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Stephen Frost 6c3ffd697e Add pg_read_all_data and pg_write_all_data roles
A commonly requested use-case is to have a role who can run an
unfettered pg_dump without having to explicitly GRANT that user access
to all tables, schemas, et al, without that role being a superuser.
This address that by adding a "pg_read_all_data" role which implicitly
gives any member of this role SELECT rights on all tables, views and
sequences, and USAGE rights on all schemas.

As there may be cases where it's also useful to have a role who has
write access to all objects, pg_write_all_data is also introduced and
gives users implicit INSERT, UPDATE and DELETE rights on all tables,
views and sequences.

These roles can not be logged into directly but instead should be
GRANT'd to a role which is able to log in.  As noted in the
documentation, if RLS is being used then an administrator may (or may
not) wish to set BYPASSRLS on the login role which these predefined
roles are GRANT'd to.

Reviewed-by: Georgios Kokolatos
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200828003023.GU29590@tamriel.snowman.net
2021-04-05 13:42:52 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera 6734e80695
Align some terms in arch-dev.sgml to glossary
This mostly adds links to the glossary to the existing text, instead of
using <firstterm>.  Heikki left this out of 29ad6595ef out of
stylistic concerns; these have since been addressed.

Author: Jürgen Purtz <juergen@purtz.de>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/67d7240f-8596-83fc-5e15-af06c128a0f5@purtz.de
2021-04-05 11:46:13 -04:00
Tom Lane ac9099fc1d Fix confusion in SP-GiST between attribute type and leaf storage type.
According to the documentation, the attType passed to the opclass
config function (and also relied on by the core code) is the type
of the heap column or expression being indexed.  But what was
actually being passed was the type stored for the index column.
This made no difference for user-defined SP-GiST opclasses,
because we weren't allowing the STORAGE clause of CREATE OPCLASS
to be used, so the two types would be the same.  But it's silly
not to allow that, seeing that the built-in poly_ops opclass
has a different value for opckeytype than opcintype, and that if you
want to do lossy storage then the types must really be different.
(Thus, user-defined opclasses doing lossy storage had to lie about
what type is in the index.)  Hence, remove the restriction, and make
sure that we use the input column type not opckeytype where relevant.

For reasons of backwards compatibility with existing user-defined
opclasses, we can't quite insist that the specified leafType match
the STORAGE clause; instead just add an amvalidate() warning if
they don't match.

Also fix some bugs that would only manifest when trying to return
index entries when attType is different from attLeafType.  It's not
too surprising that these have not been reported, because the only
usual reason for such a difference is to store the leaf value
lossily, rendering index-only scans impossible.

Add a src/test/modules module to exercise cases where attType is
different from attLeafType and yet index-only scan is supported.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3728741.1617381471@sss.pgh.pa.us
2021-04-04 14:28:57 -04:00
Tom Lane 55873a00e3 Improve psql's behavior when the editor is exited without saving.
When editing the previous query buffer, if the editor is exited
without modifying the temp file then clear the query buffer,
rather than re-loading (and probably re-executing) the previous
query buffer.  This reduces the probability of accidentally
re-executing something you didn't intend to.

Similarly, in "\e file", if the file isn't actually modified
then don't load it into the query buffer.  And in "\ef" and
"\ev", if no changes are made then clear the query buffer
instead of loading the function or view definition into it.

Cases where we fail to invoke the editor at all, or it returns
a nonzero status, are treated like the no-file-modification case.

Laurenz Albe, reviewed by Jacob Champion

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/0ba3f2a658bac6546d9934ab6ba63a805d46a49b.camel@cybertec.at
2021-04-03 17:38:31 -04:00
Thomas Munro c30f54ad73 Detect POLLHUP/POLLRDHUP while running queries.
Provide a new GUC check_client_connection_interval that can be used to
check whether the client connection has gone away, while running very
long queries.  It is disabled by default.

For now this uses a non-standard Linux extension (also adopted by at
least one other OS).  POLLRDHUP is not defined by POSIX, and other OSes
don't have a reliable way to know if a connection was closed without
actually trying to read or write.

In future we might consider trying to send a no-op/heartbeat message
instead, but that could require protocol changes.

Author: Sergey Cherkashin <s.cherkashin@postgrespro.ru>
Author: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Tatsuo Ishii <ishii@sraoss.co.jp>
Reviewed-by: Konstantin Knizhnik <k.knizhnik@postgrespro.ru>
Reviewed-by: Zhihong Yu <zyu@yugabyte.com>
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reviewed-by: Maksim Milyutin <milyutinma@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Tsunakawa, Takayuki/綱川 貴之 <tsunakawa.takay@fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> (much earlier version)
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/77def86b27e41f0efcba411460e929ae%40postgrespro.ru
2021-04-03 09:02:41 +13:00
Joe Conway 174edbe9f9 Clarify documentation of RESET ROLE
Command-line options, or previous "ALTER (ROLE|DATABASE) ...
SET ROLE ..." commands, can change the value of the default role
for a session. In the presence of one of these, RESET ROLE will
change the current user identifier to the default role rather
than the session user identifier. Fix the documentation to
reflect this reality. Backpatch to all supported versions.

Author: Nathan Bossart
Reviewed-By: Laurenz Albe, David G. Johnston, Joe Conway
Reported by: Nathan Bossart
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/flat/925134DB-8212-4F60-8AB1-B1231D750CB4%40amazon.com
Backpatch-through: 9.6
2021-04-02 13:48:42 -04:00
Fujii Masao b1be3074ac postgres_fdw: Add option to control whether to keep connections open.
This commit adds a new option keep_connections that controls
whether postgres_fdw keeps the connections to the foreign server open
so that the subsequent queries can re-use them. This option can only be
specified for a foreign server. The default is on. If set to off,
all connections to the foreign server will be discarded
at the end of transaction. Closed connections will be re-established
when they are necessary by future queries using a foreign table.

This option is useful, for example, when users want to prevent
the connections from eating up the foreign servers connections
capacity.

Author: Bharath Rupireddy
Reviewed-by: Alexey Kondratov, Vignesh C, Fujii Masao
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CALj2ACVvrp5=AVp2PupEm+nAC8S4buqR3fJMmaCoc7ftT0aD2A@mail.gmail.com
2021-04-02 19:45:42 +09:00
Michael Paquier 6fb66c268d doc: Clarify how to generate backup files with non-exclusive backups
The current instructions describing how to write the backup_label and
tablespace_map files are confusing.  For example, opening a file in text
mode on Windows and copy-pasting the file's contents would result in a
failure at recovery because of the extra CRLF characters generated.  The
documentation was not stating that clearly, and per discussion this is
not considered as a supported scenario.

This commit extends a bit the documentation to mention that it may be
required to open the file in binary mode before writing its data.

Reported-by: Wang Shenhao
Author: David Steele
Reviewed-by: Andrew Dunstan, Magnus Hagander
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/8373f61426074f2cb6be92e02f838389@G08CNEXMBPEKD06.g08.fujitsu.local
Backpatch-through: 9.6
2021-04-02 16:37:00 +09:00
Bruce Momjian 2bda93f813 doc: mention that intervening major releases can be skipped
Also mention that you should read the intervening major releases notes.
This change was also applied to the website.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210330144949.GA8259@momjian.us

Backpatch-through: 9.6
2021-04-01 21:17:33 -04:00
David Rowley 9eacee2e62 Add Result Cache executor node (take 2)
Here we add a new executor node type named "Result Cache".  The planner
can include this node type in the plan to have the executor cache the
results from the inner side of parameterized nested loop joins.  This
allows caching of tuples for sets of parameters so that in the event that
the node sees the same parameter values again, it can just return the
cached tuples instead of rescanning the inner side of the join all over
again.  Internally, result cache uses a hash table in order to quickly
find tuples that have been previously cached.

For certain data sets, this can significantly improve the performance of
joins.  The best cases for using this new node type are for join problems
where a large portion of the tuples from the inner side of the join have
no join partner on the outer side of the join.  In such cases, hash join
would have to hash values that are never looked up, thus bloating the hash
table and possibly causing it to multi-batch.  Merge joins would have to
skip over all of the unmatched rows.  If we use a nested loop join with a
result cache, then we only cache tuples that have at least one join
partner on the outer side of the join.  The benefits of using a
parameterized nested loop with a result cache increase when there are
fewer distinct values being looked up and the number of lookups of each
value is large.  Also, hash probes to lookup the cache can be much faster
than the hash probe in a hash join as it's common that the result cache's
hash table is much smaller than the hash join's due to result cache only
caching useful tuples rather than all tuples from the inner side of the
join.  This variation in hash probe performance is more significant when
the hash join's hash table no longer fits into the CPU's L3 cache, but the
result cache's hash table does.  The apparent "random" access of hash
buckets with each hash probe can cause a poor L3 cache hit ratio for large
hash tables.  Smaller hash tables generally perform better.

The hash table used for the cache limits itself to not exceeding work_mem
* hash_mem_multiplier in size.  We maintain a dlist of keys for this cache
and when we're adding new tuples and realize we've exceeded the memory
budget, we evict cache entries starting with the least recently used ones
until we have enough memory to add the new tuples to the cache.

For parameterized nested loop joins, we now consider using one of these
result cache nodes in between the nested loop node and its inner node.  We
determine when this might be useful based on cost, which is primarily
driven off of what the expected cache hit ratio will be.  Estimating the
cache hit ratio relies on having good distinct estimates on the nested
loop's parameters.

For now, the planner will only consider using a result cache for
parameterized nested loop joins.  This works for both normal joins and
also for LATERAL type joins to subqueries.  It is possible to use this new
node for other uses in the future.  For example, to cache results from
correlated subqueries.  However, that's not done here due to some
difficulties obtaining a distinct estimation on the outer plan to
calculate the estimated cache hit ratio.  Currently we plan the inner plan
before planning the outer plan so there is no good way to know if a result
cache would be useful or not since we can't estimate the number of times
the subplan will be called until the outer plan is generated.

The functionality being added here is newly introducing a dependency on
the return value of estimate_num_groups() during the join search.
Previously, during the join search, we only ever needed to perform
selectivity estimations.  With this commit, we need to use
estimate_num_groups() in order to estimate what the hit ratio on the
result cache will be.   In simple terms, if we expect 10 distinct values
and we expect 1000 outer rows, then we'll estimate the hit ratio to be
99%.  Since cache hits are very cheap compared to scanning the underlying
nodes on the inner side of the nested loop join, then this will
significantly reduce the planner's cost for the join.   However, it's
fairly easy to see here that things will go bad when estimate_num_groups()
incorrectly returns a value that's significantly lower than the actual
number of distinct values.  If this happens then that may cause us to make
use of a nested loop join with a result cache instead of some other join
type, such as a merge or hash join.  Our distinct estimations have been
known to be a source of trouble in the past, so the extra reliance on them
here could cause the planner to choose slower plans than it did previous
to having this feature.  Distinct estimations are also fairly hard to
estimate accurately when several tables have been joined already or when a
WHERE clause filters out a set of values that are correlated to the
expressions we're estimating the number of distinct value for.

For now, the costing we perform during query planning for result caches
does put quite a bit of faith in the distinct estimations being accurate.
When these are accurate then we should generally see faster execution
times for plans containing a result cache.  However, in the real world, we
may find that we need to either change the costings to put less trust in
the distinct estimations being accurate or perhaps even disable this
feature by default.  There's always an element of risk when we teach the
query planner to do new tricks that it decides to use that new trick at
the wrong time and causes a regression.  Users may opt to get the old
behavior by turning the feature off using the enable_resultcache GUC.
Currently, this is enabled by default.  It remains to be seen if we'll
maintain that setting for the release.

Additionally, the name "Result Cache" is the best name I could think of
for this new node at the time I started writing the patch.  Nobody seems
to strongly dislike the name. A few people did suggest other names but no
other name seemed to dominate in the brief discussion that there was about
names. Let's allow the beta period to see if the current name pleases
enough people.  If there's some consensus on a better name, then we can
change it before the release.  Please see the 2nd discussion link below
for the discussion on the "Result Cache" name.

Author: David Rowley
Reviewed-by: Andy Fan, Justin Pryzby, Zhihong Yu, Hou Zhijie
Tested-By: Konstantin Knizhnik
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAApHDvrPcQyQdWERGYWx8J%2B2DLUNgXu%2BfOSbQ1UscxrunyXyrQ%40mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAApHDvq=yQXr5kqhRviT2RhNKwToaWr9JAN5t+5_PzhuRJ3wvg@mail.gmail.com
2021-04-02 14:10:56 +13:00
Stephen Frost c9c41c7a33 Rename Default Roles to Predefined Roles
The term 'default roles' wasn't quite apt as these roles aren't able to
be modified or removed after installation, so rename them to be
'Predefined Roles' instead, adding an entry into the newly added
Obsolete Appendix to help users of current releases find the new
documentation.

Bruce Momjian and Stephen Frost

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/157742545062.1149.11052653770497832538%40wrigleys.postgresql.org
and https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20201120211304.GG16415@tamriel.snowman.net
2021-04-01 15:32:06 -04:00
Heikki Linnakangas ea1b99a661 Add 'noError' argument to encoding conversion functions.
With the 'noError' argument, you can try to convert a buffer without
knowing the character boundaries beforehand. The functions now need to
return the number of input bytes successfully converted.

This is is a backwards-incompatible change, if you have created a custom
encoding conversion with CREATE CONVERSION. This adds a check to
pg_upgrade for that, refusing the upgrade if there are any user-defined
encoding conversions. Custom conversions are very rare, there are no
commonly used extensions that I know of that uses that feature. No other
objects can depend on conversions, so if you do have one, you can fairly
easily drop it before upgrading, and recreate it after the upgrade with
an updated version.

Add regression tests for built-in encoding conversions. This doesn't cover
every conversion, but it covers all the internal functions in conv.c that
are used to implement the conversions.

Reviewed-by: John Naylor
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/e7861509-3960-538a-9025-b75a61188e01%40iki.fi
2021-04-01 11:45:22 +03:00
Michael Paquier ffd3391ea9 doc: Clarify use of ACCESS EXCLUSIVE lock in various sections
Some sections of the documentation used "exclusive lock" to describe
that an ACCESS EXCLUSIVE lock is taken during a given operation.  This
can be confusing to the reader as ACCESS SHARE is allowed with an
EXCLUSIVE lock is used, but that would not be the case with what is
described on those parts of the documentation.

Author: Greg Rychlewski
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAKemG7VptD=7fNWckFMsMVZL_zzvgDO6v2yVmQ+ZiBfc_06kCQ@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 9.6
2021-04-01 15:28:37 +09:00
Amit Kapila 4778826532 Ensure to send a prepare after we detect concurrent abort during decoding.
It is possible that while decoding a prepared transaction, it gets aborted
concurrently via a ROLLBACK PREPARED command. In that case, we were
skipping all the changes and directly sending Rollback Prepared when we
find the same in WAL. However, the downstream has no idea of the GID of
such a transaction. So, ensure to send prepare even when a concurrent
abort is detected.

Author: Ajin Cherian
Reviewed-by: Markus Wanner, Amit Kapila
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/f82133c6-6055-b400-7922-97dae9f2b50b@enterprisedb.com
2021-04-01 07:57:34 +05:30
David Rowley 28b3e3905c Revert b6002a796
This removes "Add Result Cache executor node".  It seems that something
weird is going on with the tracking of cache hits and misses as
highlighted by many buildfarm animals.  It's not yet clear what the
problem is as other parts of the plan indicate that the cache did work
correctly, it's just the hits and misses that were being reported as 0.

This is especially a bad time to have the buildfarm so broken, so
reverting before too many more animals go red.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAApHDvq_hydhfovm4=izgWs+C5HqEeRScjMbOgbpC-jRAeK3Yw@mail.gmail.com
2021-04-01 13:33:23 +13:00
David Rowley b6002a796d Add Result Cache executor node
Here we add a new executor node type named "Result Cache".  The planner
can include this node type in the plan to have the executor cache the
results from the inner side of parameterized nested loop joins.  This
allows caching of tuples for sets of parameters so that in the event that
the node sees the same parameter values again, it can just return the
cached tuples instead of rescanning the inner side of the join all over
again.  Internally, result cache uses a hash table in order to quickly
find tuples that have been previously cached.

For certain data sets, this can significantly improve the performance of
joins.  The best cases for using this new node type are for join problems
where a large portion of the tuples from the inner side of the join have
no join partner on the outer side of the join.  In such cases, hash join
would have to hash values that are never looked up, thus bloating the hash
table and possibly causing it to multi-batch.  Merge joins would have to
skip over all of the unmatched rows.  If we use a nested loop join with a
result cache, then we only cache tuples that have at least one join
partner on the outer side of the join.  The benefits of using a
parameterized nested loop with a result cache increase when there are
fewer distinct values being looked up and the number of lookups of each
value is large.  Also, hash probes to lookup the cache can be much faster
than the hash probe in a hash join as it's common that the result cache's
hash table is much smaller than the hash join's due to result cache only
caching useful tuples rather than all tuples from the inner side of the
join.  This variation in hash probe performance is more significant when
the hash join's hash table no longer fits into the CPU's L3 cache, but the
result cache's hash table does.  The apparent "random" access of hash
buckets with each hash probe can cause a poor L3 cache hit ratio for large
hash tables.  Smaller hash tables generally perform better.

The hash table used for the cache limits itself to not exceeding work_mem
* hash_mem_multiplier in size.  We maintain a dlist of keys for this cache
and when we're adding new tuples and realize we've exceeded the memory
budget, we evict cache entries starting with the least recently used ones
until we have enough memory to add the new tuples to the cache.

For parameterized nested loop joins, we now consider using one of these
result cache nodes in between the nested loop node and its inner node.  We
determine when this might be useful based on cost, which is primarily
driven off of what the expected cache hit ratio will be.  Estimating the
cache hit ratio relies on having good distinct estimates on the nested
loop's parameters.

For now, the planner will only consider using a result cache for
parameterized nested loop joins.  This works for both normal joins and
also for LATERAL type joins to subqueries.  It is possible to use this new
node for other uses in the future.  For example, to cache results from
correlated subqueries.  However, that's not done here due to some
difficulties obtaining a distinct estimation on the outer plan to
calculate the estimated cache hit ratio.  Currently we plan the inner plan
before planning the outer plan so there is no good way to know if a result
cache would be useful or not since we can't estimate the number of times
the subplan will be called until the outer plan is generated.

The functionality being added here is newly introducing a dependency on
the return value of estimate_num_groups() during the join search.
Previously, during the join search, we only ever needed to perform
selectivity estimations.  With this commit, we need to use
estimate_num_groups() in order to estimate what the hit ratio on the
result cache will be.   In simple terms, if we expect 10 distinct values
and we expect 1000 outer rows, then we'll estimate the hit ratio to be
99%.  Since cache hits are very cheap compared to scanning the underlying
nodes on the inner side of the nested loop join, then this will
significantly reduce the planner's cost for the join.   However, it's
fairly easy to see here that things will go bad when estimate_num_groups()
incorrectly returns a value that's significantly lower than the actual
number of distinct values.  If this happens then that may cause us to make
use of a nested loop join with a result cache instead of some other join
type, such as a merge or hash join.  Our distinct estimations have been
known to be a source of trouble in the past, so the extra reliance on them
here could cause the planner to choose slower plans than it did previous
to having this feature.  Distinct estimations are also fairly hard to
estimate accurately when several tables have been joined already or when a
WHERE clause filters out a set of values that are correlated to the
expressions we're estimating the number of distinct value for.

For now, the costing we perform during query planning for result caches
does put quite a bit of faith in the distinct estimations being accurate.
When these are accurate then we should generally see faster execution
times for plans containing a result cache.  However, in the real world, we
may find that we need to either change the costings to put less trust in
the distinct estimations being accurate or perhaps even disable this
feature by default.  There's always an element of risk when we teach the
query planner to do new tricks that it decides to use that new trick at
the wrong time and causes a regression.  Users may opt to get the old
behavior by turning the feature off using the enable_resultcache GUC.
Currently, this is enabled by default.  It remains to be seen if we'll
maintain that setting for the release.

Additionally, the name "Result Cache" is the best name I could think of
for this new node at the time I started writing the patch.  Nobody seems
to strongly dislike the name. A few people did suggest other names but no
other name seemed to dominate in the brief discussion that there was about
names. Let's allow the beta period to see if the current name pleases
enough people.  If there's some consensus on a better name, then we can
change it before the release.  Please see the 2nd discussion link below
for the discussion on the "Result Cache" name.

Author: David Rowley
Reviewed-by: Andy Fan, Justin Pryzby, Zhihong Yu
Tested-By: Konstantin Knizhnik
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAApHDvrPcQyQdWERGYWx8J%2B2DLUNgXu%2BfOSbQ1UscxrunyXyrQ%40mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAApHDvq=yQXr5kqhRviT2RhNKwToaWr9JAN5t+5_PzhuRJ3wvg@mail.gmail.com
2021-04-01 12:32:22 +13:00
Stephen Frost 3b0c647bbf Add a docs section for obsoleted and renamed functions and settings
The new appendix groups information on renamed or removed settings,
commands, etc into an out-of-the-way part of the docs.

The original id elements are retained in each subsection to ensure that
the same filenames are produced for HTML docs. This prevents /current/
links on the web from breaking, and allows users of the web docs
to follow links from old version pages to info on the changes in the
new version. Prior to this change, a link to /current/ for renamed
sections like the recovery.conf docs would just 404. Similarly if
someone searched for recovery.conf they would find the pg11 docs,
but there would be no /12/ or /current/ link, so they couldn't easily
find out that it was removed in pg12 or how to adapt.

Index entries are also added so that there's a breadcrumb trail for
users to follow when they know the old name, but not what we changed it
to. So a user who is trying to find out how to set standby_mode in
PostgreSQL 12+, or where pg_resetxlog went, now has more chance of
finding that information.

Craig Ringer and Stephen Frost
Reviewed-by: Euler Taveira
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAGRY4nzPNOyYQ_1-pWYToUVqQ0ThqP5jdURnJMZPm539fdizOg%40mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 10
2021-03-31 16:23:25 -04:00
Tom Lane 86dc90056d Rework planning and execution of UPDATE and DELETE.
This patch makes two closely related sets of changes:

1. For UPDATE, the subplan of the ModifyTable node now only delivers
the new values of the changed columns (i.e., the expressions computed
in the query's SET clause) plus row identity information such as CTID.
ModifyTable must re-fetch the original tuple to merge in the old
values of any unchanged columns.  The core advantage of this is that
the changed columns are uniform across all tables of an inherited or
partitioned target relation, whereas the other columns might not be.
A secondary advantage, when the UPDATE involves joins, is that less
data needs to pass through the plan tree.  The disadvantage of course
is an extra fetch of each tuple to be updated.  However, that seems to
be very nearly free in context; even worst-case tests don't show it to
add more than a couple percent to the total query cost.  At some point
it might be interesting to combine the re-fetch with the tuple access
that ModifyTable must do anyway to mark the old tuple dead; but that
would require a good deal of refactoring and it seems it wouldn't buy
all that much, so this patch doesn't attempt it.

2. For inherited UPDATE/DELETE, instead of generating a separate
subplan for each target relation, we now generate a single subplan
that is just exactly like a SELECT's plan, then stick ModifyTable
on top of that.  To let ModifyTable know which target relation a
given incoming row refers to, a tableoid junk column is added to
the row identity information.  This gets rid of the horrid hack
that was inheritance_planner(), eliminating O(N^2) planning cost
and memory consumption in cases where there were many unprunable
target relations.

Point 2 of course requires point 1, so that there is a uniform
definition of the non-junk columns to be returned by the subplan.
We can't insist on uniform definition of the row identity junk
columns however, if we want to keep the ability to have both
plain and foreign tables in a partitioning hierarchy.  Since
it wouldn't scale very far to have every child table have its
own row identity column, this patch includes provisions to merge
similar row identity columns into one column of the subplan result.
In particular, we can merge the whole-row Vars typically used as
row identity by FDWs into one column by pretending they are type
RECORD.  (It's still okay for the actual composite Datums to be
labeled with the table's rowtype OID, though.)

There is more that can be done to file down residual inefficiencies
in this patch, but it seems to be committable now.

FDW authors should note several API changes:

* The argument list for AddForeignUpdateTargets() has changed, and so
has the method it must use for adding junk columns to the query.  Call
add_row_identity_var() instead of manipulating the parse tree directly.
You might want to reconsider exactly what you're adding, too.

* PlanDirectModify() must now work a little harder to find the
ForeignScan plan node; if the foreign table is part of a partitioning
hierarchy then the ForeignScan might not be the direct child of
ModifyTable.  See postgres_fdw for sample code.

* To check whether a relation is a target relation, it's no
longer sufficient to compare its relid to root->parse->resultRelation.
Instead, check it against all_result_relids or leaf_result_relids,
as appropriate.

Amit Langote and Tom Lane

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+HiwqHpHdqdDn48yCEhynnniahH78rwcrv1rEX65-fsZGBOLQ@mail.gmail.com
2021-03-31 11:52:37 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 055fee7eb4 Allow an alias to be attached to a JOIN ... USING
This allows something like

    SELECT ... FROM t1 JOIN t2 USING (a, b, c) AS x

where x has the columns a, b, c and unlike a regular alias it does not
hide the range variables of the tables being joined t1 and t2.

Per SQL:2016 feature F404 "Range variable for common column names".

Reviewed-by: Vik Fearing <vik.fearing@2ndquadrant.com>
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/454638cf-d563-ab76-a585-2564428062af@2ndquadrant.com
2021-03-31 17:10:50 +02:00
Etsuro Fujita 27e1f14563 Add support for asynchronous execution.
This implements asynchronous execution, which runs multiple parts of a
non-parallel-aware Append concurrently rather than serially to improve
performance when possible.  Currently, the only node type that can be
run concurrently is a ForeignScan that is an immediate child of such an
Append.  In the case where such ForeignScans access data on different
remote servers, this would run those ForeignScans concurrently, and
overlap the remote operations to be performed simultaneously, so it'll
improve the performance especially when the operations involve
time-consuming ones such as remote join and remote aggregation.

We may extend this to other node types such as joins or aggregates over
ForeignScans in the future.

This also adds the support for postgres_fdw, which is enabled by the
table-level/server-level option "async_capable".  The default is false.

Robert Haas, Kyotaro Horiguchi, Thomas Munro, and myself.  This commit
is mostly based on the patch proposed by Robert Haas, but also uses
stuff from the patch proposed by Kyotaro Horiguchi and from the patch
proposed by Thomas Munro.  Reviewed by Kyotaro Horiguchi, Konstantin
Knizhnik, Andrey Lepikhov, Movead Li, Thomas Munro, Justin Pryzby, and
others.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BTgmoaXQEt4tZ03FtQhnzeDEMzBck%2BLrni0UWHVVgOTnA6C1w%40mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKGLBRyu0rHrDCMC4%3DRn3252gogyp1SjOgG8SEKKZv%3DFwfQ%40mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200228.170650.667613673625155850.horikyota.ntt%40gmail.com
2021-03-31 18:45:00 +09:00
Peter Eisentraut 91c5a8caaa Add errhint_plural() function and make use of it
Similar to existing errmsg_plural() and errdetail_plural().  Some
errhint() calls hadn't received the proper plural treatment yet.
2021-03-31 09:16:25 +02:00
Peter Eisentraut 287d2a97c1 doc: Remove Cyrillic from unistr example
Not supported by PDF build right now, so let's do without it.
2021-03-31 08:20:35 +02:00
Amit Kapila 9f45631766 Doc: Use consistent terminology for tablesync slots.
At some places in the docs, we refer to them as tablesync slots and at other
places as table synchronization slots. For consistency, we refer to them as
table synchronization slots at all places.

Author: Peter Smith
Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAHut+PvzYNKCeZ=kKBDkh3dw-r=2D3fk=nNc9SXSW=CZGk69xg@mail.gmail.com
2021-03-31 08:17:50 +05:30
Michael Paquier 6568cef26e Add support for --extension in pg_dump
When specified, only extensions matching the given pattern are included
in dumps.  Similarly to --table and --schema, when --strict-names is
used,  a perfect match is required.  Also, like the two other options,
this new option offers no guarantee that dependent objects have been
dumped, so a restore may fail on a clean database.

Tests are added in test_pg_dump/, checking after a set of positive and
negative cases, with or without an extension's contents added to the
dump generated.

Author: Guillaume Lelarge
Reviewed-by: David Fetter, Tom Lane, Michael Paquier, Asif Rehman,
Julien Rouhaud
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAECtzeXOt4cnMU5+XMZzxBPJ_wu76pNy6HZKPRBL-j7yj1E4+g@mail.gmail.com
2021-03-31 09:12:34 +09:00
Alvaro Herrera 198b3716db
Improve PQtrace() output format
Transform the PQtrace output format from its ancient (and mostly
useless) byte-level output format to a logical-message-level output,
making it much more usable.  This implementation allows the printing
code to be written (as it indeed was) by looking at the protocol
documentation, which gives more confidence that the three (docs, trace
code and actual code) actually match.

Author: 岩田 彩 (Aya Iwata) <iwata.aya@fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: 綱川 貴之 (Takayuki Tsunakawa) <tsunakawa.takay@fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Kirk Jamison <k.jamison@fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Reviewed-by: 黒田 隼人 (Hayato Kuroda) <kuroda.hayato@fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: "Nagaura, Ryohei" <nagaura.ryohei@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Ryo Matsumura <matsumura.ryo@fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Greg Nancarrow <gregn4422@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jim Doty <jdoty@pivotal.io>
Reviewed-by: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/71E660EB361DF14299875B198D4CE5423DE3FBA4@g01jpexmbkw25
2021-03-30 20:12:34 -03:00
Amit Kapila f64ea6dc5c Add a xid argument to the filter_prepare callback for output plugins.
Along with gid, this provides a different way to identify the transaction.
The users that use xid in some way to prepare the transactions can use it
to filter prepare transactions. The later commands COMMIT PREPARED or
ROLLBACK PREPARED carries both identifiers, providing an output plugin the
choice of what to use.

Author: Markus Wanner
Reviewed-by: Vignesh C, Amit Kapila
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ee280000-7355-c4dc-e47b-2436e7be959c@enterprisedb.com
2021-03-30 10:34:43 +05:30
Andrew Dunstan 6d7a6feac4 Allow matching the DN of a client certificate for authentication
Currently we only recognize the Common Name (CN) of a certificate's
subject to be matched against the user name. Thus certificates with
subjects '/OU=eng/CN=fred' and '/OU=sales/CN=fred' will have the same
connection rights. This patch provides an option to match the whole
Distinguished Name (DN) instead of just the CN. On any hba line using
client certificate identity, there is an option 'clientname' which can
have values of 'DN' or 'CN'. The default is 'CN', the current procedure.

The DN is matched against the RFC2253 formatted DN, which looks like
'CN=fred,OU=eng'.

This facility of probably best used in conjunction with an ident map.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/92e70110-9273-d93c-5913-0bccb6562740@dunslane.net

Reviewed-By: Michael Paquier, Daniel Gustafsson, Jacob Champion
2021-03-29 15:49:39 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut f37fec837c Add unistr function
This allows decoding a string with Unicode escape sequences.  It is
similar to Unicode escape strings, but offers some more flexibility.

Author: Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Asif Rehman <asifr.rehman@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CAFj8pRA5GnKT+gDVwbVRH2ep451H_myBt+NTz8RkYUARE9+qOQ@mail.gmail.com
2021-03-29 11:56:53 +02:00
Stephen Frost b64654d6c4 doc: Define TLS as an acronym
Commit c676315658 added an acronym reference for "TLS" but the definition
was never added.

Author: Daniel Gustafsson
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier
Backpatch-through: 9.6
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/27109504-82DB-41A8-8E63-C0498314F5B0@yesql.se
2021-03-28 11:27:59 -04:00
Tomas Vondra a4d75c86bf Extended statistics on expressions
Allow defining extended statistics on expressions, not just just on
simple column references.  With this commit, expressions are supported
by all existing extended statistics kinds, improving the same types of
estimates. A simple example may look like this:

  CREATE TABLE t (a int);
  CREATE STATISTICS s ON mod(a,10), mod(a,20) FROM t;
  ANALYZE t;

The collected statistics are useful e.g. to estimate queries with those
expressions in WHERE or GROUP BY clauses:

  SELECT * FROM t WHERE mod(a,10) = 0 AND mod(a,20) = 0;

  SELECT 1 FROM t GROUP BY mod(a,10), mod(a,20);

This introduces new internal statistics kind 'e' (expressions) which is
built automatically when the statistics object definition includes any
expressions. This represents single-expression statistics, as if there
was an expression index (but without the index maintenance overhead).
The statistics is stored in pg_statistics_ext_data as an array of
composite types, which is possible thanks to 79f6a942bd.

CREATE STATISTICS allows building statistics on a single expression, in
which case in which case it's not possible to specify statistics kinds.

A new system view pg_stats_ext_exprs can be used to display expression
statistics, similarly to pg_stats and pg_stats_ext views.

ALTER TABLE ... ALTER COLUMN ... TYPE now treats indexes the same way it
treats indexes, i.e. it drops and recreates the statistics. This means
all statistics are reset, and we no longer try to preserve at least the
functional dependencies. This should not be a major issue in practice,
as the functional dependencies actually rely on per-column statistics,
which were always reset anyway.

Author: Tomas Vondra
Reviewed-by: Justin Pryzby, Dean Rasheed, Zhihong Yu
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ad7891d2-e90c-b446-9fe2-7419143847d7%40enterprisedb.com
2021-03-27 00:01:11 +01:00
Noah Misch a14a0118a1 Add "pg_database_owner" default role.
Membership consists, implicitly, of the current database owner.  Expect
use in template databases.  Once pg_database_owner has rights within a
template, each owner of a database instantiated from that template will
exercise those rights.

Reviewed by John Naylor.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20201228043148.GA1053024@rfd.leadboat.com
2021-03-26 10:42:17 -07:00
Tomas Vondra ab596105b5 BRIN minmax-multi indexes
Adds BRIN opclasses similar to the existing minmax, except that instead
of summarizing the page range into a single [min,max] range, the summary
consists of multiple ranges and/or points, allowing gaps. This allows
more efficient handling of data with poor correlation to physical
location within the table and/or outlier values, for which the regular
minmax opclassed tend to work poorly.

It's possible to specify the number of values kept for each page range,
either as a single point or an interval boundary.

  CREATE TABLE t (a int);
  CREATE INDEX ON t
   USING brin (a int4_minmax_multi_ops(values_per_range=16));

When building the summary, the values are combined into intervals with
the goal to minimize the "covering" (sum of interval lengths), using a
support procedure computing distance between two values.

Bump catversion, due to various catalog changes.

Author: Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@postgresql.org>
Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Reviewed-by: Alexander Korotkov <aekorotkov@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Sokolov Yura <y.sokolov@postgrespro.ru>
Reviewed-by: John Naylor <john.naylor@enterprisedb.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/c1138ead-7668-f0e1-0638-c3be3237e812@2ndquadrant.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/5d78b774-7e9c-c94e-12cf-fef51cc89b1a%402ndquadrant.com
2021-03-26 13:54:30 +01:00
Tomas Vondra 77b88cd1bb BRIN bloom indexes
Adds a BRIN opclass using a Bloom filter to summarize the range. Indexes
using the new opclasses allow only equality queries (similar to hash
indexes), but that works fine for data like UUID, MAC addresses etc. for
which range queries are not very common. This also means the indexes
work for data that is not well correlated to physical location within
the table, or perhaps even entirely random (which is a common issue with
existing BRIN minmax opclasses).

It's possible to specify opclass parameters with the usual Bloom filter
parameters, i.e. the desired false-positive rate and the expected number
of distinct values per page range.

  CREATE TABLE t (a int);
  CREATE INDEX ON t
   USING brin (a int4_bloom_ops(false_positive_rate = 0.05,
                                n_distinct_per_range = 100));

The opclasses do not operate on the indexed values directly, but compute
a 32-bit hash first, and the Bloom filter is built on the hash value.
Collisions should not be a huge issue though, as the number of distinct
values in a page ranges is usually fairly small.

Bump catversion, due to various catalog changes.

Author: Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@postgresql.org>
Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Reviewed-by: Alexander Korotkov <aekorotkov@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Sokolov Yura <y.sokolov@postgrespro.ru>
Reviewed-by: Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com>
Reviewed-by: John Naylor <john.naylor@enterprisedb.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/c1138ead-7668-f0e1-0638-c3be3237e812@2ndquadrant.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/5d78b774-7e9c-c94e-12cf-fef51cc89b1a%402ndquadrant.com
2021-03-26 13:35:32 +01:00
Tomas Vondra a681e3c107 Support the old signature of BRIN consistent function
Commit a1c649d889 changed the signature of the BRIN consistent function
by adding a new required parameter.  Treating the parameter as optional,
which would make the change backwards incompatibile, was rejected with
the justification that there are few out-of-core extensions, so it's not
worth adding making the code more complex, and it's better to deal with
that in the extension.

But after further thought, that would be rather problematic, because
pg_upgrade simply dumps catalog contents and the same version of an
extension needs to work on both PostgreSQL versions. Supporting both
variants of the consistent function (with 3 or 4 arguments) makes that
possible.

The signature is not the only thing that changed, as commit 72ccf55cb9
moved handling of IS [NOT] NULL keys from the support procedures. But
this change is backward compatible - handling the keys in exension is
unnecessary, but harmless. The consistent function will do a bit of
unnecessary work, but it should be very cheap.

This also undoes most of the changes to the existing opclasses (minmax
and inclusion), making them use the old signature again. This should
make backpatching simpler.

Catversion bump, because of changes in pg_amproc.

Author: Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@postgresql.org>
Author: Nikita Glukhov <n.gluhov@postgrespro.ru>
Reviewed-by: Mark Dilger <hornschnorter@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Alexander Korotkov <aekorotkov@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Masahiko Sawada <masahiko.sawada@enterprisedb.com>
Reviewed-by: John Naylor <john.naylor@enterprisedb.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/c1138ead-7668-f0e1-0638-c3be3237e812@2ndquadrant.com
2021-03-26 13:17:58 +01:00
Alvaro Herrera 71f4c8c6f7
ALTER TABLE ... DETACH PARTITION ... CONCURRENTLY
Allow a partition be detached from its partitioned table without
blocking concurrent queries, by running in two transactions and only
requiring ShareUpdateExclusive in the partitioned table.

Because it runs in two transactions, it cannot be used in a transaction
block.  This is the main reason to use dedicated syntax: so that users
can choose to use the original mode if they need it.  But also, it
doesn't work when a default partition exists (because an exclusive lock
would still need to be obtained on it, in order to change its partition
constraint.)

In case the second transaction is cancelled or a crash occurs, there's
ALTER TABLE .. DETACH PARTITION .. FINALIZE, which executes the final
steps.

The main trick to make this work is the addition of column
pg_inherits.inhdetachpending, initially false; can only be set true in
the first part of this command.  Once that is committed, concurrent
transactions that use a PartitionDirectory will include or ignore
partitions so marked: in optimizer they are ignored if the row is marked
committed for the snapshot; in executor they are always included.  As a
result, and because of the way PartitionDirectory caches partition
descriptors, queries that were planned before the detach will see the
rows in the detached partition and queries that are planned after the
detach, won't.

A CHECK constraint is created that duplicates the partition constraint.
This is probably not strictly necessary, and some users will prefer to
remove it afterwards, but if the partition is re-attached to a
partitioned table, the constraint needn't be rechecked.

Author: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Reviewed-by: Amit Langote <amitlangote09@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200803234854.GA24158@alvherre.pgsql
2021-03-25 18:00:28 -03:00
Alvaro Herrera 650d623530
Document lock obtained during partition detach
On partition detach, we acquire a SHARE lock on all tables that
reference the partitioned table that we're detaching a partition from,
but failed to document this fact.  My oversight in commit f56f8f8da6.
Repair.  Backpatch to 12.

Author: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210325180244.GA12738@alvherre.pgsql
2021-03-25 16:30:22 -03:00
Michael Meskes ad8305a43d Add DECLARE STATEMENT command to ECPG
This command declares a SQL identifier for a SQL statement to be used in other
embedded SQL statements. The identifier is linked to a connection.

Author: Hayato Kuroda <kuroda.hayato@fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Shawn Wang <shawn.wang.pg@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/TY2PR01MB24438A52DB04E71D0E501452F5630@TY2PR01MB2443.jpnprd01.prod.outlook.com
2021-03-24 21:09:24 +01:00
Peter Eisentraut 5173e42892 doc: Fix typo
Reported-by: Erik Rijkers <er@xs4all.nl>
2021-03-24 20:42:51 +01:00
Stephen Frost bbcc4eb2e0 Change checkpoint_completion_target default to 0.9
Common recommendations are that the checkpoint should be spread out as
much as possible, provided we avoid having it take too long.  This
change updates the default to 0.9 (from 0.5) to match that
recommendation.

There was some debate about possibly removing the option entirely but it
seems there may be some corner-cases where having it set much lower to
try to force the checkpoint to be as fast as possible could result in
fewer periods of time of reduced performance due to kernel flushing.
General agreement is that the "spread more" is the preferred approach
though and those who need to tune away from that value are much less
common.

Reviewed-By: Michael Paquier, Peter Eisentraut, Tom Lane, David Steele,
Nathan Bossart
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20201207175329.GM16415%40tamriel.snowman.net
2021-03-24 13:07:51 -04:00
Robert Haas e5595de03e Tidy up more loose ends related to configurable TOAST compression.
Change the default_toast_compression GUC to be an enum rather than
a string. Earlier, uncommitted versions of the patch supported using
CREATE ACCESS METHOD to add new compression methods to a running
system, but that idea was dropped before commit. So, we can simplify
the GUC handling as well, which has the nice side effect of improving
the error messages.

While updating the documentation to reflect the new GUC type, also
move it back to the right place in the list. I moved this while
revising what became commit 24f0e395ac,
but apparently the intended ordering is "alphabetical" rather than
"whatever Robert thinks looks nice."

Rejigger things to avoid having access/toast_compression.h depend on
utils/guc.h, so that we don't end up with every file that includes
it also depending on something largely unrelated. Move a few
inline functions back into the C source file partly to help reduce
dependencies and partly just to avoid clutter. A few very minor
cosmetic fixes.

Original patch by Justin Pryzby, but very heavily edited by me,
and reverse reviewed by him and also reviewed by by Tom Lane.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmoYp=GT_ztUCeZg2i4hkHAQv8o=-nVJ1-TKWTG1zQOmOpg@mail.gmail.com
2021-03-24 12:36:08 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 49ab61f0bd Add date_bin function
Similar to date_trunc, but allows binning by an arbitrary interval
rather than just full units.

Author: John Naylor <john.naylor@enterprisedb.com>
Reviewed-by: David Fetter <david@fetter.org>
Reviewed-by: Isaac Morland <isaac.morland@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Reviewed-by: Artur Zakirov <zaartur@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CACPNZCt4buQFRgy6DyjuZS-2aPDpccRkrJBmgUfwYc1KiaXYxg@mail.gmail.com
2021-03-24 16:18:24 +01:00
Amit Kapila 26acb54a13 Revert "Enable parallel SELECT for "INSERT INTO ... SELECT ..."."
To allow inserts in parallel-mode this feature has to ensure that all the
constraints, triggers, etc. are parallel-safe for the partition hierarchy
which is costly and we need to find a better way to do that. Additionally,
we could have used existing cached information in some cases like indexes,
domains, etc. to determine the parallel-safety.

List of commits reverted, in reverse chronological order:

ed62d3737c Doc: Update description for parallel insert reloption.
c8f78b6161 Add a new GUC and a reloption to enable inserts in parallel-mode.
c5be48f092 Improve FK trigger parallel-safety check added by 05c8482f7f.
e2cda3c20a Fix use of relcache TriggerDesc field introduced by commit 05c8482f7f.
e4e87a32cc Fix valgrind issue in commit 05c8482f7f.
05c8482f7f Enable parallel SELECT for "INSERT INTO ... SELECT ...".

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/E1lMiB9-0001c3-SY@gemulon.postgresql.org
2021-03-24 11:29:15 +05:30
Fujii Masao 84007043fc Rename wait event WalrcvExit to WalReceiverExit.
Commit de829ddf23 added wait event WalrcvExit. But its name is not
consistent with other wait events like WalReceiverMain or
WalReceiverWaitStart, etc. So this commit renames WalrcvExit to
WalReceiverExit.

Author: Fujii Masao
Reviewed-by: Thomas Munro
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/cced9995-8fa2-7b22-9d91-3f22a2b8c23c@oss.nttdata.com
2021-03-24 10:37:54 +09:00
Peter Eisentraut a6715af1e7 Add bit_count SQL function
This function for bit and bytea counts the set bits in the bit or byte
string.  Internally, we use the existing popcount functionality.

For the name, after some discussion, we settled on bit_count, which
also exists with this meaning in MySQL, Java, and Python.

Author: David Fetter <david@fetter.org>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/20201230105535.GJ13234@fetter.org
2021-03-23 10:13:58 +01:00
Tomas Vondra a5f002ad9a Use correct spelling of statistics kind
A couple error messages and comments used 'statistic kind', not the
correct 'statistics kind'. Fix and backpatch all the way back to 10,
where extended statistics were introduced.

Backpatch-through: 10
2021-03-23 05:01:35 +01:00
Fujii Masao 1e3e8b51bd Change the type of WalReceiverWaitStart wait event from Client to IPC.
Previously the type of this wait event was Client. But while this
wait event is being reported, walreceiver process is waiting for
the startup process to set initial data for streaming replication.
It's not waiting for any activity on a socket connected to a user
application or walsender. So this commit changes the type for
WalReceiverWaitStart wait event to IPC.

Author: Fujii Masao
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/cdacc27c-37ff-f1a4-20e2-ce19933abfcc@oss.nttdata.com
2021-03-23 10:09:42 +09:00
Tomas Vondra a1c649d889 Pass all scan keys to BRIN consistent function at once
This commit changes how we pass scan keys to BRIN consistent function.
Instead of passing them one by one, we now pass all scan keys for a
given attribute at once. That makes the consistent function a bit more
complex, as it has to loop through the keys, but it does allow more
elaborate opclasses that can use multiple keys to eliminate ranges much
more effectively.

The existing BRIN opclasses (minmax, inclusion) don't really benefit
from this change. The primary purpose is to allow future opclases to
benefit from seeing all keys at once.

This does change the BRIN API, because the signature of the consistent
function changes (a new parameter with number of scan keys). So this
breaks existing opclasses, and will require supporting two variants of
the code for different PostgreSQL versions. We've considered supporting
two variants of the consistent, but we've decided not to do that.
Firstly, there's another patch that moves handling of NULL values from
the opclass, which means the opclasses need to be updated anyway.
Secondly, we're not aware of any out-of-core BRIN opclasses, so it does
not seem worth the extra complexity.

Bump catversion, because of pg_proc changes.

Author: Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@postgresql.org>
Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Reviewed-by: Mark Dilger <hornschnorter@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Alexander Korotkov <aekorotkov@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: John Naylor <john.naylor@enterprisedb.com>
Reviewed-by: Nikita Glukhov <n.gluhov@postgrespro.ru>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/c1138ead-7668-f0e1-0638-c3be3237e812@2ndquadrant.com
2021-03-23 00:45:03 +01:00
Robert Haas 24f0e395ac docs: Fix omissions related to configurable TOAST compression.
Previously, the default_toast_compression GUC was not documented,
and neither was pg_dump's new --no-toast-compression option.

Justin Pryzby and Robert Haas

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/20210321235544.GD4203@telsasoft.com
2021-03-22 10:34:10 -04:00
Thomas Munro 61752afb26 Provide recovery_init_sync_method=syncfs.
Since commit 2ce439f3 we have opened every file in the data directory
and called fsync() at the start of crash recovery.  This can be very
slow if there are many files, leading to field complaints of systems
taking minutes or even hours to begin crash recovery.

Provide an alternative method, for Linux only, where we call syncfs() on
every possibly different filesystem under the data directory.  This is
equivalent, but avoids faulting in potentially many inodes from
potentially slow storage.

The new mode comes with some caveats, described in the documentation, so
the default value for the new setting is "fsync", preserving the older
behavior.

Reported-by: Michael Brown <michael.brown@discourse.org>
Reviewed-by: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@oss.nttdata.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul Guo <guopa@vmware.com>
Reviewed-by: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Reviewed-by: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
Reviewed-by: David Steele <david@pgmasters.net>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/11bc2bb7-ecb5-3ad0-b39f-df632734cd81%40discourse.org
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEET0ZHGnbXmi8yF3ywsDZvb3m9CbdsGZgfTXscQ6agcbzcZAw%40mail.gmail.com
2021-03-20 12:07:28 +13:00
Robert Haas bbe0a81db6 Allow configurable LZ4 TOAST compression.
There is now a per-column COMPRESSION option which can be set to pglz
(the default, and the only option in up until now) or lz4. Or, if you
like, you can set the new default_toast_compression GUC to lz4, and
then that will be the default for new table columns for which no value
is specified. We don't have lz4 support in the PostgreSQL code, so
to use lz4 compression, PostgreSQL must be built --with-lz4.

In general, TOAST compression means compression of individual column
values, not the whole tuple, and those values can either be compressed
inline within the tuple or compressed and then stored externally in
the TOAST table, so those properties also apply to this feature.

Prior to this commit, a TOAST pointer has two unused bits as part of
the va_extsize field, and a compessed datum has two unused bits as
part of the va_rawsize field. These bits are unused because the length
of a varlena is limited to 1GB; we now use them to indicate the
compression type that was used. This means we only have bit space for
2 more built-in compresison types, but we could work around that
problem, if necessary, by introducing a new vartag_external value for
any further types we end up wanting to add. Hopefully, it won't be
too important to offer a wide selection of algorithms here, since
each one we add not only takes more coding but also adds a build
dependency for every packager. Nevertheless, it seems worth doing
at least this much, because LZ4 gets better compression than PGLZ
with less CPU usage.

It's possible for LZ4-compressed datums to leak into composite type
values stored on disk, just as it is for PGLZ. It's also possible for
LZ4-compressed attributes to be copied into a different table via SQL
commands such as CREATE TABLE AS or INSERT .. SELECT.  It would be
expensive to force such values to be decompressed, so PostgreSQL has
never done so. For the same reasons, we also don't force recompression
of already-compressed values even if the target table prefers a
different compression method than was used for the source data.  These
architectural decisions are perhaps arguable but revisiting them is
well beyond the scope of what seemed possible to do as part of this
project.  However, it's relatively cheap to recompress as part of
VACUUM FULL or CLUSTER, so this commit adjusts those commands to do
so, if the configured compression method of the table happens not to
match what was used for some column value stored therein.

Dilip Kumar. The original patches on which this work was based were
written by Ildus Kurbangaliev, and those were patches were based on
even earlier work by Nikita Glukhov, but the design has since changed
very substantially, since allow a potentially large number of
compression methods that could be added and dropped on a running
system proved too problematic given some of the architectural issues
mentioned above; the choice of which specific compression method to
add first is now different; and a lot of the code has been heavily
refactored.  More recently, Justin Przyby helped quite a bit with
testing and reviewing and this version also includes some code
contributions from him. Other design input and review from Tomas
Vondra, Álvaro Herrera, Andres Freund, Oleg Bartunov, Alexander
Korotkov, and me.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/20170907194236.4cefce96%40wp.localdomain
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAFiTN-uUpX3ck%3DK0mLEk-G_kUQY%3DSNOTeqdaNRR9FMdQrHKebw%40mail.gmail.com
2021-03-19 15:10:38 -04:00