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Robert Haas 41ea0c2376 Fix parallel-safety code for parallel aggregation.
has_parallel_hazard() was ignoring the proparallel markings for
aggregates, which is no good.  Fix that.  There was no way to mark
an aggregate as actually being parallel-safe, either, so add a
PARALLEL option to CREATE AGGREGATE.

Patch by me, reviewed by David Rowley.
2016-04-05 16:06:15 -04:00
Magnus Hagander 7117685461 Implement backup API functions for non-exclusive backups
Previously non-exclusive backups had to be done using the replication protocol
and pg_basebackup. With this commit it's now possible to make them using
pg_start_backup/pg_stop_backup as well, as long as the backup program can
maintain a persistent connection to the database.

Doing this, backup_label and tablespace_map are returned as results from
pg_stop_backup() instead of being written to the data directory. This makes
the server safe from a crash during an ongoing backup, which can be a problem
with exclusive backups.

The old syntax of the functions remain and work exactly as before, but since the
new syntax is safer this should eventually be deprecated and removed.

Only reference documentation is included. The main section on backup still needs
to be rewritten to cover this, but since that is already scheduled for a separate
large rewrite, it's not included in this patch.

Reviewed by David Steele and Amit Kapila
2016-04-05 20:03:49 +02:00
Tom Lane 2bbe9112ae Add a \gexec command to psql for evaluation of computed queries.
\gexec executes the just-entered query, like \g, but instead of printing
the results it takes each field as a SQL command to send to the server.
Computing a series of queries to be executed is a fairly common thing,
but up to now you always had to resort to kluges like writing the queries
to a file and then inputting the file.  Now it can be done with no
intermediate step.

The implementation is fairly straightforward except for its interaction
with FETCH_COUNT.  ExecQueryUsingCursor isn't capable of being called
recursively, and even if it were, its need to create a transaction
block interferes unpleasantly with the desired behavior of \gexec after
a failure of a generated query (i.e., that it can continue).  Therefore,
disable use of ExecQueryUsingCursor when doing the master \gexec query.
We can still apply it to individual generated queries, however, and there
might be some value in doing so.

While testing this feature's interaction with single-step mode, I (tgl) was
led to conclude that SendQuery needs to recognize SIGINT (cancel_pressed)
as a negative response to the single-step prompt.  Perhaps that's a
back-patchable bug fix, but for now I just included it here.

Corey Huinker, reviewed by Jim Nasby, Daniel Vérité, and myself
2016-04-04 15:25:16 -04:00
Teodor Sigaev 9b27aebe71 fix typo
Andreas Ulbrich
2016-04-04 14:55:04 +03:00
Tom Lane 3cc38ca7d2 Add psql \errverbose command to see last server error at full verbosity.
Often, upon getting an unexpected error in psql, one's first wish is that
the verbosity setting had been higher; for example, to be able to see the
schema-name field or the server code location info.  Up to now the only way
has been to adjust the VERBOSITY variable and repeat the failing query.
That's a pain, and it doesn't work if the error isn't reproducible.

This commit adds a psql feature that redisplays the most recent server
error at full verbosity, without needing to make any variable changes or
re-execute the failed command.  We just need to hang onto the latest error
PGresult in case the user executes \errverbose, and then apply libpq's
new PQresultVerboseErrorMessage() function to it.  This will consume
some trivial amount of psql memory, but otherwise the cost when the
feature isn't used should be negligible.

Alex Shulgin, reviewed by Daniel Vérité, some improvements by me
2016-04-03 12:29:55 -04:00
Tom Lane e3161b231c Add libpq support for recreating an error message with different verbosity.
Often, upon getting an unexpected error in psql, one's first wish is that
the verbosity setting had been higher; for example, to be able to see the
schema-name field or the server code location info.  Up to now the only way
has been to adjust the VERBOSITY variable and repeat the failing query.
That's a pain, and it doesn't work if the error isn't reproducible.

This commit adds support in libpq for regenerating the error message for
an existing error PGresult at any desired verbosity level.  This is almost
just a matter of refactoring the existing code into a subroutine, but there
is one bit of possibly-needed information that was not getting put into
PGresults: the text of the last query sent to the server.  We must add that
string to the contents of an error PGresult.  But we only need to save it
if it might be used, which with the existing error-formatting code only
happens if there is a PG_DIAG_STATEMENT_POSITION error field, which is
probably pretty rare for errors in production situations.  So really the
overhead when the feature isn't used should be negligible.

Alex Shulgin, reviewed by Daniel Vérité, some improvements by me
2016-04-03 12:24:54 -04:00
Noah Misch 4ad6f13500 Copyedit comments and documentation. 2016-04-01 21:53:10 -04:00
Teodor Sigaev a361c22ebf Fix English in bloom module documentation
Author: Erik Rijkers
2016-04-01 18:47:44 +03:00
Teodor Sigaev 9ee014fc89 Bloom index contrib module
Module provides new access method. It is actually a simple Bloom filter
implemented as pgsql's index. It could give some benefits on search
with large number of columns.

Module is a single way to test generic WAL interface committed earlier.

Author: Teodor Sigaev, Alexander Korotkov
Reviewers: Aleksander Alekseev, Michael Paquier, Jim Nasby
2016-04-01 16:42:24 +03:00
Teodor Sigaev 4e56e5a6de Fix typo in generic wal docs
Markus Nullmeier
2016-04-01 16:37:42 +03:00
Teodor Sigaev 65578341af Add Generic WAL interface
This interface is designed to give an access to WAL for extensions which
could implement new access method, for example. Previously it was
impossible because restoring from custom WAL would need to access system
catalog to find a redo custom function. This patch suggests generic way
to describe changes on page with standart layout.

Bump XLOG_PAGE_MAGIC because of new record type.

Author: Alexander Korotkov with a help of Petr Jelinek, Markus Nullmeier and
	minor editorization by my
Reviewers: Petr Jelinek, Alvaro Herrera, Teodor Sigaev, Jim Nasby,
	Michael Paquier
2016-04-01 12:21:48 +03:00
Teodor Sigaev acdf2a8b37 Introduce SP-GiST operator class over box.
Patch implements quad-tree over boxes, naive approach of 2D quad tree will not
work for any non-point objects because splitting space on node is not
efficient. The idea of pathc is treating 2D boxes as 4D points, so,
object will not overlap (in 4D space).

The performance tests reveal that this technique especially beneficial
with too much overlapping objects, so called "spaghetti data".

Author: Alexander Lebedev with editorization by Emre Hasegeli and me
2016-03-30 18:42:36 +03:00
Teodor Sigaev ccd6eb49a4 Introduce traversalValue for SP-GiST scan
During scan sometimes it would be very helpful to know some information about
parent node or all 	ancestor nodes. Right now reconstructedValue could be used
but it's not a right usage of it (range opclass uses that).

traversalValue is arbitrary piece of memory in separate MemoryContext while
reconstructedVale should have the same type as indexed column.

Subsequent patches for range opclass and quad4d tree will use it.

Author: Alexander Lebedev, Teodor Sigaev
2016-03-30 18:29:28 +03:00
Tom Lane c3834ef9e8 Remove TZ environment-variable entry from postgres reference page.
The server hasn't paid attention to the TZ environment variable since
commit ca4af308c3, but that commit missed removing this documentation
reference, as did commit d883b916a9 which added the reference where
it now belongs (initdb).

Back-patch to 9.2 where the behavior changed.  Also back-patch
d883b916a9 as needed.

Matthew Somerville
2016-03-29 21:38:41 -04:00
Robert Haas 314cbfc5da Add new replication mode synchronous_commit = 'remote_apply'.
In this mode, the master waits for the transaction to be applied on
the remote side, not just written to disk.  That means that you can
count on a transaction started on the standby to see all commits
previously acknowledged by the master.

To make this work, the standby sends a reply after replaying each
commit record generated with synchronous_commit >= 'remote_apply'.
This introduces a small inefficiency: the extra replies will be sent
even by standbys that aren't the current synchronous standby.  But
previously-existing synchronous_commit levels make no attempt at all
to optimize which replies are sent based on what the primary cares
about, so this is no worse, and at least avoids any extra replies for
people not using the feature at all.

Thomas Munro, reviewed by Michael Paquier and by me.  Some additional
tweaks by me.
2016-03-29 21:29:49 -04:00
Tom Lane e511d878f3 Allow to_timestamp(float8) to convert float infinity to timestamp infinity.
With the original SQL-function implementation, such cases failed because
we don't support infinite intervals.  Converting the function to C lets
us bypass the interval representation, which should be a bit faster as
well as more flexible.

Vitaly Burovoy, reviewed by Anastasia Lubennikova
2016-03-29 17:09:29 -04:00
Robert Haas 5fe5a2cee9 Allow aggregate transition states to be serialized and deserialized.
This is necessary infrastructure for supporting parallel aggregation
for aggregates whose transition type is "internal".  Such values
can't be passed between cooperating processes, because they are
just pointers.

David Rowley, reviewed by Tomas Vondra and by me.
2016-03-29 15:04:05 -04:00
Robert Haas 7f0a2c85fb Improve pgbench docs regarding per-transaction logging.
The old documentation didn't know about the new -b flag, only about -f.

Fabien Coelho
2016-03-29 14:07:55 -04:00
Robert Haas d797bf7da2 Fix pgbench documentation error.
The description of what the per-transaction log file says for skipped
transactions is just plain wrong.

Report and patch by Tomas Vondra, reviewed by Fabien Coelho and
modified by me.
2016-03-29 13:50:10 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera a1c935d3b7 pgbench: allow a script weight of zero
This refines the previous weight range and allows a script to be "turned
off" by passing a zero weight, which is useful when scripting multiple
pgbench runs.

I did not apply the suggested warning when a script uses zero weight; we
use the principle elsewhere that if there's nothing to be done, do
nothing quietly.

Adjust docs accordingly.

Author: Jeff Janes, Fabien Coelho
2016-03-29 14:47:10 -03:00
Robert Haas ad9566470b pgbench: Remove \setrandom.
You can now do the same thing via \set using the appropriate function,
either random(), random_gaussian(), or random_exponential(), depending
on the desired distribution.  This is not backward-compatible, but per
discussion, it's worth it to avoid having the old syntax hang around
forever.

Fabien Coelho, reviewed by Michael Paquier, and adjusted by me.
2016-03-29 12:08:49 -04:00
Robert Haas 86c43f4e22 pgbench: Support double constants and functions.
The new functions are pi(), random(), random_exponential(),
random_gaussian(), and sqrt().  I was worried that this would be
slower than before, but, if anything, it actually turns out to be
slightly faster, because we now express the built-in pgbench scripts
using fewer lines; each \setrandom can be merged into a subsequent
\set.

Fabien Coelho
2016-03-28 20:45:57 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera 80b986cf52 Mention BRIN as able to do multi-column indexes
Documentation mentioned B-tree, GiST and GIN as able to do multicolumn
indexes; I failed to add BRIN to the list.

Author: Petr Jediný
Reviewed-By: Fujii Masao, Emre Hasegeli
2016-03-28 19:11:12 -03:00
Tom Lane e5a4dea80f Document errhidecontext() where it ought to be documented.
Seems to have been missed when this function was added.  Noted while
looking at David Steele's proposal to add another similar function.
2016-03-28 14:18:14 -04:00
Tom Lane 4c46f83386 Last-minute updates for release notes.
Security: CVE-2016-2193, CVE-2016-3065
2016-03-28 11:32:17 -04:00
Tom Lane d12e5bb79b Code and docs review for commit 3187d6de0e.
Fix up check for high-bit-set characters, which provoked "comparison is
always true due to limited range of data type" warnings on some compilers,
and was unlike the way we do it elsewhere anyway.  Fix omission of "$"
from the set of valid identifier continuation characters.  Get rid of
sanitize_text(), which was utterly inconsistent with any other error report
anywhere in the system, and wasn't even well designed on its own terms
(double-quoting the result string without escaping contained double quotes
doesn't seem very well thought out).  Fix up error messages, which didn't
follow the message style guidelines very well, and were overly specific in
situations where the actual mistake might not be what they said.  Improve
documentation.

(I started out just intending to fix the compiler warning, but the more
I looked at the patch the less I liked it.)
2016-03-28 01:00:30 -04:00
Tom Lane 499a50571c Release notes for 9.5.2, 9.4.7, 9.3.12, 9.2.16, 9.1.21. 2016-03-27 19:26:26 -04:00
Tom Lane 29b6123ecb First-draft release notes for 9.5.2.
As usual, the release notes for other branches will be made by cutting
these down, but put them up for community review first.
2016-03-26 19:27:58 -04:00
Tom Lane cd37bb7859 Improve PL/Tcl errorCode facility by providing decoded name for SQLSTATE.
We don't really want to encourage people to write numeric SQLSTATEs in
programs; that's unreadable and error-prone.  Copy plpgsql's infrastructure
for converting between SQLSTATEs and exception names shown in Appendix A,
and modify examples in tests and documentation to do it that way.
2016-03-25 16:54:52 -04:00
Tom Lane fb8d2a7f57 In PL/Tcl, make database errors return additional info in the errorCode.
Tcl has a convention for returning additional info about an error in a
global variable named errorCode.  Up to now PL/Tcl has ignored that,
but this patch causes database errors caught by PL/Tcl to fill in
errorCode with useful information from the ErrorData struct.

Jim Nasby, reviewed by Pavel Stehule and myself
2016-03-25 15:52:53 -04:00
Robert Haas a596db332b Improve documentation for combine functions.
David Rowley
2016-03-24 12:59:18 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera 473b932870 Support CREATE ACCESS METHOD
This enables external code to create access methods.  This is useful so
that extensions can add their own access methods which can be formally
tracked for dependencies, so that DROP operates correctly.  Also, having
explicit support makes pg_dump work correctly.

Currently only index AMs are supported, but we expect different types to
be added in the future.

Authors: Alexander Korotkov, Petr Jelínek
Reviewed-By: Teodor Sigaev, Petr Jelínek, Jim Nasby
Commitfest-URL: https://commitfest.postgresql.org/9/353/
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAPpHfdsXwZmojm6Dx+TJnpYk27kT4o7Ri6X_4OSWcByu1Rm+VA@mail.gmail.com
2016-03-23 23:01:35 -03:00
Teodor Sigaev f6bd0da63b Improve docs of pg_trgm changes
Artur Zakirov, per gripe from Jeff Janes
2016-03-22 17:08:10 +03:00
Fujii Masao 112a2d0615 Fix typo in docs.
Jeff Janes
2016-03-22 22:05:17 +09:00
Tom Lane dea2b5960a Improve header output from psql's \watch command.
Include the \pset title string if there is one, and shorten the prefab
part of the header to be "timestamp (every Ns)".  Per suggestion by
David Johnston.

Michael Paquier and Tom Lane
2016-03-21 18:18:13 -04:00
Tom Lane 68ab8e8ba4 SQL commands in pgbench scripts are now ended by semicolons, not newlines.
To allow multiline SQL commands in scripts, adopt the same rules psql uses
to decide what is the end of a SQL command, to wit, an unquoted semicolon
not encased in parentheses.  Do this by importing the same flex lexer that
psql uses, since coping with stuff like dollar-quoted literals is hard to
get right without going the full nine yards.

This makes use of the infrastructure added in commit 0ea9efbe9e to
support independently-written flex lexers scanning the same PsqlScanState
input-buffer data structure.  Since that infrastructure isn't very
friendly to ad-hoc parsing code such as strtok(), improve exprscan.l
so that it can parse either whitespace-separated words or expression
tokens, on demand, and rewrite pgbench.c's backslash-command parsing
code to always use the lexer to fetch tokens.

It's still the case that pgbench backslash commands extend to the end
of the line, no more and no less.  That could be changed in a fairly
localized way now, and there was some interest in doing so, but it
seems like material for a separate patch.

In passing, make some marginal cleanups in syntax error reporting,
const-ify a few data structures that could use it, and run some of
this code through pgindent.

I can't tell whether the MSVC build scripts need to be taught explicitly
about the changes here or not, but the buildfarm will soon tell us.

Kyotaro Horiguchi and Tom Lane
2016-03-20 12:58:51 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera 7bafffea64 pgbench: Allow changing weights for scripts
Previously, all scripts had the same probability of being chosen when
multiple of them were specified via -b, -f, -N, -S.  With this commit,
-b and -f now search for an "@" in the script name and use the integer
found after it as the drawing probability for that script.

(One disadvantage is that if you have script whose names contain @, you
are now forced to specify "@1" at the end; otherwise the name's @ is
confused with a weight separator.  We don't expect many pgbench script
with @ in their names in the wild, so this shouldn't be too serious a
problem.)

While at it, rework the interface between addScript, process_file,
process_builtin, and findBuiltin.  It had gotten a bit out of hand with
recent commits.

Author: Fabien Coelho
Reviewed-By: Andres Freund, Robert Haas, Álvaro Herrera, Michaël Paquier
Discussion: http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/alpine.DEB.2.10.1603160721240.1666@sto
2016-03-19 12:32:42 -03:00
Peter Eisentraut 9a83564c58 Allow SSL server key file to have group read access if owned by root
We used to require the server key file to have permissions 0600 or less
for best security.  But some systems (such as Debian) have certificate
and key files managed by the operating system that can be shared with
other services.  In those cases, the "postgres" user is made a member of
a special group that has access to those files, and the server key file
has permissions 0640.  To accommodate that kind of setup, also allow the
key file to have permissions 0640 but only if owned by root.

From: Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org>
Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
2016-03-19 11:03:22 +01:00
Peter Eisentraut b555ed8102 Merge wal_level "archive" and "hot_standby" into new name "replica"
The distinction between "archive" and "hot_standby" existed only because
at the time "hot_standby" was added, there was some uncertainty about
stability.  This is now a long time ago.  We would like to move forward
with simplifying the replication configuration, but this distinction is
in the way, because a primary server cannot tell (without asking a
standby or predicting the future) which one of these would be the
appropriate level.

Pick a new name for the combined setting to make it clearer that it
covers all (non-logical) backup and replication uses.  The old values
are still accepted but are converted internally.

Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: David Steele <david@pgmasters.net>
2016-03-18 23:56:03 +01:00
Robert Haas 0bf3ae88af Directly modify foreign tables.
postgres_fdw can now sent an UPDATE or DELETE statement directly to
the foreign server in simple cases, rather than sending a SELECT FOR
UPDATE statement and then updating or deleting rows one-by-one.

Etsuro Fujita, reviewed by Rushabh Lathia, Shigeru Hanada, Kyotaro
Horiguchi, Albe Laurenz, Thom Brown, and me.
2016-03-18 13:55:52 -04:00
Teodor Sigaev 61d2ebdbf9 Fix a typo
Erik Rijkers
2016-03-18 18:49:24 +03:00
Teodor Sigaev 3187d6de0e Introduce parse_ident()
SQL-layer function to split qualified identifier into array parts.

Author: Pavel Stehule with minor editorization by me and Jim Nasby
2016-03-18 18:16:14 +03:00
Alvaro Herrera 696684d878 docs: Fix typo'd brin_summarize_new_values
I wrote "brin_summarize_new_pages" instead, in docs as well as in the
commit message of commit ac443d1034.

Bug: #14030
Reported-By: Chris Pacejo
2016-03-17 20:17:04 -03:00
Peter Eisentraut fc201dfd95 Add syslog_split_messages parameter
Reviewed-by: Andreas Karlsson <andreas@proxel.se>
2016-03-16 23:21:44 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut f4c454e9ba Add syslog_sequence_numbers parameter
Reviewed-by: Andreas Karlsson <andreas@proxel.se>
2016-03-16 23:21:44 -04:00
Teodor Sigaev f576b17cd6 Add word_similarity to pg_trgm contrib module.
Patch introduces a concept of similarity over string and just a word from
another string.

Version of extension is not changed because 1.2 was already introduced in 9.6
release cycle, so, there wasn't a public version.

Author: Alexander Korotkov, Artur Zakirov
2016-03-16 18:59:21 +03:00
Robert Haas 1c4f001b79 Fix typo.
Amit Langote
2016-03-16 11:38:30 -04:00
Robert Haas c6dda1f48e Add idle_in_transaction_session_timeout.
Vik Fearing, reviewed by Stéphane Schildknecht and me, and revised
slightly by me.
2016-03-16 11:30:45 -04:00
Teodor Sigaev 5871b88487 GUC variable pg_trgm.similarity_threshold insead of set_limit()
Use GUC variable pg_trgm.similarity_threshold insead of
set_limit()/show_limit() which was introduced when defining GUC varuables
by modules was absent.

Author: Artur Zakirov
2016-03-16 17:44:58 +03:00
Robert Haas 3aff33aa68 Fix typos.
Oskari Saarenmaa
2016-03-15 18:06:11 -04:00