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Amit Kapila 8d74fc96db Add a view to show the stats of subscription workers.
This commit adds a new system view pg_stat_subscription_workers, that
shows information about any errors which occur during the application of
logical replication changes as well as during performing initial table
synchronization. The subscription statistics entries are removed when the
corresponding subscription is removed.

It also adds an SQL function pg_stat_reset_subscription_worker() to reset
single subscription errors.

The contents of this view can be used by an upcoming patch that skips the
particular transaction that conflicts with the existing data on the
subscriber.

This view can be extended in the future to track other xact related
statistics like the number of xacts committed/aborted for subscription
workers.

Author: Masahiko Sawada
Reviewed-by: Greg Nancarrow, Hou Zhijie, Tang Haiying, Vignesh C, Dilip Kumar, Takamichi Osumi, Amit Kapila
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAD21AoDeScrsHhLyEPYqN3sydg6PxAPVBboK=30xJfUVihNZDA@mail.gmail.com
2021-11-30 08:54:30 +05:30
Tom Lane 4f33af23e7 Doc: improve documentation about ORDER BY in matviews.
Remove the confusing use of ORDER BY in an example materialized
view.  It adds nothing to the example, but might encourage
people to follow bad practice.  Clarify REFRESH MATERIALIZED
VIEW's note about whether view ordering is retained (it isn't).

Maciek Sakrejda

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAOtHd0D-OvrUU0C=4hX28p4BaSE1XL78BAQ0VcDaLLt8tdUzsg@mail.gmail.com
2021-11-29 12:13:12 -05:00
Alvaro Herrera dd484c97f5
Copy-edit vacuuumdb --analyze-in-stages doc blurb
I had made a few typos, and Nikolai Berkoff made a wording change
suggestion.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/VMwe7-sGegrQPQ7fJjSCdsEbESKeJFOb6G4DFxxNrf45I7DzHio7sNUH88wWRMnAy5a5G0-FB31dxPM47ldigW6WdiCPncHgqO9bNl6F240=@pm.me
2021-11-26 14:42:15 -03:00
Alvaro Herrera 013bb6c8c0
Document units for max_slot_wal_keep_size
The doc blurb failed to mention units, as well as lacking the point
about changeability.

Backpatch to 13.

Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com>
Reported by: b1000101@pm.me
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/163760291192.26193.10801700492025355788@wrigleys.postgresql.org
2021-11-26 14:31:57 -03:00
Tom Lane 4ac452e228 Doc: improve documentation about nextval()/setval().
Clarify that the results of nextval and setval are not guaranteed
persistent until the calling transaction commits.  Some people
seem to have drawn the opposite conclusion from the statement that
these functions are never rolled back, so re-word to avoid saying
it quite that way.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAKU4AWohO=NfM-4KiZWvdc+z3c1C9FrUBR6xnReFJ6sfy0i=Lw@mail.gmail.com
2021-11-24 13:37:11 -05:00
Heikki Linnakangas 373e552189 Fix missing space in docs.
Author: Japin Li
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/MEYP282MB1669C36E5F733C2EFBDCB80BB6619@MEYP282MB1669.AUSP282.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM
2021-11-24 18:32:56 +02:00
Michael Paquier b2265d305d Add support for Visual Studio 2022 in build scripts
Documentation and any code paths related to VS are updated to keep the
whole consistent.  Similarly to 2017 and 2019, the version of VS and the
version of nmake that we use to determine which code paths to use for
the build are still inconsistent in their own way.

Backpatch down to 10, so as buildfarm members are able to use this new
version of Visual Studio on all the stable branches supported.

Author: Hans Buschmann
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1633101364685.39218@nidsa.net
Backpatch-through: 10
2021-11-24 13:03:23 +09:00
Michael Paquier 1922d7c6e1 Add SQL functions to monitor the directory contents of replication slots
This commit adds a set of functions able to look at the contents of
various paths related to replication slots:
- pg_ls_logicalsnapdir, for pg_logical/snapshots/
- pg_ls_logicalmapdir, for pg_logical/mappings/
- pg_ls_replslotdir, for pg_replslot/<slot_name>/

These are intended to be used by monitoring tools.  Unlike pg_ls_dir(),
execution permission can be granted to non-superusers.  Roles members of
pg_monitor gain have access to those functions.

Bump catalog version.

Author: Bharath Rupireddy
Reviewed-by: Nathan Bossart, Justin Pryzby
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CALj2ACWsfizZjMN6bzzdxOk1ADQQeSw8HhEjhmVXn_Pu+7VzLw@mail.gmail.com
2021-11-23 19:29:42 +09:00
Fujii Masao 1b06d7bac9 Report wait events for local shell commands like archive_command.
This commit introduces new wait events for archive_command,
archive_cleanup_command, restore_command and recovery_end_command.

Author: Fujii Masao
Reviewed-by: Bharath Rupireddy, Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/4ca4f920-6b48-638d-08b2-93598356f5d3@oss.nttdata.com
2021-11-22 10:28:21 +09:00
Daniel Gustafsson 3374a87b62 Doc: add see-also references to CREATE PUBLICATION.
The "See also" section on the reference page for CREATE PUBLICATION
didn't match the cross references on CREATE SUBSCRIPTION and their
ALTER counterparts. Fixed by adding an xref to the CREATE and ALTER
SUBSCRIPTION pages.  Backpatch down to v10 where CREATE PUBLICATION
was introduced.

Author: Peter Smith <smithpb2250@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAHut+PvGWd3-Ktn96c-z6uq-8TGVVP=TPOkEovkEfntoo2mRhw@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 10
2021-11-17 13:34:41 +01:00
Peter Eisentraut db9f287711 doc: Add referential actions to CREATE/ALTER TABLE synopsis
The general constraint synopsis references "referential_action", but
this was not further defined in the synopsis section.  Compared to the
level of detail that the synopsis gives to other subclauses, this
should surely be there.

extracted from a patch by Paul Martinez <hellopfm@gmail.com>

Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CACqFVBZQyMYJV=njbSMxf+rbDHpx=W=B7AEaMKn8dWn9OZJY7w@mail.gmail.com
2021-11-11 10:49:44 +01:00
Tom Lane c3b33698cf Doc: improve protocol spec for logical replication Type messages.
protocol.sgml documented the layout for Type messages, but completely
dropped the ball otherwise, failing to explain what they are, when
they are sent, or what they're good for.  While at it, do a little
copy-editing on the description of Relation messages.

In passing, adjust the comment for apply_handle_type() to make it
clearer that we choose not to do anything when receiving a Type
message, not that we think it has no use whatsoever.

Per question from Stefen Hillman.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAPgW8pMknK5pup6=T4a_UG=Cz80Rgp=KONqJmTdHfaZb0RvnFg@mail.gmail.com
2021-11-10 13:13:04 -05:00
Jeff Davis 4168a47454 Add pg_checkpointer predefined role for CHECKPOINT command.
Any user with the privileges of pg_checkpointer can issue a CHECKPOINT
command.

Reviewed-by: Stephen Frost
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/67a1d667e8ec228b5e07f232184c80348c5d93f4.camel%40j-davis.com
2021-11-09 16:59:14 -08:00
Fujii Masao ec21779a58 doc: Add index entries for pg_stat_statements configuration parameters.
Author: Ken Kato
Reviewed-by: Julien Rouhaud, Fujii Masao
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/699cfd8170178db087e54c954b21ece4@oss.nttdata.com
2021-11-09 12:39:47 +09:00
Tom Lane 160c025880 libpq: reject extraneous data after SSL or GSS encryption handshake.
libpq collects up to a bufferload of data whenever it reads data from
the socket.  When SSL or GSS encryption is requested during startup,
any additional data received with the server's yes-or-no reply
remained in the buffer, and would be treated as already-decrypted data
once the encryption handshake completed.  Thus, a man-in-the-middle
with the ability to inject data into the TCP connection could stuff
some cleartext data into the start of a supposedly encryption-protected
database session.

This could probably be abused to inject faked responses to the
client's first few queries, although other details of libpq's behavior
make that harder than it sounds.  A different line of attack is to
exfiltrate the client's password, or other sensitive data that might
be sent early in the session.  That has been shown to be possible with
a server vulnerable to CVE-2021-23214.

To fix, throw a protocol-violation error if the internal buffer
is not empty after the encryption handshake.

Our thanks to Jacob Champion for reporting this problem.

Security: CVE-2021-23222
2021-11-08 11:14:56 -05:00
Tom Lane cbe25dcff7 Disallow making an empty lexeme via array_to_tsvector().
The tsvector data type has always forbidden lexemes to be empty.
However, array_to_tsvector() didn't get that memo, and would
allow an empty-string array element to become an empty lexeme.
This could result in dump/restore failures later, not to mention
whatever semantic issues might be behind the original prohibition.

However, other functions that take a plain text input directly as
a lexeme value do not need a similar restriction, because they only
match the string against existing tsvector entries.  In particular
it'd be a bad idea to make ts_delete() reject empty strings, since
that is the most convenient way to clean up any bad data that might
have gotten into a tsvector column via this bug.

Reflecting on that, let's also remove the prohibition against NULL
array elements in tsvector_delete_arr and tsvector_setweight_by_filter.
It seems more consistent to ignore them, as an empty-string element
would be ignored.

There's a case for back-patching this, since it's clearly a bug fix.
On balance though, it doesn't seem like something to change in a
minor release.

Jean-Christophe Arnu

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAHZmTm1YVndPgUVRoag2WL0w900XcoiivDDj-gTTYBsG25c65A@mail.gmail.com
2021-11-06 13:28:53 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera df80f9da5c
Document that ALTER TABLE .. TYPE removes statistics
Co-authored-by: Nikolai Berkoff <nikolai.berkoff@pm.me>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/vCc8XnwDmlP4ZnHBQLIVxzD405BiYHVC9qZlhIF7IsfxK0gC9mZ4PUUOH0-3y6kv5p-87-3_ljqT1KvQVAnb8OoWhPU3kcqWn2ZpmxRBCQg=@pm.me
2021-11-05 12:09:31 -03:00
Alvaro Herrera 105c1de019
Pipeline mode disallows multicommand strings
... so mention that in appropriate places of the libpq docs.

Backpatch to 14.

Reported-by: RekGRpth <rekgrpth@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17235-53bb38fc5be593dc@postgresql.org
2021-11-05 11:40:03 -03:00
Alvaro Herrera e543906e21
Document default and changeability of log_startup_progress_interval
Review for 9ce346eabf.

Author: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Reviewed-by: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/202110292123.bnf6axcp27vx@alvherre.pgsql
2021-11-05 11:31:57 -03:00
Alvaro Herrera 00a354a135
Reword doc blurb for vacuumdb --analyze-in-stages
Make users aware that using it in a database with existing stats might
cause transient problems.

Author: Nikolai Berkoff <nikolai.berkoff@pm.me>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/s-kSljtWXMWgMfGTztPTPcS80R8FHdOrBxDTnrQI6GMZbT7au1A4b0fzaSFtKwCI8nwN0MhgPLfVOTvJ7DwTjkip4P3d0o4VgrMJs4OLN-o=@pm.me
2021-11-05 11:22:30 -03:00
Peter Eisentraut db7d1a7b05 pgcrypto: Remove non-OpenSSL support
pgcrypto had internal implementations of some encryption algorithms,
as an alternative to calling out to OpenSSL.  These were rarely used,
since most production installations are built with OpenSSL.  Moreover,
maintaining parallel code paths makes the code more complex and
difficult to maintain.

This patch removes these internal implementations.  Now, pgcrypto is
only built if OpenSSL support is configured.

Reviewed-by: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/0b42f1df-8cba-6a30-77d7-acc241cc88c1%40enterprisedb.com
2021-11-05 14:06:59 +01:00
Michael Paquier babbbb595d Add support for LZ4 compression in pg_receivewal
pg_receivewal gains a new option, --compression-method=lz4, available
when the code is compiled with --with-lz4.  Similarly to gzip, this
gives the possibility to compress archived WAL segments with LZ4.  This
option is not compatible with --compress.

The implementation uses LZ4 frames, and is compatible with simple lz4
commands.  Like gzip, using --synchronous ensures that any data will be
flushed to disk within the current .partial segment, so as it is
possible to retrieve as much WAL data as possible even from a
non-completed segment (this requires completing the partial file with
zeros up to the WAL segment size supported by the backend after
decompression, but this is the same as gzip).

The calculation of the streaming start LSN is able to transparently find
and check LZ4-compressed segments.  Contrary to gzip where the
uncompressed size is directly stored in the object read, the LZ4 chunk
protocol does not store the uncompressed data by default.  There is
contentSize that can be used with LZ4 frames by that would not help if
using an archive that includes segments compressed with the defaults of
a "lz4" command, where this is not stored.  So, this commit has taken
the most extensible approach by decompressing the already-archived
segment to check its uncompressed size, through a blank output buffer in
chunks of 64kB (no actual performance difference noticed with 8kB, 16kB
or 32kB, and the operation in itself is actually fast).

Tests have been added to verify the creation and correctness of the
generated LZ4 files.  The latter is achieved by the use of command
"lz4", if found in the environment.

The tar-based WAL method in walmethods.c, used now only by
pg_basebackup, does not know yet about LZ4.  Its code could be extended
for this purpose.

Author: Georgios Kokolatos
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier, Jian Guo, Magnus Hagander, Dilip Kumar
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ZCm1J5vfyQ2E6dYvXz8si39HQ2gwxSZ3IpYaVgYa3lUwY88SLapx9EEnOf5uEwrddhx2twG7zYKjVeuP5MwZXCNPybtsGouDsAD1o2L_I5E=@pm.me
2021-11-05 11:33:25 +09:00
Michael Paquier 9588622945 Fix some thinkos with pg_receivewal --compression-method
The option name was incorrect in one of the error messages, and the
short option 'I' was used in the code but we did not intend things to be
this way.  While on it, fix the documentation to refer to a "method",
and not a "level.

Oversights in commit d62bcc8, that I have detected after more review of
the LZ4 patch for pg_receivewal.
2021-11-04 12:32:37 +09:00
Michael Paquier d62bcc8b07 Rework compression options of pg_receivewal
pg_receivewal includes since cada1af the option --compress, to allow the
compression of WAL segments using gzip, with a value of 0 (the default)
meaning that no compression can be used.

This commit introduces a new option, called --compression-method, able
to use as values "none", the default, and "gzip", to make things more
extensible.  The case of --compress=0 becomes fuzzy with this option
layer, so we have made the choice to make pg_receivewal return an error
when using "none" and a non-zero compression level, meaning that the
authorized values of --compress are now [1,9] instead of [0,9].  Not
specifying --compress with "gzip" as compression method makes
pg_receivewal use the default of zlib instead (Z_DEFAULT_COMPRESSION).

The code in charge of finding the streaming start LSN when scanning the
existing archives is refactored and made more extensible.  While on it,
rename "compression" to "compression_level" in walmethods.c, to reduce
the confusion with the introduction of the compression method, even if
the tar method used by pg_basebackup does not rely on the compression
method (yet, at least), but just on the compression level (this area
could be improved more, actually).

This is in preparation for an upcoming patch that adds LZ4 support to
pg_receivewal.

Author: Georgios Kokolatos
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier, Jian Guo, Magnus Hagander, Dilip Kumar,
Robert Haas
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ZCm1J5vfyQ2E6dYvXz8si39HQ2gwxSZ3IpYaVgYa3lUwY88SLapx9EEnOf5uEwrddhx2twG7zYKjVeuP5MwZXCNPybtsGouDsAD1o2L_I5E=@pm.me
2021-11-04 11:10:31 +09:00
Tom Lane 7d9ec0754a Doc: clean up some places that mentioned template1 but not template0.
Improve old text that wasn't updated when we added template0 to
the standard database set.

Per suggestion from P. Luzanov.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/163583775122.675.3700595100340939507@wrigleys.postgresql.org
2021-11-02 12:54:35 -04:00
Tom Lane af8c580e5c Doc: be more precise about conflicts between relation names.
Use verbiage like "The name of the table must be distinct from the name
of any other relation (table, sequence, index, view, materialized view,
or foreign table) in the same schema." in the reference pages for all
those object types.  The main change here is to mention materialized
views explicitly; although a couple of these pages failed to say
anything at all about name conflicts.

Per suggestion from Daniel Westermann.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ZR0P278MB0920D0946509233459AF0DEFD2889@ZR0P278MB0920.CHEP278.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM
2021-11-02 12:12:02 -04:00
Fujii Masao cd29be5459 pgbench: Improve error-handling in pgbench.
Previously failures of initial connection and logfile open caused pgbench
to proceed the benchmarking, report the incomplete results and exit with
status 2. It didn't make sense to proceed the benchmarking even when
pgbench could not start as prescribed.

This commit improves pgbench so that early errors that occur when
starting benchmark such as those failures should make pgbench exit
immediately with status 1.

Author: Yugo Nagata
Reviewed-by: Fabien COELHO, Kyotaro Horiguchi, Fujii Masao
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/TYCPR01MB5870057375ACA8A73099C649F5349@TYCPR01MB5870.jpnprd01.prod.outlook.com
2021-11-02 22:49:57 +09:00
Peter Eisentraut e6c60719e6 doc: Remove some obsolete pgcrypto documentation
The pgcrypto documentation contained acknowledgments of used external
code, but some of this code has been moved to src/common/, so
mentioning it with pgcrypto no longer makes sense, so remove it.
2021-10-30 13:14:52 +02:00
Peter Eisentraut b8b62b4be2 Remove unused chunk from standalone-profile.xsl
unused since 1707a0d2aa
2021-10-30 12:38:14 +02:00
Tom Lane a2a731d6c9 Test and document the behavior of initialization cross-refs in plpgsql.
We had a test showing that a variable isn't referenceable in its
own initialization expression, nor in prior ones in the same block.
It *is* referenceable in later expressions in the same block, but
AFAICS there is no test case exercising that.  Add one, and also
add some error cases.

Also, document that this is possible, since the docs failed to
cover the point.

Per question from tomás at tuxteam.  I don't feel any need to
back-patch this, but we should ensure we don't break it in future.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20211029121435.GA5414@tuxteam.de
2021-10-29 12:45:33 -04:00
Michael Paquier cc1853b300 doc: Fix link to SELinux user guide in sepgsql page
Reported-by: Anton Voloshin
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/15a86d4e-a237-1acd-18a2-fd69730f1ab9@postgrespro.ru
Backpatch-through: 10
2021-10-28 09:25:55 +09:00
Jeff Davis 77ea4f9439 Grant memory views to pg_read_all_stats.
Grant privileges on views pg_backend_memory_contexts and
pg_shmem_allocations to the role pg_read_all_stats. Also grant on the
underlying functions that those views depend on.

Author: Bharath Rupireddy <bharath.rupireddyforpostgres@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Nathan Bossart <bossartn@amazon.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CALj2ACWAZo3Ar_EVsn2Zf9irG+hYK3cmh1KWhZS_Od45nd01RA@mail.gmail.com
2021-10-27 14:06:30 -07:00
Magnus Hagander eff61383b9 Clarify that --system reindexes system catalogs *only*
Make this more clear both in the help message and docs.

Reviewed-By: Michael Paquier
Backpatch-through: 9.6
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CABUevEw6Je0WUFTLhPKOk4+BoBuDrE-fKw3N4ckqgDBMFu4paA@mail.gmail.com
2021-10-27 16:28:11 +02:00
Amit Kapila 5a2832465f Allow publishing the tables of schema.
A new option "FOR ALL TABLES IN SCHEMA" in Create/Alter Publication allows
one or more schemas to be specified, whose tables are selected by the
publisher for sending the data to the subscriber.

The new syntax allows specifying both the tables and schemas. For example:
CREATE PUBLICATION pub1 FOR TABLE t1,t2,t3, ALL TABLES IN SCHEMA s1,s2;
OR
ALTER PUBLICATION pub1 ADD TABLE t1,t2,t3, ALL TABLES IN SCHEMA s1,s2;

A new system table "pg_publication_namespace" has been added, to maintain
the schemas that the user wants to publish through the publication.
Modified the output plugin (pgoutput) to publish the changes if the
relation is part of schema publication.

Updates pg_dump to identify and dump schema publications. Updates the \d
family of commands to display schema publications and \dRp+ variant will
now display associated schemas if any.

Author: Vignesh C, Hou Zhijie, Amit Kapila
Syntax-Suggested-by: Tom Lane, Alvaro Herrera
Reviewed-by: Greg Nancarrow, Masahiko Sawada, Hou Zhijie, Amit Kapila, Haiying Tang, Ajin Cherian, Rahila Syed, Bharath Rupireddy, Mark Dilger
Tested-by: Haiying Tang
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CALDaNm0OANxuJ6RXqwZsM1MSY4s19nuH3734j4a72etDwvBETQ@mail.gmail.com
2021-10-27 07:44:52 +05:30
Jeff Davis f0b051e322 Allow GRANT on pg_log_backend_memory_contexts().
Remove superuser check, allowing any user granted permissions on
pg_log_backend_memory_contexts() to log the memory contexts of any
backend.

Note that this could allow a privileged non-superuser to log the
memory contexts of a superuser backend, but as discussed, that does
not seem to be a problem.

Reviewed-by: Nathan Bossart, Bharath Rupireddy, Michael Paquier, Kyotaro Horiguchi, Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/e5cf6684d17c8d1ef4904ae248605ccd6da03e72.camel@j-davis.com
2021-10-26 13:31:38 -07:00
Michael Paquier 8af09daf56 doc: Fix grammar in page of pg_receivewal
Introduced by f61e1dd.

Author: Kyotaro Horiguchi
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20211026.112304.1962954080884317968.horikyota.ntt@gmail.com
2021-10-26 13:57:18 +09:00
Michael Paquier f61e1dd2ce Allow pg_receivewal to stream from a slot's restart LSN
Prior to this patch, when running pg_receivewal, the streaming start
point would be the current location of the archives if anything is
found in the local directory where WAL segments are written, and
pg_receivewal would fall back to the current WAL flush location if there
are no archives, as of the result of an IDENTIFY_SYSTEM command.

If for some reason the WAL files from pg_receivewal were moved, it is
better to try a restart where we left at, which is the replication
slot's restart_lsn instead of skipping right to the current flush
location, to avoid holes in the WAL backed up.  This commit changes
pg_receivewal to use the following sequence of methods to determine the
starting streaming LSN:
- Scan the local archives.
- Use the slot's restart_lsn, if supported by the backend and if a slot
is defined.
- Fallback to the current flush LSN as reported by IDENTIFY_SYSTEM.

To keep compatibility with older server versions, we only attempt to use
READ_REPLICATION_SLOT if the backend version is at least 15, and
fallback to the older behavior of streaming from the current flush
LSN if the command is not supported.

Some TAP tests are added to cover this feature.

Author: Ronan Dunklau
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi, Michael Paquier, Bharath Rupireddy
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18708360.4lzOvYHigE@aivenronan
2021-10-26 09:30:37 +09:00
Thomas Munro 8781b0ce25 Reject huge_pages=on if shared_memory_type=sysv.
It doesn't work (it could, but hasn't been implemented).
Back-patch to 12, where shared_memory_type arrived.

Reported-by: Alexander Lakhin <exclusion@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Alexander Lakhin <exclusion@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/163271880203.22789.1125998876173795966@wrigleys.postgresql.org
2021-10-26 12:54:55 +13:00
Robert Haas 9ce346eabf Report progress of startup operations that take a long time.
Users sometimes get concerned whe they start the server and it
emits a few messages and then doesn't emit any more messages for
a long time. Generally, what's happening is either that the
system is taking a long time to apply WAL, or it's taking a
long time to reset unlogged relations, or it's taking a long
time to fsync the data directory, but it's not easy to tell
which is the case.

To fix that, add a new 'log_startup_progress_interval' setting,
by default 10s. When an operation that is known to be potentially
long-running takes more than this amount of time, we'll log a
status update each time this interval elapses.

To avoid undesirable log chatter, don't log anything about WAL
replay when in standby mode.

Nitin Jadhav and Robert Haas, reviewed by Amul Sul, Bharath
Rupireddy, Justin Pryzby, Michael Paquier, and Álvaro Herrera.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmoaHQrgDFOBwgY16XCoMtXxsrVGFB2jNCvb7-ubuEe1MGg@mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAMm1aWaHF7VE69572_OLQ+MgpT5RUiUDgF1x5RrtkJBLdpRj3Q@mail.gmail.com
2021-10-25 11:51:57 -04:00
Michael Paquier b4ada4e19f Add replication command READ_REPLICATION_SLOT
The command is supported for physical slots for now, and returns the
type of slot, its restart_lsn and its restart_tli.

This will be useful for an upcoming patch related to pg_receivewal, to
allow the tool to be able to stream from the position of a slot, rather
than the last WAL position flushed by the backend (as reported by
IDENTIFY_SYSTEM) if the archive directory is found as empty, which would
be an advantage in the case of switching to a different archive
locations with the same slot used to avoid holes in WAL segment
archives.

Author: Ronan Dunklau
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi, Michael Paquier, Bharath Rupireddy
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18708360.4lzOvYHigE@aivenronan
2021-10-25 07:40:42 +09:00
Michael Paquier 1e9475694b doc: Describe calculation method of streaming start for pg_receivewal
The documentation was imprecise about the starting LSN used for WAL
streaming if nothing can be found in the local archive directory
defined with the pg_receivewal command, so be more talkative on this
matter.

Extracted from a larger patch by the same author.

Author: Ronan Dunklau, Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18708360.4lzOvYHigE@aivenronan
Backpatch-through: 10
2021-10-23 14:43:03 +09:00
Amit Kapila 1607cd0b6c Remove unused wait events.
Commit 464824323e introduced the wait events which were neither used by
that commit nor by follow-up commits for that work.

Author: Masahiro Ikeda
Backpatch-through: 14, where it was introduced
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ff077840-3ab2-04dd-bbe4-4f5dfd2ad481@oss.nttdata.com
2021-10-21 08:01:25 +05:30
Peter Geoghegan d2bf06db37 pg_amcheck: avoid unhelpful verification attempts.
Avoid calling contrib/amcheck functions with relations that are
unsuitable for checking.  Specifically, don't attempt verification of
temporary relations, or indexes whose pg_index entry indicates that the
index is invalid, or not ready.

These relations are not supported by any of the contrib/amcheck
functions, for reasons that are pretty fundamental.  For example, the
implementation of REINDEX CONCURRENTLY can add its own "transient"
pg_index entries, which has rather unclear implications for the B-Tree
verification functions, at least in the general case -- so they just
treat it as an error.  It falls to the amcheck caller (in this case
pg_amcheck) to deal with the situation at a higher level.

pg_amcheck now simply treats these conditions as additional "visibility
concerns" when it queries system catalogs.  This is a little arbitrary.
It seems to have the least problems among any of the available
alternatives.

Author: Mark Dilger <mark.dilger@enterprisedb.com>
Reported-By: Alexander Lakhin <exclusion@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
Reviewed-By: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Bug: #17212
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17212-34dd4a1d6bba98bf@postgresql.org
Backpatch: 14-, where pg_amcheck was introduced.
2021-10-13 14:08:12 -07:00
Peter Geoghegan 00c61a74bc Doc: normalize vacuum_multixact_failsafe_age ID.
Author: Pavel Luzanov <p.luzanov@postgrespro.ru>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/c71a3cfc-a267-3d9f-1b44-fbd668d0ab10@postgrespro.ru
Backpatch: 14-, where the failsafe was introduced.
2021-10-12 10:59:24 -07:00
Tom Lane 2ae5d72f00 Doc: improve documentation for ^@ starts-with operator.
This operator wasn't formally documented anywhere.  To give it
a natural home, relabel the functions-string-other table as
"Other String Functions and Operators", which is more parallel
to the functions-string-sql table anyway.

While here, add cross-references to the pattern match and text
search sections.  It seems moderately likely that people would
come to this section looking for those (but I don't want to
actually list them in these tables).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CADT4RqB13KQHOJqqQ+WXmYtJrukS2UiFdtfTvT-XA3qYLyB6Cw@mail.gmail.com
2021-10-09 14:42:52 -04:00
Tom Lane 08e2daf06c Doc: update our claims about the minimum recommended AIX version.
We currently have buildfarm members testing back to AIX 7.1,
but not before, and older AIX versions are long out of support
from IBM.  So say that 7.1 is the oldest supported version.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/87y278s6iq.fsf@wibble.ilmari.org
2021-10-07 15:36:57 -04:00
Robert Haas 0266e98c6b Flexible options for CREATE_REPLICATION_SLOT.
Like BASE_BACKUP, CREATE_REPLICATION_SLOT has historically used a
hard-coded syntax.  To improve future extensibility, adopt a flexible
options syntax here, too.

In the new syntax, instead of three mutually exclusive options
EXPORT_SNAPSHOT, USE_SNAPSHOT, and NOEXPORT_SNAPSHOT, there is now a single
SNAPSHOT option with three possible values: 'export', 'use', and 'nothing'.

This commit does not remove support for the old syntax. It just adds
the new one as an additional option, makes pg_receivewal,
pg_recvlogical, and walreceiver processes use it.

Patch by me, reviewed by Fabien Coelho, Sergei Kornilov, and
Fujii Masao.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmobAczXDRO_Gr2euo_TxgzaH1JxbNxvFx=HYvBinefNH8Q@mail.gmail.com
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmoZGwR=ZVWFeecncubEyPdwghnvfkkdBe9BLccLSiqdf9Q@mail.gmail.com
2021-10-05 12:52:49 -04:00
Robert Haas 0ba281cb4b Flexible options for BASE_BACKUP.
Previously, BASE_BACKUP used an entirely hard-coded syntax, but that's
hard to extend. Instead, adopt the same kind of syntax we've used for
SQL commands such as VACUUM, ANALYZE, COPY, and EXPLAIN, where it's
not necessary for all of the option names to be parser keywords.

In the new syntax, most of the options now take an optional Boolean
argument. To match our practice in other in places, the options which
the old syntax called NOWAIT and NOVERIFY_CHECKSUMS options are in the
new syntax called WAIT and VERIFY_CHECKUMS, and the default value is
false. In the new syntax, the FAST option has been replaced by a
CHECKSUM option whose value may be 'fast' or 'spread'.

This commit does not remove support for the old syntax. It just adds
the new one as an additional option, and makes pg_basebackup prefer
the new syntax when the server is new enough to support it.

Patch by me, reviewed and tested by Fabien Coelho, Sergei Kornilov,
Fujii Masao, and Tushar Ahuja.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmobAczXDRO_Gr2euo_TxgzaH1JxbNxvFx=HYvBinefNH8Q@mail.gmail.com
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmoZGwR=ZVWFeecncubEyPdwghnvfkkdBe9BLccLSiqdf9Q@mail.gmail.com
2021-10-05 11:50:21 -04:00
Tom Lane f3fec23dbd Doc: improve description of UNION/INTERSECT/EXCEPT syntax.
queries.sgml failed to mention the rather important point that
INTERSECT binds more tightly than UNION or EXCEPT.  I thought
it could also use more discussion of the role of parentheses
in these constructs.

Per gripe from Christopher Painter-Wakefield.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/163338891727.12510.3939775743980651160@wrigleys.postgresql.org
2021-10-05 10:24:14 -04:00
Fujii Masao f6b5d05ba9 doc: Document pg_encoding_to_char() and pg_char_to_encoding().
Previously both functions were not described anywhere in the docs.
But since they have been around since 7.0 and mentioned in the description
for system catalog like pg_database, it's reasonable to add short
descriptions for them.

Author: Ian Lawrence Barwick
Reviewed-by: Laurenz Albe, Fujii Masao
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAB8KJ=infievn4q1N4X7Vx8w4_RMPPG0pLvxhSDjy5WQOSHW9g@mail.gmail.com
2021-10-05 12:52:51 +09:00