results in expanding partitioned tables in
*bound* order. Bound order isn't well-defined for a list-partitioned
table with a null-accepting partition or for a list-partitioned table
where the bounds for a single partition are interleaved with other
partitions. However, when expansion in bound order is possible, it
opens up further opportunities for optimization, such as
strength-reducing MergeAppend to Append when the expansion order
matches the desired sort order.
Patch by me, with cosmetic revisions by Ashutosh Bapat.
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmoZrKj7kEzcMSum3aXV4eyvvbh9WD=c6m=002WMheDyE3A@mail.gmail.com
The logic around shm_mq_detach was a few bricks shy of a load, because
(contrary to the comments for shm_mq_attach) all it did was update the
shared shm_mq state. That left us leaking a bit of process-local
memory, but much worse, the on_dsm_detach callback for shm_mq_detach
was still armed. That means that whenever we ultimately detach from
the DSM segment, we'd run shm_mq_detach again for already-detached,
possibly long-dead queues. This accidentally fails to fail today,
because we only ever re-use a shm_mq's memory for another shm_mq, and
multiple detach attempts on the last such shm_mq are fairly harmless.
But it's gonna bite us someday, so let's clean it up.
To do that, change shm_mq_detach's API so it takes a shm_mq_handle
not the underlying shm_mq. This makes the callers simpler in most
cases anyway. Also fix a few places in parallel.c that were just
pfree'ing the handle structs rather than doing proper cleanup.
Back-patch to v10 because of the risk that the revenant shm_mq_detach
callbacks would cause a live bug sometime. Since this is an API
change, it's too late to do it in 9.6. (We could make a variant
patch that preserves API, but I'm not excited enough to do that.)
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/8670.1504192177@sss.pgh.pa.us
Comment the fields of GatherMergeState, and organize them a bit more
sensibly. Comment GMReaderTupleBuffer more usefully too. Improve
assorted other comments that were obsolete or just not very good English.
Get rid of the use of a GMReaderTupleBuffer for the leader process;
that was confusing, since only the "done" field was used, and that
in a way redundant with need_to_scan_locally.
In gather_merge_init, avoid calling load_tuple_array for
already-known-exhausted workers. I'm not sure if there's a live bug there,
but the case is unlikely to be well tested due to timing considerations.
Remove some useless code, such as duplicating the tts_isempty test done by
TupIsNull.
Remove useless initialization of ps.qual, replacing that with an assertion
that we have no qual to check. (If we did, the code would fail to check
it.)
Avoid applying heap_copytuple to a null tuple. While that fails to crash,
it's confusing and it makes the code less legible not more so IMO.
Propagate a couple of these changes into nodeGather.c, as well.
Back-patch to v10, partly because of the possibility that the
gather_merge_init change is fixing a live bug, but mostly to keep
the branches in sync to ease future bug fixes.
Previously, the parallel executor logic did reinitialization of shared
state within the ExecReScan code for parallel-aware scan nodes. This is
problematic, because it means that the ExecReScan call has to occur
synchronously (ie, during the parent Gather node's ReScan call). That is
swimming very much against the tide so far as the ExecReScan machinery is
concerned; the fact that it works at all today depends on a lot of fragile
assumptions, such as that no plan node between Gather and a parallel-aware
scan node is parameterized. Another objection is that because ExecReScan
might be called in workers as well as the leader, hacky extra tests are
needed in some places to prevent unwanted shared-state resets.
Hence, let's separate this code into two functions, a ReInitializeDSM
call and the ReScan call proper. ReInitializeDSM is called only in
the leader and is guaranteed to run before we start new workers.
ReScan is returned to its traditional function of resetting only local
state, which means that ExecReScan's usual habits of delaying or
eliminating child rescan calls are safe again.
As with the preceding commit 7df2c1f8d, it doesn't seem to be necessary
to make these changes in 9.6, which is a good thing because the FDW and
CustomScan APIs are impacted.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAA4eK1JkByysFJNh9M349u_nNjqETuEnY_y1VUc_kJiU0bxtaQ@mail.gmail.com
The ExecReScan machinery contains various optimizations for postponing
or skipping rescans of plan subtrees; for example a HashAgg node may
conclude that it can re-use the table it built before, instead of
re-reading its input subtree. But that is wrong if the input contains
a parallel-aware table scan node, since the portion of the table scanned
by the leader process is likely to vary from one rescan to the next.
This explains the timing-dependent buildfarm failures we saw after
commit a2b70c89c.
The established mechanism for showing that a plan node's output is
potentially variable is to mark it as depending on some runtime Param.
Hence, to fix this, invent a dummy Param (one that has a PARAM_EXEC
parameter number, but carries no actual value) associated with each Gather
or GatherMerge node, mark parallel-aware nodes below that node as dependent
on that Param, and arrange for ExecReScanGather[Merge] to flag that Param
as changed whenever the Gather[Merge] node is rescanned.
This solution breaks an undocumented assumption made by the parallel
executor logic, namely that all rescans of nodes below a Gather[Merge]
will happen synchronously during the ReScan of the top node itself.
But that's fundamentally contrary to the design of the ExecReScan code,
and so was doomed to fail someday anyway (even if you want to argue
that the bug being fixed here wasn't a failure of that assumption).
A follow-on patch will address that issue. In the meantime, the worst
that's expected to happen is that given very bad timing luck, the leader
might have to do all the work during a rescan, because workers think
they have nothing to do, if they are able to start up before the eventual
ReScan of the leader's parallel-aware table scan node has reset the
shared scan state.
Although this problem exists in 9.6, there does not seem to be any way
for it to manifest there. Without GatherMerge, it seems that a plan tree
that has a rescan-short-circuiting node below Gather will always also
have one above it that will short-circuit in the same cases, preventing
the Gather from being rescanned. Hence we won't take the risk of
back-patching this change into 9.6. But v10 needs it.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAA4eK1JkByysFJNh9M349u_nNjqETuEnY_y1VUc_kJiU0bxtaQ@mail.gmail.com
Up until now, when parallel query was used, no details about the
sort method or space used by the workers were available; details
were shown only for any sorting done by the leader. Fix that.
Commit 1177ab1dab forced the test case
added by commit 1f6d515a67 to run
without parallelism; now that we have this infrastructure, allow
that again, with a little tweaking to make it pass with and without
force_parallel_mode.
Robert Haas and Tom Lane
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+Tgmoa2VBZW6S8AAXfhpHczb=Rf6RqQ2br+zJvEgwJ0uoD_tQ@mail.gmail.com
If we only need, say, 10 tuples in total, then we certainly don't need
more than 10 tuples from any single process. Pushing down the limit
lets workers exit early when possible. For Gather Merge, there is
an additional benefit: a Sort immediately below the Gather Merge can
be done as a bounded sort if there is an applicable limit.
Robert Haas and Tom Lane
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmoYa3QKKrLj5rX7UvGqhH73G1Li4B-EKxrmASaca2tFu9Q@mail.gmail.com
Minor improvements for commit 1f6d515a6. We do not need the (rather
expensive) test for SRFs in the targetlist, because since v10 any
such SRFs would appear in separate ProjectSet nodes. Also, make the
code look more like the existing cases by turning it into a simple
recursion --- the argument that there might be some performance
benefit to contorting the code seems unfounded to me, especially since
any good compiler should turn the tail-recursion into iteration anyway.
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CADE5jYLuugnEEUsyW6Q_4mZFYTxHxaVCQmGAsF0yiY8ZDggi-w@mail.gmail.com
Commit 8c0d7bafad introduced dshash with hash
and compare functions like DynaHash's, and also variants that take a user
data pointer instead of size. Simplify the interface by merging them into
a single pair of function pointer types that take both size and a user data
pointer.
Since it is anticipated that memcmp and tag_hash behavior will be a common
requirement, provide wrapper functions dshash_memcmp and dshash_memhash that
conform to the new function types.
Author: Thomas Munro
Reviewed-By: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170823054644.efuzftxjpfi6wwqs%40alap3.anarazel.de
Commit 16be2fd100 added DSA_ALLOC_HUGE,
DSA_ALLOC_ZERO and DSA_ALLOC_NO_OOM which have the same numerical
values and meanings as the similarly named MCXT_... macros. In one
place we accidentally used MCXT_ALLOC_NO_OOM when DSA_ALLOC_NO_OOM is
wanted, so tidy that up.
Author: Thomas Munro
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAEepm=2AimHxVkkxnMfQvbZMkXy0uKbVa0-D38c5-qwrCm4CMQ@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch: 10, where dsa was introduced.
Add general purpose chaining hash tables for DSA memory. Unlike
DynaHash in shared memory mode, these hash tables can grow as
required, and cope with being mapped into different addresses in
different backends.
There is a wide range of potential users for such a hash table, though
it's very likely the interface will need to evolve as we come to
understand the needs of different kinds of users. E.g support for
iterators and incremental resizing is planned for later commits and
the details of the callback signatures are likely to change.
Author: Thomas Munro
Reviewed-By: John Gorman, Andres Freund, Dilip Kumar, Robert Haas
Discussion:
https://postgr.es/m/CAEepm=3d8o8XdVwYT6O=bHKsKAM2pu2D6sV1S_=4d+jStVCE7w@mail.gmail.comhttps://postgr.es/m/CAEepm=0ZtQ-SpsgCyzzYpsXS6e=kZWqk3g5Ygn3MDV7A8dabUA@mail.gmail.com
Previously, tuple descriptors were stored in chains keyed by a fixed size
array of OIDs. That meant there were effectively two levels of collision
chain -- one inside and one outside the hash table. Instead, let dynahash.c
look after conflicts for us by supplying a proper hash and equal function
pair.
This is a nice cleanup on its own, but also simplifies followup
changes allowing blessed TupleDescs to be shared between backends
participating in parallel query.
Author: Thomas Munro
Reviewed-By: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEepm%3D34GVhOL%2BarUx56yx7OPk7%3DqpGsv3CpO54feqjAwQKm5g%40mail.gmail.com
Users can still create them themselves. Instead, document Unicode TR 35
collation options for ICU, so users can create all this themselves.
Reviewed-by: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
Install language+region combinations even if they are not distinct from
the language's base locale. This gives better long-term stability of
the set of predefined locales and makes the predefined locales less
implementation-dependent and more practical for users.
Reviewed-by: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
Periodically while the server is running, and at shutdown, write out a
list of blocks in shared buffers. When the server reaches consistency
-- unfortunatey, we can't do it before that point without breaking
things -- reload those blocks into any still-unused shared buffers.
Mithun Cy and Robert Haas, reviewed and tested by Beena Emerson,
Amit Kapila, Jim Nasby, and Rafia Sabih.
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAD__OugubOs1Vy7kgF6xTjmEqTR4CrGAv8w+ZbaY_+MZeitukw@mail.gmail.com
It appeared in a conditional that excludes AIX, Cygwin and MinGW. Give
ICU support a chance to work on those platforms. Back-patch to v10,
where ICU support was introduced.
TupleDesc's attributes were already stored in contiguous memory after the
struct. Go one step further and get rid of the array of pointers to
attributes so that they can be stored in shared memory mapped at different
addresses in each backend. This won't work for TupleDescs with contraints
and defaults, since those point to other objects, but for many purposes
only attributes are needed.
Author: Thomas Munro
Reviewed-By: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEepm=0ZtQ-SpsgCyzzYpsXS6e=kZWqk3g5Ygn3MDV7A8dabUA@mail.gmail.com
This is a mechanical change in preparation for a later commit that
will change the layout of TupleDesc. Introducing a macro to abstract
the details of where attributes are stored will allow us to change
that in separate step and revise it in future.
Author: Thomas Munro, editorialized by Andres Freund
Reviewed-By: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEepm=0ZtQ-SpsgCyzzYpsXS6e=kZWqk3g5Ygn3MDV7A8dabUA@mail.gmail.com
Add a new EState member es_leaf_result_relations, so that the trigger
code knows about ResultRelInfos created by tuple routing. Also make
sure ExplainPrintTriggers knows about partition-related
ResultRelInfos.
Etsuro Fujita, reviewed by Amit Langote
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/57163e18-8e56-da83-337a-22f2c0008051@lab.ntt.co.jp
Instead, lock them in the caller using find_all_inheritors so that
they get locked in the standard order, minimizing deadlock risks.
Also in RelationGetPartitionDispatchInfo, avoid opening tables which
are not partitioned; there's no need.
Amit Langote, reviewed by Ashutosh Bapat and Amit Khandekar
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/91b36fa1-c197-b72f-ca6e-56c593bae68c@lab.ntt.co.jp
As Andres pointed out, pg_atomic_init_u64 must be used to initialize an
atomic variable, before it can be accessed with the actual atomic ops.
Trying to use pg_atomic_write_u64 on an uninitialized variable leads to a
failure with the fallback implementation that uses a spinlock.
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20170816191346.d3ke5tpshhco4bnd%40alap3.anarazel.de
Previously, if we had to estimate the number of distinct values in a
VALUES column, we fell back on the default behavior used whenever we lack
statistics, which effectively is that there are Min(# of entries, 200)
distinct values. This can be very badly off with a large VALUES list,
as noted by Jeff Janes.
We could consider actually running an ANALYZE-like scan on the VALUES,
but that seems unduly expensive, and anyway it could not deliver reliable
info if the entries are not all constants. What seems like a better choice
is to assume that the values are all distinct. This will sometimes be just
as wrong as the old code, but it seems more likely to be more nearly right
in many common cases. Also, it is more consistent with what happens in
some related cases, for example WHERE x = ANY(ARRAY[1,2,3,...,n]) and
WHERE x = ANY(VALUES (1),(2),(3),...,(n)) now are estimated similarly.
This was discussed some time ago, but consensus was it'd be better
to slip it in at the start of a development cycle not near the end.
(It should've gone into v10, really, but I forgot about it.)
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAMkU=1xHkyPa8VQgGcCNg3RMFFvVxUdOpus1gKcFuvVi0w6Acg@mail.gmail.com
Previously, if you passed a non-aligned size to shm_toc_create(), the
memory returned by shm_toc_allocate() would be similarly non-aligned.
This was exposed by commit 3cda10f41b, which allocated structs containing
a pg_atomic_uint64 field with shm_toc_allocate(). On systems with
MAXIMUM_ALIGNOF = 4, such structs still need to be 8-bytes aligned, but
the memory returned by shm_toc_allocate() was only 4-bytes aligned.
It's quite bogus that we abuse BUFFERALIGN to align the structs for
pg_atomic_uint64. It doesn't really have anything to do with buffers. But
that's a separate issue.
This ought to fix the buildfarm failures on 32-bit x86 systems.
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/7e0a73a5-0df9-1859-b8ae-9acf122dc38d@iki.fi
Since commit 40dae7ec53, which changed the way b-tree page splitting
works, there has been no difference in the handling of root, and non-root
split WAL records. We don't need to distinguish them anymore
If you're worried about the loss of debugging information, note that
usually a root split record will normally be followed by a WAL record to
create the new root page. The root page will also have the BTP_ROOT flag
set on the page itself, and there is a pointer to it from the metapage.
Author: Aleksander Alekseev
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20170406122116.GA11081@e733.localdomain
Change to appendStringInfoChar() or appendStringInfoString() where those
can be used.
Author: David Rowley <david.rowley@2ndquadrant.com>
Reviewed-by: Ashutosh Bapat <ashutosh.bapat@enterprisedb.com>
Although not confirmed and probably rare, if the newly allocated memory
is not already zero, this could possibly have caused some problems.
Also reorder the initializations slightly so they match the order of the
struct definition.
Author: Wong, Yi Wen <yiwong@amazon.com>
Reviewed-by: Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com>
This appears to have been an omission in the original commit
0d692a0dc9. All related information_schema views already include
foreign tables.
Reported-by: Nicolas Thauvin <nicolas.thauvin@dalibo.com>
The initial implementation of autovacuum work-items used a dynamic
shared memory area (DSA). However, it's argued that dynamic shared
memory is not portable enough, so we cannot rely on it being supported
everywhere; at the same time, autovacuum work-items are now a critical
part of the server, so it's not acceptable that they don't work in the
cases where dynamic shared memory is disabled. Therefore, let's fall
back to a simpler implementation of work-items that just uses
autovacuum's main shared memory segment for storage.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmobQVbz4K_+RSmiM9HeRKpy3vS5xnbkL95gSEnWijzprKQ@mail.gmail.com
Since we currently only have one protocol, this doesn't make much of a
difference other than the error message.
Author: Yugo Nagata <nagata@sraoss.co.jp>
The executor is capable of splitting buckets during a hash join if
too much memory is being used by a small number of buckets. However,
this only helps if a bucket's population is actually divisible; if
all the hash keys are alike, the tuples still end up in the same
new bucket. This can result in an OOM failure if there are enough
inner keys with identical hash values. The planner's cost estimates
will bias it against choosing a hash join in such situations, but not
by so much that it will never do so. To mitigate the OOM hazard,
explicitly estimate the hash bucket space needed by just the inner
side's most common value, and if that would exceed work_mem then
add disable_cost to the hash cost estimate.
This approach doesn't account for the possibility that two or more
common values would share the same hash value. On the other hand,
work_mem is normally a fairly conservative bound, so that eating
two or more times that much space is probably not going to kill us.
If we have no stats about the inner side, ignore this consideration.
There was some discussion of making a conservative assumption, but that
would effectively result in disabling hash join whenever we lack stats,
which seems like an overreaction given how seldom the problem manifests
in the field.
Per a complaint from David Hinkle. Although this could be viewed
as a bug fix, the lack of similar complaints weighs against back-
patching; indeed we waited for v11 because it seemed already rather
late in the v10 cycle to be making plan choice changes like this one.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/32013.1487271761@sss.pgh.pa.us
The original code (since 00e6a16d01) was assuming aborting the
transaction in autovacuum launcher was sufficient to release all
resources, but in reality the launcher runs quite a lot of code out of
any transactions. Re-introduce individual cleanup calls to make abort
more robust.
Reported-by: Robert Haas
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmobQVbz4K_+RSmiM9HeRKpy3vS5xnbkL95gSEnWijzprKQ@mail.gmail.com
Instead of duplicating the logic to search for a matching
ParamPathInfo in multiple places, factor it out into a separate
function.
Pass only the relevant bits of the PartitionKey to
partition_bounds_equal instead of the whole thing, because
partition-wise join will want to call this without having a
PartitionKey available.
Adjust allow_star_schema_join and calc_nestloop_required_outer
to take relevant Relids rather than the entire Path, because
partition-wise join will want to call it with the top-parent
relids to determine whether a child join is allowable.
Ashutosh Bapat. Review and testing of the larger patch set of which
this is a part by Amit Langote, Rajkumar Raghuwanshi, Rafia Sabih,
Thomas Munro, Dilip Kumar, and me.
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmobQK80vtXjAsPZWWXd7c8u13G86gmuLupN+uUJjA+i4nA@mail.gmail.com
plpgsql wants to recognize expressions that it can execute directly
via ExecEvalExpr() instead of going through the full SPI machinery.
Originally the test for this consisted of recursively groveling through
the post-planning expression tree to see if it contained only nodes that
plpgsql recognized as safe. That was a major maintenance headache, since
it required updating plpgsql every time we added any kind of expression
node. It was also kind of expensive, so over time we added various
pre-planning checks to try to short-circuit having to do that.
Robert Haas pointed out that as of the SRF-processing changes in v10,
particularly the addition of Query.hasTargetSRFs, there really isn't
any reason to make the recursive scan at all: the initial checks cover
everything we really care about. We do have to make sure that those
checks agree with what inline_function() considers, so that inlining
of a function that formerly wasn't inlined can't cause an expression
considered simple to become non-simple.
Hence, delete the recursive function exec_simple_check_node(), and tweak
those other tests to more exactly agree with inline_function(). Adjust
some comments and function naming to match.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmoZGZpwdEV2FQWaVxA_qZXsQE1DAS5Fu8fwxXDNvfndiUQ@mail.gmail.com
The API for WaitLatch and friends followed the Unix convention in which
waiting for a socket connection to complete is identical to waiting for
the socket to accept a write. While Windows provides a select(2)
emulation that agrees with that, the native WaitForMultipleObjects API
treats them as quite different --- and for some bizarre reason, it will
report a not-yet-connected socket as write-ready. libpq itself has so
far escaped dealing with this because it waits with select(), but in
libpqwalreceiver.c we want to wait using WaitLatchOrSocket. The semantics
mismatch resulted in replication connection failures on Windows, but only
for remote connections (apparently, localhost connections complete
immediately, or at least too fast for anyone to have noticed the problem
in single-machine testing).
To fix, introduce an additional WL_SOCKET_CONNECTED wait flag for
WaitLatchOrSocket, which is identical to WL_SOCKET_WRITEABLE on
non-Windows, but results in waiting for FD_CONNECT events on Windows.
Ideally, we would also distinguish the two conditions in the API for
PQconnectPoll(), but changing that API at this point seems infeasible.
Instead, cheat by checking for PQstatus() == CONNECTION_STARTED to
determine that we're still waiting for the connection to complete.
(This is a cheat mainly because CONNECTION_STARTED is documented as an
internal state rather than something callers should rely on. Perhaps
we ought to change the documentation ... but this patch doesn't.)
Per reports from Jobin Augustine and Igor Neyman. Back-patch to v10
where commit 1e8a85009 exposed this longstanding shortcoming.
Andres Freund, minor fix and some code review/beautification by me
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAHBggj8g2T+ZDcACZ2FmzX9CTxkWjKBsHd6NkYB4i9Ojf6K1Fw@mail.gmail.com
Currently, child relations are always base relations, so when we
translate parent relids to child relids, we only need to translate
a singler relid. However, the proposed partition-wise join feature
will create child joins, which will mean we need to translate a set
of parent relids to the corresponding child relids. This is
preliminary refactoring to make that possible.
Ashutosh Bapat. Review and testing of the larger patch set of which
this is a part by Amit Langote, Rajkumar Raghuwanshi, Rafia Sabih,
Thomas Munro, Dilip Kumar, and me. Some adjustments, mostly
cosmetic, by me.
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmobQK80vtXjAsPZWWXd7c8u13G86gmuLupN+uUJjA+i4nA@mail.gmail.com
Before commit d3cc37f1d8, an inheritance parent
whose only children were temp tables of other sessions would end up
as a simple scan of the parent; but with that commit, we end up with
an Append node, per a report from Ashutosh Bapat. Tweak the logic
so that we go back to the old way, and update the function header
comment for partitioning while we're at it.
Ashutosh Bapat, reviewed by Amit Langote and adjusted by me.
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAFjFpReWJr1yTkHU=OqiMBmcYCMoSW3VPR39RBuQ_ovwDFBT5Q@mail.gmail.com
Stress testing by Andreas Seltenreich disclosed longstanding problems that
occur if a FATAL exit (e.g. due to receipt of SIGTERM) occurs while we are
trying to execute a ROLLBACK of an already-failed transaction. In such a
case, xact.c is in TBLOCK_ABORT state, so that AbortOutOfAnyTransaction
would skip AbortTransaction and go straight to CleanupTransaction. This
led to an assert failure in an assert-enabled build (due to the ROLLBACK's
portal still having a cleanup hook) or without assertions, to a FATAL exit
complaining about "cannot drop active portal". The latter's not
disastrous, perhaps, but it's messy enough to want to improve it.
We don't really want to run all of AbortTransaction in this code path.
The minimum required to clean up the open portal safely is to do
AtAbort_Memory and AtAbort_Portals. It seems like a good idea to
do AtAbort_Memory unconditionally, to be entirely sure that we are
starting with a safe CurrentMemoryContext. That means that if the
main loop in AbortOutOfAnyTransaction does nothing, we need an extra
step at the bottom to restore CurrentMemoryContext = TopMemoryContext,
which I chose to do by invoking AtCleanup_Memory. This'll result in
calling AtCleanup_Memory twice in many of the paths through this function,
but that seems harmless and reasonably inexpensive.
The original motivation for the assertion in AtCleanup_Portals was that
we wanted to be sure that any user-defined code executed as a consequence
of the cleanup hook runs during AbortTransaction not CleanupTransaction.
That still seems like a valid concern, and now that we've seen one case
of the assertion firing --- which means that exactly that would have
happened in a production build --- let's replace the Assert with a runtime
check. If we see the cleanup hook still set, we'll emit a WARNING and
just drop the hook unexecuted.
This has been like this a long time, so back-patch to all supported
branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/877ey7bmun.fsf@ansel.ydns.eu
The sole useful effect of this function, to check that no catcache
entries have positive refcounts at transaction end, has really been
obsolete since we introduced ResourceOwners in PG 8.1. We reduced the
checks to assertions years ago, so that the function was a complete
no-op in production builds. There have been previous discussions about
removing it entirely, but consensus up to now was that it had some small
value as a cross-check for bugs in the ResourceOwner logic.
However, it now emerges that it's possible to trigger these assertions
if you hit an assert-enabled backend with SIGTERM during a call to
SearchCatCacheList, because that function temporarily increases the
refcounts of entries it's intending to add to a catcache list construct.
In a normal ERROR scenario, the extra refcounts are cleaned up by
SearchCatCacheList's PG_CATCH block; but in a FATAL exit we do a
transaction abort and exit without ever executing PG_CATCH handlers.
There's a case to be made that this is a generic hazard and we should
consider restructuring elog(FATAL) handling so that pending PG_CATCH
handlers do get run. That's pretty scary though: it could easily create
more problems than it solves. Preliminary stress testing by Andreas
Seltenreich suggests that there are not many live problems of this ilk,
so we rejected that idea.
There are more-localized ways to fix the problem; the most principled
one would be to use PG_ENSURE_ERROR_CLEANUP instead of plain PG_TRY.
But adding cycles to SearchCatCacheList isn't very appealing. We could
also weaken the assertions in AtEOXact_CatCache in some more or less
ad-hoc way, but that just makes its raison d'etre even less compelling.
In the end, the most reasonable solution seems to be to just remove
AtEOXact_CatCache altogether, on the grounds that it's not worth trying
to fix it. It hasn't found any bugs for us in many years.
Per report from Jeevan Chalke. Back-patch to all supported branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAM2+6=VEE30YtRQCZX7_sCFsEpoUkFBV1gZazL70fqLn8rcvBA@mail.gmail.com
The previous message didn't mention the name of the table or the
bounds. Put the table name in the primary error message and the
bounds in the detail message.
Amit Langote, changed slightly by me. Suggestions on the exac
phrasing from Tom Lane, David G. Johnston, and Dean Rasheed.
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+Tgmoae6bpwVa-1BMaVcwvCCeOoJ5B9Q9-RHWo-1gJxfPBZ5Q@mail.gmail.com
We must advance the oldest XID that can be safely looked up in clog
*before* truncating CLOG, and the oldest XID that can't be reused
*after* truncating CLOG. This assertion, and the accompanying
comment, are confused; remove them.
Reported by Neha Sharma.
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CANiYTQumC3T=UMBMd1Hor=5XWZYuCEQBioL3ug0YtNQCMMT5wQ@mail.gmail.com
find_composite_type_dependencies correctly found columns that are of
the specified type, and columns that are of arrays of that type, but
not columns that are domains or ranges over the given type, its array
type, etc. The most general way to handle this seems to be to assume
that any type that is directly dependent on the specified type can be
treated as a container type, and processed recursively (allowing us
to handle nested cases such as ranges over domains over arrays ...).
Since a type's array type already has such a dependency, we can drop
the existing special case for the array type.
The very similar logic in get_rels_with_domain was likewise a few
bricks shy of a load, as it supposed that a directly dependent type
could *only* be a sub-domain. This is already wrong for ranges over
domains, and it'll someday be wrong for arrays over domains.
Add test cases illustrating the problems, and back-patch to all
supported branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/15268.1502309024@sss.pgh.pa.us
Commit 1efc7e538 did a poor job of emulating existing logic for touching
Datums that might be expanded-object pointers. It didn't check for typlen
being -1 first, which meant it could crash on fixed-length pass-by-ref
values, and probably on cstring values as well. It also didn't use
DatumGetPointer before VARATT_IS_EXTERNAL_EXPANDED, which while currently
harmless is not according to documentation nor prevailing style.
I also think the lack of any explanation as to why datumSerialize makes
these particular nonobvious choices is pretty awful, so fix that.
Per report from Jarred Ward. Back-patch to 9.6 where this code came in.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/6F61E6D2-2F5E-4794-9479-A429BE1CEA4B@simple.com
Similar to what was fixed in commit 9915de6c1c for replication slots,
but this time it's related to replication origins: DROP SUBSCRIPTION
attempts to drop the replication origin, but that fails if the
replication worker process hasn't yet marked it unused. This causes
failures in the buildfarm:
ERROR: could not drop replication origin with OID 1, in use by PID 34069
Like the aforementioned commit, fix by having the process running DROP
SUBSCRIPTION sleep until the worker marks the the replication origin
struct as free. This uses a condition variable on each replication
origin shmem state struct, so that the session trying to drop can sleep
and expect to be awakened by the process keeping the origin open.
Also fix a SGML markup in the previous commit.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170808001433.rozlseaf4m2wkw3n@alvherre.pgsql
In commit 9915de6c1c, we introduced a new wait point for replication
slots and incorrectly labelled it as wait event PG_WAIT_LOCK. That's
wrong, so invent an appropriate new wait event instead, and document it
properly.
While at it, fix numerous other problems in the vicinity:
- two different walreceiver wait events were being mixed up in a single
wait event (which wasn't documented either); split it out so that they
can be distinguished, and document the new events properly.
- ParallelBitmapPopulate was documented but didn't exist.
- ParallelBitmapScan was not documented (I think this should be called
"ParallelBitmapScanInit" instead.)
- Logical replication wait events weren't documented
- various symbols had been added in dartboard order in various places.
Put them in alphabetical order instead, as was originally intended.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170808181131.mu4fjepuh5m75cyq@alvherre.pgsql
This would lead to failures if local and remote tables have a different
column order. The tests previously didn't catch that because they only
tested the initial data copy. So add another test that exercises the
apply worker.
Author: Petr Jelinek <petr.jelinek@2ndquadrant.com>
The relation attribute map was not initialized for dropped columns,
leading to errors later on.
Author: Petr Jelinek <petr.jelinek@2ndquadrant.com>
Reported-by: Scott Milliken <scott@deltaex.com>
Bug: #14769
lo_put() surely should require UPDATE permission, the same as lowrite(),
but it failed to check for that, as reported by Chapman Flack. Oversight
in commit c50b7c09d; backpatch to 9.4 where that was introduced.
Tom Lane and Michael Paquier
Security: CVE-2017-7548
Commit 3eefc51053 claimed to make
pg_user_mappings enforce the qualifications user_mapping_options had
been enforcing, but its removal of a longstanding restriction left them
distinct when the current user is the subject of a mapping yet has no
server privileges. user_mapping_options emits no rows for such a
mapping, but pg_user_mappings includes full umoptions. Change
pg_user_mappings to show null for umoptions. Back-patch to 9.2, like
the above commit.
Reviewed by Tom Lane. Reported by Jeff Janes.
Security: CVE-2017-7547
Some authentication methods allowed it, others did not. In the client-side,
libpq does not even try to authenticate with an empty password, which makes
using empty passwords hazardous: an administrator might think that an
account with an empty password cannot be used to log in, because psql
doesn't allow it, and not realize that a different client would in fact
allow it. To clear that confusion and to be be consistent, disallow empty
passwords in all authentication methods.
All the authentication methods that used plaintext authentication over the
wire, except for BSD authentication, already checked that the password
received from the user was not empty. To avoid forgetting it in the future
again, move the check to the recv_password_packet function. That only
forbids using an empty password with plaintext authentication, however.
MD5 and SCRAM need a different fix:
* In stable branches, check that the MD5 hash stored for the user does not
not correspond to an empty string. This adds some overhead to MD5
authentication, because the server needs to compute an extra MD5 hash, but
it is not noticeable in practice.
* In HEAD, modify CREATE and ALTER ROLE to clear the password if an empty
string, or a password hash that corresponds to an empty string, is
specified. The user-visible behavior is the same as in the stable branches,
the user cannot log in, but it seems better to stop the empty password from
entering the system in the first place. Secondly, it is fairly expensive to
check that a SCRAM hash doesn't correspond to an empty string, because
computing a SCRAM hash is much more expensive than an MD5 hash by design,
so better avoid doing that on every authentication.
We could clear the password on CREATE/ALTER ROLE also in stable branches,
but we would still need to check at authentication time, because even if we
prevent empty passwords from being stored in pg_authid, there might be
existing ones there already.
Reported by Jeroen van der Ham, Ben de Graaff and Jelte Fennema.
Security: CVE-2017-7546
The callers for GetOldestSafeDecodingTransactionId() all inverted the
argument for the argument introduced in 2bef06d516. Luckily this
appears to be inconsequential for the moment, as we wait for
concurrent in-progress transaction when assembling a
snapshot. Additionally this could only make a difference when adding a
second logical slot, because only a pre-existing slot could cause an
issue by lowering the returned xid dangerously much.
Reported-By: Antonin Houska
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/32704.1496993134@localhost
Backport: 9.4-, where 2bef06d516 was backpatched to.
Previously, it had no effect. Now, if archive_mode=always, it will
work, and if not, you'll get a warning.
Masahiko Sawada, Michael Paquier, and Robert Haas. The patch as
submitted also changed the behavior so that we would write and remove
history files on standbys, but that seems like material for a separate
patch to me.
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAD21AoC2Xw6M=ZJyejq_9d_iDkReC_=rpvQRw5QsyzKQdfYpkw@mail.gmail.com
Supporting ICU 4.2 seems useful because it ships with CentOS 6.
Versions before ICU 4.6 don't support pkg-config, so document an
installation method without using pkg-config.
In ICU 4.2, ucol_getKeywordsForLocale() sometimes returns values that
will not be accepted by uloc_toLanguageTag(). Skip loading keyword
variants in that version.
Reported-by: Victor Wagner <vitus@wagner.pp.ru>
If it works, then we won't be storing two copies of all the tuples
that were just moved. If not, VACUUM will still take care of it
eventually. Per a report from AP and analysis from Amit Kapila, it
seems that a bulk load can cause splits fast enough that VACUUM won't
deal with the problem in time to prevent bloat.
Amit Kapila; I rewrote the comment.
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/20170704105728.mwb72jebfmok2nm2@zip.com.au
If you do ALTER COLUMN SET NOT NULL against an inheritance parent table,
it will recurse to mark all the child columns as NOT NULL as well. This
is necessary for consistency: if the column is labeled NOT NULL then
reading it should never produce nulls.
However, that didn't happen in the case where ALTER ... ADD PRIMARY KEY
marks a target column NOT NULL that wasn't before. That was questionable
from the beginning, and now Tushar Ahuja points out that it can lead to
dump/restore failures in some cases. So let's make that case recurse too.
Although this is meant to fix a bug, it's enough of a behavioral change
that I'm pretty hesitant to back-patch, especially in view of the lack
of similar field complaints. It doesn't seem to be too late to put it
into v10 though.
Michael Paquier, editorialized on slightly by me
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/b8794d6a-38f0-9d7c-ad4b-e85adf860fc9@enterprisedb.com
We don't actually support session tickets, since we do not create an SSL
session identifier. But it seems that OpenSSL will issue a session ticket
on-demand anyway, which will then fail when used. This results in
reconnection failures when using ticket-aware client-side SSL libraries
(such as the Npgsql .NET driver), as reported by Shay Rojansky.
To fix, just tell OpenSSL not to issue tickets. At some point in the
far future, we might consider enabling tickets instead. But the security
implications of that aren't entirely clear; and besides it would have
little benefit except for very short-lived database connections, which is
Something We're Bad At anyhow. It would take a lot of other work to get
to a point where that would really be an exciting thing to do.
While at it, also tell OpenSSL not to use a session cache. This doesn't
really do anything, since a backend would never populate the cache anyway,
but it might gain some micro-efficiencies and/or reduce security
exposures.
Patch by me, per discussion with Heikki Linnakangas and Shay Rojansky.
Back-patch to all supported versions.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CADT4RqBU8N-csyZuzaook-c795dt22Zcwg1aHWB6tfVdAkodZA@mail.gmail.com
ALTER USER ... SET did not support all the syntax variants of ALTER ROLE
... SET. Fix that, and to avoid further deviations of this kind, unify
many the grammar rules for ROLE/USER/GROUP commands.
Reported-by: Pavel Golub <pavel@microolap.com>
Some of these comments wrongly implied that only an AFTER ROW trigger
will cause a 'wholerow' attribute to be present for a foreign table,
but a BEFORE ROW trigger can have the same effect. Others implied
that it would always be present for a foreign table, but that's not
true either.
Etsuro Fujita and Robert Haas
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/10026bc7-1403-ef85-9e43-c6100c1cc0e3@lab.ntt.co.jp
Tom Lane
Alvaro Herrera
Andres Freund
Robert Haas
Peter Eisentraut
Andrew Dunstan
Simon Riggs
Noah Misch
Heikki Linnakangas