libpq failed to ignore Windows-style newlines in connection service files.
This normally wasn't a problem on Windows itself, because fgets() would
convert \r\n to just \n. But if libpq were running inside a program that
changes the default fopen mode to binary, it would see the \r's and think
they were data. In any case, it's project policy to ignore \r in text
files unconditionally, because people sometimes try to use files with
DOS-style newlines on Unix machines, where the C library won't hide that
from us.
Hence, adjust parseServiceFile() to ignore \r as well as \n at the end of
the line. In HEAD, go a little further and make it ignore all trailing
whitespace, to match what it's always done with leading whitespace.
In HEAD, also run around and fix up everyplace where we have
newline-chomping code to make all those places look consistent and
uniformly drop \r. It is not clear whether any of those changes are
fixing live bugs. Most of the non-cosmetic changes are in places that
are reading popen output, and the jury is still out as to whether popen
on Windows can return \r\n. (The Windows-specific code in pipe_read_line
seems to think so, but our lack of support for this elsewhere suggests
maybe it's not a problem in practice.) Hence, I desisted from applying
those changes to back branches, except in run_ssl_passphrase_command()
which is new enough and little-tested enough that we'd probably not have
heard about any problems there.
Tom Lane and Michael Paquier, per bug #15827 from Jorge Gustavo Rocha.
Back-patch the parseServiceFile() change to all supported branches,
and the run_ssl_passphrase_command() change to v11 where that was added.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/15827-e6ba53a3a7ed543c@postgresql.org
describeOneTableDetails issued a partition-constraint-fetching query
for every table, even ones it knows perfectly well are not partitions.
To add insult to injury, it then proceeded to leak the empty PGresult
if the table wasn't a partition. Doing that a lot of times might
amount to a meaningful leak, so this seems like a back-patchable bug.
Fix that, and also fix a related PGresult leak in the partition-parent
case (though that leak would occur only if we got no row, which is
unexpected).
Minor code beautification too, to make this code look more like the
pre-existing code around it.
Back-patch the whole change into v12. However, the fact that we already
know whether the table is a partition dates only to commit 1af25ca0c;
back-patching the relevant changes from that is probably more churn
than is justified in released branches. Hence, in v11 and v10, just
do the minimum to fix the PGresult leaks.
Noted while messing around with adjacent code for yesterday's \d
improvements.
Include partitioning information much as we do for partitioned tables.
(However, \d+ doesn't show the partition bounds, because those are
not stored for indexes.)
In passing, fix a couple of queries to look less messy in -E output.
Also, add some tests for \d on tables with nondefault tablespaces.
(Somebody previously added a rather silly number of tests for \d
on partitioned indexes, yet completely neglected other cases.)
Justin Pryzby, reviewed by Fabien Coelho
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20190422154902.GH14223@telsasoft.com
Add the name of the owning table to the footers for a TOAST table.
Also, show all the same footers as for a regular table (in practice,
this adds the index and perhaps the tablespace and access method).
Justin Pryzby, reviewed by Fabien Coelho
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20190422154902.GH14223@telsasoft.com
In normal interactive mode, psql's log messages accidentally got a
"psql:" prefix that was not supposed to be there. This only happened
if there was no .psqlrc file being read, so it wasn't discovered for a
while. Fix this by adding the appropriate logging format
configuration call in the right code path.
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/7586.1560540361@sss.pgh.pa.us
This is like \echo except that the text is sent to stderr not stdout.
In passing, fix a pre-existing bug in \echo and \qecho: per documentation
the -n switch should only be recognized when it is the first argument,
but actually any argument matching "-n" was treated as a switch.
(Should we back-patch that?)
David Fetter (bug fix by me), reviewed by Fabien Coelho
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20190421183115.GA4311@fetter.org
This changes various places where appendPQExpBuffer was used in places
where it was possible to use appendPQExpBufferStr, and likewise for
appendStringInfo and appendStringInfoString. This is really just a
stylistic improvement, but there are also small performance gains to be
had from doing this.
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAKJS1f9P=M-3ULmPvr8iCno8yvfDViHibJjpriHU8+SXUgeZ=w@mail.gmail.com
In verbose mode, listTables() now emits a "Persistence" column
showing whether the table/index/view/etc is permanent, temporary,
or unlogged.
David Fetter, reviewed by Fabien Coelho and Rafia Sabih
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20190423005642.GZ28936@fetter.org
Commit 4f3b38fe2 supposed that complete_from_const() is equivalent to
the one-element-list case of complete_from_list(), but that's not
really true at all. complete_from_const() supposes that the completion
is certain enough to justify wiping out whatever the user typed, while
complete_from_list() will only provide completions that match the
word-so-far.
In practice, given the lame parsing technology used by tab-complete.c,
it's fairly hard to believe that we're *ever* certain enough about
a completion to justify auto-correcting user input that doesn't match.
Hence, remove the inappropriate unification of the two cases.
As things now stand, complete_from_const() is used only for the
situation where we have no matches and we need to keep readline
from applying its default complete-with-file-names behavior.
This (mis?) behavior actually exists much further back, but
I'm hesitant to change it in released branches. It's not too
late for v12, though, especially seeing that the aforesaid
commit is new in v12.
Per gripe from Ken Tanzer.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAD3a31XpXzrZA9TT3BqLSHghdTK+=cXjNCE+oL2Zn4+oWoc=qA@mail.gmail.com
Don't think that the context "UPDATE tab SET var =" is a GUC-setting
command.
If we have "SET var =" but the "var" is not a known GUC variable,
don't offer any completions. The most likely explanation is that
we've misparsed the context and it's not really a GUC-setting command.
Per gripe from Ken Tanzer. Back-patch to 9.6. The issue exists
further back, but before 9.6 the code looks very different and it
doesn't actually know whether the "var" name matches anything,
so I desisted from trying to fix it.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAD3a31XpXzrZA9TT3BqLSHghdTK+=cXjNCE+oL2Zn4+oWoc=qA@mail.gmail.com
The previous rule was "primary key (if any) first, then other unique
indexes in name order, then all other indexes in name order".
But the preference for unique indexes seems a bit obsolete since the
introduction of exclusion constraints. It's no longer the case
that unique indexes are the only ones that constrain what data can
be in the table, and it's hard to see what other rationale there is
for separating out unique indexes. Other new features like the
possibility for some indexes to be INVALID (hence, not constraining
anything) make this even shakier.
Hence, simplify the sort order to be "primary key (if any) first,
then all other indexes in name order".
No documentation change, since this was never documented anyway.
A couple of existing regression test cases change output, though.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/14422.1561474929@sss.pgh.pa.us
a96c41f has introduced the option for heap, but it still lacked the
variant to control the behavior for toast relations.
While on it, refactor the tests so as they stress more scenarios with
the various values that vacuum_index_cleanup can use. It would be
useful to couple those tests with pageinspect to check that pages are
actually cleaned up, but this is left for later.
Author: Masahiko Sawada, Michael Paquier
Reviewed-by: Peter Geoghegan
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAD21AoCqs8iN04RX=i1KtLSaX5RrTEM04b7NHYps4+rqtpWNEg@mail.gmail.com
Fixes some problems introduced by 6e5f8d489acc:
* When reusing conninfo data from the previous connection in \connect,
the host address should only be reused if it was specified as
hostaddr; if it wasn't, then 'host' is resolved afresh. We were
reusing the same IP address, which ignores a possible DNS change
as well as any other addresses that the name resolves to than the
one that was used in the original connection.
* PQhost, PQhostaddr: Don't present user-specified hostaddr when we have
an inet_net_ntop-produced equivalent address. The latter has been
put in canonical format, which is cleaner (so it produces "127.0.0.1"
when given "host=2130706433", for example).
* Document the hostaddr-reusing aspect of \connect.
* Fix some code comments
Author: Fabien Coelho
Reported-by: Noah Misch
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20190527203713.GA58392@gust.leadboat.com
The following issues have been spotted:
- CREATE INDEX .. USING suggests both index and table AMs, but it should
consider only index AMs.
- CREATE TABLE .. USING has no completion support. USING was not being
included in the completion list where it should, and follow-up
suggestions for table AMs have been missing as well.
- CREATE ACCESS METHOD .. TYPE suggests only INDEX, with TABLE missing.
Author: Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20190601191007.GC1905@paquier.xyz
We have a longstanding project convention that all .h files should
be includable with no prerequisites other than postgres.h. This is
tested/relied-on by cpluspluscheck. However, cpluspluscheck has not
historically been applied to most headers outside the src/include
tree, with the predictable consequence that some of them don't work.
Fix that, usually by adding missing #include dependencies.
The change in printf_hack.h might require some explanation: without
it, my C++ compiler whines that the function is unused. There's
not so many call sites that "inline" is going to cost much, and
besides all the callers are in test code that we really don't care
about the size of.
There's no actual bugs being fixed here, so I see no need to back-patch.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/b517ec3918d645eb950505eac8dd434e@gaz-is.ru
This is still using the 2.0 version of pg_bsd_indent.
I thought it would be good to commit this separately,
so as to document the differences between 2.0 and 2.1 behavior.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16296.1558103386@sss.pgh.pa.us
Commit 41b54ba78e allowed not only VACUUM but also ANALYZE options
to take a boolean argument. But it forgot to update the documentation
for ANALYZE. This commit adds the descriptions about those ANALYZE
boolean options into the documentation.
This patch also updates tab-completion for ANALYZE boolean options.
Reported-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi
Author: Fujii Masao
Reviewed-by: Masahiko Sawada, Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAHGQGwHTUt-kuwgiwe8f0AvTnB+ySqJWh95jvmh-qcoKW9YA9g@mail.gmail.com
The original placement of this module in src/fe_utils/ is ill-considered,
because several src/common/ modules have dependencies on it, meaning that
libpgcommon and libpgfeutils now have mutual dependencies. That makes it
pointless to have distinct libraries at all. The intended design is that
libpgcommon is lower-level than libpgfeutils, so only dependencies from
the latter to the former are acceptable.
We already have the precedent that fe_memutils and a couple of other
modules in src/common/ are frontend-only, so it's not stretching anything
out of whack to treat logging.c as a frontend-only module in src/common/.
To the extent that such modules help provide a common frontend/backend
environment for the rest of common/ to use, it's a reasonable design.
(logging.c does not yet provide an ereport() emulation, but one can
dream.)
Hence, move these files over, and revert basically all of the build-system
changes made by commit cc8d41511. There are no places that need to grow
new dependencies on libpgcommon, further reinforcing the idea that this
is the right solution.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a912ffff-f6e4-778a-c86a-cf5c47a12933@2ndquadrant.com
This commit adds new parameter to VACUUM command, TRUNCATE,
which specifies that VACUUM should attempt to truncate off
any empty pages at the end of the table and allow the disk space
for the truncated pages to be returned to the operating system.
This parameter, if specified, overrides the vacuum_truncate
reloption. If neither the reloption nor the VACUUM option is
used, the default is true, as before.
Author: Fujii Masao
Reviewed-by: Julien Rouhaud, Masahiko Sawada
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAD21AoD+qtrSDL=GSma4Wd3kLYLeRC0hPna-YAdkDeV4z156vg@mail.gmail.com
Like the backend, the frontend has wrappers on top of malloc() and such
whose use is recommended. Particularly, it is possible to do memory
allocation without issuing an error. Some binaries missed the use of
those wrappers, so let's fix the gap for consistency.
This also fixes two latent bugs:
- In pg_dump/pg_dumpall when parsing an ACL item, on an out-of-memory
error for strdup(), the code considered the failure as a ACL parsing
problem instead of an actual OOM.
- In pg_waldump, an OOM when building the target directory string would
cause a crash.
Author: Daniel Gustafsson
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/gY0y9xenfoBPc-Tufsr2Zg-MmkrJslm0Tw_CMg4p_j58-k_PXNC0klMdkKQkg61BkXC9_uWo-DcUzfxnHqpkpoR5jjVZrPHqKYikcHIiONhg=@yesql.se
* Remove one unnecessary pg_class join in SQL command. Not needed,
because we use a regclass cast instead.
* Doc: refer to "partitioned relations" rather than specifically tables,
since indexes are also displayed.
* Rename "On table" column to "Table", for consistency with \di.
Author: Justin Pryzby
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20190407212525.GB10080@telsasoft.com
vacuum_truncate controls whether vacuum tries to truncate off
any empty pages at the end of the table. Previously vacuum always
tried to do the truncation. However, the truncation could cause
some problems; for example, ACCESS EXCLUSIVE lock needs to
be taken on the table during the truncation and can cause
the query cancellation on the standby even if hot_standby_feedback
is true. Setting this reloption to false can be helpful to avoid
such problems.
Author: Tsunakawa Takayuki
Reviewed-By: Julien Rouhaud, Masahiko Sawada, Michael Paquier, Kirk Jamison and Fujii Masao
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAHGQGwE5UqFqSq1=kV3QtTUtXphTdyHA-8rAj4A=Y+e4kyp3BQ@mail.gmail.com
The new command lists partitioned relations (tables and/or indexes),
possibly with their sizes, possibly including partitioned partitions;
their parents (if not top-level); if indexes show the tables they belong
to; and their descriptions.
While there are various possible improvements to this, having it in this
form is already a great improvement over not having any way to obtain
this report.
Author: Pavel Stěhule, with help from Mathias Brossard, Amit Langote and
Justin Pryzby.
Reviewed-by: Amit Langote, Mathias Brossard, Melanie Plageman,
Michaël Paquier, Álvaro Herrera
This is intended for use mostly in test scripts for external tools,
which could do without cross-PG-version variations in error message
wording. Of course, the SQLSTATE isn't guaranteed stable either, but
it should be more so than the error message text.
Note: there's a bit of an ABI change for libpq here, but it seems
OK because if somebody compiles against a newer version of libpq-fe.h,
and then tries to pass PQERRORS_SQLSTATE to PQsetErrorVerbosity()
of an older libpq library, it will be accepted and then act like
PQERRORS_DEFAULT, thanks to the way the tests in pqBuildErrorMessage3
have historically been phrased. That seems acceptable.
Didier Gautheron, reviewed by Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAJRYxuKyj4zA+JGVrtx8OWAuBfE-_wN4sUMK4H49EuPed=mOBw@mail.gmail.com
This commit adds a new reloption, vacuum_index_cleanup, which
controls whether index cleanup is performed for a particular
relation by default. It also adds a new option to the VACUUM
command, INDEX_CLEANUP, which can be used to override the
reloption. If neither the reloption nor the VACUUM option is
used, the default is true, as before.
Masahiko Sawada, reviewed and tested by Nathan Bossart, Alvaro
Herrera, Kyotaro Horiguchi, Darafei Praliaskouski, and me.
The wording of the documentation is mostly due to me.
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAD21AoAt5R3DNUZSjOoXDUY=naYPUOuffVsRzuTYMz29yLzQCA@mail.gmail.com
On both the frontend and backend, prepare for GSSAPI encryption
support by moving common code for error handling into a separate file.
Fix a TODO for handling multiple status messages in the process.
Eliminate the OIDs, which have not been needed for some time.
Add frontend and backend encryption support functions. Keep the
context initiation for authentication-only separate on both the
frontend and backend in order to avoid concerns about changing the
requested flags to include encryption support.
In postmaster, pull GSSAPI authorization checking into a shared
function. Also share the initiator name between the encryption and
non-encryption codepaths.
For HBA, add "hostgssenc" and "hostnogssenc" entries that behave
similarly to their SSL counterparts. "hostgssenc" requires either
"gss", "trust", or "reject" for its authentication.
Similarly, add a "gssencmode" parameter to libpq. Supported values are
"disable", "require", and "prefer". Notably, negotiation will only be
attempted if credentials can be acquired. Move credential acquisition
into its own function to support this behavior.
Add a simple pg_stat_gssapi view similar to pg_stat_ssl, for monitoring
if GSSAPI authentication was used, what principal was used, and if
encryption is being used on the connection.
Finally, add documentation for everything new, and update existing
documentation on connection security.
Thanks to Michael Paquier for the Windows fixes.
Author: Robbie Harwood, with changes to the read/write functions by me.
Reviewed in various forms and at different times by: Michael Paquier,
Andres Freund, David Steele.
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/jlg1tgq1ktm.fsf@thriss.redhat.com
Previously, while primary keys could be made on partitioned tables, it
was not possible to define foreign keys that reference those primary
keys. Now it is possible to do that.
Author: Álvaro Herrera
Reviewed-by: Amit Langote, Jesper Pedersen
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20181102234158.735b3fevta63msbj@alvherre.pgsql
This unifies the various ad hoc logging (message printing, error
printing) systems used throughout the command-line programs.
Features:
- Program name is automatically prefixed.
- Message string does not end with newline. This removes a common
source of inconsistencies and omissions.
- Additionally, a final newline is automatically stripped, simplifying
use of PQerrorMessage() etc., another common source of mistakes.
- I converted error message strings to use %m where possible.
- As a result of the above several points, more translatable message
strings can be shared between different components and between
frontends and backend, without gratuitous punctuation or whitespace
differences.
- There is support for setting a "log level". This is not meant to be
user-facing, but can be used internally to implement debug or
verbose modes.
- Lazy argument evaluation, so no significant overhead if logging at
some level is disabled.
- Some color in the messages, similar to gcc and clang. Set
PG_COLOR=auto to try it out. Some colors are predefined, but can be
customized by setting PG_COLORS.
- Common files (common/, fe_utils/, etc.) can handle logging much more
simply by just using one API without worrying too much about the
context of the calling program, requiring callbacks, or having to
pass "progname" around everywhere.
- Some programs called setvbuf() to make sure that stderr is
unbuffered, even on Windows. But not all programs did that. This
is now done centrally.
Soft goals:
- Reduces vertical space use and visual complexity of error reporting
in the source code.
- Encourages more deliberate classification of messages. For example,
in some cases it wasn't clear without analyzing the surrounding code
whether a message was meant as an error or just an info.
- Concepts and terms are vaguely aligned with popular logging
frameworks such as log4j and Python logging.
This is all just about printing stuff out. Nothing affects program
flow (e.g., fatal exits). The uses are just too varied to do that.
Some existing code had wrappers that do some kind of print-and-exit,
and I adapted those.
I tried to keep the output mostly the same, but there is a lot of
historical baggage to unwind and special cases to consider, and I
might not always have succeeded. One significant change is that
pg_rewind used to write all error messages to stdout. That is now
changed to stderr.
Reviewed-by: Donald Dong <xdong@csumb.edu>
Reviewed-by: Arthur Zakirov <a.zakirov@postgrespro.ru>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/6a609b43-4f57-7348-6480-bd022f924310@2ndquadrant.com
This is an SQL-standard feature that allows creating columns that are
computed from expressions rather than assigned, similar to a view or
materialized view but on a column basis.
This implements one kind of generated column: stored (computed on
write). Another kind, virtual (computed on read), is planned for the
future, and some room is left for it.
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Reviewed-by: Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/b151f851-4019-bdb1-699e-ebab07d2f40a@2ndquadrant.com
This adds the CONCURRENTLY option to the REINDEX command. A REINDEX
CONCURRENTLY on a specific index creates a new index (like CREATE
INDEX CONCURRENTLY), then renames the old index away and the new index
in place and adjusts the dependencies, and then drops the old
index (like DROP INDEX CONCURRENTLY). The REINDEX command also has
the capability to run its other variants (TABLE, DATABASE) with the
CONCURRENTLY option (but not SYSTEM).
The reindexdb command gets the --concurrently option.
Author: Michael Paquier, Andreas Karlsson, Peter Eisentraut
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund, Fujii Masao, Jim Nasby, Sergei Kornilov
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/60052986-956b-4478-45ed-8bd119e9b9cf%402ndquadrant.com#74948a1044c56c5e817a5050f554ddee
Introduce a third extended statistic type, supported by the CREATE
STATISTICS command - MCV lists, a generalization of the statistic
already built and used for individual columns.
Compared to the already supported types (n-distinct coefficients and
functional dependencies), MCV lists are more complex, include column
values and allow estimation of much wider range of common clauses
(equality and inequality conditions, IS NULL, IS NOT NULL etc.).
Similarly to the other types, a new pseudo-type (pg_mcv_list) is used.
Author: Tomas Vondra
Reviewed-by: Dean Rasheed, David Rowley, Mark Dilger, Alvaro Herrera
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/dfdac334-9cf2-2597-fb27-f0fb3753f435@2ndquadrant.com
When used on a partition containing foreign keys coming from one of its
ancestors, \d would (rather unhelpfully) print the details about the
pg_constraint row in the partition. This becomes a bit frustrating when
the user tries things like dropping the FK in the partition; instead,
show the details for the foreign key on the table where it is defined.
Also, when a table is referenced by a foreign key on a partitioned
table, we would show multiple "Referenced by" lines, one for each
partition, which gets unwieldy pretty fast. Modify that so that it
shows only one line for the ancestor partitioned table where the FK is
defined.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20181204143834.ym6euxxxi5aeqdpn@alvherre.pgsql
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane, Amit Langote, Peter Eisentraut
Add command variants COMMIT AND CHAIN and ROLLBACK AND CHAIN, which
start new transactions with the same transaction characteristics as the
just finished one, per SQL standard.
Support for transaction chaining in PL/pgSQL is also added. This
functionality is especially useful when running COMMIT in a loop in
PL/pgSQL.
Reviewed-by: Fabien COELHO <coelho@cri.ensmp.fr>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/28536681-324b-10dc-ade8-ab46f7645a5a@2ndquadrant.com
This adds a flag "deterministic" to collations. If that is false,
such a collation disables various optimizations that assume that
strings are equal only if they are byte-wise equal. That then allows
use cases such as case-insensitive or accent-insensitive comparisons
or handling of strings with different Unicode normal forms.
This functionality is only supported with the ICU provider. At least
glibc doesn't appear to have any locales that work in a
nondeterministic way, so it's not worth supporting this for the libc
provider.
The term "deterministic comparison" in this context is from Unicode
Technical Standard #10
(https://unicode.org/reports/tr10/#Deterministic_Comparison).
This patch makes changes in three areas:
- CREATE COLLATION DDL changes and system catalog changes to support
this new flag.
- Many executor nodes and auxiliary code are extended to track
collations. Previously, this code would just throw away collation
information, because the eventually-called user-defined functions
didn't use it since they only cared about equality, which didn't
need collation information.
- String data type functions that do equality comparisons and hashing
are changed to take the (non-)deterministic flag into account. For
comparison, this just means skipping various shortcuts and tie
breakers that use byte-wise comparison. For hashing, we first need
to convert the input string to a canonical "sort key" using the ICU
analogue of strxfrm().
Reviewed-by: Daniel Verite <daniel@manitou-mail.org>
Reviewed-by: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/1ccc668f-4cbc-0bef-af67-450b47cdfee7@2ndquadrant.com
This introduces the concept of table access methods, i.e. CREATE
ACCESS METHOD ... TYPE TABLE and
CREATE TABLE ... USING (storage-engine).
No table access functionality is delegated to table AMs as of this
commit, that'll be done in following commits.
Subsequent commits will incrementally abstract table access
functionality to be routed through table access methods. That change
is too large to be reviewed & committed at once, so it'll be done
incrementally.
Docs will be updated at the end, as adding them incrementally would
likely make them less coherent, and definitely is a lot more work,
without a lot of benefit.
Table access methods are specified similar to index access methods,
i.e. pg_am.amhandler returns, as INTERNAL, a pointer to a struct with
callbacks. In contrast to index AMs that struct needs to live as long
as a backend, typically that's achieved by just returning a pointer to
a constant struct.
Psql's \d+ now displays a table's access method. That can be disabled
with HIDE_TABLEAM=true, which is mainly useful so regression tests can
be run against different AMs. It's quite possible that this behaviour
still needs to be fine tuned.
For now it's not allowed to set a table AM for a partitioned table, as
we've not resolved how partitions would inherit that. Disallowing
allows us to introduce, if we decide that's the way forward, such a
behaviour without a compatibility break.
Catversion bumped, to add the heap table AM and references to it.
Author: Haribabu Kommi, Andres Freund, Alvaro Herrera, Dimitri Golgov and others
Discussion:
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