Clarify documentation about inheritance of check constraints, in
particular mentioning the NO INHERIT option, which didn't exist when
this text was written.
Document that in an inherited query, the applicable row security policies
are those of the explicitly-named table, not its children. This is the
intended behavior (per off-list discussion with Stephen Frost), and there
are regression tests for it, but it wasn't documented anywhere user-facing
as far as I could find.
Do a bit of wordsmithing on the description of inherited access-privilege
checks.
Back-patch to 9.5 where RLS was added.
Multi-dimensional arrays can now be used as arguments to a PL/python function
(used to throw an error), and they can be returned as nested Python lists.
This makes a backwards-incompatible change to the handling of composite
types in arrays. Previously, you could return an array of composite types
as "[[col1, col2], [col1, col2]]", but now that is interpreted as a two-
dimensional array. Composite types in arrays must now be returned as
Python tuples, not lists, to resolve the ambiguity. I.e. "[(col1, col2),
(col1, col2)]".
To avoid breaking backwards-compatibility, when not necessary, () is still
accepted for arrays at the top-level, but it is always treated as a
single-dimensional array. Likewise, [] is still accepted for composite types,
when they are not in an array. Update the documentation to recommend using []
for arrays, and () for composite types, with a mention that those other things
are also accepted in some contexts.
This needs to be mentioned in the release notes.
Alexey Grishchenko, Dave Cramer and me. Reviewed by Pavel Stehule.
Discussion: <CAH38_tmbqwaUyKs9yagyRra=SMaT45FPBxk1pmTYcM0TyXGG7Q@mail.gmail.com>
This will write the received transaction log into a file called
pg_wal.tar(.gz) next to the other tarfiles instead of writing it to
base.tar. When using fetch mode, the transaction log is still written to
base.tar like before, and when used against a pre-10 server, the file
is named pg_xlog.tar.
To do this, implement a new concept of a "walmethod", which is
responsible for writing the WAL. Two implementations exist, one that
writes to a plain directory (which is also used by pg_receivexlog) and
one that writes to a tar file with optional compression.
Reviewed by Michael Paquier
Show how to get the system's huge page size, rather than misleadingly
referring to PAGE_SIZE (which is usually understood to be the regular
page size). Show how to confirm whether huge pages have been allocated.
Minor wordsmithing. Back-patch to 9.4 where this section appeared.
Replace "Full path to ..." with "Full path name of ...". At least one
user has misinterpreted the existing wording as meaning "Directory
containing ...".
"xlog" is not a particularly clear abbreviation for "write-ahead log",
and it sometimes confuses users into believe that the contents of the
"pg_xlog" directory are not critical data, leading to unpleasant
consequences. So, rename the directory to "pg_wal".
This patch modifies pg_upgrade and pg_basebackup to understand both
the old and new directory layouts; the former is necessary given the
purpose of the tool, while the latter merely avoids an unnecessary
backward-compatibility break.
We may wish to consider renaming other programs, switches, and
functions which still use the old "xlog" naming to also refer to
"wal". However, that's still under discussion, so let's do just this
much for now.
Discussion: CAB7nPqTeC-8+zux8_-4ZD46V7YPwooeFxgndfsq5Rg8ibLVm1A@mail.gmail.com
Michael Paquier
--noclean and --nosync were the only options spelled without a hyphen,
so change this for consistency with other options. The options in
pg_basebackup have not been in a release, so we just rename them. For
initdb, we retain the old variants.
Vik Fearing and me
This value might not be to everyone's taste; in particular, some
people might prefer %t to %m, and others may want %u, %d, or other
fields. However, it's a vast improvement on the old default of ''.
Christoph Berg
The need for dumping from such ancient servers has decreased to about nil
in the field, so let's remove all the code that catered to it. Aside
from removing a lot of boilerplate variant queries, this allows us to not
have to cope with servers that don't have (a) schemas or (b) pg_depend.
That means we can get rid of assorted squishy code around that. There
may be some nonobvious additional simplifications possible, but this patch
already removes about 1500 lines of code.
I did not remove the ability for pg_restore to read custom-format archives
generated by these old versions (and light testing says that that does
still work). If you have an old server, you probably also have a pg_dump
that will work with it; but you have an old custom-format backup file,
that might be all you have.
It'd be possible at this point to remove fmtQualifiedId()'s version
argument, but I refrained since that would affect code outside pg_dump.
Discussion: <2661.1475849167@sss.pgh.pa.us>
SCO OpenServer and SCO UnixWare are more or less dead platforms.
We have never had a buildfarm member testing the "sco" port, and
the last "unixware" member was last heard from in 2012, so it's
fair to doubt that the code even compiles anymore on either one.
Remove both ports. We can always undo this if someone shows up
with an interest in maintaining and testing these platforms.
Discussion: <17177.1476136994@sss.pgh.pa.us>
It was perhaps not entirely clear that internal self-references shouldn't
be schema-qualified even if the view name is written with a schema.
Spell it out.
Discussion: <871sznz69m.fsf@metapensiero.it>
Since commit ecb0d20a9 hasn't crashed and burned, here's the promised
docs update for it.
In addition to explaining that Linux and FreeBSD ports now use POSIX
semaphores, I did some wordsmithing on pre-existing wording; in
particular trying to clarify which SysV parameters need to be set with
an eye to total usage across all applications.
WaitLatch, WaitLatchOrSocket, and WaitEventSetWait now taken an
additional wait_event_info parameter; legal values are defined in
pgstat.h. This makes it possible to uniquely identify every point in
the core code where we are waiting for a latch; extensions can pass
WAIT_EXTENSION.
Because latches were the major wait primitive not previously covered
by this patch, it is now possible to see information in
pg_stat_activity on a large number of important wait events not
previously addressed, such as ClientRead, ClientWrite, and SyncRep.
Unfortunately, many of the wait events added by this patch will fail
to appear in pg_stat_activity because they're only used in background
processes which don't currently appear in pg_stat_activity. We should
fix this either by creating a separate view for such information, or
else by deciding to include them in pg_stat_activity after all.
Michael Paquier and Robert Haas, reviewed by Alexander Korotkov and
Thomas Munro.
Without this, an extension containing an access method is not properly
dumped/restored during pg_upgrade --- the AM ends up not being a member
of the extension after upgrading.
Another oversight in commit 473b93287, reported by Andrew Dunstan.
Report: <f7ac29f3-515c-2a44-21c5-ec925053265f@dunslane.net>
Now that we track initial privileges on extension objects and changes to
those permissions, we can drop the superuser() checks from the various
functions which are part of the pgstattuple extension and rely on the
GRANT system to control access to those functions.
Since a pg_upgrade will preserve the version of the extension which
existed prior to the upgrade, we can't simply modify the existing
functions but instead need to create new functions which remove the
checks and update the SQL-level functions to use the new functions
(and to REVOKE EXECUTE rights on those functions from PUBLIC).
Thanks to Tom and Andres for adding support for extensions to follow
update paths (see: 40b449a), allowing this patch to be much smaller
since no new base version script needed to be included.
Approach suggested by Noah.
Reviewed by Michael Paquier.
This patch just exposes COPY's FROM PROGRAM option in contrib/file_fdw.
There don't seem to be any security issues with that that are any worse
than what already exist with file_fdw and COPY; as in the existing cases,
only superusers are allowed to control what gets executed.
A regression test case might be nice here, but choosing a 100% portable
command to run is hard. (We haven't got a test for COPY FROM PROGRAM
itself, either.)
Corey Huinker and Adam Gomaa, reviewed by Amit Langote
Discussion: <CADkLM=dGDGmaEiZ=UDepzumWg-CVn7r8MHPjr2NArj8S3TsROQ@mail.gmail.com>
The list of files and directories that pg_basebackup excludes from the
backup was somewhat incomplete and unorganized. Change that with having
the exclusion driven from tables. Clean up some code around it. Also
document the exclusions in more detail so that users of pg_start_backup
can make use of it as well.
The contents of these directories are now excluded from the backup:
pg_dynshmem, pg_notify, pg_serial, pg_snapshots, pg_subtrans
Also fix a bug that a pg_repl_slot or pg_stat_tmp being a symlink would
cause a corrupt tar header to be created. Now such symlinks are
included in the backup as empty directories. Bug found by Ashutosh
Sharma <ashu.coek88@gmail.com>.
From: David Steele <david@pgmasters.net>
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>
Historically, something like to_date('2009-06-40','YYYY-MM-DD') would
return '2009-07-10' because there was no prohibition on out-of-range
month or day numbers. This has been widely panned, and it also turns
out that Oracle throws an error in such cases. Since these functions
are nominally Oracle-compatibility features, let's change that.
There's no particular restriction on year (modulo the fact that the
scanner may not believe that more than 4 digits are year digits,
a matter to be addressed separately if at all). But we now check month,
day, hour, minute, second, and fractional-second fields, as well as
day-of-year and second-of-day fields if those are used.
Currently, no checks are made on ISO-8601-style week numbers or day
numbers; it's not very clear what the appropriate rules would be there,
and they're probably so little used that it's not worth sweating over.
Artur Zakirov, reviewed by Amul Sul, further adjustments by me
Discussion: <1873520224.1784572.1465833145330.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com>
See-Also: <57786490.9010201@wars-nicht.de>
This makes the parameter easier to extend, to support other password-based
authentication protocols than MD5. (SCRAM is being worked on.)
The GUC still accepts on/off as aliases for "md5" and "plain", although
we may want to remove those once we actually add support for another
password hash type.
Michael Paquier, reviewed by David Steele, with some further edits by me.
Discussion: <CAB7nPqSMXU35g=W9X74HVeQp0uvgJxvYOuA4A-A3M+0wfEBv-w@mail.gmail.com>
We had thirty different GIN array opclasses sharing the same operators and
support functions. That still didn't cover all the built-in types, nor
did it cover arrays of extension-added types. What we want is a single
polymorphic opclass for "anyarray". There were two missing features needed
to make this possible:
1. We have to be able to declare the index storage type as ANYELEMENT
when the opclass is declared to index ANYARRAY. This just takes a few
more lines in index_create(). Although this currently seems of use only
for GIN, there's no reason to make index_create() restrict it to that.
2. We have to be able to identify the proper GIN compare function for
the index storage type. This patch proceeds by making the compare function
optional in GIN opclass definitions, and specifying that the default btree
comparison function for the index storage type will be looked up when the
opclass omits it. Again, that seems pretty generically useful.
Since the comparison function lookup is done in initGinState(), making
use of the second feature adds an additional cache lookup to GIN index
access setup. It seems unlikely that that would be very noticeable given
the other costs involved, but maybe at some point we should consider
making GinState data persist longer than it now does --- we could keep it
in the index relcache entry, perhaps.
Rather fortuitously, we don't seem to need to do anything to get this
change to play nice with dump/reload or pg_upgrade scenarios: the new
opclass definition is automatically selected to replace existing index
definitions, and the on-disk data remains compatible. Also, if a user has
created a custom opclass definition for a non-builtin type, this doesn't
break that, since CREATE INDEX will prefer an exact match to opcintype
over a match to ANYARRAY. However, if there's anyone out there with
handwritten DDL that explicitly specifies _bool_ops or one of the other
replaced opclass names, they'll need to adjust that.
Tom Lane, reviewed by Enrique Meneses
Discussion: <14436.1470940379@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Evidently an oversight in commit 729205571. Back-patch to 9.2 where
privileges for types were introduced.
Report: <20160922173517.8214.88959@wrigleys.postgresql.org>
We weren't terribly consistent about whether to call Apple's OS "OS X"
or "Mac OS X", and the former is probably confusing to people who aren't
Apple users. Now that Apple has rebranded it "macOS", follow their lead
to establish a consistent naming pattern. Also, avoid the use of the
ancient project name "Darwin", except as the port code name which does not
seem desirable to change. (In short, this patch touches documentation and
comments, but no actual code.)
I didn't touch contrib/start-scripts/osx/, either. I suspect those are
obsolete and due for a rewrite, anyway.
I dithered about whether to apply this edit to old release notes, but
those were responsible for quite a lot of the inconsistencies, so I ended
up changing them too. Anyway, Apple's being ahistorical about this,
so why shouldn't we be?
These worked as-is until around 7.0, but fail in newer versions because
there are more operators named "#". Besides it's a bit inconsistent that
only two of the examples on this page lack type names on their constants.
Report: <20160923081530.1517.75670@wrigleys.postgresql.org>
When waiting is selected for the promote action, look into pg_control
until the state changes, then use the PQping-based waiting until the
server is reachable.
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>
Previously, the individual settings were documented, but there was
no overall discussion of the capabilities and limitations of the
feature. Add that.
Patch by me, reviewed by Peter Eisentraut and Álvaro Herrera.
This is similar to the -N option in pg_dump, except that it doesn't take
a pattern, just like the existing -n option in pg_restore.
From: Michael Banck <michael.banck@credativ.de>
Standardize on "user_name" for a field name in related examples in
ddl.sgml; before we had variously "user_name", "username", and "user".
The last is flat wrong because it conflicts with a reserved word.
Be consistent about entry capitalization in a table in func.sgml.
Fix a typo in pgtrgm.sgml.
Back-patch to 9.6 and 9.5 as relevant.
Alexander Law
Like initdb, clean up created data and xlog directories, unless the new
-n/--noclean option is specified.
Tablespace directories are not cleaned up, but a message is written
about that.
Reviewed-by: Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com>
Previously, to update an extension you had to produce both a version-update
script and a new base installation script. It's become more and more
obvious that that's tedious, duplicative, and error-prone. This patch
attempts to improve matters by allowing the new base installation script
to be omitted. CREATE EXTENSION will install a requested version if it
can find a base script and a chain of update scripts that will get there.
As in the existing update logic, shorter chains are preferred if there's
more than one possibility, with an arbitrary tie-break rule for chains
of equal length.
Also adjust the pg_available_extension_versions view to show such versions
as installable.
While at it, refactor the code so that CASCADE processing works for
extensions requested during ApplyExtensionUpdates(). Without this,
addition of a new requirement in an updated extension would require
creating a new base script, even if there was no other reason to do that.
(It would be easy at this point to add a CASCADE option to ALTER EXTENSION
UPDATE, to allow the same thing to happen during a manually-commanded
version update, but I have not done that here.)
Tom Lane, reviewed by Andres Freund
Discussion: <20160905005919.jz2m2yh3und2dsuy@alap3.anarazel.de>
