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Author SHA1 Message Date
Robert Haas 2186b608b3 Clean up partcollation handling for OID 0.
Consistent with what we do for indexes, we shouldn't try to record
dependencies on collation OID 0 or the default collation OID (which
is pinned).  Also, the fact that indcollation and partcollation can
contain zero OIDs when the data type is not collatable should be
documented.

Amit Langote, per a complaint from me.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+Tgmoba5mtPgM3NKfG06vv8na5gGbVOj0h4zvivXQwLw8wXXQ@mail.gmail.com
2017-06-06 11:07:20 -04:00
Michael Meskes 0f33ee0e3b Fix docs to not claim ECPG's SET CONNECTION is not thread-aware.
Changed by: Tsunakawa, Takayuki <tsunakawa.takay@jp.fujitsu.com>
2017-06-06 12:20:31 +02:00
Andres Freund c6c3334364 Prevent possibility of panics during shutdown checkpoint.
When the checkpointer writes the shutdown checkpoint, it checks
afterwards whether any WAL has been written since it started and
throws a PANIC if so.  At that point, only walsenders are still
active, so one might think this could not happen, but walsenders can
also generate WAL, for instance in BASE_BACKUP and logical decoding
related commands (e.g. via hint bits).  So they can trigger this panic
if such a command is run while the shutdown checkpoint is being
written.

To fix this, divide the walsender shutdown into two phases.  First,
checkpointer, itself triggered by postmaster, sends a
PROCSIG_WALSND_INIT_STOPPING signal to all walsenders.  If the backend
is idle or runs an SQL query this causes the backend to shutdown, if
logical replication is in progress all existing WAL records are
processed followed by a shutdown.  Otherwise this causes the walsender
to switch to the "stopping" state. In this state, the walsender will
reject any further replication commands. The checkpointer begins the
shutdown checkpoint once all walsenders are confirmed as
stopping. When the shutdown checkpoint finishes, the postmaster sends
us SIGUSR2. This instructs walsender to send any outstanding WAL,
including the shutdown checkpoint record, wait for it to be replicated
to the standby, and then exit.

Author: Andres Freund, based on an earlier patch by Michael Paquier
Reported-By: Fujii Masao, Andres Freund
Reviewed-By: Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170602002912.tqlwn4gymzlxpvs2@alap3.anarazel.de
Backpatch: 9.4, where logical decoding was introduced
2017-06-05 19:18:15 -07:00
Andres Freund 703f148e98 Revert "Prevent panic during shutdown checkpoint"
This reverts commit 086221cf6b, which
was made to master only.

The approach implemented in the above commit has some issues.  While
those could easily be fixed incrementally, doing so would make
backpatching considerably harder, so instead first revert this patch.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170602002912.tqlwn4gymzlxpvs2@alap3.anarazel.de
2017-06-05 19:18:15 -07:00
Peter Eisentraut 9907b55ceb Fix ALTER SUBSCRIPTION grammar ambiguity
There was a grammar ambiguity between SET PUBLICATION name REFRESH and
SET PUBLICATION SKIP REFRESH, because SKIP is not a reserved word.  To
resolve that, fold the refresh choice into the WITH options.  Refreshing
is the default now.

Reported-by: tushar <tushar.ahuja@enterprisedb.com>
2017-06-05 21:43:25 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut de492c17f0 doc: Add note that DROP SUBSCRIPTION drops replication slot
Add some information about what to do when this fails.
2017-06-02 15:16:57 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera f112f175a4 Fix typo
Reported by: Tim Goodaire
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170601182230.1487.26008@wrigleys.postgresql.org
2017-06-01 17:48:39 -04:00
Andres Freund 3d79013b97 Make ALTER SEQUENCE, including RESTART, fully transactional.
Previously the changes to the "data" part of the sequence, i.e. the
one containing the current value, were not transactional, whereas the
definition, including minimum and maximum value were.  That leads to
odd behaviour if a schema change is rolled back, with the potential
that out-of-bound sequence values can be returned.

To avoid the issue create a new relfilenode fork whenever ALTER
SEQUENCE is executed, similar to how TRUNCATE ... RESTART IDENTITY
already is already handled.

This commit also makes ALTER SEQUENCE RESTART transactional, as it
seems to be too confusing to have some forms of ALTER SEQUENCE behave
transactionally, some forms not.  This way setval() and nextval() are
not transactional, but DDL is, which seems to make sense.

This commit also rolls back parts of the changes made in 3d092fe540
and f8dc1985f as they're now not needed anymore.

Author: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170522154227.nvafbsm62sjpbxvd@alap3.anarazel.de
Backpatch: Bug is in master/v10 only
2017-06-01 14:19:33 -07:00
Tom Lane e9a3c047a5 Always use -fPIC, not -fpic, when building shared libraries with gcc.
On some platforms, -fpic fails for sufficiently large shared libraries.
We've mostly not hit that boundary yet, but there are some extensions
such as Citus and pglogical where it's becoming a problem.  A bit of
research suggests that the penalty for -fPIC is small, in the
single-digit-percentage range --- and there's none at all on popular
platforms such as x86_64.  So let's just default to -fPIC everywhere
and provide one less thing for extension developers to worry about.

Per complaint from Christoph Berg.  Back-patch to all supported branches.
(I did not bother to touch the recently-removed Makefiles for sco and
unixware in the back branches, though.  We'd have no way to test that
it doesn't break anything on those platforms.)

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170529155850.qojdfrwkkqnjb3ap@msg.df7cb.de
2017-06-01 13:32:55 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 3e6d2fabcc doc: Add another migration item to release notes 2017-05-31 13:39:28 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 185364b161 doc: Fix ALTER PUBLICATION details
Some of the text was made nonsensical by commit
e950024066.  Fix that and make some other
minor changes.

Reported-by: Jeff Janes <jeff.janes@gmail.com>
2017-05-30 11:48:39 -04:00
Tom Lane f3db7f164a Prevent running pg_resetwal/pg_resetxlog against wrong-version data dirs.
pg_resetwal (formerly pg_resetxlog) doesn't insist on finding a matching
version number in pg_control, and that seems like an important thing to
preserve since recovering from corrupt pg_control is a prime reason to
need to run it.  However, that means you can try to run it against a
data directory of a different major version, which is at best useless
and at worst disastrous.  So as to provide some protection against that
type of pilot error, inspect PG_VERSION at startup and refuse to do
anything if it doesn't match.  PG_VERSION is read-only after initdb,
so it's unlikely to get corrupted, and even if it were corrupted it would
be easy to fix by hand.

This hazard has been there all along, so back-patch to all supported
branches.

Michael Paquier, with some kibitzing by me

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/f4b8eb91-b934-8a0d-b3cc-68f06e2279d1@enterprisedb.com
2017-05-29 17:08:16 -04:00
Heikki Linnakangas 6fd65f6b87 Fix reference to RFC specifying SCRAM.
Noted by Peter Eisentraut
2017-05-29 09:31:33 +03:00
Tom Lane 54bb322ec7 Format v10 release notes' commit references more like previous releases.
Left-justify these comments, remove committer names, remove SGML markup
that was randomly added to some of them.  Aside from being more consistent
with previous practice, this keeps the lines shorter than 80 characters,
improving readability in standard terminal windows.
2017-05-28 16:42:22 -04:00
Tom Lane 1c8b88ab9b Improve v10 release notes' discussion of money operator changes.
Mention the rounding behavioral change for money/int8.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170519164653.29941.19098@wrigleys.postgresql.org
2017-05-28 15:49:44 -04:00
Magnus Hagander 9c34a05b7d Remove docs mention of PGREALM variable
This variable was only used with Kerberos v4. That support was removed
in 2005, but we forgot to remove the documentation.

Noted by Shinichi Matsuda
2017-05-26 10:58:15 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera eb67e2e35a extended stats: Clarify behavior of omitting stat type clause
Pointed out by Jeff Janes
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAMkU=1zGhK-nW10RAXhokcT3MM=YBg=j5LkG9RMDwmu3i0H0Og@mail.gmail.com
2017-05-25 13:22:25 -04:00
Tom Lane d761fe2182 Fix precision and rounding issues in money multiplication and division.
The cash_div_intX functions applied rint() to the result of the division.
That's not merely useless (because the result is already an integer) but
it causes precision loss for values larger than 2^52 or so, because of
the forced conversion to float8.

On the other hand, the cash_mul_fltX functions neglected to apply rint() to
their multiplication results, thus possibly causing off-by-one outputs.

Per C standard, arithmetic between any integral value and a float value is
performed in float format.  Thus, cash_mul_flt4 and cash_div_flt4 produced
answers good to only about six digits, even when the float value is exact.
We can improve matters noticeably by widening the float inputs to double.
(It's tempting to consider using "long double" arithmetic if available,
but that's probably too much of a stretch for a back-patched fix.)

Also, document that cash_div_intX operators truncate rather than round.

Per bug #14663 from Richard Pistole.  Back-patch to all supported branches.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/22403.1495223615@sss.pgh.pa.us
2017-05-21 13:05:16 -04:00
Tom Lane 7f77cbd996 Change documentation references to PG website to use https: not http:
This is more secure, and saves a redirect since we no longer accept
plain HTTP connections on the website.

References in code comments should probably be updated too, but
that doesn't seem to need back-patching, whereas this does.

Also, in the 9.2 branch, remove suggestion that you can get the
source code via FTP, since that service will be shut down soon.

Daniel Gustafsson, with a few additional changes by me

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/9A2C89A7-0BB8-41A8-B288-8B7BD09D7D44@yesql.se
2017-05-20 21:50:47 -04:00
Robert Haas 5f374fe7a8 libpq: Try next host if one of them times out.
If one host in a multi-host connection string times out, move on to
the next specified host instead of giving up entirely.

Takayuki Tsunakawa, reviewed by Michael Paquier.  I added
a minor adjustment to the documentation.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/0A3221C70F24FB45833433255569204D1F6F42F5@G01JPEXMBYT05
2017-05-19 16:19:51 -04:00
Robert Haas aa41bc794c Capitalize SHOW when testing whether target_session_attrs=read-write.
This makes it also work for replication connections.

Report and patch by Daisuke Higuchi.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/1803D792815FC24D871C00D17AE95905B1A34A@g01jpexmbkw24
2017-05-19 15:48:10 -04:00
Bruce Momjian f6d5d22ea9 doc: remove duplicate PG 10 release notes entry
Reported-by: Daniel Gustafsson
2017-05-19 12:16:53 -04:00
Bruce Momjian f45d86d762 doc: fix PG 10 release notes with proper attribution and commit
Fix for hot_standby=on change.

Reported-by: Huong Dangminh

Author: Huong Dangminh
2017-05-19 12:10:10 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut f4205c4c1f doc: Fix ALTER SUBSCRIPTION option syntax synopsis
Author: Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com>
2017-05-18 21:39:06 -04:00
Robert Haas 3ec76ff1f2 Don't explicitly mark range partitioning columns NOT NULL.
This seemed like a good idea originally because there's no way to mark
a range partition as accepting NULL, but that now seems more like a
current limitation than something we want to lock down for all time.
For example, there's a proposal to add the notion of a default
partition which accepts all rows not otherwise routed, which directly
conflicts with the idea that a range-partitioned table should never
allow nulls anywhere.  So let's change this while we still can, by
putting the NOT NULL test into the partition constraint instead of
changing the column properties.

Amit Langote and Robert Haas, reviewed by Amit Kapila

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/8e2dd63d-c6fb-bb74-3c2b-ed6d63629c9d@lab.ntt.co.jp
2017-05-18 13:49:31 -04:00
Robert Haas 8e709a612f doc: Remove unnecessary RETURN statements from example.
Paul Jungwirth, reviewed by Ashutosh Bapat.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/e24a6a6d-5670-739b-00f3-41a226a80f25@illuminatedcomputing.com
2017-05-16 11:36:47 -04:00
Tom Lane 6accefd466 Update CREATE SUBSCRIPTION docs for recent syntax change.
Masahiko Sawada
2017-05-15 22:06:27 -04:00
Tom Lane 1aedcf9818 git-ignore intermediate files from new docs toolchain.
Building PDFs with the new toolchain creates *.fo temporary files.
2017-05-15 15:48:40 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 4b99d32b2b doc: Remove unused file
sql.sgml has not been part of the documentation since forever, so it's
pointless to keep it around.
2017-05-15 12:09:19 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut f8dc1985fd Fix ALTER SEQUENCE locking
In 1753b1b027, the pg_sequence system
catalog was introduced.  This made sequence metadata changes
transactional, while the actual sequence values are still behaving
nontransactionally.  This requires some refinement in how ALTER
SEQUENCE, which operates on both, locks the sequence and the catalog.

The main problems were:

- Concurrent ALTER SEQUENCE causes "tuple concurrently updated" error,
  caused by updates to pg_sequence catalog.

- Sequence WAL writes and catalog updates are not protected by same
  lock, which could lead to inconsistent recovery order.

- nextval() disregarding uncommitted ALTER SEQUENCE changes.

To fix, nextval() and friends now lock the sequence using
RowExclusiveLock instead of AccessShareLock.  ALTER SEQUENCE locks the
sequence using ShareRowExclusiveLock.  This means that nextval() and
ALTER SEQUENCE block each other, and ALTER SEQUENCE on the same sequence
blocks itself.  (This was already the case previously for the OWNER TO,
RENAME, and SET SCHEMA variants.)  Also, rearrange some code so that the
entire AlterSequence is protected by the lock on the sequence.

As an exception, use reduced locking for ALTER SEQUENCE ... RESTART.
Since that is basically a setval(), it does not require the full locking
of other ALTER SEQUENCE actions.  So check whether we are only running a
RESTART and run with less locking if so.

Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Jason Petersen <jason@citusdata.com>
Reported-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
2017-05-15 10:19:57 -04:00
Bruce Momjian de7cca982c doc: update the "current as of" date in the PG 10 release notes 2017-05-14 23:15:50 -04:00
Bruce Momjian b91e5b4684 doc: update PG 10 release notes for recent changes 2017-05-14 22:45:18 -04:00
Tom Lane 93ece9cc88 Edit SGML documentation related to extended statistics.
Use the "statistics object" terminology uniformly here too.  Assorted
copy-editing.  Put new catalogs.sgml sections into alphabetical order.
2017-05-14 19:15:52 -04:00
Tom Lane f04c9a6146 Standardize terminology for pg_statistic_ext entries.
Consistently refer to such an entry as a "statistics object", not just
"statistics" or "extended statistics".  Previously we had a mismash of
terms, accompanied by utter confusion as to whether the term was
singular or plural.  That's not only grating (at least to the ear of
a native English speaker) but could be outright misleading, eg in error
messages that seemed to be referring to multiple objects where only one
could be meant.

This commit fixes the code and a lot of comments (though I may have
missed a few).  I also renamed two new SQL functions,
pg_get_statisticsextdef -> pg_get_statisticsobjdef
pg_statistic_ext_is_visible -> pg_statistics_obj_is_visible
to conform better with this terminology.

I have not touched the SGML docs other than fixing those function
names; the docs certainly need work but it seems like a separable task.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/22676.1494557205@sss.pgh.pa.us
2017-05-14 10:55:01 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera d99d58cdc8 Complete tab completion for DROP STATISTICS
Tab-completing DROP STATISTICS would only work if you started writing
the schema name containing the statistics object, because the visibility
clause was missing.  To add it, we need to add SQL-callable support for
testing visibility of a statistics object, like all other object types
already have.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/22676.1494557205@sss.pgh.pa.us
2017-05-13 01:05:48 -03:00
Bruce Momjian 9ed74fd463 doc: update markup for release note "release date" block
This has to be backpatched to all supported releases so release markup
added to HEAD and copied to back branches matches the existing markup.

Reported-by: Peter Eisentraut

Discussion: 2b8a2552-fffa-f7c8-97c5-14db47a87731@2ndquadrant.com

Author: initial patch and sample markup by Peter Eisentraut

Backpatch-through: 9.2
2017-05-12 18:32:04 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera bc085205c8 Change CREATE STATISTICS syntax
Previously, we had the WITH clause in the middle of the command, where
you'd specify both generic options as well as statistic types.  Few
people liked this, so this commit changes it to remove the WITH keyword
from that clause and makes it accept statistic types only.  (We
currently don't have any generic options, but if we invent in the
future, we will gain a new WITH clause, probably at the end of the
command).

Also, the column list is now specified without parens, which makes the
whole command look more similar to a SELECT command.  This change will
let us expand the command to supporting expressions (not just columns
names) as well as multiple tables and their join conditions.

Tom added lots of code comments and fixed some parts of the CREATE
STATISTICS reference page, too; more changes in this area are
forthcoming.  He also fixed a potential problem in the alter_generic
regression test, reducing verbosity on a cascaded drop to avoid
dependency on message ordering, as we do in other tests.

Tom also closed a security bug: we documented that table ownership was
required in order to create a statistics object on it, but didn't
actually implement it.

Implement tab-completion for statistics objects.  This can stand some
more improvement.

Authors: Alvaro Herrera, with lots of cleanup by Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170420212426.ltvgyhnefvhixm6i@alvherre.pgsql
2017-05-12 14:59:35 -03:00
Peter Eisentraut 46052d9ef3 Replace another "transaction log" with "write-ahead log"
Reported-by: Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker <ilmari@ilmari.org>
2017-05-12 13:53:24 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut d496a65790 Standardize "WAL location" terminology
Other previously used terms were "WAL position" or "log position".
2017-05-12 13:51:27 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut c1a7f64b4a Replace "transaction log" with "write-ahead log"
This makes documentation and error messages match the renaming of "xlog"
to "wal" in APIs and file naming.
2017-05-12 11:52:43 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 96e1cb4c0f pg_dump: Add --no-publications option
Author: Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>
2017-05-12 09:15:40 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut b807f59828 Rework the options syntax for logical replication commands
For CREATE/ALTER PUBLICATION/SUBSCRIPTION, use similar option style as
other statements that use a WITH clause for options.

Author: Petr Jelinek <petr.jelinek@2ndquadrant.com>
2017-05-12 08:57:49 -04:00
Tom Lane efa2c18f4e Doc fix: scale(numeric) returns integer, not numeric.
Thinko in commit abb173392, which introduced this function.

Report: https://postgr.es/m/20170511215234.1795.54347@wrigleys.postgresql.org
2017-05-11 18:09:22 -04:00
Tom Lane d10c626de4 Rename WAL-related functions and views to use "lsn" not "location".
Per discussion, "location" is a rather vague term that could refer to
multiple concepts.  "LSN" is an unambiguous term for WAL locations and
should be preferred.  Some function names, view column names, and function
output argument names used "lsn" already, but others used "location",
as well as yet other terms such as "wal_position".  Since we've already
renamed a lot of things in this area from "xlog" to "wal" for v10,
we may as well incur a bit more compatibility pain and make these names
all consistent.

David Rowley, minor additional docs hacking by me

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAKJS1f8O0njDKe8ePFQ-LK5-EjwThsDws6ohJ-+c6nWK+oUxtg@mail.gmail.com
2017-05-11 11:49:59 -04:00
Robert Haas 03bf59676e Fix typo.
Thomas Munro

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAEepm=3vV1YKxDfLMqq-nYM2fN+STMYLwPKFCoah4M0gxqqNNg@mail.gmail.com
2017-05-09 23:57:52 -04:00
Robert Haas e17628145a Document trigger-firing behavior for inheritance/partitioning.
Amit Langote, reviewed Thomas Munro and by me.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+Tgmoadpcs3=mMgdyqVX7L7L_PwO_Dn5j-98a6Tj7ByBuimUQ@mail.gmail.com
2017-05-09 23:49:20 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 26aa1cf376 pg_dump: Add --no-subscriptions option
Author: Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Petr Jelinek <petr.jelinek@2ndquadrant.com>
2017-05-09 10:58:06 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut ab178bb2f4 doc: Add info about replication slot management
Add some more information about managing replication slots associated
with logical replication subscriptions.
2017-05-09 10:25:26 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 013c1178fd Remove the NODROP SLOT option from DROP SUBSCRIPTION
It turned out this approach had problems, because a DROP command should
not have any options other than CASCADE and RESTRICT.  Instead, always
attempt to drop the slot if there is one configured, but also add an
ALTER SUBSCRIPTION action to set the slot to NONE.

Author: Petr Jelinek <petr.jelinek@2ndquadrant.com>
Reported-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/29431.1493730652@sss.pgh.pa.us
2017-05-09 10:20:42 -04:00
Tom Lane c89d2d0204 Last-minute updates for release notes.
Security: CVE-2017-7484, CVE-2017-7485, CVE-2017-7486
2017-05-08 12:57:27 -04:00
Noah Misch 3eefc51053 Match pg_user_mappings limits to information_schema.user_mapping_options.
Both views replace the umoptions field with NULL when the user does not
meet qualifications to see it.  They used different qualifications, and
pg_user_mappings documented qualifications did not match its implemented
qualifications.  Make its documentation and implementation match those
of user_mapping_options.  One might argue for stronger qualifications,
but these have long, documented tenure.  pg_user_mappings has always
exhibited this problem, so back-patch to 9.2 (all supported versions).

Michael Paquier and Feike Steenbergen.  Reviewed by Jeff Janes.
Reported by Andrew Wheelwright.

Security: CVE-2017-7486
2017-05-08 07:24:24 -07:00
Noah Misch 0170b10dff Restore PGREQUIRESSL recognition in libpq.
Commit 65c3bf19fd moved handling of the,
already then, deprecated requiressl parameter into conninfo_storeval().
The default PGREQUIRESSL environment variable was however lost in the
change resulting in a potentially silent accept of a non-SSL connection
even when set.  Its documentation remained.  Restore its implementation.
Also amend the documentation to mark PGREQUIRESSL as deprecated for
those not following the link to requiressl.  Back-patch to 9.3, where
commit 65c3bf1 first appeared.

Behavior has been more complex when the user provides both deprecated
and non-deprecated settings.  Before commit 65c3bf1, libpq operated
according to the first of these found:

  requiressl=1
  PGREQUIRESSL=1
  sslmode=*
  PGSSLMODE=*

(Note requiressl=0 didn't override sslmode=*; it would only suppress
PGREQUIRESSL=1 or a previous requiressl=1.  PGREQUIRESSL=0 had no effect
whatsoever.)  Starting with commit 65c3bf1, libpq ignored PGREQUIRESSL,
and order of precedence changed to this:

  last of requiressl=* or sslmode=*
  PGSSLMODE=*

Starting now, adopt the following order of precedence:

  last of requiressl=* or sslmode=*
  PGSSLMODE=*
  PGREQUIRESSL=1

This retains the 65c3bf1 behavior for connection strings that contain
both requiressl=* and sslmode=*.  It retains the 65c3bf1 change that
either connection string option overrides both environment variables.
For the first time, PGSSLMODE has precedence over PGREQUIRESSL; this
avoids reducing security of "PGREQUIRESSL=1 PGSSLMODE=verify-full"
configurations originating under v9.3 and later.

Daniel Gustafsson

Security: CVE-2017-7485
2017-05-08 07:24:24 -07:00
Bruce Momjian 74cadeaa2f doc: add Simon Riggs to VACUUM VERBOSE PG 10 release note item
Reported-by: Masahiko Sawada
2017-05-08 09:50:16 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut e2d4ef8de8 Add security checks to selectivity estimation functions
Some selectivity estimation functions run user-supplied operators over
data obtained from pg_statistic without security checks, which allows
those operators to leak pg_statistic data without having privileges on
the underlying tables.  Fix by checking that one of the following is
satisfied: (1) the user has table or column privileges on the table
underlying the pg_statistic data, or (2) the function implementing the
user-supplied operator is leak-proof.  If neither is satisfied, planning
will proceed as if there are no statistics available.

At least one of these is satisfied in most cases in practice.  The only
situations that are negatively impacted are user-defined or
not-leak-proof operators on a security-barrier view.

Reported-by: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Author: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

Security: CVE-2017-7484
2017-05-08 09:26:32 -04:00
Heikki Linnakangas eb61136dc7 Remove support for password_encryption='off' / 'plain'.
Storing passwords in plaintext hasn't been a good idea for a very long
time, if ever. Now seems like a good time to finally forbid it, since we're
messing with this in PostgreSQL 10 anyway.

Remove the CREATE/ALTER USER UNENCRYPTED PASSSWORD 'foo' syntax, since
storing passwords unencrypted is no longer supported. ENCRYPTED PASSWORD
'foo' is still accepted, but ENCRYPTED is now just a noise-word, it does
the same as just PASSWORD 'foo'.

Likewise, remove the --unencrypted option from createuser, but accept
--encrypted as a no-op for backward compatibility. AFAICS, --encrypted was
a no-op even before this patch, because createuser encrypted the password
before sending it to the server even if --encrypted was not specified. It
added the ENCRYPTED keyword to the SQL command, but since the password was
already in encrypted form, it didn't make any difference. The documentation
was not clear on whether that was intended or not, but it's moot now.

Also, while password_encryption='on' is still accepted as an alias for
'md5', it is now marked as hidden, so that it is not listed as an accepted
value in error hints, for example. That's not directly related to removing
'plain', but it seems better this way.

Reviewed by Michael Paquier

Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/16e9b768-fd78-0b12-cfc1-7b6b7f238fde@iki.fi
2017-05-08 11:26:07 +03:00
Tom Lane 27dae036a5 Release notes for 9.6.3, 9.5.7, 9.4.12, 9.3.17, 9.2.21. 2017-05-07 16:56:02 -04:00
Tom Lane 86713deecd Third pass on 9.6.3 release notes.
Add updates for recent commits.

In passing, credit Etsuro Fujita for his work on the postgres_fdw
query cancel feature in 9.6; I seem to have missed that in the
original drafting of the 9.6 notes.
2017-05-07 14:43:04 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 628462bda9 doc PG 10: adjustments to BRIN, WAL, JSON, XML items, syntax
Reported-by: Alvaro Herrera
2017-05-06 23:32:03 -04:00
Tom Lane 334b82cd56 Second pass on 9.6.3 release notes.
Improve description of logical decoding snapshot issues, per suggestion
from Petr Jelinek.  Mention possible need to re-sync logical replicas
as a post-upgrade task.  Minor copy-editing for some other items.
2017-05-06 16:28:20 -04:00
Tom Lane a9c6d70435 Document current_role.
This system function has been there a very long time, but somehow escaped
being listed in func.sgml.

Fabien Coelho and Tom Lane

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/alpine.DEB.2.20.1705061027580.3896@lancre
2017-05-06 14:19:47 -04:00
Tom Lane 54dbd4dc78 First-draft release notes for 9.6.3.
As usual, the release notes for other branches will be made by cutting
these down, but put them up for community review first.  Note there
are some entries that really only apply to pre-9.6 branches.
2017-05-05 19:33:34 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 086221cf6b Prevent panic during shutdown checkpoint
When the checkpointer writes the shutdown checkpoint, it checks
afterwards whether any WAL has been written since it started and throws
a PANIC if so.  At that point, only walsenders are still active, so one
might think this could not happen, but walsenders can also generate WAL,
for instance in BASE_BACKUP and certain variants of
CREATE_REPLICATION_SLOT.  So they can trigger this panic if such a
command is run while the shutdown checkpoint is being written.

To fix this, divide the walsender shutdown into two phases.  First, the
postmaster sends a SIGUSR2 signal to all walsenders.  The walsenders
then put themselves into the "stopping" state.  In this state, they
reject any new commands.  (For simplicity, we reject all new commands,
so that in the future we do not have to track meticulously which
commands might generate WAL.)  The checkpointer waits for all walsenders
to reach this state before proceeding with the shutdown checkpoint.
After the shutdown checkpoint is done, the postmaster sends
SIGINT (previously unused) to the walsenders.  This triggers the
existing shutdown behavior of sending out the shutdown checkpoint record
and then terminating.

Author: Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>
2017-05-05 10:31:42 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 5469e44ffc doc: update PG 10 release notes
Mention vacuum verbose includes oldest xmin, BRIN index usage
estimation, and multi-column statistics.

Reported-by: Masahiko Sawada, Alvaro Herrera
2017-05-04 20:33:06 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 4f45beba7a doc: PG 10 release note updates for psql, GiST, and markup
Reported-by: Andrew Borodin, Fabien COELHO, Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsaker
2017-05-04 19:33:41 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera c22b59edd2 Credit Claudio as main author of feature 2017-05-04 17:50:54 -03:00
Heikki Linnakangas 20bf7b2b0a Fix PQencryptPasswordConn to work with older server versions.
password_encryption was a boolean before version 10, so cope with "on" and
"off".

Also, change the behavior with "plain", to treat it the same as "md5".
We're discussing removing the password_encryption='plain' option from the
server altogether, which will make this the only reasonable choice, but
even if we kept it, it seems best to never send the password in cleartext.
2017-05-04 12:28:25 +03:00
Heikki Linnakangas 8f8b9be51f Add PQencryptPasswordConn function to libpq, use it in psql and createuser.
The new function supports creating SCRAM verifiers, in addition to md5
hashes. The algorithm is chosen based on password_encryption, by default.

This fixes the issue reported by Jeff Janes, that there was previously
no way to create a SCRAM verifier with "\password".

Michael Paquier and me

Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAMkU%3D1wfBgFPbfAMYZQE78p%3DVhZX7nN86aWkp0QcCp%3D%2BKxZ%3Dbg%40mail.gmail.com
2017-05-03 11:19:07 +03:00
Alvaro Herrera 93bbeec6a2 extstats: change output functions to emit valid JSON
Manipulating extended statistics is more convenient as JSON than the
current ad-hoc format, so let's change before it's too late.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170420193828.k3fliiock5hdnehn@alvherre.pgsql
2017-05-02 18:49:32 -03:00
Peter Eisentraut e950024066 doc: Improve order in ALTER PUBLICATION/SUBSCRIPTION ref pages
Move the OWNER and RENAME clauses to the end, so the interesting
functionality is listed first.  This is more typical on nearby reference
pages, whereas the previous order was the order in which the clauses
were added.
2017-05-02 15:31:25 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 460c89f46c doc: Add missing markup 2017-05-02 14:33:19 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut a35ac7c4e3 doc: Update ALTER SEQUENCE claims about changes being nontransactional
Clarify that all changes except RESTART are transactional (since
1753b1b027).

Reported-by: Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>
2017-05-02 10:34:49 -04:00
Magnus Hagander 34fc616738 Change hot_standby default value to 'on'
This goes together with the changes made to enable replication on the
sending side by default (wal_level, max_wal_senders etc) by making the
receiving stadby node also enable it by default.

Huong Dangminh
2017-05-02 11:12:30 +02:00
Robert Haas e180c8aa8c Fire per-statement triggers on partitioned tables.
Even though no actual tuples are ever inserted into a partitioned
table (the actual tuples are in the partitions, not the partitioned
table itself), we still need to have a ResultRelInfo for the
partitioned table, or per-statement triggers won't get fired.

Amit Langote, per a report from Rajkumar Raghuwanshi.  Reviewed by me.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAKcux6%3DwYospCRY2J4XEFuVy0L41S%3Dfic7rmkbsU-GXhhSbmBg%40mail.gmail.com
2017-05-01 08:23:01 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut bc920bee29 doc: Fix typo in 9.6 release notes
Author: Huong Dangminh <huo-dangminh@ys.jp.nec.com>
2017-04-28 15:32:33 -04:00
Stephen Frost b9a3ef55b2 Remove unnecessairly duplicated gram.y productions
Declarative partitioning duplicated the TypedTableElement productions,
evidently to remove the need to specify WITH OPTIONS when creating
partitions.  Instead, simply make WITH OPTIONS optional in the
TypedTableElement production and remove all of the duplicate
PartitionElement-related productions.  This change simplifies the
syntax and makes WITH OPTIONS optional when adding defaults, constraints
or storage parameters to columns when creating either typed tables or
partitions.

Also update pg_dump to no longer include WITH OPTIONS, since it's not
necessary, and update the documentation to reflect that WITH OPTIONS is
now optional.
2017-04-27 20:14:39 -04:00
Bruce Momjian a311d2a04f doc: PG10 release note typo fix
Reported-by: daniel.westermann
2017-04-27 10:21:44 -04:00
Bruce Momjian f8ab08ad0e doc PG10rel: adjust hash index commits and add parallel subquery
Reported-by: Amit Kapila
2017-04-27 10:17:16 -04:00
Bruce Momjian fda4fec578 doc PG10: add commit for transition table item 2017-04-26 15:50:59 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut e315346d83 doc: ALTER SUBSCRIPTION documentation fixes
WITH is optional for REFRESH PUBLICATION.  Also, remove a spurious
bracket and fix a punctuation.

Author: Euler Taveira <euler@timbira.com.br>
2017-04-26 12:07:22 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 309191f66a doc PG10: add Rafia Sabih to parallel index scan item
Reported-by: Amit Kapila
2017-04-26 06:33:25 -04:00
Stephen Frost 9139aa1942 Allow ALTER TABLE ONLY on partitioned tables
There is no need to forbid ALTER TABLE ONLY on partitioned tables,
when no partitions exist yet.  This can be handy for users who are
building up their partitioned table independently and will create actual
partitions later.

In addition, this is how pg_dump likes to operate in certain instances.

Author: Amit Langote, with some error message word-smithing by me
2017-04-25 16:57:43 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 5f2b48d1dd doc PG10: update EXPLAIN SUMMARY item
Reported-by: Tels
2017-04-25 15:30:53 -04:00
Bruce Momjian ef0ba572b6 doc: update PG 10 item about referencing many relations
Reported-by: Tom Lane
2017-04-25 13:47:51 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 3d7741194a doc: add PG 10 doc item about VACUUM truncation, 7e26e02ee
Reported-by: Andres Freund
2017-04-25 13:45:47 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 3640cf5e1c doc PG10: add commit 090010f2e and adjust EXPLAIN SUMMARY item
Reported-by: Tels, Andres Freund
2017-04-25 13:29:26 -04:00
Bruce Momjian bf368fbee2 doc: properly indent SGML tags in PG 10 release notes 2017-04-25 12:54:45 -04:00
Bruce Momjian cdd5bcad5e doc: PG 10 release notes updates
Reported-by: Michael Paquier, Felix Gerzaguet
2017-04-25 11:17:14 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 64f0f7cfc7 doc: PG 10 release note updates
Reported-by: David Rowley, Amit Langote, Ashutosh Bapat
2017-04-25 11:04:43 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 45e3d8ae2b doc: move hash info to new section and split out growth item
Reported-by: Amit Kapila
2017-04-25 09:44:50 -04:00
Bruce Momjian cef5dbbf2b doc: move hash performance item into index section
The requirement to rebuild pg_upgrade-ed hash indexes was kept in the
incompatibilities section.

Reported-by: Amit Kapila
2017-04-24 23:29:14 -04:00
Bruce Momjian b007b1af20 doc: add Rafia Sabih to PG 10 release note item
Reported-by: Amit Kapila
2017-04-24 23:08:25 -04:00
Bruce Momjian d103e6718b doc: fix PG 10 release note doc markup 2017-04-24 22:53:16 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 419a055454 doc: merge PG 10 release SysV item
Reported-by: Takayuki Tsunakawa
2017-04-24 22:51:28 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 6e033c6a96 doc: PG 10 fixes
Reported-by: Takayuki Tsunakawa
2017-04-24 22:48:25 -04:00
Bruce Momjian bba375eb9d doc: several minor PG 10 doc adjustments 2017-04-24 22:45:06 -04:00
Bruce Momjian a0d932b39d doc: fix attribution of sequence item, order incompatibilities
Reported-by: Andreas Karlsson
2017-04-24 21:53:37 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 1d8573ed55 doc: first draft of Postgres 10 release notes 2017-04-24 21:26:33 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 66fade8a04 doc: update release doc markup instructions 2017-04-24 19:04:28 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut f58b664393 doc: Update link
The reference "That is the topic of the next section." has been
incorrect since the materialized views documentation got inserted
between the section "rules-views" and "rules-update".

Author: Zertrin <postgres_wiki@zertrin.org>
2017-04-21 19:42:01 -04:00
Heikki Linnakangas 68e61ee72e Change the on-disk format of SCRAM verifiers to conform to RFC 5803.
It doesn't make any immediate difference to PostgreSQL, but might as well
follow the standard, since one exists. (I looked at RFC 5803 earlier, but
didn't fully understand it back then.)

The new format uses Base64 instead of hex to encode StoredKey and
ServerKey, which makes the verifiers slightly smaller. Using the same
encoding for the salt and the keys also means that you only need one
encoder/decoder instead of two. Although we have code in the backend to
do both, we are talking about teaching libpq how to create SCRAM verifiers
for PQencodePassword(), and libpq doesn't currently have any code for hex
encoding.

Bump catversion, because this renders any existing SCRAM verifiers in
pg_authid invalid.

Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/351ba574-85ea-d9b8-9689-8c928dd0955d@iki.fi
2017-04-21 22:51:57 +03:00
Peter Eisentraut c29a752c68 doc: Fix typo 2017-04-21 15:33:25 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera 919f6d746e Improve multivariate statistics documentation
Extended statistics commit 7b504eb282 did not include appropriate
documentation next to where we document regular planner statistics (I
ripped what was submitted before commit and then forgot to put it back),
and while later commit 2686ee1b7c added some material, it structurally
depended on what I had ripped out, so the end result wasn't proper.

Fix those problems by shuffling what was added by 2686ee1b7c and
including some additional material, so that now chapter 14 "Performance
Tips" now describes the types of multivariate statistics we currently
have, and chapter 68 "How the Planner Uses Statistics" shows some
examples.  The new text should be more in line with previous material,
in (hopefully) the appropriate depth.

While at it, fix a small bug in pg_statistic_ext docs: one column was
listed in the wrong spot.
2017-04-20 15:43:33 -03:00
Tom Lane 8bcb31ad5a Sync pg_ctl documentation and usage message with reality.
Commit 05cd12ed5 ("pg_ctl: Change default to wait for all actions")
was a tad sloppy about updating the documentation to match.  The
documentation was also sorely in need of a copy-editing pass, having
been adjusted at different times by different people who took little
care to maintain consistency of style.
2017-04-20 14:41:55 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 594b526bcf Modify message when partitioned table is added to publication
Give a more specific error message than "xyz is not a table".

Also document in CREATE PUBLICATION which kinds of relations are not
supported.

based on patch by Amit Langote <Langote_Amit_f8@lab.ntt.co.jp>
2017-04-20 14:18:33 -04:00
Heikki Linnakangas e68432a0e1 Fix typo in docs on SASL authentication.
Word "sends" was missing.

Jaime Casanova
2017-04-19 21:43:16 +03:00
Tom Lane 539f67012e Doc: improve markup in self-signed certificate example. 2017-04-18 14:21:57 -04:00
Fujii Masao a790ed9f69 Improve documentation and comment for quorum-based sync replication.
Author: Masahiko Sawada, heavily modified by me
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAHGQGwEKOw=SmPLxJzkBsH6wwDBgOnVz46QjHbtsiZ-d-2RGUg@mail.gmail.com
2017-04-19 02:58:28 +09:00
Andrew Dunstan 2b67c9d207 Simplify docs on creating a self-signed SSL certificate
Discussion: <https://postgr.es/m/72335afb-969b-af84-3fcb-1739e3ed09a6@2ndQuadrant.com>
2017-04-18 08:50:15 -04:00
Heikki Linnakangas c727f120ff Rename "scram" to "scram-sha-256" in pg_hba.conf and password_encryption.
Per discussion, plain "scram" is confusing because we actually implement
SCRAM-SHA-256 rather than the original SCRAM that uses SHA-1 as the hash
algorithm. If we add support for SCRAM-SHA-512 or some other mechanism in
the SCRAM family in the future, that would become even more confusing.

Most of the internal files and functions still use just "scram" as a
shorthand for SCRMA-SHA-256, but I did change PASSWORD_TYPE_SCRAM to
PASSWORD_TYPE_SCRAM_SHA_256, as that could potentially be used by 3rd
party extensions that hook into the password-check hook.

Michael Paquier did this in an earlier version of the SCRAM patch set
already, but I didn't include that in the version that was committed.

Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/fde71ff1-5858-90c8-99a9-1c2427e7bafb@iki.fi
2017-04-18 14:50:50 +03:00
Heikki Linnakangas b2188575c5 Fix example on creating a trigger with a transition table.
Yugo Nagata

Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20170417180921.3047f3b0.nagata@sraoss.co.jp
2017-04-18 11:51:06 +03:00
Peter Eisentraut 8efd1e08f0 doc: Clarify logical replication details
Document more explicitly that the target table can have more columns
than the source table.

Reported-by: Euler Taveira <euler@timbira.com.br>
2017-04-17 23:32:54 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera ee6922112e Rename columns in new pg_statistic_ext catalog
The new catalog reused a column prefix "sta" from pg_statistic, but this
is undesirable, so change the catalog to use prefix "stx" instead.
Also, rename the column that lists enabled statistic kinds as "stxkind"
rather than "enabled".

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAKJS1f_2t5jhSN7huYRFH3w3rrHfG2QU7hiUHsu-Vdjd1rYT3w@mail.gmail.com
2017-04-17 18:34:29 -03:00
Alvaro Herrera 8c5cdb7f4f Tighten up relation kind checks for extended statistics
We were accepting creation of extended statistics only for regular
tables, but they can usefully be created for foreign tables, partitioned
tables, and materialized views, too.  Allow those cases.

While at it, make sure all the rejected cases throw a consistent error
message, and add regression tests for the whole thing.

Author: David Rowley, Álvaro Herrera
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAKJS1f-BmGo410bh5RSPZUvOO0LhmHL2NYmdrC_Jm8pk_FfyCA@mail.gmail.com
2017-04-17 17:55:55 -03:00
Peter Eisentraut 1fe33252a0 Document that ONLY can be specified in publication commands
Author: Amit Langote <Langote_Amit_f8@lab.ntt.co.jp>
2017-04-17 09:51:52 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 5a617ab3e6 doc: Fix typo 2017-04-14 19:36:57 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 6e5f9a6dc0 Fix typo in comment 2017-04-14 14:07:44 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 887227a1cc Add option to modify sync commit per subscription
This also changes default behaviour of subscription workers to
synchronous_commit = off.

Author: Petr Jelinek <petr.jelinek@2ndquadrant.com>
2017-04-14 13:58:46 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 885fea5a34 doc: add missing sect1 close tag
Fixes commit 4f3b87ab78
2017-04-13 13:12:58 -04:00
Heikki Linnakangas 4f3b87ab78 Improve the SASL authentication protocol.
This contains some protocol changes to SASL authentiation (which is new
in v10):

* For future-proofing, in the AuthenticationSASL message that begins SASL
  authentication, provide a list of SASL mechanisms that the server
  supports, for the client to choose from. Currently, it's always just
  SCRAM-SHA-256.

* Add a separate authentication message type for the final server->client
  SASL message, which the client doesn't need to respond to. This makes
  it unambiguous whether the client is supposed to send a response or not.
  The SASL mechanism should know that anyway, but better to be explicit.

Also, in the server, support clients that don't send an Initial Client
response in the first SASLInitialResponse message. The server is supposed
to first send an empty request in that case, to which the client will
respond with the data that usually comes in the Initial Client Response.
libpq uses the Initial Client Response field and doesn't need this, and I
would assume any other sensible implementation to use Initial Client
Response, too, but let's follow the SASL spec.

Improve the documentation on SASL authentication in protocol. Add a
section describing the SASL message flow, and some details on our
SCRAM-SHA-256 implementation.

Document the different kinds of PasswordMessages that the frontend sends
in different phases of SASL authentication, as well as GSS/SSPI
authentication as separate message formats. Even though they're all 'p'
messages, and the exact format depends on the context, describing them as
separate message formats makes the documentation more clear.

Reviewed by Michael Paquier and Álvaro Hernández Tortosa.

Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAB7nPqS-aFg0iM3AQOJwKDv_0WkAedRjs1W2X8EixSz+sKBXCQ@mail.gmail.com
2017-04-13 19:34:16 +03:00
Peter Eisentraut a9254e675b pg_dump: Always dump subscriptions NOCONNECT
This removes the pg_dump option --no-subscription-connect and makes it
the default.  Dumping a subscription so that it activates right away
when restored is not very useful, because the state of the publication
server is unclear.

Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/e4fbfad5-c6ac-fd50-6777-18c84b34eb2f@2ndquadrant.com
2017-04-13 12:01:27 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut c31671f9b5 pg_dump: Dump subscriptions by default
Dump subscriptions if the current user is a superuser, otherwise write a
warning and skip them.  Remove the pg_dump option
--include-subscriptions.

Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/e4fbfad5-c6ac-fd50-6777-18c84b34eb2f@2ndquadrant.com
2017-04-13 12:01:27 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera 73c1748d83 Fix XMLTABLE synopsis, add XMLNAMESPACES example
Add a missing comma in the synopsis after the XMLNAMESPACES clause.
Also, add an example illustrating the use of that clause.

Author: Arjen Nienhuis and Pavel Stěhule
2017-04-13 12:12:23 -03:00
Alvaro Herrera 3d5facfd9a Remove pg_stats_ext view
It was created as equivalent of pg_stats, but since the code underlying
pg_statistic_ext is more convenient than the one for pg_statistic,
pg_stats_ext is no longer useful.

Author: David Rowley
Reviewed-by: Tomas Vondra
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAKJS1f9zAkPUf9nQrqpFBAsrOHvb5eYa2FVNsmCJy1wegcO_TQ@mail.gmail.com
2017-04-13 11:35:22 -03:00
Fujii Masao 7a3e8d7b50 Move pg_stat_progress_vacuum to the table of Dynamic Statistics Views in doc.
Previously the description about pg_stat_progress_vacuum was in the table
of "Collected Statistics Views" in the doc. But since it repors dynamic
information, i.e., the current progress of VACUUM, its description should be
in the table of "Dynamic Statistics Views".

Back-patch to 9.6 where pg_stat_progress_vacuum was added.

Author: Amit Langote
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/7ab51b59-8d4d-6193-c60a-b75f222efb12@lab.ntt.co.jp
2017-04-13 12:09:14 +09:00
Fujii Masao a6e7d591d0 Improve documentations for ALTER PUBLICATION and ALTER SUBSCRIPTION.
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAD21AoC32YgtateNqTFXzTJmHHe6hXs4cpJTND3n-Ts8f-aMqw@mail.gmail.com
2017-04-13 11:29:53 +09:00
Peter Eisentraut f6f9f8a24c doc: Tweak CSS
Tweak CSS a bit to match latest similar changes to web site style.  Also
move some CSS out of the HTML to the stylesheet so that the web site
stylesheet can override it.  This should ensure that notes and such are
back to being centered.
2017-04-12 15:41:41 -04:00
Robert Haas 9cc27566c1 Fix pgstattuple's handling of unused hash pages.
Hash indexes can contain both pages which are all-zeroes (i.e.
PageIsNew()) and pages which have been initialized but currently
aren't used.  The latter category can happen either when a page
has been reserved but not yet used or when it is used for a time
and then freed.  pgstattuple was only prepared to deal with the
pages that are actually-zeroes, which it called zero_pages.
Rename the column to unused_pages (extension version 1.5 is
as-yet-unreleased) and make it count both kinds of unused pages.

Along the way, slightly tidy up the way we test for pages of
various types.

Robert Haas and Ashutosh Sharma, reviewed by Amit Kapila

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAE9k0PkTtKFB3YndOyQMjwuHx+-FtUP1ynK8E-nHtetoow3NtQ@mail.gmail.com
2017-04-12 11:53:00 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 1e298b8dbb doc: clearify pg_upgrade default copy behavior
Reported-by: Marek <marek.cvoren@gmail.com>

Discussion: 20170328110253.2695.62609@wrigleys.postgresql.org
2017-04-11 12:14:09 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 1c1a4726eb docs: Improve window function docs
Specifically, the behavior of general-purpose and statistical aggregates
as window functions was not clearly documented, and terms were
inconsistently used.  Also add docs about the difference between
cume_dist and percent_rank, rather than just the formulas.

Discussion: 20170406214918.GA5757@momjian.us
2017-04-11 10:47:47 -04:00
Magnus Hagander 6da56f3f84 Remove support for bcc and msvc standalone libpq builds
This removes the support for building just libpq using Borland C++ or
Visual C++. This has not worked properly for years, and given the number
of complaints it's clearly not worth the maintenance burden.

Building libpq using the standard MSVC build system is of course still
supported, along with mingw.
2017-04-11 15:22:21 +02:00
Michael Meskes a6940bdcb9 Document that bytea is best represented as char * in C for ecpg.
Patch by Kato, Sho <kato-sho@jp.fujitsu.com>
2017-04-11 12:41:06 +02:00
Tom Lane 511540dadf Move isolationtester's is-blocked query into C code for speed.
Commit 4deb41381 modified isolationtester's query to see whether a
session is blocked to also check for waits occurring in GetSafeSnapshot.
However, it did that in a way that enormously increased the query's
runtime under CLOBBER_CACHE_ALWAYS, causing the buildfarm members
that use that to run about four times slower than before, and in some
cases fail entirely.  To fix, push the entire logic into a dedicated
backend function.  This should actually reduce the CLOBBER_CACHE_ALWAYS
runtime from what it was previously, though I've not checked that.

In passing, expose a SQL function to check for safe-snapshot blockage,
comparable to pg_blocking_pids.  This is more or less free given the
infrastructure built to solve the other problem, so we might as well.

Thomas Munro

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170407165749.pstcakbc637opkax@alap3.anarazel.de
2017-04-10 10:26:54 -04:00
Heikki Linnakangas 9cf5c31964 Fix indentation.
Oops, I forgot to "git add" this to previous commit.
2017-04-10 14:13:15 +03:00
Heikki Linnakangas 6c4ad8b7bf Document the "replication" option in StartupMessage.
It is documented in the Streaming Replication Protocol section, but was
missing from the list of options in StartupMessage description.
2017-04-10 14:08:20 +03:00
Peter Eisentraut f0e44021df doc: Add some markup 2017-04-07 22:45:39 -04:00
Kevin Grittner c63172d60f Add GUCs for predicate lock promotion thresholds.
Defaults match the fixed behavior of prior releases, but now DBAs
have better options to tune serializable workloads.

It might be nice to be able to set this per relation, but that part
will need to wait for another release.

Author: Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker
2017-04-07 21:38:05 -05:00
Peter Eisentraut 453aaf7688 doc: Add SPFLAGS to osx calls
This enables the same OpenSP warnings on osx calls that we get from
onsgmls (make check) and formerly from openjade.

Older tool chains apparently have some of these warnings on by
default (see comment at SPFLAGS assignment).  So users of such tool
chains would complain about warnings or errors that users of newer tool
chains would not see, unless they used "make check".
2017-04-07 18:30:13 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 234811c21d doc: Add missing closing tag
Author: Erik Rijkers <er@xs4all.nl>
2017-04-07 18:30:13 -04:00
Robert Haas d4116a7719 Add ProcArrayGroupUpdate wait event.
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmobgWHcXDcChX2+BqJDk2dkPVF85ZrJFhUyHHQmw8diTpA@mail.gmail.com
2017-04-07 13:41:47 -04:00
Andrew Dunstan cf35346e81 Make json_populate_record and friends operate recursively
With this change array fields are populated from json(b) arrays, and
composite fields are populated from json(b) objects.

Along the way, some significant code refactoring is done to remove
redundancy in the way to populate_record[_set] and to_record[_set]
functions operate, and some significant efficiency gains are made by
caching tuple descriptors.

Nikita Glukhov, edited some by me.

Reviewed by Aleksander Alekseev and Tom Lane.
2017-04-06 22:22:13 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 510074f9f0 Remove use of Jade and DSSSL
All documentation is now built using XSLT.  Remove all references to
Jade, DSSSL, also JadeTex and some other outdated tooling.

For chunked HTML builds, this changes nothing, but removes the
transitional "oldhtml" target.  The single-page HTML build is ported
over to XSLT.  For PDF builds, this removes the JadeTex builds and moves
the FOP builds in their place.
2017-04-06 22:09:11 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 6f1b9aaae3 Fix logical replication between different encodings
When sending a tuple attribute, the previous coding erroneously sent the
length byte before encoding conversion, which would lead to protocol
failures on the receiving side if the length did not match the following
string.

To fix that, use pq_sendcountedtext() for sending tuple attributes,
which takes care of all of that internally.  To match the API of
pq_sendcountedtext(), send even text values without a trailing zero byte
and have the receiving end put it in place instead.  This matches how
the standard FE/BE protocol behaves.

Reported-by: Kyotaro HORIGUCHI <horiguchi.kyotaro@lab.ntt.co.jp>
2017-04-06 14:41:09 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut a071fe87a2 doc: Formatting fix for XSL-FO PDF build 2017-04-06 12:27:45 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 3217327053 Identity columns
This is the SQL standard-conforming variant of PostgreSQL's serial
columns.  It fixes a few usability issues that serial columns have:

- CREATE TABLE / LIKE copies default but refers to same sequence
- cannot add/drop serialness with ALTER TABLE
- dropping default does not drop sequence
- need to grant separate privileges to sequence
- other slight weirdnesses because serial is some kind of special macro

Reviewed-by: Vitaly Burovoy <vitaly.burovoy@gmail.com>
2017-04-06 08:41:37 -04:00
Simon Riggs 68ea2b7f9b Reduce lock level for CREATE STATISTICS
In line with other lock reductions related to planning.

Simon Riggs
2017-04-05 18:22:32 -04:00
Simon Riggs 2686ee1b7c Collect and use multi-column dependency stats
Follow on patch in the multi-variate statistics patch series.

CREATE STATISTICS s1 WITH (dependencies) ON (a, b) FROM t;
ANALYZE;
will collect dependency stats on (a, b) and then use the measured
dependency in subsequent query planning.

Commit 7b504eb282 added
CREATE STATISTICS with n-distinct coefficients. These are now
specified using the mutually exclusive option WITH (ndistinct).

Author: Tomas Vondra, David Rowley
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro HORIGUCHI, Álvaro Herrera, Dean Rasheed, Robert Haas
and many other comments and contributions
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/56f40b20-c464-fad2-ff39-06b668fac47c@2ndquadrant.com
2017-04-05 18:00:42 -04:00
Simon Riggs 00b6b6feb1 Allow --with-wal-segsize=n up to n=1024MB
Other part of Beena Emerson's patch to allow testing
2017-04-05 15:38:17 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 63e5d02af3 doc: Remove remark elements
They were not rendered with DSSSL, but now they show up by default using
XSLT.  Just remove them, since they are not useful.
2017-04-05 13:18:32 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut afd79873a0 Capitalize names of PLs consistently
Author: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
2017-04-05 00:38:25 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 193f5f9e91 pageinspect: Add bt_page_items function with bytea argument
Author: Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@2ndquadrant.com>
Reviewed-by: Ashutosh Sharma <ashu.coek88@gmail.com>
2017-04-04 23:52:55 -04:00
Kevin Grittner 5ebeb579b9 Follow-on cleanup for the transition table patch.
Commit 59702716 added transition table support to PL/pgsql so that
SQL queries in trigger functions could access those transient
tables.  In order to provide the same level of support for PL/perl,
PL/python and PL/tcl, refactor the relevant code into a new
function SPI_register_trigger_data.  Call the new function in the
trigger handler of all four PLs, and document it as a public SPI
function so that authors of out-of-tree PLs can do the same.

Also get rid of a second QueryEnvironment object that was
maintained by PL/pgsql.  That was previously used to deal with
cursors, but the same approach wasn't appropriate for PLs that are
less tangled up with core code.  Instead, have SPI_cursor_open
install the connection's current QueryEnvironment, as already
happens for SPI_execute_plan.

While in the docs, remove the note that transition tables were only
supported in C and PL/pgSQL triggers, and correct some ommissions.

Thomas Munro with some work by Kevin Grittner (mostly docs)
2017-04-04 18:36:39 -05:00
Andrew Dunstan e75a78656b Clarify documentation of to_tsvector(json(b))
Per gripe from Sven R. Kunze
2017-04-04 16:50:13 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 60a0b2ec89 Adjust min/max values when changing sequence type
When changing the type of a sequence, adjust the min/max values of the
sequence if it looks like the previous values were the default values.
Previously, it would leave the old values in place, requiring manual
adjustments even in the usual/default cases.

Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Vitaly Burovoy <vitaly.burovoy@gmail.com>
2017-04-04 12:49:39 -04:00
Robert Haas ea69a0dead Expand hash indexes more gradually.
Since hash indexes typically have very few overflow pages, adding a
new splitpoint essentially doubles the on-disk size of the index,
which can lead to large and abrupt increases in disk usage (and
perhaps long delays on occasion).  To mitigate this problem to some
degree, divide larger splitpoints into four equal phases.  This means
that, for example, instead of growing from 4GB to 8GB all at once, a
hash index will now grow from 4GB to 5GB to 6GB to 7GB to 8GB, which
is perhaps still not as smooth as we'd like but certainly an
improvement.

This changes the on-disk format of the metapage, so bump HASH_VERSION
from 2 to 3.  This will force a REINDEX of all existing hash indexes,
but that's probably a good idea anyway.  First, hash indexes from
pre-10 versions of PostgreSQL could easily be corrupted, and we don't
want to confuse corruption carried over from an older release with any
corruption caused despite the new write-ahead logging in v10.  Second,
it will let us remove some backward-compatibility code added by commit
293e24e507.

Mithun Cy, reviewed by Amit Kapila, Jesper Pedersen and me.  Regression
test outputs updated by me.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAD__OuhG6F1gQLCgMQNnMNgoCvOLQZz9zKYJQNYvYmmJoM42gA@mail.gmail.com
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmoYty0jCf-pa+m+vYUJ716+AxM7nv_syvyanyf5O-L_i2A@mail.gmail.com
2017-04-03 23:46:33 -04:00
Robert Haas 334bf9c77d Further corrections and improvements to partitioning documentation.
Amit Langote

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/80f6b049-e882-f6c3-f82c-f44baa94d369@lab.ntt.co.jp
2017-04-03 23:10:16 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 70da87d334 doc: Change xref style to number only
Change the style of links generated by xrefs to section number only, as
it was with DSSSL, instead of number and title, as is the default of the
XSLT stylesheets.

Our documentation is mostly written expecting the old style, so keep
that for the time being, per discussion.
2017-04-03 10:50:32 -04:00
Tom Lane ffac5998b4 Doc: clarify behavior of OT_WHOLE_LINE and OT_FILEPIPE psql slash commands.
This is another bit of ancient behavior that was documented poorly (in
a couple of cases) or not at all (in several others).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/9b4ea968-753f-4b5f-b46c-d7d3bf7c8f90@manitou-mail.org
2017-04-02 19:01:53 -04:00
Tom Lane 68dba97a4d Document psql's behavior of recalling the previously executed query.
Various psql slash commands that normally act on the current query buffer
will automatically recall and re-use the most recently executed SQL command
instead, if the current query buffer is empty.  Although this behavior is
ancient (dating apparently to commit 77a472993), it was documented nowhere
in the psql reference page.  For that matter, we'd never bothered to define
the concept of "current query buffer" explicitly.  Fix that.  Do some
wordsmithing on relevant command descriptions to improve clarity and
consistency.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/9b4ea968-753f-4b5f-b46c-d7d3bf7c8f90@manitou-mail.org
2017-04-02 18:26:37 -04:00
Tom Lane f833c847b8 Allow psql variable substitution to occur in backtick command strings.
Previously, text between backquotes in a psql metacommand's arguments
was always passed to the shell literally.  That considerably hobbles
the usefulness of the feature for scripting, so we'd foreseen for a long
time that we'd someday want to allow substitution of psql variables into
the shell command.  IMO the addition of \if metacommands has brought us to
that point, since \if can greatly benefit from some sort of client-side
expression evaluation capability, and psql itself is not going to grow any
such thing in time for v10.  Hence, this patch.  It allows :VARIABLE to be
replaced by the exact contents of the named variable, while :'VARIABLE'
is replaced by the variable's contents suitably quoted to become a single
shell-command argument.  (The quoting rules for that are different from
those for SQL literals, so this is a bit of an abuse of the :'VARIABLE'
notation, but I doubt anyone will be confused.)

As with other situations in psql, no substitution occurs if the word
following a colon is not a known variable name.  That limits the risk of
compatibility problems for existing psql scripts; but the risk isn't zero,
so this needs to be called out in the v10 release notes.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/9561.1490895211@sss.pgh.pa.us
2017-04-01 21:44:54 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera c655899ba9 BRIN de-summarization
When the BRIN summary tuple for a page range becomes too "wide" for the
values actually stored in the table (because the tuples that were
present originally are no longer present due to updates or deletes), it
can be useful to remove the outdated summary tuple, so that a future
summarization can install a tighter summary.

This commit introduces a SQL-callable interface to do so.

Author: Álvaro Herrera
Reviewed-by: Eiji Seki
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170228045643.n2ri74ara4fhhfxf@alvherre.pgsql
2017-04-01 16:10:04 -03:00
Alvaro Herrera 7526e10224 BRIN auto-summarization
Previously, only VACUUM would cause a page range to get initially
summarized by BRIN indexes, which for some use cases takes too much time
since the inserts occur.  To avoid the delay, have brininsert request a
summarization run for the previous range as soon as the first tuple is
inserted into the first page of the next range.  Autovacuum is in charge
of processing these requests, after doing all the regular vacuuming/
analyzing work on tables.

This doesn't impose any new tasks on autovacuum, because autovacuum was
already in charge of doing summarizations.  The only actual effect is to
change the timing, i.e. that it occurs earlier.  For this reason, we
don't go any great lengths to record these requests very robustly; if
they are lost because of a server crash or restart, they will happen at
a later time anyway.

Most of the new code here is in autovacuum, which can now be told about
"work items" to process.  This can be used for other things such as GIN
pending list cleaning, perhaps visibility map bit setting, both of which
are currently invoked during vacuum, but do not really depend on vacuum
taking place.

The requests are at the page range level, a granularity for which we did
not have SQL-level access; we only had index-level summarization
requests via brin_summarize_new_values().  It seems reasonable to add
SQL-level access to range-level summarization too, so add a function
brin_summarize_range() to do that.

Authors: Álvaro Herrera, based on sketch from Simon Riggs.
Reviewed-by: Thomas Munro.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170301045823.vneqdqkmsd4as4ds@alvherre.pgsql
2017-04-01 14:00:53 -03:00
Kevin Grittner 5970271632 Add transition table support to plpgsql.
Kevin Grittner and Thomas Munro
Reviewed by Heikki Linnakangas, David Fetter, and Thomas Munro
with valuable comments and suggestions from many others
2017-03-31 23:30:08 -05:00
Kevin Grittner 18ce3a4ab2 Add infrastructure to support EphemeralNamedRelation references.
A QueryEnvironment concept is added, which allows new types of
objects to be passed into queries from parsing on through
execution.  At this point, the only thing implemented is a
collection of EphemeralNamedRelation objects -- relations which
can be referenced by name in queries, but do not exist in the
catalogs.  The only type of ENR implemented is NamedTuplestore, but
provision is made to add more types fairly easily.

An ENR can carry its own TupleDesc or reference a relation in the
catalogs by relid.

Although these features can be used without SPI, convenience
functions are added to SPI so that ENRs can easily be used by code
run through SPI.

The initial use of all this is going to be transition tables in
AFTER triggers, but that will be added to each PL as a separate
commit.

An incidental effect of this patch is to produce a more informative
error message if an attempt is made to modify the contents of a CTE
from a referencing DML statement.  No tests previously covered that
possibility, so one is added.

Kevin Grittner and Thomas Munro
Reviewed by Heikki Linnakangas, David Fetter, and Thomas Munro
with valuable comments and suggestions from many others
2017-03-31 23:17:18 -05:00
Robert Haas 2113ac4cbb Don't use bgw_main even to specify in-core bgworker entrypoints.
On EXEC_BACKEND builds, this can fail if ASLR is in use.

Backpatch to 9.5.  On master, completely remove the bgw_main field
completely, since there is no situation in which it is safe for an
EXEC_BACKEND build.  On 9.6 and 9.5, leave the field intact to avoid
breaking things for third-party code that doesn't care about working
under EXEC_BACKEND.  Prior to 9.5, there are no in-core bgworker
entrypoints.

Petr Jelinek, reviewed by me.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/09d8ad33-4287-a09b-a77f-77f8761adb5e@2ndquadrant.com
2017-03-31 20:43:32 -04:00
Tom Lane 64d4da511c For foreign keys, check REFERENCES privilege only on the referenced table.
We were requiring that the user have REFERENCES permission on both the
referenced and referencing tables --- but this doesn't seem to have any
support in the SQL standard, which says only that you need REFERENCES
permission on the referenced table.  And ALTER TABLE ADD FOREIGN KEY has
already checked that you own the referencing table, so the check could
only fail if a table owner has revoked his own REFERENCES permission.
Moreover, the symmetric interpretation of this permission is unintuitive
and confusing, as per complaint from Paul Jungwirth.  So let's drop the
referencing-side check.

In passing, do a bit of wordsmithing on the GRANT reference page so that
all the privilege types are described in similar fashion.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/8940.1490906755@sss.pgh.pa.us
2017-03-31 18:11:30 -04:00
Robert Haas 8f18a880a5 Improve documentation for table partitioning.
Emphasize the new declarative partitioning more, and compare and
contrast it more clearly with inheritance-based partitioning.

Amit Langote, reviewed and somewhat revised by me

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/a6f99cdb-21e7-1d65-1381-91f2cfa156e2@lab.ntt.co.jp
2017-03-31 17:33:34 -04:00
Robert Haas f05230752d Revert "Allow ON CONFLICT .. DO NOTHING on a partitioned table."
This reverts commit 8355a011a0, which
turns out to have been a misguided effort.  We can't really support
this in a partitioning hierarchy after all for exactly the reasons
stated in the documentation removed by that commit.  It's still
possible to use ON CONFLICT .. DO NOTHING (or for that matter ON
CONFLICT .. DO UPDATE) on individual partitions if desired, but
but to allow this on a partitioned table implies that we have some
way of evaluating uniqueness across the whole partitioning
hierarchy, which is false.

Shinoda Noriyoshi noticed that the old code was crashing (which we
could fix, though not in a nice way) and Amit Langote realized
that this was indicative of a fundamental problem with the commit
being reverted here.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/ff3dc21d-7204-c09c-50ac-cf11a8c45c81@lab.ntt.co.jp
2017-03-31 16:48:21 -04:00
Robert Haas c94e6942ce Don't allocate storage for partitioned tables.
Also, don't allow setting reloptions on them, since that would have no
effect given the lack of storage.  The patch does this by introducing
a new reloption kind for which there are currently no reloptions -- we
might have some in the future -- so it adjusts parseRelOptions to
handle that case correctly.

Bumped catversion.  System catalogs that contained reloptions for
partitioned tables are no longer valid; plus, there are now fewer
physical files on disk, which is not technically a catalog change but
still a good reason to re-initdb.

Amit Langote, reviewed by Maksim Milyutin and Kyotaro Horiguchi and
revised a bit by me.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/20170331.173326.212311140.horiguchi.kyotaro@lab.ntt.co.jp
2017-03-31 16:28:51 -04:00
Robert Haas f49bcd4ef3 postgres_fdw: Teach IMPORT FOREIGN SCHEMA about partitioning.
Don't import partitions.  Do import partitioned tables which are
not themselves partitions.

Report by Stephen Frost.  Design and patch by Michael Paquier,
reviewed by Amit Langote.  Documentation revised by me.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/20170309141531.GD9812@tamriel.snowman.net
2017-03-31 15:06:34 -04:00
Andrew Dunstan e306df7f9c Full Text Search support for json and jsonb
The new functions are ts_headline() and to_tsvector.

Dmitry Dolgov, edited and documented by me.
2017-03-31 14:26:03 -04:00
Tom Lane ab1e644005 Fix broken markup.
Per buildfarm.
2017-03-30 17:13:44 -04:00
Simon Riggs 25fff40798 Default monitoring roles
Three nologin roles with non-overlapping privs are created by default
* pg_read_all_settings - read all GUCs.
* pg_read_all_stats - pg_stat_*, pg_database_size(), pg_tablespace_size()
* pg_stat_scan_tables - may lock/scan tables

Top level role - pg_monitor includes all of the above by default, plus others

Author: Dave Page
Reviewed-by: Stephen Frost, Robert Haas, Peter Eisentraut, Simon Riggs
2017-03-30 14:18:53 -04:00
Tom Lane e984ef5861 Support \if ... \elif ... \else ... \endif in psql scripting.
This patch adds nestable conditional blocks to psql.  The control
structure feature per se is complete, but the boolean expressions
understood by \if and \elif are pretty primitive; basically, after
variable substitution and backtick expansion, the result has to be
"true" or "false" or one of the other standard spellings of a boolean
value.  But that's enough for many purposes, since you can always
do the heavy lifting on the server side; and we can extend it later.

Along the way, pay down some of the technical debt that had built up
around psql/command.c:
* Refactor exec_command() into a function per command, instead of
being a 1500-line monstrosity.  This makes the file noticeably longer
because of repetitive function header/trailer overhead, but it seems
much more readable.
* Teach psql_get_variable() and psqlscanslash.l to suppress variable
substitution and backtick expansion on the basis of the conditional
stack state, thereby allowing removal of the OT_NO_EVAL kluge.
* Fix the no-doubt-once-expedient hack of sometimes silently substituting
mainloop.c's previous_buf for query_buf when calling HandleSlashCmds.
(It's a bit remarkable that commands like \r worked at all with that.)
Recall of a previous query is now done explicitly in the slash commands
where that should happen.

Corey Huinker, reviewed by Fabien Coelho, further hacking by me

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CADkLM=c94OSRTnat=LX0ivNq4pxDNeoomFfYvBKM5N_xfmLtAA@mail.gmail.com
2017-03-30 12:59:24 -04:00
Andres Freund ffae6733db Try to fix xml docs build broken in 5ded4bd.
Apparently the sgml to xml conversion treats non-closed <para>s
differently than jade does.
2017-03-30 09:42:07 -07:00
Fujii Masao ec19693014 Simplify the example of VACUUM in documentation.
Previously a detailed activity report by VACUUM VERBOSE ANALYZE was
described as an example of VACUUM in docs. But it had been obsolete
for a long time. For example, commit feb4f44d29
updated the content of that activity report in 2003, but we had
forgotten to update the example.

So basically we need to update the example. But since no one cared
about the details of VACUUM output and complained about that mistake
for such long time, per discussion on hackers, we decided to get rid
of the detailed activity report from the example and simplify it.

Back-patch to all supported versions.

Reported by Masahiko Sawada, patch by me.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAD21AoAGA2pB3p-CWmTkxBsbkZS1bcDGBLcYVcvcDxspG_XAfA@mail.gmail.com
2017-03-31 01:31:15 +09:00
Andres Freund 5ded4bd214 Remove support for version-0 calling conventions.
The V0 convention is failure prone because we've so far assumed that a
function is V0 if PG_FUNCTION_INFO_V1 is missing, leading to crashes
if a function was coded against the V1 interface.  V0 doesn't allow
proper NULL, SRF and toast handling.  V0 doesn't offer features that
V1 doesn't.

Thus remove V0 support and obsolete fmgr README contents relating to
it.

Author: Andres Freund, with contributions by Peter Eisentraut & Craig Ringer
Reviewed-By: Peter Eisentraut, Craig Ringer
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20161208213441.k3mbno4twhg2qf7g@alap3.anarazel.de
2017-03-30 06:25:46 -07:00
Peter Eisentraut 66b764341b doc: Mention --enable-tap-tests in regression test chapter
Reported-by: Jeff Janes <jeff.janes@gmail.com>
2017-03-28 21:12:30 -04:00
Teodor Sigaev ab89e465cb Altering default privileges on schemas
Extend ALTER DEFAULT PRIVILEGES command to schemas.

Author: Matheus Oliveira
Reviewed-by: Petr Jelínek, Ashutosh Sharma

https://commitfest.postgresql.org/13/887/
2017-03-28 18:58:55 +03:00
Simon Riggs ff539da316 Cleanup slots during drop database
Automatically drop all logical replication slots associated with a
database when the database is dropped. Previously we threw an ERROR
if a slot existed. Now we throw ERROR only if a slot is active in
the database being dropped.

Craig Ringer
2017-03-28 10:05:21 -04:00
Tom Lane a6f22e8356 Show ignored constants as "$N" rather than "?" in pg_stat_statements.
The trouble with the original choice here is that "?" is a valid (and
indeed used) operator name, so that you could end up with ambiguous
statement texts like "SELECT ? ? ?".  With this patch, you instead
see "SELECT $1 ? $2", which seems significantly more readable.
The numbers used for this purpose begin after the last actual $N parameter
in the particular query.  The conflict with external parameters has its own
potential for confusion of course, but it was agreed to be an improvement
over the previous behavior.

Lukas Fittl

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAP53PkxeaCuwYmF-A4J5z2-qk5fYFo5_NH3gpXGJJBxv1DMwEw@mail.gmail.com
2017-03-27 20:14:36 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 6e31c3e135 doc: Improve rendering of notes/cautions using XSL-FO
Center title and put a border around it, like the output that the DSSSL
version gave.
2017-03-27 13:33:36 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 5196f13b27 doc: Fix oldhtml/old PDF build again
Commit e259e1f748 was faulty and created
some broken output.  This one fixes it better.
2017-03-27 11:58:52 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 70ec3f1f8f PL/Python: Add cursor and execute methods to plan object
Instead of

    plan = plpy.prepare(...)
    res = plpy.execute(plan, ...)

you can now write

    plan = plpy.prepare(...)
    res = plan.execute(...)

or even

    res = plpy.prepare(...).execute(...)

and similarly for the cursor() method.

This is more in object oriented style, and makes the hybrid nature of
the existing execute() function less confusing.

Reviewed-by: Andrew Dunstan <andrew.dunstan@2ndquadrant.com>
2017-03-27 11:37:22 -04:00
Robert Haas d65561464f Improve documentation of how NOT NULL works with partitioning.
Amit Langote

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/a6f99cdb-21e7-1d65-1381-91f2cfa156e2@lab.ntt.co.jp
2017-03-27 11:01:33 -04:00
Robert Haas 4785e377f9 Tidy up the CREATE TABLE documentation for partitioning.
Remove some <note> tags that make this too "loud".  Fix some typos.

Amit Langote, with a few minor corrections by me

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/a6f99cdb-21e7-1d65-1381-91f2cfa156e2@lab.ntt.co.jp
2017-03-27 11:00:09 -04:00
Robert Haas 8355a011a0 Allow ON CONFLICT .. DO NOTHING on a partitioned table.
ON CONFLICT .. DO UPDATE still doesn't work, for lack of a way of
enforcing uniqueness across partitions, but we can still allow this
case.

Amit Langote, per discussion with Peter Geoghegan.  Additional
wordsmithing by me.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAA-aLv7Z4uygtq-Q5CvDi9Y=VZxUyEnuWjL=EwCfOof=L04hgg@mail.gmail.com
2017-03-27 10:37:41 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 3371e4d9b1 Change default of log_directory to 'log'
The previous default 'pg_log' might have indicated by its "pg_" prefix
that it is an internal system directory.  The new default is more in
line with the typical naming of directories with user-facing log files.
Together with the renaming of pg_clog and pg_xlog, this should clear up
that difference.

Author: Andreas Karlsson <andreas@proxel.se>
2017-03-27 10:34:33 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut facde2a98f Clean up Perl code according to perlcritic
Fix all perlcritic warnings of severity level 5, except in
src/backend/utils/Gen_dummy_probes.pl, which is automatically generated.

Reviewed-by: Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker <ilmari@ilmari.org>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
2017-03-27 08:18:22 -04:00
Robert Haas fc70a4b0df Show more processes in pg_stat_activity.
Previously, auxiliary processes and background workers not connected
to a database (such as the logical replication launcher) weren't
shown.  Include them, so that we can see the associated wait state
information.  Add a new column to identify the processes type, so that
people can filter them out easily using SQL if they wish.

Before this patch was written, there was discussion about whether we
should expose this information in a separate view, so as to avoid
contaminating pg_stat_activity with things people might not want to
see.  But putting everything in pg_stat_activity was a more popular
choice, so that's what the patch does.

Kuntal Ghosh, reviewed by Amit Langote and Michael Paquier.  Some
revisions and bug fixes by me.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmoYES5nhkEGw9nZXU8_FhA8XEm8NTm3-SO+3ML1B81Hkww@mail.gmail.com
2017-03-26 22:02:22 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut e259e1f748 doc: Fix oldhtml/old PDF build
"xref to REFSECT1 unsupported" with the DSSSL stylesheets.

Reported-by: Devrim Gündüz <devrim@gunduz.org>
2017-03-26 15:03:27 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut d637624524 doc: Clean up bibliography rendering for XSLT
In the DSSSL stylesheets, we had an extensive customization of the
bibliography rendering.  Since the bibliography isn't that used much, it
doesn't seem worth doing an elaborate porting of that to XSLT.  So this
just moves some things around, removes some unused things, and does some
minimal XSLT stylesheet customizations to make things look clean.
2017-03-26 14:54:56 -04:00
Simon Riggs 5737c12df0 Report catalog_xmin separately in hot_standby_feedback
If the upstream walsender is using a physical replication slot, store the
catalog_xmin in the slot's catalog_xmin field. If the upstream doesn't use a
slot and has only a PGPROC entry behaviour doesn't change, as we store the
combined xmin and catalog_xmin in the PGPROC entry.

Author: Craig Ringer
2017-03-25 14:07:27 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut e148009740 Remove ICU tests from default run
These tests require the test database to be in UTF8 encoding.  Until
there is a better solution, take them out of the default test set and
treat them like the existing collate.linux.utf8 test, meaning it has to
be selected manually.
2017-03-25 00:30:26 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 87dee41f3e Add COMMENT and SECURITY LABEL support for publications and subscriptions 2017-03-24 23:44:23 -04:00
Fujii Masao 70adf2fbe1 Make VACUUM VERBOSE report the number of skipped frozen pages.
Previously manual VACUUM did not report the number of skipped frozen
pages even when VERBOSE option is specified. But this information is
helpful to monitor the VACUUM activity, and also autovacuum reports that
number in the log file when the condition of log_autovacuum_min_duration
is met.

This commit changes VACUUM VERBOSE so that it reports the number
of frozen pages that it skips.

Author: Masahiko Sawada
Reviewed-by: Yugo Nagata and Jim Nasby

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAD21AoDZQKCxo0L39Mrq08cONNkXQKXuh=2DP1Q8ebmt35SoaA@mail.gmail.com
2017-03-25 02:39:44 +09:00
Alvaro Herrera 7b504eb282 Implement multivariate n-distinct coefficients
Add support for explicitly declared statistic objects (CREATE
STATISTICS), allowing collection of statistics on more complex
combinations that individual table columns.  Companion commands DROP
STATISTICS and ALTER STATISTICS ... OWNER TO / SET SCHEMA / RENAME are
added too.  All this DDL has been designed so that more statistic types
can be added later on, such as multivariate most-common-values and
multivariate histograms between columns of a single table, leaving room
for permitting columns on multiple tables, too, as well as expressions.

This commit only adds support for collection of n-distinct coefficient
on user-specified sets of columns in a single table.  This is useful to
estimate number of distinct groups in GROUP BY and DISTINCT clauses;
estimation errors there can cause over-allocation of memory in hashed
aggregates, for instance, so it's a worthwhile problem to solve.  A new
special pseudo-type pg_ndistinct is used.

(num-distinct estimation was deemed sufficiently useful by itself that
this is worthwhile even if no further statistic types are added
immediately; so much so that another version of essentially the same
functionality was submitted by Kyotaro Horiguchi:
https://postgr.es/m/20150828.173334.114731693.horiguchi.kyotaro@lab.ntt.co.jp
though this commit does not use that code.)

Author: Tomas Vondra.  Some code rework by Álvaro.
Reviewed-by: Dean Rasheed, David Rowley, Kyotaro Horiguchi, Jeff Janes,
    Ideriha Takeshi
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/543AFA15.4080608@fuzzy.cz
    https://postgr.es/m/20170320190220.ixlaueanxegqd5gr@alvherre.pgsql
2017-03-24 14:06:10 -03:00
Robert Haas 857ee8e391 Add a txid_status function.
If your connection to the database server is lost while a COMMIT is
in progress, it may be difficult to figure out whether the COMMIT was
successful or not.  This function will tell you, provided that you
don't wait too long to ask.  It may be useful in other situations,
too.

Craig Ringer, reviewed by Simon Riggs and by me

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAMsr+YHQiWNEi0daCTboS40T+V5s_+dst3PYv_8v2wNVH+Xx4g@mail.gmail.com
2017-03-24 12:00:53 -04:00
Heikki Linnakangas 7ac955b347 Allow SCRAM authentication, when pg_hba.conf says 'md5'.
If a user has a SCRAM verifier in pg_authid.rolpassword, there's no reason
we cannot attempt to perform SCRAM authentication instead of MD5. The worst
that can happen is that the client doesn't support SCRAM, and the
authentication will fail. But previously, it would fail for sure, because
we would not even try. SCRAM is strictly more secure than MD5, so there's
no harm in trying it. This allows for a more graceful transition from MD5
passwords to SCRAM, as user passwords can be changed to SCRAM verifiers
incrementally, without changing pg_hba.conf.

Refactor the code in auth.c to support that better. Notably, we now have to
look up the user's pg_authid entry before sending the password challenge,
also when performing MD5 authentication. Also simplify the concept of a
"doomed" authentication. Previously, if a user had a password, but it had
expired, we still performed SCRAM authentication (but always returned error
at the end) using the salt and iteration count from the expired password.
Now we construct a fake salt, like we do when the user doesn't have a
password or doesn't exist at all. That simplifies get_role_password(), and
we can don't need to distinguish the  "user has expired password", and
"user does not exist" cases in auth.c.

On second thoughts, also rename uaSASL to uaSCRAM. It refers to the
mechanism specified in pg_hba.conf, and while we use SASL for SCRAM
authentication at the protocol level, the mechanism should be called SCRAM,
not SASL. As a comparison, we have uaLDAP, even though it looks like the
plain 'password' authentication at the protocol level.

Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/6425.1489506016@sss.pgh.pa.us
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier
2017-03-24 13:32:21 +02:00
Bruce Momjian 218747d2cf doc: add missing closing 'sect3' tag for ICU patch 2017-03-23 16:59:24 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut eccfef81e1 ICU support
Add a column collprovider to pg_collation that determines which library
provides the collation data.  The existing choices are default and libc,
and this adds an icu choice, which uses the ICU4C library.

The pg_locale_t type is changed to a union that contains the
provider-specific locale handles.  Users of locale information are
changed to look into that struct for the appropriate handle to use.

Also add a collversion column that records the version of the collation
when it is created, and check at run time whether it is still the same.
This detects potentially incompatible library upgrades that can corrupt
indexes and other structures.  This is currently only supported by
ICU-provided collations.

initdb initializes the default collation set as before from the `locale
-a` output but also adds all available ICU locales with a "-x-icu"
appended.

Currently, ICU-provided collations can only be explicitly named
collations.  The global database locales are still always libc-provided.

ICU support is enabled by configure --with-icu.

Reviewed-by: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@enterprisedb.com>
Reviewed-by: Andreas Karlsson <andreas@proxel.se>
2017-03-23 15:28:48 -04:00
Robert Haas ea42cc18c3 Track the oldest XID that can be safely looked up in CLOG.
This provides infrastructure for looking up arbitrary, user-supplied
XIDs without a risk of scary-looking failures from within the clog
module.  Normally, the oldest XID that can be safely looked up in CLOG
is the same as the oldest XID that can reused without causing
wraparound, and the latter is already tracked.  However, while
truncation is in progress, the values are different, so we must
keep track of them separately.

Craig Ringer, reviewed by Simon Riggs and by me.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAMsr+YHQiWNEi0daCTboS40T+V5s_+dst3PYv_8v2wNVH+Xx4g@mail.gmail.com
2017-03-23 14:26:31 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 50c956add8 Remove createlang and droplang
They have been deprecated since PostgreSQL 9.1.

Reviewed-by: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
2017-03-23 14:16:45 -04:00
Simon Riggs 6912acc04f Replication lag tracking for walsenders
Adds write_lag, flush_lag and replay_lag cols to pg_stat_replication.

Implements a lag tracker module that reports the lag times based upon
measurements of the time taken for recent WAL to be written, flushed and
replayed and for the sender to hear about it. These times
represent the commit lag that was (or would have been) introduced by each
synchronous commit level, if the remote server was configured as a
synchronous standby.  For an asynchronous standby, the replay_lag column
approximates the delay before recent transactions became visible to queries.
If the standby server has entirely caught up with the sending server and
there is no more WAL activity, the most recently measured lag times will
continue to be displayed for a short time and then show NULL.

Physical replication lag tracking is automatic. Logical replication tracking
is possible but is the responsibility of the logical decoding plugin.
Tracking is a private module operating within each walsender individually,
with values reported to shared memory. Module not used outside of walsender.

Design and code is good enough now to commit - kudos to the author.
In many ways a difficult topic, with important and subtle behaviour so this
shoudl be expected to generate discussion and multiple open items: Test now!

Author: Thomas Munro, following designs by Fujii Masao and Simon Riggs
Review: Simon Riggs, Ian Barwick and Craig Ringer
2017-03-23 14:05:28 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 7c4f52409a Logical replication support for initial data copy
Add functionality for a new subscription to copy the initial data in the
tables and then sync with the ongoing apply process.

For the copying, add a new internal COPY option to have the COPY source
data provided by a callback function.  The initial data copy works on
the subscriber by receiving COPY data from the publisher and then
providing it locally into a COPY that writes to the destination table.

A WAL receiver can now execute full SQL commands.  This is used here to
obtain information about tables and publications.

Several new options were added to CREATE and ALTER SUBSCRIPTION to
control whether and when initial table syncing happens.

Change pg_dump option --no-create-subscription-slots to
--no-subscription-connect and use the new CREATE SUBSCRIPTION
... NOCONNECT option for that.

Author: Petr Jelinek <petr.jelinek@2ndquadrant.com>
Tested-by: Erik Rijkers <er@xs4all.nl>
2017-03-23 08:55:37 -04:00
Stephen Frost 017e4f2588 Expose waitforarchive option through pg_stop_backup()
Internally, we have supported the option to either wait for all of the
WAL associated with a backup to be archived, or to return immediately.
This option is useful to users of pg_stop_backup() as well, when they
are reading the stop backup record position and checking that the WAL
they need has been archived independently.

This patch adds an additional, optional, argument to pg_stop_backup()
which allows the user to indicate if they wish to wait for the WAL to be
archived or not.  The default matches current behavior, which is to
wait.

Author: David Steele, with some minor changes, doc updates by me.
Reviewed by: Takayuki Tsunakawa, Fujii Masao
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/758e3fd1-45b4-5e28-75cd-e9e7f93a4c02@pgmasters.net
2017-03-22 23:44:58 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut cbf7ed51b8 doc: Improve CREATE PUBLICATION examples 2017-03-22 15:27:40 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut b941891190 doc: Fix logical replication setup instructions
The pg_hba.conf rules were changed in
8df9bd0b44.
2017-03-22 15:27:40 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut a2760915b3 doc: Markup and formatting improvements 2017-03-22 15:27:40 -04:00
Magnus Hagander 6b76f1bb58 Support multiple RADIUS servers
This changes all the RADIUS related parameters (radiusserver,
radiussecret, radiusport, radiusidentifier) to be plural and to accept a
comma separated list of servers, which will be tried in order.

Reviewed by Adam Brightwell
2017-03-22 18:11:08 +01:00
Peter Eisentraut 8df9bd0b44 Change logical replication pg_hba.conf use
Logical replication no longer uses the "replication" keyword.  It just
matches database entries in the normal way.  The "replication" keyword
now only applies to physical replication.

Reviewed-by: Petr Jelinek <petr.jelinek@2ndquadrant.com>
2017-03-22 11:19:30 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 4cfc9484d4 Refine rules for altering publication owner
Previously, the new owner had to be a superuser.  The new rules are more
refined similar to other objects.

Reviewed-by: Petr Jelinek <petr.jelinek@2ndquadrant.com>
2017-03-22 11:19:30 -04:00
Andrew Dunstan 96a7128b7b Sync pg_dump and pg_dumpall output
Before exiting any files are fsync'ed. A --no-sync option is also
provided for a faster exit if desired.

Michael Paquier.

Reviewed by Albe Laurenz

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAB7nPqS1uZ=Ov+UruW6jr3vB-S_DLVMPc0dQpV-fTDjmm0ZQMg@mail.gmail.com
2017-03-22 10:20:13 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 9212810c4f doc: Update tool sets documentation for modern FreeBSD
For several operating systems, we give handy package manager one-liners
to install all the requirements for building our documentation.  All
current production FreeBSD releases have a friendly new package manager
a bit like apt/yum, so give a one line command here.  Also, add a brief
note about gmake vs make in the doc subdirectory.

Author: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@enterprisedb.com>
2017-03-21 22:11:49 -04:00
Andrew Dunstan 80275561ff Document btree_gin support for enums 2017-03-21 11:11:42 -04:00
Andrew Dunstan f7946a92b6 Add btree_gist support for enum types.
This will allow enums to be used in exclusion constraints.

The code uses the new CallerFInfoFunctionCall infrastructure in fmgr,
and the support for it added to btree_gist in commit 393bb504d7.

Reviewed by Tom Lane and Anastasia Lubennikova

Discussion:  http://postgr.es/m/56EA8A71.8060107@dunslane.net
2017-03-21 10:43:27 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 010505546a doc: Improve markup 2017-03-21 08:33:46 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 17fa3e834f doc: clarify that function "ownership" that controls permission
It used to say the creation user.

Reported-by: Nathan Wagner
2017-03-20 22:33:26 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 692ed0567d doc: adjust 'Infinity' example to include minus
This clarifies that quoted infinity values must have the negative signs
inside single quotes.

Reported-by: Don Morrison
2017-03-20 22:22:18 -04:00
Bruce Momjian c709b113e8 doc: improve createdb example
The previous example could error out due to encoding mismatches;  use
-T/template instead.

Reported-by: Jason O'Donnell
2017-03-20 21:23:56 -04:00
Andrew Dunstan b6fb534f10 Add IF NOT EXISTS for CREATE SERVER and CREATE USER MAPPING
There is still some inconsistency with the error messages surrounding
foreign servers. Some use the word "foreign" and some don't. My
inclination is to remove all such uses of "foreign" on the basis that
the  CREATE/ALTER/DROP SERVER commands don't use the word. However, that
is left for another day. In this patch I have kept to the existing usage
in the affected commands, which omits "foreign".

Anastasia Lubennikova, reviewed by Arthur Zakirov and Ashtosh Bapat.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/7c2ab9b8-388a-1ce0-23a3-7acf2a0ed3c6@postgrespro.ru
2017-03-20 16:40:45 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 767ce36ff3 doc: Fix a few typos and awkward links 2017-03-18 23:43:47 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 27f1f585fd doc: Improve wording
Link to CREATE and ALTER ROLE consistently, instead of mixing CREATE
USER and ALTER ROLE.
2017-03-18 17:40:47 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut a72188a35b doc: Add markup 2017-03-18 14:41:47 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 5e86bb51ea doc: Update compatibility claim
Update outdated claim that TRUNCATE is a PostgreSQL extension.

Add cross-links between DELETE and TRUNCATE references pages.
2017-03-18 14:25:41 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut cb5fa4130e doc: Tweak reference page header style
Change the header style of references pages in HTML and PDF output to be
more like the old style under DSSSL.  In particular, the page should
start with a header containing the command name, instead of just "Name".
2017-03-18 14:17:28 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 164bdbe9c2 doc: Correct row count in table
The incorrect count causes FOP to error out.
2017-03-18 09:42:26 -04:00
Robert Haas 249cf070e3 Create and use wait events for read, write, and fsync operations.
Previous commits, notably 53be0b1add and
6f3bd98ebf, made it possible to see from
pg_stat_activity when a backend was stuck waiting for another backend,
but it's also fairly common for a backend to be stuck waiting for an
I/O.  Add wait events for those operations, too.

Rushabh Lathia, with further hacking by me.  Reviewed and tested by
Michael Paquier, Amit Kapila, Rajkumar Raghuwanshi, and Rahila Syed.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAGPqQf0LsYHXREPAZqYGVkDqHSyjf=KsD=k0GTVPAuzyThh-VQ@mail.gmail.com
2017-03-18 07:43:01 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut fef2bcdcba pageinspect: Add page_checksum function
Author: Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@2ndquadrant.com>
Reviewed-by: Ashutosh Sharma <ashu.coek88@gmail.com>
2017-03-17 10:55:17 -04:00
Robert Haas 88e66d193f Rename "pg_clog" directory to "pg_xact".
Names containing the letters "log" sometimes confuse users into
believing that only non-critical data is present.  It is hoped
this renaming will discourage ill-considered removals of transaction
status data.

Michael Paquier

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+Tgmoa9xFQyjRZupbdEFuwUerFTvC6HjZq1ud6GYragGDFFgA@mail.gmail.com
2017-03-17 09:48:38 -04:00
Robert Haas bd9028b824 Remove dead link.
David Christensen

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/82299377-1480-4439-9ABA-5828D71AA22E@endpoint.com
2017-03-17 09:32:34 -04:00
Robert Haas b4ff8609db Fix grammar.
This would have ben grammatical if the closing tag name were actually
part of the output, but of course it's not.
2017-03-16 20:29:42 -04:00
Robert Haas befd73c50f Add pg_ls_logdir() and pg_ls_waldir() functions.
These functions are intended to be used by monitoring tools, and,
unlike pg_ls_dir(), access to them can be granted to non-superusers,
so that those monitoring tools can observe the principle of least
privilege.

Dave Page, revised by me, and also reviewed a bit by Thomas Munro.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+OCxow-X=D2fWdKy+HP+vQ1LtrgbsYQ=CshzZBqyFT5jOYrFw@mail.gmail.com
2017-03-16 15:05:02 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut e76db009f0 Add more documentation and tests for publications
Add/correct documentation and add some tests related to how access
control around adding tables to publications works.
2017-03-15 13:52:07 -04:00
Stephen Frost c7a9fa399d Add support for EUI-64 MAC addresses as macaddr8
This adds in support for EUI-64 MAC addresses by adding a new data type
called 'macaddr8' (using our usual convention of indicating the number
of bytes stored).

This was largely a copy-and-paste from the macaddr data type, with
appropriate adjustments for having 8 bytes instead of 6 and adding
support for converting a provided EUI-48 (6 byte format) to the EUI-64
format.  Conversion from EUI-48 to EUI-64 inserts FFFE as the 4th and
5th bytes but does not perform the IPv6 modified EUI-64 action of
flipping the 7th bit, but we add a function to perform that specific
action for the user as it may be commonly done by users who wish to
calculate their IPv6 address based on their network prefix and 48-bit
MAC address.

Author: Haribabu Kommi, with a good bit of rework of macaddr8_in by me.
Reviewed by: Vitaly Burovoy, Kuntal Ghosh

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAJrrPGcUi8ZH+KkK+=TctNQ+EfkeCEHtMU_yo1mvX8hsk_ghNQ@mail.gmail.com
2017-03-15 11:16:25 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut aefeb68741 Allow referring to functions without arguments when unique
In DDL commands referring to an existing function, allow omitting the
argument list if the function name is unique in its schema, per SQL
standard.

This uses the same logic that the regproc type uses for finding
functions by name only.

Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>
2017-03-14 23:55:19 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 3f6ea5fc8d doc: Remove useless elements in bibliography
Under DSSSL, bibliodiv/para elements didn't show up, but under XSLT they
do, but they are kind of useless here, so remove them.
2017-03-14 23:30:01 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 0c068205df doc: Fix TOC generation for refentries
The XSLT stylesheets by default don't show refentries inside sections in
table of contents, which for our documentation leads to some regressions
compared to the DSSSL output.  For example, in the SPI chapter, which is
mostly refentries, you don't get any usable table of contents.  Tweak
things so it's mostly back to what it was before.
2017-03-14 23:12:18 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut eb4da3e380 Add option to control snapshot export to CREATE_REPLICATION_SLOT
We used to export snapshots unconditionally in CREATE_REPLICATION_SLOT
in the replication protocol, but several upcoming patches want more
control over what happens.

Suppress snapshot export in pg_recvlogical, which neither needs nor can
use the exported snapshot.  Since snapshot exporting can fail this
improves reliability.

This also paves the way for allowing the creation of replication slots
on standbys, which cannot export snapshots because they cannot allocate
new XIDs.

Author: Petr Jelinek <petr.jelinek@2ndquadrant.com>
2017-03-14 17:34:22 -04:00
Robert Haas bb4a39637a hash: Support WAL consistency checking.
Kuntal Ghosh, reviewed by Amit Kapila and Ashutosh Sharma, with
a few tweaks by me.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAGz5QCJLERUn_zoO0eDv6_Y_d0o4tNTMPeR7ivTLBg4rUrJdwg@mail.gmail.com
2017-03-14 14:58:56 -04:00
Robert Haas c11453ce0a hash: Add write-ahead logging support.
The warning about hash indexes not being write-ahead logged and their
use being discouraged has been removed.  "snapshot too old" is now
supported for tables with hash indexes.  Most importantly, barring
bugs, hash indexes will now be crash-safe and usable on standbys.

This commit doesn't yet add WAL consistency checking for hash
indexes, as we now have for other index types; a separate patch has
been submitted to cure that lack.

Amit Kapila, reviewed and slightly modified by me.  The larger patch
series of which this is a part has been reviewed and tested by Álvaro
Herrera, Ashutosh Sharma, Mark Kirkwood, Jeff Janes, and Jesper
Pedersen.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAA4eK1JOBX=YU33631Qh-XivYXtPSALh514+jR8XeD7v+K3r_Q@mail.gmail.com
2017-03-14 13:27:02 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut a47b38c9ee Spelling fixes
From: Josh Soref <jsoref@gmail.com>
2017-03-14 12:58:39 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 37289ffdbf doc: Fix synopsis 2017-03-14 11:19:12 -04:00
Tom Lane 0c87cd003d Fix busted markup.
Oversight in commit 9ca5c8721.  Per buildfarm.
2017-03-13 19:06:28 -04:00
Michael Meskes 9ca5c8721d Document two phase commit commands in ecpg docu.
Patch by Masahiko Sawada
2017-03-13 21:03:55 +01:00
Noah Misch 9d7726c2ba Recommend wrappers of PG_DETOAST_DATUM_PACKED().
When commit 3e23b68dac introduced
single-byte varlena headers, its fmgr.h changes presented
PG_GETARG_TEXT_PP() and PG_GETARG_TEXT_P() as equals.  Its postgres.h
changes presented PG_DETOAST_DATUM_PACKED() and VARDATA_ANY() as the
exceptional case.  Now, instead, firmly recommend PG_GETARG_TEXT_PP()
over PG_GETARG_TEXT_P(); likewise for other ...PP() macros.  This shaves
cycles and invites consistency of style.
2017-03-12 19:35:33 -04:00
Tom Lane b58fd4a9ca Add a "subtransaction" command to PL/Tcl.
This allows rolling back the effects of some SPI commands without
having to fail the entire PL/Tcl function.

Victor Wagner, reviewed by Pavel Stehule

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170108205750.2dab04a1@wagner.wagner.home
2017-03-11 14:37:05 -05:00
Tom Lane f9dfa5c977 Improve postmaster's logging of listen socket creation.
When one of the kernel calls in the socket()/bind()/listen() sequence
fails, include the specific address we're trying to bind to in the log
message.  This greatly eases debugging of network misconfigurations.

Also, after successfully setting up a listen socket, report its address
in the log, to ease verification that the expected addresses were bound.
There was some debate about whether to print this message at LOG level or
only DEBUG1, but the majority of votes were for the former.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/9564.1489091245@sss.pgh.pa.us
2017-03-10 16:32:25 -05:00
Tom Lane 8b358b42f8 Change the relkind for partitioned tables from 'P' to 'p'.
Seven of the eight other relkind codes are lower-case, so it wasn't
consistent for this one to be upper-case.  Fix it while we still can.

Historical notes: the reason for the lone exception, i.e. sequences being
'S', is that 's' was once used for "special" relations.  Also, at one time
the partitioned-tables patch used both 'P' and 'p', but that got changed,
leaving only a surprising choice behind.

This also fixes a couple little bits of technical debt, such as
type_sanity.sql not knowing that 'm' is a legal value for relkind.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/27899.1488909319@sss.pgh.pa.us
2017-03-10 13:15:47 -05:00
Peter Eisentraut 07a61e1670 Improve gitignore file
One file was listed under a wrong comment.
2017-03-10 10:16:04 -05:00
Andres Freund 3717dc149e Add amcheck extension to contrib.
This is the beginning of a collection of SQL-callable functions to
verify the integrity of data files.  For now it only contains code to
verify B-Tree indexes.

This adds two SQL-callable functions, validating B-Tree consistency to
a varying degree.  Check the, extensive, docs for details.

The goal is to later extend the coverage of the module to further
access methods, possibly including the heap.  Once checks for
additional access methods exist, we'll likely add some "dispatch"
functions that cover multiple access methods.

Author: Peter Geoghegan, editorialized by Andres Freund
Reviewed-By: Andres Freund, Tomas Vondra, Thomas Munro,
   Anastasia Lubennikova, Robert Haas, Amit Langote
Discussion: CAM3SWZQzLMhMwmBqjzK+pRKXrNUZ4w90wYMUWfkeV8mZ3Debvw@mail.gmail.com
2017-03-09 16:33:02 -08:00