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Tom Lane 4768cc4565 Release notes for 9.5.3, 9.4.8, 9.3.13, 9.2.17, 9.1.22. 2016-05-07 17:26:23 -04:00
Tom Lane b818088408 In new pg_dump TAP tests, remove trailing "$" from regexps using /m.
It emerges that some Perl versions before 5.8.9 have a bug with regexps
that use the /m flag and contain "$".  This is the reason why jacana
is still failing on HEAD, and I was able to duplicate the failure on
prairiedog's host.  There's no real need for "$" in these patterns,
since they are already matching through the statement-terminating
semicolons (or matching an explicit \n in some cases).  So just
remove it.

Note: the reason jacana hasn't actually reported any failures in the
last little while is that the way the pg_dump TAP tests are set up, any
failure of this sort results in echoing the entire pg_dump dump output
to stderr.  Since there were about a hundred such failures, that resulted
in a 30MB log file which choked the buildfarm upload script.  There is
room for improvement here :-(.

Per off-list discussion with Andrew and Stephen.
2016-05-07 16:36:50 -04:00
Tom Lane 691d99de38 Docs: improve warnings about nextval() not producing gapless sequences.
In the documentation for nextval(), point out explicitly that INSERT ...
ON CONFLICT will call nextval() if needed for the insertion case, whether
or not it ends up following the ON CONFLICT path.  This seems to be a
matter of some confusion, cf bug #14126, so let's be clear about it.

Also mention the issue in the CREATE SEQUENCE reference page, since that
is another place where people might expect such things to be covered.

Minor wording improvements nearby, as well.

Back-patch to 9.5 where ON CONFLICT was introduced.
2016-05-07 13:16:50 -04:00
Tom Lane 7dc1d35969 Update back-branch release notes for the last few commits.
OpenSSL error queue fix no longer needs to be documented under 9.6.
2016-05-07 00:51:27 -04:00
Tom Lane 74a73b1722 Clean up after pg_dump test runs.
The tmp_check directory needs to be removed by "make clean",
and also ignored by .gitignore.
2016-05-06 22:28:01 -04:00
Tom Lane 1a2c17f8e2 Fix pg_upgrade to not fail when new-cluster TOAST rules differ from old.
This patch essentially reverts commit 4c6780fd17, in favor of a much
simpler solution for the case where the new cluster would choose to create
a TOAST table but the old cluster doesn't have one: just don't create a
TOAST table.

The existing code failed in at least two different ways if the situation
arose: (1) ALTER TABLE RESET didn't grab an exclusive lock, so that the
lock sanity check in create_toast_table failed; (2) pg_upgrade did not
provide a pg_type OID for the new toast table, so that the crosscheck in
TypeCreate failed.  While both these problems were introduced by later
patches, they show that the hack being used to cause TOAST table creation
is overwhelmingly fragile (and untested).  I also note that before the
TypeCreate crosscheck was added, the code would have resulted in assigning
an indeterminate pg_type OID to the toast table, possibly causing a later
OID conflict in that catalog; so that it didn't really work even when
committed.

If we simply don't create a TOAST table, there will only be a problem if
the code tries to store a tuple that's wider than a page, and field
compression isn't sufficient to get it under a page.  Given that the TOAST
creation threshold is intended to be about a quarter of a page, it's very
hard to believe that cross-version differences in the do-we-need-a-toast-
table heuristic could result in an observable problem.  So let's just
follow the old version's conclusion about whether a TOAST table is needed.

(If we ever do change needs_toast_table() so much that this conclusion
doesn't apply, we can devise a solution at that time, and hopefully do
it in a less klugy way than 4c6780fd17 did.)

Back-patch to 9.3, like the previous patch.

Discussion: <8110.1462291671@sss.pgh.pa.us>
2016-05-06 22:05:56 -04:00
Stephen Frost 0f97c722bb Disable BLOB test in pg_dump TAP tests
Buildfarm member jacana appears to have an issue with running this
test.  It's not entirely clear to me why, but rather than try to
fight with it, just disable it for now.

None of the other tests try to write out from psql directly as
this test does, so it seems likely that the rest of the tests will
be fine (as they have been on numerous other systems).
2016-05-06 21:24:31 -04:00
Kevin Grittner 7e3da1c473 Mitigate "snapshot too old" performance regression on NUMA
Limit maintenance of time to xid mapping to once per minute.  At
least in the tested case this brings performance within 5% of when
the feature is off, compared to several times slower without this
patch.

While there, fix comments and whitespace.

Ants Aasma, with cosmetic adjustments suggested by Andres Freund
Reviewed by Kevin Grittner and Andres Freund
2016-05-06 20:05:29 -05:00
Tom Lane eb7de00ac2 First-draft release notes for 9.5.3.
As usual, the release notes for other branches will be made by cutting
these down, but put them up for community review first.
2016-05-06 19:43:51 -04:00
Tom Lane bbbae5ead3 Docs: fix alphabetization of table entries.
Fabien Coelho
2016-05-06 17:48:56 -04:00
Tom Lane 36db18eaa0 Docs: minor copy-editing for GSSAPI/SSPI authentication docs.
Describe compat_realm = 0 as "disabled" not "enabled", per discussion
with Christian Ullrich.  I failed to resist the temptation to do some
other minor copy-editing in the same area.
2016-05-06 17:42:50 -04:00
Stephen Frost 6e243c43c9 Add test_pg_dump to @contrib_excludes
The test_pg_dump extension doesn't have a C component, so we need
to exclude it from the MSVC build system trying to figure out how
to build it.

Also add a "MODULES" line to the Makefile, as test_extensions has.
Might not be necessary, but seems good to keep things consistent.

Lastly, remove the 'installcheck' line from test_pg_dump, as that
was causing redefinition errors, at least on my box.  This also
makes test_pg_dump consistent with how commit_ts is set up.
2016-05-06 16:39:56 -04:00
Tom Lane 76ef266a86 More small 9.6 release note improvements.
Corrections per Jeff Janes, Christian Ullrich, and Daniel Vérité.
2016-05-06 16:21:05 -04:00
Stephen Frost c778e27e13 Correct query in pg_dumpall:dumpRoles
We need to use a new branch due to the 9.5 addition of bypassrls
when adding in the clause to exclude pg_* roles from being dumped
by pg_dumpall.

Pointed out by Noah, patch by me.
2016-05-06 16:15:52 -04:00
Stephen Frost eccfeeb631 Remove MODULES_big from test_pg_dump
The Makefile for test_pg_dump shouldn't have a MODULES_big line
because there's no actual compiled bit for that extension.  Hopefully
this will fix the Windows buildfarm members which were complaining.

In passing, also add the 'prove_installcheck' bit to the pg_dump and
test_pg_dump Makefiles, to get the buildfarm members to actually run
those tests.
2016-05-06 15:26:57 -04:00
Robert Haas 68d704edbf Minimal fix for crash bug in quals_match_foreign_key.
Discussion is still underway as to whether to revert the entire patch
that added this function, but that discussion may not conclude before
beta1.  So, in the meantime, let's do at least this much.

David Rowley
2016-05-06 15:00:55 -04:00
Robert Haas c7ea68ff8d Limit maximum parallel degree to 1024.
This new limit affects both the max_parallel_degree GUC and the
parallel_degree reloption.  There may some day be a use case for using
more than 1024 CPUs for a single query, but that's surely not the case
right now.  Not only do not very many people have that many CPUs, but
the code hasn't been tested at that kind of scale and is very unlikely
to perform well, or even work at all, without a lot more work.  The
issue addressed by commit 06bd458cb8 is
probably just one problem of many.

The idea of a more reasonable limit here was suggested by Tom Lane;
the value of 1024 was suggested by Amit Kapila.
2016-05-06 14:50:54 -04:00
Tom Lane 73b9952e82 Improve pg_upgrade's report about failure to match up old and new tables.
Ordinarily, pg_upgrade shouldn't have any difficulty in matching up all
the relations it sees in the old and new databases.  If it does, however,
it just goes belly-up with a pretty unhelpful error message.  That seemed
fine as long as we expected the case never to occur in the wild, but
Alvaro reported that it had been seen in a database whose pg_largeobject
table had somehow acquired a TOAST table.  That doesn't quite seem like
a case that pg_upgrade actually needs to handle, but it would be good if
the report were more diagnosable.  Hence, extend the logic to print out
as much information as we can about the mismatch(es) before we quit.

In passing, improve the readability of get_rel_infos()'s data collection
query, which had suffered seriously from lets-not-bother-to-update-comments
syndrome, and generally was unnecessarily disrespectful to readers.

It could be argued that this is a bug fix, but given that we have so few
reports, I don't feel a need to back-patch; at least not before this has
baked awhile in HEAD.
2016-05-06 14:45:01 -04:00
Robert Haas 06bd458cb8 Use mul_size when multiplying by the number of parallel workers.
That way, if the result overflows size_t, you'll get an error instead
of undefined behavior, which seems like a plus.  This also has the
effect of casting the number of workers from int to Size, which is
better because it's harder to overflow int than size_t.

Dilip Kumar reported this issue and provided a patch upon which this
patch is based, but his version did use mul_size.
2016-05-06 14:32:58 -04:00
Stephen Frost a89505fd21 Remove various special checks around default roles
Default roles really should be like regular roles, for the most part.
This removes a number of checks that were trying to make default roles
extra special by not allowing them to be used as regular roles.

We still prevent users from creating roles in the "pg_" namespace or
from altering roles which exist in that namespace via ALTER ROLE, as
we can't preserve such changes, but otherwise the roles are very much
like regular roles.

Based on discussion with Robert and Tom.
2016-05-06 14:06:50 -04:00
Stephen Frost 6bd356c33a Add TAP tests for pg_dump
This TAP test suite will create a new cluster, populate it based on
the 'create_sql' values in the '%tests' hash, run all of the runs
defined in the '%pgdump_runs' hash, and then for each test in the
'%tests' hash, compare each run's output the the regular expression
defined for the test under the 'like' and 'unlike' functions, as
appropriate.

While this test suite covers a fair bit of ground (67% of pg_dump.c
and quite a bit of the other files in src/bin/pg_dump), there is
still quite a bit which remains to be added to provide better code
coverage.  Still, this is quite a bit better than we had, and has
found a few bugs already (note that the CREATE TRANSFORM test is
commented out, as it is currently failing).

Idea for using the TAP system from Tom, though all of the code is mine.
2016-05-06 14:06:50 -04:00
Stephen Frost e1b120a8cb Only issue LOCK TABLE commands when necessary
Reviewing the cases where we need to LOCK a given table during a dump,
it was pointed out by Tom that we really don't need to LOCK a table if
we are only looking to dump the ACL for it, or certain other
components.  After reviewing the queries run for all of the component
pieces, a list of components were determined to not require LOCK'ing
of the table.

This implements a check to avoid LOCK'ing those tables.

Initial complaint from Rushabh Lathia, discussed with Robert and Tom,
the patch is mine.
2016-05-06 14:06:50 -04:00
Stephen Frost 5d589993ca pg_dump performance and other fixes
Do not try to dump objects which do not have ACLs when only ACLs are
being requested.  This results in a significant performance improvement
as we can avoid querying for further information on these objects when
we don't need to.

When limiting the components to dump for an extension, consider what
components have been requested.  Initially, we incorrectly hard-coded
the components of the extension objects to dump, which would mean that
we wouldn't dump some components even with they were asked for and in
other cases we would dump components which weren't requested.

Correct defaultACLs to use 'dump_contains' instead of 'dump'.  The
defaultACL is considered a member of the namespace and should be
dumped based on the same set of components that the other objects in
the schema are, not based on what we're dumping for the namespace
itself (which might not include ACLs, if the namespace has just the
default or initial ACL).

Use DUMP_COMPONENT_ACL for from-initdb objects, to allow users to
change their ACLs, should they wish to.  This just extends what we
are doing for the pg_catalog namespace to objects which are not
members of namespaces.

Due to column ACLs being treated a bit differently from other ACLs
(they are actually reset to NULL when all privileges are revoked),
adjust the query which gathers column-level ACLs to consider all of
the ACL-relevant columns.
2016-05-06 14:06:50 -04:00
Stephen Frost 64d60c8bf0 Correct pg_dump WHERE clause for functions/aggregates
The query to grab the function/aggregate information is now joining
to pg_init_privs, so we can simplify (and correct) the WHERE clause
used to determine if a given function's ACL has changed from the
initial ACL on the function.

Bug found by Noah, patch by me.
2016-05-06 14:06:50 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut e324f8ad61 Update config.guess and config.sub 2016-05-06 14:02:44 -04:00
Tom Lane d136d600f9 Fix possible read past end of string in to_timestamp().
to_timestamp() handles the TH/th format codes by advancing over two input
characters, whatever those are.  It failed to notice whether there were
two characters available to be skipped, making it possible to advance
the pointer past the end of the input string and keep on parsing.
A similar risk existed in the handling of "Y,YYY" format: it would advance
over three characters after the "," whether or not three characters were
available.

In principle this might be exploitable to disclose contents of server
memory.  But the security team concluded that it would be very hard to use
that way, because the parsing loop would stop upon hitting any zero byte,
and TH/th format codes can't be consecutive --- they have to follow some
other format code, which would have to match whatever data is there.
So it seems impractical to examine memory very much beyond the end of the
input string via this bug; and the input string will always be in local
memory not in disk buffers, making it unlikely that anything very
interesting is close to it in a predictable way.  So this doesn't quite
rise to the level of needing a CVE.

Thanks to Wolf Roediger for reporting this bug.
2016-05-06 12:09:20 -04:00
Tom Lane 6b8b4e4d83 Fix pgbench's parsing of double values to notice trailing garbage.
Noted by Fabien Coelho, though this isn't exactly his proposed patch.
(The technique used here is borrowed from the zic sources.)
2016-05-06 11:08:48 -04:00
Tom Lane 9515299485 Improve handling of numeric-valued variables in pgbench.
The previous coding always stored variable values as strings, doing
conversion on-the-fly when a numeric value was needed or a number was to be
assigned.  This was a bit inefficient and risked loss of precision for
floating-point values.  The precision aspect had been hacked around by
printing doubles in "%.18e" format, which is ugly and has machine-dependent
results.  Instead, arrange to preserve an assigned numeric value in the
original binary numeric format, converting to string only when and if
needed.  When we do need to convert a double to string, convert in "%g"
format with DBL_DIG precision, which is the standard way to do it and
produces the least surprising results in most cases.

The implementation supports storing both a string value and a numeric
value for any one variable, with lazy conversion between them.  I also
arranged for lazy re-sorting of the variable array when new variables are
added.  That was mainly to allow a clean refactoring of putVariable()
into two levels of subroutine, but it may allow us to save a few sorts.

Discussion: <9188.1462475559@sss.pgh.pa.us>
2016-05-06 11:01:05 -04:00
Tom Lane daa9856fce Docs: fix \crosstabview example.
This example missed being updated when we redefined \crosstabview's
argument processing.

Daniel Vérité
2016-05-06 10:39:35 -04:00
Kevin Grittner 2cc41acd8f Fix hash index vs "snapshot too old" problemms
Hash indexes are not WAL-logged, and so do not maintain the LSN of
index pages.  Since the "snapshot too old" feature counts on
detecting error conditions using the LSN of a table and all indexes
on it, this makes it impossible to safely do early vacuuming on any
table with a hash index, so add this to the tests for whether the
xid used to vacuum a table can be adjusted based on
old_snapshot_threshold.

While at it, add a paragraph to the docs for old_snapshot_threshold
which specifically mentions this and other aspects of the feature
which may otherwise surprise users.

Problem reported and patch reviewed by Amit Kapila
2016-05-06 07:47:12 -05:00
Dean Rasheed 9b66aa006f Fix psql's \ev and \sv commands so that they handle view reloptions.
Commit 8eb6407aae added support for
editing and showing view definitions, but neglected to account for
view options such as security_barrier and WITH CHECK OPTION which are
not returned by pg_get_viewdef() and so need special handling.

Author: Dean Rasheed
Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut
Discussion: http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAEZATCWZjCgKRyM-agE0p8ax15j9uyQoF=qew7D2xB6cF76T8A@mail.gmail.com
2016-05-06 12:48:27 +01:00
Dean Rasheed 93a8c6fd6c Move and rename fmtReloptionsArray().
Move fmtReloptionsArray() from pg_dump.c to string_utils.c so that it
is available to other frontend code. In particular psql's \ev and \sv
commands need it to handle view reloptions. Also rename the function
to appendReloptionsArray(), which is a more accurate description of
what it does.

Author: Dean Rasheed
Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut
Discussion: http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAEZATCWZjCgKRyM-agE0p8ax15j9uyQoF=qew7D2xB6cF76T8A@mail.gmail.com
2016-05-06 12:45:36 +01:00
Tom Lane 306ff0aaf8 Further 9.6 release note improvements.
Call out the major enhancements in this release as identified by
pgsql-advocacy discussion, and rearrange some of the entries to
make those items more prominent.  Other minor improvements per
advice from Vitaly Burovoy, Masahiko Sawada, Peter Geoghegan,
and Andres Freund.
2016-05-05 22:37:30 -04:00
Tom Lane 98f158e41e Update time zone data files to tzdata release 2016d.
DST law changes in Russia (Magadan, Tomsk regions) and Venezuela.
Historical corrections for Russia.  There are new zone names Europe/Kirov
and Asia/Tomsk reflecting the fact that these regions now have different
time zone histories from adjacent regions.
2016-05-05 20:08:58 -04:00
Tom Lane 0b9a234432 Rename tsvector delete() to ts_delete(), and filter() to ts_filter().
The similarity of the original names to SQL keywords seems like a bad
idea.  Rename them before we're stuck with 'em forever.

In passing, minor code and docs cleanup.

Discussion: <4875.1462210058@sss.pgh.pa.us>
2016-05-05 19:43:32 -04:00
Tom Lane 2f38b986fa Small 9.6 release note improvements.
Sync release notes through today, and incorporate some suggestions
from Robert Haas.
2016-05-05 18:52:32 -04:00
Tom Lane 7a622b2731 Rename pgbench min/max to least/greatest, and fix handling of double args.
These functions behave like the backend's least/greatest functions,
not like min/max, so the originally-chosen names invite confusion.
Per discussion, rename to least/greatest.

I also took it upon myself to make them return double if any input is
double.  The previous behavior of silently coercing all inputs to int
surely does not meet the principle of least astonishment.

Copy-edit some of the other new functions' documentation, too.
2016-05-05 14:51:00 -04:00
Tom Lane c311f78873 First-draft release notes for Postgres 9.6.
These are just of beta quality, but we're only at beta ... the section
about parallel query, in particular, could doubtless use more work.
2016-05-05 13:27:59 -04:00
Tom Lane a9ba6195f1 Fix ordering/categorization of some recently-added system views.
Somebody added pg_replication_origin, pg_replication_origin_status and
pg_replication_slots to catalogs.sgml without a whole lot of concern for
either alphabetical order or the difference between a table and a view.
Clean up the mess.

Back-patch to 9.5, not so much because this is critical as because if
I don't it will result in a cross-branch divergence in release-9.5.sgml,
which would be a maintenance hazard.
2016-05-05 12:33:29 -04:00
Dean Rasheed 18a02ad2a5 Fix corner-case loss of precision in numeric pow() calculation
Commit 7d9a4737c2 greatly improved the
accuracy of the numeric transcendental functions, however it failed to
consider the case where the result from pow() is close to the overflow
threshold, for example 0.12 ^ -2345.6. For such inputs, where the
result has more than 2000 digits before the decimal point, the decimal
result weight estimate was being clamped to 2000, leading to a loss of
precision in the final calculation.

Fix this by replacing the clamping code with an overflow test that
aborts the calculation early if the final result is sure to overflow,
based on the overflow limit in exp_var(). This provides the same
protection against integer overflow in the subsequent result scale
computation as the original clamping code, but it also ensures that
precision is never lost and saves compute cycles in cases that are
sure to overflow.

The new early overflow test works with the initial low-precision
result (expected to be accurate to around 8 significant digits) and
includes a small fuzz factor to ensure that it doesn't kick in for
values that would not overflow exp_var(), so the overall overflow
threshold of pow() is unchanged and consistent for all inputs with
non-integer exponents.

Author: Dean Rasheed
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane
Discussion: http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAEZATCUj3U-cQj0jjoia=qgs0SjE3auroxh8swvNKvZWUqegrg@mail.gmail.com
See-also: http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAEZATCV7w+8iB=07dJ8Q0zihXQT1semcQuTeK+4_rogC_zq5Hw@mail.gmail.com
2016-05-05 11:16:17 +01:00
Alvaro Herrera c1543a81a7 Revert timeline following in replication slots
This reverts commits f07d18b6e9, 82c83b3372, 3a3b309041, and
24c5f1a103.

This feature has shown enough immaturity that it was deemed better to
rip it out before rushing some more fixes at the last minute.  There are
discussions on larger changes in this area for the next release.
2016-05-04 17:32:22 -03:00
Peter Eisentraut 6535bf3998 doc: Fix more typos
From: Alexander Law <exclusion@gmail.com>
2016-05-04 14:07:00 -04:00
Teodor Sigaev 4bbc1a7ea3 Fix crash of filter(tsvector)
Variable storing a position of lexeme, had a wrong type: char, it's
obviously not enough to store 2^14 possible positions.

Stas Kelvich
2016-05-04 17:58:08 +03:00
Andres Freund a712487087 Fix transient mdsync() errors of truncated relations due to 72a98a6395.
Unfortunately the segment size checks from 72a98a6395 had the negative
side-effect of breaking a corner case in mdsync(): When processing a
fsync request for a truncated away segment mdsync() could fail with
"could not fsync file" (if previous segment < RELSEG_SIZE) because
_mdfd_getseg() now wouldn't return the relevant segment anymore.

The cleanest fix seems to be to allow the caller of _mdfd_getseg() to
specify whether checks for RELSEG_SIZE are performed. To allow doing so,
change the ExtensionBehavior enum into a bitmask. Besides allowing for
the addition of EXTENSION_DONT_CHECK_SIZE, this makes for a nicer
implementation of EXTENSION_REALLY_RETURN_NULL.

Besides mdsync() the only callsite that should change behaviour due to
this is mdprefetch() which now doesn't create segments anymore, even in
recovery. Given the uses of mdprefetch() that seems better.

Reported-By: Thom Brown
Discussion: CAA-aLv72QazLvPdKZYpVn4a_Eh+i4_cxuB03k+iCuZM_xjc+6Q@mail.gmail.com
2016-05-04 01:54:20 -07:00
Peter Eisentraut 613fb29a38 doc: Fix typos
From: Alexander Law <exclusion@gmail.com>
2016-05-03 21:06:25 -04:00
Robert Haas 9888b34fdb Fix more things to be parallel-safe.
Conversion functions were previously marked as parallel-unsafe, since
that is the default, but in fact they are safe.  Parallel-safe
functions defined in pg_proc.h and redefined in system_views.sql were
ending up as parallel-unsafe because the redeclarations were not
marked PARALLEL SAFE.  While editing system_views.sql, mark ts_debug()
parallel safe also.

Andreas Karlsson
2016-05-03 14:36:38 -04:00
Robert Haas 8826d85078 Tweak a few more things in preparation for upcoming pgindent run.
These adjustments adjust code and comments in minor ways to prevent
pgindent from mangling them.  Among other things, I tried to avoid
situations where pgindent would emit "a +b" instead of "a + b", and I
tried to avoid having it break up inline comments across multiple
lines.
2016-05-03 10:52:25 -04:00
Robert Haas 1e77949e67 Note that max_worker_processes requires restart.
Since this is a minor issue, no back-patch.

Julien Rouhaud
2016-05-03 10:39:21 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera 6b60916829 Fix thinko in comment
Pointed out by Andres Freund
2016-05-02 16:46:42 -03:00
Alvaro Herrera 234a266066 Fix code comments regarding logical decoding
Back in 3b02ea4f07 I added some comments in various places to explain
how logical decoding and other things worked.  Not all of the changes
were welcome, because they were misleading or wrong.  This changes them
a little bit to make them more accurate.

Some other comments are also changed to be more accurate.  Also, fix a
bunch of typos.

Author: Álvaro Herrera, Craig Ringer

Andres Freund reviewed some parts of this.
2016-05-02 16:04:29 -03:00