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Author SHA1 Message Date
Simon Riggs 4bd8ed31b7 Introduce sending servers as new category for replication params
Fujii Masao
2011-07-19 08:59:55 +01:00
Tom Lane 23e5b16c71 Add temp_file_limit GUC parameter to constrain temporary file space usage.
The limit is enforced against the total amount of temp file space used by
each session.

Mark Kirkwood, reviewed by Cédric Villemain and Tatsuo Ishii
2011-07-17 14:19:31 -04:00
Tom Lane 60a81ad133 Reclassify replication-related GUC variables as "master" and "standby".
Per discussion, this structure seems more understandable than what was
there before.  Make config.sgml and postgresql.conf.sample agree.

In passing do a bit of editorial work on the variable descriptions.
2011-07-07 15:11:41 -04:00
Heikki Linnakangas f7ea6beaf4 Remove silent_mode. You get the same functionality with "pg_ctl -l
postmaster.log", or nohup.

There was a small issue with LINUX_OOM_ADJ and silent_mode, namely that with
silent_mode the postmaster process incorrectly used the OOM settings meant
for backend processes. We certainly could've fixed that directly, but since
silent_mode was redundant anyway, we might as well just remove it.
2011-07-04 14:35:44 +03:00
Tom Lane 1453cd8f82 Adjust documentation with respect to "unknown" timezone setting.
The recent cleanup of GUC assign hooks got rid of the kludge of using
"unknown" as a magic value for timezone and log_timezone.  But I forgot
to update the documentation to match, as noted by Martin Pitt.
2011-05-10 13:48:40 -04:00
Robert Haas 240067b3b0 Merge synchronous_replication setting into synchronous_commit.
This means one less thing to configure when setting up synchronous
replication, and also avoids some ambiguity around what the behavior
should be when the settings of these variables conflict.

Fujii Masao, with additional hacking by me.
2011-04-04 16:25:52 -04:00
Heikki Linnakangas 754baa21f7 Automatically terminate replication connections that are idle for more
than replication_timeout (a new GUC) milliseconds. The TCP timeout is often
too long, you want the master to notice a dead connection much sooner.
People complained about that in 9.0 too, but with synchronous replication
it's even more important to notice dead connections promptly.

Fujii Masao and Heikki Linnakangas
2011-03-30 10:20:37 +03:00
Simon Riggs a8a8a3e096 Efficient transaction-controlled synchronous replication.
If a standby is broadcasting reply messages and we have named
one or more standbys in synchronous_standby_names then allow
users who set synchronous_replication to wait for commit, which
then provides strict data integrity guarantees. Design avoids
sending and receiving transaction state information so minimises
bookkeeping overheads. We synchronize with the highest priority
standby that is connected and ready to synchronize. Other standbys
can be defined to takeover in case of standby failure.

This version has very strict behaviour; more relaxed options
may be added at a later date.

Simon Riggs and Fujii Masao, with reviews by Yeb Havinga, Jaime
Casanova, Heikki Linnakangas and Robert Haas, plus the assistance
of many other design reviewers.
2011-03-06 22:49:16 +00:00
Heikki Linnakangas be6668d6ef Increase the default for wal_sender_delay from 200ms to 1s. Now that WAL
sender is immediately woken up by transaction commit, there's no need to
wake up so aggressively.
2011-02-26 23:38:25 +02:00
Simon Riggs bca8b7f16a Hot Standby feedback for avoidance of cleanup conflicts on standby.
Standby optionally sends back information about oldestXmin of queries
which is then checked and applied to the WALSender's proc->xmin.
GetOldestXmin() is modified slightly to agree with GetSnapshotData(),
so that all backends on primary include WALSender within their snapshots.
Note this does nothing to change the snapshot xmin on either master or
standby. Feedback piggybacks on the standby reply message.
vacuum_defer_cleanup_age is no longer used on standby, though parameter
still exists on primary, since some use cases still exist.

Simon Riggs, review comments from Fujii Masao, Heikki Linnakangas, Robert Haas
2011-02-16 19:29:37 +00:00
Robert Haas 6a77e9385e Rename max_predicate_locks_per_transaction.
The new name, max_pred_locks_per_transaction, is shorter.

Kevin Grittner, per discussion.
2011-02-15 08:04:55 -05:00
Heikki Linnakangas b186523fd9 Send status updates back from standby server to master, indicating how far
the standby has written, flushed, and applied the WAL. At the moment, this
is for informational purposes only, the values are only shown in
pg_stat_replication system view, but in the future they will also be needed
for synchronous replication.

Extracted from Simon riggs' synchronous replication patch by Robert Haas, with
some tweaking by me.
2011-02-10 21:04:02 +02:00
Heikki Linnakangas dafaa3efb7 Implement genuine serializable isolation level.
Until now, our Serializable mode has in fact been what's called Snapshot
Isolation, which allows some anomalies that could not occur in any
serialized ordering of the transactions. This patch fixes that using a
method called Serializable Snapshot Isolation, based on research papers by
Michael J. Cahill (see README-SSI for full references). In Serializable
Snapshot Isolation, transactions run like they do in Snapshot Isolation,
but a predicate lock manager observes the reads and writes performed and
aborts transactions if it detects that an anomaly might occur. This method
produces some false positives, ie. it sometimes aborts transactions even
though there is no anomaly.

To track reads we implement predicate locking, see storage/lmgr/predicate.c.
Whenever a tuple is read, a predicate lock is acquired on the tuple. Shared
memory is finite, so when a transaction takes many tuple-level locks on a
page, the locks are promoted to a single page-level lock, and further to a
single relation level lock if necessary. To lock key values with no matching
tuple, a sequential scan always takes a relation-level lock, and an index
scan acquires a page-level lock that covers the search key, whether or not
there are any matching keys at the moment.

A predicate lock doesn't conflict with any regular locks or with another
predicate locks in the normal sense. They're only used by the predicate lock
manager to detect the danger of anomalies. Only serializable transactions
participate in predicate locking, so there should be no extra overhead for
for other transactions.

Predicate locks can't be released at commit, but must be remembered until
all the transactions that overlapped with it have completed. That means that
we need to remember an unbounded amount of predicate locks, so we apply a
lossy but conservative method of tracking locks for committed transactions.
If we run short of shared memory, we overflow to a new "pg_serial" SLRU
pool.

We don't currently allow Serializable transactions in Hot Standby mode.
That would be hard, because even read-only transactions can cause anomalies
that wouldn't otherwise occur.

Serializable isolation mode now means the new fully serializable level.
Repeatable Read gives you the old Snapshot Isolation level that we have
always had.

Kevin Grittner and Dan Ports, reviewed by Jeff Davis, Heikki Linnakangas and
Anssi Kääriäinen
2011-02-08 00:09:08 +02:00
Tom Lane 0f73aae13d Allow the wal_buffers setting to be auto-tuned to a reasonable value.
If wal_buffers is initially set to -1 (which is now the default), it's
replaced by 1/32nd of shared_buffers, with a minimum of 8 (the old default)
and a maximum of the XLOG segment size.  The allowed range for manual
settings is still from 4 up to whatever will fit in shared memory.

Greg Smith, with implementation correction by me.
2011-01-22 20:31:24 -05:00
Tom Lane 576477e73c Force default wal_sync_method to be fdatasync on Linux.
Recent versions of the Linux system header files cause xlogdefs.h to
believe that open_datasync should be the default sync method, whereas
formerly fdatasync was the default on Linux.  open_datasync is a bad
choice, first because it doesn't actually outperform fdatasync (in fact
the reverse), and second because we try to use O_DIRECT with it, causing
failures on certain filesystems (e.g., ext4 with data=journal option).
This part of the patch is largely per a proposal from Marti Raudsepp.
More extensive changes are likely to follow in HEAD, but this is as much
change as we want to back-patch.

Also clean up confusing code and incorrect documentation surrounding the
fsync_writethrough option.  Those changes shouldn't result in any actual
behavioral change, but I chose to back-patch them anyway to keep the
branches looking similar in this area.

In 9.0 and HEAD, also do some copy-editing on the WAL Reliability
documentation section.

Back-patch to all supported branches, since any of them might get used
on modern Linux versions.
2010-12-08 20:01:09 -05:00
Peter Eisentraut fc946c39ae Remove useless whitespace at end of lines 2010-11-23 22:34:55 +02:00
Bruce Momjian f7dbddac69 Single-word clarification in postgresql.conf log_truncate_on_rotation
comment.
2010-10-08 19:10:21 +00:00
Robert Haas 2ce003973d Add "(change requires restart)" note to some postgresql.conf parameters.
Devrim GÜNDÜZ
2010-09-27 09:14:14 -04:00
Robert Haas e0226a9bf2 In postgresql.conf.sample, use on/off rather than true/false.
We used to be consistent about this, but my recent patch to add a
restart_after_crash GUC failed to follow the existing convention.

Report and patch from Fujii Masao.
2010-07-27 16:06:53 +00:00
Robert Haas ce68df468a Add options to force quoting of all identifiers.
I've added a quote_all_identifiers GUC which affects the behavior
of the backend, and a --quote-all-identifiers argument to pg_dump
and pg_dumpall which sets the GUC and also affects the quoting done
internally by those applications.

Design by Tom Lane; review by Alex Hunsaker; in response to bug #5488
filed by Hartmut Goebel.
2010-07-22 01:22:35 +00:00
Robert Haas 5ffaa9005c Add restart_after_crash GUC.
Normally, we automatically restart after a backend crash, but in some
cases when PostgreSQL is invoked by clusterware it may be desirable to
suppress this behavior, so we provide an option which does this.
Since no existing GUC group quite fits, create a new group called
"error handling options" for this and the previously undocumented GUC
exit_on_error, which is now documented.

Review by Fujii Masao.
2010-07-20 00:47:53 +00:00
Robert Haas 0839f312e9 Change the default value of standard_conforming_strings to on.
This change should be publicized to driver maintainers at once and
release-noted as an incompatibility with previous releases.
2010-07-20 00:34:44 +00:00
Tom Lane 3ec694e17b Add a log_file_mode GUC that allows control of the file permissions set on
log files created by the syslogger process.

In passing, make unix_file_permissions display its value in octal, same
as log_file_mode now does.

Martin Pihlak
2010-07-16 22:25:51 +00:00
Tom Lane aceedd88f6 Make vacuum_defer_cleanup_age be PGC_SIGHUP level, since it's not sensible
to have different values in different processes of the primary server.
Also put it into the "Streaming Replication" GUC category; it doesn't belong
in "Standby Servers" because you use it on the master not the standby.
In passing also correct guc.c's idea of wal_keep_segments' category.
2010-07-03 21:23:58 +00:00
Tom Lane e76c1a0f4d Replace max_standby_delay with two parameters, max_standby_archive_delay and
max_standby_streaming_delay, and revise the implementation to avoid assuming
that timestamps found in WAL records can meaningfully be compared to clock
time on the standby server.  Instead, the delay limits are compared to the
elapsed time since we last obtained a new WAL segment from archive or since
we were last "caught up" to WAL data arriving via streaming replication.
This avoids problems with clock skew between primary and standby, as well
as other corner cases that the original coding would misbehave in, such
as the primary server having significant idle time between transactions.
Per my complaint some time ago and considerable ensuing discussion.

Do some desultory editing on the hot standby documentation, too.
2010-07-03 20:43:58 +00:00
Itagaki Takahiro 41f302b52a Add new GUC categories corresponding to sections in docs, and move
description for vacuum_defer_cleanup_age to the correct category.
Sections in postgresql.conf are also sorted in the same order with docs.

Per gripe by Fujii Masao, suggestion by Heikki Linnakangas, and patch by me.
2010-06-15 07:52:11 +00:00
Tom Lane f9ed327f76 Clean up some awkward, inaccurate, and inefficient processing around
MaxStandbyDelay.  Use the GUC units mechanism for the value, and choose more
appropriate timestamp functions for performing tests with it.  Make the
ps_activity manipulation in ResolveRecoveryConflictWithVirtualXIDs have
behavior similar to ps_activity code elsewhere, notably not updating the
display when update_process_title is off and not truncating the display
contents at an arbitrarily-chosen length.  Improve the docs to be explicit
about what MaxStandbyDelay actually measures, viz the difference between
primary and standby servers' clocks, and the possible hazards if their clocks
aren't in sync.
2010-05-02 02:10:33 +00:00
Tom Lane f0488bd57c Rename the parameter recovery_connections to hot_standby, to reduce possible
confusion with streaming-replication settings.  Also, change its default
value to "off", because of concern about executing new and poorly-tested
code during ordinary non-replicating operation.  Per discussion.

In passing do some minor editing of related documentation.
2010-04-29 21:36:19 +00:00
Heikki Linnakangas 9b8a73326e Introduce wal_level GUC to explicitly control if information needed for
archival or hot standby should be WAL-logged, instead of deducing that from
other options like archive_mode. This replaces recovery_connections GUC in
the primary, where it now has no effect, but it's still used in the standby
to enable/disable hot standby.

Remove the WAL-logging of "unlogged operations", like creating an index
without WAL-logging and fsyncing it at the end. Instead, we keep a copy of
the wal_mode setting and the settings that affect how much shared memory a
hot standby server needs to track master transactions (max_connections,
max_prepared_xacts, max_locks_per_xact) in pg_control. Whenever the settings
change, at server restart, write a WAL record noting the new settings and
update pg_control. This allows us to notice the change in those settings in
the standby at the right moment, they used to be included in checkpoint
records, but that meant that a changed value was not reflected in the
standby until the first checkpoint after the change.

Bump PG_CONTROL_VERSION and XLOG_PAGE_MAGIC. Whack XLOG_PAGE_MAGIC back to
the sequence it used to follow, before hot standby and subsequent patches
changed it to 0x9003.
2010-04-28 16:10:43 +00:00
Robert Haas 481cb5d9b5 Rename standby_keep_segments to wal_keep_segments.
Also, make the name of the GUC and the name of the backing variable match.
Alnong the way, clean up a couple of slight typographical errors in the
related docs.
2010-04-20 11:15:06 +00:00
Robert Haas 5b89ef384c Add an 'enable_material' GUC.
The logic for determining whether to materialize has been significantly
overhauled for 9.0.  In case there should be any doubt about whether
materialization is a win in any particular case, this should provide a
convenient way of seeing what happens without it; but even with enable_material
turned off, we still materialize in cases where it is required for
correctness.

Thanks to Tom Lane for the review.
2010-04-19 00:55:26 +00:00
Heikki Linnakangas e57cd7f0a1 Change the logic to decide when to delete old WAL segments, so that it
doesn't take into account how far the WAL senders are. This way a hung
WAL sender doesn't prevent old WAL segments from being recycled/removed
in the primary, ultimately causing the disk to fill up. Instead add
standby_keep_segments setting to control how many old WAL segments are
kept in the primary. This also makes it more reliable to use streaming
replication without WAL archiving, assuming that you set
standby_keep_segments high enough.
2010-04-12 09:52:29 +00:00
Bruce Momjian a358423d8f Add comma missing from postgresql.conf comment. 2010-03-30 00:11:45 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 96189dbe66 Document in postgresql.conf that the max_standby_delay default is 30
'seconds'.
2010-03-24 03:13:45 +00:00
Simon Riggs 6407fa996a Add vacuum_defer_cleanup_age to postgresql.conf.sample. 2010-03-18 07:01:01 +00:00
Magnus Hagander 413d34be4e Add configuration parameter ssl_renegotiation_limit to control
how often we do SSL session key renegotiation. Can be set to
0 to disable renegotiation completely, which is required if
a broken SSL library is used (broken patches to CVE-2009-3555
a known cause) or when using a client library that can't do
renegotiation.
2010-02-25 13:26:16 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 813135d8c9 Move log_error_verbosity GUC setting to "What to log" section, and
document the behavior of terse and verbose output options.
2010-02-16 21:35:51 +00:00
Simon Riggs 296578feb4 Revoke augmentation of WAL records for btree delete, per discussion. 2010-02-01 13:40:28 +00:00
Simon Riggs 6d2bc0a6cf Augment WAL records for btree delete with GetOldestXmin() to reduce
false positives during Hot Standby conflict processing. Simple
patch to enhance conflict processing, following previous discussions.
Controlled by parameter minimize_standby_conflicts = on | off, with
default off allows measurement of performance impact to see whether
it should be set on all the time.
2010-01-29 18:39:05 +00:00
Tom Lane d879697cd2 Remove the default_do_language parameter, instead making DO use a hardwired
default of "plpgsql".  This is more reasonable than it was when the DO patch
was written, because we have since decided that plpgsql should be installed
by default.  Per discussion, having a parameter for this doesn't seem useful
enough to justify the risk of application breakage if the value is changed
unexpectedly.
2010-01-26 16:33:40 +00:00
Heikki Linnakangas 40f908bdcd Introduce Streaming Replication.
This includes two new kinds of postmaster processes, walsenders and
walreceiver. Walreceiver is responsible for connecting to the primary server
and streaming WAL to disk, while walsender runs in the primary server and
streams WAL from disk to the client.

Documentation still needs work, but the basics are there. We will probably
pull the replication section to a new chapter later on, as well as the
sections describing file-based replication. But let's do that as a separate
patch, so that it's easier to see what has been added/changed. This patch
also adds a new section to the chapter about FE/BE protocol, documenting the
protocol used by walsender/walreceivxer.

Bump catalog version because of two new functions,
pg_last_xlog_receive_location() and pg_last_xlog_replay_location(), for
monitoring the progress of replication.

Fujii Masao, with additional hacking by me
2010-01-15 09:19:10 +00:00
Simon Riggs efc16ea520 Allow read only connections during recovery, known as Hot Standby.
Enabled by recovery_connections = on (default) and forcing archive recovery using a recovery.conf. Recovery processing now emulates the original transactions as they are replayed, providing full locking and MVCC behaviour for read only queries. Recovery must enter consistent state before connections are allowed, so there is a delay, typically short, before connections succeed. Replay of recovering transactions can conflict and in some cases deadlock with queries during recovery; these result in query cancellation after max_standby_delay seconds have expired. Infrastructure changes have minor effects on normal running, though introduce four new types of WAL record.

New test mode "make standbycheck" allows regression tests of static command behaviour on a standby server while in recovery. Typical and extreme dynamic behaviours have been checked via code inspection and manual testing. Few port specific behaviours have been utilised, though primary testing has been on Linux only so far.

This commit is the basic patch. Additional changes will follow in this release to enhance some aspects of behaviour, notably improved handling of conflicts, deadlock detection and query cancellation. Changes to VACUUM FULL are also required.

Simon Riggs, with significant and lengthy review by Heikki Linnakangas, including streamlined redesign of snapshot creation and two-phase commit.

Important contributions from Florian Pflug, Mark Kirkwood, Merlin Moncure, Greg Stark, Gianni Ciolli, Gabriele Bartolini, Hannu Krosing, Robert Haas, Tatsuo Ishii, Hiroyuki Yamada plus support and feedback from many other community members.
2009-12-19 01:32:45 +00:00
Itagaki Takahiro f1325ce213 Add large object access control.
A new system catalog pg_largeobject_metadata manages
ownership and access privileges of large objects.

KaiGai Kohei, reviewed by Jaime Casanova.
2009-12-11 03:34:57 +00:00
Tom Lane 8217cfbd99 Add support for an application_name parameter, which is displayed in
pg_stat_activity and recorded in log entries.

Dave Page, reviewed by Andres Freund
2009-11-28 23:38:08 +00:00
Tom Lane ab61df9e52 Remove regex_flavor GUC, so that regular expressions are always "advanced"
style by default.  Per discussion, there seems to be hardly anything that
really relies on being able to change the regex flavor, so the ability to
select it via embedded options ought to be enough for any stragglers.
Also, if we didn't remove the GUC, we'd really be morally obligated to
mark the regex functions non-immutable, which'd possibly create performance
issues.
2009-10-21 20:38:58 +00:00
Tom Lane 289e2905c8 Remove add_missing_from GUC and associated parser support for "implicit RTEs".
Per recent discussion, add_missing_from has been deprecated for long enough to
consider removing, and it's getting in the way of planned parser refactoring.
The system now always behaves as though add_missing_from were OFF.
2009-10-21 20:22:38 +00:00
Tom Lane 9048b73184 Implement the DO statement to support execution of PL code without having
to create a function for it.

Procedural languages now have an additional entry point, namely a function
to execute an inline code block.  This seemed a better design than trying
to hide the transient-ness of the code from the PL.  As of this patch, only
plpgsql has an inline handler, but probably people will soon write handlers
for the other standard PLs.

In passing, remove the long-dead LANCOMPILER option of CREATE LANGUAGE.

Petr Jelinek
2009-09-22 23:43:43 +00:00
Tom Lane 8c5463a511 Increase the maximum value of extra_float_digits to 3, and have pg_dump
use that value when the backend is new enough to allow it.  This responds
to bug report from Keh-Cheng Chu pointing out that although 2 extra digits
should be sufficient to dump and restore float8 exactly, it is possible to
need 3 extra digits for float4 values.
2009-09-11 19:17:04 +00:00
Tom Lane eeb6cb143a Add a boolean GUC parameter "bonjour" to control whether a Bonjour-enabled
build actually attempts to advertise itself via Bonjour.  Formerly it always
did so, which meant that packagers had to decide for their users whether
this behavior was wanted or not.  The default is "off" to be on the safe
side, though this represents a change in the default behavior of a
Bonjour-enabled build.  Per discussion.
2009-09-08 17:08:36 +00:00
Tom Lane 8bed238c87 Try to make silent_mode behave somewhat reasonably.
Instead of sending stdout/stderr to /dev/null after forking away from the
terminal, send them to postmaster.log within the data directory.  Since
this opens the door to indefinite logfile bloat, recommend even more
strongly that log output be redirected when using silent_mode.

Move the postmaster's initial calls of load_hba() and load_ident() down
to after we have started the log collector, if we are going to.  This
is so that errors reported by them will appear in the "usual" place.

Reclassify silent_mode as a LOGGING_WHERE, not LOGGING_WHEN, parameter,
since it's got absolutely nothing to do with the latter category.

In passing, fix some obsolete references to -S ... this option hasn't
had that switch letter for a long time.

Back-patch to 8.4, since as of 8.4 load_hba() and load_ident() are more
picky (and thus more likely to fail) than they used to be.  This entire
change was driven by a complaint about those errors disappearing into
the bit bucket.
2009-08-24 20:08:32 +00:00
Tom Lane a2a8c7a662 Support hex-string input and output for type BYTEA.
Both hex format and the traditional "escape" format are automatically
handled on input.  The output format is selected by the new GUC variable
bytea_output.

As committed, bytea_output defaults to HEX, which is an *incompatible
change*.  We will keep it this way for awhile for testing purposes, but
should consider whether to switch to the more backwards-compatible
default of ESCAPE before 8.5 is released.

Peter Eisentraut
2009-08-04 16:08:37 +00:00
Tom Lane f5bc74192d Make GEQO's planning deterministic by having it start from a predictable
random number seed each time.  This is how it used to work years ago, but
we got rid of the seed reset because it was resetting the main random()
sequence and thus having undesirable effects on the rest of the system.
To fix, establish a private random number state for each execution of
geqo(), and initialize the state using the new GUC variable geqo_seed.
People who want to experiment with different random searches can do so
by changing geqo_seed, but you'll always get the same plan for the same
value of geqo_seed (if holding all other planner inputs constant, of course).

The new state is kept in PlannerInfo by adding a "void *" field reserved
for use by join_search hooks.  Most of the rather bulky code changes in
this commit are just arranging to pass PlannerInfo around to all the GEQO
functions (many of which formerly didn't receive it).

Andres Freund, with some editorialization by Tom
2009-07-16 20:55:44 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut f39df967e9 Add log_line_prefix placeholder %e to contain the current SQL state
Author: Guillaume Smet <guillaume.smet@gmail.com>
2009-07-03 19:14:25 +00:00
Tom Lane 8d4f2ecd41 Change the default value of max_prepared_transactions to zero, and add
documentation warnings against setting it nonzero unless active use of
prepared transactions is intended and a suitable transaction manager has been
installed.  This should help to prevent the type of scenario we've seen
several times now where a prepared transaction is forgotten and eventually
causes severe maintenance problems (or even anti-wraparound shutdown).

The only real reason we had the default be nonzero in the first place was to
support regression testing of the feature.  To still be able to do that,
tweak pg_regress to force a nonzero value during "make check".  Since we
cannot force a nonzero value in "make installcheck", add a variant regression
test "expected" file that shows the results that will be obtained when
max_prepared_transactions is zero.

Also, extend the HINT messages for transaction wraparound warnings to mention
the possibility that old prepared transactions are causing the problem.

All per today's discussion.
2009-04-23 00:23:46 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 555b46e25c More GUC units doc updates.
Euler Taveira de Oliveira
2009-04-07 22:22:19 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 80df9c49af Add unit documentation for various postgresql.conf settings. 2009-04-06 21:00:52 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 72e2315c34 Properly align equals signs in new postgresql.conf units comments. 2009-04-06 19:03:04 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 802e414d62 Document in postgresql.conf that the default units for
log_min_duration_statement is milliseconds.
2009-04-06 19:00:18 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 4ae4d23433 Display postgresql.conf unit options in an easier-to-understand,
2-column format.
2009-04-06 18:40:47 +00:00
Tom Lane 640796ff41 Reduce the maximum value of vacuum_cost_delay and autovacuum_vacuum_cost_delay
to 100ms (from 1000).  This still seems to be comfortably larger than the
useful range of the parameter, and it should help discourage people from
picking uselessly large values.  Tweak the documentation to recommend small
values, too.  Per discussion of a couple weeks ago.
2009-02-28 00:10:52 +00:00
Heikki Linnakangas 6587818542 Add vacuum_freeze_table_age GUC option, to control when VACUUM should
ignore the visibility map and scan the whole table, to advance
relfrozenxid.
2009-01-16 13:27:24 +00:00
Tom Lane b7b8f0b609 Implement prefetching via posix_fadvise() for bitmap index scans. A new
GUC variable effective_io_concurrency controls how many concurrent block
prefetch requests will be issued.

(The best way to handle this for plain index scans is still under debate,
so that part is not applied yet --- tgl)

Greg Stark
2009-01-12 05:10:45 +00:00
Magnus Hagander 1b4e729eaa Make krb_realm and krb_server_hostname be pg_hba options only, and remove
their GUCs.

In passing, noted that the pg_hba options for krb5 authentication weren't
listed at all - so add this.
2009-01-09 10:13:19 +00:00
Tom Lane 445ce15702 Create a third option named "partition" for constraint_exclusion, and make it
the default.  This setting enables constraint exclusion checks only for
appendrel members (ie, inheritance children and UNION ALL arms), which are
the cases in which constraint exclusion is most likely to be useful.  Avoiding
the overhead for simple queries that are unlikely to benefit should bring
the cost down to the point where this is a reasonable default setting.
Per today's discussion.
2009-01-07 22:40:49 +00:00
Magnus Hagander f6c916ee98 Remove comments that say restart is required for changing of Kerberos
parameters.
2009-01-02 11:26:24 +00:00
Tom Lane 65e3ea7641 Increase the default value of default_statistics_target from 10 to 100,
and its maximum value from 1000 to 10000.  ALTER TABLE SET STATISTICS
similarly now allows a value up to 10000.  Per discussion.
2008-12-13 19:13:44 +00:00
Tom Lane df7641e25a Add a new GUC variable called "IntervalStyle" that decouples interval output
from DateStyle, and create a new interval style that produces output matching
the SQL standard (at least for interval values that fall within the standard's
restrictions).  IntervalStyle is also used to resolve the conflict between the
standard and traditional Postgres rules for interpreting negative interval
input.

Ron Mayer
2008-11-09 00:28:35 +00:00
Heikki Linnakangas 15c121b3ed Rewrite the FSM. Instead of relying on a fixed-size shared memory segment, the
free space information is stored in a dedicated FSM relation fork, with each
relation (except for hash indexes; they don't use FSM).

This eliminates the max_fsm_relations and max_fsm_pages GUC options; remove any
trace of them from the backend, initdb, and documentation.

Rewrite contrib/pg_freespacemap to match the new FSM implementation. Also
introduce a new variant of the get_raw_page(regclass, int4, int4) function in
contrib/pageinspect that let's you to return pages from any relation fork, and
a new fsm_page_contents() function to inspect the new FSM pages.
2008-09-30 10:52:14 +00:00
Tom Lane 9650830bc8 Cause the output from debug_print_parse, debug_print_rewritten, and
debug_print_plan to appear at LOG message level, not DEBUG1 as historically.
Make debug_pretty_print default to on.  Also, cause plans generated via
EXPLAIN to be subject to debug_print_plan.  This is all to make
debug_print_plan a reasonably comfortable substitute for the former behavior
of EXPLAIN VERBOSE.
2008-08-19 18:30:04 +00:00
Magnus Hagander 5b8eb2b4b9 Make the temporary directory for pgstat files configurable by the GUC
variable stats_temp_directory, instead of requiring the admin to
mount/symlink the pg_stat_tmp directory manually.

For now the config variable is PGC_POSTMASTER. Room for further improvment
that would allow it to be changed on-the-fly.
2008-08-15 08:37:41 +00:00
Heikki Linnakangas 995fb74202 Turn PGBE_ACTIVITY_SIZE into a GUC variable, track_activity_query_size.
As the buffer could now be a lot larger than before, and copying it could
thus be a lot more expensive than before, use strcpy instead of memcpy to
copy the query string, as was already suggested in comments. Also, only copy
the PgBackendStatus struct and string if the slot is in use.

Patch by Thomas Lee, with some changes by me.
2008-06-30 10:58:47 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 70da495d84 Fix spelling mistake in postgresql.conf.
Greg Sabino Mullane
2008-06-11 15:44:52 +00:00
Tom Lane 93c701edc6 Add support for tracking call counts and elapsed runtime for user-defined
functions.

Note that because this patch changes FmgrInfo, any external C functions
you might be testing with 8.4 will need to be recompiled.

Patch by Martin Pihlak, some editorialization by me (principally, removing
tracking of getrusage() numbers)
2008-05-15 00:17:41 +00:00
Tom Lane db147b3483 Allow the planner's estimate of the fraction of a cursor's rows that will be
retrieved to be controlled through a GUC variable.

Robert Hell
2008-05-02 21:26:10 +00:00
Tom Lane 87a2f050a9 Cause EXPLAIN's VERBOSE option to print the target list (output column list)
of each plan node, instead of its former behavior of dumping the internal
representation of the plan tree.  The latter display is still available for
those who really want it (see debug_print_plan), but uses for it are certainly
few and and far between.  Per discussion.

This patch also removes the explain_pretty_print GUC, which is obsoleted
by the change.
2008-04-18 01:42:17 +00:00
Tom Lane 2abf130a4e Increase the default value of log_min_messages to WARNING, so that
NOTICE-grade messages are not logged by default.  Per pgsql-hackers
discussion back on 21-Nov-2007.
2008-03-10 03:22:29 +00:00
Tom Lane d9384a4b73 Remove postmaster.c's check that NBuffers is at least twice MaxBackends.
With the addition of multiple autovacuum workers, our choices were to delete
the check, document the interaction with autovacuum_max_workers, or complicate
the check to try to hide that interaction.  Since this restriction has never
been adequate to ensure backends can't run out of pinnable buffers, it doesn't
really have enough excuse to live to justify the second or third choices.
Per discussion of a complaint from Andreas Kling (see also bug #3888).

This commit also removes several documentation references to this restriction,
but I'm not sure I got them all.
2008-03-09 04:56:28 +00:00
Tom Lane 47df4f6688 Add a GUC variable "synchronize_seqscans" to allow clients to disable the new
synchronized-scanning behavior, and make pg_dump disable sync scans so that
it will reliably preserve row ordering.  Per recent discussions.
2008-01-30 18:35:55 +00:00
Tom Lane b5518c8e88 Minor editorial improvements in documentation of session_replication_role;
in particular correct the obsolete claim that it can't be changed once
any plans have been cached.
2008-01-27 19:12:28 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 77015b59aa vacuum_cost_limit has a minimum value of 1, not zero; update
postgresql.conf comment to match.
2008-01-10 02:50:01 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut cac82bb20c Realign the running text in this file to 79 characters wide. Some other
copy-editing.
2007-12-07 16:44:56 +00:00
Magnus Hagander 4b606ee444 Add parameter krb_realm used by GSSAPI, SSPI and Kerberos
to validate the realm of the connecting user. By default
it's empty meaning no verification, which is the way
Kerberos authentication has traditionally worked in
PostgreSQL.
2007-11-09 17:31:07 +00:00
Tom Lane f18dfc4835 Minor improvements in backup and recovery:
- create a separate archive_mode GUC, on which archive_command is dependent

- %r option in recovery.conf sends last restartpoint to recovery command

- %r used in pg_standby, updated README

- minor other code cleanup in pg_standby

- doc on Warm Standby now mentions pg_standby and %r

- log_restartpoints recovery option emits LOG message at each restartpoint

- end of recovery now displays last transaction end time, as requested
  by Warren Little; also shown at each restartpoint

- restart archiver if needed to carry away WAL files at shutdown

Simon Riggs
2007-09-26 22:36:30 +00:00
Tom Lane 6f5c38dcd0 Just-in-time background writing strategy. This code avoids re-scanning
buffers that cannot possibly need to be cleaned, and estimates how many
buffers it should try to clean based on moving averages of recent allocation
requests and density of reusable buffers.  The patch also adds a couple
more columns to pg_stat_bgwriter to help measure the effectiveness of the
bgwriter.

Greg Smith, building on his own work and ideas from several other people,
in particular a much older patch from Itagaki Takahiro.
2007-09-25 20:03:38 +00:00
Tom Lane 48f7e64395 Simplify and rename some GUC variables, per various recent discussions:
* stats_start_collector goes away; we always start the collector process,
unless prevented by a problem with setting up the stats UDP socket.

* stats_reset_on_server_start goes away; it seems useless in view of the
availability of pg_stat_reset().

* stats_block_level and stats_row_level are merged into a single variable
"track_counts", which controls all reports sent to the collector process.

* stats_command_string is renamed to track_activities.

* log_autovacuum is renamed to log_autovacuum_min_duration to better reflect
its meaning.

The log_autovacuum change is not a compatibility issue since it didn't exist
before 8.3 anyway.  The other changes need to be release-noted.
2007-09-24 03:12:23 +00:00
Andrew Dunstan ad8fbb549a Cleanup items from csvlog changes, per ITAGAKI Takahiro. 2007-09-20 18:19:08 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 851745a97a Remove extra tab in postgresql.conf 2007-09-17 21:40:40 +00:00
Tom Lane 295e63983d Implement lazy XID allocation: transactions that do not modify any database
rows will normally never obtain an XID at all.  We already did things this way
for subtransactions, but this patch extends the concept to top-level
transactions.  In applications where there are lots of short read-only
transactions, this should improve performance noticeably; not so much from
removal of the actual XID-assignments, as from reduction of overhead that's
driven by the rate of XID consumption.  We add a concept of a "virtual
transaction ID" so that active transactions can be uniquely identified even
if they don't have a regular XID.  This is a much lighter-weight concept:
uniqueness of VXIDs is only guaranteed over the short term, and no on-disk
record is made about them.

Florian Pflug, with some editorialization by Tom.
2007-09-05 18:10:48 +00:00
Tom Lane 140d4ebcb4 Tsearch2 functionality migrates to core. The bulk of this work is by
Oleg Bartunov and Teodor Sigaev, but I did a lot of editorializing,
so anything that's broken is probably my fault.

Documentation is nonexistent as yet, but let's land the patch so we can
get some portability testing done.
2007-08-21 01:11:32 +00:00
Andrew Dunstan fd801f4faa Provide for logfiles in machine readable CSV format. In consequence, rename
redirect_stderr to logging_collector.
Original patch from Arul Shaji, subsequently modified by Greg Smith, and then
heavily modified by me.
2007-08-19 01:41:25 +00:00
Tom Lane bdd6b62245 Switch over to using the src/timezone functions for formatting timestamps
displayed in the postmaster log.  This avoids Windows-specific problems with
localized time zone names that are in the wrong encoding, and generally seems
like a good idea to forestall other potential platform-dependent issues.
To preserve the existing behavior that all backends will log in the same time
zone, create a new GUC variable log_timezone that can only be changed on a
system-wide basis, and reference log-related calculations to that zone instead
of the TimeZone variable.

This fixes the issue reported by Hiroshi Saito that timestamps printed by
xlog.c startup could be improperly localized on Windows.  We still need a
simpler patch for that problem in the back branches, however.
2007-08-04 01:26:54 +00:00
Tom Lane 4a78cdeb6b Support an optional asynchronous commit mode, in which we don't flush WAL
before reporting a transaction committed.  Data consistency is still
guaranteed (unlike setting fsync = off), but a crash may lose the effects
of the last few transactions.  Patch by Simon, some editorialization by Tom.
2007-08-01 22:45:09 +00:00
Tom Lane ad4295728e Create a new dedicated Postgres process, "wal writer", which exists to write
and fsync WAL at convenient intervals.  For the moment it just tries to
offload this work from backends, but soon it will be responsible for
guaranteeing a maximum delay before asynchronously-committed transactions
will be flushed to disk.

This is a portion of Simon Riggs' async-commit patch, committed to CVS
separately because a background WAL writer seems like it might be a good idea
independently of the async-commit feature.  I rebased walwriter.c on
bgwriter.c because it seemed like a more appropriate way of handling signals;
while the startup/shutdown logic in postmaster.c is more like autovac because
we want walwriter to quit before we start the shutdown checkpoint.
2007-07-24 04:54:09 +00:00
Alvaro Herrera 53d2951be7 Set a default autovacuum vacuum_cost_delay value of 20ms, to avoid excessive
I/O utilization, per discussion.

While at it, lower the autovacuum vacuum and analyze threshold values to 50
tuples.  It is a bit higher (i.e. more conservative) than what I originally
proposed but much better than the old values for small tables.
2007-07-24 01:53:56 +00:00
Magnus Hagander 6160106c74 Add support for GSSAPI authentication.
Documentation still being written, will be committed later.

Henry B. Hotz and Magnus Hagander
2007-07-10 13:14:22 +00:00
Tom Lane 9fc25c0511 Improve logging of checkpoints. Patch by Greg Smith, worked over
by Heikki and a little bit by me.
2007-06-30 19:12:02 +00:00
Tom Lane 867e2c91a0 Implement "distributed" checkpoints in which the checkpoint I/O is spread
over a fairly long period of time, rather than being spat out in a burst.
This happens only for background checkpoints carried out by the bgwriter;
other cases, such as a shutdown checkpoint, are still done at full speed.

Remove the "all buffers" scan in the bgwriter, and associated stats
infrastructure, since this seems no longer very useful when the checkpoint
itself is properly throttled.

Original patch by Itagaki Takahiro, reworked by Heikki Linnakangas,
and some minor API editorialization by me.
2007-06-28 00:02:40 +00:00
Tom Lane acfce502ba Create a GUC parameter temp_tablespaces that allows selection of the
tablespace(s) in which to store temp tables and temporary files.  This is a
list to allow spreading the load across multiple tablespaces (a random list
element is chosen each time a temp object is to be created).  Temp files are
not stored in per-database pgsql_tmp/ directories anymore, but per-tablespace
directories.

Jaime Casanova and Albert Cervera, with review by Bernd Helmle and Tom Lane.
2007-06-03 17:08:34 +00:00
Alvaro Herrera ef23a77441 Enable configurable log of autovacuum actions. Initial patch from Simon
Riggs, additional code and docs by me.  Per discussion.
2007-04-18 16:44:18 +00:00
Alvaro Herrera e2a186b03c Add a multi-worker capability to autovacuum. This allows multiple worker
processes to be running simultaneously.  Also, now autovacuum processes do not
count towards the max_connections limit; they are counted separately from
regular processes, and are limited by the new GUC variable
autovacuum_max_workers.

The launcher now has intelligence to launch workers on each database every
autovacuum_naptime seconds, limited only on the max amount of worker slots
available.

Also, the global worker I/O utilization is limited by the vacuum cost-based
delay feature.  Workers are "balanced" so that the total I/O consumption does
not exceed the established limit.  This part of the patch was contributed by
ITAGAKI Takahiro.

Per discussion.
2007-04-16 18:30:04 +00:00