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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
Bruce Momjian e825943906 doc: remove URL for ICU explorer/locexp
The old URL was HTTP 404 and the git link didn't build.  Also update two
other ICU links.  If we ever get a good link we will add it back.

Reported-by: Anton Voloshin

Author: Laurenz Albe

Backpatch-through: 10
2021-10-04 17:10:59 -04:00
Tom Lane 36d1a848a8 Doc: fix minor issues in GiST support function documentation.
gist.sgml and xindex.sgml hadn't been fully updated for the
addition of a sortsupport support function (commit 16fa9b2b3).
xindex.sgml also missed that the compress and decompress support
functions are optional, an apparently far older oversight.

In passing, fix gratuitous inconsistencies in wording and
capitalization.

Noted by E. Rogov.  Back-patch to v14; the residual issues
before that aren't significant enough to bother with.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/163335322905.12519.5711557029494638051@wrigleys.postgresql.org
2021-10-04 13:34:31 -04:00
Tom Lane a0558cfa39 Fix checking of query type in plpgsql's RETURN QUERY command.
Prior to v14, we insisted that the query in RETURN QUERY be of a type
that returns tuples.  (For instance, INSERT RETURNING was allowed,
but not plain INSERT.)  That happened indirectly because we opened a
cursor for the query, so spi.c checked SPI_is_cursor_plan().  As a
consequence, the error message wasn't terribly on-point, but at least
it was there.

Commit 2f48ede08 lost this detail.  Instead, plain RETURN QUERY
insisted that the query be a SELECT (by checking for SPI_OK_SELECT)
while RETURN QUERY EXECUTE failed to check the query type at all.
Neither of these changes was intended.

The only convenient place to check this in the EXECUTE case is inside
_SPI_execute_plan, because we haven't done parse analysis until then.
So we need to pass down a flag saying whether to enforce that the
query returns tuples.  Fortunately, we can squeeze another boolean
into struct SPIExecuteOptions without an ABI break, since there's
padding space there.  (It's unlikely that any extensions would
already be using this new struct, but preserving ABI in v14 seems
like a smart idea anyway.)

Within spi.c, it seemed like _SPI_execute_plan's parameter list
was already ridiculously long, and I didn't want to make it longer.
So I thought of passing SPIExecuteOptions down as-is, allowing that
parameter list to become much shorter.  This makes the patch a bit
more invasive than it might otherwise be, but it's all internal to
spi.c, so that seems fine.

Per report from Marc Bachmann.  Back-patch to v14 where the
faulty code came in.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1F2F75F0-27DF-406F-848D-8B50C7EEF06A@gmail.com
2021-10-03 13:21:20 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera c6bc655ee2
Error out if SKIP LOCKED and WITH TIES are both specified
Both bugs #16676[1] and #17141[2] illustrate that the combination of
SKIP LOCKED and FETCH FIRST WITH TIES break expectations when it comes
to rows returned to other sessions accessing the same row.  Since this
situation is detectable from the syntax and hard to fix otherwise,
forbid for now, with the potential to fix in the future.

[1] https://postgr.es/m/16676-fd62c3c835880da6@postgresql.org
[2] https://postgr.es/m/17141-913d78b9675aac8e@postgresql.org

Backpatch-through: 13, where WITH TIES was introduced
Author: David Christensen <david.christensen@crunchydata.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAOxo6XLPccCKru3xPMaYDpa+AXyPeWFs+SskrrL+HKwDjJnLhg@mail.gmail.com
2021-10-01 18:29:18 -03:00
Amit Kapila 2d44dee028 Doc: Move pg_stat_replication_slots view to "Collected Statistics Views" section.
Commit 9868167500 added pg_stat_replication_slots view to monitor
ReorderBuffer stats but mistakenly added it under
"Dynamic Statistics Views" section in the docs whereas it belongs to
"Collected Statistics Views" section.

Author: Amit Kapila
Reviewed-by: Masahiko Sawada
Backpatch-through: 14, where it was introduced
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAA4eK1Kb5ur=OC-G4cAsqPOjoVe+S8LNw1WmUY8Owasjk8o5WQ@mail.gmail.com
2021-10-01 08:17:56 +05:30
Michael Paquier c8dd2cb494 doc: Fix some typos and markups
Author: Ekaterina Kiryanova
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/8a14e78f-6991-7a6e-4711-fe376635f2ad@postgrespro.ru
Backpatch-through: 14
2021-09-29 11:56:13 +09:00
Peter Eisentraut c3b011d991 Support amcheck of sequences
Sequences were left out of the list of relation kinds that
verify_heapam knew how to check, though it is fairly trivial to allow
them.  Doing that, and while at it, updating pg_amcheck to include
sequences in relations matched by table and relation patterns.

Author: Mark Dilger <mark.dilger@enterprisedb.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/81ad4757-92c1-4aa3-7bee-f609544837e3%40enterprisedb.com
2021-09-28 15:26:25 +02:00
Michael Paquier 7c1d8a243f Fix typos in docs
Author: Justin Pryzby
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210924215827.GS831@telsasoft.com
Backpatch-through: 9.6
2021-09-26 19:17:30 +09:00
Tom Lane 7b0be9fb2d Doc: extend warnings about collation-mismatch hazards in postgres_fdw.
Be a little more vocal about the risks of remote collations not
matching local ones.  Actually fixing these risks seems hard,
and I've given up on the idea that it might be back-patchable.
So the best we can do for the back branches is add documentation.

Per discussion of bug #16583 from Jiří Fejfar.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2438715.1632510693@sss.pgh.pa.us
2021-09-25 10:53:54 -04:00
Michael Paquier 1ba841072e doc: Improve description of index vacuuming with GUCs
Index vacuums may happen multiple times depending on the number of dead
tuples stored, as of maintenance_work_mem for a manual VACUUM.  For
autovacuum, this is controlled by autovacuum_work_mem instead, if set.
The documentation mentioned the former, but not the latter in the
context of autovacuum.

Reported-by: Nikolai Berkoff
Author: Laurenz Albe, Euler Taveira
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/161545365522.10134.12195402324485546870@wrigleys.postgresql.org
Backpatch-through: 9.6
2021-09-25 15:10:24 +09:00
Michael Paquier 1ab70b11e6 doc: Add missing markup in CREATE EVENT TRIGGER page
Reported-by: rir
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210924183658.3syyitp3yuxjv2fp@localhost
Backpatch-through: 9.6
2021-09-25 14:48:03 +09:00
Michael Paquier 43c1c4f65e Introduce GUC shared_memory_size_in_huge_pages
This runtime-computed GUC shows the number of huge pages required
for the server's main shared memory area, taking advantage of the
work done in 0c39c29 and 0bd305e.  This is useful for users to estimate
the amount of huge pages required for a server as it becomes possible to
do an estimation without having to start the server and potentially
allocate a large chunk of shared memory.

The number of huge pages is calculated based on the existing GUC
huge_page_size if set, or by using the system's default by looking at
/proc/meminfo on Linux.  There is nothing new here as this commit reuses
the existing calculation methods, and just exposes this information
directly to the user.  The routine calculating the huge page size is
refactored to limit the number of files with platform-specific flags.

This new GUC's name was the most popular choice based on the discussion
done.  This is only supported on Linux.

I have taken the time to test the change on Linux, Windows and MacOS,
though for the last two ones large pages are not supported.  The first
one calculates correctly the number of pages depending on the existing
GUC huge_page_size or the system's default.

Thanks to Andres Freund, Robert Haas, Kyotaro Horiguchi, Tom Lane,
Justin Pryzby (and anybody forgotten here) for the discussion.

Author: Nathan Bossart
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/F2772387-CE0F-46BF-B5F1-CC55516EB885@amazon.com
2021-09-21 10:31:58 +09:00
Alvaro Herrera d3014fff4c
Doc: add glossary term for "auxiliary process"
Add entries for existing processes not documented, too, and adjust
existing definitions for consistency.

Per question from Bharath Rupireddy.

Author: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
Author: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CALj2ACVpYCT0M+k8zqrAa4ZQZV+ce5s6G=yajwoS1m=h-jj8NQ@mail.gmail.com
2021-09-20 12:22:02 -03:00
Tom Lane 5577cd571a Doc: minor improvements for "Formatting" section.
Add more-specific links into the source tree.
2021-09-20 10:48:02 -04:00
Tom Lane d5eeb51bc0 Doc: fix typos.
"PGcon" should be "PGconn".  Noted by D. Frey.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/163191739352.4680.16994248583642672629@wrigleys.postgresql.org
2021-09-19 11:36:53 -04:00
Michael Paquier 0c39c29207 Support "postgres -C" with runtime-computed GUCs
Until now, the -C option of postgres was handled before a small subset
of GUCs computed at runtime are initialized, leading to incorrect
results as GUC machinery would fall back to default values for such
parameters.

For example, data_checksums could report "off" for a cluster as the
control file is not loaded yet.  Or wal_segment_size would show a
segment size at 16MB even if initdb --wal-segsize used something else.
Worse, the command would fail to properly report the recently-introduced
shared_memory, that requires to load shared_preload_libraries as these
could ask for a chunk of shared memory.

Support for runtime GUCs comes with a limitation, as the operation is
now allowed on a running server.  One notable reason for this is that
_PG_init() functions of loadable libraries are called before all
runtime-computed GUCs are initialized, and this is not guaranteed to be
safe to do on running servers.  For the case of shared_memory_size,
where we want to know how much memory would be used without allocating
it, this limitation is fine.  Another case where this will help is for
huge pages, with the introduction of a different GUC to evaluate the
amount of huge pages required for a server before starting it, without
having to allocate large chunks of memory.

This feature is controlled with a new GUC flag, and four parameters are
classified as runtime-computed as of this change:
- data_checksums
- shared_memory_size
- data_directory_mode
- wal_segment_size

Some TAP tests are added to provide some coverage here, using
data_checksums in the tests of pg_checksums.

Per discussion with Andres Freund, Justin Pryzby, Magnus Hagander and
more.

Author: Nathan Bossart
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/F2772387-CE0F-46BF-B5F1-CC55516EB885@amazon.com
2021-09-16 10:59:26 +09:00
Daniel Gustafsson 379591fecf doc: Clarify refresh options for DROP PUBLICATION
The available refresh options are specified as refresh_options under
REFRESH PUBLICATION, and DROP PUBLICATION itself has an option named
refresh. Clarify what we mean by refresh options to avoid confusion.

Backpatch through v14 where ALTER SUBSCRIPTION ... DROP PUBLICATION
was introduced.

Author: Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Smith <smithpb2250@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAD21AoCm1wJ3A8Q9EmBjRbShYkJ+o+Oa_z9O0hvwhvhUa2BSyg@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 14
2021-09-15 09:54:45 +02:00
Tom Lane 2e4eae87d0 Send NOTIFY signals during CommitTransaction.
Formerly, we sent signals for outgoing NOTIFY messages within
ProcessCompletedNotifies, which was also responsible for sending
relevant ones of those messages to our connected client.  It therefore
had to run during the main-loop processing that occurs just before
going idle.  This arrangement had two big disadvantages:

* Now that procedures allow intra-command COMMITs, it would be
useful to send NOTIFYs to other sessions immediately at COMMIT
(though, for reasons of wire-protocol stability, we still shouldn't
forward them to our client until end of command).

* Background processes such as replication workers would not send
NOTIFYs at all, since they never execute the client communication
loop.  We've had requests to allow triggers running in replication
workers to send NOTIFYs, so that's a problem.

To fix these things, move transmission of outgoing NOTIFY signals
into AtCommit_Notify, where it will happen during CommitTransaction.
Also move the possible call of asyncQueueAdvanceTail there, to
ensure we don't bloat the async SLRU if a background worker sends
many NOTIFYs with no one listening.

We can also drop the call of asyncQueueReadAllNotifications,
allowing ProcessCompletedNotifies to go away entirely.  That's
because commit 790026972 added a call of ProcessNotifyInterrupt
adjacent to PostgresMain's call of ProcessCompletedNotifies,
and that does its own call of asyncQueueReadAllNotifications,
meaning that we were uselessly doing two such calls (inside two
separate transactions) whenever inbound notify signals coincided
with an outbound notify.  We need only set notifyInterruptPending
to ensure that ProcessNotifyInterrupt runs, and we're done.

The existing documentation suggests that custom background workers
should call ProcessCompletedNotifies if they want to send NOTIFY
messages.  To avoid an ABI break in the back branches, reduce it
to an empty routine rather than removing it entirely.  Removal
will occur in v15.

Although the problems mentioned above have existed for awhile,
I don't feel comfortable back-patching this any further than v13.
There was quite a bit of churn in adjacent code between 12 and 13.
At minimum we'd have to also backpatch 51004c717, and a good deal
of other adjustment would also be needed, so the benefit-to-risk
ratio doesn't look attractive.

Per bug #15293 from Michael Powers (and similar gripes from others).

Artur Zakirov and Tom Lane

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/153243441449.1404.2274116228506175596@wrigleys.postgresql.org
2021-09-14 17:18:25 -04:00
Tom Lane 1882d6cca1 Doc: improve documentation of CREATE/ALTER SUBSCRIPTION.
Improve the descriptions of some options.  Fix sloppy grammar and markup.

Peter Smith and Tom Lane

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAHut+PtPJDSOxtuMGpO2yDrRPKxcYGL4n7HqJP9HernZE=Cj+g@mail.gmail.com
2021-09-13 14:27:02 -04:00
Amit Kapila fee1040fe3 Doc: Change optional parameters grouping in Create Subscription.
The subscription parameters are rearranged into two groups:
a) those that control what happens during Create Subscription
b) those that control the replication behavior

This makes the documentation of Create Subscription easier to follow.

Author: Peter Smith
Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAHut+PtPJDSOxtuMGpO2yDrRPKxcYGL4n7HqJP9HernZE=Cj+g@mail.gmail.com
2021-09-13 08:29:10 +05:30
Noah Misch b073c3ccd0 Revoke PUBLIC CREATE from public schema, now owned by pg_database_owner.
This switches the default ACL to what the documentation has recommended
since CVE-2018-1058.  Upgrades will carry forward any old ownership and
ACL.  Sites that declined the 2018 recommendation should take a fresh
look.  Recipes for commissioning a new database cluster from scratch may
need to create a schema, grant more privileges, etc.  Out-of-tree test
suites may require such updates.

Reviewed by Peter Eisentraut.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20201031163518.GB4039133@rfd.leadboat.com
2021-09-09 23:38:09 -07:00
Michael Paquier bd1788051b Introduce GUC shared_memory_size
This runtime-computed GUC shows the size of the server's main shared
memory area, taking into account the amount of shared memory allocated
by extensions as this is calculated after processing
shared_preload_libraries.

Author: Nathan Bossart
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/F2772387-CE0F-46BF-B5F1-CC55516EB885@amazon.com
2021-09-08 12:02:30 +09:00
Magnus Hagander d6c916f020 Consistently use read-only instead of "read only"
This affects one message and some documentation that used the format
"read only", unlike everything else that used read-only.

Backpatch-through: 14
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CABUevExuxKwn0YM3+wdSeQSvK6CRrJ-hewocGVX3R4-xVX4eMw@mail.gmail.com
2021-09-07 22:04:39 +02:00
Fujii Masao 449ab63505 postgres_fdw: Allow application_name of remote connection to be set via GUC.
This commit adds postgres_fdw.application_name GUC which specifies
a value for application_name configuration parameter used
when postgres_fdw establishes a connection to a foreign server.
This GUC setting always overrides application_name option of
the foreign server object. This GUC is useful when we want to
specify our own application_name per remote connection.

Previously application_name of a remote connection could be set
basically only via options of a server object. But which meant that
every session connecting to the same foreign server basically
should use the same application_name. Also if we want to change
the setting, we had to execute "ALTER SERVER ... OPTIONS ..." command.
It was inconvenient.

Author: Hayato Kuroda
Reviewed-by: Masahiro Ikeda, Fujii Masao
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/TYCPR01MB5870D1E8B949DAF6D3B84E02F5F29@TYCPR01MB5870.jpnprd01.prod.outlook.com
2021-09-07 12:27:30 +09:00
Fujii Masao e04267844a Enhance pg_stat_reset_single_table_counters function.
This commit allows pg_stat_reset_single_table_counters() to reset statistics
for a single relation shared across all databases in the cluster to zero.

Bump catalog version.

Author: B Sadhu Prasad Patro
Reviewed-by: Mahendra Singh Thalor, Himanshu Upadhyaya, Dilip Kumar, Fujii Masao
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAFF0-CGy7EHeF=AqqkGMF85cySPQBgDcvNk73G2O0vL94O5U5A@mail.gmail.com
2021-09-02 14:01:06 +09:00
Michael Paquier 163074ea84 doc: Replace some uses of "which" by "that" in parallel.sgml
This makes the documentation more accurate grammatically.

Author: Elena Indrupskaya
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1c994b3d-951e-59bb-1ac2-7b9221c0e4cf@postgrespro.ru
Backpatch-through: 9.6
2021-09-02 11:35:38 +09:00
Tatsuo Ishii 06ba4a63b8 Use COPY FREEZE in pgbench for faster benchmark table population.
While populating the pgbench_accounts table, plain COPY was
unconditionally used. By changing it to COPY FREEZE, the time for
VACUUM is significantly reduced, thus the total time of "pgbench -i"
is also reduced. This only happens if pgbench runs against PostgreSQL
14 or later because COPY FREEZE in previous versions of PostgreSQL does
not bring the benefit. Also if partitioning is used, COPY FREEZE
cannot be used. In this case plain COPY will be used too.

Author: Tatsuo Ishii
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210308.143907.2014279678657453983.t-ishii@gmail.com
Reviewed-by: Fabien COELHO, Laurenz Albe, Peter Geoghegan, Dean Rasheed
2021-09-02 10:39:09 +09:00
Tom Lane 469150a240 Doc: clarify how triggers relate to transactions.
Laurenz Albe, per gripe from Nathan Long.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/161953360822.695.15805897835151971142@wrigleys.postgresql.org
2021-09-01 17:24:59 -04:00
Stephen Frost f01727290f docs: Add command tags for SQL commands
Commit 6c3ffd6 added a couple new predefined roles but didn't properly
wrap the SQL commands mentioned in the description of those roles with
command tags, so add them now.

Backpatch-through: 14
Reported-by: Michael Banck
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/606d8b1c.1c69fb81.3df04.1a99@mx.google.com
2021-08-27 18:25:26 -04:00
Daniel Gustafsson 10d2695b0c docs: clarify bgw_restart_time documentation
Author: Dave Cramer <davecramer@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CADK3HHLZmqAQZ2ByPDQQ9yhGqax36kksq6sDkV0yYzsxw6ipvQ@mail.gmail.com
2021-08-27 22:50:19 +02:00
Peter Eisentraut e2799528d4 Change Texinfo output to UTF-8
Since the whole documentation tool chain is now UTF-8 and there is an
increasing number of non-ISO-8859-1 characters in the text, keeping
the Texinfo output in ISO 8859-1 just creates unnecessary
complications.  Depending on the platform, there are conversion
failures and thus build failures, or weirdly converted characters.  By
changing the output to UTF-8, the whole encoding conversion business
is sidestepped.
2021-08-27 18:20:40 +02:00
Etsuro Fujita 255ed90fd2 Doc: Tweak function prototype indentation for consistency. 2021-08-25 13:00:00 +09:00
Amit Kapila 1046a69b30 Fix Alter Subscription's Add/Drop Publication behavior.
The current refresh behavior tries to just refresh added/dropped
publications but that leads to removing wrong tables from subscription. We
can't refresh just the dropped publication because it is quite possible
that some of the tables are removed from publication by that time and now
those will remain as part of the subscription. Also, there is a chance
that the tables that were part of the publication being dropped are also
part of another publication, so we can't remove those.

So, we decided that by default, add/drop commands will also act like
REFRESH PUBLICATION which means they will refresh all the publications. We
can keep the old behavior for "add publication" but it is better to be
consistent with "drop publication".

Author: Hou Zhijie
Reviewed-by: Masahiko Sawada, Amit Kapila
Backpatch-through: 14, where it was introduced
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/OS0PR01MB5716935D4C2CC85A6143073F94EF9@OS0PR01MB5716.jpnprd01.prod.outlook.com
2021-08-24 08:25:21 +05:30
Daniel Gustafsson 9a9c8b9201 Remove --quiet option from pg_amcheck
Using --quiet in combination with --no-strict-names didn't work as
documented, a warning message was still emitted. Since the --quiet
flag was working in an unconventional way to other utilities, fix
by removing the functionality instead.

Backpatch through 14 where pg_amcheck was introduced.

Bug: 17148
Reported-by: Chen Jiaoqian <chenjq.jy@fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17148-b5087318e2b04fc6@postgresql.org
Backpatch-through: 14
2021-08-20 12:44:54 +02:00
Amit Kapila 0ac1aee0d7 Fix typo in protocol.sgml.
The 'Stream Stop' message is misspelled as 'Stream End' in the docs.

Author: Masahiko Sawada
Backpatch-through: 14, where it was introduced
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAD21AoDeScrsHhLyEPYqN3sydg6PxAPVBboK=30xJfUVihNZDA@mail.gmail.com
2021-08-19 09:03:11 +05:30
Daniel Gustafsson 76987bad33 Doc: Fix typo in logical decoding example
Fixes one occurrence of "atleast" in the logical decoding example section.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/5467E625-1369-48CF-BE62-3BB69395C1F1@yesql.se
2021-08-18 19:44:57 +02:00
Heikki Linnakangas e9a79c220b doc: \123 and \x12 escapes in COPY are in database encoding.
The backslash sequences, including \123 and \x12 escapes, are interpreted
after encoding conversion. The docs failed to mention that.

Backpatch to all supported versions.

Reported-by: Andreas Grob
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/17142-9181542ca1df75ab%40postgresql.org
2021-08-17 10:00:06 +03:00
Alvaro Herrera 6f8127b739
Revert analyze support for partitioned tables
This reverts the following commits:
1b5617eb84 Describe (auto-)analyze behavior for partitioned tables
0e69f705cc Set pg_class.reltuples for partitioned tables
41badeaba8 Document ANALYZE storage parameters for partitioned tables
0827e8af70 autovacuum: handle analyze for partitioned tables

There are efficiency issues in this code when handling databases with
large numbers of partitions, and it doesn't look like there isn't any
trivial way to handle those.  There are some other issues as well.  It's
now too late in the cycle for nontrivial fixes, so we'll have to let
Postgres 14 users continue to manually deal with ANALYZE their
partitioned tables, and hopefully we can fix the issues for Postgres 15.

I kept [most of] be280cdad2 ("Don't reset relhasindex for partitioned
tables on ANALYZE") because while we added it due to 0827e8af70, it is
a good bugfix in its own right, since it affects manual analyze as well
as autovacuum-induced analyze, and there's no reason to revert it.

I retained the addition of relkind 'p' to tables included by
pg_stat_user_tables, because reverting that would require a catversion
bump.
Also, in pg14 only, I keep a struct member that was added to
PgStat_TabStatEntry to avoid breaking compatibility with existing stat
files.

Backpatch to 14.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210722205458.f2bug3z6qzxzpx2s@alap3.anarazel.de
2021-08-16 17:27:52 -04:00
Daniel Gustafsson ea499f3d28 Clarify initdb --sync-only help message and docs
The initdb help message for --sync-only was a bit terse, and not
really self-explanatory. Make it clearer that initdb --sync-only
will exit after syncing, and expand the docs with a note on when
the option can be useful. Also align the help output with others
that exit immediately.

Author: Nathan Bossart, Gurjeet Singh
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CABwTF4U6hbNNE1bv=LxQdJybmUdZ5NJQ9rKY9tN82NXM8QH+iQ@mail.gmail.com
2021-08-16 13:38:01 +02:00
Andres Freund 80a8f95b3b Remove support for background workers without BGWORKER_SHMEM_ACCESS.
Background workers without shared memory access have been broken on
EXEC_BACKEND / windows builds since shortly after background workers have been
introduced, without that being reported. Clearly they are not commonly used.

The problem is that bgworker startup requires to be attached to shared memory
in EXEC_BACKEND child processes. StartBackgroundWorker() detaches from shared
memory for unconnected workers, but at that point we already have initialized
subsystems referencing shared memory.

Fixing this problem is not entirely trivial, so removing the option to not be
connected to shared memory seems the best way forward. In most use cases the
advantages of being connected to shared memory far outweigh the disadvantages.

As there have been no reports about this issue so far, we have decided that it
is not worth trying to address the problem in the back branches.

Per discussion with Alvaro Herrera, Robert Haas and Tom Lane.

Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210802065116.j763tz3vz4egqy3w@alap3.anarazel.de
2021-08-13 05:49:26 -07:00
Daniel Gustafsson 512f4ca6c6 Fix sslsni connparam boolean check
The check for sslsni only checked for existence of the parameter
but not for the actual value of the param.  This meant that the
SNI extension was always turned on.  Fix by inspecting the value
of sslsni and only activate the SNI extension iff sslsni has been
enabled.  Also update the docs to be more in line with how other
boolean params are documented.

Backpatch to 14 where sslsni was first implemented.

Reviewed-by: Tom Lane
Backpatch-through: 14, where sslni was added
2021-08-13 10:32:17 +02:00
Daniel Gustafsson 72bbff4cd6 Add alternative output for OpenSSL 3 without legacy loaded
OpenSSL 3 introduced the concept of providers to support modularization,
and moved the outdated ciphers to the new legacy provider. In case it's
not loaded in the users openssl.cnf file there will be a lot of regress
test failures, so add alternative outputs covering those.

Also document the need to load the legacy provider in order to use older
ciphers with OpenSSL-enabled pgcrypto.

This will be backpatched to all supported version once there is sufficient
testing in the buildfarm of OpenSSL 3.

Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/FEF81714-D479-4512-839B-C769D2605F8A@yesql.se
2021-08-10 15:08:46 +02:00
David Rowley deb6ffd4fd Doc: Fix misleading statement about VACUUM memory limits
In ec34040af I added a mention that there was no point in setting
maintenance_work_limit to anything higher than 1GB for vacuum, but that
was incorrect as ginInsertCleanup() also looks at what
maintenance_work_mem is set to during VACUUM and that's not limited to
1GB.

Here I attempt to make it more clear that the limitation is only around
the number of dead tuple identifiers that we can collect during VACUUM.

I've also added a note to autovacuum_work_mem to mention this limitation.
I didn't do that in ec34040af as I'd had some wrong-headed ideas about
just limiting the maximum value for that GUC to 1GB.

Author: David Rowley
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAApHDvpGwOAvunp-E-bN_rbAs3hmxMoasm5pzkYDbf36h73s7w@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 9.6, same as ec34040af
2021-08-09 16:45:35 +12:00
Bruce Momjian d8a75b1308 doc: mention pg_upgrade extension script
Since commit e462856a7a, pg_upgrade automatically creates a script to
update extensions, so mention that instead of ALTER EXTENSION.

Backpatch-through: 9.6
2021-08-08 21:05:46 -04:00
Tom Lane cf5ce5aa70 Doc: remove bogus <indexterm> items.
Copy-and-pasteo in 665c5855e, evidently.  The 9.6 docs toolchain
whined about duplicate index entries, though our modern toolchain
doesn't.  In any case, these GUCs surely are not about the
default settings of these values.
2021-08-08 15:35:30 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 05e60aece3 Fix wording 2021-08-06 20:55:59 +02:00
Etsuro Fujita aa769f80ed postgres_fdw: Fix issues with generated columns in foreign tables.
postgres_fdw imported generated columns from the remote tables as plain
columns, and caused failures like "ERROR: cannot insert a non-DEFAULT
value into column "foo"" when inserting into the foreign tables, as it
tried to insert values into the generated columns.  To fix, we do the
following under the assumption that generated columns in a postgres_fdw
foreign table are defined so that they represent generated columns in
the underlying remote table:

* Send DEFAULT for the generated columns to the foreign server on insert
  or update, not generated column values computed on the local server.
* Add to postgresImportForeignSchema() an option "import_generated" to
  include column generated expressions in the definitions of foreign
  tables imported from a foreign server.  The option is true by default.

The assumption seems reasonable, because that would make a query of the
postgres_fdw foreign table return values for the generated columns that
are consistent with the generated expression.

While here, fix another issue in postgresImportForeignSchema(): it tried
to include column generated expressions as column default expressions in
the foreign table definitions when the import_default option was enabled.

Per bug #16631 from Daniel Cherniy.  Back-patch to v12 where generated
columns were added.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16631-e929fe9db0ffc7cf%40postgresql.org
2021-08-05 20:00:00 +09:00
Amit Kapila 63cf61cdeb Add prepare API support for streaming transactions in logical replication.
Commit a8fd13cab0 added support for prepared transactions to built-in
logical replication via a new option "two_phase" for a subscription. The
"two_phase" option was not allowed with the existing streaming option.

This commit permits the combination of "streaming" and "two_phase"
subscription options. It extends the pgoutput plugin and the subscriber
side code to add the prepare API for streaming transactions which will
apply the changes accumulated in the spool-file at prepare time.

Author: Peter Smith and Ajin Cherian
Reviewed-by: Vignesh C, Amit Kapila, Greg Nancarrow
Tested-By: Haiying Tang
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/02DA5F5E-CECE-4D9C-8B4B-418077E2C010@postgrespro.ru
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAMGcDxeqEpWj3fTXwqhSwBdXd2RS9jzwWscO-XbeCfso6ts3+Q@mail.gmail.com
2021-08-04 07:47:06 +05:30
Tom Lane 6424337073 Add assorted new regexp_xxx SQL functions.
This patch adds new functions regexp_count(), regexp_instr(),
regexp_like(), and regexp_substr(), and extends regexp_replace()
with some new optional arguments.  All these functions follow
the definitions used in Oracle, although there are small differences
in the regexp language due to using our own regexp engine -- most
notably, that the default newline-matching behavior is different.
Similar functions appear in DB2 and elsewhere, too.  Aside from
easing portability, these functions are easier to use for certain
tasks than our existing regexp_match[es] functions.

Gilles Darold, heavily revised by me

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/fc160ee0-c843-b024-29bb-97b5da61971f@darold.net
2021-08-03 13:08:49 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 95ab1e0a9d interval: round values when spilling to months
Previously spilled units greater than months were truncated to months.
Also document the spill behavior.

Reported-by: Bryn Llewelly

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/BDAE4B56-3337-45A2-AC8A-30593849D6C0@yugabyte.com

Backpatch-through: master
2021-08-03 12:10:29 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 5090d709f1 pg_upgrade: improve docs about extension upgrades
The previous wording was unclear about the steps needed to upgrade
extensions, and how to update them after pg_upgrade.

Reported-by: Dave Cramer

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CADK3HHKawwbOcGwMGnDuAf3-U8YfvTcS8jqDv3UM=niijs3MMA@mail.gmail.com

Backpatch-through: 9.6
2021-08-03 11:27:33 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 691272cae9 doc: mention inheritance's tableoid can be used in partitioning
Previously tableoid was not mentioned in the partition doc section.  We
only had a link to the "all the normal rules" of inheritance section.

Reported-by: michal.palenik@freemap.sk

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/162627031219.693.11508199541771263335@wrigleys.postgresql.org

Backpatch-through: 10
2021-08-03 11:11:51 -04:00
Bruce Momjian cfbbb8610d doc: add example of using pg_dump with GNU split and gzip
This is only possible with GNU split, not other versions like BSD split.

Reported-by: jim@jdoherty.net

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/162653459215.701.6323855956817776386@wrigleys.postgresql.org

Backpatch-through: 9.6
2021-08-03 10:57:32 -04:00
Tom Lane a5cb4f9829 Doc: minor improvements for logical replication protocol documentation.
Where appropriate, annotate message field data types with the backend
code's name for the data type, eg XLogRecPtr or TimestampTz.  Previously
we just said "Int64" which didn't provide as much info.

Also clarify references to object OIDs, and make use of the existing
convention to denote the value of a field that must have a fixed value.

Vignesh C, reviewed by Peter Smith and Euler Taveira.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CALDaNm0+fatx57KFcBopUZWQpH_tz3WKKfm-_eiTwcXui5BnhQ@mail.gmail.com
2021-08-02 11:32:17 -04:00
Tom Lane 64a1f22565 Doc: alphabetize the regexp_foo() function descriptions in 9.7.3.
For no visible reason (other than historical accident no doubt),
regexp_replace() was out of order.  Re-order to match the way
that these functions are listed in 9.4.  (That means substring()
remains first, because it's SQL-standard and the rest aren't.)
I've not touched the text other than to move it.  This is just
to reduce confusion in the diffs for upcoming additions.
2021-07-31 15:35:27 -04:00
Jeff Davis 14d474e079 Improve documentation for START_REPLICATION ... LOGICAL.
The starting point may not be exactly what the client requested; it
may be at the slot's confirmed_flush_lsn.

Also, upgrade the message from DEBUG1 to LOG when this happens.

Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/c5c861d576f2511732f8002c76245da587110b1c.camel%40j-davis.com
2021-07-30 15:12:20 -07:00
John Naylor 5fcf3945bd Fix range check in ECPG numeric to int conversion
The previous coding guarded against -INT_MAX instead of INT_MIN,
leading to -2147483648 being rejected as out of range.

Per bug #17128 from Kevin Sweet

Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/17128-55a8a879727a3e3a%40postgresql.org
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane
Backpatch to all supported branches
2021-07-30 15:39:22 -04:00
Tom Lane 3dddb2a821 Doc: add a glossary entry for "domain".
Anton Voloshin and Jürgen Purtz, reviewed by Laurenz Albe

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2ea65bdf-1380-f088-02bd-ff1a31ed265c@postgrespro.ru
2021-07-30 14:50:21 -04:00
Daniel Gustafsson fcf4c0ae1d docs: Fix bit_count example output
The returnvalue for the bit_count(::bytea) example was assuming a
non-default value of standard_conforming_strings.  This was fixed
in the tests in commit ebedd0c78.

Author: wangzk.fnstxz@fujitsu.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/OSZPR01MB6551FFAC1088C82C3D799BE0FAEB9@OSZPR01MB6551.jpnprd01.prod.outlook.com
Backpatch-through: 14
2021-07-29 21:39:40 +02:00
John Naylor 3ba70d4e15 Disallow negative strides in date_bin()
It's not clear what the semantics of negative strides would be, so throw
an error instead.

Per report from Bauyrzhan Sakhariyev

Reviewed-by: Tom Lane, Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAKpL73vZmLuFVuwF26FJ%2BNk11PVHhAnQRoREFcA03x7znRoFvA%40mail.gmail.com
Backpatch to v14
2021-07-28 12:10:12 -04:00
David Rowley 8709228775 Doc: Clarify lock levels taken during ATTACH PARTITION
It wasn't all that clear which lock levels, if any, would be held on the
DEFAULT partition during an ATTACH PARTITION operation.

Also, clarify which locks will be taken if the DEFAULT partition or the
table being attached are themselves partitioned tables.

Here I'm only backpatching to v12 as before then we obtained an ACCESS
EXCLUSIVE lock on the partitioned table.  It seems much less relevant to
mention which locks are taken on other tables when the partitioned table
itself is locked with an ACCESS EXCLUSIVE lock.

Author: Matthias van de Meent, David Rowley
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEze2WiTB6iwrV8W_J=fnrnZ7fowW3qu-8iQ8zCHP3FiQ6+o-A@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 12
2021-07-28 15:02:37 +12:00
Michael Paquier b0483263dd Add support for SET ACCESS METHOD in ALTER TABLE
The logic used to support a change of access method for a table is
similar to changes for tablespace or relation persistence, requiring a
table rewrite with an exclusive lock of the relation changed.  Table
rewrites done in ALTER TABLE already go through the table AM layer when
scanning tuples from the old relation and inserting them into the new
one, making this implementation straight-forward.

Note that partitioned tables are not supported as these have no access
methods defined.

Author: Justin Pryzby, Jeff Davis
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier, Vignesh C
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210228222530.GD20769@telsasoft.com
2021-07-28 10:10:44 +09:00
Fujii Masao 0e1275fb07 Avoid using ambiguous word "non-negative" in error messages.
The error messages using the word "non-negative" are confusing
because it's ambiguous about whether it accepts zero or not.
This commit improves those error messages by replacing it with
less ambiguous word like "greater than zero" or
"greater than or equal to zero".

Also this commit added the note about the word "non-negative" to
the error message style guide, to help writing the new error messages.

When postgres_fdw option fetch_size was set to zero, previously
the error message "fetch_size requires a non-negative integer value"
was reported. This error message was outright buggy. Therefore
back-patch to all supported versions where such buggy error message
could be thrown.

Reported-by: Hou Zhijie
Author: Bharath Rupireddy
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi, Fujii Masao
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/OS0PR01MB5716415335A06B489F1B3A8194569@OS0PR01MB5716.jpnprd01.prod.outlook.com
2021-07-28 01:20:16 +09:00
Bruce Momjian 6feebcb6b4 doc: for various substring funcs, document if only first match
Reported-by: troy@frericks.us

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/162614304115.701.2392941350859387646@wrigleys.postgresql.org

Backpatch-through: 13
2021-07-26 22:54:35 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 74cf7d46a9 pg_resetxlog: add option to set oldest xid & use by pg_upgrade
Add pg_resetxlog -u option to set the oldest xid in pg_control.
Previously -x set this value be -2 billion less than the -x value.
However, this causes the server to immediately scan all relation's
relfrozenxid so it can advance pg_control's oldest xid to be inside the
autovacuum_freeze_max_age range, which is inefficient and might disrupt
diagnostic recovery.  pg_upgrade will use this option to better create
the new cluster to match the old cluster.

Reported-by: Jason Harvey, Floris Van Nee

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20190615183759.GB239428@rfd.leadboat.com, 87da83168c644fd9aae38f546cc70295@opammb0562.comp.optiver.com

Author: Bertrand Drouvot

Backpatch-through: 9.6
2021-07-26 22:38:15 -04:00
Dean Rasheed 085f931f52 Allow numeric scale to be negative or greater than precision.
Formerly, when specifying NUMERIC(precision, scale), the scale had to
be in the range [0, precision], which was per SQL spec. This commit
extends the range of allowed scales to [-1000, 1000], independent of
the precision (whose valid range remains [1, 1000]).

A negative scale implies rounding before the decimal point. For
example, a column might be declared with a scale of -3 to round values
to the nearest thousand. Note that the display scale remains
non-negative, so in this case the display scale will be zero, and all
digits before the decimal point will be displayed.

A scale greater than the precision supports fractional values with
zeros immediately after the decimal point.

Take the opportunity to tidy up the code that packs, unpacks and
validates the contents of a typmod integer, encapsulating it in a
small set of new inline functions.

Bump the catversion because the allowed contents of atttypmod have
changed for numeric columns. This isn't a change that requires a
re-initdb, but negative scale values in the typmod would confuse old
backends.

Dean Rasheed, with additional improvements by Tom Lane. Reviewed by
Tom Lane.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEZATCWdNLgpKihmURF8nfofP0RFtAKJ7ktY6GcZOPnMfUoRqA@mail.gmail.com
2021-07-26 14:13:47 +01:00
Michael Paquier efe0802209 doc: Fix command example to run regression tests with PGOPTIONS
The documentation mentioned the use of log_checkpoints, that cannot be
used in this context.  This commit replaces log_checkpoints with
force_parallel_mode, a developer option useful to perform checks related
to parallelism.

Oversight in 854434c.

Author: Haiying Tang
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/OS0PR01MB6113954B883ACEB2DDC973F2FBE59@OS0PR01MB6113.jpnprd01.prod.outlook.com
Backpatch-through: 14
2021-07-26 16:26:47 +09:00
Alvaro Herrera 80ba4bb383
Make ALTER TRIGGER RENAME consistent for partitioned tables
Renaming triggers on partitioned tables had two problems: first,
it did not recurse to renaming the triggers on the partitions; and
second, it failed to prohibit renaming clone triggers.  Having triggers
with different names in partitions is pointless, and furthermore pg_dump
would not preserve names for partitions anyway.

Not backpatched -- making the ALTER TRIGGER throw an error in stable
versions might cause problems for existing scripts.

Co-authored-by: Arne Roland <A.Roland@index.de>
Co-authored-by: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Reviewed-by: Zhihong Yu <zyu@yugabyte.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/d0fd7040c2fb4de1a111b9d9ccc456b8@index.de
2021-07-22 18:33:47 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera 73c5d2bfee
Rework installation instructions again
Dept. of second thoughts: the new verbiage added in commit aaec237b1a
is targeted at the wrong audience.  Remove the bits about git and talk
about how to get tarballs only.  People looking for the git repo can
look in the appendix.  That'll need to be expanded, but this commit
doesn't do that.

In passing, fix a couple of typos that snuck in with the previous
commit.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/713760.1626891263@sss.pgh.pa.us
2021-07-22 18:03:26 -04:00
Tom Lane 7fa1e1ef74 Doc: improve documentation about exponentiation operator.
Now that we're not having to wedge this into the straitjacket of
the old operator table format, we can add another example to
clarify the point about left-to-right associativity.

Per suggestion from mdione at grulic.org.ar.

https://postgr.es/m/162661954599.693.13700316547731859171@wrigleys.postgresql.org
2021-07-21 18:04:15 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera aaec237b1a
Improve installation instructions a bit
Reported-by: Daniel Westermann
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/GV0P278MB04835AAEACF894617574EB6BD25A9@GV0P278MB0483.CHEP278.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM
2021-07-21 13:56:15 -04:00
Fujii Masao 90b6c339b2 doc: Document that only superusers can use pg_import_system_collations().
Back-patch to v10 where pg_import_system_collations() was added.

Author: Atsushi Torikoshi
Reviewed-by: Fujii Masao
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/b7f484692a3e283710032e68b7f40617@oss.nttdata.com
2021-07-21 13:52:37 +09:00
Peter Geoghegan dd498998a3 Doc: vacuum_multixact_failsafe_age is multixact-based.
Oversight in commit 1e55e7d1, which added a wraparound failsafe
mechanism to VACUUM.

Backpatch: 14-, where VACUUM failsafe was introduced.
2021-07-19 17:20:25 -07:00
Michael Paquier d121663561 doc: Mention CASCADE/RESTRICT for DROP STATISTICS
This grammar has no effect as there are no dependencies on statistics,
but it is supported by the parser.  This is more consistent with the
other DROP commands.

Author: Vignesh C
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CALDaNm1LA=yNmzcSfy+0oe6CEAgsxXRf_-UutE3ZncFi8QkFNQ@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 10
2021-07-19 12:39:38 +09:00
Alexander Korotkov 9e3c217bd9 Support for unnest(multirange)
It has been spotted that multiranges lack of ability to decompose them into
individual ranges.  Subscription and proper expanded object representation
require substantial work, and it's too late for v14.  This commit
provides the implementation of unnest(multirange), which is quite trivial.
unnest(multirange) is defined as a polymorphic procedure.

Catversion is bumped.

Reported-by: Jonathan S. Katz
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/flat/60258efe-bd7e-4886-82e1-196e0cac5433%40postgresql.org
Author: Alexander Korotkov
Reviewed-by: Justin Pryzby, Jonathan S. Katz, Zhihong Yu, Tom Lane
Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera
2021-07-18 21:07:24 +03:00
Tom Lane 665c5855e5 Doc: document the current-transaction-modes GUCs.
We had documentation of default_transaction_isolation et al,
but for some reason not of transaction_isolation et al.
AFAICS this is just an ancient oversight, so repair.

Per bug #17077 from Yanliang Lei.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17077-ade8e166a01e1374@postgresql.org
2021-07-17 11:52:54 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 46111fb7b5 doc: Spell checking 2021-07-16 12:39:45 +02:00
Daniel Gustafsson 830ef61bd8 docs: fix inconsistencies in markup and case
Ensure to properly mark up function parameters in text with <parameter>,
avoid using <acronym> for terms which aren't acronyms and properly place
the ", and" in a value list. The acronym removal is a follow-up to commit
fb72a7b8c3 which removed it for minmax-multi.  In passing, also fix an
incorrectly cased word.

Author: Ekaterina Kiryanova <e.kiryanova@postgrespro.ru>
Reviewed-by: Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/c050ecbc-80b2-b360-3c1d-9fe6a6a11bb5@postgrespro.ru
Backpatch-through: v14
2021-07-15 23:22:58 +02:00
Tom Lane a49d081235 Replace explicit PIN entries in pg_depend with an OID range test.
As of v14, pg_depend contains almost 7000 "pin" entries recording
the OIDs of built-in objects.  This is a fair amount of bloat for
every database, and it adds time to pg_depend lookups as well as
initdb.  We can get rid of all of those entries in favor of an OID
range check, i.e. "OIDs below FirstUnpinnedObjectId are pinned".

(template1 and the public schema are exceptions.  Those exceptions
are now wired into IsPinnedObject() instead of initdb's code for
filling pg_depend, but it's the same amount of cruft either way.)

The contents of pg_shdepend are modified likewise.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3737988.1618451008@sss.pgh.pa.us
2021-07-15 11:41:47 -04:00
Magnus Hagander b4deefc39b Clarify description of pg_stat_statements columns
Reported-By: Peter Eisentraut
Backpatch-through: 14
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/8f5e63b8-e8ed-0f80-d8c4-68222624c200@enterprisedb.com
2021-07-14 11:11:11 +02:00
Amit Kapila a8fd13cab0 Add support for prepared transactions to built-in logical replication.
To add support for streaming transactions at prepare time into the
built-in logical replication, we need to do the following things:

* Modify the output plugin (pgoutput) to implement the new two-phase API
callbacks, by leveraging the extended replication protocol.

* Modify the replication apply worker, to properly handle two-phase
transactions by replaying them on prepare.

* Add a new SUBSCRIPTION option "two_phase" to allow users to enable
two-phase transactions. We enable the two_phase once the initial data sync
is over.

We however must explicitly disable replication of two-phase transactions
during replication slot creation, even if the plugin supports it. We
don't need to replicate the changes accumulated during this phase,
and moreover, we don't have a replication connection open so we don't know
where to send the data anyway.

The streaming option is not allowed with this new two_phase option. This
can be done as a separate patch.

We don't allow to toggle two_phase option of a subscription because it can
lead to an inconsistent replica. For the same reason, we don't allow to
refresh the publication once the two_phase is enabled for a subscription
unless copy_data option is false.

Author: Peter Smith, Ajin Cherian and Amit Kapila based on previous work by Nikhil Sontakke and Stas Kelvich
Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila, Sawada Masahiko, Vignesh C, Dilip Kumar, Takamichi Osumi, Greg Nancarrow
Tested-By: Haiying Tang
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/02DA5F5E-CECE-4D9C-8B4B-418077E2C010@postgrespro.ru
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAA4eK1+opiV4aFTmWWUF9h_32=HfPOW9vZASHarT0UA5oBrtGw@mail.gmail.com
2021-07-14 07:33:50 +05:30
David Rowley 83f4fcc655 Change the name of the Result Cache node to Memoize
"Result Cache" was never a great name for this node, but nobody managed
to come up with another name that anyone liked enough.  That was until
David Johnston mentioned "Node Memoization", which Tom Lane revised to
just "Memoize".  People seem to like "Memoize", so let's do the rename.

Reviewed-by: Justin Pryzby
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210708165145.GG1176@momjian.us
Backpatch-through: 14, where Result Cache was introduced
2021-07-14 12:43:58 +12:00
Tom Lane d68a003912 Rename debug_invalidate_system_caches_always to debug_discard_caches.
The name introduced by commit 4656e3d66 was agreed to be unreasonably
long.  To match this change, rename initdb's recently-added
--clobber-cache option to --discard-caches.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1374320.1625430433@sss.pgh.pa.us
2021-07-13 15:01:01 -04:00
Thomas Munro 7c09d2797e Add PSQL_WATCH_PAGER for psql's \watch command.
Allow a pager to be used by the \watch command.  This works but isn't
very useful with traditional pagers like "less", so use a different
environment variable.  The popular open source tool "pspg" (also by
Pavel) knows how to display the output if you set PSQL_WATCH_PAGER="pspg
--stream".

To make \watch react quickly when the user quits the pager or presses
^C, and also to increase the accuracy of its timing and decrease the
rate of useless context switches, change the main loop of the \watch
command to use sigwait() rather than a sleeping/polling loop, on Unix.

Supported on Unix only for now (like pspg).

Author: Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>
Author: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAFj8pRBfzUUPz-3gN5oAzto9SDuRSq-TQPfXU_P6h0L7hO%2BEhg%40mail.gmail.com
2021-07-13 11:43:21 +12:00
Peter Eisentraut 5b60cf35f5 doc: Fix typo in function prototype 2021-07-12 22:16:33 +02:00
Alvaro Herrera ab09679429
libpq: Fix sending queries in pipeline aborted state
When sending queries in pipeline mode, we were careless about leaving
the connection in the right state so that PQgetResult would behave
correctly; trying to read further results after sending a query after
having read a result with an error would sometimes hang.  Fix by
ensuring internal libpq state is changed properly.  All the state
changes were being done by the callers of pqAppendCmdQueueEntry(); it
would have become too repetitious to have this logic in each of them, so
instead put it all in that function and relieve callers of the
responsibility.

Add a test to verify this case.  Without the code fix, this new test
hangs sometimes.

Also, document that PQisBusy() would return false when no queries are
pending result.  This is not intuitively obvious, and NULL would be
obtained by calling PQgetResult() at that point, which is confusing.
Wording by Boris Kolpackov.

In passing, fix bogus use of "false" to mean "0", per Ranier Vilela.

Backpatch to 14.

Author: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Reported-by: Boris Kolpackov <boris@codesynthesis.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/boris.20210624103805@codesynthesis.com
2021-07-09 15:57:59 -04:00
Fujii Masao 9d2a775734 doc: Fix description about pg_stat_statements.track_planning.
This commit fixes wrong wording like "a fewer kinds"
in the description about track_planning option.

Back-patch to v13 where pg_stat_statements.track_planning was added.

Author: Justin Pryzby
Reviewed-by: Julien Rouhaud, Fujii Masao
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210418233615.GB7256@telsasoft.com
2021-07-07 21:54:47 +09:00
Fujii Masao d854720df6 postgres_fdw: Tighten up allowed values for batch_size, fetch_size options.
Previously the values such as '100$%$#$#', '9,223,372,' were accepted and
treated as valid integers for postgres_fdw options batch_size and fetch_size.
Whereas this is not the case with fdw_startup_cost and fdw_tuple_cost options
for which an error is thrown. This was because endptr was not used
while converting strings to integers using strtol.

This commit changes the logic so that it uses parse_int function
instead of strtol as it serves the purpose by returning false in case
if it is unable to convert the string to integer. Note that
this function also rounds off the values such as '100.456' to 100 and
'100.567' or '100.678' to 101.

While on this, use parse_real for fdw_startup_cost and fdw_tuple_cost options.

Since parse_int and parse_real are being used for reloptions and GUCs,
it is more appropriate to use in postgres_fdw rather than using strtol
and strtod directly.

Back-patch to v14.

Author: Bharath Rupireddy
Reviewed-by: Ashutosh Bapat, Tom Lane, Kyotaro Horiguchi, Fujii Masao
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CALj2ACVMO6wY5Pc4oe1OCgUOAtdjHuFsBDw8R5uoYR86eWFQDA@mail.gmail.com
2021-07-07 11:13:40 +09:00
Tom Lane 955b3e0f92 Allow CustomScan providers to say whether they support projections.
Previously, all CustomScan providers had to support projections,
but there may be cases where this is inconvenient.  Add a flag
bit to say if it's supported.

Important item for the release notes: this is non-backwards-compatible
since the default is now to assume that CustomScan providers can't
project, instead of assuming that they can.  It's fail-soft, but could
result in visible performance penalties due to adding unnecessary
Result nodes.

Sven Klemm, reviewed by Aleksander Alekseev; some cosmetic fiddling
by me.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAMCrgp1kyakOz6c8aKhNDJXjhQ1dEjEnp+6KNT3KxPrjNtsrDg@mail.gmail.com
2021-07-06 18:10:20 -04:00
Tom Lane ab2e19987f Doc: add info about timestamps with fractional-minute UTC offsets.
Our code has supported fractional-minute UTC offsets for ages, but
there was no mention of the possibility in the main docs, and only
a very indirect reference in Appendix B.  Improve that.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/162543102827.697.5755498651217979813@wrigleys.postgresql.org
2021-07-06 10:34:51 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 903d9aa780 doc: Fix quoting markup 2021-07-05 08:26:00 +02:00
Amit Kapila e360aa0530 Doc: Hash Indexes.
A new chapter for Hash Indexes, designed to help users understand how
they work and when to use them.

Backpatch-through 10 where we have made hash indexes durable.

Author: Simon Riggs
Reviewed-By: Justin Pryzby, Amit Kapila
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CANbhV-HRjNPYgHo--P1ewBrFJ-GpZPb9_25P7=Wgu7s7hy_sLQ@mail.gmail.com
2021-07-05 09:36:11 +05:30
Michael Paquier 0f06359fb3 doc: Mention requirement to --enable-tap-tests on section for TAP tests
Author: Greg Sabino Mullane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAKAnmmJYH2FBn_+Vwd2FD5SaKn8hjhAXOCHpZc6n4wXaUaW_SA@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 9.6
2021-07-04 20:59:04 +09:00
David Rowley ec34040af1 Doc: mention that VACUUM can't utilize over 1GB of RAM
Document that setting maintenance_work_mem to values over 1GB has no
effect on VACUUM.

Reported-by: Martín Marqués
Author: Laurenz Albe
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CABeG9LsZ2ozUMcqtqWu_-GiFKB17ih3p8wBHXcpfnHqhCnsc7A%40mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 9.6, oldest supported release
2021-07-04 22:28:38 +12:00
Bruce Momjian d390bb62a6 doc: adjust "cities" example to be consistent with other SQL
Reported-by: tom@crystae.net

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/162345756191.14472.9754568432103008703@wrigleys.postgresql.org

Backpatch-through: 9.6
2021-07-02 20:42:46 -04:00
Bruce Momjian c552e171d1 docs: clarify new aggressive vacuum mode for multi-xacts
Reported-by: eric.mutta@gmail.com

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/162395467510.686.11947486273299446208@wrigleys.postgresql.org

Backpatch-through: 14
2021-07-02 18:00:30 -04:00
Michael Paquier 70685385d7 Use WaitLatch() instead of pg_usleep() at end-of-vacuum truncation
This has the advantage to make a process more responsive when the
postmaster dies, even if the wait time was rather limited as there was
only a 50ms timeout here.  Another advantage of this change is for
monitoring, as we gain a new wait event for the end-of-vacuum
truncation.

Author: Bharath Rupireddy
Reviewed-by: Aleksander Alekseev, Thomas Munro, Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CALj2ACU4AdPCq6NLfcA-ZGwX7pPCK5FgEj-CAU0xCKzkASSy_A@mail.gmail.com
2021-07-02 12:58:34 +09:00
Peter Eisentraut 1708f6b38a doc: Remove inappropriate <acronym> tags 2021-07-01 22:24:15 +02:00
Andrew Dunstan 7355c241ed
add missing tag from commit b8c4261e5e 2021-07-01 15:47:46 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut c0fdc96370 doc: Clean up title case use 2021-07-01 21:29:34 +02:00
Andrew Dunstan b8c4261e5e
Add new make targets world-bin and install-world-bin
These are the same as world and install-world respectively, but without
building or installing the documentation. There are many reasons for
wanting to be able to do this, including speed, lack of documentation
building tools, and wanting to build other formats of the documentation.
Plans for simplifying the buildfarm client code include using these
targets.

Backpatch to all live branches.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/6a421136-d462-b043-a8eb-e75b2861f3df@dunslane.net
2021-07-01 15:12:21 -04:00
Tom Lane b741f4c3ee Add --clobber-cache option to initdb, for CCA testing.
Commit 4656e3d66 replaced the "#define CLOBBER_CACHE_ALWAYS"
testing mechanism with a GUC, which has been a great help for
doing cache-clobber testing in more efficient ways; but there
is a gap in the implementation.  The only way to do cache-clobber
testing during an initdb run is to use the old method with #define,
because one can't set the GUC from outside.  Improve this by
adding a switch to initdb for the purpose.

(Perhaps someday we should let initdb pass through arbitrary
"-c NAME=VALUE" switches.  Quoting difficulties dissuaded me
from attempting that right now, though.)

Back-patch to v14 where 4656e3d66 came in.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1582507.1624227029@sss.pgh.pa.us
2021-07-01 13:33:05 -04:00
Heikki Linnakangas c8bf5098cb Allow specifying pg_waldump --rmgr option multiple times.
Before, if you specified multiple --rmgr options, only the last one took
effect. It seems more sensible to select all the specified resource
managers.

Reviewed-By: Daniel Gustafsson, Julien Rouhaud
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/98344bc2-e222-02ad-a75b-81ffc614c155%40iki.fi
2021-07-01 15:32:57 +03:00
Fujii Masao 3465c8a869 doc: Improve descriptions of tup_returned and tup_fetched in pg_stat_database
Previously the descriptions of tup_returned and tup_fetched columns
in pg_stat_database view were confusing. This commit improves them
so that they represent the following formulas of those columns
more accurately.

* pg_stat_database.tup_returned
    = sum(pg_stat_all_tables.seq_tup_read)
    + sum(pg_stat_all_indexes.idx_tup_read)

* pg_stat_database.tup_fetched
    = sum(pg_stat_all_tables.idx_tup_fetch)

In these formulas, note that the counters for some system catalogs
like pg_database shared across all databases of a cluster are excluded
from the calculations of sum.

Author: Masahiro Ikeda
Reviewed-by: Fujii Masao
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/9eeeccdb-5dd7-90f9-2807-a4b5d2b76ca3@oss.nttdata.com
2021-06-30 20:57:07 +09:00
Fujii Masao 61d599ede7 doc: Add type information for postgres_fdw parameters.
Author: Shinya Kato
Reviewed-by: Fujii Masao
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/TYAPR01MB2896DEB25C3B0D57F6139768C40F9@TYAPR01MB2896.jpnprd01.prod.outlook.com
2021-06-30 19:33:18 +09:00
Amit Kapila cda03cfed6 Allow enabling two-phase option via replication protocol.
Extend the replication command CREATE_REPLICATION_SLOT to support the
TWO_PHASE option. This will allow decoding commands like PREPARE
TRANSACTION, COMMIT PREPARED and ROLLBACK PREPARED for slots created with
this option. The decoding of the transaction happens at prepare command.

This patch also adds support of two-phase in pg_recvlogical via a new
option --two-phase.

This option will also be used by future patches that allow streaming of
transactions at prepare time for built-in logical replication. With this,
the out-of-core logical replication solutions can enable replication of
two-phase transactions via replication protocol.

Author: Ajin Cherian
Reviewed-By: Jeff Davis, Vignesh C, Amit Kapila
Discussion:
https://postgr.es/m/02DA5F5E-CECE-4D9C-8B4B-418077E2C010@postgrespro.ru
https://postgr.es/m/64b9f783c6e125f18f88fbc0c0234e34e71d8639.camel@j-davis.com
2021-06-30 08:45:47 +05:30
Michael Paquier 4c9f50d116 Optimize pg_checksums --enable where checksum is already set
This commit prevents pg_checksums to do a rewrite of a block if it has
no need to, in the case where the computed checksum matches with what's
already stored in the block read.  This is helpful to accelerate
successive runs of the tool when the previous ones got interrupted, for
example.

The number of blocks and files written is tracked and reported by the
tool once finished.  Note that the final flush of the data folder
happens even if no blocks are written, as it could be possible that a
previous interrupted run got stopped while doing a flush.

Author: Greg Sabino Mullane
Reviewed-by: Paquier Michael, Julien Rouhaud
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAKAnmmL+k6goxmVzQJB+0bAR0PN1sgo6GDUXJhyhUmVMze1QAw@mail.gmail.com
2021-06-30 09:58:59 +09:00
Alvaro Herrera a7192326c7
Add PQsendFlushRequest to libpq
This new libpq function allows the application to send an 'H' message,
which instructs the server to flush its outgoing buffer.

This hasn't been needed so far because the Sync message already requests
a buffer; and I failed to realize that this was needed in pipeline mode
because PQpipelineSync also causes the buffer to be flushed.  However,
sometimes it is useful to request a flush without establishing a
synchronization point.

Backpatch to 14, where pipeline mode was introduced in libpq.

Reported-by: Boris Kolpackov <boris@codesynthesis.com>
Author: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/202106252350.t76x73nt643j@alvherre.pgsql
2021-06-29 14:37:39 -04:00
Michael Paquier 4035cd5d4e Add support for LZ4 with compression of full-page writes in WAL
The logic is implemented so as there can be a choice in the compression
used when building a WAL record, and an extra per-record bit is used to
track down if a block is compressed with PGLZ, LZ4 or nothing.

wal_compression, the existing parameter, is changed to an enum with
support for the following backward-compatible values:
- "off", the default, to not use compression.
- "pglz" or "on", to compress FPWs with PGLZ.
- "lz4", the new mode, to compress FPWs with LZ4.

Benchmarking has showed that LZ4 outclasses easily PGLZ.  ZSTD would be
also an interesting choice, but going just with LZ4 for now makes the
patch minimalistic as toast compression is already able to use LZ4, so
there is no need to worry about any build-related needs for this
implementation.

Author: Andrey Borodin, Justin Pryzby
Reviewed-by: Dilip Kumar, Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3037310D-ECB7-4BF1-AF20-01C10BB33A33@yandex-team.ru
2021-06-29 11:17:55 +09:00
Andrew Dunstan 596b5af1d3
Stamp HEAD as 15devel.
Let the hacking begin ...
2021-06-28 11:31:16 -04:00
Thomas Munro 34a8b64b4e Change recovery_init_sync_method to PGC_SIGHUP.
The setting has no effect except during startup.  It's still nice to be
able to change it dynamically, which is expected to be pretty useful to
an admin following crash recovery when restarting the cluster is not so
appealing.

Per discussions following commits 2941138e6 and 61752afb2.

Author: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
Reviewed-by: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@oss.nttdata.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210529192321.GM2082%40telsasoft.com
2021-06-28 15:30:39 +12:00
Tom Lane dcffc9ba8a Doc: update v14 release notes for revert of commit c0cb87fbb. 2021-06-26 15:45:16 -04:00
Tom Lane 8a80562d73 Doc: remove commit f560209c6 from v14 release notes.
Now that this has been back-patched, it's no longer a new feature
for v14.
2021-06-25 11:18:15 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 3af10943ce Put option listing back into alphabetical order 2021-06-25 11:40:06 +02:00
Peter Eisentraut e59d428f34 Fixes in ALTER SUBSCRIPTION DROP PUBLICATION code
ALTER SUBSCRIPTION DROP PUBLICATION does not actually support
copy_data option, so remove it from tab completion.

Also, reword the error message that is thrown when all the
publications from a subscription are specified to be dropped.

Also, made few doc and cosmetic adjustments.

Author: Vignesh C <vignesh21@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Bharath Rupireddy <bharath.rupireddy@enterprisedb.com>
Reviewed-by: Japin Li <japinli@hotmail.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CALDaNm21RwsDzs4xj14ApteAF7auyyomHNnp+NEL-sH8m-jMvQ@mail.gmail.com
2021-06-25 09:57:02 +02:00
Peter Eisentraut 63e6d05bf3 doc: Change reloption data type spelling for consistency
Use "floating point" rather than "float4", like everywhere else in
this context.

Author: Shinya11.Kato@nttdata.com
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/TYAPR01MB28965989AF84B57FC351B97BC40F9@TYAPR01MB2896.jpnprd01.prod.outlook.com
2021-06-25 08:11:10 +02:00
Amit Kapila 847c62ee76 Doc: Fix minor formatting issue in logicaldecoding.sgml.
Author: Guillaume Lelarge
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAECtzeXf3_oZoU6mgFCOy5+pDZ5n4XtH0Da4a5n_KacraVWiHQ@mail.gmail.com
2021-06-25 08:22:44 +05:30
Michael Paquier 15ff5401d1 doc: Add acronyms for MITM and SNI
This adds MITM and SNI as acronyms, as the documentation already had
them marked up with <acronym>.

While on it, make sure to spell man-in-the-middle with dashes
consistently, and add acronyms for those new terms where appropriate.

Author: Daniel Gustafsson
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CE12DD5C-4BB3-4166-BC9A-39779568734C@yesql.se
2021-06-25 11:29:03 +09:00
Michael Paquier 797b0fc0b0 doc: Move remove_temp_files_after_crash to section for developer options
The main goal of this option is to allow inspecting temporary files for
debugging purposes, so moving the parameter there is natural.

Oversight in cd91de0.

Reported-by: Justin Pryzby
Author: Euler Taveira
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210612004347.GP16435@telsasoft.com
2021-06-25 08:40:16 +09:00
Amit Kapila f08722cf83 Doc: Update logical replication message formats.
Commits 9de77b5453 and ac4645c015 missed to update the logical replication
message formats section in the docs.

Author: Brar Piening
Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/cc70956c-e578-e54f-49e6-b5d68c89576f@gmx.de
2021-06-24 11:51:58 +05:30
Amit Kapila c66fb78ebb Doc: Update caveats in synchronous logical replication.
Reported-by: Simon Riggs
Author: Takamichi Osumi
Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila
Backpatch-through: 9.6
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20210222222847.tpnb6eg3yiykzpky@alap3.anarazel.de
2021-06-24 09:13:46 +05:30
Tom Lane 2031e1668e Doc: fix confusion about LEAKPROOF in syntax summaries.
The syntax summaries for CREATE FUNCTION and allied commands
made it look like LEAKPROOF is an alternative to
IMMUTABLE/STABLE/VOLATILE, when of course it is an orthogonal
option.  Improve that.

Per gripe from aazamrafeeque0.  Thanks to David Johnston for
suggestions.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/162444349581.694.5818572718530259025@wrigleys.postgresql.org
2021-06-23 14:27:13 -04:00
Noah Misch 047a259e35 Finish rename of PQtraceSetFlags() to PQsetTraceFlags().
Jie Zhang

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/TYWPR01MB767844835390EDD8DB276D75F90A9@TYWPR01MB7678.jpnprd01.prod.outlook.com
2021-06-21 02:48:11 -07:00
Bruce Momjian 69a58bfe4a doc: adjust PG 14 relnotes to be current 2021-06-21 01:09:32 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 90855908b7 doc: add mention of +4GB windows file handling in PG14 relnotes
Reported-by: Masahiko Sawada

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAD21AoCTHyouoGv-xt1qNjjvPbGMErLi0AJncByTvr66Nq7j8g@mail.gmail.com
2021-06-20 23:53:00 -04:00
Peter Geoghegan 3499df0dee Support disabling index bypassing by VACUUM.
Generalize the INDEX_CLEANUP VACUUM parameter (and the corresponding
reloption): make it into a ternary style boolean parameter.  It now
exposes a third option, "auto".  The "auto" option (which is now the
default) enables the "bypass index vacuuming" optimization added by
commit 1e55e7d1.

"VACUUM (INDEX_CLEANUP TRUE)" is redefined to once again make VACUUM
simply do any required index vacuuming, regardless of how few dead
tuples are encountered during the first scan of the target heap relation
(unless there are exactly zero).  This gives users a way of opting out
of the "bypass index vacuuming" optimization, if for whatever reason
that proves necessary.  It is also expected to be used by PostgreSQL
developers as a testing option from time to time.

"VACUUM (INDEX_CLEANUP FALSE)" does the same thing as it always has: it
forcibly disables both index vacuuming and index cleanup.  It's not
expected to be used much in PostgreSQL 14.  The failsafe mechanism added
by commit 1e55e7d1 addresses the same problem in a simpler way.
INDEX_CLEANUP can now be thought of as a testing and compatibility
option.

Author: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
Reviewed-By: Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-WznrBoCST4_Gxh_G9hA8NzGUbeBGnOUC8FcXcrhqsv6OHQ@mail.gmail.com
2021-06-18 20:04:07 -07:00
Michael Paquier f80979f659 doc: Apply markup <productname> to OpenSSL more consistently
Author: Daniel Gustafsson
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CE12DD5C-4BB3-4166-BC9A-39779568734C@yesql.se
2021-06-18 14:22:31 +09:00
Amit Kapila 3cb828dbe2 Document a few caveats in synchronous logical replication.
In a synchronous logical setup, locking [user] catalog tables can cause
deadlock. This is because logical decoding of transactions can lock
catalog tables to access them so exclusively locking those in transactions
can lead to deadlock. To avoid this users must refrain from having
exclusive locks on catalog tables.

Author: Takamichi Osumi
Reviewed-by: Vignesh C, Amit Kapila
Backpatch-through: 9.6
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20210222222847.tpnb6eg3yiykzpky%40alap3.anarazel.de
2021-06-17 09:56:05 +05:30
Alexander Korotkov 817bb0a7d1 Revert 29854ee8d1 due to buildfarm failures
Reported-by: Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAPpHfdvcnw3x7jdV3r52p4%3D5S4WUxBCzcQKB3JukQHoicv1LSQ%40mail.gmail.com
2021-06-15 21:44:40 +03:00
Alexander Korotkov ad2da246c6 Add missing type name "multirange" in docs chapter title
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAFj8pRDioOxiJgmgw9TqQqZ3CxnJC4P5B2Oospf2eMgAjJuewA%40mail.gmail.com
Author: Pavel Stehule, Alexander Korotkov
Reviewed-by: Justin Pryzby, Tom Lane
2021-06-15 16:06:32 +03:00
Alexander Korotkov 29854ee8d1 Support for unnest(multirange) and cast multirange as an array of ranges
It has been spotted that multiranges lack of ability to decompose them into
individual ranges.  Subscription and proper expanded object representation
require substantial work, and it's too late for v14.  This commit
provides the implementation of unnest(multirange) and cast multirange as
an array of ranges, which is quite trivial.

unnest(multirange) is defined as a polymorphic procedure.  The catalog
description of the cast underlying procedure is duplicated for each multirange
type because we don't have anyrangearray polymorphic type to use here.

Catversion is bumped.

Reported-by: Jonathan S. Katz
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/flat/60258efe-bd7e-4886-82e1-196e0cac5433%40postgresql.org
Author: Alexander Korotkov
Reviewed-by: Justin Pryzby, Jonathan S. Katz, Zhihong Yu
2021-06-15 15:59:20 +03:00
Noah Misch 5f1df62a45 Remove pg_wait_for_backend_termination().
It was unable to wait on a backend that had already left the procarray.
Users tolerant of that limitation can poll pg_stat_activity.  Other
users can employ the "timeout" argument of pg_terminate_backend().

Reviewed by Bharath Rupireddy.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210605013236.GA208701@rfd.leadboat.com
2021-06-14 17:29:37 -07:00
Noah Misch 0aac73e6a2 Copy-edit text for the pg_terminate_backend() "timeout" parameter.
Revert the pg_description entry to its v13 form, since those messages
usually remain shorter and don't discuss individual parameters.  No
catversion bump, since pg_description content does not impair backend
compatibility or application compatibility.

Justin Pryzby

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210612182743.GY16435@telsasoft.com
2021-06-14 17:29:37 -07:00
Bruce Momjian 86b222b090 doc: PG 14 relnotes fixes
Items related to logical replication attribution and BRIN indexes

Reported-by: Tomas Vondra, John Naylor

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/0db66294-a668-2caa-2b5e-a8db60b30662@enterprisedb.com, CAFBsxsH21KnteYdk33F1oZu2O726NSD6_XBq51Tn0jytsA1AnA@mail.gmail.com
2021-06-14 16:14:04 -04:00
Bruce Momjian a2559d4093 doc: PG 14 relnote updates
Reported-by: Justin Pryzby

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210612034551.GU16435@telsasoft.com
2021-06-14 16:03:18 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 25dfb5a831 doc: add PG 14 relnote item about array function references
User-defined objects that reference some built-in array functions will
need to be recreated in PG 14.

Reported-by: Justin Pryzby

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210608225618.GR16435@telsasoft.com
2021-06-14 12:49:05 -04:00
Michael Paquier dbab0c07e5 Remove forced toast recompression in VACUUM FULL/CLUSTER
The extra checks added by the recompression of toast data introduced in
bbe0a81 is proving to have a performance impact on VACUUM or CLUSTER
even if no recompression is done.  This is more noticeable with more
toastable columns that contain non-NULL values.

Improvements could be done to make those extra checks less expensive,
but that's not material for 14 at this stage, and we are not sure either
if the code path of VACUUM FULL/CLUSTER is adapted for this job.

Per discussion with several people, including Andres Freund, Robert
Haas, Álvaro Herrera, Tom Lane and myself.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210527003144.xxqppojoiwurc2iz@alap3.anarazel.de
2021-06-14 09:25:50 +09:00
Bruce Momjian d120e66fac doc: remove extra right angle bracket in PG 14 relnotes
Reported-by: Justin Pryzby
2021-06-11 21:01:52 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 0725913982 docs: fix incorrect indenting in PG 14 relnotes 2021-06-11 19:51:35 -04:00
Noah Misch d0e750c0ac Rename PQtraceSetFlags() to PQsetTraceFlags().
We have a dozen PQset*() functions.  PQresultSetInstanceData() and this
were the libpq setter functions having a different word order.  Adopt
the majority word order.

Reviewed by Alvaro Herrera and Robert Haas, though this choice of name
was not unanimous.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210605060555.GA216695@rfd.leadboat.com
2021-06-10 21:56:13 -07:00
David Rowley 04539e73fa Use the correct article for abbreviations
We've accumulated quite a mix of instances of "an SQL" and "a SQL" in the
documents.  It would be good to be a bit more consistent with these.

The most recent version of the SQL standard I looked at seems to prefer
"an SQL".  That seems like a good lead to follow, so here we change all
instances of "a SQL" to become "an SQL".  Most instances correctly use
"an SQL" already, so it also makes sense to use the dominant variation in
order to minimise churn.

Additionally, there were some other abbreviations that needed to be
adjusted. FSM, SSPI, SRF and a few others.  Also fix some pronounceable,
abbreviations to use "a" instead of "an".  For example, "a SASL" instead
of "an SASL".

Here I've only adjusted the documents and error messages.  Many others
still exist in source code comments.  Translator hint comments seem to be
the biggest culprit.  It currently does not seem worth the churn to change
these.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAApHDvpML27UqFXnrYO1MJddsKVMQoiZisPvsAGhKE_tsKXquw%40mail.gmail.com
2021-06-11 13:38:04 +12:00
Tom Lane e56bce5d43 Reconsider the handling of procedure OUT parameters.
Commit 2453ea142 redefined pg_proc.proargtypes to include the types of
OUT parameters, for procedures only.  While that had some advantages
for implementing the SQL-spec behavior of DROP PROCEDURE, it was pretty
disastrous from a number of other perspectives.  Notably, since the
primary key of pg_proc is name + proargtypes, this made it possible to
have multiple procedures with identical names + input arguments and
differing output argument types.  That would make it impossible to call
any one of the procedures by writing just NULL (or "?", or any other
data-type-free notation) for the output argument(s).  The change also
seems likely to cause grave confusion for client applications that
examine pg_proc and expect the traditional definition of proargtypes.

Hence, revert the definition of proargtypes to what it was, and
undo a number of complications that had been added to support that.

To support the SQL-spec behavior of DROP PROCEDURE, when there are
no argmode markers in the command's parameter list, we perform the
lookup both ways (that is, matching against both proargtypes and
proallargtypes), succeeding if we get just one unique match.
In principle this could result in ambiguous-function failures
that would not happen when using only one of the two rules.
However, overloading of procedure names is thought to be a pretty
rare usage, so this shouldn't cause many problems in practice.
Postgres-specific code such as pg_dump can defend against any
possibility of such failures by being careful to specify argmodes
for all procedure arguments.

This also fixes a few other bugs in the area of CALL statements
with named parameters, and improves the documentation a little.

catversion bump forced because the representation of procedures
with OUT arguments changes.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3742981.1621533210@sss.pgh.pa.us
2021-06-10 17:11:36 -04:00
Tom Lane ba2c6d6cec Avoid misbehavior when persisting a non-stable cursor.
PersistHoldablePortal has long assumed that it should store the
entire output of the query-to-be-persisted, which requires rewinding
and re-reading the output.  This is problematic if the query is not
stable: we might get different row contents, or even a different
number of rows, which'd confuse the cursor state mightily.

In the case where the cursor is NO SCROLL, this is very easy to
solve: just store the remaining query output, without any rewinding,
and tweak the portal's cursor state to match.  Aside from removing
the semantic problem, this could be significantly more efficient
than storing the whole output.

If the cursor is scrollable, there's not much we can do, but it
was already the case that scrolling a volatile query's result was
pretty unsafe.  We can just document more clearly that getting
correct results from that is not guaranteed.

There are already prohibitions in place on using SCROLL with
FOR UPDATE/SHARE, which is one way for a SELECT query to have
non-stable results.  We could imagine prohibiting SCROLL when
the query contains volatile functions, but that would be
expensive to enforce.  Moreover, it could break applications
that work just fine, if they have functions that are in fact
stable but the user neglected to mark them so.  So settle for
documenting the hazard.

While this problem has existed in some guise for a long time,
it got a lot worse in v11, which introduced the possibility
of persisting plpgsql cursors (perhaps implicit ones) even
when they violate the rules for what can be marked WITH HOLD.
Hence, I've chosen to back-patch to v11 but not further.

Per bug #17050 from Алексей Булгаков.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17050-f77aa827dc85247c@postgresql.org
2021-06-08 17:50:29 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 444302ed56 doc: update release note item about the v2 wire protocol
Protocol v2 was last used in PG 7.3, not 7.2.

Reported-by: Tatsuo Ishii

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210608.091329.906837606658882674.t-ishii@sraoss.co.jp
2021-06-08 16:47:14 -04:00
Tomas Vondra cb92703384 Adjust batch size in postgres_fdw to not use too many parameters
The FE/BE protocol identifies parameters with an Int16 index, which
limits the maximum number of parameters per query to 65535. With
batching added to postges_fdw this limit is much easier to hit, as
the whole batch is essentially a single query, making this error much
easier to hit.

The failures are a bit unpredictable, because it also depends on the
number of columns in the query. So instead of just failing, this patch
tweaks the batch_size to not exceed the maximum number of parameters.

Reported-by: Hou Zhijie <houzj.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Bharath Rupireddy <bharath.rupireddyforpostgres@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/OS0PR01MB571603973C0AC2874AD6BF2594299%40OS0PR01MB5716.jpnprd01.prod.outlook.com
2021-06-08 20:28:31 +02:00
Etsuro Fujita eab8195368 Doc: Further update documentation for asynchronous execution.
Add a note about asynchronous execution by postgres_fdw when applied to
Append nodes that contain synchronous subplan(s) as well.  Follow-up for
commit 27e1f1456.

Andrey Lepikhov and Etsuro Fujita

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/58fa2aa5-07f5-80b5-59a1-fec8a349fee7%40postgrespro.ru
2021-06-08 13:45:00 +09:00
Peter Eisentraut 5c25fd650a doc: Simplify COMMENT and SECURITY LABEL documentation
Just say that objects that reside in schemas can be schema-qualified.
Don't list all possible such objects.  The existing lists weren't
complete anyway.

Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/b2ec2234-67fe-d861-5cea-f526cd18c086%40enterprisedb.com
2021-06-05 09:08:40 +02:00
Peter Eisentraut 01ddd2f7e4 doc: Make terminology in glossary consistent
Use "reside in" rather than "belong to" for objects in a schema.
Previous use was a mix of the two.

Author: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/202106021932.idmbjjaqk7ke@alvherre.pgsql
2021-06-05 09:01:29 +02:00
David Rowley 8f3c06c5d5 Doc: Fix some spelling mistakes
Author: Daniel Gustafsson
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/7838B8EE-CFD6-48D7-AE2D-520D69FD84BD@yesql.se
2021-06-04 23:39:40 +12:00
Tom Lane e4539386de Doc: fix bogus intarray index example.
The siglen parameter is provided by gist__intbig_ops not
gist__int_ops.

Simon Norris

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/11BF2AA9-17AE-432A-AFE1-584FB9FB079D@hillcrestgeo.ca
2021-06-03 21:07:20 -04:00
Michael Paquier 1e809db86b doc: Add description for PGSSLCRLDIR
This was missing in the section dedicated to the supported environment
variables of libpq.  Oversight in f5465fa.

Reviewed-by: Daniel Gustafsson, Kyotaro Horiguchi
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/YLhI0mLoRkY3u4Wj@paquier.xyz
2021-06-04 09:46:15 +09:00
Michael Paquier 77e9d1b488 doc: Fix link reference for PGSSLMAXPROTOCOLVERSION
The link was pointing to the minimum protocol version.  Incorrect as of
ff8ca5f.

Author: Daniel Gustafsson
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/F893F184-C645-4C21-A2BA-583441B7288F@yesql.se
Backpatch-through: 13
2021-06-04 09:33:14 +09:00
Peter Eisentraut cb3cffe694 doc: Group options in pg_amcheck reference page
The previous arrangement was just one big list, and the internal order
was not all consistent either.  Now arrange the options by group and
sort them, the way it's already done in the --help output and one
other reference pages.  Also fix some ordering in the --help output.
2021-06-03 06:55:04 +02:00
Tom Lane ba356a397d Doc: improve libpq service-file docs, avoid overspecifying pathnames.
Clarify libpq.sgml's description of service file locations and
semantics.  Avoid use of backtick'ed pg_config calls to describe
paths; that doesn't work on Windows, and even on Unix it's an
idiom that not all readers may be instantly familiar with.

Don't overspecify the locations of include files, instead writing
only as much as you'd use in #include directives.  The previous text
in these places was incorrect for some installations, depending on
where "postgresql" is in the install path.

Our convention for referencing the user's home directory seems
to be "~", so change the one place that spelled it "$HOME".

install-windows.sgml follows the platform convention of spelling
file paths with "\", so change the one place that used "/".

Haiying Tang and Tom Lane

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/162149020918.26174.7150424047314144297@wrigleys.postgresql.org
2021-05-29 14:27:37 -04:00
Tom Lane a4390abecf Reduce the range of OIDs reserved for genbki.pl.
Commit ab596105b increased FirstBootstrapObjectId from 12000 to 13000,
but we've had some push-back about that.  It's worrisome to reduce the
daylight between there and FirstNormalObjectId, because the number of
OIDs consumed during initdb for collation objects is hard to predict.

We can improve the situation by abandoning the assumption that these
OIDs must be globally unique.  It should be sufficient for them to be
unique per-catalog.  (Any code that's unhappy about that is broken
anyway, since no more than per-catalog uniqueness can be guaranteed
once the OID counter wraps around.)  With that change, the largest OID
assigned during genbki.pl (starting from a base of 10000) is a bit
under 11000.  This allows reverting FirstBootstrapObjectId to 12000
with reasonable confidence that that will be sufficient for many years
to come.

We are not, at this time, abandoning the expectation that
hand-assigned OIDs (below 10000) are globally unique.  Someday that'll
likely be necessary, but the need seems years away still.

This is late for v14, but it seems worth doing it now so that
downstream software doesn't have to deal with the consequences of
a change in FirstBootstrapObjectId.  In any case, we already
bought into forcing an initdb for beta2, so another catversion
bump won't hurt.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1665197.1622065382@sss.pgh.pa.us
2021-05-27 15:55:08 -04:00
Tom Lane e6241d8e03 Rethink definition of pg_attribute.attcompression.
Redefine '\0' (InvalidCompressionMethod) as meaning "if we need to
compress, use the current setting of default_toast_compression".
This allows '\0' to be a suitable default choice regardless of
datatype, greatly simplifying code paths that initialize tupledescs
and the like.  It seems like a more user-friendly approach as well,
because now the default compression choice doesn't migrate into table
definitions, meaning that changing default_toast_compression is
usually sufficient to flip an installation's behavior; one needn't
tediously issue per-column ALTER SET COMPRESSION commands.

Along the way, fix a few minor bugs and documentation issues
with the per-column-compression feature.  Adopt more robust
APIs for SetIndexStorageProperties and GetAttributeCompression.

Bump catversion because typical contents of attcompression will now
be different.  We could get away without doing that, but it seems
better to ensure v14 installations all agree on this.  (We already
forced initdb for beta2, anyway.)

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/626613.1621787110@sss.pgh.pa.us
2021-05-27 13:24:27 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 6abc8c2596 Add NO_INSTALL option to pgxs
Apply in libpq_pipeline test makefile, so that the test file is not
installed into tmp_install.

Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/cb9d16a6-760f-cd44-28d6-b091d5fb6ca7%40enterprisedb.com
2021-05-27 13:58:29 +02:00
Michael Paquier 2941138e60 doc: Fix description of some GUCs in docs and postgresql.conf.sample
The following parameters have been imprecise, or incorrect, about their
description (PGC_POSTMASTER or PGC_SIGHUP):
- autovacuum_work_mem (docs, as of 9.6~)
- huge_page_size (docs, as of 14~)
- max_logical_replication_workers (docs, as of 10~)
- max_sync_workers_per_subscription (docs, as of 10~)
- min_dynamic_shared_memory (docs, as of 14~)
- recovery_init_sync_method (postgresql.conf.sample, as of 14~)
- remove_temp_files_after_crash (docs, as of 14~)
- restart_after_crash (docs, as of 9.6~)
- ssl_min_protocol_version (docs, as of 12~)
- ssl_max_protocol_version (docs, as of 12~)

This commit adjusts the description of all these parameters to be more
consistent with the practice used for the others.

Revewed-by: Justin Pryzby
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/YK2ltuLpe+FbRXzA@paquier.xyz
Backpatch-through: 9.6
2021-05-27 14:57:28 +09:00
Amit Kapila 0c6b92d9c6 Doc: Update logical decoding stats information.
Add the information of pg_stat_replication_slots view along with other
system catalogs related to logical decoding.

Author: Vignesh C
Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210319185247.ldebgpdaxsowiflw@alap3.anarazel.de
2021-05-25 10:51:45 +05:30
Amit Kapila 0734b0e983 Improve docs and error messages for parallel vacuum.
The error messages, docs, and one of the options were using
'parallel degree' to indicate parallelism used by vacuum command. We
normally use 'parallel workers' at other places so change it for parallel
vacuum accordingly.

Author: Bharath Rupireddy
Reviewed-by: Dilip Kumar, Amit Kapila
Backpatch-through: 13
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CALj2ACWz=PYrrFXVsEKb9J1aiX4raA+UBe02hdRp_zqDkrWUiw@mail.gmail.com
2021-05-25 09:26:53 +05:30
Tom Lane 713a431c78 Doc: move some catalogs.sgml entries to the right place.
pg_statistic_ext_data.stxdexpr was listed under the wrong catalog,
as was pg_stats_ext.exprs.  Also there was a bogus entry for
pg_statistic_ext_data.stxexprs.  Apparently a merge failure in
commit a4d75c86b.

Guillaume Lelarge and Tom Lane

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAECtzeUHw+w64eUFVeV_2FJviAw6oZ0wNLkmU843ZH4hAQfiWg@mail.gmail.com
2021-05-24 18:03:47 -04:00
Tom Lane f5024d8d7b Re-order pg_attribute columns to eliminate some padding space.
Now that attcompression is just a char, there's a lot of wasted
padding space after it.  Move it into the group of char-wide
columns to save a net of 4 bytes per pg_attribute entry.  While
we're at it, swap the order of attstorage and attalign to make for
a more logical grouping of these columns.

Also re-order actions in related code to match the new field ordering.

This patch also fixes one outright bug: equalTupleDescs() failed to
compare attcompression.  That could, for example, cause relcache
reload to fail to adopt a new value following a change.

Michael Paquier and Tom Lane, per a gripe from Andres Freund.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210517204803.iyk5wwvwgtjcmc5w@alap3.anarazel.de
2021-05-23 12:12:09 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 8f73ed6b65 doc: word-wrap and indent PG 14 relnotes 2021-05-22 22:25:13 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 7ce7d07e1c doc: PG 14 relnotes, adjust pg_{read|write}_all_data entry
Reported-by: Stephen Frost

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210522232945.GO20766@tamriel.snowman.net
2021-05-22 20:17:58 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 8dcae7f0a3 Update PG 14 relnotes for vacuum_cost_page_miss
Reported-by: Peter Geoghegan

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-WzmgSnDX9WVoxRZxuKeCy2MzLO9Dmo4+go0RzNW0VBdhmw@mail.gmail.com
2021-05-22 19:24:23 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 0cdaa05b40 doc: complete adding XML markup to PG 14 relnotes 2021-05-21 20:51:53 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 55370f8db9 doc: more XML markup for PG 14 release notes 2021-05-21 16:16:56 -04:00
Tom Lane 84f5c2908d Restore the portal-level snapshot after procedure COMMIT/ROLLBACK.
COMMIT/ROLLBACK necessarily destroys all snapshots within the session.
The original implementation of intra-procedure transactions just
cavalierly did that, ignoring the fact that this left us executing in
a rather different environment than normal.  In particular, it turns
out that handling of toasted datums depends rather critically on there
being an outer ActiveSnapshot: otherwise, when SPI or the core
executor pop whatever snapshot they used and return, it's unsafe to
dereference any toasted datums that may appear in the query result.
It's possible to demonstrate "no known snapshots" and "missing chunk
number N for toast value" errors as a result of this oversight.

Historically this outer snapshot has been held by the Portal code,
and that seems like a good plan to preserve.  So add infrastructure
to pquery.c to allow re-establishing the Portal-owned snapshot if it's
not there anymore, and add enough bookkeeping support that we can tell
whether it is or not.

We can't, however, just re-establish the Portal snapshot as part of
COMMIT/ROLLBACK.  As in normal transaction start, acquiring the first
snapshot should wait until after SET and LOCK commands.  Hence, teach
spi.c about doing this at the right time.  (Note that this patch
doesn't fix the problem for any PLs that try to run intra-procedure
transactions without using SPI to execute SQL commands.)

This makes SPI's no_snapshots parameter rather a misnomer, so in HEAD,
rename that to allow_nonatomic.

replication/logical/worker.c also needs some fixes, because it wasn't
careful to hold a snapshot open around AFTER trigger execution.
That code doesn't use a Portal, which I suspect someday we're gonna
have to fix.  But for now, just rearrange the order of operations.
This includes back-patching the recent addition of finish_estate()
to centralize the cleanup logic there.

This also back-patches commit 2ecfeda3e into v13, to improve the
test coverage for worker.c (it was that test that exposed that
worker.c's snapshot management is wrong).

Per bug #15990 from Andreas Wicht.  Back-patch to v11 where
intra-procedure COMMIT was added.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/15990-eee2ac466b11293d@postgresql.org
2021-05-21 14:03:59 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 124966c1a3 Put some psql documentation pieces back into alphabetical order 2021-05-21 17:10:09 +02:00
Bruce Momjian 4f586fe244 doc: change PG 14 relnotes as suggested by Justin Pryzby 2021-05-20 15:50:54 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 4f7d1c3096 doc: revert 1e7d53bd01 so libpq chapter number is accessable
Fix PG 14 relnotes to use <link> instead of <xref>.  This was discussed
in commit message 59fa7eb603.
2021-05-19 11:22:21 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 1e7d53bd01 doc: add xreflabel for libpq chapter, needed for PG 14 relnotes 2021-05-19 11:01:28 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 6a5bde7d4f doc: partial completion of XML markup for PG 14 release notes 2021-05-18 23:21:55 -04:00
Michael Paquier 694da1983e Add --no-toast-compression to pg_dumpall
This is an oversight from bbe0a81d, where the equivalent option exists
in pg_dump.  This is useful to be able to reset the compression methods
cluster-wide when restoring the data based on default_toast_compression.

Reviewed-by: Daniel Gustafsson, Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/YKHC+qCJvzCRVCpY@paquier.xyz
2021-05-19 09:38:48 +09:00
Bruce Momjian 2e7c178370 doc: add PG 14 rel item about vacuum_cleanup_index_scale_factor 2021-05-18 15:17:44 -04:00
Magnus Hagander cff8436f19 Remove obsolete reference to winflex download
We used to distribute a binary version of flex for windows on our
download site, but it hasn't been working for many years. The "old
documentation" referenced was also for versions that have been EOL for
many years. So, remove it.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CABUevEwXLJpVpab62f7AFXNWQ5=U0kvErCLq4VEsikidLyzSQg@mail.gmail.com
2021-05-17 21:56:42 +02:00
Bruce Momjian fe2fb9ebca doc: PG 14 relnotes adjustments from Fujii Masao 2021-05-17 14:05:05 -04:00
Magnus Hagander f9e6d00df0 Fix wording in description of pg_stat_statements.toplevel
Incorrect wording got applied in 7531fcb1fc.

Reported-By: Fujii Masao
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/e5512912-eac9-b163-df2b-e2601ce06d27@oss.nttdata.com
2021-05-17 10:59:54 +02:00
Etsuro Fujita 15fcd33e06 Doc: Update documentation for asynchronous execution.
Add a note of caution on the performance of asynchronous execution by
postgres_fdw.  Follow-up for commit 27e1f1456.

Stephen Frost, a little bit expanded by me.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210506171224.GV20766%40tamriel.snowman.net
2021-05-17 17:30:00 +09:00
Bruce Momjian 07af57dbad doc: update PG 14 relnotes from feedback by Tom, Alvaro, Julien 2021-05-16 23:34:50 -04:00
Bruce Momjian f39b21e6a2 doc: remove XML comments around compute_query_id PG14 rel text 2021-05-15 17:30:45 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 6cb5346cb1 doc: update PG 14 release notes for compute_query_id change
Also remove ALTER TYPE ...SUBSCRIPT, and update for all current commits.
2021-05-15 17:26:26 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera cafde58b33
Allow compute_query_id to be set to 'auto' and make it default
Allowing only on/off meant that all either all existing configuration
guides would become obsolete if we disabled it by default, or that we
would have to accept a performance loss in the default config if we
enabled it by default.  By allowing 'auto' as a middle ground, the
performance cost is only paid by those who enable pg_stat_statements and
similar modules.

I only edited the release notes to comment-out a paragraph that is now
factually wrong; further edits are probably needed to describe the
related change in more detail.

Author: Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210513002623.eugftm4nk2lvvks3@nol
2021-05-15 14:13:09 -04:00
Tom Lane c3c35a733c Prevent infinite insertion loops in spgdoinsert().
Formerly we just relied on operator classes that assert longValuesOK
to eventually shorten the leaf value enough to fit on an index page.
That fails since the introduction of INCLUDE-column support (commit
09c1c6ab4), because the INCLUDE columns might alone take up more
than a page, meaning no amount of leaf-datum compaction will get
the job done.  At least with spgtextproc.c, that leads to an infinite
loop, since spgtextproc.c won't throw an error for not being able
to shorten the leaf datum anymore.

To fix without breaking cases that would otherwise work, add logic
to spgdoinsert() to verify that the leaf tuple size is decreasing
after each "choose" step.  Some opclasses might not decrease the
size on every single cycle, and in any case, alignment roundoff
of the tuple size could obscure small gains.  Therefore, allow
up to 10 cycles without additional savings before throwing an
error.  (Perhaps this number will need adjustment, but it seems
quite generous right now.)

As long as we've developed this logic, let's back-patch it.
The back branches don't have INCLUDE columns to worry about, but
this seems like a good defense against possible bugs in operator
classes.  We already know that an infinite loop here is pretty
unpleasant, so having a defense seems to outweigh the risk of
breaking things.  (Note that spgtextproc.c is actually the only
known opclass with longValuesOK support, so that this is all moot
for known non-core opclasses anyway.)

Per report from Dilip Kumar.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAFiTN-uxP_soPhVG840tRMQTBmtA_f_Y8N51G7DKYYqDh7XN-A@mail.gmail.com
2021-05-14 15:07:34 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera 1b5617eb84
Describe (auto-)analyze behavior for partitioned tables
This explains the new behavior introduced by 0827e8af70 as well as
preexisting.

Author: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
Author: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210423180152.GA17270@telsasoft.com
2021-05-14 13:10:52 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 5eb1b27d20 doc: update PG 14 release notes with recent feedback
Reported-by: Justin Pryzby

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210514020141.GQ27406@telsasoft.com
2021-05-14 13:01:12 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 521d08a21a doc: PG 14 release notes, reorder items by significance 2021-05-13 21:16:42 -04:00
Bruce Momjian b2d0c7c967 doc: PG 14 release notes, adjust updates/deletes on partitions 2021-05-13 11:45:43 -04:00
Alexander Korotkov 9b7286c2b3 Improve documentation example for jsonpath like_regex operator
Make sample like_regex match string values of the root object instead of the
whole document.  The corrected example seems to represent a more relevant
use case.

Backpatch to 12, when jsonpath was introduced.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/13440f8b-4c1f-5875-c8e3-f3f65606af2f%40xs4all.nl
Author: Erik Rijkers
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier, Alexander Korotkov
Backpatch-through: 12
2021-05-13 16:10:21 +03:00
Bruce Momjian b35f827b68 doc: update PG 14 release notes based on current feedback 2021-05-12 23:34:45 -04:00
Tom Lane 1f9b0e6938 Doc: update bki.sgml's statements about OID ranges.
Commit ab596105b neglected to make the docs match the code.
2021-05-12 17:41:07 -04:00
Etsuro Fujita a363bc6da9 Fix EXPLAIN ANALYZE for async-capable nodes.
EXPLAIN ANALYZE for an async-capable ForeignScan node associated with
postgres_fdw is done just by using instrumentation for ExecProcNode()
called from the node's callbacks, causing the following problems:

1) If the remote table to scan is empty, the node is incorrectly
   considered as "never executed" by the command even if the node is
   executed, as ExecProcNode() isn't called from the node's callbacks at
   all in that case.
2) The command fails to collect timings for things other than
   ExecProcNode() done in the node, such as creating a cursor for the
   node's remote query.

To fix these problems, add instrumentation for async-capable nodes, and
modify postgres_fdw accordingly.

My oversight in commit 27e1f1456.

While at it, update a comment for the AsyncRequest struct in execnodes.h
and the documentation for the ForeignAsyncRequest API in fdwhandler.sgml
to match the code in ExecAsyncAppendResponse() in nodeAppend.c, and fix
typos in comments in nodeAppend.c.

Per report from Andrey Lepikhov, though I didn't use his patch.

Reviewed-by: Andrey Lepikhov
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2eb662bb-105d-fc20-7412-2f027cc3ca72%40postgrespro.ru
2021-05-12 14:00:00 +09:00
Bruce Momjian 5b2d09beaf doc: update PG 14 release notes based on feedback 2021-05-11 17:40:52 -04:00
Bruce Momjian ff51679220 doc: update PG 14 release notes based on feedback so far 2021-05-10 23:56:47 -04:00
David Rowley 1692d0c3a3 Doc: Remove outdated note about run-time partition pruning
The note is no longer true as of 86dc90056, so remove it.

Author: Amit Langote
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+HiwqFxQn7Hz1wT+wYgnf_9SK0c4BwOOwFFT8jcSZwJrd8HEA@mail.gmail.com
2021-05-11 15:55:33 +12:00
Michael Paquier 9ca40dcd4d Add support for LZ4 build in MSVC scripts
Since its introduction in bbe0a81, compression of table data supports
LZ4, but nothing had been done within the MSVC scripts to allow users to
build the code with this library.

This commit closes the gap by extending the MSVC scripts to be able to
build optionally with LZ4.  Getting libraries that can be used for
compilation and execution is possible as LZ4 can be compiled down to
MSVC 2010 using its source tarball.  MinGW may require extra efforts to
be able to work, and I have been able to test this only with MSVC, still
this is better than nothing to give users a way to test the feature on
Windows.

Author: Dilip Kumar
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/YJPdNeF68XpwDDki@paquier.xyz
2021-05-11 10:43:05 +09:00
Bruce Momjian dc02608610 doc: first draft of the PG 14 release notes 2021-05-10 01:58:59 -04:00
Michael Paquier 45aa88fe1d Fix generation of ./INSTALL for the distribution tarball
"make dist", in charge of creating a distribution tarball, failed when
attempting to generate ./INSTALL as a new reference added to
guc-default-toast-compression on the documentation for the installation
details was not getting translated properly to plain text.  Like all the
other link references on this page, this adds a new entry to
standalone-profile.xsl to allow the generation of ./INSTALL to finish
properly.

Oversight in 02a93e7, per buildfarm member guaibasaurus.
2021-05-10 14:34:07 +09:00
Thomas Munro c2dc19342e Revert recovery prefetching feature.
This set of commits has some bugs with known fixes, but at this late
stage in the release cycle it seems best to revert and resubmit next
time, along with some new automated test coverage for this whole area.

Commits reverted:

dc88460c: Doc: Review for "Optionally prefetch referenced data in recovery."
1d257577: Optionally prefetch referenced data in recovery.
f003d9f8: Add circular WAL decoding buffer.
323cbe7c: Remove read_page callback from XLogReader.

Remove the new GUC group WAL_RECOVERY recently added by a55a9847, as the
corresponding section of config.sgml is now reverted.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAOuzzgrn7iKnFRsB4MHp3UisEQAGgZMbk_ViTN4HV4-Ksq8zCg%40mail.gmail.com
2021-05-10 16:06:09 +12:00
Michael Paquier 02a93e7ef9 doc: Fix some gaps with the documentation related to LZ4
The upstream project is officially named "LZ4", and the documentation
was confused with the option value that can be used with DDLs supporting
this option, and the project name.

Documentation related to the configure option --with-lz4 was missing, so
add something for that.

Author: Dilip Kumar, Michael Paquier
Reviewed-by: Justin Pryzby
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/YJaOZQDXBVySq+Cc@paquier.xyz
2021-05-10 09:32:56 +09:00
Tom Lane f9b809e7fb Doc: copy-editing for debug_invalidate_system_caches_always description.
I came to fix "useful only useful", but the more I looked at the text
the more things I thought could be improved.
2021-05-08 11:33:13 -04:00
Tomas Vondra 44f90ad092 Mention statistics objects in maintenance.sgml
The docs mentioned expression indexes as a way to improve selectivity
estimates for functions, but we have a second option to improve that by
creating extended statistics. So mention that too.

Reported-by: Justin Pryzby
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210505210947.GA27406%40telsasoft.com
2021-05-07 14:40:41 +02:00
Thomas Munro b65431ca5e Doc: Update notes about libc collation versions.
The per-index collation version tracking feature was reverted, but we
still have the ability to ask Windows (352f6f2d) and FreeBSD
(ca051d8b) for collation versions to store in pg_collation.collversion.
So, from the reverted patch, take a few words of documentation about
libc on all three supported OSes to replace the pre-existing note that
mentioned only glibc.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKGLhj5t1fcjqAu8iD9B3ixJtsTNqyCCD4V0aTO9kAKAjjA%40mail.gmail.com
2021-05-07 21:58:02 +12:00
Thomas Munro ec48314708 Revert per-index collation version tracking feature.
Design problems were discovered in the handling of composite types and
record types that would cause some relevant versions not to be recorded.
Misgivings were also expressed about the use of the pg_depend catalog
for this purpose.  We're out of time for this release so we'll revert
and try again.

Commits reverted:

1bf946bd: Doc: Document known problem with Windows collation versions.
cf002008: Remove no-longer-relevant test case.
ef387bed: Fix bogus collation-version-recording logic.
0fb0a050: Hide internal error for pg_collation_actual_version(<bad OID>).
ff942057: Suppress "warning: variable 'collcollate' set but not used".
d50e3b1f: Fix assertion in collation version lookup.
f24b1569: Rethink extraction of collation dependencies.
257836a7: Track collation versions for indexes.
cd6f479e: Add pg_depend.refobjversion.
7d1297df: Remove pg_collation.collversion.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKGLhj5t1fcjqAu8iD9B3ixJtsTNqyCCD4V0aTO9kAKAjjA%40mail.gmail.com
2021-05-07 21:10:11 +12:00
Alvaro Herrera 469116389e
Document lock level used by ALTER TABLE VALIDATE CONSTRAINT
Backpatch all the way back to 9.6.

Author: Simon Riggs <simon.riggs@enterprisedb.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CANbhV-EwxvdhHuOLdfG2ciYrHOHXV=mm6=fD5aMhqcH09Li3Tg@mail.gmail.com
2021-05-06 17:17:57 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera db6e1aeb95
Improve documentation on DETACH PARTITION lock levels
This was forgotten in 71f4c8c6f7.

Reported-by: Pavel Luzanov <p.luzanov@postgrespro.ru>
Author: Amit Langote <amitlangote09@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/0688e7c3-8bc8-a3e4-9d8e-3bcbbf3e1f4d@postgrespro.ru
2021-05-06 16:42:30 -04:00
Tom Lane c38cadc090 Doc: trivial wording adjustment.
Improve self-referential foreign key example, per suggestion
from David Johnston.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAKFQuwZTke7+HUn4YUGqu2+gAPi4Cy18TXMrg_Z5nADkxfPNMw@mail.gmail.com
2021-05-06 09:59:11 -04:00
Robert Haas 448b02c005 Additional doc fixes for configurable TOAST compression.
The grammar changes in commit bbe0a81db6
allow SET COMPRESSION to be used with ALTER MATERIALIZED VIEW as
well as with ALTER TABLE, so update those docs to say that it works.

Also, update the documentation for the pg_column_compression()
to explain that it will return NULL when there's no relevant value.

Patch by me, per concerns from Michael Paquier.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+Tgmob9h5u4iNL9KM0drZgkY-JL4oCVW0dWrMqtLPQ1zHkquA@mail.gmail.com
2021-05-06 08:27:20 -04:00
Robert Haas 2d0f662402 docs: Clarify how ALTER TABLE .. SET COMPRESSION works.
Justin Pryzby, per a complaint from Michael Paquier. Reviewed by
Dilip Kumar and by me.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/20210429040132.GF27406@telsasoft.com
2021-05-06 08:22:45 -04:00
Amit Kapila 592f00f8de Update replication statistics after every stream/spill.
Currently, replication slot statistics are updated at prepare, commit, and
rollback. Now, if the transaction is interrupted the stats might not get
updated. Fixed this by updating replication statistics after every
stream/spill.

In passing update the docs to change the description of some of the slot
stats.

Author: Vignesh C, Sawada Masahiko
Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210319185247.ldebgpdaxsowiflw@alap3.anarazel.de
2021-05-06 11:21:26 +05:30
Tom Lane f33a178a34 Doc: improve and centralize the documentation for OID alias types.
Previously, a lot of information about type regclass existed only
in the discussion of the sequence functions.  Maybe that made sense
in the beginning, because I think originally those were the only
functions taking regclass.  But it doesn't make sense anymore.
Move that material to the "Object Identifier Types" section in
datatype.sgml, generalize it to talk about the other reg* types
as well, and add more examples.

Per bug #16991 from Federico Caselli.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16991-bcaeaafa17e0a723@postgresql.org
2021-05-05 11:26:48 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut c98a6d7887 doc: Fix typos 2021-05-04 15:45:13 +02:00
Alexander Korotkov ae9492a61b Remove mention of the version number from pg_trgm docs
We don't usually mention the version number in similar situations.  So, neither
mention it here.

Reported-by: Bruce Momjian
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210503234914.GO6180%40momjian.us
2021-05-04 03:59:21 +03:00
Peter Eisentraut 5df6aeab42 doc: Add index entry for "multirange type"
Before now, looking up "multirange" in the index only led to the
multirange() function.  To make this more useful, also add an entry
pointing to the range types section.
2021-05-03 20:14:03 +02:00
Tom Lane e6f9539dc3 Doc: add an example of a self-referential foreign key to ddl.sgml.
While we've always allowed such cases, the documentation didn't
say you could do it.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/161969805833.690.13680986983883602407@wrigleys.postgresql.org
2021-04-30 15:37:56 -04:00
Tom Lane 386e64ea5a Doc: update libpq's documentation for PQfn().
Mention specifically that you can't call aggregates, window functions,
or procedures this way (the inability to call SRFs was already
mentioned).

Also, the claim that PQfn doesn't support NULL arguments or results
has been a lie since we invented protocol 3.0.  Not sure why this
text was never updated for that, but do it now.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2039442.1615317309@sss.pgh.pa.us
2021-04-30 15:10:06 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera 94b9cb7225
Improve documentation for default_tablespace on partitioned tables
Backpatch to 12, where 87259588d0 introduced the current behavior.

Per note from Justin Pryzby.

Co-authored-by: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210416143135.GI3315@telsasoft.com
2021-04-29 11:31:24 -04:00
Michael Paquier 2977f244bc doc: Fix description of target_session_attrs=prefer-standby
If no standbys can be found in the set of connection points provided,
the fallback behavior is "any", and not "all" that does not exist.

Author: Greg Nancarrow
Reviewed-by: Laurenz Albe
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAJcOf-fDaCv8qCpWH7k5Yh6zFxZeUwZowu4sCWQ2zFx4CdkHpA@mail.gmail.com
2021-04-29 11:44:24 +09:00
Alvaro Herrera d6b8d29419
Allow a partdesc-omitting-partitions to be cached
Makes partition descriptor acquisition faster during the transient
period in which a partition is in the process of being detached.

This also adds the restriction that only one partition can be in
pending-detach state for a partitioned table.

While at it, return find_inheritance_children() API to what it was
before 71f4c8c6f7, and create a separate
find_inheritance_children_extended() that returns detailed info about
detached partitions.

(This incidentally fixes a bug in 8aba932251 whereby a memory context
holding a transient partdesc is reparented to a NULL PortalContext,
leading to permanent leak of that memory.  The fix is to no longer rely
on reparenting contexts to PortalContext.   Reported by Amit Langote.)

Per gripe from Amit Langote
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+HiwqFgpP1LxJZOBYGt9rpvTjXXkg5qG2+Xch2Z1Q7KrqZR1A@mail.gmail.com
2021-04-28 15:44:35 -04:00
Tom Lane c93f8f3b8d Doc: fix discussion of how to get real Julian Dates.
Somehow I'd convinced myself that rotating to UTC-12 was the way
to do this, but upon further review, it's definitely UTC+12.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1197050.1619123213@sss.pgh.pa.us
2021-04-28 10:03:28 -04:00
Fujii Masao 0c8f40863a doc: Review for "Allow TRUNCATE command to truncate foreign tables".
Typos, corrections and language improvements in the docs.

Author: Justin Pryzby, Fujii Masao
Reviewed-by: Bharath Rupireddy, Justin Pryzby, Fujii Masao
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210411041658.GB14564@telsasoft.com
2021-04-27 18:39:30 +09:00
Fujii Masao 8e9ea08bae Don't pass "ONLY" options specified in TRUNCATE to foreign data wrapper.
Commit 8ff1c94649 allowed TRUNCATE command to truncate foreign tables.
Previously the information about "ONLY" options specified in TRUNCATE
command were passed to the foreign data wrapper. Then postgres_fdw
constructed the TRUNCATE command to issue the remote server and
included "ONLY" options in it based on the passed information.

On the other hand, "ONLY" options specified in SELECT, UPDATE or DELETE
have no effect when accessing or modifying the remote table, i.e.,
are not passed to the foreign data wrapper. So it's inconsistent to
make only TRUNCATE command pass the "ONLY" options to the foreign data
wrapper. Therefore this commit changes the TRUNCATE command so that
it doesn't pass the "ONLY" options to the foreign data wrapper,
for the consistency with other statements. Also this commit changes
postgres_fdw so that it always doesn't include "ONLY" options in
the TRUNCATE command that it constructs.

Author: Fujii Masao
Reviewed-by: Bharath Rupireddy, Kyotaro Horiguchi, Justin Pryzby, Zhihong Yu
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/551ed8c1-f531-818b-664a-2cecdab99cd8@oss.nttdata.com
2021-04-27 14:41:27 +09:00
Tom Lane 79a5928ebc Doc: document EXTRACT(JULIAN ...), improve Julian Date explanation.
For some reason, the "julian" option for extract()/date_part() has
never gotten listed in the manual.  Also, while Appendix B mentioned
in passing that we don't conform to the usual astronomical definition
that a Julian date starts at noon UTC, it was kind of vague about what
we do instead.  Clarify that, and add an example showing how to get
the astronomical definition if you want it.

It's been like this for ages, so back-patch to all supported branches.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1197050.1619123213@sss.pgh.pa.us
2021-04-26 11:50:35 -04:00
Andrew Dunstan b859d94c63 Provide pg_amcheck with an --install-missing option
This will install amcheck in the database if not present. The default
schema is for the extension is pg_catalog, but this can be overridden by
providing a value for the option.

Mark Dilger, slightly editorialized by me.

(rather divergent)
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/bdc0f7c2-09e3-ee57-8471-569dfb509234@dunslane.net
2021-04-24 10:13:07 -04:00
Michael Paquier 0d0049c58b Doc: Remove extraneous whitespaces with some tags
Author: Justin Pryzby
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210423184338.GL7256@telsasoft.com
2021-04-24 10:44:13 +09:00
Magnus Hagander 7531fcb1fc Mention that toplevel is part of pg_stat_statements key.
While at it, also document that toplevel is always true if
pg_stat_statements.track is set to top.

Author: Julien Rouhaud
Reported-By: Fujii Masao
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a878d5ea-64a7-485e-5d2f-177618ebc52d@oss.nttdata.com
2021-04-23 11:45:28 +02:00
Peter Eisentraut 9bd563aa9f doc: Fix typos
Author: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
2021-04-23 09:28:44 +02:00
Fujii Masao eaec48b3c5 doc: Fix obsolete description about pg_basebackup.
Previously it was documented that if using "-X none" option there was
no guarantee that all required WAL files were archived at the end of
pg_basebackup when taking a backup from the standby. But this limitation
was removed by commit 52f8a59dd9. Now, even when taking a backup
from the standby, pg_basebackup can wait for all required WAL files
to be archived. Therefore this commit removes such obsolete
description from the docs.

Also this commit adds new description about the limitation when
taking a backup from the standby, into the docs. The limitation is that
pg_basebackup cannot force the standbfy to switch to a new WAL file
at the end of backup, which may cause pg_basebackup to wait a long
time for the last required WAL file to be switched and archived,
especially when write activity on the primary is low.

Back-patch to v10 where the issue was introduced.

Reported-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi
Author: Kyotaro Horiguchi, Fujii Masao
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi, Fujii Masao
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210420.133235.1342729068750553399.horikyota.ntt@gmail.com
2021-04-23 15:45:46 +09:00
Peter Eisentraut 197d33ccbe Fix some trailing whitespace in documentation files 2021-04-22 22:47:57 +02:00
Bruce Momjian 84f15ccd4c doc: mention <link> can be inside of <command>, but not <xref>
This was discussed in commit 9081bddbd.

Reported-by: Peter Eisentraut

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/flat/87o8pco34z.fsf@wibble.ilmari.org
2021-04-22 16:01:17 -04:00
Tom Lane 82b13dbc4d Doc: document the tie-breaking behavior of the round() function.
Back-patch to v13; the table layout in older branches is unfriendly
to adding such details.

Laurenz Albe

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/161881920775.685.12293798764864559341@wrigleys.postgresql.org
2021-04-22 14:47:26 -04:00
Michael Paquier 1599e7b375 doc: Move parallel_leader_participation to its correct category
parallel_leader_participation got introduced in e5253fd, where it was
listed under RESOURCES_ASYNCHRONOUS in guc.c, but the documentation
did not reflect that and listed it with the other planner-related
options.  This commit fixes this inconsistency as the parameter is
intended to be an asynchronous one.

While on it, reorganize a bit the section dedicated to asynchronous
parameters, backend_flush_after being moved first to do better in terms
of alphabetical order of the options listed.

Reported-by: Yanliang Lei
Author: Bharath Rupireddy
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16972-42d4b0c15aa1d5f5@postgresql.org
2021-04-22 09:47:43 +09:00
Peter Eisentraut 544b28088f doc: Improve hyphenation consistency 2021-04-21 08:14:43 +02:00
Michael Paquier 64087eb5de doc: List compute_query_id in required config for pg_stat_statements
Not enabling compute_query_id would disable pg_stat_statements even if
the module is listed in shared_preload_libraries, so add it to the
minimum configuration set as listed in its documentation.

Author: Greg Nancarrow
Reviewed-by: Julien Rouhaud, Bharath Rupireddy
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAJcOf-fXyb2QiDbwftD813UF70w-+BsK-03bFp1GrijXU9GQYQ@mail.gmail.com
2021-04-21 12:02:41 +09:00
Bruce Momjian db01f797dd Fix interaction of log_line_prefix's query_id and log_statement
log_statement is issued before query_id can be computed, so properly
clear the value, and document the interaction.

Reported-by: Fujii Masao, Michael Paquier

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/YHPkU8hFi4no4NSw@paquier.xyz

Author: Julien Rouhaud
2021-04-20 12:57:59 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 9660834dd8 adjust query id feature to use pg_stat_activity.query_id
Previously, it was pg_stat_activity.queryid to match the
pg_stat_statements queryid column.  This is an adjustment to patch
4f0b0966c8.  This also adjusts some of the internal function calls to
match.  Catversion bumped.

Reported-by: Álvaro Herrera, Julien Rouhaud

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210408032704.GA7498@alvherre.pgsql
2021-04-20 12:22:26 -04:00
Amit Kapila c64dcc7fee Fix test case added by commit f5fc2f5b23.
In the new test after resetting the stats, we were not waiting for the
stats message to be delivered. Also, we need to decode the results for
the new test, otherwise, it will show the old stats.

In passing,
a. Change docs added by commit f5fc2f5b23 as per suggestion by
Justin Pryzby.
b. Bump the PGSTAT_FILE_FORMAT_ID as commit f5fc2f5b23 changes the file
format of stats.

Reported-by: Tom Lane based on buildfarm reports
Author: Vignesh C, Justin Pryzby
Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210319185247.ldebgpdaxsowiflw@alap3.anarazel.de
2021-04-19 09:02:47 +05:30
Michael Paquier 7ef8b52cf0 Fix typos and grammar in comments and docs
Author: Justin Pryzby
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210416070310.GG3315@telsasoft.com
2021-04-19 11:32:30 +09:00
Peter Eisentraut f7c09706c1 doc: Fix up spacing around verbatim DocBook elements 2021-04-17 14:14:26 +02:00
Michael Paquier 254a2164e5 doc: Fix typo in example query of SQL/JSON
Author: Erik Rijkers
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1219476687.20432.1617452918468@webmailclassic.xs4all.nl
Backpatch-through: 12
2021-04-16 16:56:12 +09:00
Amit Kapila f5fc2f5b23 Add information of total data processed to replication slot stats.
This adds the statistics about total transactions count and total
transaction data logically sent to the decoding output plugin from
ReorderBuffer. Users can query the pg_stat_replication_slots view to check
these stats.

Suggested-by: Andres Freund
Author: Vignesh C and Amit Kapila
Reviewed-by: Sawada Masahiko, Amit Kapila
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210319185247.ldebgpdaxsowiflw@alap3.anarazel.de
2021-04-16 07:34:43 +05:30
Thomas Munro 1bf946bd43 Doc: Document known problem with Windows collation versions.
Warn users that locales with traditional Windows NLS names like
"English_United States.1252" won't provide version information, and that
something like initdb --lc-collate=en-US would be needed to fix that
problem for the initial template databases.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKGJ_hk3rU%3D%3Dg2FpAMChb_4i%2BTJacpjjqFsinY-tRM3FBmA%40mail.gmail.com
2021-04-16 13:23:47 +12:00
Tom Lane 1111b2668d Undo decision to allow pg_proc.prosrc to be NULL.
Commit e717a9a18 changed the longstanding rule that prosrc is NOT NULL
because when a SQL-language function is written in SQL-standard style,
we don't currently have anything useful to put there.  This seems a poor
decision though, as it could easily have negative impacts on external
PLs (opening them to crashes they didn't use to have, for instance).
SQL-function-related code can just as easily test "is prosqlbody not
null" as "is prosrc null", so there's no real gain there either.
Hence, revert the NOT NULL marking removal and adjust related logic.

For now, we just put an empty string into prosrc for SQL-standard
functions.  Maybe we'll have a better idea later, although the
history of things like pg_attrdef.adsrc suggests that it's not
easy to maintain a string equivalent of a node tree.

This also adds an assertion that queryDesc->sourceText != NULL
to standard_ExecutorStart.  We'd been silently relying on that
for awhile, so let's make it less silent.

Also fix some overlooked documentation and test cases.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2197698.1617984583@sss.pgh.pa.us
2021-04-15 17:17:20 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut fae65629ce Revert "psql: Show all query results by default"
This reverts commit 3a51306722.

Per discussion, this patch had too many issues to resolve at this
point of the development cycle.  We'll try again in the future.

Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/alpine.DEB.2.21.1904132231510.8961@lancre
2021-04-15 19:42:55 +02:00
Fujii Masao e2e2efca85 doc: Add missing COMPRESSION into CREATE TABLE synopsis.
Commit bbe0a81db6 introduced "INCLUDING COMPRESSION" option
in CREATE TABLE command, but forgot to mention it in the
CREATE TABLE syntax synopsis.

Author: Fujii Masao
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/54d30e66-dbd6-5485-aaf6-a291ed55919d@oss.nttdata.com
2021-04-15 23:15:19 +09:00
Michael Paquier 1840d9f4c8 doc: Simplify example of HISTFILE for psql
e4c7619 has added a space to the example used for HISTFILE in the docs
of psql before the variable DBNAME, as a workaround because variables
were not parsed the same way back then.  This behavior has changed in
9.2, causing the example in the psql docs to result in the same history
file created with or without a space added before the DBNAME variable.

Let's just remove this space in the example, to reduce any confusion, as
the point of it is to prove that a per-database history file is easy to
set up, and that's easier to read this way.

Per discussion with Tom Lane.

Reported-by: Ludovic Kuty
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/161830067409.691.16198363670687811485@wrigleys.postgresql.org
2021-04-15 16:45:34 +09:00
Michael Paquier 344487e2db Tweak behavior of pg_dump --extension with configuration tables
6568cef, that introduced the option, had an inconsistent behavior when
it comes to configuration tables set up by pg_extension_config_dump, as
the data of all configuration tables would included in a dump even for
extensions not listed by a set of --extension switches.

The contents dumped changed depending on the schema where an extension
was installed when an extension was not listed.  For example, an
extension installed under the public schema would have its configuration
data not dumped even when not listed with --extension, which was
inconsistent with the case of an extension installed on a non-public
schema, where the configuration would be dumped.

Per discussion with Noah, we have settled down to the simple rule of
dumping configuration data of an extension if it is listed in
--extension (default is unchanged and backward-compatible, to dump
everything on sight if there are no extensions directly listed).  This
avoids some weird cases where the dumps depended on a --schema for one.

More tests are added to cover the gap, where we cross-check more
behaviors depending on --schema when an extension is not listed.

Reported-by: Noah Misch
Reviewed-by: Noah Misch
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210404220802.GA728316@rfd.leadboat.com
2021-04-15 10:03:46 +09:00
Michael Paquier ac725ee0f9 doc: Move force_parallel_mode to section for developer options
This GUC has always been classified as a planner option since its
introduction in 7c944bd, and was listed in postgresql.conf.sample.  As
this parameter exists for testing purposes, move it to the section
dedicated to developer parameters and hence remove it from
postgresql.conf.sample.  This will avoid any temptation to play with it
on production servers for users that should never really have to touch
this parameter.

The general description used for developer options is reworded a bit, to
take into account the inclusion of force_parallel_mode, per a suggestion
from Tom Lane.

Per discussion between Tom Lane, Bruce Momjian, Justin Pryzby, Bharath
Rupireddy and me.

Author: Justin Pryzby, Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210403152402.GA8049@momjian.us
2021-04-14 15:55:55 +09:00
Robert Haas e8c435a824 docs: Update TOAST storage docs for configurable compression.
Mention that there are multiple TOAST compression methods and that the
compression method used is stored in a TOAST pointer along with the
other information that was stored there previously. Add a reference to
the documentation for default_toast_compression, where the supported
methods are listed, instead of duplicating that here.

I haven't tried to preserve the text claiming that pglz is "fairly
simple and very fast." I have no view on the veracity of the former
claim, but LZ4 seems to be faster (and to compress better) so it
seems better not to muddy the waters by talking about compression
speed as a strong point of PGLZ.

Patch by me, reviewed by Justin Pryzby.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+Tgmoaw_YBwQhOS_hhEPPwFhfAnu+VCLs18EfGr9gQw1z4H-w@mail.gmail.com
2021-04-13 15:13:26 -04:00
Fujii Masao 5fe83adad9 doc: Fix typo in logicaldecoding.sgml.
Introduced in commit 0aa8a01d04.

Author: Peter Smith
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAHut+Ps8rkVHKWyjg09Fb1PaVG5-EhoFTFJ9OZMF4HPzDSXfew@mail.gmail.com
2021-04-13 14:21:51 +09:00
Michael Paquier b094063cd1 Move log_autovacuum_min_duration into its correct sections
This GUC has already been classified as LOGGING_WHAT, but its location
in postgresql.conf.sample and the documentation did not reflect that, so
fix those inconsistencies.

Author: Justin Pryzby
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210404012546.GK6592@telsasoft.com
2021-04-12 13:53:17 +09:00
Amit Kapila 15c1a9d9cb doc: Update information of new messages for logical replication.
Updated documentation for new messages added for streaming of in-progress
transactions, as well as changes made to the existing messages. It also
updates the information of protocol versions supported for logical
replication.

Author: Ajin Cherian
Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila, Peter Smith, Euler Taveira
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAFPTHDYHN9m=MZZct-B=BYg_TETvv+kXvL9RD2DpaBS5pGxGYg@mail.gmail.com
2021-04-12 09:27:10 +05:30
Tom Lane 07b76833b1 Doc: update documentation of check_function_bodies.
Adjust docs and description string to note that check_function_bodies
applies to procedures too.  (In hindsight it should have been named
check_routine_bodies, but it seems too late for that now.)

Daniel Westermann

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/GV0P278MB04834A9EB9A74B036DC7CE49D2739@GV0P278MB0483.CHEP278.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM
2021-04-10 12:08:28 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 9cae39b8e6 doc: Fix man page whitespace issues
Whitespace between tags is significant, and in some cases it creates
extra vertical space in man pages.  The fix is to remove some newlines
in the markup.
2021-04-09 23:36:46 +02:00
Thomas Munro dc88460c24 Doc: Review for "Optionally prefetch referenced data in recovery."
Typos, corrections and language improvements in the docs, and a few in
code comments too.

Reported-by: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210409033703.GP6592%40telsasoft.com
2021-04-10 08:21:53 +12:00
Peter Eisentraut 49fb4e6b24 doc: Additional documentation for date_bin
Reported-by: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
Author: John Naylor <john.naylor@enterprisedb.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAFBsxsEEm1nuhZmfVQxvu_i3nDDEuvNJ_WMrDo9whFD_jusp-A@mail.gmail.com
2021-04-09 21:55:08 +02:00
Alvaro Herrera 41badeaba8
Document ANALYZE storage parameters for partitioned tables
Commit 0827e8af70 added parameters for autovacuum to support
partitioned tables, but didn't add any docs.  Add them.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210408213051.GL6592@telsasoft.com
2021-04-09 13:38:07 -04:00
Michael Paquier 609b0652af Fix typos and grammar in documentation and code comments
Comment fixes are applied on HEAD, and documentation improvements are
applied on back-branches where needed.

Author: Justin Pryzby
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210408164008.GJ6592@telsasoft.com
Backpatch-through: 9.6
2021-04-09 13:53:07 +09:00
Fujii Masao 8ff1c94649 Allow TRUNCATE command to truncate foreign tables.
This commit introduces new foreign data wrapper API for TRUNCATE.
It extends TRUNCATE command so that it accepts foreign tables as
the targets to truncate and invokes that API. Also it extends postgres_fdw
so that it can issue TRUNCATE command to foreign servers, by adding
new routine for that TRUNCATE API.

The information about options specified in TRUNCATE command, e.g.,
ONLY, CACADE, etc is passed to FDW via API. The list of foreign tables to
truncate is also passed to FDW. FDW truncates the foreign data sources
that the passed foreign tables specify, based on those information.
For example, postgres_fdw constructs TRUNCATE command using them
and issues it to the foreign server.

For performance, TRUNCATE command invokes the FDW routine for
TRUNCATE once per foreign server that foreign tables to truncate belong to.

Author: Kazutaka Onishi, Kohei KaiGai, slightly modified by Fujii Masao
Reviewed-by: Bharath Rupireddy, Michael Paquier, Zhihong Yu, Alvaro Herrera, Stephen Frost, Ashutosh Bapat, Amit Langote, Daniel Gustafsson, Ibrar Ahmed, Fujii Masao
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAOP8fzb_gkReLput7OvOK+8NHgw-RKqNv59vem7=524krQTcWA@mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAJuF6cMWDDqU-vn_knZgma+2GMaout68YUgn1uyDnexRhqqM5Q@mail.gmail.com
2021-04-08 20:56:08 +09:00
Thomas Munro 1d257577e0 Optionally prefetch referenced data in recovery.
Introduce a new GUC recovery_prefetch, disabled by default.  When
enabled, look ahead in the WAL and try to initiate asynchronous reading
of referenced data blocks that are not yet cached in our buffer pool.
For now, this is done with posix_fadvise(), which has several caveats.
Better mechanisms will follow in later work on the I/O subsystem.

The GUC maintenance_io_concurrency is used to limit the number of
concurrent I/Os we allow ourselves to initiate, based on pessimistic
heuristics used to infer that I/Os have begun and completed.

The GUC wal_decode_buffer_size is used to limit the maximum distance we
are prepared to read ahead in the WAL to find uncached blocks.

Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> (parts)
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> (parts)
Reviewed-by: Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@2ndquadrant.com> (parts)
Tested-by: Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@2ndquadrant.com>
Tested-by: Jakub Wartak <Jakub.Wartak@tomtom.com>
Tested-by: Dmitry Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Sait Talha Nisanci <Sait.Nisanci@microsoft.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKGJ4VJN8ttxScUFM8dOKX0BrBiboo5uz1cq%3DAovOddfHpA%40mail.gmail.com
2021-04-08 23:20:42 +12:00
Magnus Hagander aaf0432572 Add functions to wait for backend termination
This adds a function, pg_wait_for_backend_termination(), and a new
timeout argument to pg_terminate_backend(), which will wait for the
backend to actually terminate (with or without signaling it to do so
depending on which function is called). The default behaviour of
pg_terminate_backend() remains being timeout=0 which does not waiting.
For pg_wait_for_backend_termination() the default wait is 5 seconds.

Author: Bharath Rupireddy
Reviewed-By: Fujii Masao, David Johnston, Muhammad Usama,
             Hou Zhijie, Magnus Hagander
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CALj2ACUBpunmyhYZw-kXCYs5NM+h6oG_7Df_Tn4mLmmUQifkqA@mail.gmail.com
2021-04-08 11:40:54 +02:00
Peter Eisentraut fb310f1781 doc: Prefer explicit JOIN syntax over old implicit syntax in tutorial
Update src/tutorial/basics.source to match.

Author: Jürgen Purtz <juergen@purtz.de>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: "David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/158996922318.7035.10603922579567326239@wrigleys.postgresql.org
2021-04-08 10:51:26 +02:00
Magnus Hagander 6b4d23feef Track identical top vs nested queries independently in pg_stat_statements
Changing pg_stat_statements.track between 'all' and 'top' would control
if pg_stat_statements tracked just top level statements or also
statements inside functions, but when tracking all it would not
differentiate between the two. Being table to differentiate this is
useful both to track where the actual query is coming from, and to see
if there are differences in executions between the two.

To do this, add a boolean to the hash key indicating if the statement
was top level or not.

Experience from the pg_stat_kcache module shows that in at least some
"reasonable worloads" only <5% of the queries show up both top level and
nested. Based on this, admittedly small, dataset, this patch does not
try to de-duplicate those query *texts*, and will just store one copy
for the top level and one for the nested.

Author: Julien Rohaud
Reviewed-By: Magnus Hagander, Masahiro Ikeda
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20201202040516.GA43757@nol
2021-04-08 10:30:34 +02:00
Tom Lane a3027e1e7f Allow psql's \df and \do commands to specify argument types.
When dealing with overloaded function or operator names, having
to look through a long list of matches is tedious.  Let's extend
these commands to allow specification of (input) argument types
to let such results be trimmed down.  Each additional argument
is treated the same as the pattern argument of \dT and matched
against the appropriate argument's type name.

While at it, fix \dT (and these new options) to recognize the
usual notation of "foo[]" for "the array type over foo", and
to handle the special abbreviations allowed by the backend
grammar, such as "int" for "integer".

Greg Sabino Mullane, revised rather significantly by me

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAKAnmmLF9Hhu02N+s7uAyLc5J1xZReg72HQUoiKhNiJV3_jACQ@mail.gmail.com
2021-04-07 23:02:21 -04:00
Bruce Momjian f57a2f5e03 Add csvlog output for the new query_id value
This also adjusts the printf format for query id used by log_line_prefix
(%Q).

Reported-by: Justin Pryzby

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210408005402.GG24239@momjian.us

Author: Julien Rouhaud, Bruce Momjian
2021-04-07 22:30:30 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut e717a9a18b SQL-standard function body
This adds support for writing CREATE FUNCTION and CREATE PROCEDURE
statements for language SQL with a function body that conforms to the
SQL standard and is portable to other implementations.

Instead of the PostgreSQL-specific AS $$ string literal $$ syntax,
this allows writing out the SQL statements making up the body
unquoted, either as a single statement:

    CREATE FUNCTION add(a integer, b integer) RETURNS integer
        LANGUAGE SQL
        RETURN a + b;

or as a block

    CREATE PROCEDURE insert_data(a integer, b integer)
    LANGUAGE SQL
    BEGIN ATOMIC
      INSERT INTO tbl VALUES (a);
      INSERT INTO tbl VALUES (b);
    END;

The function body is parsed at function definition time and stored as
expression nodes in a new pg_proc column prosqlbody.  So at run time,
no further parsing is required.

However, this form does not support polymorphic arguments, because
there is no more parse analysis done at call time.

Dependencies between the function and the objects it uses are fully
tracked.

A new RETURN statement is introduced.  This can only be used inside
function bodies.  Internally, it is treated much like a SELECT
statement.

psql needs some new intelligence to keep track of function body
boundaries so that it doesn't send off statements when it sees
semicolons that are inside a function body.

Tested-by: Jaime Casanova <jcasanov@systemguards.com.ec>
Reviewed-by: Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/1c11f1eb-f00c-43b7-799d-2d44132c02d7@2ndquadrant.com
2021-04-07 21:47:55 +02:00
Peter Geoghegan 1e55e7d175 Add wraparound failsafe to VACUUM.
Add a failsafe mechanism that is triggered by VACUUM when it notices
that the table's relfrozenxid and/or relminmxid are dangerously far in
the past.  VACUUM checks the age of the table dynamically, at regular
intervals.

When the failsafe triggers, VACUUM takes extraordinary measures to
finish as quickly as possible so that relfrozenxid and/or relminmxid can
be advanced.  VACUUM will stop applying any cost-based delay that may be
in effect.  VACUUM will also bypass any further index vacuuming and heap
vacuuming -- it only completes whatever remaining pruning and freezing
is required.  Bypassing index/heap vacuuming is enabled by commit
8523492d, which made it possible to dynamically trigger the mechanism
already used within VACUUM when it is run with INDEX_CLEANUP off.

It is expected that the failsafe will almost always trigger within an
autovacuum to prevent wraparound, long after the autovacuum began.
However, the failsafe mechanism can trigger in any VACUUM operation.
Even in a non-aggressive VACUUM, where we're likely to not advance
relfrozenxid, it still seems like a good idea to finish off remaining
pruning and freezing.   An aggressive/anti-wraparound VACUUM will be
launched immediately afterwards.  Note that the anti-wraparound VACUUM
that follows will itself trigger the failsafe, usually before it even
begins its first (and only) pass over the heap.

The failsafe is controlled by two new GUCs: vacuum_failsafe_age, and
vacuum_multixact_failsafe_age.  There are no equivalent reloptions,
since that isn't expected to be useful.  The GUCs have rather high
defaults (both default to 1.6 billion), and are expected to generally
only be used to make the failsafe trigger sooner/more frequently.

Author: Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com>
Author: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAD21AoD0SkE11fMw4jD4RENAwBMcw1wasVnwpJVw3tVqPOQgAw@mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-WzmgH3ySGYeC-m-eOBsa2=sDwa292-CFghV4rESYo39FsQ@mail.gmail.com
2021-04-07 12:37:45 -07:00
Bruce Momjian 4f0b0966c8 Make use of in-core query id added by commit 5fd9dfa5f5
Use the in-core query id computation for pg_stat_activity,
log_line_prefix, and EXPLAIN VERBOSE.

Similar to other fields in pg_stat_activity, only the queryid from the
top level statements are exposed, and if the backends status isn't
active then the queryid from the last executed statements is displayed.

Add a %Q placeholder to include the queryid in log_line_prefix, which
will also only expose top level statements.

For EXPLAIN VERBOSE, if a query identifier has been computed, either by
enabling compute_query_id or using a third-party module, display it.

Bump catalog version.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210407125726.tkvjdbw76hxnpwfi@nol

Author: Julien Rouhaud

Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera, Nitin Jadhav, Zhihong Yu
2021-04-07 14:04:06 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 5fd9dfa5f5 Move pg_stat_statements query jumbling to core.
Add compute_query_id GUC to control whether a query identifier should be
computed by the core (off by default).  It's thefore now possible to
disable core queryid computation and use pg_stat_statements with a
different algorithm to compute the query identifier by using a
third-party module.

To ensure that a single source of query identifier can be used and is
well defined, modules that calculate a query identifier should throw an
error if compute_query_id specified to compute a query id and if a query
idenfitier was already calculated.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210407125726.tkvjdbw76hxnpwfi@nol

Author: Julien Rouhaud

Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera, Nitin Jadhav, Zhihong Yu
2021-04-07 13:06:56 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 5c55dc8b47 libpq: Set Server Name Indication (SNI) for SSL connections
By default, have libpq set the TLS extension "Server Name Indication" (SNI).

This allows an SNI-aware SSL proxy to route connections.  (This
requires a proxy that is aware of the PostgreSQL protocol, not just
any SSL proxy.)

In the future, this could also allow the server to use different SSL
certificates for different host specifications.  (That would require
new server functionality.  This would be the client-side functionality
for that.)

Since SNI makes the host name appear in cleartext in the network
traffic, this might be undesirable in some cases.  Therefore, also add
a libpq connection option "sslsni" to turn it off.

Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/7289d5eb-62a5-a732-c3b9-438cee2cb709%40enterprisedb.com
2021-04-07 15:11:41 +02:00
Peter Eisentraut 4560e0acda doc: Improve wording
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/161626776179.652.11944895442156126506%40wrigleys.postgresql.org
2021-04-07 13:52:26 +02:00
Peter Eisentraut dd13ad9d39 Fix use of cursor sensitivity terminology
Documentation and comments in code and tests have been using the terms
sensitive/insensitive cursor incorrectly relative to the SQL standard.
(Cursor sensitivity is only relevant for changes made in the same
transaction as the cursor, not for concurrent changes in other
sessions.)  Moreover, some of the behavior of PostgreSQL is incorrect
according to the SQL standard, confusing the issue further.  (WHERE
CURRENT OF changes are not visible in insensitive cursors, but they
should be.)

This change corrects the terminology and removes the claim that
sensitive cursors are supported.  It also adds a test case that checks
the insensitive behavior in a "correct" way, using a change command
not using WHERE CURRENT OF.  Finally, it adds the ASENSITIVE cursor
option to select the default asensitive behavior, per SQL standard.

There are no changes to cursor behavior in this patch.

Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/96ee8b30-9889-9e1b-b053-90e10c050e85%40enterprisedb.com
2021-04-07 08:05:55 +02:00
Michael Paquier 9afffcb833 Add some information about authenticated identity via log_connections
The "authenticated identity" is the string used by an authentication
method to identify a particular user.  In many common cases, this is the
same as the PostgreSQL username, but for some third-party authentication
methods, the identifier in use may be shortened or otherwise translated
(e.g. through pg_ident user mappings) before the server stores it.

To help administrators see who has actually interacted with the system,
this commit adds the capability to store the original identity when
authentication succeeds within the backend's Port, and generates a log
entry when log_connections is enabled.  The log entries generated look
something like this (where a local user named "foouser" is connecting to
the database as the database user called "admin"):

  LOG:  connection received: host=[local]
  LOG:  connection authenticated: identity="foouser" method=peer (/data/pg_hba.conf:88)
  LOG:  connection authorized: user=admin database=postgres application_name=psql

Port->authn_id is set according to the authentication method:

  bsd: the PostgreSQL username (aka the local username)
  cert: the client's Subject DN
  gss: the user principal
  ident: the remote username
  ldap: the final bind DN
  pam: the PostgreSQL username (aka PAM username)
  password (and all pw-challenge methods): the PostgreSQL username
  peer: the peer's pw_name
  radius: the PostgreSQL username (aka the RADIUS username)
  sspi: either the down-level (SAM-compatible) logon name, if
        compat_realm=1, or the User Principal Name if compat_realm=0

The trust auth method does not set an authenticated identity.  Neither
does clientcert=verify-full.

Port->authn_id could be used for other purposes, like a superuser-only
extra column in pg_stat_activity, but this is left as future work.

PostgresNode::connect_{ok,fails}() have been modified to let tests check
the backend log files for required or prohibited patterns, using the
new log_like and log_unlike parameters.  This uses a method based on a
truncation of the existing server log file, like issues_sql_like().
Tests are added to the ldap, kerberos, authentication and SSL test
suites.

Author: Jacob Champion
Reviewed-by: Stephen Frost, Magnus Hagander, Tom Lane, Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/c55788dd1773c521c862e8e0dddb367df51222be.camel@vmware.com
2021-04-07 10:16:39 +09:00
Fujii Masao a3740c48eb postgres_fdw: Allow partitions specified in LIMIT TO to be imported.
Commit f49bcd4ef3 disallowed postgres_fdw to import table partitions.
Because all data can be accessed through the partitioned table which
is the root of the partitioning hierarchy, importing only partitioned
table should allow access to all the data without creating extra objects.
This is a reasonable default when importing a whole schema. But there
may be the case where users want to explicitly import one of
a partitioned tables' partitions.

For that use case, this commit allows postgres_fdw to import tables or
foreign tables which are partitions of some other table only when they
are explicitly specified in LIMIT TO clause.  It doesn't change
the behavior that any partitions not specified in LIMIT TO are
automatically excluded in IMPORT FOREIGN SCHEMA command.

Author: Matthias van de Meent
Reviewed-by: Bernd Helmle, Amit Langote, Michael Paquier, Fujii Masao
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEze2Whwg4i=mzApMe+PXxCEfgoZmHGqdqQFW7J4bmj_5p6t1A@mail.gmail.com
2021-04-07 02:32:10 +09:00
Peter Eisentraut 3a51306722 psql: Show all query results by default
Previously, psql printed only the last result if a command string
returned multiple result sets.  Now it prints all of them.  The
previous behavior can be obtained by setting the psql variable
SHOW_ALL_RESULTS to off.

Author: Fabien COELHO <coelho@cri.ensmp.fr>
Reviewed-by: "Iwata, Aya" <iwata.aya@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Verite <daniel@manitou-mail.org>
Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: vignesh C <vignesh21@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/alpine.DEB.2.21.1904132231510.8961@lancre
2021-04-06 17:10:24 +02:00
Fujii Masao 9de9294b0c Stop archive recovery if WAL generated with wal_level=minimal is found.
Previously if hot standby was enabled, archive recovery exited with
an error when it found WAL generated with wal_level=minimal.
But if hot standby was disabled, it just reported a warning and
continued in that case. Which could lead to data loss or errors
during normal operation. A warning was emitted, but users could
easily miss that and not notice this serious situation until
they encountered the actual errors.

To improve this situation, this commit changes archive recovery
so that it exits with FATAL error when it finds WAL generated with
wal_level=minimal whatever the setting of hot standby. This enables
users to notice the serious situation soon.

The FATAL error is thrown if archive recovery starts from a base
backup taken before wal_level is changed to minimal. When archive
recovery exits with the error, if users have a base backup taken
after setting wal_level to higher than minimal, they can recover
the database by starting archive recovery from that newer backup.
But note that if such backup doesn't exist, there is no easy way to
complete archive recovery, which may make the database server
unstartable and users may lose whole database. The commit adds
the note about this risk into the document.

Even in the case of unstartable database server, previously by just
disabling hot standby users could avoid the error during archive
recovery, forcibly start up the server and salvage data from it.
But note that this commit makes this procedure unavailable at all.

Author: Takamichi Osumi
Reviewed-by: Laurenz Albe, Kyotaro Horiguchi, David Steele, Fujii Masao
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/OSBPR01MB4888CBE1DA08818FD2D90ED8EDF90@OSBPR01MB4888.jpnprd01.prod.outlook.com
2021-04-06 22:56:51 +09:00
Dean Rasheed 6b258e3d68 pgbench: Function to generate random permutations.
This adds a new function, permute(), that generates pseudorandom
permutations of arbitrary sizes. This can be used to randomly shuffle
a set of values to remove unwanted correlations. For example,
permuting the output from a non-uniform random distribution so that
all the most common values aren't collocated, allowing more realistic
tests to be performed.

Formerly, hash() was recommended for this purpose, but that suffers
from collisions that might alter the distribution, so recommend
permute() for this purpose instead.

Fabien Coelho and Hironobu Suzuki, with additional hacking be me.
Reviewed by Thomas Munro, Alvaro Herrera and Muhammad Usama.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/alpine.DEB.2.21.1807280944370.5142@lancre
2021-04-06 11:50:42 +01:00
Peter Eisentraut 82ed7748b7 ALTER SUBSCRIPTION ... ADD/DROP PUBLICATION
At present, if we want to update publications in a subscription, we
can use SET PUBLICATION.  However, it requires supplying all
publications that exists and the new publications.  If we want to add
new publications, it's inconvenient.  The new syntax only supplies the
new publications.  When the refresh is true, it only refreshes the new
publications.

Author: Japin Li <japinli@hotmail.com>
Author: Bharath Rupireddy <bharath.rupireddyforpostgres@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/MEYP282MB166939D0D6C480B7FBE7EFFBB6BC0@MEYP282MB1669.AUSP282.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM
2021-04-06 11:49:51 +02:00
Peter Eisentraut a2da77cdb4 Change return type of EXTRACT to numeric
The previous implementation of EXTRACT mapped internally to
date_part(), which returned type double precision (since it was
implemented long before the numeric type existed).  This can lead to
imprecise output in some cases, so returning numeric would be
preferrable.  Changing the return type of an existing function is a
bit risky, so instead we do the following:  We implement a new set of
functions, which are now called "extract", in parallel to the existing
date_part functions.  They work the same way internally but use
numeric instead of float8.  The EXTRACT construct is now mapped by the
parser to these new extract functions.  That way, dumps of views
etc. from old versions (which would use date_part) continue to work
unchanged, but new uses will map to the new extract functions.

Additionally, the reverse compilation of EXTRACT now reproduces the
original syntax, using the new mechanism introduced in
40c24bfef9.

The following minor changes of behavior result from the new
implementation:

- The column name from an isolated EXTRACT call is now "extract"
  instead of "date_part".

- Extract from date now rejects inappropriate field names such as
  HOUR.  It was previously mapped internally to extract from
  timestamp, so it would silently accept everything appropriate for
  timestamp.

- Return values when extracting fields with possibly fractional
  values, such as second and epoch, now have the full scale that the
  value has internally (so, for example, '1.000000' instead of just
  '1').

Reported-by: Petr Fedorov <petr.fedorov@phystech.edu>
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/42b73d2d-da12-ba9f-570a-420e0cce19d9@phystech.edu
2021-04-06 07:20:42 +02:00
Fujii Masao 43620e3286 Add function to log the memory contexts of specified backend process.
Commit 3e98c0bafb added pg_backend_memory_contexts view to display
the memory contexts of the backend process. However its target process
is limited to the backend that is accessing to the view. So this is
not so convenient when investigating the local memory bloat of other
backend process. To improve this situation, this commit adds
pg_log_backend_memory_contexts() function that requests to log
the memory contexts of the specified backend process.

This information can be also collected by calling
MemoryContextStats(TopMemoryContext) via a debugger. But
this technique cannot be used in some environments because no debugger
is available there. So, pg_log_backend_memory_contexts() allows us to
see the memory contexts of specified backend more easily.

Only superusers are allowed to request to log the memory contexts
because allowing any users to issue this request at an unbounded rate
would cause lots of log messages and which can lead to denial of service.

On receipt of the request, at the next CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS(),
the target backend logs its memory contexts at LOG_SERVER_ONLY level,
so that these memory contexts will appear in the server log but not
be sent to the client. It logs one message per memory context.
Because if it buffers all memory contexts into StringInfo to log them
as one message, which may require the buffer to be enlarged very much
and lead to OOM error since there can be a large number of memory
contexts in a backend.

When a backend process is consuming huge memory, logging all its
memory contexts might overrun available disk space. To prevent this,
now this patch limits the number of child contexts to log per parent
to 100. As with MemoryContextStats(), it supposes that practical cases
where the log gets long will typically be huge numbers of siblings
under the same parent context; while the additional debugging value
from seeing details about individual siblings beyond 100 will not be large.

There was another proposed patch to add the function to return
the memory contexts of specified backend as the result sets,
instead of logging them, in the discussion. However that patch is
not included in this commit because it had several issues to address.

Thanks to Tatsuhito Kasahara, Andres Freund, Tom Lane, Tomas Vondra,
Michael Paquier, Kyotaro Horiguchi and Zhihong Yu for the discussion.

Bump catalog version.

Author: Atsushi Torikoshi
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi, Zhihong Yu, Fujii Masao
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/0271f440ac77f2a4180e0e56ebd944d1@oss.nttdata.com
2021-04-06 13:44:15 +09:00