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Robert Haas 5fc4c26db5 Allow FDWs to push down quals without breaking EvalPlanQual rechecks.
This fixes a long-standing bug which was discovered while investigating
the interaction between the new join pushdown code and the EvalPlanQual
machinery: if a ForeignScan appears on the inner side of a paramaterized
nestloop, an EPQ recheck would re-return the original tuple even if
it no longer satisfied the pushed-down quals due to changed parameter
values.

This fix adds a new member to ForeignScan and ForeignScanState and a
new argument to make_foreignscan, and requires changes to FDWs which
push down quals to populate that new argument with a list of quals they
have chosen to push down.  Therefore, I'm only back-patching to 9.5,
even though the bug is not new in 9.5.

Etsuro Fujita, reviewed by me and by Kyotaro Horiguchi.
2015-10-15 13:00:40 -04:00
Robert Haas 41562b14bb Fix typo in docs.
Pallavi Sontakke
2015-10-08 13:21:16 -04:00
Robert Haas 1e35319861 Hyphenate variable-length for consistency.
We hyphenate "fixed-length" earlier in the same sentence, and overall we
more often use "variable-length" rather than "variable length".

Nikolay Shaplov
2015-10-08 12:29:25 -04:00
Tom Lane 1ea0c73c2b Improve documentation of the role-dropping process.
In general one may have to run both REASSIGN OWNED and DROP OWNED to get
rid of all the dependencies of a role to be dropped.  This was alluded to
in the REASSIGN OWNED man page, but not really spelled out in full; and in
any case the procedure ought to be documented in a more prominent place
than that.  Add a section to the "Database Roles" chapter explaining this,
and do a bit of wordsmithing in the relevant commands' man pages.
2015-10-07 16:12:05 -04:00
Bruce Momjian b292ee79a6 docs: add JSONB containment example of a key and empty object
Backpatch through 9.5
2015-10-07 10:30:54 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 23d29cef93 docs: Map operator @> to the proper SGML escape for '>'
Backpatch through 9.5
2015-10-07 09:42:26 -04:00
Bruce Momjian b852dc4cbd docs: clarify JSONB operator descriptions
No catalog bump as the catalog changes are for SQL operator comments.

Backpatch through 9.5
2015-10-07 09:06:49 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 28b3a3d41a to_number(): allow 'V' to divide by 10^(the number of digits)
to_char('V') already multiplied in a similar manner.

Report by Jeremy Lowery
2015-10-05 21:03:38 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 2145a76604 psql: allow \pset C in setting the title, matches \C
Report by David G. Johnston
2015-10-05 20:56:38 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 6d8b2aa83a docs: update guidelines on when to use GIN and GiST indexes
Report by Tomas Vondra

Backpatch through 9.5
2015-10-05 13:38:36 -04:00
Tom Lane f8a5e579d1 Docs: explain contrib/pg_stat_statements' handling of GC failure.
Failure to perform garbage collection now has a user-visible effect, so
explain that and explain that reducing pgss_max is the way to prevent it.
Per gripe from Andrew Dunstan.
2015-10-05 12:44:12 -04:00
Tom Lane 272ede71a6 Last-minute updates for release notes.
Add entries for security and not-quite-security issues.

Security: CVE-2015-5288, CVE-2015-5289
2015-10-05 10:57:43 -04:00
Andres Freund 10cfd6f854 Remove outdated comment about relation level autovacuum freeze limits.
The documentation for the autovacuum_multixact_freeze_max_age and
autovacuum_freeze_max_age relation level parameters contained:
"Note that while you can set autovacuum_multixact_freeze_max_age very
small, or even zero, this is usually unwise since it will force frequent
vacuuming."
which hasn't been true since these options were made relation options,
instead of residing in the pg_autovacuum table (834a6da4f7).

Remove the outdated sentence. Even the lowered limits from 2596d70 are
high enough that this doesn't warrant calling out the risk in the CREATE
TABLE docs.

Per discussion with Tom Lane and Alvaro Herrera

Discussion: 26377.1443105453@sss.pgh.pa.us
Backpatch: 9.0- (in parts)
2015-10-05 16:51:03 +02:00
Stephen Frost 088c83363a ALTER TABLE .. FORCE ROW LEVEL SECURITY
To allow users to force RLS to always be applied, even for table owners,
add ALTER TABLE .. FORCE ROW LEVEL SECURITY.

row_security=off overrides FORCE ROW LEVEL SECURITY, to ensure pg_dump
output is complete (by default).

Also add SECURITY_NOFORCE_RLS context to avoid data corruption when
ALTER TABLE .. FORCE ROW SECURITY is being used. The
SECURITY_NOFORCE_RLS security context is used only during referential
integrity checks and is only considered in check_enable_rls() after we
have already checked that the current user is the owner of the relation
(which should always be the case during referential integrity checks).

Back-patch to 9.5 where RLS was added.
2015-10-04 21:05:08 -04:00
Tom Lane 16a70e3059 Release notes for 9.5beta1, 9.4.5, 9.3.10, 9.2.14, 9.1.19, 9.0.23. 2015-10-04 19:38:00 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 6390c8c654 Group cluster_name and update_process_title settings together 2015-10-04 12:29:36 -04:00
Tom Lane cf007a4bca Update 9.5 release notes through today. 2015-10-03 22:27:02 -04:00
Tom Lane 01ef33701b First-draft release notes for 9.4.5, 9.3.10, 9.2.14, 9.1.19, 9.0.23. 2015-10-03 21:21:49 -04:00
Noah Misch f78ae3747d Document that row_security is a boolean GUC.
Oversight in commit 537bd178c7.
Back-patch to 9.5, like that commit.
2015-10-03 20:20:22 -04:00
Noah Misch 3cb0a7e75a Make BYPASSRLS behave like superuser RLS bypass.
Specifically, make its effect independent from the row_security GUC, and
make it affect permission checks pertinent to views the BYPASSRLS role
owns.  The row_security GUC thereby ceases to change successful-query
behavior; it can only make a query fail with an error.  Back-patch to
9.5, where BYPASSRLS was introduced.
2015-10-03 20:19:57 -04:00
Andres Freund b67aaf21e8 Add CASCADE support for CREATE EXTENSION.
Without CASCADE, if an extension has an unfullfilled dependency on
another extension, CREATE EXTENSION ERRORs out with "required extension
... is not installed". That is annoying, especially when that dependency
is an implementation detail of the extension, rather than something the
extension's user can make sense of.

In addition to CASCADE this also includes a small set of regression
tests around CREATE EXTENSION.

Author: Petr Jelinek, editorialized by Michael Paquier, Andres Freund
Reviewed-By: Michael Paquier, Andres Freund, Jeff Janes
Discussion: 557E0520.3040800@2ndquadrant.com
2015-10-03 18:23:40 +02:00
Peter Eisentraut 1023194b7a doc: Update URLs of external projects 2015-10-02 21:50:59 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut eff091cc19 doc: Make some index terms and terminology more consistent 2015-10-02 21:22:44 -04:00
Robert Haas 01bc589a46 Clarify FDW documentation about ON CONFLICT.
Etsuro Fujita, reviewed by Peter Geoghegan
2015-10-02 16:55:47 -04:00
Tom Lane 558d4ada18 Docs: add disclaimer about hazards of using regexps from untrusted sources.
It's not terribly hard to devise regular expressions that take large
amounts of time and/or memory to process.  Recent testing by Greg Stark has
also shown that machines with small stack limits can be driven to stack
overflow by suitably crafted regexps.  While we intend to fix these things
as much as possible, it's probably impossible to eliminate slow-execution
cases altogether.  In any case we don't want to treat such things as
security issues.  The history of that code should already discourage
prudent DBAs from allowing execution of regexp patterns coming from
possibly-hostile sources, but it seems like a good idea to warn about the
hazard explicitly.

Currently, similar_escape() allows access to enough of the underlying
regexp behavior that the warning has to apply to SIMILAR TO as well.
We might be able to make it safer if we tightened things up to allow only
SQL-mandated capabilities in SIMILAR TO; but that would be a subtly
non-backwards-compatible change, so it requires discussion and probably
could not be back-patched.

Per discussion among pgsql-security list.
2015-10-02 13:30:42 -04:00
Tom Lane 27fddec197 Docs: add another example of creating a range type.
The "floatrange" example is a bit too simple because float8mi can be
used without any additional type conversion.  Add an example that does
have to account for that, and do some minor other wordsmithing.
2015-10-02 12:20:01 -04:00
Fujii Masao 3123ee0db2 Fix mention of htup.h in storage.sgml
Previously it was documented that the details on HeapTupleHeaderData
struct could be found in htup.h. This is not correct because it's now
defined in htup_details.h.

Back-patch to 9.3 where the definition of HeapTupleHeaderData struct
was moved from htup.h to htup_details.h.

Michael Paquier
2015-10-01 23:00:52 +09:00
Robert Haas 3bd909b220 Add a Gather executor node.
A Gather executor node runs any number of copies of a plan in an equal
number of workers and merges all of the results into a single tuple
stream.  It can also run the plan itself, if the workers are
unavailable or haven't started up yet.  It is intended to work with
the Partial Seq Scan node which will be added in future commits.

It could also be used to implement parallel query of a different sort
by itself, without help from Partial Seq Scan, if the single_copy mode
is used.  In that mode, a worker executes the plan, and the parallel
leader does not, merely collecting the worker's results.  So, a Gather
node could be inserted into a plan to split the execution of that plan
across two processes.  Nested Gather nodes aren't currently supported,
but we might want to add support for that in the future.

There's nothing in the planner to actually generate Gather nodes yet,
so it's not quite time to break out the champagne.  But we're getting
close.

Amit Kapila.  Some designs suggestions were provided by me, and I also
reviewed the patch.  Single-copy mode, documentation, and other minor
changes also by me.
2015-09-30 19:23:36 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut ac7cbf4fb0 doc: Tweak "cube" index entry
With the arrival of the CUBE key word/feature, the index entries for the
cube extension and the CUBE feature were collapsed into one.  Tweak the
entry for the cube extension so they are separate entries.
2015-09-26 21:00:59 -04:00
Tom Lane b1d5cc375b Docs: fix typo in to_char() example.
Per bug #13631 from KOIZUMI Satoru.
2015-09-22 10:40:25 -04:00
Andres Freund d9cb34abb4 Add some notes about coding conventions do the docs.
This deserves to be greatly expanded and improved, but it's a start.

Discussion: 20150827145219.GI2435@awork2.anarazel.de
2015-09-22 11:13:28 +02:00
Peter Eisentraut 84ae1af8f4 doc: Tweak synopsis indentation for consistency 2015-09-21 23:31:43 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 741ccd5015 Use gender-neutral language in documentation
Based on patch by Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@enterprisedb.com>, although
I rephrased most of the initial work.
2015-09-21 22:57:29 -04:00
Noah Misch 537bd178c7 Remove the row_security=force GUC value.
Every query of a single ENABLE ROW SECURITY table has two meanings, with
the row_security GUC selecting between them.  With row_security=force
available, every function author would have been advised to either set
the GUC locally or test both meanings.  Non-compliance would have
threatened reliability and, for SECURITY DEFINER functions, security.
Authors already face an obligation to account for search_path, and we
should not mimic that example.  With this change, only BYPASSRLS roles
need exercise the aforementioned care.  Back-patch to 9.5, where the
row_security GUC was introduced.

Since this narrows the domain of pg_db_role_setting.setconfig and
pg_proc.proconfig, one might bump catversion.  A row_security=force
setting in one of those columns will elicit a clear message, so don't.
2015-09-20 20:45:41 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 213335c145 Order some new options on man pages more sensibly, minor improvements 2015-09-17 20:57:47 -04:00
Robert Haas 7aea8e4f2d Determine whether it's safe to attempt a parallel plan for a query.
Commit 924bcf4f16 introduced a framework
for parallel computation in PostgreSQL that makes most but not all
built-in functions safe to execute in parallel mode.  In order to have
parallel query, we'll need to be able to determine whether that query
contains functions (either built-in or user-defined) that cannot be
safely executed in parallel mode.  This requires those functions to be
labeled, so this patch introduces an infrastructure for that.  Some
functions currently labeled as safe may need to be revised depending on
how pending issues related to heavyweight locking under paralllelism
are resolved.

Parallel plans can't be used except for the case where the query will
run to completion.  If portal execution were suspended, the parallel
mode restrictions would need to remain in effect during that time, but
that might make other queries fail.  Therefore, this patch introduces
a framework that enables consideration of parallel plans only when it
is known that the plan will be run to completion.  This probably needs
some refinement; for example, at bind time, we do not know whether a
query run via the extended protocol will be execution to completion or
run with a limited fetch count.  Having the client indicate its
intentions at bind time would constitute a wire protocol break.  Some
contexts in which parallel mode would be safe are not adjusted by this
patch; the default is not to try parallel plans except from call sites
that have been updated to say that such plans are OK.

This commit doesn't introduce any parallel paths or plans; it just
provides a way to determine whether they could potentially be used.
I'm committing it on the theory that the remaining parallel sequential
scan patches will also get committed to this release, hopefully in the
not-too-distant future.

Robert Haas and Amit Kapila.  Reviewed (in earlier versions) by Noah
Misch.
2015-09-16 15:38:47 -04:00
Tom Lane d0f18cde7e Fix documentation of regular expression character-entry escapes.
The docs claimed that \uhhhh would be interpreted as a Unicode value
regardless of the database encoding, but it's never been implemented
that way: \uhhhh and \xhhhh actually mean exactly the same thing, namely
the character that pg_mb2wchar translates to 0xhhhh.  Moreover we were
falsely dismissive of the usefulness of Unicode code points above FFFF.
Fix that.

It's been like this for ages, so back-patch to all supported branches.
2015-09-16 14:50:12 -04:00
Teodor Sigaev 1def9063ca pgbench progress with timestamp
This patch adds an option to replace the "time since pgbench run
started" with a Unix epoch timestamp in the progress report so that,
for instance, it is easier to compare timelines with pgsql log

Fabien COELHO <coelho@cri.ensmp.fr>
2015-09-16 17:24:53 +03:00
Stephen Frost 6820094d1a Add POLICY to COMMENT documentation
COMMENT supports POLICY but the documentation hadn't caught up with
that fact.

Patch by Charles Clavadetscher

Back-patch to 9.5 where POLICY was added.
2015-09-15 10:56:29 -04:00
Teodor Sigaev d02426029b Check existency of table/schema for -t/-n option (pg_dump/pg_restore)
Patch provides command line option --strict-names which requires that at
least one table/schema should present for each -t/-n option.

Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>
2015-09-14 16:19:49 +03:00
Peter Eisentraut c193b8ca9d doc: Remove dead links
The web pages of Andy Dong at Berkeley don't exist anymore, and he is no
longer there.
2015-09-12 23:49:11 -04:00
Stephen Frost e7bf508e6b Fix typo in create_policy.sgml
WTIH -> WITH

Pointed out by Dmitriy Olshevskiy

Backpatch to 9.5 where create_policy.sgml was added.
2015-09-12 17:17:00 -04:00
Fujii Masao a1b2888517 Correct description of PageHeaderData layout in documentation
Back-patch to 9.3 where PageHeaderData layout was changed.

Michael Paquier
2015-09-11 13:02:15 +09:00
Peter Eisentraut 103ef20211 doc: Spell checking 2015-09-10 21:35:06 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera 1aba62ec63 Allow per-tablespace effective_io_concurrency
Per discussion, nowadays it is possible to have tablespaces that have
wildly different I/O characteristics from others.  Setting different
effective_io_concurrency parameters for those has been measured to
improve performance.

Author: Julien Rouhaud
Reviewed by: Andres Freund
2015-09-08 12:51:42 -03:00
Alvaro Herrera 49124613f1 contrib/sslinfo: add ssl_extension_info SRF
This new function provides information about SSL extensions present in
the X509 certificate used for the current connection.

Extension version updated to version 1.1.

Author: Дмитрий Воронин (Dmitry Voronin)
Reviewed by: Michael Paquier, Heikki Linnakangas, Álvaro Herrera
2015-09-07 21:24:17 -03:00
Jeff Davis f828654e10 Add log_line_prefix option 'n' for Unix epoch.
Prints time as Unix epoch with milliseconds.

Tomas Vondra, reviewed by Fabien Coelho.
2015-09-07 13:46:31 -07:00
Teodor Sigaev a1c44e1af6 Update site address of Snowball project 2015-09-07 15:20:45 +03:00
Andres Freund c314ead5be Add ability to reserve WAL upon slot creation via replication protocol.
Since 6fcd885 it is possible to immediately reserve WAL when creating a
slot via pg_create_physical_replication_slot(). Extend the replication
protocol to allow that as well.

Although, in contrast to the SQL interface, it is possible to update the
reserved location via the replication interface, it is still useful
being able to reserve upon creation there. Otherwise the logic in
ReplicationSlotReserveWal() has to be repeated in slot employing
clients.

Author: Michael Paquier
Discussion: CAB7nPqT0Wc1W5mdYGeJ_wbutbwNN+3qgrFR64avXaQCiJMGaYA@mail.gmail.com
2015-09-06 13:30:57 +02:00
Tom Lane 0426f349ef Rearrange the handling of error context reports.
Remove the code in plpgsql that suppressed the innermost line of CONTEXT
for messages emitted by RAISE commands.  That was never more than a quick
backwards-compatibility hack, and it's pretty silly in cases where the
RAISE is nested in several levels of function.  What's more, it violated
our design theory that verbosity of error reports should be controlled
on the client side not the server side.

To alleviate the resulting noise increase, introduce a feature in libpq
and psql whereby the CONTEXT field of messages can be suppressed, either
always or only for non-error messages.  Printing CONTEXT for errors only
is now their default behavior.

The actual code changes here are pretty small, but the effects on the
regression test outputs are widespread.  I had to edit some of the
alternative expected outputs by hand; hopefully the buildfarm will soon
find anything I fat-fingered.

In passing, fix up (again) the output line counts in psql's various
help displays.  Add some commentary about how to verify them.

Pavel Stehule, reviewed by Petr Jelínek, Jeevan Chalke, and others
2015-09-05 11:58:33 -04:00