crosstabview.c was not added to nls.mk when it was added. Also remove
redundant gettext markers, since psql_error() is already registered as a
gettext keyword.
dumpAccessMethod() didn't get the memo that we now have a bitfield for
the components which should be dumped instead of a simple boolean.
Correct that by checking if the relevant bit is set for each component
being dumped out (and not dumping it out if it isn't set).
This corrects an issue where CREATE ACCESS METHOD commands were being
included in non-binary-upgrades when an extension included an access
method (as the bloom extensions does).
Also add a regression test to make sure that we only dump out the
ACCESS METHOD commands, when they are part of an extension, when doing
a binary upgrade.
Pointed out by Thom Brown.
In commit 5c3c3cd0a3, the new tests were
apparently just dumped into the first convenient file. Move them to a
separate file dedicated to testing that functionality and leave the
plpython_test test to test basic functionality, as it did before.
If we ANALYZE only selected columns of a table, we should not postpone
auto-analyze because of that; other columns may well still need stats
updates. As committed, the counter is left alone if a column list is
given, whether or not it includes all analyzable columns of the table.
Per complaint from Tomasz Ostrowski.
It's been like this a long time, so back-patch to all supported branches.
Report: <ef99c1bd-ff60-5f32-2733-c7b504eb960c@ato.waw.pl>
If a Gather node has read as many tuples as it needs (for example, due
to Limit) it may detach the queue connecting it to the worker before
reading all of the worker's tuples. Rather than let the worker
continue to generate and send all of the results, have it stop after
sending the next tuple.
More could be done here to stop the worker even quicker, but this is
about as well as we can hope to do for 9.6.
This is in response to a problem report from Andreas Seltenreich.
Commit 44339b892a should be actually be
sufficient to fix that example even without this change, but it seems
better to do this, too, since we might otherwise waste quite a large
amount of effort in one or more workers.
Discussion: CAA4eK1KOKGqmz9bGu+Z42qhRwMbm4R5rfnqsLCNqFs9j14jzEA@mail.gmail.com
Amit Kapila
Prior to this patch, it was occasionally possible, after shm_mq_sendv
had previously returned SHM_MQ_DETACHED, for a later shm_mq_sendv
operation to fail an assertion instead of just again returning
SHM_MQ_ATTACHED. From the shm_mq code's point of view, it was
expecting to be called again with the same arguments, since the
previous operation had only partially completed. However, a caller
who isn't using non-blocking mode won't be prepared to repeat the call
with the same arguments, and this code shouldn't expect that they
will. Repair in such a way that we'll be OK whether the next call
uses the same arguments or not.
Found by Andreas Seltenreich. Analysis and sketch of fix by Amit
Kapila. Patch by me, reviewed by Amit Kapila.
For historical reasons, copyFile and rewriteVisibilityMap took a force
argument which was always passed as true, meaning that any existing
file should be overwritten. However, it seems much safer to instead
fail if a file we need to write already exists.
While we're at it, remove the "force" argument altogether, since it was
never passed as anything other than true (and now we would never pass
it as anything other than false, if we kept it).
Noted by Andres Freund during post-commit review of the patch that added
rewriteVisibilityMap, commit 7087166a88,
but this also changes the behavior when copying files without rewriting
them.
Patch by Masahiko Sawada.
In the old logic, if read() were to return an error, we'd silently stop
rewriting the visibility map at that point in the file. That's safe,
but reporting the error is better, so do that instead.
Report by Andres Freund. Patch by Masahiko Sawada, with one correction
by me.
Fix still another bug in commit 35fcb1b3d: it failed to fully initialize
the SortSupport states it introduced to allow the executor to re-check
ORDER BY expressions containing distance operators. That led to a null
pointer dereference if the sortsupport code tried to use ssup_cxt. The
problem only manifests in narrow cases, explaining the lack of previous
field reports. It requires a GiST-indexable distance operator that lacks
SortSupport and is on a pass-by-ref data type, which among core+contrib
seems to be only btree_gist's interval opclass; and it requires the scan
to be done as an IndexScan not an IndexOnlyScan, which explains how
btree_gist's regression test didn't catch it. Per bug #14134 from
Jihyun Yu.
Peter Geoghegan
Report: <20160511154904.2603.43889@wrigleys.postgresql.org>
It'd be good for "(x AND y) AND z" to produce a three-child AND node
whether or not operator_precedence_warning is on, but that failed to
happen when it's on because makeAndExpr() didn't look through the added
AEXPR_PAREN node. This has no effect on generated plans because prepqual.c
would flatten the AND nest anyway; but it does affect the number of parens
printed in ruleutils.c, for example. I'd already fixed some similar
hazards in parse_expr.c in commit abb164655, but didn't think to search
gram.y for problems of this ilk. Per gripe from Jean-Pierre Pelletier.
Report: <fa0535ec6d6428cfec40c7e8a6d11156@mail.gmail.com>
This attempts to buy back some of whatever performance we lost from fixing
bug #14174 by inlining the initial checks in MakeExpandedObjectReadOnly()
into the callers. We can do that in a macro without creating multiple-
evaluation hazards, so it's pretty much free notationally; and the amount
of code added to callers should be minimal as well. (Testing a value can't
take many more instructions than passing it to a subroutine.)
Might as well inline DatumIsReadWriteExpandedObject() while we're at it.
This is an ABI break for callers, so it doesn't seem safe to put into 9.5,
but I see no reason not to do it in HEAD.
Further thought about bug #14174 motivated me to try the case of a
R/W datum being returned from a VALUES list, and sure enough it was
broken. Fix that.
Also add a regression test case exercising the same scenario for
FunctionScan. That's not broken right now, because the function's
result will get shoved into a tuplestore between generation and use;
but it could easily become broken whenever we get around to optimizing
FunctionScan better.
There don't seem to be any other places where we put the result of
expression evaluation into a virtual tuple slot that could then be
the source for Vars of further expression evaluation, so I think
this is the end of this bug.
If a plan node output expression returns an "expanded" datum, and that
output column is referenced in more than one place in upper-level plan
nodes, we need to ensure that what is returned is a read-only reference
not a read/write reference. Otherwise one of the referencing sites could
scribble on or even delete the expanded datum before we have evaluated the
others. Commit 1dc5ebc907, which introduced this feature, supposed
that it'd be sufficient to make SubqueryScan nodes force their output
columns to read-only state. The folly of that was revealed by bug #14174
from Andrew Gierth, and really should have been immediately obvious
considering that the planner will happily optimize SubqueryScan nodes
out of the plan without any regard for this issue.
The safest fix seems to be to make ExecProject() force its results into
read-only state; that will cover every case where a plan node returns
expression results. Actually we can delegate this to ExecTargetList()
since we can recursively assume that plain Vars will not reference
read-write datums. That should keep the extra overhead down to something
minimal. We no longer need ExecMakeSlotContentsReadOnly(), which was
introduced only in support of the idea that just a few plan node types
would need to do this.
In the future it would be nice to have the planner account for this problem
and inject force-to-read-only expression evaluation nodes into only the
places where there's a risk of multiple evaluation. That's not a suitable
solution for 9.5 or even 9.6 at this point, though.
Report: <20160603124628.9932.41279@wrigleys.postgresql.org>
The partial paths that get modified may already have been used as
part of a GatherPath which appears in the path list, so modifying
them is not a good idea at this stage - especially because this
code has no check that the PathTarget is in fact parallel-safe.
When partial aggregation is being performed, this is actually
harmless because we'll end up replacing the pathtargets here with
the correct ones within create_grouping_paths(). But if we've got
a query tree containing only scan/join operations then this can
result in incorrectly pushing down parallel-restricted target
list entries. If those are, for example, references to subqueries,
that can crash the server; but it's wrong in any event.
Amit Kapila
The "snapshot too old" condition was not being recognized when
using a copied snapshot, since the original timestamp and lsn were
not being passed along. Noticed when testing the combination of
"snapshot too old" with parallel query execution.
Adopt the same solution as in commit aa90e148ca, but this time
let's put the ugliness inside the write_stderr() macro, instead of
expecting each call site to deal with it. Back-port that decision
into psql/common.c where I got the macro from in the first place.
Per gripe from Peter Eisentraut.
Mostly these are just comments but there are a few in documentation
and a handful in code and tests. Hopefully this doesn't cause too much
unnecessary pain for backpatching. I relented from some of the most
common like "thru" for that reason. The rest don't seem numerous
enough to cause problems.
Thanks to Kevin Lyda's tool https://pypi.python.org/pypi/misspellings
Per post-commit review comments from Andres Freund, improve variable
names, comments, and in one place, slightly improve the code structure.
Masahiko Sawada
Use MAXALIGN size/alignment to guarantee that later uses of memory are
aligned correctly. E.g. epoll_event might need 8 byte alignment on some
platforms, but earlier allocations like WaitEventSet and WaitEvent might
not sized to guarantee that when purely using sizeof().
Found by myself while testing on an Sun Ultra 5 (Sparc IIi) with some
editorializing by Andres Freund.
In passing fix a couple typos in the area
Formerly, Unix builds of pg_dump/pg_restore would trap SIGINT and similar
signals and set a flag that was tested in various data-transfer loops.
This was prone to errors of omission (cf commit 3c8aa6654); and even if
the client-side response was prompt, we did nothing that would cause
long-running SQL commands (e.g. CREATE INDEX) to terminate early.
Also, the master process would effectively do nothing at all upon receipt
of SIGINT; the only reason it seemed to work was that in typical scenarios
the signal would also be delivered to the child processes. We should
support termination when a signal is delivered only to the master process,
though.
Windows builds had no console interrupt handler, so they would just fall
over immediately at control-C, again leaving long-running SQL commands to
finish unmolested.
To fix, remove the flag-checking approach altogether. Instead, allow the
Unix signal handler to send a cancel request directly and then exit(1).
In the master process, also have it forward the signal to the children.
On Windows, add a console interrupt handler that behaves approximately
the same. The main difference is that a single execution of the Windows
handler can send all the cancel requests since all the info is available
in one process, whereas on Unix each process sends a cancel only for its
own database connection.
In passing, fix an old problem that DisconnectDatabase tends to send a
cancel request before exiting a parallel worker, even if nothing went
wrong. This is at least a waste of cycles, and could lead to unexpected
log messages, or maybe even data loss if it happened in pg_restore (though
in the current code the problem seems to affect only pg_dump). The cause
was that after a COPY step, pg_dump was leaving libpq in PGASYNC_BUSY
state, causing PQtransactionStatus() to report PQTRANS_ACTIVE. That's
normally harmless because the next PQexec() will silently clear the
PGASYNC_BUSY state; but in a parallel worker we might exit without any
additional SQL commands after a COPY step. So add an extra PQgetResult()
call after a COPY to allow libpq to return to PGASYNC_IDLE state.
This is a bug fix, IMO, so back-patch to 9.3 where parallel dump/restore
were introduced.
Thanks to Kyotaro Horiguchi for Windows testing and code suggestions.
Original-Patch: <7005.1464657274@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: <20160602.174941.256342236.horiguchi.kyotaro@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Commit 2ed5b87f96 introduced a bug in
mark/restore, in an attempt to optimize repeated restores to the
same page. This caused an assertion failure during a merge join
which fed directly from an index scan, although the impact would
not be limited to that case. Revert the bad chunk of code from
that commit.
While investigating this bug it was discovered that a particular
"paranoia" set of the mark position field would not prevent bad
behavior; it would just make it harder to diagnose. Change that
into an assertion, which will draw attention to any future problem
in that area more directly.
Backpatch to 9.5, where the bug was introduced.
Bug #14169 reported by Shinta Koyanagi.
Preliminary analysis by Tom Lane identified which commit caused
the bug.
Parallel dump did a totally pointless query to find out the name of each
table to be dumped, which it already knows. Parallel restore runs issued
lots of redundant SET commands because _doSetFixedOutputState() was invoked
once per TOC item rather than just once at connection start. While the
extra queries are insignificant if you're dumping or restoring large
tables, it still seems worth getting rid of them.
Also, give the responsibility for selecting the right client_encoding for
a parallel dump worker to setup_connection() where it naturally belongs,
instead of having ad-hoc code for that in CloneArchive(). And fix some
minor bugs like use of strdup() where pg_strdup() would be safer.
Back-patch to 9.3, mostly to keep the branches in sync in an area that
we're still finding bugs in.
Discussion: <5086.1464793073@sss.pgh.pa.us>
The original intent in the stats collector was that we should not write out
stats data oftener than every PGSTAT_STAT_INTERVAL msec. Backends will not
make requests at all if they see the existing data is newer than that, and
the stats collector is supposed to disregard requests having a cutoff_time
older than its most recently written data, so that close-together requests
don't result in multiple writes. But the latter part of that got broken
in commit 187492b6c2, so that if two backends concurrently decide
the existing stats are too old, the collector would write the data twice.
(In principle the collector's logic would still merge requests as long as
the second one arrives before we've actually written data ... but since
the message collection loop would write data immediately after processing
a single inquiry message, that never happened in practice, and in any case
the window in which it might work would be much shorter than
PGSTAT_STAT_INTERVAL.)
To fix, improve pgstat_recv_inquiry so that it checks whether the cutoff
time is too old, and doesn't add a request to the queue if so. This means
that we do not need DBWriteRequest.request_time, because the decision is
taken before making a queue entry. And that means that we don't really
need the DBWriteRequest data structure at all; an OID list of database
OIDs will serve and allow removal of some rather verbose and crufty code.
In passing, improve the comments in this area, which have been rather
neglected. Also change backend_read_statsfile so that it's not silently
relying on MyDatabaseId to have some particular value in the autovacuum
launcher process. It accidentally worked as desired because MyDatabaseId
is zero in that process; but that does not seem like a dependency we want,
especially with no documentation about it.
Although this patch is mine, it turns out I'd rediscovered a known bug,
for which Tomas Vondra had already submitted a patch that's functionally
equivalent to the non-cosmetic aspects of this patch. Thanks to Tomas
for reviewing this version.
Back-patch to 9.3 where the bug was introduced.
Prior-Discussion: <1718942738eb65c8407fcd864883f4c8@fuzzy.cz>
Patch: <4625.1464202586@sss.pgh.pa.us>
This bug appears to have been introduced late in the development of
48354581a4 ("Allow Pin/UnpinBuffer to operate in a lockfree
manner.").
Found while debugging a bug which turned out to be independent of the
commit mentioned above.
Backpatch: -
BRIN was relying on the ability to remove a tuple from an index page,
then putting another tuple in the same line pointer. But PageAddItem
refuses to add a tuple beyond the first free item past the last used
item, and in particular, it rejects an attempt to add an item to an
empty page anywhere other than the first line pointer. PageAddItem
issues a WARNING and indicates to the caller that it failed, which in
turn causes the BRIN calling code to issue a PANIC, so the whole
sequence looks like this:
WARNING: specified item offset is too large
PANIC: failed to add BRIN tuple
To fix, create a new function PageAddItemExtended which is like
PageAddItem except that the two boolean arguments become a flags bitmap;
the "overwrite" and "is_heap" boolean flags in PageAddItem become
PAI_OVERWITE and PAI_IS_HEAP flags in the new function, and a new flag
PAI_ALLOW_FAR_OFFSET enables the behavior required by BRIN.
PageAddItem() retains its original signature, for compatibility with
third-party modules (other callers in core code are not modified,
either).
Also, in the belt-and-suspenders spirit, I added a new sanity check in
brinGetTupleForHeapBlock to raise an error if an TID found in the revmap
is not marked as live by the page header. This causes it to react with
"ERROR: corrupted BRIN index" to the bug at hand, rather than a hard
crash.
Backpatch to 9.5.
Bug reported by Andreas Seltenreich as detected by his handy sqlsmith
fuzzer.
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/87mvni77jh.fsf@elite.ansel.ydns.eu
Parallel restore from directory format failed to respond to control-C
in a timely manner, because there were no checkAborting() calls in the
code path that reads data from a file and sends it to the backend.
If any worker was in the midst of restoring data for a large table,
you'd just have to wait.
This fix doesn't do anything for the problem of aborting a long-running
server-side command, but at least it fixes things for data transfers.
Back-patch to 9.3 where parallel restore was introduced.
This was effectively dead code, since the places that tested it could not
be reached after we entered the on-exit-cleanup routine that would set it.
It seems to have been a leftover from a design in which error abort would
try to send fresh commands to the workers --- a design which could never
have worked reliably, of course. Since the flag is not cross-platform, it
complicates reasoning about the code's behavior, which we could do without.
Although this is effectively just cosmetic, back-patch anyway, because
there are some actual bugs in the vicinity of this behavior.
Discussion: <15583.1464462418@sss.pgh.pa.us>
The commentary in this file was in extremely sad shape. The author(s)
had clearly never heard of the project convention that a function header
comment should provide an API spec of some sort for that function. Much
of it was flat out wrong, too --- maybe it was accurate when written, but
if so it had not been updated to track subsequent code revisions. Rewrite
and rearrange to try to bring it up to speed, and annotate some of the
places where more work is needed. (I've refrained from actually fixing
anything of substance ... yet.)
Also, rename a couple of functions for more clarity as to what they do,
do some very minor code rearrangement, remove some pointless Asserts,
fix an incorrect Assert in readMessageFromPipe, and add a missing socket
close in one error exit from pgpipe(). The last would be a bug if we
tried to continue after pgpipe() failure, but since we don't, it's just
cosmetic at present.
Although this is only cosmetic, back-patch to 9.3 where parallel.c was
added. It's sufficiently invasive that it'll pose a hazard for future
back-patching if we don't.
Discussion: <25239.1464386067@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Since we start the worker threads with _beginthreadex(), we should use
_endthreadex() to terminate them. We got this right in the normal-exit
code path, but not so much during an error exit from a worker.
In addition, be sure to apply CloseHandle to the thread handle after
each thread exits.
It's not clear that these oversights cause any user-visible problems,
since the pg_dump run is about to terminate anyway. Still, it's clearly
better to follow Microsoft's API specifications than ignore them.
Also a few cosmetic cleanups in WaitForTerminatingWorkers(), including
being a bit less random about where to cast between uintptr_t and HANDLE,
and being sure to clear the worker identity field for each dead worker
(not that false matches should be possible later, but let's be careful).
Original observation and patch by Armin Schöffmann, cosmetic improvements
by Michael Paquier and me. (Armin's patch also included closing sockets
in ShutdownWorkersHard(), but that's been dealt with already in commit
df8d2d8c4.) Back-patch to 9.3 where parallel pg_dump was introduced.
Discussion: <zarafa.570306bd.3418.074bf1420d8f2ba2@root.aegaeon.de>
The IF EXISTS option was documented, and implemented in the grammar, but
it didn't actually work for lack of support in does_not_exist_skipping().
Per bug #14160.
Report and patch by Kouhei Sutou
Report: <20160527070433.19424.81712@wrigleys.postgresql.org>
If both timeout indicators are set when we arrive at ProcessInterrupts,
we've historically just reported "lock timeout". However, some buildfarm
members have been observed to fail isolationtester's timeouts test by
reporting "lock timeout" when the statement timeout was expected to fire
first. The cause seems to be that the process is allowed to sleep longer
than expected (probably due to heavy machine load) so that the lock
timeout happens before we reach the point of reporting the error, and
then this arbitrary tiebreak rule does the wrong thing. We can improve
matters by comparing the scheduled timeout times to decide which error
to report.
I had originally proposed greatly reducing the 1-second window between
the two timeouts in the test cases. On reflection that is a bad idea,
at least for the case where the lock timeout is expected to fire first,
because that would assume that it takes negligible time to get from
statement start to the beginning of the lock wait. Thus, this patch
doesn't completely remove the risk of test failures on slow machines.
Empirically, however, the case this handles is the one we are seeing
in the buildfarm. The explanation may be that the other case requires
the scheduler to take the CPU away from a busy process, whereas the
case fixed here only requires the scheduler to not give the CPU back
right away to a process that has been woken from a multi-second sleep
(and, perhaps, has been swapped out meanwhile).
Back-patch to 9.3 where the isolationtester timeouts test was added.
Discussion: <8693.1464314819@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Getting a synchronized snapshot is not supported on a hot standby node,
and is by default taken when using -j with multiple sessions. Trying to
do so still failed, but with a server error that would also go in the
log. Instead, proprely detect this case and give a better error message.
As part of upper planner pathification (commit 3fc6e2d7f5) I redid
createplan.c's approach to the physical-tlist optimization, in which scan
nodes are allowed to return exactly the underlying table's columns so as
to save doing a projection step at runtime. The logic was intentionally
more aggressive than before about applying the optimization, which is
generally a good thing, but Andres Freund found a case in which it got
too aggressive. Namely, if any column is referenced more than once in
the parent plan node's sorting or grouping column list, we can't optimize
because then that column would need to have more than one ressortgroupref
label, and we only have space for one.
Add logic to detect this situation in use_physical_tlist(), and also add
some error checking in apply_pathtarget_labeling_to_tlist(), which this
example proves was being overly cavalier about whether what it was doing
made any sense.
The added test case exposes the problem only because we do not eliminate
duplicate grouping keys. That might be something to fix someday, but it
doesn't seem like appropriate post-beta work.
Report: <20160526021235.w4nq7k3gnheg7vit@alap3.anarazel.de>
For some reason the code to emit a warning and switch to uncompressed
output was placed down in the guts of pg_backup_archiver.c. This is
definitely too late in the case of parallel operation (and I rather
wonder if it wasn't too late for other purposes as well). Put it in
pg_dump.c's option-processing logic, which seems a much saner place.
Also, the default behavior with custom or directory output format was
to emit the warning telling you the output would be uncompressed. This
seems unhelpful, so silence that case.
Back-patch to 9.3 where parallel dump was introduced.
Kyotaro Horiguchi, adjusted a bit by me
Report: <20160526.185551.242041780.horiguchi.kyotaro@lab.ntt.co.jp>
The Windows coding of ShutdownWorkersHard() thought that setting termEvent
was sufficient to make workers exit after an error. But that only helps
if a worker is busy and passes through checkAborting(). An idle worker
will just sit, resulting in pg_dump failing to exit until the user gives up
and hits control-C. We should close the write end of the command pipe
so that idle workers will see socket EOF and exit, as the Unix coding was
already doing.
Back-patch to 9.3 where parallel pg_dump was introduced.
Kyotaro Horiguchi
Dating back to commit f10b63923, our grammar has allowed "USING" to
optionally appear before an opclass name in CREATE INDEX (and, lately,
some related places such as ON CONFLICT specifications). Nikolay Shaplov
noticed that this syntax existed but wasn't documented, and proposed
documenting it. But what seems like a better idea is to remove the
production, thereby making the code match the docs not vice versa.
This isn't our usual modus operandi for such cases, but there are a
couple of good reasons to proceed this way:
* So far as I can find, this syntax has never been documented anywhere.
It isn't relied on by any of our own code or test cases, and there seems
little reason to suppose that it's been used in the wild either.
* Documenting it would mean that there would be two separate uses of
USING in the CREATE INDEX syntax, the other being "USING access_method".
That can lead to nothing but confusion.
So, let's just remove it. On the off chance that somebody somewhere
is using it, this isn't something to back-patch, but we can fix it
in HEAD.
Discussion: <1593237.l7oKHRpxSe@nataraj-amd64>
Ever since we split the statistics collector's reports into per-database
files (commit 187492b6c2), backends have been seeing stale statistics
for shared catalogs. This is because the inquiry message only prompts the
collector to write the per-database file for the requesting backend's own
database. Stats for shared catalogs are in a separate file for "DB 0",
which didn't get updated.
In normal operation this was partially masked by the fact that the
autovacuum launcher would send an inquiry message at least once per
autovacuum_naptime that asked for "DB 0"; so the shared-catalog stats would
never be more than a minute out of date. However the problem becomes very
obvious with autovacuum disabled, as reported by Peter Eisentraut.
To fix, redefine the semantics of inquiry messages so that both the
specified DB and DB 0 will be dumped. (This might seem a bit inefficient,
but we have no good way to know whether a backend's transaction will look
at shared-catalog stats, so we have to read both groups of stats whenever
we request stats. Sending two inquiry messages would definitely not be
better.)
Back-patch to 9.3 where the bug was introduced.
Report: <56AD41AC.1030509@gmx.net>
In the original design for parallel dump, worker processes reported errors
by sending them up to the master process, which would print the messages.
This is unworkably fragile for a couple of reasons: it risks deadlock if a
worker sends an error at an unexpected time, and if the master has already
died for some reason, the user will never get to see the error at all.
Revert that idea and go back to just always printing messages to stderr.
This approach means that if all the workers fail for similar reasons (eg,
bad password or server shutdown), the user will see N copies of that
message, not only one as before. While that's slightly annoying, it's
certainly better than not seeing any message; not to mention that we
shouldn't assume that only the first failure is interesting.
An additional problem in the same area was that the master failed to
disable SIGPIPE (at least until much too late), which meant that sending a
command to an already-dead worker would cause the master to crash silently.
That was bad enough in itself but was made worse by the total reliance on
the master to print errors: even if the worker had reported an error, you
would probably not see it, depending on timing. Instead disable SIGPIPE
right after we've forked the workers, before attempting to send them
anything.
Additionally, the master relies on seeing socket EOF to realize that a
worker has exited prematurely --- but on Windows, there would be no EOF
since the socket is attached to the process that includes both the master
and worker threads, so it remains open. Make archive_close_connection()
close the worker end of the sockets so that this acts more like the Unix
case. It's not perfect, because if a worker thread exits without going
through exit_nicely() the closures won't happen; but that's not really
supposed to happen.
This has been wrong all along, so back-patch to 9.3 where parallel dump
was introduced.
Report: <2458.1450894615@sss.pgh.pa.us>
When pulling the list of roles to drop, exclude roles whose names
begin with "pg_" (as we do when we are dumping the roles out to
recreate them).
Also add regression tests to cover pg_dumpall -c and this specific
issue.
Noticed by Rushabh Lathia. Patch by me.
All of the other tables used in the query in dumpTable(), which is
collecting column-level ACLs, are qualified, so we should be qualifying
the pg_init_privs, the related sub-select against pg_class and the
other queries added by the pg_dump catalog ACLs work.
Also, use ::regclass (or ::pg_catalog.regclass, where appropriate)
instead of using a poorly constructed query to get the OID for various
catalog tables.
Issues identified by Noah and Alvaro, patch by me.
Because vac_update_datfrozenxid() updates datfrozenxid and datminmxid
in-place, it's unsafe to assume that successive reads of those values will
give consistent results. Fetch each one just once to ensure sane behavior
in the minimum calculation. Noted while reviewing Alexander Korotkov's
patch in the same area.
Discussion: <8564.1464116473@sss.pgh.pa.us>
vac_truncate_clog() uses its own transaction ID as the comparison point in
a sanity check that no database's datfrozenxid has already wrapped around
"into the future". That was probably fine when written, but in a lazy
vacuum we won't have assigned an XID, so calling GetCurrentTransactionId()
causes an XID to be assigned when otherwise one would not be. Most of the
time that's not a big problem ... but if we are hard up against the
wraparound limit, consuming XIDs during antiwraparound vacuums is a very
bad thing.
Instead, use ReadNewTransactionId(), which not only avoids this problem
but is in itself a better comparison point to test whether wraparound
has already occurred.
Report and patch by Alexander Korotkov. Back-patch to all versions.
Report: <CAPpHfdspOkmiQsxh-UZw2chM6dRMwXAJGEmmbmqYR=yvM7-s6A@mail.gmail.com>
Commit 1aba62ec moved the range check of that option form guc.c into
bufmgr.c, but introduced a bug by changing a >= 0.0 to > 0.0, which made
the value 0 no longer accepted. Put it back.
Reported by Jeff Janes, diagnosed by Tom Lane
Commit 65c5fcd353 broke this by removing a
header include directive that is conditionally required. Add that back
to nbtree.c, with annotation to keep pgrminclude from re-breaking it.
Peter Geoghegan
Report: <CAM3SWZTNjHFYW_UG8bu0BnogqQ2HfsTgkzXLueuUhfTcYbu5HA@mail.gmail.com>
Needed for cases in which INSERT ... ON CONFLICT appears inside a
recursive CTE item. Per bug #14153 from Thomas Alton.
Patch by Peter Geoghegan, slightly adjusted by me
Report: <20160521232802.22598.13537@wrigleys.postgresql.org>
If RAW_EXPRESSION_COVERAGE_TEST is defined, do a no-op tree walk over
every basic DML statement submitted to parse analysis. If we'd had this
in place earlier, bug #14153 would have been caught by buildfarm testing.
The difficulty is that raw_expression_tree_walker() is only used in
limited cases involving CTEs (particularly recursive ones), so it's
very easy for an oversight in it to not be noticed during testing of a
seemingly-unrelated feature.
The type of error we can expect to catch with this is complete omission
of a node type from raw_expression_tree_walker(), and perhaps also
recursion into a field that doesn't contain a node tree, though that
would be an unlikely mistake. It won't catch failure to add new fields
that need to be recursed into, unfortunately.
I'll go enable this on one or two of my own buildfarm animals once
bug #14153 is dealt with.
Discussion: <27861.1464040417@sss.pgh.pa.us>
do_text_output_multiline() would fail (typically with a null pointer
dereference crash) if its input string did not end with a newline. Such
cases do not arise in our current sources; but it certainly could happen
in future, or in extension code's usage of the function, so we should fix
it. To fix, replace "eol += len" with "eol = text + len".
While at it, make two cosmetic improvements: mark the input string const,
and rename the argument from "text" to "txt" to dodge pgindent strangeness
(since "text" is a typedef name).
Even though this problem is only latent at present, it seems like a good
idea to back-patch the fix, since it's a very simple/safe patch and it's
not out of the realm of possibility that we might in future back-patch
something that expects sane behavior from do_text_output_multiline().
Per report from Hao Lee.
Report: <CAGoxFiFPAGyPAJLcFxTB5cGhTW2yOVBDYeqDugYwV4dEd1L_Ag@mail.gmail.com>
This was overlooked in commit 473b93287, which introduced DROP ACCESS
METHOD. Although that command is restricted to superusers, we don't want
even superusers dropping the built-in methods; "DROP ACCESS METHOD btree"
in particular is unrecoverable from. Pin these objects in the same way
that other initdb-created objects are pinned.
I chose to bump catversion for this fix. That's not absolutely necessary
perhaps, but it will ensure that no 9.6 production systems are missing
the pin entries.
Page image should be MAXALIGN'ed because existing code could directly align
pointers in page instead of align offset from beginning of page.
Found during play with indexes as extenstion, Alexander Korotkov and me
Some comments mentioned XLogReplayBuffer, but there's no such function:
that was an interim name for a function that got renamed to
XLogReadBufferForRedo, before commit 2c03216d83 was pushed.
While it could be argued that rejecting system column mentions in the
ON CONFLICT list is an unsupported feature, falling over altogether
just because the table has a unique index on OID is indubitably a bug.
As far as I can tell, fixing infer_arbiter_indexes() is sufficient to
make ON CONFLICT (oid) actually work, though making a regression test
for that case is problematic because of the impossibility of setting
the OID counter to a known value.
Minor cosmetic cleanups along with the bug fix.
subquery_planner() failed to apply expression preprocessing to the
arbiterElems and arbiterWhere fields of an OnConflictExpr. No doubt the
theory was that this wasn't necessary because we don't actually try to
execute those expressions; but that's wrong, because it results in failure
to match to index expressions or index predicates that are changed at all
by preprocessing. Per bug #14132 from Reynold Smith.
Also add pullup_replace_vars processing for onConflictWhere. Perhaps
it's impossible to have a subquery reference there, but I'm not exactly
convinced; and even if true today it's a failure waiting to happen.
Also add some comments to other places where one or another field of
OnConflictExpr is intentionally ignored, with explanation as to why it's
okay to do so.
Also, catalog/dependency.c failed to record any dependency on the named
constraint in ON CONFLICT ON CONSTRAINT, allowing such a constraint to
be dropped while rules exist that depend on it, and allowing pg_dump to
dump such a rule before the constraint it refers to. The normal execution
path managed to error out reasonably for a dangling constraint reference,
but ruleutils.c dumped core; so in addition to fixing the omission, add
a protective check in ruleutils.c, since we can't retroactively add a
dependency in existing databases.
Back-patch to 9.5 where this code was introduced.
Report: <20160510190350.2608.48667@wrigleys.postgresql.org>
The table-skipping logic in autovacuum would fail to consider that
multiple workers could be processing the same shared catalog in
different databases. This normally wouldn't be a problem: firstly
because autovacuum workers not for wraparound would simply ignore tables
in which they cannot acquire lock, and secondly because most of the time
these tables are small enough that even if multiple for-wraparound
workers are stuck in the same catalog, they would be over pretty
quickly. But in cases where the catalogs are severely bloated it could
become a problem.
Backpatch all the way back, because the problem has been there since the
beginning.
Reported by Ondřej Světlík
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/572B63B1.3030603%40flexibee.euhttps://www.postgresql.org/message-id/572A1072.5080308%40flexibee.eu
Use disallowed instead of reserved, cannot instead of can not, and
double quotes instead of single quotes.
Also add a test to cover the bug which started this discussion.
Per discussion with Tom.
It emerges that some Perl versions before 5.8.9 have a bug with regexps
that use the /m flag and contain "$". This is the reason why jacana
is still failing on HEAD, and I was able to duplicate the failure on
prairiedog's host. There's no real need for "$" in these patterns,
since they are already matching through the statement-terminating
semicolons (or matching an explicit \n in some cases). So just
remove it.
Note: the reason jacana hasn't actually reported any failures in the
last little while is that the way the pg_dump TAP tests are set up, any
failure of this sort results in echoing the entire pg_dump dump output
to stderr. Since there were about a hundred such failures, that resulted
in a 30MB log file which choked the buildfarm upload script. There is
room for improvement here :-(.
Per off-list discussion with Andrew and Stephen.
This patch essentially reverts commit 4c6780fd17, in favor of a much
simpler solution for the case where the new cluster would choose to create
a TOAST table but the old cluster doesn't have one: just don't create a
TOAST table.
The existing code failed in at least two different ways if the situation
arose: (1) ALTER TABLE RESET didn't grab an exclusive lock, so that the
lock sanity check in create_toast_table failed; (2) pg_upgrade did not
provide a pg_type OID for the new toast table, so that the crosscheck in
TypeCreate failed. While both these problems were introduced by later
patches, they show that the hack being used to cause TOAST table creation
is overwhelmingly fragile (and untested). I also note that before the
TypeCreate crosscheck was added, the code would have resulted in assigning
an indeterminate pg_type OID to the toast table, possibly causing a later
OID conflict in that catalog; so that it didn't really work even when
committed.
If we simply don't create a TOAST table, there will only be a problem if
the code tries to store a tuple that's wider than a page, and field
compression isn't sufficient to get it under a page. Given that the TOAST
creation threshold is intended to be about a quarter of a page, it's very
hard to believe that cross-version differences in the do-we-need-a-toast-
table heuristic could result in an observable problem. So let's just
follow the old version's conclusion about whether a TOAST table is needed.
(If we ever do change needs_toast_table() so much that this conclusion
doesn't apply, we can devise a solution at that time, and hopefully do
it in a less klugy way than 4c6780fd17 did.)
Back-patch to 9.3, like the previous patch.
Discussion: <8110.1462291671@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Buildfarm member jacana appears to have an issue with running this
test. It's not entirely clear to me why, but rather than try to
fight with it, just disable it for now.
None of the other tests try to write out from psql directly as
this test does, so it seems likely that the rest of the tests will
be fine (as they have been on numerous other systems).
Limit maintenance of time to xid mapping to once per minute. At
least in the tested case this brings performance within 5% of when
the feature is off, compared to several times slower without this
patch.
While there, fix comments and whitespace.
Ants Aasma, with cosmetic adjustments suggested by Andres Freund
Reviewed by Kevin Grittner and Andres Freund
The test_pg_dump extension doesn't have a C component, so we need
to exclude it from the MSVC build system trying to figure out how
to build it.
Also add a "MODULES" line to the Makefile, as test_extensions has.
Might not be necessary, but seems good to keep things consistent.
Lastly, remove the 'installcheck' line from test_pg_dump, as that
was causing redefinition errors, at least on my box. This also
makes test_pg_dump consistent with how commit_ts is set up.
We need to use a new branch due to the 9.5 addition of bypassrls
when adding in the clause to exclude pg_* roles from being dumped
by pg_dumpall.
Pointed out by Noah, patch by me.
The Makefile for test_pg_dump shouldn't have a MODULES_big line
because there's no actual compiled bit for that extension. Hopefully
this will fix the Windows buildfarm members which were complaining.
In passing, also add the 'prove_installcheck' bit to the pg_dump and
test_pg_dump Makefiles, to get the buildfarm members to actually run
those tests.
Discussion is still underway as to whether to revert the entire patch
that added this function, but that discussion may not conclude before
beta1. So, in the meantime, let's do at least this much.
David Rowley
This new limit affects both the max_parallel_degree GUC and the
parallel_degree reloption. There may some day be a use case for using
more than 1024 CPUs for a single query, but that's surely not the case
right now. Not only do not very many people have that many CPUs, but
the code hasn't been tested at that kind of scale and is very unlikely
to perform well, or even work at all, without a lot more work. The
issue addressed by commit 06bd458cb8 is
probably just one problem of many.
The idea of a more reasonable limit here was suggested by Tom Lane;
the value of 1024 was suggested by Amit Kapila.
Ordinarily, pg_upgrade shouldn't have any difficulty in matching up all
the relations it sees in the old and new databases. If it does, however,
it just goes belly-up with a pretty unhelpful error message. That seemed
fine as long as we expected the case never to occur in the wild, but
Alvaro reported that it had been seen in a database whose pg_largeobject
table had somehow acquired a TOAST table. That doesn't quite seem like
a case that pg_upgrade actually needs to handle, but it would be good if
the report were more diagnosable. Hence, extend the logic to print out
as much information as we can about the mismatch(es) before we quit.
In passing, improve the readability of get_rel_infos()'s data collection
query, which had suffered seriously from lets-not-bother-to-update-comments
syndrome, and generally was unnecessarily disrespectful to readers.
It could be argued that this is a bug fix, but given that we have so few
reports, I don't feel a need to back-patch; at least not before this has
baked awhile in HEAD.
That way, if the result overflows size_t, you'll get an error instead
of undefined behavior, which seems like a plus. This also has the
effect of casting the number of workers from int to Size, which is
better because it's harder to overflow int than size_t.
Dilip Kumar reported this issue and provided a patch upon which this
patch is based, but his version did use mul_size.
Default roles really should be like regular roles, for the most part.
This removes a number of checks that were trying to make default roles
extra special by not allowing them to be used as regular roles.
We still prevent users from creating roles in the "pg_" namespace or
from altering roles which exist in that namespace via ALTER ROLE, as
we can't preserve such changes, but otherwise the roles are very much
like regular roles.
Based on discussion with Robert and Tom.
This TAP test suite will create a new cluster, populate it based on
the 'create_sql' values in the '%tests' hash, run all of the runs
defined in the '%pgdump_runs' hash, and then for each test in the
'%tests' hash, compare each run's output the the regular expression
defined for the test under the 'like' and 'unlike' functions, as
appropriate.
While this test suite covers a fair bit of ground (67% of pg_dump.c
and quite a bit of the other files in src/bin/pg_dump), there is
still quite a bit which remains to be added to provide better code
coverage. Still, this is quite a bit better than we had, and has
found a few bugs already (note that the CREATE TRANSFORM test is
commented out, as it is currently failing).
Idea for using the TAP system from Tom, though all of the code is mine.
Reviewing the cases where we need to LOCK a given table during a dump,
it was pointed out by Tom that we really don't need to LOCK a table if
we are only looking to dump the ACL for it, or certain other
components. After reviewing the queries run for all of the component
pieces, a list of components were determined to not require LOCK'ing
of the table.
This implements a check to avoid LOCK'ing those tables.
Initial complaint from Rushabh Lathia, discussed with Robert and Tom,
the patch is mine.
Do not try to dump objects which do not have ACLs when only ACLs are
being requested. This results in a significant performance improvement
as we can avoid querying for further information on these objects when
we don't need to.
When limiting the components to dump for an extension, consider what
components have been requested. Initially, we incorrectly hard-coded
the components of the extension objects to dump, which would mean that
we wouldn't dump some components even with they were asked for and in
other cases we would dump components which weren't requested.
Correct defaultACLs to use 'dump_contains' instead of 'dump'. The
defaultACL is considered a member of the namespace and should be
dumped based on the same set of components that the other objects in
the schema are, not based on what we're dumping for the namespace
itself (which might not include ACLs, if the namespace has just the
default or initial ACL).
Use DUMP_COMPONENT_ACL for from-initdb objects, to allow users to
change their ACLs, should they wish to. This just extends what we
are doing for the pg_catalog namespace to objects which are not
members of namespaces.
Due to column ACLs being treated a bit differently from other ACLs
(they are actually reset to NULL when all privileges are revoked),
adjust the query which gathers column-level ACLs to consider all of
the ACL-relevant columns.
The query to grab the function/aggregate information is now joining
to pg_init_privs, so we can simplify (and correct) the WHERE clause
used to determine if a given function's ACL has changed from the
initial ACL on the function.
Bug found by Noah, patch by me.
to_timestamp() handles the TH/th format codes by advancing over two input
characters, whatever those are. It failed to notice whether there were
two characters available to be skipped, making it possible to advance
the pointer past the end of the input string and keep on parsing.
A similar risk existed in the handling of "Y,YYY" format: it would advance
over three characters after the "," whether or not three characters were
available.
In principle this might be exploitable to disclose contents of server
memory. But the security team concluded that it would be very hard to use
that way, because the parsing loop would stop upon hitting any zero byte,
and TH/th format codes can't be consecutive --- they have to follow some
other format code, which would have to match whatever data is there.
So it seems impractical to examine memory very much beyond the end of the
input string via this bug; and the input string will always be in local
memory not in disk buffers, making it unlikely that anything very
interesting is close to it in a predictable way. So this doesn't quite
rise to the level of needing a CVE.
Thanks to Wolf Roediger for reporting this bug.
The previous coding always stored variable values as strings, doing
conversion on-the-fly when a numeric value was needed or a number was to be
assigned. This was a bit inefficient and risked loss of precision for
floating-point values. The precision aspect had been hacked around by
printing doubles in "%.18e" format, which is ugly and has machine-dependent
results. Instead, arrange to preserve an assigned numeric value in the
original binary numeric format, converting to string only when and if
needed. When we do need to convert a double to string, convert in "%g"
format with DBL_DIG precision, which is the standard way to do it and
produces the least surprising results in most cases.
The implementation supports storing both a string value and a numeric
value for any one variable, with lazy conversion between them. I also
arranged for lazy re-sorting of the variable array when new variables are
added. That was mainly to allow a clean refactoring of putVariable()
into two levels of subroutine, but it may allow us to save a few sorts.
Discussion: <9188.1462475559@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Hash indexes are not WAL-logged, and so do not maintain the LSN of
index pages. Since the "snapshot too old" feature counts on
detecting error conditions using the LSN of a table and all indexes
on it, this makes it impossible to safely do early vacuuming on any
table with a hash index, so add this to the tests for whether the
xid used to vacuum a table can be adjusted based on
old_snapshot_threshold.
While at it, add a paragraph to the docs for old_snapshot_threshold
which specifically mentions this and other aspects of the feature
which may otherwise surprise users.
Problem reported and patch reviewed by Amit Kapila
Move fmtReloptionsArray() from pg_dump.c to string_utils.c so that it
is available to other frontend code. In particular psql's \ev and \sv
commands need it to handle view reloptions. Also rename the function
to appendReloptionsArray(), which is a more accurate description of
what it does.
Author: Dean Rasheed
Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut
Discussion: http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAEZATCWZjCgKRyM-agE0p8ax15j9uyQoF=qew7D2xB6cF76T8A@mail.gmail.com
DST law changes in Russia (Magadan, Tomsk regions) and Venezuela.
Historical corrections for Russia. There are new zone names Europe/Kirov
and Asia/Tomsk reflecting the fact that these regions now have different
time zone histories from adjacent regions.
The similarity of the original names to SQL keywords seems like a bad
idea. Rename them before we're stuck with 'em forever.
In passing, minor code and docs cleanup.
Discussion: <4875.1462210058@sss.pgh.pa.us>
These functions behave like the backend's least/greatest functions,
not like min/max, so the originally-chosen names invite confusion.
Per discussion, rename to least/greatest.
I also took it upon myself to make them return double if any input is
double. The previous behavior of silently coercing all inputs to int
surely does not meet the principle of least astonishment.
Copy-edit some of the other new functions' documentation, too.
Commit 7d9a4737c2 greatly improved the
accuracy of the numeric transcendental functions, however it failed to
consider the case where the result from pow() is close to the overflow
threshold, for example 0.12 ^ -2345.6. For such inputs, where the
result has more than 2000 digits before the decimal point, the decimal
result weight estimate was being clamped to 2000, leading to a loss of
precision in the final calculation.
Fix this by replacing the clamping code with an overflow test that
aborts the calculation early if the final result is sure to overflow,
based on the overflow limit in exp_var(). This provides the same
protection against integer overflow in the subsequent result scale
computation as the original clamping code, but it also ensures that
precision is never lost and saves compute cycles in cases that are
sure to overflow.
The new early overflow test works with the initial low-precision
result (expected to be accurate to around 8 significant digits) and
includes a small fuzz factor to ensure that it doesn't kick in for
values that would not overflow exp_var(), so the overall overflow
threshold of pow() is unchanged and consistent for all inputs with
non-integer exponents.
Author: Dean Rasheed
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane
Discussion: http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAEZATCUj3U-cQj0jjoia=qgs0SjE3auroxh8swvNKvZWUqegrg@mail.gmail.com
See-also: http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAEZATCV7w+8iB=07dJ8Q0zihXQT1semcQuTeK+4_rogC_zq5Hw@mail.gmail.com
This reverts commits f07d18b6e9, 82c83b3372, 3a3b309041, and
24c5f1a103.
This feature has shown enough immaturity that it was deemed better to
rip it out before rushing some more fixes at the last minute. There are
discussions on larger changes in this area for the next release.
Unfortunately the segment size checks from 72a98a6395 had the negative
side-effect of breaking a corner case in mdsync(): When processing a
fsync request for a truncated away segment mdsync() could fail with
"could not fsync file" (if previous segment < RELSEG_SIZE) because
_mdfd_getseg() now wouldn't return the relevant segment anymore.
The cleanest fix seems to be to allow the caller of _mdfd_getseg() to
specify whether checks for RELSEG_SIZE are performed. To allow doing so,
change the ExtensionBehavior enum into a bitmask. Besides allowing for
the addition of EXTENSION_DONT_CHECK_SIZE, this makes for a nicer
implementation of EXTENSION_REALLY_RETURN_NULL.
Besides mdsync() the only callsite that should change behaviour due to
this is mdprefetch() which now doesn't create segments anymore, even in
recovery. Given the uses of mdprefetch() that seems better.
Reported-By: Thom Brown
Discussion: CAA-aLv72QazLvPdKZYpVn4a_Eh+i4_cxuB03k+iCuZM_xjc+6Q@mail.gmail.com
Conversion functions were previously marked as parallel-unsafe, since
that is the default, but in fact they are safe. Parallel-safe
functions defined in pg_proc.h and redefined in system_views.sql were
ending up as parallel-unsafe because the redeclarations were not
marked PARALLEL SAFE. While editing system_views.sql, mark ts_debug()
parallel safe also.
Andreas Karlsson
These adjustments adjust code and comments in minor ways to prevent
pgindent from mangling them. Among other things, I tried to avoid
situations where pgindent would emit "a +b" instead of "a + b", and I
tried to avoid having it break up inline comments across multiple
lines.
Back in 3b02ea4f07 I added some comments in various places to explain
how logical decoding and other things worked. Not all of the changes
were welcome, because they were misleading or wrong. This changes them
a little bit to make them more accurate.
Some other comments are also changed to be more accurate. Also, fix a
bunch of typos.
Author: Álvaro Herrera, Craig Ringer
Andres Freund reviewed some parts of this.
Commit 7117685461 made pg_start_backup
parallel-restricted rather than parallel-safe, because it now relies
on backend-private state that won't be synchronized with the parallel
worker. However, it didn't update pg_proc.h. Separately, Andreas
Karlsson observed that system_views.sql neglected to reiterate the
parallel-safety markings whe redefining various functions, including
this one; so add a PARALLEL RESTRICTED declaration there to match
the new value in pg_proc.h.
This time, use the buildfarm-supplied contents for this file, instead
of trying to update it by eyeballing the pgindent output.
Per discussion with Tom and Bruce.
This has the inverse effect of --master-only. It's needed to help find
cases where a commit should not be described in major release notes
because it was back-patched into older branches, though not at the same
time as the HEAD commit.
Now that Paths have their own rows field, print that rather than
the parent relation's rowcount.
Show the relid sets associated with Paths using table names rather
than numbers; since this code is able to print simple Var references
using table names, it seems a bit silly that print_relids can't.
Print the cheapest_parameterized_paths list for a RelOptInfo, and
include information about a parameterized path's required_outer rels.
Noted while trying to use this feature to debug Alexander Kirkouski's
recent bug report.
We mustn't run generate_gather_paths() during add_paths_to_joinrel(),
because that function can be invoked multiple times for the same target
joinrel. Not only is it wasteful to build GatherPaths repeatedly, but
a later add_partial_path() could delete the partial path that a previously
created GatherPath depends on. Instead establish the convention that we
do generate_gather_paths() for a rel only just before set_cheapest().
The code was accidentally not broken for baserels, because as of today there
never is more than one partial path for a baserel. But that assumption
obviously has a pretty short half-life, so move the generate_gather_paths()
calls for those cases as well.
Also add some generic comments explaining how and why this all works.
Per fuzz testing by Andreas Seltenreich.
Report: <871t5pgwdt.fsf@credativ.de>
If we're not going to reject such setups entirely, throwing a WARNING in
check_synchronous_standby_names() is unhelpful, because it will cause the
warning to be logged again every time the postmaster receives SIGHUP.
Per discussion, just remove the warning.
In passing, improve the documentation for synchronous_commit, which had not
gotten the word that now there can be more than one synchronous standby.
Given a three-or-more-way equivalence class, such as X.Y = Y.Y = Z.Z,
it was possible for the planner to omit one of the quals needed to
enforce that all members of the equivalence class are actually equal.
This only happened in the case of a parameterized join node for two
of the relations, that is a plan tree like
Nested Loop
-> Scan X
-> Nested Loop
-> Scan Y
-> Scan Z
Filter: Z.Z = X.X
The eclass machinery normally expects to apply X.X = Y.Y when those
two relations are joined, but in this shape of plan tree they aren't
joined until the top node --- and, if the lower nested loop is marked
as parameterized by X, the top node will assume that the relevant eclass
condition(s) got pushed down into the lower node. On the other hand,
the scan of Z assumes that it's only responsible for constraining Z.Z
to match any one of the other eclass members. So one or another of
the required quals sometimes fell between the cracks, depending on
whether consideration of the eclass in get_joinrel_parampathinfo()
for the lower nested loop chanced to generate X.X = Y.Y or X.X = Z.Z
as the appropriate constraint there. If it generated the latter,
it'd erroneously suppose that the Z scan would take care of matters.
To fix, force X.X = Y.Y to be generated and applied at that join node
when this case occurs.
This is *extremely* hard to hit in practice, because various planner
behaviors conspire to mask the problem; starting with the fact that the
planner doesn't really like to generate a parameterized plan of the
above shape. (It might have been impossible to hit it before we
tweaked things to allow this plan shape for star-schema cases.) Many
thanks to Alexander Kirkouski for submitting a reproducible test case.
The bug can be demonstrated in all branches back to 9.2 where parameterized
paths were introduced, so back-patch that far.
Without a few entries beyond old_snapshot_threshold, the lookup
would often fail, resulting in the more aggressive pruning or
vacuum being skipped often enough to matter. This was very clearly
shown by a python test script posted by Ants Aasma, and was likely
a factor in an earlier but somewhat less clear-cut test case posted
by Jeff Janes.
This patch makes no change to the logic, per se -- it just makes
the array of mapping entries big enough to make lookup misses based
on timing much less likely. An occasional miss is still possible
if a thread stalls for more than 10 minutes, but that does not
create any problem with correctness of behavior. Besides, if
things are so busy that a thread is stalling for more than 10
minutes, it is probably OK to skip the more aggressive cleanup at
that particular point in time.
Adjust the way we detect the locale. As a result the minumum Windows
version supported by VS2015 and later is Windows Vista. Add some tweaks
to remove new compiler warnings. Remove documentation references to the
now obsolete msysGit.
Michael Paquier, somewhat edited by me, reviewed by Christian Ullrich.
Backpatch to 9.5
Since 5a991ef8 we're explicitly asking for feedback from the receiving
side when shutting down walsender, if there's not yet replicated
data.
Unfortunately we didn't remember (i.e. set waiting_for_ping_response to
true) having asked for feedback, leading to scenarios in which replies
were requested at a high frequency.
I can't reproduce this problem on my laptop, I think that's because the
problem requires a significant TCP window to manifest due to the
!pq_is_send_pending() condition. But since this clearly is a bug, let's
fix it. There's quite possibly more wrong than just this though.
While fiddling with WalSndDone(), I rewrote a hard to understand comment
about looking at the flush vs. the write position.
Reported-By: Nick Cleaton, Magnus Hagander
Author: Nick Cleaton
Discussion: CAFgz3kus=rC_avEgBV=+hRK5HYJ8vXskJRh8yEAbahJGTzF2VQ@mail.gmail.comCABUevExsjROqDcD0A2rnJ6HK6FuKGyewJr3PL12pw85BHFGS2Q@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch: 9.4, were 5a991ef8 introduced the use of feedback messages
during shutdown.
Commit 23a41573c attempted to fix the DatumGetBool macro to ignore bits
in a Datum that are to the left of the actual bool value. But it did that
by casting the Datum to bool; and on compilers that use C99 semantics for
bool, that ends up being a whole-word test, not a 1-byte test. This seems
to be the true explanation for contrib/seg failing in VS2015. To fix, use
GET_1_BYTE() explicitly. I think in the previous patch, I'd had some idea
of not having to commit to bool being exactly 1 byte wide, but regardless
of what the compiler's bool is, boolean columns and Datums are certainly
1 byte wide.
The previous fix was (eventually) back-patched into all active versions,
so do likewise with this one.
Previously, ginInsertCleanup could exit early if it detects that someone else
is cleaning up the pending list, without waiting for that someone else to
finish the job. But in this case vacuum could miss tuples to be deleted.
Cleanup process now locks metapage with a help of heavyweight
LockPage(ExclusiveLock), and it guarantees that there is no another cleanup
process at the same time. Lock is taken differently depending on caller of
cleanup process: any vacuums and gin_clean_pending_list() will be blocked
until lock becomes available, ordinary insert uses conditional lock to
prevent indefinite waiting on lock.
Insert into pending list doesn't use this lock, so insertion isn't blocked.
Also, patch adds stopping of cleanup process when at-start-cleanup-tail is
reached in order to prevent infinite cleanup in case of massive insertion. But
it will stop only for automatic maintenance tasks like autovacuum.
Patch introduces choice of limit of memory to use: autovacuum_work_mem,
maintenance_work_mem or work_mem depending on call path.
Patch for previous releases should be reworked due to changes between 9.6 and
previous ones in this area.
Discover and diagnostics by Jeff Janes and Tomas Vondra
Patch by me with some ideas of Jeff Janes
The previous coding here was formally undefined, though it seems to
accidentally work on most platforms in the buildfarm. Caught by some
OpenBSD platforms in which libc contains an assertion check for
overlapping areas passed to memcpy().
Thomas Munro
Commit 989be0810d added a flex/bison lexer/parser to interpret
synchronous_standby_names. It was done in a pretty crufty way, though,
making assorted end-use sites responsible for calling the parser at the
right times. That was not only vulnerable to errors of omission, but made
it possible that lexer/parser errors occur at very undesirable times,
and created memory leakages even if there was no error.
Instead, perform the parsing once during check_synchronous_standby_names
and let guc.c manage the resulting data. To do that, we have to flatten
the parsed representation into a single hunk of malloc'd memory, but that
is not very hard.
While at it, work a little harder on making useful error reports for
parsing problems; the previous code felt that "synchronous_standby_names
parser returned 1" was an appropriate user-facing error message. (To
be fair, it did also log a syntax error message, but separately from the
GUC problem report, which is at best confusing.) It had some outright
bugs in the face of invalid input, too.
I (tgl) also concluded that we need to restrict unquoted names in
synchronous_standby_names to be just SQL identifiers. The previous coding
would accept darn near anything, which (1) makes the quoting convention
both nearly-unnecessary and formally ambiguous, (2) makes it very hard to
understand what is a syntax error and what is a creative interpretation of
the input as a standby name, and (3) makes it impossible to further extend
the syntax in future without a compatibility break. I presume that we're
intending future extensions of the syntax, else this parsing infrastructure
is massive overkill, so (3) is an important objection. Since we've taken
a compatibility hit for non-identifier names with this change anyway, we
might as well lock things down now and insist that users use double quotes
for standby names that aren't identifiers.
Kyotaro Horiguchi and Tom Lane
In addition to adding new typedefs, I also re-sorted the file so that
various entries add piecemeal, mostly or entirely by me, were alphabetized
the same way as other entries in the file.
In nodeFuncs.c, pgindent wants to introduce spurious indentation into
the definitions of planstate_tree_walker and planstate_walk_subplans.
Fix that by spreading the definition out across several lines, similar
to what is already done for other walker functions in that file.
In execParallel.c, in the definition of SharedExecutorInstrumentation,
pgindent wants to insert more whitespace between the type name and the
member name. That causes it to mangle comments later on the line. Fix
by moving the comments out of line. Now that we have a bit more room,
add some more details that may be useful to the next person reading
this code.
The way that PartialAggregate and FinalizeAggregate plan nodes were
displaying output columns before was bogus. Now, FinalizeAggregate
produces the same outputs as an Aggregate would have produced, while
PartialAggregate produces each of those outputs prefixed by the word
PARTIAL.
Discussion: 12585.1460737650@sss.pgh.pa.us
Patch by me, reviewed by David Rowley.
Before this commit _mdfd_getseg(), in contrast to mdnblocks(), did not
verify whether all segments leading up to the to-be-opened one, were
RELSEG_SIZE sized. That is e.g. not the case after truncating a
relation, because later segments just get truncated to zero length, not
removed.
Once a "non-existent" segment has been opened in a session, mdnblocks()
will return wrong results, causing errors like "could not read block %u
in file" when accessing blocks. Closing the session, or the later
arrival of relevant invalidation messages, would "fix" the problem.
That, so far, was mostly harmless, because most segment accesses are
only done after an mdnblocks() call. But since 428b1d6b29 we try to
open segments that might have been deleted, to trigger kernel writeback
from a backend's queue of recent writes.
To fix check segment sizes in _mdfd_getseg() when opening previously
unopened segments. In practice this shouldn't imply a lot of additional
lseek() calls, because mdnblocks() will most of the time already have
opened all relevant segments.
This commit also fixes a second problem, namely that _mdfd_getseg(
EXTENSION_RETURN_NULL) extends files during recovery, which is not
desirable for the mdwriteback() case. Add EXTENSION_REALLY_RETURN_NULL,
which does not behave that way, and use it.
Reported-By: Thom Brown
Author: Andres Freund, Abhijit Menon-Sen
Reviewd-By: Robert Haas, Fabien Coehlo
Discussion: CAA-aLv6Dp_ZsV-44QA-2zgkqWKQq=GedBX2dRSrWpxqovXK=Pg@mail.gmail.com
Fixes: 428b1d6b29
So far, when a transaction with pending invalidations, but without an
assigned xid, committed, we simply ignored those invalidation
messages. That's problematic, because those are actually sent for a
reason.
Known symptoms of this include that existing sessions on a hot-standby
replica sometimes fail to notice new concurrently built indexes and
visibility map updates.
The solution is to WAL log such invalidations in transactions without an
xid. We considered to alternatively force-assign an xid, but that'd be
problematic for vacuum, which might be run in systems with few xids.
Important: This adds a new WAL record, but as the patch has to be
back-patched, we can't bump the WAL page magic. This means that standbys
have to be updated before primaries; otherwise
"PANIC: standby_redo: unknown op code 32" errors can be encountered.
XXX:
Reported-By: Васильев Дмитрий, Masahiko Sawada
Discussion:
CAB-SwXY6oH=9twBkXJtgR4UC1NqT-vpYAtxCseME62ADwyK5OA@mail.gmail.comCAD21AoDpZ6Xjg=gFrGPnSn4oTRRcwK1EBrWCq9OqOHuAcMMC=w@mail.gmail.com
pg_atomic_compare_exchange_*_impl() were providing only the semantics of
an acquire barrier. Buildfarm members hornet and mandrill revealed this
deficit beginning with commit 008608b9d5.
While we have no report of symptoms in 9.5, we can't rule out the
possibility of certain compilers, hardware, or extension code relying on
these functions' specified barrier semantics. Back-patch to 9.5, where
commit b64d92f1a5 introduced atomics.
Reviewed by Andres Freund.
In commit c0b050192, Andres introduced the idea of including one-line
commit references in our major release notes. Teach git_changelog to
emit a (lightly adapted) version of that format, so that we don't
have to laboriously add it to the notes after the fact. The default
output isn't changed, since I anticipate still using that for minor
release notes.
Previously, database clusters created by a TAP test were shut down by
DESTROY methods attached to the PostgresNode objects representing them.
The trouble with that is that if the objects survive into the final global
destruction phase (which they do), Perl executes the DESTROY methods in an
unspecified order. Thus, the order of shutdown of multiple clusters was
indeterminate, which might lead to not-very-reproducible errors getting
logged (eg from a slave whose master might or might not get killed first).
Worse, the File::Temp objects representing the temporary PGDATA directories
might get destroyed before the PostgresNode objects, resulting in attempts
to delete PGDATA directories that still have live servers in them. On
Windows, this would lead to directory deletion failures; on Unix, it
usually had no effects worse than erratic "could not open temporary
statistics file "pg_stat/global.tmp": No such file or directory" log
messages.
While none of this would affect the reported result of the TAP test, which
is already determined, it could be very confusing when one is trying to
understand from the logs what went wrong with a failed test.
To fix, do the postmaster shutdowns in an END block rather than at object
destruction time. The END block will execute at a well-defined (and
reasonable) time during script termination, and it will stop the
postmasters in order of PostgresNode object creation. (Perhaps we should
change that to be reverse order of creation, but the main point here is
that we now have control which we did not before.) Use "pg_ctl stop", not
an asynchronous kill(SIGQUIT), so that we wait for the postmasters to shut
down before proceeding with directory deletion.
Deletion of temporary directories still happens in an unspecified order
during global destruction, but I can see no reason to care about that
once the postmasters are stopped.
The true explanation for Peter Eisentraut's report of inexact asind results
seems to be that (a) he's compiling into x87 instruction set, which uses
wider-than-double float registers, plus (b) the library function asin() on
his platform returns a result that is wider than double and is not rounded
to double width. To fix, we have to force the function's result to be
rounded comparably to what happened to the scaling constant asin_0_5.
Experimentation suggests that storing it into a volatile local variable is
the least ugly way of making that happen. Although only asin() is known to
exhibit an observable inexact result, we'd better do this in all the places
where we're hoping to get an exact result by scaling.
Change max_parallel_degree default from 0 to 2. It is possible that
this is not a good idea, or that we should go with 1 worker rather
than 2, but we won't find out without trying it. Along the way,
reword the documentation for max_parallel_degree a little bit to
hopefully make it more clear.
Discussion: 20160420174631.3qjjhpwsvvx5bau5@alap3.anarazel.de
Commit 65abaab547 tried to prevent the scaling constants used in
the degree-based trig functions from being precomputed at compile time,
because some compilers do that with functions that don't yield results
identical-to-the-last-bit to what you get at runtime. A report from
Peter Eisentraut suggests that some recent compilers are smart enough
to see through that trick, though. Instead, let's put the inputs to
these calculations into non-const global variables, which should be a
more reliable way of convincing the compiler that it can't assume that
they are compile-time constants. (If we really get desperate, we could
mark these variables "volatile", but I do not believe we should have to.)
Commit fab84c7787 tried to get away without doing an actual bind(),
but buildfarm results show that that doesn't get the job done. So we must
really bind to the target port --- and at least on my Linux box, we need a
listen() as well, or conflicts won't be detected. We rely on SO_REUSEADDR
to prevent problems from starting a postmaster on the socket immediately
after we've bound to it in the test code. (There may be platforms where
that doesn't work too well. But fortunately, we only really care whether
this works on Windows, and there the default behavior should be OK.)
Buildfarm members bowerbird and jacana have shown intermittent "could not
bind IPv4 socket" failures in the BinInstallCheck stage since mid-December,
shortly after commits 1caef31d9e and 9821492ee4 changed the
logic for selecting which port to use in temporary installations. One
plausible explanation is that we are randomly selecting ports that are
already in use for some non-Postgres purpose. Although the code tried
to defend against already-in-use ports, it used pg_isready to probe
the port which is quite unhelpful: if some non-Postgres server responds
at the given address, pg_isready will generally say "no response",
leading to exactly the wrong conclusion about whether the port is free.
Instead, let's use a simple TCP connect() call to see if anything answers
without making assumptions about what it is. Note that this means there's
no direct check for a conflicting Unix socket, but that should be okay
because there should be no other Unix sockets in use in the temporary
socket directory created for a test run.
This is only a partial solution for the TCP case, since if the port number
is in use for an outgoing connection rather than a listening socket, we'll
fail to detect that. We could try to bind() to the proposed port as a
means of detecting that case, but that would introduce its own failure
modes, since the system might consider the address to remain reserved for
some period of time after we drop the bound socket. Close study of the
errors returned by bowerbird and jacana suggests that what we're seeing
there may be conflicts with listening not outgoing sockets, so let's try
this and see if it improves matters. It's certainly better than what's
there now, in any case.
Michael Paquier, adjusted by me to work on non-Windows as well as Windows
Several issues:
1) checkpoint_flush_after doc and code disagreed about the default
2) new GUCs were missing from postgresql.conf.sample
3) Outdated source-code comment about bgwriter_flush_after's default
4) Sub-optimal categories assigned to new GUCs
5) Docs suggested backend_flush_after is PGC_SIGHUP, but it's PGC_USERSET.
6) Spell out int as integer in the docs, as done elsewhere
Reported-By: Magnus Hagander, Fujii Masao
Discussion: CAHGQGwETyTG5VYQQ5C_srwxWX7RXvFcD3dKROhvAWWhoSBdmZw@mail.gmail.com
NetBSD has seen fit to invent a libc function named strtoi(), which
conflicts with the long-established static functions of the same name in
datetime.c and ecpg's interval.c. While muttering darkly about intrusions
on application namespace, we'll rename our functions to avoid the conflict.
Back-patch to all supported branches, since this would affect attempts
to build any of them on recent NetBSD.
Thomas Munro
The implementation of that feature involves injecting nodes into the
raw parsetree where explicit parentheses appear. Various places in
parse_expr.c that test to see "is this child node of type Foo" need to
look through such nodes, else we'll get different behavior when
operator_precedence_warning is on than when it is off. Note that we only
need to handle this when testing untransformed child nodes, since the
AEXPR_PAREN nodes will be gone anyway after transformExprRecurse.
Per report from Scott Ribe and additional code-reading. Back-patch
to 9.5 where this feature was added.
Report: <ED37E303-1B0A-4CD8-8E1E-B9C4C2DD9A17@elevated-dev.com>
Given a left join containing a full join in its righthand side, with
the left join's joinclause referencing only one side of the full join
(in a non-strict fashion, so that the full join doesn't get simplified),
the planner could fail with "failed to build any N-way joins" or related
errors. This happened because the full join was seen as overlapping the
left join's RHS, and then recent changes within join_is_legal() caused
that function to conclude that the full join couldn't validly be formed.
Rather than try to rejigger join_is_legal() yet more to allow this,
I think it's better to fix initsplan.c so that the required join order
is explicit in the SpecialJoinInfo data structure. The previous coding
there essentially ignored full joins, relying on the fact that we don't
flatten them in the joinlist data structure to preserve their ordering.
That's sufficient to prevent a wrong plan from being formed, but as this
example shows, it's not sufficient to ensure that the right plan will
be formed. We need to work a bit harder to ensure that the right plan
looks sane according to the SpecialJoinInfos.
Per bug #14105 from Vojtech Rylko. This was apparently induced by
commit 8703059c6 (though now that I've seen it, I wonder whether there
are related cases that could have failed before that); so back-patch
to all active branches. Unfortunately, that patch also went into 9.0,
so this bug is a regression that won't be fixed in that branch.
The coverage was rather lean for cases that bind() or listen() might
return. Add entries for everything that there's a direct equivalent
for in the set of Unix errnos that elog.c has heard of.
There's no longer a need for the MSVC-version-specific code stanza that
forcibly redefines errno code symbols, because since commit 73838b52 we're
unconditionally redefining them in the stanza before this one anyway.
Now it's merely confusing and ugly, so get rid of it; and improve the
comment that explains what's going on here.
Although this is just cosmetic, back-patch anyway since I'm intending
to back-patch some less-cosmetic changes in this same hunk of code.
Revert commit 7cb1db1d95, which represented
a misunderstanding of the problem (if snapmgr.h weren't already included
in bufmgr.h, things wouldn't compile anywhere). Instead install what
I think is the real fix.
When we shoehorned "x op ANY (array)" into the SQL syntax, we created a
fundamental ambiguity as to the proper treatment of a sub-SELECT on the
righthand side: perhaps what's meant is to compare x against each row of
the sub-SELECT's result, or perhaps the sub-SELECT is meant as a scalar
sub-SELECT that delivers a single array value whose members should be
compared against x. The grammar resolves it as the former case whenever
the RHS is a select_with_parens, making the latter case hard to reach ---
but you can get at it, with tricks such as attaching a no-op cast to the
sub-SELECT. Parse analysis would throw away the no-op cast, leaving a
parsetree with an EXPR_SUBLINK SubLink directly under a ScalarArrayOpExpr.
ruleutils.c was not clued in on this fine point, and would naively emit
"x op ANY ((SELECT ...))", which would be parsed as the first alternative,
typically leading to errors like "operator does not exist: text = text[]"
during dump/reload of a view or rule containing such a construct. To fix,
emit a no-op cast when dumping such a parsetree. This might well be
exactly what the user wrote to get the construct accepted in the first
place; and even if she got there with some other dodge, it is a valid
representation of the parsetree.
Per report from Karl Czajkowski. He mentioned only a case involving
RLS policies, but actually the problem is very old, so back-patch to
all supported branches.
Report: <20160421001832.GB7976@moraine.isi.edu>
Also, avoid reading PGPROC's wait_event field twice, once for the wait
event and again for the wait_event_type, because the value might change
in the middle.
Petr Jelinek and Robert Haas
That commit increased all shared memory allocations to the next higher
multiple of PG_CACHE_LINE_SIZE, but it didn't ensure that allocation
started on a cache line boundary. It also failed to remove a couple
other pieces of now-useless code.
BUFFERALIGN() is perhaps obsolete at this point, and likely should be
removed at some point, too, but that seems like it can be left to a
future cleanup.
Mistakes all pointed out by Andres Freund. The patch is mine, with
a few extra assertions which I adopted from his version of this fix.
Even with old_snapshot_threshold = -1 (which disables the "snapshot
too old" feature), performance regressions were seen at moderate to
high concurrency. For example, a one-socket, four-core system
running 200 connections at saturation could see up to a 2.3%
regression, with larger regressions possible on NUMA machines.
By inlining the early (smaller, faster) tests in the
TestForOldSnapshot() function, the i7 case dropped to a 0.2%
regression, which could easily just be noise, and is clearly an
improvement. Further testing will show whether more is needed.
In commit 2ffa869620 we made pg_ctl recognize an environment variable
PGCTLTIMEOUT to set the default timeout for starting and stopping the
postmaster. However, pg_regress uses pg_ctl only for the "stop" end of
that; it has bespoke code for starting the postmaster, and that code has
historically had a hard-wired 60-second timeout. Further buildfarm
experience says it'd be a good idea if that timeout were also controlled
by PGCTLTIMEOUT, so let's make it so. Like the previous patch, back-patch
to all active branches.
Discussion: <13969.1461191936@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Commit 36a35c550a turned the interface between ginPlaceToPage and
its subroutines in gindatapage.c and ginentrypage.c into a royal mess:
page-update critical sections were started in one place and finished in
another place not even in the same file, and the very same subroutine
might return having started a critical section or not. Subsequent patches
band-aided over some of the problems with this design by making things
even messier.
One user-visible resulting problem is memory leaks caused by the need for
the subroutines to allocate storage that would survive until ginPlaceToPage
calls XLogInsert (as reported by Julien Rouhaud). This would not typically
be noticeable during retail index updates. It could be visible in a GIN
index build, in the form of memory consumption swelling to several times
the commanded maintenance_work_mem.
Another rather nasty problem is that in the internal-page-splitting code
path, we would clear the child page's GIN_INCOMPLETE_SPLIT flag well before
entering the critical section that it's supposed to be cleared in; a
failure in between would leave the index in a corrupt state. There were
also assorted coding-rule violations with little immediate consequence but
possible long-term hazards, such as beginning an XLogInsert sequence before
entering a critical section, or calling elog(DEBUG) inside a critical
section.
To fix, redefine the API between ginPlaceToPage() and its subroutines
by splitting the subroutines into two parts. The "beginPlaceToPage"
subroutine does what can be done outside a critical section, including
full computation of the result pages into temporary storage when we're
going to split the target page. The "execPlaceToPage" subroutine is called
within a critical section established by ginPlaceToPage(), and it handles
the actual page update in the non-split code path. The critical section,
as well as the XLOG insertion call sequence, are both now always started
and finished in ginPlaceToPage(). Also, make ginPlaceToPage() create and
work in a short-lived memory context to eliminate the leakage problem.
(Since a short-lived memory context had been getting created in the most
common code path in the subroutines, this shouldn't cause any noticeable
performance penalty; we're just moving the overhead up one call level.)
In passing, fix a bunch of comments that had gone unmaintained throughout
all this klugery.
Report: <571276DD.5050303@dalibo.com>
The reverted changes were intended to force a choice of whether any
newly-added BufferGetPage() calls needed to be accompanied by a
test of the snapshot age, to support the "snapshot too old"
feature. Such an accompanying test is needed in about 7% of the
cases, where the page is being used as part of a scan rather than
positioning for other purposes (such as DML or vacuuming). The
additional effort required for back-patching, and the doubt whether
the intended benefit would really be there, have indicated it is
best just to rely on developers to do the right thing based on
comments and existing usage, as we do with many other conventions.
This change should have little or no effect on generated executable
code.
Motivated by the back-patching pain of Tom Lane and Robert Haas
Print the actual value of each function result that's expected to be exact,
rather than merely emitting a NULL if it's not right. Although we print
these with extra_float_digits = 3, we should not trust that the platform
will produce a result visibly different from the expected value if it's off
only in the last place; hence, also include comparisons against the exact
values as before. This is a bit bulkier and uglier than the previous
printout, but it will provide more information and be easier to interpret
if there's a test failure.
Discussion: <18241.1461073100@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Coverity complained that oldPartitionLock was possibly dereferenced after
having been set to NULL. That actually can't happen, because we'd only use
it if (oldFlags & BM_TAG_VALID) is true. But nonetheless Coverity is
justified in complaining, because at line 1275 we actually overwrite
oldFlags, and then still expect its BM_TAG_VALID bit to be a safe guide to
whether to release the oldPartitionLock. Thus, the code would be incorrect
if someone else had changed the buffer's BM_TAG_VALID flag meanwhile.
That should not happen, since we hold pin on the buffer throughout this
sequence, but it's starting to look like a rather shaky chain of logic.
And there's no need for such assumptions, because we can simply replace
the (oldFlags & BM_TAG_VALID) tests with (oldPartitionLock != NULL),
which has identical results and makes it plain to all comers that we don't
dereference a null pointer. A small side benefit is that the range of
liveness of oldFlags is greatly reduced, possibly allowing the compiler
to save a register.
This is just cleanup, not an actual bug fix, so there seems no need
for a back-patch.
Per discussion, there doesn't seem to be much value in having
NUM_SPINLOCK_SEMAPHORES set to 1024: under any scenario where you are
running more than a few backends concurrently, you really had better have a
real spinlock implementation if you want tolerable performance. And 1024
semaphores is a sizable fraction of the system-wide SysV semaphore limit
on many platforms. Therefore, reduce this setting's default value to 128
to make it less likely to cause out-of-semaphores problems.
In commit 6f0d6a507 I added a duplicate copy of psqlscanslash's identifier
downcasing code, but actually it's not hard to split that out as a callable
subroutine and avoid the duplication.
We've had repeated troubles over the years with failures to initialize
spinlocks correctly; see 6b93fcd14 for a recent example. Most of the time,
on most platforms, such oversights can escape notice because all-zeroes is
the expected initial content of an slock_t variable. The only platform
we have where the initialized state of an slock_t isn't zeroes is HPPA,
and that's practically gone in the wild. To make it easier to catch such
errors without needing one of those, adjust the --disable-spinlocks code
so that zero is not a valid value for an slock_t for it.
In passing, remove a bunch of unnecessary #include's from spin.c;
commit daa7527afc removed all the intermodule coupling that
made them necessary.
Although OID acts pretty much like user data, the other system columns do
not, so an index on one would likely misbehave. And it's pretty hard to
see a use-case for one, anyway. Let's just forbid the case rather than
worry about whether it should be supported.
David Rowley
For reasons of sheer brain fade, we (I) was calling systable_endscan()
immediately after systable_getnext() and expecting the tuple returned
by systable_getnext() to still be valid.
That's clearly wrong. Move the systable_endscan() down below the tuple
usage.
Discovered initially by Pavel Stehule and then also by Alvaro.
Add a regression test based on Alvaro's testing.
The original coding of this test used table and view names like "t",
"tv", "foo", etc. This tended to interfere with doing simple manual
tests in the regression database; not to mention that it posed a
considerable risk of conflict with other regression test scripts.
Prefix these names with "mvtest_" to avoid such conflicts.
Also, change transiently-created role name to be "regress_xxx" per
discussions about being careful with regression-test role creation.
Careless coding added by commit 07cacba983 could result in a crash
or a bizarre error message if someone tried to select an index on the
OID column as the replica identity index for a table. Back-patch to 9.4
where the feature was introduced.
Discussion: CAKJS1f8TQYgTRDyF1_u9PVCKWRWz+DkieH=U7954HeHVPJKaKg@mail.gmail.com
David Rowley
The previous display was sort of confusing, because it didn't
distinguish between the number of workers that we planned to launch
and the number that actually got launched. This has already confused
several people, so display both numbers and label them clearly.
Julien Rouhaud, reviewed by me.
pg_xlogdump includes bufmgr.h. With a compiler that emits code for
static inline functions even when they're unreferenced, that leads
to unresolved external references in the new static-inline version
of BufferGetPage(). So hide it with #ifndef FRONTEND, as we've done
for similar issues elsewhere. Per buildfarm member pademelon.
The regression test checks whether the output of pg_stat_replication is
expected or not after changing synchronous_standby_names and reloading
the configuration file. Regarding this test logic, previously there was
a timing issue which made the test result unstable. That is,
pg_stat_replication could return unexpected result during small window
after the configuration file was reloaded before new setting value
took effect, and which made the test fail.
This commit changes the test logic so that it uses a loop with a timeout
to give some room for the test to pass. Now the test fails only when
pg_stat_replication keeps returning unexpected result for 30 seconds.
Michael Paquier
The code had a query-lifespan memory leak when encountering GIN entries
that have posting lists (rather than posting trees, ie, there are a
relatively small number of heap tuples containing this index key value).
With a suitable data distribution this could add up to a lot of leakage.
Problem seems to have been introduced by commit 36a35c550, so back-patch
to 9.4.
Julien Rouhaud
\crosstabview interpreted its arguments in an unusual way, including
doing case-insensitive matching of unquoted column names, which is
surely not the right thing. Rip that out in favor of doing something
equivalent to the dequoting/case-folding rules used by other psql
commands. To keep it simple, change the syntax so that the optional
sort column is specified as a separate argument, instead of the
also-quite-unusual syntax that attached it to the colH argument with
a colon.
Also, rework the error messages to be closer to project style.
My previous attempt at doing so, in 80abbeba23, was not sufficient. While that
fixed the problem for bufmgr.c and lwlock.c , s_lock.c still has non-constant
expressions in the struct initializer, because the file/line/function
information comes from the caller of s_lock().
Give up on using a macro, and use a static inline instead.
Discussion: 4369.1460435533@sss.pgh.pa.us
When re-reading an update involving both an old tuple and a new tuple from
disk, reorderbuffer.c was careless about whether the new tuple is suitably
aligned for direct access --- in general, it isn't. We'd missed seeing
this in the buildfarm because the contrib/test_decoding tests exercise this
code path only a few times, and by chance all of those cases have old
tuples with length a multiple of 4, which is usually enough to make the
access to the new tuple's t_len safe. For some still-not-entirely-clear
reason, however, Debian's sparc build gets a bus error, as reported by
Christoph Berg; perhaps it's assuming 8-byte alignment of the pointer?
The lack of previous field reports is probably because you need all of
these conditions to trigger a crash: an alignment-picky platform (not
Intel), a transaction large enough to spill to disk, an update within
that xact that changes a primary-key field and has an odd-length old tuple,
and of course logical decoding tracing the transaction.
Avoid the alignment assumption by using memcpy instead of fetching t_len
directly, and add a test case that exposes the crash on picky platforms.
Back-patch to 9.4 where the bug was introduced.
Discussion: <20160413094117.GC21485@msg.credativ.de>
Commit 314cbfc5da redefined the signature of this hook as
typedef int (*walrcv_receive_type) (char **buffer, int *wait_fd);
But in fact the type of the "wait_fd" variable ought to be pgsocket,
which is what WaitLatchOrSocket expects, and which is necessary if
we want to be able to assign PGINVALID_SOCKET to it on Windows.
So fix that.
It was declared as "pid_t", which would be fine except that none of
the places that printed it in error messages took any thought for the
possibility that it's not equivalent to "int". This leads to warnings
on some buildfarm members, and could possibly lead to actually wrong
error messages on those platforms. There doesn't seem to be any very
good reason not to just make it "int"; it's only ever assigned from
MyProcPid, which is int. If we want to cope with PIDs that are wider
than int, this is not the place to start.
Also, fix the comment, which seems to perhaps be a leftover from a time
when the field was only a bool?
Per buildfarm. Back-patch to 9.5 which has same issue.
For a long time, opclasscmds.c explained that "we do not create a
dependency link to the AM [for an opclass or opfamily], because we don't
currently support DROP ACCESS METHOD". Commit 473b932870 invented
DROP ACCESS METHOD, but it batted only 1 for 2 on adding the dependency
links, and 0 for 2 on updating the comments about the topic.
In passing, undo the same commit's entirely inappropriate decision to
blow away an existing index as a side-effect of create_am.sql.
As part of reserving the pg_* namespace for default roles and in line
with SET ROLE and other previous efforts, disallow settings the role
to a default/reserved role using SET SESSION AUTHORIZATION.
These checks and restrictions on what is allowed regarding default /
reserved roles are under debate, but it seems prudent to ensure that
the existing checks at least cover the intended cases while the
debate rages on. On me to clean it up if the consensus decision is
to remove these checks.
Logical messages, added in 3fe3511d05, during decoding failed to filter
messages emitted in other databases and messages emitted "under" a
replication origin the output plugin isn't interested in.
Add tests to verify that both types of filtering actually work. While
touching message.sql remove hunk obsoleted by d25379e.
Bump XLOG_PAGE_MAGIC because xl_logical_message changed and because
3fe3511d05 had omitted doing so. 3fe3511d05 additionally didn't bump
catversion, but 7a542700d has done so since.
Author: Petr Jelinek
Reported-By: Andres Freund
Discussion: 20160406142513.wotqy3ba3kanr423@alap3.anarazel.de
The current definition of init_spin_delay (introduced recently in
48354581a) wasn't C89 compliant. It's not legal to refer to refer to
non-constant expressions, and the ptr argument was one. This, as
reported by Tom, lead to a failure on buildfarm animal pademelon.
The pointer, especially on system systems with ASLR, isn't super helpful
anyway, though. So instead of making init_spin_delay into an inline
function, make s_lock_stuck() report the function name in addition to
file:line and change init_spin_delay() accordingly. While not a direct
replacement, the function name is likely more useful anyway (line
numbers are often hard to interpret in third party reports).
This also fixes what file/line number is reported for waits via
s_lock().
As PG_FUNCNAME_MACRO is now used outside of elog.h, move it to c.h.
Reported-By: Tom Lane
Discussion: 4369.1460435533@sss.pgh.pa.us
As reported by Michael Feld, pg_upgrade'ing an installation having
extensions with operator families that contain just a single operator class
failed to reproduce the extension membership of those operator families.
This caused no immediate ill effects, but would create problems when later
trying to do a plain dump and restore, because the seemingly-not-part-of-
the-extension operator families would appear separately in the pg_dump
output, and then would conflict with the families created by loading the
extension. This has been broken ever since extensions were introduced,
and many of the standard contrib extensions are affected, so it's a bit
astonishing nobody complained before.
The cause of the problem is a perhaps-ill-considered decision to omit
such operator families from pg_dump's output on the grounds that the
CREATE OPERATOR CLASS commands could recreate them, and having explicit
CREATE OPERATOR FAMILY commands would impede loading the dump script into
pre-8.3 servers. Whatever the merits of that decision when 8.3 was being
written, it looks like a poor tradeoff now. We can fix the pg_upgrade
problem simply by removing that code, so that the operator families are
dumped explicitly (and then will be properly made to be part of their
extensions).
Although this fixes the behavior of future pg_upgrade runs, it does nothing
to clean up existing installations that may have improperly-linked operator
families. Given the small number of complaints to date, maybe we don't
need to worry about providing an automated solution for that; anyone who
needs to clean it up can do so with manual "ALTER EXTENSION ADD OPERATOR
FAMILY" commands, or even just ignore the duplicate-opfamily errors they
get during a pg_restore. In any case we need this fix.
Back-patch to all supported branches.
Discussion: <20228.1460575691@sss.pgh.pa.us>
The recent patch to make Pin/UnpinBuffer lockfree in the hot
path (48354581a), accidentally used pg_atomic_fetch_or_u32() in
MarkLocalBufferDirty(). Other code operating on local buffers was
careful to only use pg_atomic_read/write_u32 which just read/write from
memory; to avoid unnecessary overhead.
On its own that'd just make MarkLocalBufferDirty() slightly less
efficient, but in addition InitLocalBuffers() doesn't call
pg_atomic_init_u32() - thus the spinlock fallback for the atomic
operations isn't initialized. That in turn caused, as reported by Tom,
buildfarm animal gaur to fail. As those errors are actually useful
against this type of error, continue to omit - intentionally this time -
initialization of the atomic variable.
In addition, add an explicit note about only using pg_atomic_read/write
on local buffers's state to BufferDesc's description.
Reported-By: Tom Lane
Discussion: 1881.1460431476@sss.pgh.pa.us
It's silly to define these counts as narrower than they might someday
need to be. Also, I believe that the BLCKSZ * nflush calculation in
mdwriteback was capable of overflowing an int.
Commit 428b1d6b29 introduced the use of
msync() for flushing dirty data from the kernel's file buffers. Several
portability issues were overlooked, though:
* Not all implementations of mmap() think that nbytes == 0 means "map
the whole file". To fix, use lseek() to find out the true length.
Fix callers of pg_flush_data to be aware that nbytes == 0 may result
in trashing the file's seek position.
* Not all implementations of mmap() will accept partial-page mmap
requests. To fix, round down the length request to whatever sysconf()
says the page size is. (I think this is OK from a portability standpoint,
because sysconf() is required by SUS v2, and we aren't trying to compile
this part on Windows anyway. Buildfarm should let us know if not.)
* On 32-bit machines, the file size might exceed the available free
address space, or even exceed what will fit in size_t. Check for
the latter explicitly to avoid passing a false request size to mmap().
If mmap fails, silently fall through to the next implementation method,
rather than bleating to the postmaster log and giving up.
* mmap'ing directories fails on some platforms, and even if it works,
msync'ing the directory is quite unlikely to help, as for that matter are
the other flush implementations. In pre_sync_fname(), just skip flush
attempts on directories.
In passing, copy-edit the comments a bit.
Stas Kelvich and myself
I've seen one too many "could not bind IPv4 socket: No error" log entries
from the Windows buildfarm members. Per previous discussion, this is
likely caused by the fact that we're doing nothing to translate
WSAGetLastError() to errno. Put in a wrapper layer to do that.
If this works as expected, it should get back-patched, but let's see what
happens in the buildfarm first.
Discussion: <4065.1452450340@sss.pgh.pa.us>
The original patch kind of ignored the fact that we were doing something
different from a costing point of view, but nobody noticed. This patch
fixes that oversight.
David Rowley
That unused function was introduced as a sample because synchronous
replication or replication monitoring tools might need it in the future.
Recently commit 989be08 added the function SyncRepGetOldestSyncRecPtr
which provides almost the same functionality for multiple synchronous
standbys feature. So it's time to remove that unused sample function.
This commit does that.
Per discussion, this gives potential users of the hook more flexibility,
because they can build custom Paths that implement only one stage of
upper processing atop core-provided Paths for earlier stages.
Coverity complained about this code, not without reason because it was
rather messy. Adjust it to not scribble on the passed string; that adds
one malloc/free cycle per column name, which is going to be insignificant
in context. We can actually const-ify both the string argument and the
PGresult.
Daniel Verité, with some further cleanup by me
On a big NUMA machine with 1000 connections in saturation load
there was a performance regression due to spinlock contention, for
acquiring values which were never used. Just fill with dummy
values if we're not going to use them.
This patch has not been benchmarked yet on a big NUMA machine, but
it seems like a good idea on general principle, and it seemed to
prevent an apparent 2.2% regression on a single-socket i7 box
running 200 connections at saturation load.
Rename this function to GenericXLogRegisterBuffer() to make it clearer
what it does, and leave room for other sorts of "register" actions in
future. Also, replace its "bool isNew" argument with an integer flags
argument, so as to allow adding more flags in future without an API
break.
Alexander Korotkov, adjusted slightly by me
The previous coding could allow the contents of the "hole" between pd_lower
and pd_upper to diverge during replay from what it had been when the update
was originally applied. This would pose a problem if checksums were in
use, and in any case would complicate forensic comparisons between master
and slave servers. So force the "hole" to contain zeroes, both at initial
application of a generically-logged action, and at replay.
Alexander Korotkov, adjusted slightly by me
In commit b0e40d1893, I should have just
removed the /D switch defining WIN64. The reason the code worked before
is that all Windows64 compilers automatically predefine _WIN64. Perhaps
at one time we had code that depended on WIN64 being defined, but it's
long gone, and we should not encourage any reappearance. Per discussion
with Christian Ullrich.
When IF NOT EXISTS was added to CREATE TABLE AS, this logic didn't get
the memo, possibly resulting in an Assert failure. It looks like there
would have been no ill effects in a non-Assert build, though. Back-patch
to 9.5 where the IF NOT EXISTS option was added.
Stas Kelvich
Everyplace else thinks it's _WIN64, so make these places fall in line.
The pg_regress.c usage is not going to result in any change in behavior,
only suppressing (or not) a compiler warning about downcasting HANDLEs.
So there seems no need for back-patching there.
The libpq/win32.mak usage might represent an actual bug, if anyone were
using this script to build for Windows64, which perhaps nobody is.
Given the lack of field complaints, no back-patch here either.
pg_regress.c problem found by Christian Ullrich, the other by me.
It turns out that those PyErr_Clear() calls I removed from plpy_elog.c
in 7e3bb08038 et al were not quite as random as they appeared: they
mask a Python 2.3.x bug. (Specifically, it turns out that PyType_Ready()
can fail if the error indicator is set on entry, and PLy_traceback's fetch
of frame.f_code may be the first operation in a session that requires the
"frame" type to be readied. Ick.) Put back the clear call, but in a more
centralized place closer to what it's protecting, and this time with a
comment warning what it's really for.
Per buildfarm member prairiedog. Although prairiedog was only failing
on HEAD, it seems clearly possible for this to occur in older branches
as well, so back-patch to 9.2 the same as the previous patch.
I was initially concerned that the some of the hundreds of
references to BufferGetPage() where the literal
BGP_NO_SNAPSHOT_TEST were passed might not optimize as well as a
macro, leading to some hard-to-find performance regressions in
corner cases. Inspection of disassembled code has shown identical
code at all inspected locations, and the size difference doesn't
amount to even one byte per such call. So make it readable.
Per gripes from Álvaro Herrera and Tom Lane
It was incorrectly declared as a volatile pointer to a non-volatile
structure. Eliminate the OldSnapshotControl struct definition; it
is really not needed. Pointed out by Tom Lane.
While at it, add OldSnapshotControlData to pgindent's list of
structures.
To avoid any possible overlap with existing roles on a system when
doing a 'make installcheck', use role names which start with
'regress_'.
Pointed out by Tom.
Commit 5c3c3cd0a3 plastered "volatile" on a bunch of variables
in PLy_output(), but removed the one that actually mattered, ie the
one on "oldcontext". This allows some versions of clang to generate
code in which "oldcontext" has been trashed when control reaches the
PG_CATCH block. Per buildfarm member tick.
The existing code would either Assert or generate an invalid
SyncRepConfig variable, neither of which is desirable. A regular
error should be thrown instead.
This commit silences compiler warning in non assertion-enabled builds.
Per report from Jeff Janes.
Suggested fix by Tom Lane.
It's not entirely clear to me whether PyString_AsString can return
null (looks like the answer might vary between Python 2 and 3).
But in any case, this code's attempt to cope with the possibility
was quite broken, because pstrdup() neither allows a null argument
nor ever returns a null.
Moreover, the code below this point assumes that "message" is a
palloc'd string, which would not be the case for a dgettext result.
Fix both problems by doing the pstrdup step separately.
Coverity complained about this resource leak (why now, I don't know,
since it's been like that a long time). Our general policy in pg_dump
is that PQExpBuffers are worth cleaning up, so do it here too. But
don't bother with a back-patch, because it seems unlikely that very
many databases contain enough FOREIGN SERVER objects to notice.
Coverity complained about an apparent missing "break" in a switch
added by bb140506df. The human-readable comments are pretty
clear that this is intentional, but add a standard /* FALL THRU */
comment to make it clear to tools too.
Coverity complained that the code added by 015e88942a lacked an
error check for SearchSysCache1 failures, which it should have. But
the code was pretty duff in other ways too, including failure to think
about whether it could really cope with arrays of different lengths.
PLy_elog() could attempt to access strings that Python had already freed,
because the strings that PLy_get_spi_error_data() returns are simply
pointers into storage associated with the error "val" PyObject. That's
fine at the instant PLy_get_spi_error_data() returns them, but just after
that PLy_traceback() intentionally releases the only refcount on that
object, allowing it to be freed --- so that the strings we pass to
ereport() are dangling pointers.
In principle this could result in garbage output or a coredump. In
practice, I think the risk is pretty low, because there are no Python
operations between where we decrement that refcount and where we use the
strings (and copy them into PG storage), and thus no reason for Python
to recycle the storage. Still, it's clearly hazardous, and it leads to
Valgrind complaints when running under a Valgrind that hasn't been
lobotomized to ignore Python memory allocations.
The code was a mess anyway: we fetched the error data out of Python
(clearing Python's error indicator) with PyErr_Fetch, examined it, pushed
it back into Python with PyErr_Restore (re-setting the error indicator),
then immediately pulled it back out with another PyErr_Fetch. Just to
confuse matters even more, there were some gratuitous-and-yet-hazardous
PyErr_Clear calls in the "examine" step, and we didn't get around to doing
PyErr_NormalizeException until after the second PyErr_Fetch, making it even
less clear which object was being manipulated where and whether we still
had a refcount on it. (If PyErr_NormalizeException did substitute a
different "val" object, it's possible that the problem could manifest for
real, because then we'd be doing assorted Python stuff with no refcount
on the object we have string pointers into.)
So, rearrange all that into some semblance of sanity, and don't decrement
the refcount on the Python error objects until the end of PLy_elog().
In HEAD, I failed to resist the temptation to reformat some messy bits
from 5c3c3cd0a3 along the way.
Back-patch as far as 9.2, because the code is substantially the same
that far back. I believe that 9.1 has the bug as well; but the code
around it is rather different and I don't want to take a chance on
breaking something for what seems a low-probability problem.
Previously we used a spinlock, in adition to the atomically manipulated
->state field, to protect the wait queue. But it's pretty simple to
instead perform the locking using a flag in state.
Due to 6150a1b0 BufferDescs, on platforms (like PPC) with > 1 byte
spinlocks, increased their size above 64byte. As 64 bytes are the size
we pad allocated BufferDescs to, this can increase false sharing;
causing performance problems in turn. Together with the previous commit
this reduces the size to <= 64 bytes on all common platforms.
Author: Andres Freund
Discussion: CAA4eK1+ZeB8PMwwktf+3bRS0Pt4Ux6Rs6Aom0uip8c6shJWmyg@mail.gmail.com20160327121858.zrmrjegmji2ymnvr@alap3.anarazel.de
Pinning/Unpinning a buffer is a very frequent operation; especially in
read-mostly cache resident workloads. Benchmarking shows that in various
scenarios the spinlock protecting a buffer header's state becomes a
significant bottleneck. The problem can be reproduced with pgbench -S on
larger machines, but can be considerably worse for queries which touch
the same buffers over and over at a high frequency (e.g. nested loops
over a small inner table).
To allow atomic operations to be used, cram BufferDesc's flags,
usage_count, buf_hdr_lock, refcount into a single 32bit atomic variable;
that allows to manipulate them together using 32bit compare-and-swap
operations. This requires reducing MAX_BACKENDS to 2^18-1 (which could
be lifted by using a 64bit field, but it's not a realistic configuration
atm).
As not all operations can easily implemented in a lockfree manner,
implement the previous buf_hdr_lock via a flag bit in the atomic
variable. That way we can continue to lock the header in places where
it's needed, but can get away without acquiring it in the more frequent
hot-paths. There's some additional operations which can be done without
the lock, but aren't in this patch; but the most important places are
covered.
As bufmgr.c now essentially re-implements spinlocks, abstract the delay
logic from s_lock.c into something more generic. It now has already two
users, and more are coming up; there's a follupw patch for lwlock.c at
least.
This patch is based on a proof-of-concept written by me, which Alexander
Korotkov made into a fully working patch; the committed version is again
revised by me. Benchmarking and testing has, amongst others, been
provided by Dilip Kumar, Alexander Korotkov, Robert Haas.
On a large x86 system improvements for readonly pgbench, with a high
client count, of a factor of 8 have been observed.
Author: Alexander Korotkov and Andres Freund
Discussion: 2400449.GjM57CE0Yg@dinodell
I used the wrong variable here. Doesn't make a difference today because
the only plausible caller passes a non-NULL variable, but someday it
will be wrong, and even today's correctness is subtle: the caller that
does pass a NULL is never invoked because of object type constraints.
Surely not a condition to rely on.
Noted by Coverity
Since we're requiring pages handled by generic_xlog.c to be standard
format, specify REGBUF_STANDARD when doing a full-page image, so that
xloginsert.c can compress out the "hole" between pd_lower and pd_upper.
Given the current API in which this path will be taken only for a newly
initialized page, the hole is likely to be particularly large in such
cases, so that this oversight could easily be performance-significant.
I don't notice any particular change in the runtime of contrib/bloom's
regression test, though.
Make the inner comparison loops of computeDelta() as tight as possible by
pulling considerations of valid and invalid ranges out of the inner loops,
and extending a match or non-match detection as far as possible before
deciding what to do next. To keep this tractable, give up the possibility
of merging fragments across the pd_lower to pd_upper gap. The fraction of
pages where that could happen (ie, there are 4 or fewer bytes in the gap,
*and* data changes immediately adjacent to it on both sides) is too small
to be worth spending cycles on.
Also, avoid two BLCKSZ-length memcpy()s by computing the delta before
moving data into the target buffer, instead of after. This doesn't save
nearly as many cycles as being tenser about computeDelta(), but it still
seems worth doing.
On my machine, this patch cuts a full 40% off the runtime of
contrib/bloom's regression test.
This routine is unsafe as implemented, because it invalidates the page
image pointers returned by previous GenericXLogRegister() calls.
Rather than complicate the API or the implementation to avoid that,
let's just get rid of it; the use-case for having it seems much
too thin to justify a lot of work here.
While at it, do some wordsmithing on the SGML docs for generic WAL.
Improve commentary, use more specific names for the delta fields,
const-ify pointer arguments where possible, avoid assuming that
initializing only the first element of a local array will guarantee
that the remaining elements end up as we need them. (I think that
code in generic_redo actually worked, but only because InvalidBuffer
is zero; this is a particularly ugly way of depending on that ...)
\crosstabview is a completely different way to display results from a
query: instead of a vertical display of rows, the data values are placed
in a grid where the column and row headers come from the data itself,
similar to a spreadsheet.
The sort order of the horizontal header can be specified by using
another column in the query, and the vertical header determines its
ordering from the order in which they appear in the query.
This only allows displaying a single value in each cell. If more than
one value correspond to the same cell, an error is thrown. Merging of
values can be done in the query itself, if necessary. This may be
revisited in the future.
Author: Daniel Verité
Reviewed-by: Pavel Stehule, Dean Rasheed
The buildfarm showed failure for Windows MSVC builds due to this
omission. This might not be the only problem with the Makefile for
this feature, but hopefully this will get it past the immediate
problem.
Fix suggested by Tom Lane
Previously bcac23d exposed a subset of support functions, namely the
ones Kaigai found useful. In
20160304193704.elq773pyg5fyl3mi@alap3.anarazel.de I mentioned that
there's some functions missing to use the facility in an external
project.
To avoid having to add functions piecemeal, add all the functions which
are used to define READ_* and WRITE_* macros; users of the extensible
node functionality are likely to need these. Additionally expose
outDatum(), which doesn't have it's own WRITE_ macro, as it needs
information from the embedding struct.
Discussion: 20160304193704.elq773pyg5fyl3mi@alap3.anarazel.de
This creates an initial set of default roles which administrators may
use to grant access to, historically, superuser-only functions. Using
these roles instead of granting superuser access reduces the number of
superuser roles required for a system. Documention for each of the
default roles has been added to user-manag.sgml.
Bump catversion to 201604082, as we had a commit that bumped it to
201604081 and another that set it back to 201604071...
Reviews by José Luis Tallón and Robert Haas
This will prevent users from creating roles which begin with "pg_" and
will check for those roles before allowing an upgrade using pg_upgrade.
This will allow for default roles to be provided at initdb time.
Reviews by José Luis Tallón and Robert Haas
This feature is controlled by a new old_snapshot_threshold GUC. A
value of -1 disables the feature, and that is the default. The
value of 0 is just intended for testing. Above that it is the
number of minutes a snapshot can reach before pruning and vacuum
are allowed to remove dead tuples which the snapshot would
otherwise protect. The xmin associated with a transaction ID does
still protect dead tuples. A connection which is using an "old"
snapshot does not get an error unless it accesses a page modified
recently enough that it might not be able to produce accurate
results.
This is similar to the Oracle feature, and we use the same SQLSTATE
and error message for compatibility.
This patch is a no-op patch which is intended to reduce the chances
of failures of omission once the functional part of the "snapshot
too old" patch goes in. It adds parameters for snapshot, relation,
and an enum to specify whether the snapshot age check needs to be
done for the page at this point. This initial patch passes NULL
for the first two new parameters and BGP_NO_SNAPSHOT_TEST for the
third. The follow-on patch will change the places where the test
needs to be made.
Pretty sure I removed this based on some incorrect thinking that it was
no longer possible to reach this point for a table which will not be
dumped, but that's clearly wrong.
Pointed out on IRC by Erik Rijkers.
These parameters are available for SSPI authentication only, to make
it possible to make it behave more like "normal gssapi", while
making it possible to maintain compatibility.
compat_realm is on by default, but can be turned off to make the
authentication use the full Kerberos realm instead of the NetBIOS name.
upn_username is off by default, and can be turned on to return the users
Kerberos UPN rather than the SAM-compatible name (a user in Active
Directory can have both a legacy SAM-compatible username and a new
Kerberos one. Normally they are the same, but not always)
Author: Christian Ullrich
Reviewed by: Robbie Harwood, Alvaro Herrera, me
Output order from the pg_indexes view might vary depending on the
phase of the moon, so add ORDER BY to ensure stable results of tests
added by commit 386e3d7609.
Per buildfarm.
OpenSSL has an unfortunate tendency to mix per-session state error
handling with per-thread error handling. This can cause problems when
programs that link to libpq with OpenSSL enabled have some other use of
OpenSSL; without care, one caller of OpenSSL may cause problems for the
other caller. Backend code might similarly be affected, for example
when a third party extension independently uses OpenSSL without taking
the appropriate precautions.
To fix, don't trust other users of OpenSSL to clear the per-thread error
queue. Instead, clear the entire per-thread queue ahead of certain I/O
operations when it appears that there might be trouble (these I/O
operations mostly need to call SSL_get_error() to check for success,
which relies on the queue being empty). This is slightly aggressive,
but it's pretty clear that the other callers have a very dubious claim
to ownership of the per-thread queue. Do this is both frontend and
backend code.
Finally, be more careful about clearing our own error queue, so as to
not cause these problems ourself. It's possibly that control previously
did not always reach SSLerrmessage(), where ERR_get_error() was supposed
to be called to clear the queue's earliest code. Make sure
ERR_get_error() is always called, so as to spare other users of OpenSSL
the possibility of similar problems caused by libpq (as opposed to
problems caused by a third party OpenSSL library like PHP's OpenSSL
extension). Again, do this is both frontend and backend code.
See bug #12799 and https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=68276
Based on patches by Dave Vitek and Peter Eisentraut.
From: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
Create a "bsd" auth method that works the same as "password" so far as
clients are concerned, but calls the BSD Authentication service to
check the password. This is currently only available on OpenBSD.
Marisa Emerson, reviewed by Thomas Munro
This allows parallel aggregation to use them. It may seem surprising
that we use float8_combine for both float4_accum and float8_accum
transition functions, but that's because those functions differ only
in the type of the non-transition-state argument.
Haribabu Kommi, reviewed by David Rowley and Tomas Vondra
As noticed by Tom Lane changing operation's number in commit
bb140506df causes on-disk format incompatibility.
Revert to previous numbering, that is reason to add special array to store
priorities of operation. Also it reverts order of tsquery to previous.
Author: Dmitry Ivanov
Now indexes (but only B-tree for now) can contain "extra" column(s) which
doesn't participate in index structure, they are just stored in leaf
tuples. It allows to use index only scan by using single index instead
of two or more indexes.
Author: Anastasia Lubennikova with minor editorializing by me
Reviewers: David Rowley, Peter Geoghegan, Jeff Janes
Most of what is produced by the detailed verbosity level is of no
interest at all, so switch to the normal level for more usable output.
Christian Ullrich
Backpatch to all live branches
Don't try to examine S_ISLNK(st.st_mode) after a failed lstat().
It's undefined.
Also, if the lstat() reported ENOENT, we do not wish that to be a hard
error, but the code might nonetheless treat it as one (giving an entirely
misleading error message, too) depending on luck-of-the-draw as to what
S_ISLNK() returned.
Don't throw error for ENOENT from rmdir(), either. (We're not really
expecting ENOENT because we just stat'd the file successfully; but
if we're going to allow ENOENT in the symlink code path, surely the
directory code path should too.)
Generate an appropriate errcode for its-the-wrong-type-of-file complaints.
(ERRCODE_SYSTEM_ERROR doesn't seem appropriate, and failing to write
errcode() around it certainly doesn't work, and not writing an errcode
at all is not per project policy.)
Valgrind noticed the undefined S_ISLNK result; the other problems emerged
while reading the code in the area.
All of this appears to have been introduced in 8f15f74a44.
Back-patch to 9.5 where that commit appeared.
Patch adds a new, more rich, way to emit error message or exception from
PL/Pythonu code.
Author: Pavel Stehule
Reviewers: Catalin Iacob, Peter Eisentraut, Jim Nasby
Benchmarking has shown that the current number of clog buffers limits
scalability. We've previously increased the number in 33aaa139, but
that's not sufficient with a large number of clients.
We've benchmarked the cost of increasing the limit by benchmarking worst
case scenarios; testing showed that 128 buffers don't cause a
regression, even in contrived scenarios, whereas 256 does
There are a number of more complex patches flying around to address
various clog scalability problems, but this is simple enough that we can
get it into 9.6; and is beneficial even after those patches have been
applied.
It is a bit unsatisfactory to increase this in small steps every few
releases, but a better solution seems to require a rewrite of slru.c;
not something done quickly.
Author: Amit Kapila and Andres Freund
Discussion: CAA4eK1+-=18HOrdqtLXqOMwZDbC_15WTyHiFruz7BvVArZPaAw@mail.gmail.com
The code that estimates what parallel degree should be uesd for the
scan of a relation is currently rather stupid, so add a parallel_degree
reloption that can be used to override the planner's rather limited
judgement.
Julien Rouhaud, reviewed by David Rowley, James Sewell, Amit Kapila,
and me. Some further hacking by me.
The PAM_RHOST item is set to the remote IP address or host name and can
be used by PAM modules. A pg_hba.conf option is provided to choose
between IP address and resolved host name.
From: Grzegorz Sampolski <grzsmp@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Haribabu Kommi <kommi.haribabu@gmail.com>
We still use replacement selection for the first run of the sort only
and only when the number of tuples is relatively small. Otherwise,
the first run, and subsequent runs in all cases, are produced using
quicksort. This tends to be faster except perhaps for very small
amounts of working memory.
Peter Geoghegan, reviewed by Tomas Vondra, Jeff Janes, Mithun Cy,
Greg Stark, and me.
Contention on the relation extension lock can become quite fierce when
multiple processes are inserting data into the same relation at the same
time at a high rate. Experimentation shows the extending the relation
multiple blocks at a time improves scalability.
Dilip Kumar, reviewed by Petr Jelinek, Amit Kapila, and me.
In cases where joins use multiple columns we currently assess each join
separately causing gross mis-estimates for join cardinality.
This patch adds use of FK information for the first time into the
planner. When FKs are present and we have multi-column join information,
plan estimates will be drastically improved. Cases with multiple FKs
are handled, though partial matches are ignored currently.
Net effect is substantial performance improvements for joins in many
common cases. Additional planning time is isolated to cases that are
currently performing poorly, measured at 0.08 - 0.15 ms.
Please watch for planner performance regressions; circumstances seem
unlikely but the law of unintended consequences may apply somewhen.
Additional complex tests welcome to prove this before release.
Tests can be performed using SET enable_fkey_estimates = on | off
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Authors: Tomas Vondra and David Rowley
Reviewed and tested by Simon Riggs, adding comments only
We shouldn't be adding roles during the regression tests as that can
cause back-to-back installcheck runs to fail and users running the
regression tests likley don't want those extra roles.
Pointed out by Tom
Extracted from pending unique-join patch, since this is a rather large
delta but it's simply moving code out into separately-accessible
subroutines.
I (tgl) did choose to add a bit more logic to rel_supports_distinctness,
so that it verifies that there's at least one potentially usable unique
index rather than just checking indexlist != NIL. Otherwise there's
no functional change here.
David Rowley
While prior to this patch the user-visible effect on the database
of any set of successfully committed serializable transactions was
always consistent with some one-at-a-time order of execution of
those transactions, the presence of declarative constraints could
allow errors to occur which were not possible in any such ordering,
and developers had no good workarounds to prevent user-facing
errors where they were not necessary or desired. This patch adds
a check for serialization failure ahead of duplicate key checking
so that if a developer explicitly (redundantly) checks for the
pre-existing value they will get the desired serialization failure
where the problem is caused by a concurrent serializable
transaction; otherwise they will get a duplicate key error.
While it would be better if the reads performed by the constraints
could count as part of the work of the transaction for
serialization failure checking, and we will hopefully get there
some day, this patch allows a clean and reliable way for developers
to work around the issue. In many cases existing code will already
be doing the right thing for this to "just work".
Author: Thomas Munro, with minor editing of docs by me
Reviewed-by: Marko Tiikkaja, Kevin Grittner
Patch introduces new text search operator (<-> or <DISTANCE>) into tsquery.
On-disk and binary in/out format of tsquery are backward compatible.
It has two side effect:
- change order for tsquery, so, users, who has a btree index over tsquery,
should reindex it
- less number of parenthesis in tsquery output, and tsquery becomes more
readable
Authors: Teodor Sigaev, Oleg Bartunov, Dmitry Ivanov
Reviewers: Alexander Korotkov, Artur Zakirov
Commit c22650cd64 sparked a discussion
about diverse interpretations of "token user" in error messages. Expel
old and new specimens of that phrase by making all GetTokenInformation()
callers report errors the way GetTokenUser() has been reporting them.
These error conditions almost can't happen, so users are unlikely to
observe this change.
Reviewed by Tom Lane and Stephen Frost.
GetTokenUser() will have reported an adequate error message. These
error conditions almost can't happen, so users are unlikely to observe
this change.
Reviewed by Tom Lane and Stephen Frost.
Now that pg_dump will properly dump out any ACL changes made to
functions which exist in pg_catalog, switch to using the GRANT system
to manage access to those functions.
This means removing 'if (!superuser()) ereport()' checks from the
functions themselves and then REVOKEing EXECUTE right from 'public' for
these functions in system_views.sql.
Reviews by Alexander Korotkov, Jose Luis Tallon
Now that all of the infrastructure exists, add in the ability to
dump out the ACLs of the objects inside of pg_catalog or the ACLs
for objects which are members of extensions, but only if they have
been changed from their original values.
The original values are tracked in pg_init_privs. When pg_dump'ing
9.6-and-above databases, we will dump out the ACLs for all objects
in pg_catalog and the ACLs for all extension members, where the ACL
has been changed from the original value which was set during either
initdb or CREATE EXTENSION.
This should not change dumps against pre-9.6 databases.
Reviews by Alexander Korotkov, Jose Luis Tallon
Historically, the "dump" component of the namespace has been used
to decide if the objects inside of the namespace should be dumped
also. Given that "dump" is now a bitmask and may be partial, and
we may want to dump out all components of the namespace object but
only some of the components of objects contained in the namespace,
create a "dump_contains" bitmask which will represent what components
of the objects inside of a namespace should be dumped out.
No behavior change here, but in preparation for a change where we
will dump out just the ACLs of objects in pg_catalog, but we might
not dump out the ACL of the pg_catalog namespace itself (for instance,
when it hasn't been changed from the value set at initdb time).
Reviews by Alexander Korotkov, Jose Luis Tallon
pg_dump has historically used a simple boolean 'dump' value to indicate
if a given object should be included in the dump or not. Instead, use
a bitmap which breaks down the components of an object into their
distinct pieces and use that bitmap to only include the components
requested.
This does not include any behavioral change, but is in preperation for
the change to dump out just ACLs for objects in pg_catalog.
Reviews by Alexander Korotkov, Jose Luis Tallon
This new catalog holds the privileges which the system was
initialized with at initdb time, along with any permissions set
by extensions at CREATE EXTENSION time. This allows pg_dump
(and any other similar use-cases) to detect when the privileges
set on initdb-created or extension-created objects have been
changed from what they were set to at initdb/extension-creation
time and handle those changes appropriately.
Reviews by Alexander Korotkov, Jose Luis Tallon
It inserts a new value into an jsonb array at arbitrary position or
a new key to jsonb object.
Author: Dmitry Dolgov
Reviewers: Petr Jelinek, Vitaly Burovoy, Andrew Dunstan
Some object types have names that are only unique for one table. But
for those we generally didn't put the table name into the dump TOC tag.
So it was impossible to identify these objects if the same name was used
for multiple tables. This affects policies, column defaults,
constraints, triggers, and rules.
Fix by adding the table name to the TOC tag, so that it now reads
"$schema $table $object".
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>
API and mechanism to allow generic messages to be inserted into WAL that are
intended to be read by logical decoding plugins. This commit adds an optional
new callback to the logical decoding API.
Messages are either text or bytea. Messages can be transactional, or not, and
are identified by a prefix to allow multiple concurrent decoding plugins.
(Not to be confused with Generic WAL records, which are intended to allow crash
recovery of extensible objects.)
Author: Petr Jelinek and Andres Freund
Reviewers: Artur Zakirov, Tomas Vondra, Simon Riggs
Discussion: 5685F999.6010202@2ndquadrant.com
Previously synchronous replication offered only the ability to confirm
that all changes made by a transaction had been transferred to at most
one synchronous standby server.
This commit extends synchronous replication so that it supports multiple
synchronous standby servers. It enables users to consider one or more
standby servers as synchronous, and increase the level of transaction
durability by ensuring that transaction commits wait for replies from
all of those synchronous standbys.
Multiple synchronous standby servers are configured in
synchronous_standby_names which is extended to support new syntax of
'num_sync ( standby_name [ , ... ] )', where num_sync specifies
the number of synchronous standbys that transaction commits need to
wait for replies from and standby_name is the name of a standby
server.
The syntax of 'standby_name [ , ... ]' which was used in 9.5 or before
is also still supported. It's the same as new syntax with num_sync=1.
This commit doesn't include "quorum commit" feature which was discussed
in pgsql-hackers. Synchronous standbys are chosen based on their priorities.
synchronous_standby_names determines the priority of each standby for
being chosen as a synchronous standby. The standbys whose names appear
earlier in the list are given higher priority and will be considered as
synchronous. Other standby servers appearing later in this list
represent potential synchronous standbys.
The regression test for multiple synchronous standbys is not included
in this commit. It should come later.
Authors: Sawada Masahiko, Beena Emerson, Michael Paquier, Fujii Masao
Reviewed-By: Kyotaro Horiguchi, Amit Kapila, Robert Haas, Simon Riggs,
Amit Langote, Thomas Munro, Sameer Thakur, Suraj Kharage, Abhijit Menon-Sen,
Rajeev Rastogi
Many thanks to the various individuals who were involved in
discussing and developing this feature.
This introduces a new dependency type which marks an object as depending
on an extension, such that if the extension is dropped, the object
automatically goes away; and also, if the database is dumped, the object
is included in the dump output. Currently the grammar supports this for
indexes, triggers, materialized views and functions only, although the
utility code is generic so adding support for more object types is a
matter of touching the parser rules only.
Author: Abhijit Menon-Sen
Reviewed-by: Alexander Korotkov, Álvaro Herrera
Discussion: http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20160115062649.GA5068@toroid.org
has_parallel_hazard() was ignoring the proparallel markings for
aggregates, which is no good. Fix that. There was no way to mark
an aggregate as actually being parallel-safe, either, so add a
PARALLEL option to CREATE AGGREGATE.
Patch by me, reviewed by David Rowley.
Experimentation shows this only costs about 6kB, which seems well
worth it given the major performance effects that can be caused
by insufficient alignment, especially on larger systems.
Discussion: 14166.1458924422@sss.pgh.pa.us
PL/Python failed if a PL/Python function was invoked recursively via SPI,
since arguments are passed to the function in its global dictionary
(a horrible decision that's far too ancient to undo) and it would delete
those dictionary entries on function exit, leaving the outer recursion
level(s) without any arguments. Not deleting them would be little better,
since the outer levels would then see the innermost level's arguments.
Since PL/Python uses ValuePerCall mode for evaluating set-returning
functions, it's possible for multiple executions of the same SRF to be
interleaved within a query. PL/Python failed in such a case, because
it stored only one iterator per function, directly in the function's
PLyProcedure struct. Moreover, one interleaved instance of the SRF
would see argument values that should belong to another.
Hence, invent code for saving and restoring the argument entries. To fix
the recursion case, we only need to save at recursive entry and restore
at recursive exit, so the overhead in non-recursive cases is negligible.
To fix the SRF case, we have to save when suspending a SRF and restore
when resuming it, which is potentially not negligible; but fortunately
this is mostly a matter of manipulating Python object refcounts and
should not involve much physical data copying.
Also, store the Python iterator and saved argument values in a structure
associated with the SRF call site rather than the function itself. This
requires adding a memory context deletion callback to ensure that the SRF
state is cleaned up if the calling query exits before running the SRF to
completion. Without that we'd leak a refcount to the iterator object in
such a case, resulting in session-lifespan memory leakage. (In the
pre-existing code, there was no memory leak because there was only one
iterator pointer, but what would happen is that the previous iterator
would be resumed by the next query attempting to use the SRF. Hardly the
semantics we want.)
We can buy back some of whatever overhead we've added by getting rid of
PLy_function_delete_args(), which seems a useless activity: there is no
need to delete argument entries from the global dictionary on exit,
since the next time anyone would see the global dict is on the next
fresh call of the PL/Python function, at which time we'd overwrite those
entries with new arg values anyway.
Also clean up some really ugly coding in the SRF implementation, including
such gems as returning directly out of a PG_TRY block. (The only reason
that failed to crash hard was that all existing call sites immediately
exited their own PG_TRY blocks, popping the dangling longjmp pointer before
there was any chance of it being used.)
In principle this is a bug fix; but it seems a bit too invasive relative to
its value for a back-patch, and besides the fix depends on memory context
callbacks so it could not go back further than 9.5 anyway.
Alexey Grishchenko and Tom Lane
This lets us use parallel aggregate for a variety of useful cases
that didn't work before, like sum(int8), sum(numeric), several
versions of avg(), and various other functions.
Add some regression tests, as well, testing the general sanity of
these and future catalog entries.
David Rowley, reviewed by Tomas Vondra, with a few further changes
by me.
Previously non-exclusive backups had to be done using the replication protocol
and pg_basebackup. With this commit it's now possible to make them using
pg_start_backup/pg_stop_backup as well, as long as the backup program can
maintain a persistent connection to the database.
Doing this, backup_label and tablespace_map are returned as results from
pg_stop_backup() instead of being written to the data directory. This makes
the server safe from a crash during an ongoing backup, which can be a problem
with exclusive backups.
The old syntax of the functions remain and work exactly as before, but since the
new syntax is safer this should eventually be deprecated and removed.
Only reference documentation is included. The main section on backup still needs
to be rewritten to cover this, but since that is already scheduled for a separate
large rewrite, it's not included in this patch.
Reviewed by David Steele and Amit Kapila
As noted by Julian Schauder in bug #14063, the configuration-file parser
doesn't support embedded newlines in string literals. While there might
someday be a good reason to remove that restriction, there doesn't seem
to be one right now. However, ALTER SYSTEM SET could accept strings
containing newlines, since many of the variable-specific value-checking
routines would just see a newline as whitespace. This led to writing a
postgresql.auto.conf file that was broken and had to be removed manually.
Pending a reason to work harder, just throw an error if someone tries this.
In passing, fix several places in the ALTER SYSTEM logic that failed to
provide an errcode() for an ereport(), and thus would falsely log the
failure as an internal XX000 error.
Back-patch to 9.4 where ALTER SYSTEM was introduced.
Alex Shulgin complained that the underlying strategy wasn't all that
apparent, particularly not the fact that we intentionally have two
code paths depending on whether we think the column has a limited set
of possible values or not. Try to make it clearer.
On reflection, the pre-existing logic in ANALYZE is specifically meant to
compare the frequency of a candidate MCV against the estimated frequency of
a random distinct value across the whole table. The change to compare it
against the average frequency of values actually seen in the sample doesn't
seem very principled, and if anything it would make us less likely not more
likely to consider a value an MCV. So revert that, but keep the aspect of
considering only nonnull values, which definitely is correct.
In passing, rename the local variables in these stanzas to
"ndistinct_table", to avoid confusion with the "ndistinct" that appears at
an outer scope in compute_scalar_stats.
\gexec executes the just-entered query, like \g, but instead of printing
the results it takes each field as a SQL command to send to the server.
Computing a series of queries to be executed is a fairly common thing,
but up to now you always had to resort to kluges like writing the queries
to a file and then inputting the file. Now it can be done with no
intermediate step.
The implementation is fairly straightforward except for its interaction
with FETCH_COUNT. ExecQueryUsingCursor isn't capable of being called
recursively, and even if it were, its need to create a transaction
block interferes unpleasantly with the desired behavior of \gexec after
a failure of a generated query (i.e., that it can continue). Therefore,
disable use of ExecQueryUsingCursor when doing the master \gexec query.
We can still apply it to individual generated queries, however, and there
might be some value in doing so.
While testing this feature's interaction with single-step mode, I (tgl) was
led to conclude that SendQuery needs to recognize SIGINT (cancel_pressed)
as a negative response to the single-step prompt. Perhaps that's a
back-patchable bug fix, but for now I just included it here.
Corey Huinker, reviewed by Jim Nasby, Daniel Vérité, and myself
This elevel is useful for logging audit messages and similar information
that should not be passed to the client. It's equivalent to LOG in terms
of decisions about logging priority in the postmaster log, but messages
with this elevel will never be sent to the client.
In the current implementation, it's just an alias for the longstanding
COMMERROR elevel (or more accurately, we've made COMMERROR an alias for
this). At some point it might be interesting to allow a LOG_ONLY flag to
be attached to any elevel, but that would be considerably more complicated,
and it's not clear there's enough use-cases to justify the extra work.
For now, let's just take the easy 90% solution.
David Steele, reviewed by Fabien Coelho, Petr Jelínek, and myself
The first iteration of the signal-checking loop would compute sigmask(0)
which expands to 1<<(-1) which is undefined behavior according to the
C standard. The lack of field reports of trouble suggest that it
evaluates to 0 on all existing Windows compilers, but that's hardly
something to rely on. Since signal 0 isn't a queueable signal anyway,
we can just make the loop iterate from 1 instead, and save a few cycles
as well as avoiding the undefined behavior.
In passing, avoid evaluating the volatile expression UNBLOCKED_SIGNAL_QUEUE
twice in a row; there's no reason to waste cycles like that.
Noted by Aleksander Alekseev, though this isn't his proposed fix.
Back-patch to all supported branches.
When adjusting the estimate for the number of distinct values from a
rel in a grouped query to take into account the selectivity of the
rel's restrictions, use a formula that is less likely to produce
under-estimates.
The old formula simply multiplied the number of distinct values in the
rel by the restriction selectivity, which would be correct if the
restrictions were fully correlated with the grouping expressions, but
can produce significant under-estimates in cases where they are not
well correlated.
The new formula is based on the random selection probability, and so
assumes that the restrictions are not correlated with the grouping
expressions. This is guaranteed to produce larger estimates, and of
course risks over-estimating in cases where the restrictions are
correlated, but that has less severe consequences than
under-estimating, which might lead to a HashAgg that consumes an
excessive amount of memory.
This could possibly be improved upon in the future by identifying
correlated restrictions and using a hybrid of the old and new
formulae.
Author: Tomas Vondra, with some hacking be me
Reviewed-by: Mark Dilger, Alexander Korotkov, Dean Rasheed and Tom Lane
Discussion: http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/56CD0381.5060502@2ndquadrant.com
If archive_timeout > 0 we should avoid logging XLOG_RUNNING_XACTS if idle.
Bug 13685 reported by Laurence Rowe, investigated in detail by Michael Paquier,
though this is not his proposed fix.
20151016203031.3019.72930@wrigleys.postgresql.org
Simple non-invasive patch to allow later backpatch to 9.4 and 9.5
Replay of XLOG_BTREE_VACUUM during Hot Standby was previously thought to require
complex interlocking that matched the requirements on the master. This required
an O(N) operation that became a significant problem with large indexes, causing
replication delays of seconds or in some cases minutes while the
XLOG_BTREE_VACUUM was replayed.
This commit skips the pin scan that was previously required, by observing in
detail when and how it is safe to do so, with full documentation. The pin
scan is skipped only in replay; the VACUUM code path on master is not
touched here and WAL is identical.
The current commit applies in all cases, effectively replacing commit
687f2cd7a0.
Often, upon getting an unexpected error in psql, one's first wish is that
the verbosity setting had been higher; for example, to be able to see the
schema-name field or the server code location info. Up to now the only way
has been to adjust the VERBOSITY variable and repeat the failing query.
That's a pain, and it doesn't work if the error isn't reproducible.
This commit adds a psql feature that redisplays the most recent server
error at full verbosity, without needing to make any variable changes or
re-execute the failed command. We just need to hang onto the latest error
PGresult in case the user executes \errverbose, and then apply libpq's
new PQresultVerboseErrorMessage() function to it. This will consume
some trivial amount of psql memory, but otherwise the cost when the
feature isn't used should be negligible.
Alex Shulgin, reviewed by Daniel Vérité, some improvements by me
Often, upon getting an unexpected error in psql, one's first wish is that
the verbosity setting had been higher; for example, to be able to see the
schema-name field or the server code location info. Up to now the only way
has been to adjust the VERBOSITY variable and repeat the failing query.
That's a pain, and it doesn't work if the error isn't reproducible.
This commit adds support in libpq for regenerating the error message for
an existing error PGresult at any desired verbosity level. This is almost
just a matter of refactoring the existing code into a subroutine, but there
is one bit of possibly-needed information that was not getting put into
PGresults: the text of the last query sent to the server. We must add that
string to the contents of an error PGresult. But we only need to save it
if it might be used, which with the existing error-formatting code only
happens if there is a PG_DIAG_STATEMENT_POSITION error field, which is
probably pretty rare for errors in production situations. So really the
overhead when the feature isn't used should be negligible.
Alex Shulgin, reviewed by Daniel Vérité, some improvements by me
Some buildfarm members are showing "comparison is always false due to
limited range of data type" complaints on this test, so #ifdef it out
on machines with 32-bit int.
As with the previous patch, large numbers of null rows could skew this
calculation unfavorably, causing us to discard values that have a
legitimate claim to be MCVs, since our definition of MCV is that it's
most common among the non-null population of the column. Hence, make
the numerator of avgcount be the number of non-null sample values not
the number of sample rows; likewise for maxmincount in the
compute_scalar_stats variant.
Also, make the denominator be the number of distinct values actually
observed in the sample, rather than reversing it back out of the computed
stadistinct. This avoids depending on the accuracy of the Haas-Stokes
approximation, and really it's what we want anyway; the threshold should
depend only on what we see in the sample, not on what we extrapolate
about the contents of the whole column.
Alex Shulgin, reviewed by Tomas Vondra and myself
Previously, we included null rows in the values of n and N that went
into the formula, which amounts to considering null as a value in its
own right; but the d and f1 values do not include nulls. This is
inconsistent, and it contributes to significant underestimation of
ndistinct when the column is mostly nulls. In any case stadistinct
is defined as the number of distinct non-null values, so we should
exclude nulls when doing this computation.
This is an aboriginal bug in our application of the Haas-Stokes formula,
but we'll refrain from back-patching for fear of destabilizing plan
choices in released branches.
While at it, make the code a bit more readable by omitting unnecessary
casts and intermediate variables.
Observation and original patch by Tomas Vondra, adjusted to fix both
uses of the formula by Alex Shulgin, cosmetic improvements by me
In the test_slot_timelines test module, we were abusing passing NULL
values which was received as zeroes in x86, but this breaks in ARM
(buildfarm member hamster) by crashing instead. Fix the breakage by
marking these functions as STRICT; the InvalidXid value that was
previously implicit in NULL values (on x86 at least) can now be passed
as 0. Failing to follow the fmgr protocol to check for NULLs beforehand
was causing ARM to fail, as evidenced by segmentation faults in
buildfarm member hamster.
In order to use the new functionality in the test script, use COALESCE
in the right spot to avoid forwarding NULL values.
This was diagnosed from the hamster crash by Craig Ringer, who also
proposed a different patch (checking for NULL values explicitely in the
C function code, and keeping the non-strictness in the C functions).
I decided to go with this approach instead.
Our actual convention, contrary to what I said in 59a2111b23, is not to
quote type names, as evidenced by unquoted use of format_type_be()
result value in error messages. Remove quotes from recently tweaked
messages accordingly.
Per note from Tom Lane
Commit acdf2a8b added a test case involving minus zero as a box endpoint.
This is not very portable, as evidenced by the several older buildfarm
members that are failing on the test because they print minus zero as
just "0". If there were any significant reason to test this behavior,
we could consider carrying a separate expected-file; but it doesn't look
to me like there's adequate justification to accept such a maintenance
burden. Just change the test to use plain zero, instead.
When getParamDescriptions was changed to handle out-of-memory better
by cribbing error recovery logic from getRowDescriptions/getAnotherTuple,
somebody omitted to copy the stanza about checking for excess data in
the message. But you need to do that, since continue'ing out of the
switch in pqParseInput3 means no such check gets applied there anymore.
Noted while looking at Michael Paquier's patch that made yet another
copy of this advance_and_error logic.
(This whole business desperately needs refactoring, because I sure don't
want to see a dozen copies of this code, but that's where we seem to be
headed. What's more, the "suspend parsing on EOF return" convention is a
holdover from protocol 2 and shouldn't exist at all in protocol 3, because
we don't process partial messages anymore. But for now, just fix the
obvious bug.)
Also, fix some wrong/missing comments about what the API spec is
for these three functions.
This doesn't seem worthy of back-patching, even though it's a bug;
the case shouldn't ever arise in the field.
This interface is designed to give an access to WAL for extensions which
could implement new access method, for example. Previously it was
impossible because restoring from custom WAL would need to access system
catalog to find a redo custom function. This patch suggests generic way
to describe changes on page with standart layout.
Bump XLOG_PAGE_MAGIC because of new record type.
Author: Alexander Korotkov with a help of Petr Jelinek, Markus Nullmeier and
minor editorization by my
Reviewers: Petr Jelinek, Alvaro Herrera, Teodor Sigaev, Jim Nasby,
Michael Paquier
I should have remembered that we can't use INT64_MODIFIER with sscanf():
configure chooses that to work with snprintf(), but it might be for our
src/port/snprintf.c implementation and so not compatible with the
platform's sscanf(). This appears to be the explanation for buildfarm
member frogmouth's continuing unhappiness with the tzcode update.
Fortunately, in all of the places where zic is attempting to read into
an int64 variable, it's reading a year which certainly will fit just fine
into an int. So make it read into an int with %d, and then cast or copy
as necessary.
Previously this test was relying too much on WAL replay to occur in the
exact configured interval, which was unreliable on slow or overly busy
servers. Use a custom loop instead of poll_query_until, which is
hopefully more reliable.
Per continued failures on buildfarm member hamster (which is probably
the only one running this test suite)
Author: Michaël Paquier
Previously, the planner would reject an index-only scan if any restriction
clause for its table used a column not available from the index, even
if that restriction clause would later be dropped from the plan entirely
because it's implied by the index's predicate. This is a fairly common
situation for partial indexes because predicates using columns not included
in the index are often the most useful kind of predicate, and we have to
duplicate (or at least imply) the predicate in the WHERE clause in order
to get the index to be considered at all. So index-only scans were
essentially unavailable with such partial indexes.
To fix, we have to do detection of implied-by-predicate clauses much
earlier in the planner. This patch puts it in check_index_predicates
(nee check_partial_indexes), meaning it gets done for every partial index,
whereas we previously only considered this issue at createplan time,
so that the work was only done for an index actually selected for use.
That could result in a noticeable planning slowdown for queries against
tables with many partial indexes. However, testing suggested that there
isn't really a significant cost, especially not with reasonable numbers
of partial indexes. We do get a small additional benefit, which is that
cost_index is more accurate since it correctly discounts the evaluation
cost of clauses that will be removed. We can also avoid considering such
clauses as potential indexquals, which saves useless matching cycles in
the case where the predicate columns aren't in the index, and prevents
generating bogus plans that double-count the clause's selectivity when
the columns are in the index.
Tomas Vondra and Kyotaro Horiguchi, reviewed by Kevin Grittner and
Konstantin Knizhnik, and whacked around a little by me
When decoding from a logical slot, it's necessary for xlog reading to be
able to read xlog from historical (i.e. not current) timelines;
otherwise, decoding fails after failover, because the archives are in
the historical timeline. This is required to make "failover logical
slots" possible; it currently has no other use, although theoretically
it could be used by an extension that creates a slot on a standby and
continues to replay from the slot when the standby is promoted.
This commit includes a module in src/test/modules with functions to
manipulate the slots (which is not otherwise possible in SQL code) in
order to enable testing, and a new test in src/test/recovery to ensure
that the behavior is as expected.
Author: Craig Ringer
Reviewed-By: Oleksii Kliukin, Andres Freund, Petr Jelínek
Some minor tweaks and comment additions, for cleanliness sake and to
avoid having the upcoming timeline-following patch be polluted with
unrelated cleanup.
Extracted from a larger patch by Craig Ringer, reviewed by Andres
Freund, with some additions by myself.
Formerly, the geometric I/O routines such as box_in and point_out relied
directly on strtod() and sprintf() for conversion of the float8 component
values of their data types. However, the behavior of those functions is
pretty platform-dependent, especially for edge-case values such as
infinities and NaNs. This was exposed by commit acdf2a8b37, which
added test cases involving boxes with infinity endpoints, and immediately
failed on Windows and AIX buildfarm members. We solved these problems
years ago in the main float8in and float8out functions, so let's fix it
by making the geometric types use that code instead of depending directly
on the platform-supplied functions.
To do this, refactor the float8in code so that it can be used to parse
just part of a string, and as a convenience make the guts of float8out
usable without going through DirectFunctionCall.
While at it, get rid of geo_ops.c's fairly shaky assumptions about the
maximum output string length for a double, by having it build results in
StringInfo buffers instead of fixed-length strings.
In passing, convert all the "invalid input syntax for type foo" messages
in this area of the code into "invalid input syntax for type %s" to reduce
the number of distinct translatable strings, per recent discussion.
We would have needed a fair number of the latter anyway for code-sharing
reasons, so we might as well just go whole hog.
Note: this patch is by no means intended to guarantee that the geometric
types uniformly behave sanely for infinity or NaN component values.
But any bugs we have in that line were there all along, they were just
harder to reach in a platform-independent way.
My compiler doesn't like the lack of initialization of "flag", and
I think it's right: if there were zero keys we'd have an undefined
result. The AND of zero items is TRUE, so initialize to TRUE.
Patch implements quad-tree over boxes, naive approach of 2D quad tree will not
work for any non-point objects because splitting space on node is not
efficient. The idea of pathc is treating 2D boxes as 4D points, so,
object will not overlap (in 4D space).
The performance tests reveal that this technique especially beneficial
with too much overlapping objects, so called "spaghetti data".
Author: Alexander Lebedev with editorization by Emre Hasegeli and me
During scan sometimes it would be very helpful to know some information about
parent node or all ancestor nodes. Right now reconstructedValue could be used
but it's not a right usage of it (range opclass uses that).
traversalValue is arbitrary piece of memory in separate MemoryContext while
reconstructedVale should have the same type as indexed column.
Subsequent patches for range opclass and quad4d tree will use it.
Author: Alexander Lebedev, Teodor Sigaev
Reporting the specific out-of-range input value produces platform-dependent
results. We could skip reporting the value, but that's contrary to our
message style guidelines and unhelpful to users. Or we could add a
separate expected-output file for Windows, but that would be a substantial
maintenance burden, and these test cases seem unlikely to be worth it.
Per buildfarm.
In this mode, the master waits for the transaction to be applied on
the remote side, not just written to disk. That means that you can
count on a transaction started on the standby to see all commits
previously acknowledged by the master.
To make this work, the standby sends a reply after replaying each
commit record generated with synchronous_commit >= 'remote_apply'.
This introduces a small inefficiency: the extra replies will be sent
even by standbys that aren't the current synchronous standby. But
previously-existing synchronous_commit levels make no attempt at all
to optimize which replies are sent based on what the primary cares
about, so this is no worse, and at least avoids any extra replies for
people not using the feature at all.
Thomas Munro, reviewed by Michael Paquier and by me. Some additional
tweaks by me.
interval_mul() attempts to prevent its calculations from producing silly
results, but it forgot that zero times infinity yields NaN in IEEE
arithmetic. Hence, a case like '1 second'::interval * 'infinity'::float8
produced a NaN for the months product, which didn't trigger the range
check, resulting in bogus and possibly platform-dependent output.
This isn't terribly obvious to the naked eye because if you try that
exact case, you get "interval out of range" which is what you expect
--- but if you look closer, the error is coming from interval_out not
interval_mul. interval_mul has allowed a bogus value into the system.
Fix by adding isnan tests.
Noted while testing Vitaly Burovoy's fix for infinity input to
to_timestamp(). Given the lack of field complaints, I doubt this
is worth a back-patch.
With the original SQL-function implementation, such cases failed because
we don't support infinite intervals. Converting the function to C lets
us bypass the interval representation, which should be a bit faster as
well as more flexible.
Vitaly Burovoy, reviewed by Anastasia Lubennikova
resulttypeLen and resulttypeByVal must be set correctly when serializing
aggregates, not just when finalizing them. This was in David's final
patch but I downloaded the wrong version by mistake and failed to spot
the error.
David Rowley
This is necessary infrastructure for supporting parallel aggregation
for aggregates whose transition type is "internal". Such values
can't be passed between cooperating processes, because they are
just pointers.
David Rowley, reviewed by Tomas Vondra and by me.
This refines the previous weight range and allows a script to be "turned
off" by passing a zero weight, which is useful when scripting multiple
pgbench runs.
I did not apply the suggested warning when a script uses zero weight; we
use the principle elsewhere that if there's nothing to be done, do
nothing quietly.
Adjust docs accordingly.
Author: Jeff Janes, Fabien Coelho
You can now do the same thing via \set using the appropriate function,
either random(), random_gaussian(), or random_exponential(), depending
on the desired distribution. This is not backward-compatible, but per
discussion, it's worth it to avoid having the old syntax hang around
forever.
Fabien Coelho, reviewed by Michael Paquier, and adjusted by me.
Whenever this function is used with the FORMAT_MESSAGE_FROM_SYSTEM flag,
it's good practice to include FORMAT_MESSAGE_IGNORE_INSERTS as well.
Otherwise, if the message contains any %n insertion markers, the function
will try to fetch argument strings to substitute --- which we are not
passing, possibly leading to a crash. This is exactly analogous to the
rule about not giving printf() a format string you're not in control of.
Noted and patched by Christian Ullrich.
Back-patch to all supported branches.
When tsearch was implemented I did several mistakes in hostname/email
definition rules:
1) allow underscore in hostname what prohibited by RFC
2) forget to allow leading digits separated by hyphen (like 123-x.com)
in hostname
3) do no allow underscore/hyphen after leading digits in localpart of email
Artur's patch resolves two last issues, but by the way allows hosts name like
123_x.com together with 123-x.com. RFC forbids underscore usage in hostname
but pg allows that since initial tsearch version in core, although only
for non-digits. Patch syncs support digits and nondigits in both hostname and
email.
Forbidding underscore in hostname may break existsing usage of tsearch and,
anyhow, it should be done by separate patch.
Author: Artur Zakirov
BUG: #13964
Per discussion, the new extensible node framework is thought to be
better designed than the custom path/scan/scanstate stuff we added
in PostgreSQL 9.5. Rework the latter to be more like the former.
This is not backward-compatible, but we generally don't promise that
for C APIs, and there probably aren't many people using this yet
anyway.
KaiGai Kohei, reviewed by Petr Jelinek and me. Some further
cosmetic changes by me.
The IANA crew seem to think that symlink() exists everywhere nowadays,
and they may well be right. But we use #ifdef HAVE_SYMLINK elsewhere
so for consistency we should do it here too. Noted by Michael Paquier.
The new coding of dolink() is dependent on link() returning an on-point
errno when it fails; but the quick-hack implementation of link() that
we'd put in for Windows didn't bother with setting errno. Fix that.
Analysis and patch by Christian Ullrich.
INT64_MIN/MAX should be spelled PG_INT64_MIN/MAX, per well established
convention in our sources. Less obviously, a symbol named DOUBLE causes
problems on Windows builds, so rename that to DOUBLE_CONST; and rename
INTEGER to INTEGER_CONST for consistency.
Also, get rid of incorrect/obsolete hand-munging of yycolumn, and fix
the grammar for float constants to handle expected cases such as ".1".
First two items by Michael Paquier, second two by me.
Commit fbe5a3fb73 accidentally changed
this behavior; put things back the way they were, and add some
regression tests.
Report by Andres Freund; patch by Ashutosh Bapat, with a bit of
kibitzing by me.
Up until now, we've been using timezone and tzname, but Visual Studio
2015 (for which we wish to add support) no longer declares those
symbols. All versions since Visual Studio 2003 apparently support the
underscore-equipped names, and we don't support anything older than
Visual Studio 2005, so this should work OK everywhere. But let's see
what the buildfarm thinks.
Michael Paquier, reviewed by Petr Jelinek
The new functions are pi(), random(), random_exponential(),
random_gaussian(), and sqrt(). I was worried that this would be
slower than before, but, if anything, it actually turns out to be
slightly faster, because we now express the built-in pgbench scripts
using fewer lines; each \setrandom can be merged into a subsequent
\set.
Fabien Coelho
Corrects an oversight in 2c83f435a3 where the $timed_out reference var
isn't initialized; using it would require the caller to initialize it
beforehand, which is cumbersome.
Author: Craig Ringer
This brings us a bit closer to matching upstream, but since it affects
files outside src/timezone/, we might choose not to back-patch it.
Hence keep it separate from the main update patch.
We hadn't done this in about six years, which proves to have been a mistake
because there's been a lot of code churn upstream, making the merge rather
painful. But putting it off any further isn't going to lessen the pain,
and there are at least two incompatible changes that we need to absorb
before someone starts complaining that --with-system-tzdata doesn't work
at all on their platform, or we get blindsided by a tzdata release that
our out-of-date zic can't compile. Last week's "time zone abbreviation
differs from POSIX standard" mess was a wake-up call in that regard.
This is a sufficiently large patch that I'm afraid to back-patch it
immediately, though the foregoing considerations imply that we probably
should do so eventually. For the moment, just put it in HEAD so that
it can get some testing. Maybe we can wait till the end of the 9.6
beta cycle before deeming it okay.
Change the slightly different variations of the message
function FOO must return type BAR
to a single wording, removing the variability in type name so that they
all create a single translation entry; since the type name is not to be
translated, there's no point in it being part of the message anyway.
Also, change them all to use the same quoting convention, namely that
the function name is not to be quoted but the type name is. (I'm not
quite sure why this is so, but it's the clear majority.)
Some similar messages such as "encoding conversion function FOO must ..."
are also changed.
In the plancache, we check if the environment we planned the query under
has changed in a way which requires us to re-plan, such as when the user
for whom the plan was prepared changes and RLS is being used (and,
therefore, there may be different policies to apply).
Unfortunately, while those values were set and checked, they were not
being reset when the query was re-planned and therefore, in cases where
we change role, re-plan, and then change role again, we weren't
re-planning again. This leads to potentially incorrect policies being
applied in cases where role-specific policies are used and a given query
is planned under one role and then executed under other roles, which
could happen under security definer functions or when a common user and
query is planned initially and then re-used across multiple SET ROLEs.
Further, extensions which made use of CopyCachedPlan() may suffer from
similar issues as the RLS-related fields were not properly copied as
part of the plan and therefore RevalidateCachedQuery() would copy in the
current settings without invalidating the query.
Fix by using the same approach used for 'search_path', where we set the
correct values in CompleteCachedPlan(), check them early on in
RevalidateCachedQuery() and then properly reset them if re-planning.
Also, copy through the values during CopyCachedPlan().
Pointed out by Ashutosh Bapat. Reviewed by Michael Paquier.
Back-patch to 9.5 where RLS was introduced.
Security: CVE-2016-2193
Fix up check for high-bit-set characters, which provoked "comparison is
always true due to limited range of data type" warnings on some compilers,
and was unlike the way we do it elsewhere anyway. Fix omission of "$"
from the set of valid identifier continuation characters. Get rid of
sanitize_text(), which was utterly inconsistent with any other error report
anywhere in the system, and wasn't even well designed on its own terms
(double-quoting the result string without escaping contained double quotes
doesn't seem very well thought out). Fix up error messages, which didn't
follow the message style guidelines very well, and were overly specific in
situations where the actual mistake might not be what they said. Improve
documentation.
(I started out just intending to fix the compiler warning, but the more
I looked at the patch the less I liked it.)
If the referenced rel was proven empty, we'd compute 0/0 here, which
results in the function returning NaN. That's a bit more serious
than the other zero-divide case. Still, it only seems to be possible
in HEAD, so no back-patch.
Per report from Piotr Stefaniak. I looked through the rest of selfuncs.c
and found no other likely trouble spots.
This avoids a possible divide-by-zero in the following calculation,
and rounding the number to an integer seems like saner behavior anyway.
Assuming IEEE math, the division would yield +Infinity which would get
replaced by 1.0 at the bottom of the function, so nothing really
interesting would ensue; but avoiding divide-by-zero seems like a
good idea on general principles.
Per report from Piotr Stefaniak. No back-patch since this seems
mostly cosmetic.
Previously pg_rewind did not fsync any files. That's problematic, given
that the target directory is modified. If the database was started
afterwards, 2ce439f33 luckily already caused the data directory to be
synced to disk at postmaster startup; reducing the scope of the problem.
To fix, use initdb -S, at the end of the pg_rewind run. It doesn't seem
worthwhile to duplicate the code into pg_rewind, and initdb -S is
already used that way by pg_upgrade.
Reported-By: Andres Freund
Author: Michael Paquier, somewhat edited by me
Discussion: 20160310034352.iuqgvpmg5qmnxtkz@alap3.anarazel.deCAB7nPqSytVG1o4S3S2pA1O=692ekurJ+fckW2PywEG3sNw54Ow@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch: 9.5, where pg_rewind was introduced
This was a relatively harmless leak, as createBackupLabel() is only
called once per pg_rewind invocation.
Author: Michael Paquier
Reported-By: Michael Paquier
Discussion: CAB7nPqRnOw30gOXe2_SPLjh37bgm4V+txbYAPwoXb97nGQ297w@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch: 9.5, where pg_rewind was introduced
Returning the direct result of bit arithmetic, in a macro intended to be
used in a boolean manner, can be problematic if the return value is
stored in a variable of type 'bool'. If bool is implemented using C99's
_Bool, that can lead to comparison failures if the variable is then
compared again with the expression (see ginStepRight() for an example
that fails), as _Bool forces the result to be 0/1. That happens in some
configurations of newer MSVC compilers. It's also problematic when
storing the result of such an expression in a narrower type.
Several gin macros have been declared in that style since gin's initial
commit in 8a3631f8d8.
There's a lot more macros like this, but this is the only one causing
regression test failures; and I don't want to commit and backpatch a
larger patch with lots of conflicts just before the next set of minor
releases.
Discussion: 20150811154237.GD17575@awork2.anarazel.de
Backpatch: All supported branches
We really need to sync all of our IANA-derived timezone code with upstream,
but that's going to be a large patch and I certainly don't care to shove
such a thing into stable branches immediately before a release. As a
stopgap, copy just the tzcode2016c logic that checks validity of timezone
abbreviations. This prevents getting multiple "time zone abbreviation
differs from POSIX standard" bleats with tzdata 2014b and later.
cost_subplan() supposed that the given subplan must have plan_rows > 0,
which as far as I can tell was true until recent refactoring of the
code in createplan.c; but now that code allows the Result for a provably
empty subquery to have plan_rows = 0. Rather than undo that change,
put in a clamp to prevent zero divide.
get_cheapest_fractional_path() likewise supposed that best_path->rows > 0.
This assumption has been wrong for longer. It's actually harmless given
IEEE float math, because a positive value divided by zero gives +Infinity
and compare_fractional_path_costs() will do the right thing with that.
Still, best not to assume that.
final_cost_nestloop() also seems to have some risks in this area, so
borrow the clamping logic already present in the mergejoin cost functions.
Lastly, remove unnecessary clamp_row_est() in planner.c's calls to
get_number_of_groups(). The only thing that function does with path_rows
is pass it to estimate_num_groups() which already has an internal clamp,
so we don't need the extra call; and if we did, the callers are arguably
the wrong place for it anyway.
First two items reported by Piotr Stefaniak, the others are products
of my nosing around for similar problems. No back-patch since there's
no evidence that problems arise in the back branches.
DST law changes in Azerbaijan, Chile, Haiti, Palestine, and Russia (Altai,
Astrakhan, Kirov, Sakhalin, Ulyanovsk regions). Historical corrections
for Lithuania, Moldova, Russia (Kaliningrad, Samara, Volgograd).
As of 2015b, the keepers of the IANA timezone database started to use
numeric time zone abbreviations (e.g., "+04") instead of inventing
abbreviations not found in the wild like "ASTT". This causes our rather
old copy of zic to whine "warning: time zone abbreviation differs from
POSIX standard" several times during "make install". This warning is
harmless according to the IANA folk, and I don't see any problems with
these abbreviations in some simple tests; but it seems like now would be
a good time to update our copy of the tzcode stuff. I'll look into that
soon.
We don't really want to encourage people to write numeric SQLSTATEs in
programs; that's unreadable and error-prone. Copy plpgsql's infrastructure
for converting between SQLSTATEs and exception names shown in Appendix A,
and modify examples in tests and documentation to do it that way.
Tcl has a convention for returning additional info about an error in a
global variable named errorCode. Up to now PL/Tcl has ignored that,
but this patch causes database errors caught by PL/Tcl to fill in
errorCode with useful information from the ErrorData struct.
Jim Nasby, reviewed by Pavel Stehule and myself
This avoids leaving dangling links in pg_operator; which while fairly
harmless are also unsightly.
While we're at it, simplify OperatorUpd, which went through
heap_modify_tuple for no very good reason considering it had already made
a tuple copy it could just scribble on.
Roma Sokolov, reviewed by Tomas Vondra, additional hacking by Robert Haas
and myself.
In commit 9118d03a8c we taught the planner to postpone evaluation of
set-returning functions in a SELECT's targetlist until after any sort done
to satisfy ORDER BY. However, if we postpone some SRFs this way while
others do not get postponed (because they're sort or group key columns)
we will break the traditional behavior by which all SRFs in the tlist run
in-step during ExecTargetList(), so that you get the least common multiple
of their periods not the product. Fix make_sort_input_target() so it will
not split up SRF evaluation in such cases.
There is still a hazard of similar odd behavior if there's a SRF in a
grouping column and another one that isn't, but that was true before
and we're just trying to preserve bug-compatibility with the traditional
behavior. This whole area is overdue to be rethought and reimplemented,
but we'll try to avoid changing behavior until then.
Per report from Regina Obe.
Some of the non-MSVC Windows buildfarm members seem to need this to avoid
getting "undefined symbol" errors on libpgfeutils' references to libpq.
I could understand that if libpq were a static library, but surely it is
not? Oh well, at least the extra reference is no more harmful than it is
for libpgcommon or libpgport.
This completes (at least for now) the project of getting rid of ad-hoc
linkages among the src/bin/ subdirectories. Everything they share is now
in src/fe_utils/ and is included from a static library at link time.
A side benefit is that we can restore the FLEX_NO_BACKUP check for
psqlscanslash.l. We might need to think of another way to do that check
if we ever need to build two lexers with that property in the same source
directory, but there's no foreseeable reason to need that.
Compilers that don't know that elog(ERROR) doesn't return complained
that this function might fail to return a value. Per buildfarm.
While at it, const-ify the function's declaration, since the intent
is evidently to always return a constant string.
Per discussion, we want to create a static library and put the stuff into
it that until now has been shared across src/bin/ directories by ad-hoc
methods like symlinking a source file. This commit creates the library and
populates it with a couple of files that contain the widely-useful portions
of pg_dump's dumputils.c file. dumputils.c survives, because it has some
stuff that didn't seem appropriate for fe_utils, but it's significantly
smaller and is no longer referenced from any other directory.
Follow-on patches will move more stuff into fe_utils.
The Mkvcbuild.pm hacking here is just a best guess; we'll see how the
buildfarm likes it.
This enables external code to create access methods. This is useful so
that extensions can add their own access methods which can be formally
tracked for dependencies, so that DROP operates correctly. Also, having
explicit support makes pg_dump work correctly.
Currently only index AMs are supported, but we expect different types to
be added in the future.
Authors: Alexander Korotkov, Petr Jelínek
Reviewed-By: Teodor Sigaev, Petr Jelínek, Jim Nasby
Commitfest-URL: https://commitfest.postgresql.org/9/353/
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAPpHfdsXwZmojm6Dx+TJnpYk27kT4o7Ri6X_4OSWcByu1Rm+VA@mail.gmail.com
Now that we have src/common/ for code shared between frontend and backend,
we can get rid of (most of) the klugy ways that the keyword table and
keyword lookup code were formerly shared between different uses.
This is a first step towards a more general plan of getting rid of
special-purpose kluges for sharing code in src/bin/.
I chose to merge kwlookup.c back into keywords.c, as it once was, and
always has been so far as keywords.h is concerned. We could have
kept them separate, but there is noplace that uses ScanKeywordLookup
without also wanting access to the backend's keyword list, so there
seems little point.
ecpg is still a bit weird, but at least now the trickiness is documented.
I think that the MSVC build script should require no adjustments beyond
what's done here ... but we'll soon find out.
Unfortunately, every version of glibc thus far tested has bugs whereby
strcoll() ordering does not match strxfrm() ordering as required by
the standard. This can result in, for example, corrupted indexes.
Disabling abbreviated keys in these cases slows down non-C-collation
string sorting considerably, but there seems to be no practical
alternative. Users who are confident that their libc implementations
are solid in this regard can re-enable the optimization by compiling
with TRUST_STRXFRM.
Users who have built indexes using PostgreSQL 9.5 or PostgreSQL 9.5.1
should REINDEX if there is a possibility that they may have been
affected by this problem.
Report by Marc-Olaf Jaschke. Investigation mostly by Tom Lane, with
help from Peter Geoghegan, Noah Misch, Stephen Frost, and me. Patch
by me, reviewed by Peter Geoghegan and Tom Lane.
Without this, contention on the freelist can become a pretty serious
problem on large servers.
Aleksander Alekseev, reviewed by Anastasia Lubennikova, Dilip Kumar,
and me.
User-facing (even tested by regression tests) error conditions were thrown
with elog(), hence had wrong SQLSTATE and were untranslatable. And the
error message texts weren't up to project style, either.
jsonb_set() could produce wrong answers or incorrect error reports, or in
the worst case even crash, when trying to convert a path-array element into
an integer for use as an array subscript. Per report from Vitaly Burovoy.
Back-patch to 9.5 where the faulty code was introduced (in commit
c6947010ce).
Michael Paquier
In commit afb9249d06, we (probably I) made ExecLockRows assign
null test tuples to all relations of the query while setting up to do an
EvalPlanQual recheck for a newly-updated locked row. This was sheerest
brain fade: we should only set test tuples for relations that are lockable
by the LockRows node, and in particular empty test tuples are only sensible
for inheritance child relations that weren't the source of the current
tuple from their inheritance tree. Setting a null test tuple for an
unrelated table causes it to return NULLs when it should not, as exhibited
in bug #14034 from Bronislav Houdek. To add insult to injury, doing it the
wrong way required two loops where one would suffice; so the corrected code
is even a bit shorter and faster.
Add a regression test case based on his example, and back-patch to 9.5
where the bug was introduced.
Instead of just "2" seconds, allow eg. "2.5" seconds. Per request
from Alvaro Herrera. No docs change since the docs didn't say you
couldn't do this already.
Include the \pset title string if there is one, and shorten the prefab
part of the header to be "timestamp (every Ns)". Per suggestion by
David Johnston.
Michael Paquier and Tom Lane
Parallel workers can now partially aggregate the data and pass the
transition values back to the leader, which can combine the partial
results to produce the final answer.
David Rowley, based on earlier work by Haribabu Kommi. Reviewed by
Álvaro Herrera, Tomas Vondra, Amit Kapila, James Sewell, and me.
Commit ac1d794 ("Make idle backends exit if the postmaster dies.")
introduced a regression on, at least, large linux systems. Constantly
adding the same postmaster_alive_fds to the OSs internal datastructures
for implementing poll/select can cause significant contention; leading
to a performance regression of nearly 3x in one example.
This can be avoided by using e.g. linux' epoll, which avoids having to
add/remove file descriptors to the wait datastructures at a high rate.
Unfortunately the current latch interface makes it hard to allocate any
persistent per-backend resources.
Replace, with a backward compatibility layer, WaitLatchOrSocket with a
new WaitEventSet API. Users can allocate such a Set across multiple
calls, and add more than one file-descriptor to wait on. The latter has
been added because there's upcoming postgres features where that will be
helpful.
In addition to the previously existing poll(2), select(2),
WaitForMultipleObjects() implementations also provide an epoll_wait(2)
based implementation to address the aforementioned performance
problem. Epoll is only available on linux, but that is the most likely
OS for machines large enough (four sockets) to reproduce the problem.
To actually address the aforementioned regression, create and use a
long-lived WaitEventSet for FE/BE communication. There are additional
places that would benefit from a long-lived set, but that's a task for
another day.
Thanks to Amit Kapila, who helped make the windows code I blindly wrote
actually work.
Reported-By: Dmitry Vasilyev Discussion:
CAB-SwXZh44_2ybvS5Z67p_CDz=XFn4hNAD=CnMEF+QqkXwFrGg@mail.gmail.com20160114143931.GG10941@awork2.anarazel.de
Previously latches for windows and unix had been implemented in
different files. A later patch introduce an expanded wait
infrastructure, keeping the implementation separate would introduce too
much duplication.
This basically just moves the functions, without too much change. The
reason to keep this separate is that it allows blame to continue working
a little less badly; and to make review a tiny bit easier.
Discussion: 20160114143931.GG10941@awork2.anarazel.de
After the previous fix in 6f1f34c9 msvc ended up looking for psqlscan.c
in the wrong directory.
David's fix just forces the path to be adjusted. That's not a
particularly pretty fix, but it hopefully will make the buildfarm green
again.
Author: David Rowley
Discussion: CAKJS1f_9CCi_t+LEgV5GWoCj3wjavcMoDc5qfcf_A0UwpQoPoA@mail.gmail.com
The point of this change is to use %pure-parser in pgbench's exprparse.y.
The immediate reason is that it turns out very ancient versions of bison
have a bug with the combination of a reentrant lexer and non-reentrant
parser. We could consider dropping support for such ancient bisons; but
considering that we might well need exprparse.y to be reentrant some day,
it seems better to make it so right now than to move the portability
goalposts. (AFAICT there's no particular performance consequence to this
change, either, so there's no good reason not to do it.)
Now, %pure-parser assumes that the called lexer is built with %option
bison-bridge. Because we're assuming bitwise compatibility of yyscan_t
(yyguts_t) data structures among all the psql/pgbench lexers, that
requirement propagates back to psql's lexers as well. But it's just a
few lines of change on that side too; and if psqlscan.l is to set the
baseline for a possibly-large family of lexers, it should err on the
side of including not omitting useful features.
pgbench now needs to use src/bin/psql/psqlscan.l, but it's not very clear
how to fit that into the MSVC build system. If this doesn't work I'm going
to need some help from somebody who actually understands those scripts ...
To allow multiline SQL commands in scripts, adopt the same rules psql uses
to decide what is the end of a SQL command, to wit, an unquoted semicolon
not encased in parentheses. Do this by importing the same flex lexer that
psql uses, since coping with stuff like dollar-quoted literals is hard to
get right without going the full nine yards.
This makes use of the infrastructure added in commit 0ea9efbe9e to
support independently-written flex lexers scanning the same PsqlScanState
input-buffer data structure. Since that infrastructure isn't very
friendly to ad-hoc parsing code such as strtok(), improve exprscan.l
so that it can parse either whitespace-separated words or expression
tokens, on demand, and rewrite pgbench.c's backslash-command parsing
code to always use the lexer to fetch tokens.
It's still the case that pgbench backslash commands extend to the end
of the line, no more and no less. That could be changed in a fairly
localized way now, and there was some interest in doing so, but it
seems like material for a separate patch.
In passing, make some marginal cleanups in syntax error reporting,
const-ify a few data structures that could use it, and run some of
this code through pgindent.
I can't tell whether the MSVC build scripts need to be taught explicitly
about the changes here or not, but the buildfarm will soon tell us.
Kyotaro Horiguchi and Tom Lane
Modern Perl has removed psed from its core distribution, so it might not
be readily available on some build platforms. We therefore replace its
use with a Perl script generated by s2p, which is equivalent to the sed
script. The latter is retained for non-MSVC builds to avoid creating a
new hard dependency on Perl for non-Windows tarball builds.
Backpatch to all live branches.
Michael Paquier and me.
This is a necessary preliminary step for making it play with psqlscan.l
given the way I set up the lexer input-buffer sharing mechanism in commit
0ea9efbe9e.
I've not tried to make it *actually* reentrant; there's still some static
variables laying about. But flex thinks it's reentrant, and that's what
counts.
In support of that, fix exprparse.y to pass through the yyscan_t from the
caller. Also do some minor code beautification, like not casting away
const.
Make some minor formatting adjustments to make it easier to diff these
files and see that they indeed implement the same flex rules (at least
to the extent that we want them to be the same).
(Someday it'd be nice to make ecpg's pgc.l more easily diff'able too,
but today is not that day.)
Also run relevant parts of these files and psqlscanslash.l through
pgindent.
No actual behavioral changes here, just obsessive neatnik-ism.
Now that we know about the %top{} trick, we can revert to building flex
lexers as separate .o files. This is worth doing for a couple of reasons
besides sheer cleanliness. We can narrow the scope of the -Wno-error flag
that's forced on scan.c. Also, since these grammar and lexer files are
so large, splitting them into separate build targets should have some
advantages in build speed, particularly in parallel or ccache'd builds.
We have quite a few other .l files that could be changed likewise, but the
above arguments don't apply to them, so the benefit of fixing them seems
pretty minimal. Leave the rest for some other day.
Previously, all scripts had the same probability of being chosen when
multiple of them were specified via -b, -f, -N, -S. With this commit,
-b and -f now search for an "@" in the script name and use the integer
found after it as the drawing probability for that script.
(One disadvantage is that if you have script whose names contain @, you
are now forced to specify "@1" at the end; otherwise the name's @ is
confused with a weight separator. We don't expect many pgbench script
with @ in their names in the wild, so this shouldn't be too serious a
problem.)
While at it, rework the interface between addScript, process_file,
process_builtin, and findBuiltin. It had gotten a bit out of hand with
recent commits.
Author: Fabien Coelho
Reviewed-By: Andres Freund, Robert Haas, Álvaro Herrera, Michaël Paquier
Discussion: http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/alpine.DEB.2.10.1603160721240.1666@sto
Buildfarm results show that the ability to attach pg_attribute_printf
decoration to a function pointer appeared somewhere between gcc 2.95.3
and gcc 4.0.1. Guess that it was there in 4.0.
We used to require the server key file to have permissions 0600 or less
for best security. But some systems (such as Debian) have certificate
and key files managed by the operating system that can be shared with
other services. In those cases, the "postgres" user is made a member of
a special group that has access to those files, and the server key file
has permissions 0640. To accommodate that kind of setup, also allow the
key file to have permissions 0640 but only if owned by root.
From: Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org>
Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
The existing infrastructure for FLEX_NO_BACKUP doesn't work reliably
when two lexers are built in parallel in the same directory. We can
probably fix that, but as a short-term workaround, just don't make
the check for psqlscanslash.l.
Per buildfarm.
This gets us to a point where psqlscan.l can be used by other frontend
programs for the same purpose psql uses it for, ie to detect when it's
collected a complete SQL command from input that is divided across
line boundaries. Moreover, other programs can supply their own lexers
for backslash commands of their own choosing. A follow-on patch will
use this in pgbench.
The end result here is roughly the same as in Kyotaro Horiguchi's
0001-Make-SQL-parser-part-of-psqlscan-independent-from-ps.patch, although
the details of the method for switching between lexers are quite different.
Basically, in this patch we share the entire PsqlScanState, YY_BUFFER_STATE
stack, *and* yyscan_t between different lexers. The only thing we need
to do to switch to a different lexer is to make sure the start_state is
valid for the new lexer. This works because flex doesn't keep any other
persistent state that depends on the specific lexing tables generated for
a particular .l file. (We are assuming that both lexers are built with
the same flex version, or at least versions that are compatible with
respect to the contents of yyscan_t; but that doesn't seem likely to
be a big problem in practice, considering how slowly flex changes.)
Aside from being more efficient than Horiguchi-san's original solution,
this avoids possible corner-case changes in semantics: the original code
was capable of popping the input buffer stack while still staying in
backslash-related parsing states. I'm not sure that that equates to any
useful user-visible behaviors, but I'm not sure it doesn't either, so
I'm loath to assume that we only need to consider the topmost buffer when
parsing a backslash command.
I've attempted to update the MSVC build scripts for the added .l file,
but will rely on the buildfarm to see if I missed anything.
Kyotaro Horiguchi and Tom Lane
Change psqlscan.l to specify '%option reentrant', adjust internal APIs
to match, and get rid of its internal static variables. While this is
good cleanup in an abstract sense, the reason to do it right now is that
it seems the only practical way to support use of separate flex lexers
with common PsqlScanState infrastructure. If we build two non-reentrant
lexers then we are going to have problems with dangling buffer pointers
in whichever lexer isn't active when we transition from one buffer to
another, as well as curious side-effects if we try to share any code
between the files. (Horiguchi-san had a different solution to that in his
pending patch, but I find it ugly and probably broken for corner cases.)
Depending on which version of flex you're using, this may result in getting
a "warning: unused variable 'yyg'" warning from psqlscan, similar to the
one you'd have seen for a long time in backend/parser/scan.l. I put a
local -Wno-error into CFLAGS for the file, for the convenience of those
who compile with -Werror.
Also, stop compiling psqlscan as part of mainloop.c, and make it a
standalone build target instead. This is a lot cleaner than before, though
it doesn't really change much in practice as of this commit. (I'm not sure
whether the MSVC build scripts will need some help with this part, but the
buildfarm will soon tell us.)
The distinction between "archive" and "hot_standby" existed only because
at the time "hot_standby" was added, there was some uncertainty about
stability. This is now a long time ago. We would like to move forward
with simplifying the replication configuration, but this distinction is
in the way, because a primary server cannot tell (without asking a
standby or predicting the future) which one of these would be the
appropriate level.
Pick a new name for the combined setting to make it clearer that it
covers all (non-logical) backup and replication uses. The old values
are still accepted but are converted internally.
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: David Steele <david@pgmasters.net>
Remove assorted external references from psqlscan.l in preparation for
making it usable by other frontend programs. This mostly involves
getting rid of direct calls to psql_error() and GetVariable() in favor
of introducing a callback-functions struct to encapsulate variable
fetching and error printing. In addition, pass the current encoding
and standard-strings status as additional parameters to psql_scan_setup
instead of looking directly at "pset" or calling additional functions.
I did not bother to change some references to psql_error that are in
functions that will soon migrate to a psql-specific backslash-command
lexer. Other than that, this version of psqlscan.l is capable of
compiling standalone. It still depends on assorted src/common functions
as well as some encoding-related libpq functions, but we expect that
all programs using it will be happy with those dependencies.
Kyotaro Horiguchi, somewhat editorialized on by me
This avoids a good number of, individually quite fast, system calls in
scenarios with many quick queries. Besides the aesthetic benefit of
seing fewer superflous system calls with strace, it also improves
performance by ~2% measured by pgbench -M prepared -c 96 -j 8 -S (scale
100).
Without having benchmarked it, this patch also adjust the windows code,
as that makes it easier to unify the unix/windows codepaths in a later
patch. There's little reason to diverge in behaviour between the
platforms.
Discussion: CA+TgmoYc1Zm+Szoc_Qbzi92z2c1vRHZmjhfPn5uC=w8bXv6Avg@mail.gmail.com
Reviewed-By: Robert Haas
This allows for easier testing of the different primitives; in
preparation for adding a new primitive.
Discussion: 20160114143931.GG10941@awork2.anarazel.de
Reviewed-By: Robert Haas
postgres_fdw can now sent an UPDATE or DELETE statement directly to
the foreign server in simple cases, rather than sending a SELECT FOR
UPDATE statement and then updating or deleting rows one-by-one.
Etsuro Fujita, reviewed by Rushabh Lathia, Shigeru Hanada, Kyotaro
Horiguchi, Albe Laurenz, Thom Brown, and me.
Random .h files have no business including postgres-fe.h (or postgres.h).
If that wasn't the first #include done by the calling .c file, it's the
.c file that's broken. Noted while prepping Kyotaro Horiguchi's psql
lexer refactoring patch.
This means that, for example, "SELECT expensive_func(a) FROM bigtab
WHERE something" can compute expensive_func(a) in the workers rather
than the leader if it happens to be parallel-safe, which figures to be
a big win in some practical cases.
Currently, we can only do this if the entire target list is
parallel-safe. If we worked harder, we might be able to evaluate
parallel-safe targets in the worker and any parallel-restricted
targets in the leader, but that would be more complicated, and there
aren't that many parallel-restricted functions that people are likely
to use in queries anyway. I think. So just do the simple thing for
the moment.
Robert Haas, Amit Kapila, and Tom Lane