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Peter Eisentraut 7d6a4fdf32 Fix some whitespace in documentation markup 2022-05-06 09:14:15 +02:00
Peter Eisentraut a6f12520be doc: Fix typos
introduced by 222b697ec0
2022-05-06 09:07:14 +02:00
Peter Eisentraut 826be1ffb2 doc: Add links to tables
Formal tables should generally have an xref in the text that points to
them.  Add them here.
2022-04-22 11:19:17 +02:00
Tom Lane 2cb1272445 Rethink method for assigning OIDs to the template0 and postgres DBs.
Commit aa0105141 assigned fixed OIDs to template0 and postgres
in a very ad-hoc way.  Notably, instead of teaching Catalog.pm
about these OIDs, the unused_oids script was just hacked to
not show them as unused.  That's problematic since, for example,
duplicate_oids wouldn't report any future conflict.  Hence,
invent a macro DECLARE_OID_DEFINING_MACRO() that can be used to
define an OID that is known to Catalog.pm and will participate
in duplicate-detection as well as renumbering by renumber_oids.pl.
(We don't anticipate renumbering these particular OIDs, but we
might as well build out all the Catalog.pm infrastructure while
we're here.)

Another issue is that aa0105141 neglected to touch IsPinnedObject,
with the result that it now claimed template0 and postgres are
pinned.  The right thing to do there seems to be to teach it that
no database is pinned, since in fact DROP DATABASE doesn't check
for pinned-ness (and at least for these cases, that is an
intentional choice).  It's not clear whether this wrong answer
had any visible effect, but perhaps it could have resulted in
erroneous management of dependency entries.

In passing, rename the TemplateDbOid macro to Template1DbOid
to reduce confusion (likely we should have done that way back
when we invented template0, but we didn't), and rename the
OID macros for template0 and postgres to have a similar style.

There are no changes to postgres.bki here, so no need for a
catversion bump.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2935358.1650479692@sss.pgh.pa.us
2022-04-21 16:23:15 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera 586955ddde
Standardize references to Zstandard as <productname>
Some places used ZSTD, which isn't widely used anywhere.  Use ZSTD only
to refer to the environment variable; use zstd (all lowercase) to refer
to the utility.

Per complaint from Justin Pryzby.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220414003301.GT26620@telsasoft.com
2022-04-21 19:12:21 +02:00
Alvaro Herrera bb85eec6fe
CREATE PUBLICATION ref: Minor tweaks to row filters
Prompted by a complaint from Justin Pryzby.

Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220414003301.GT26620@telsasoft.com
2022-04-21 19:01:36 +02:00
Robert Haas d2d3547979 Allow db.schema.table patterns, but complain about random garbage.
psql, pg_dump, and pg_amcheck share code to process object name
patterns like 'foo*.bar*' to match all tables with names starting in
'bar' that are in schemas starting with 'foo'. Before v14, any number
of extra name parts were silently ignored, so a command line '\d
foo.bar.baz.bletch.quux' was interpreted as '\d bletch.quux'.  In v14,
as a result of commit 2c8726c4b0, we
instead treated this as a request for table quux in a schema named
'foo.bar.baz.bletch'. That caused problems for people like Justin
Pryzby who were accustomed to copying strings of the form
db.schema.table from messages generated by PostgreSQL itself and using
them as arguments to \d.

Accordingly, revise things so that if an object name pattern contains
more parts than we're expecting, we throw an error, unless there's
exactly one extra part and it matches the current database name.
That way, thisdb.myschema.mytable is accepted as meaning just
myschema.mytable, but otherdb.myschema.mytable is an error, and so
is some.random.garbage.myschema.mytable.

Mark Dilger, per report from Justin Pryzby and discussion among
various people.

Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20211013165426.GD27491%40telsasoft.com
2022-04-20 11:37:29 -04:00
Tom Lane 836af9756b Remove trailing whitespace from *.sgml files.
Historically we've been lax about this, but seeing that we're not
lax in C files, there doesn't seem to be a good reason to be so
in the documentation.  Remove the existing occurrences (mostly
though not entirely in copied-n-pasted psql output), and modify
.gitattributes so that "git diff --check" will warn about future
cases.

While at it, add *.pm to the set of extensions .gitattributes
knows about, and remove some obsolete entries for files that
we don't have in the tree anymore.

Per followup discussion of commit 5a892c9b1.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/E1nfcV1-000kOR-E5@gemulon.postgresql.org
2022-04-20 11:04:49 -04:00
David Rowley 7bdd489d3d Doc: use "an SQL" consistently rather than "a SQL"
Similarly to what was done in 04539e73f, we standardized on SQL being
pronounced "es-que-ell" rather than "sequel" in our documentation.

Two inconsistencies have crept in during the v15 cycle.  The others
existed before but were missed in 04539e73f due to none of the searches
accounting for "SQL" being wrapped in tags.

As with 04539e73f, we don't touch code comments here in order to not
create unnecessary back-patching pain.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAApHDvpML27UqFXnrYO1MJddsKVMQoiZisPvsAGhKE_tsKXquw%40mail.gmail.com
2022-04-20 15:17:56 +12:00
Tatsuo Ishii a62bff74b1 Fix aggregate logging of pgbench.
Remove meaningless "failures" column from the aggregate logging. It
was just a sum of "serialization failures" and "deadlock failures".
Pointed out by Tom Lane. Patch reviewed by Fabien COELHO.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/4183048.1649536705%40sss.pgh.pa.us
2022-04-19 17:04:27 +09:00
Amit Kapila 676eeb6dd1 Add additional documentation for row filters.
Commit 52e4f0cd47 added a feature to allow specifying row filters for
logical replication of tables. This patch adds detailed documentation on
that feature including examples to make it easier for users to understand.

Author: Peter Smith, Euler Taveira
Reviewed By: Greg Nancarrow, Aleksander Alekseev, Amit Kapila, Ajin Cherian, Alvaro Herrera
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAHut+PtnsBr59=_NvxXp_=S-em0WxyuDOQmSTuHGb4sVhkHffg@mail.gmail.com
2022-04-18 08:42:37 +05:30
Peter Eisentraut 5a892c9b15 Fix some trailing whitespace in documentation files 2022-04-16 09:05:07 +02:00
Alvaro Herrera 275e719d91
Reword text on ROW SHARE lock as acquired by SELECT FOR <lock>
It was missing lock levels FOR KEY SHARE and FOR NO KEY EXCLUSIVE; but
also SELECT FOR UPDATE is not a command separate from SELECT, as the
original text implied.  It is clearer to state that FOR <lock strength>
is an option of regular SELECT.

Per suggestion from Joey Bodoia <jbodoia21@cmc.edu>

Reviewed-by: Joey Bodoia <jbodoia21@cmc.edu> (offlist)
Reviewed-by: Erikjan Rijkers <er@xs4all.nl>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/164908765512.682.17348032020747341013@wrigleys.postgresql.org
2022-04-14 21:52:20 +02:00
David Rowley ac8be0cb95 Docs: fix some spelling mistakes and also do some wordsmithing
All except one of these are new to v15.  Only one of the wordsmithing
changes appears in older versions. The wordsmithing improvement does not
seem significant enough to warrant backpatching.

Author: Justin Pryzby
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220411020336.GB26620@telsasoft.com
2022-04-14 09:16:05 +12:00
David Rowley a59746d311 Docs: wording improvement for compute_query_id = regress
It's more accurate to say that the query identifier is not shown when
compute_query_id = regress rather than to say it is hidden.

This change (ebf6c5249) appeared in v14, so it makes sense to backpatch
this small adjustment to keep the documents consistent between v14 and
master.

Author: Justin Pryzby
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220411020336.GB26620@telsasoft.com
Backpatch-through: 14, where compute_query_id = regress was added
2022-04-13 21:28:25 +12:00
David Rowley fdc18ea23b Docs: tidy up various usages of the productname tag
This tries to bring a bit more consistency to the use of the <productname>
tag in the documents.  This fixes a couple of mistakes with our own
product.  We definitely should be consistently calling that PostgreSQL
when we're referring to the modern-day version of the software.

This also tidies up a couple of inconsistencies with the case of other
product names, namely Emacs and Python.  We also get rid of some incorrect
usages of <productname> and replace them with <literal>.

Many of these mistakes exist in the back branches, but they don't quite
seem critical enough to warrant fixing them in prior versions at this
stage.

Author: Justin Pryzby
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220411020336.GB26620@telsasoft.com
2022-04-13 17:42:13 +12:00
Michael Paquier 042a923ad5 Rework compression options of pg_receivewal
Since babbbb5 and the introduction of LZ4 in pg_receivewal, the
compression of the WAL archived is controlled by two options:
- --compression-method with "gzip", "none" or "lz4" as possible value.
- --compress=N to specify a compression level.  This includes a
backward-incompatible change where a value of 0 leads to a failure
instead of no compression enforced.

This commit takes advantage of a4b5754 and 3603f7c to rework the
compression options of pg_receivewal, as of:
- The removal of --compression-method.
- The extenction of --compress to use the same grammar as pg_basebackup,
with a METHOD:DETAIL format, where a METHOD is "gzip", "none" or "lz4"
and a DETAIL is a comma-separated list of options, the only keyword
supported is now "level" to control the compression level.  If only an
integer is specified as value of this option, "none" is implied on 0
and "gzip" is implied otherwise.  This brings back --compress to be
backward-compatible with ~14, while still supporting LZ4.

This has also the advantage of centralizing the set of checks used by
pg_receivewal to validate its compression options.

Author: Michael Paquier
Reviewed-by: Robert Haas, Georgios Kokolatos
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/YlPQGNAAa04raObK@paquier.xyz
2022-04-13 11:09:51 +09:00
David Rowley d27323db7c Docs: adjust wording about basebackup_to_shell's required_role GUC
Author: Justin Pryzby
Reviewed-by: Robert Haas
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220411020336.GB26620@telsasoft.com
2022-04-13 12:01:23 +12:00
David Rowley 0f0b76b67a Docs: adjust pg_upgrade syntax to mark -B as optional
This was made optional in 959f6d6a1.

Author: Justin Pryzby
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220411020336.GB26620@telsasoft.com
Backpatch-through: 13, where -B was made optional
2022-04-13 11:18:54 +12:00
Tom Lane aa36e7dd38 Doc: tweak textsearch.sgml for SEO purposes.
Google seems to like to return textsearch.html for queries about
GIN and GiST indexes, even though it's not a primary reference
for either.  It seems likely that that's because those keywords
appear in the page title.  Since "GIN and GiST Index Types" is
not a very apposite title for this material anyway, rename the
section in hopes of stopping that.

Also provide explicit links to the GIN and GiST chapters, to help
anyone who finds their way to this page regardless.

Per gripe from Jan Piotrowski.  Back-patch to supported branches.
(Unfortunately Google is likely to continue returning the 9.1
version of this page, but improving that situation is a matter
for the www team.)

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/164978902252.1276550.9330175733459697101@wrigleys.postgresql.org
2022-04-12 18:21:04 -04:00
David Rowley 55ff3563d8 Docs: avoid confusing use of the word "synchronized"
It's misleading to call the data directory the "synchronized data
directory" when discussing a crash scenario when using pg_rewind's
--no-sync option.  Here we just remove the word "synchronized" to avoid
any possible confusion.

Author: Justin Pryzby
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220411020336.GB26620@telsasoft.com
Backpatch-through: 12, where --no-sync was added
2022-04-13 09:15:02 +12:00
Tom Lane d4f109e4a2 Doc: update description of random() function.
Commit 3804539e4 neglected to update the documentation's claim that
random() uses a "linear congruential algorithm".  In hopes of avoiding
the same mistake if someone replaces our PRNG again, just say it's a
deterministic pseudo-random number generator and leave it at that.
Anybody who really wants to know can look in the source code.

COMPATIBILITY NOTE FOR RELEASE NOTES: 3804539e4's commit message
really should have mentioned that the random() sequence after
setseed(), while still repeatable, will differ from what you got
in pre-v15 releases.

Noted by Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker; wording suggestion by Dean Rasheed.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/875ynfpiru.fsf@wibble.ilmari.org
2022-04-12 11:36:45 -04:00
Thomas Munro 4533de358d Fix documentation for pg_stat_recovery_prefetch.
The table was in the wrong section and using an older type of link, as
reported by Sirisha, and also using an older table layout, as I noticed
while trying to figure out how and when it might have got out of sync.

Defect in commit 5dc0418f.

Author: sirisha chamarthi <sirichamarthi22@gmail.com>
Author: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAKrAKeVk-LRHMdyT6x_p33eF6dCorM2jed5h_eHdRdv0reSYTA@mail.gmail.com
2022-04-12 21:21:06 +12:00
Amit Kapila aeebb8bf23 Fix grammatical errors and typos in logical replication docs.
Author: Justin Pryzby
Reviewed By: Masahiko Sawada
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220411020336.GB26620@telsasoft.com
2022-04-12 14:14:32 +05:30
Tom Lane 5e70d8b5d1 Tweak the default behavior of psql's \dconfig.
\dconfig without an argument originally printed all parameters,
but it seems more useful to print only those parameters with
non-default settings.  You can easily get the show-everything
behavior with "\dconfig *", but that output is unwieldy and
seems unlikely to be wanted very often.

Per suggestion from Christoph Berg.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/YlFQLzlPi4QD0wSi@msg.df7cb.de
2022-04-11 15:11:46 -04:00
Jeff Davis 8638c76cc9 Doc build fix: remove tab from filelist.sgml.
Author: Amit Kapila
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAA4eK1K6z=gu-jppU1dtsyr2BC-pzrq3TYe=RfY+w386dfdiFA@mail.gmail.com
2022-04-11 08:52:27 -07:00
Andrew Dunstan b46bcf7a4b Improve readability of SQL/JSON documentation.
Per review from Justin Pryzby.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/f50aca87-6b35-a1b0-2286-f815a589dd83@dunslane.net
2022-04-11 11:51:26 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut c215cc7b61 Add color support for new frontend detail/hint messages
As before, the defaults are similar to gcc's default appearance.
2022-04-11 17:36:44 +02:00
Robert Haas ad385a494f docs: Note the recovery_min_apply_delay bloats pg_wal.
Those WAL files that we're waiting to apply have to be stored
somewhere.

Thom Brown

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAA-aLv4SkJRK6GGcd0Axt8kt6_eWMEbtG7f8NJpFh+rNshtdNA@mail.gmail.com
2022-04-11 10:52:18 -04:00
David Rowley e0064f0ff6 Docs: Mention that relpersistence is for sequences now too
Per 344d62fb9.

Author: Justin Pryzby
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220411020336.GB26620@telsasoft.com
2022-04-11 20:50:20 +12:00
David Rowley bba3c35b29 Docs: Fix various mistakes and typos
Author: Justin Pryzby
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220411020336.GB26620@telsasoft.com
2022-04-11 20:48:48 +12:00
Michael Paquier 8ac700acff doc: Clarify behavior of query planner locking with REINDEX
The documentation of REINDEX has never mentioned that the query planner
may take an ACCESS SHARE lock on the indexes depending on the query
used.  This adds also a note about prepared queries not impacted when
they do not use the index(es) rebuilt.

Author: Frédéric Yhuel
Reviewed-by: Guillaume Lelarge, Justin Pryzby
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/65d08718-6f11-978a-4b5a-72b807d4c663@dalibo.com
2022-04-11 09:49:13 +09:00
Daniel Gustafsson cd959b1b06 Doc: fix typos in documentation
Commits 39969e2a1e and 5c279a6d35 accidentally included a typo each
in the user facing documentation.
2022-04-10 21:42:43 +02:00
Tom Lane b6b8824ee7 Doc: reformat descriptions of pgbench output formats.
This is mostly driven by trying to get rid of line-too-wide
warnings in PDF output; but I think converting to a <variablelist>
makes it more readable anyway.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/4183048.1649536705@sss.pgh.pa.us
2022-04-10 15:31:42 -04:00
Tom Lane 7b735f8b52 Doc: shorten JSON_SERIALIZE example to avoid a PDF build warning.
There's no particular reason why this example has to use a
3-element array rather than 2-element.  Shortening it makes
the result bytea narrow enough to not cause a margin overrun
in A4 format.
2022-04-09 15:09:38 -04:00
Magnus Hagander 57d6aea00f Add JIT counters to pg_stat_statements
This adds cumulative counters for jit operations to pg_stat_statements,
making it easier to diagnose how JIT is used in an installation.

These changes merge into the 1.10 changes applied in 76cbf7edb6 without
creating a new version.

Reviewed-By: Julien Rouhaud
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CABUevEySt4NTYqvWzwyAW_0-jG1bjN-y+tykapAnA0FALOs+Lw@mail.gmail.com
2022-04-08 13:52:16 +02:00
Jeff Davis 2258e76f90 Add contrib/pg_walinspect.
Provides similar functionality to pg_waldump, but from a SQL interface
rather than a separate utility.

Author: Bharath Rupireddy
Reviewed-by: Greg Stark, Kyotaro Horiguchi, Andres Freund, Ashutosh Sharma, Nitin Jadhav, RKN Sai Krishna
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CALj2ACUGUYXsEQdKhEdsBzhGEyF3xggvLdD8C0VT72TNEfOiog%40mail.gmail.com
2022-04-08 00:26:44 -07:00
Andres Freund b3abca6810 pgstat: Update docs to match the shared memory stats reality.
This includes removing documentation for stats_temp_directory, adding
documentation for stats_fetch_consistency, rephrasing references to the stats
collector and documenting that starting a cleanly shut down standby will not
remove stats anymore. The latter point might require further wordsmithing, it
wasn't easy to adjust some of the existing content.

Author: Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com>
Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reviewed-By: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
Reviewed-By: "David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Lukas Fittl <lukas@fittl.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220303021600.hs34ghqcw6zcokdh@alap3.anarazel.de
2022-04-07 21:35:35 -07:00
Michael Paquier 76cbf7edb6 pg_stat_statements: Track I/O timing for temporary file blocks
This commit adds two new columns to pg_stat_statements, called
temp_blk_read_time and temp_blk_write_time.  Those columns respectively
show the time spent to read and write temporary file blocks on disk,
whose tracking has been added in efb0ef9.  This information is
available when track_io_timing is enabled, like blk_read_time and
blk_write_time.

pg_stat_statements is updated to version to 1.10 as an effect of the
newly-added columns.  Tests for the upgrade path 1.9->1.10 are added.

PGSS_FILE_HEADER is bumped for the new stats file format.

Author: Masahiko Sawada
Reviewed-by: Georgios Kokolatos, Melanie Plageman, Julien Rouhaud,
Ranier Vilela
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAD21AoAJgotTeP83p6HiAGDhs_9Fw9pZ2J=_tYTsiO5Ob-V5GQ@mail.gmail.com
2022-04-08 13:12:07 +09:00
Andrew Dunstan a6baa4badd Documentation for SQL/JSON features
This documents the features added in commits f79b803dcc, f4fb45d15c,
33a377608f, 1a36bc9dba, 606948b058, 49082c2cc3, 4e34747c88, and
fadb48b00e.

I have cleaned up the aggregate section of the submitted docs, but there
is still a deal of copy editing required. However, I thought it best to
have some documentation sooner rather than later so testers can have a
better idea what they are playing with.

Nikita Glukhov

Reviewers have included (in no particular order) Andres Freund, Alexander
Korotkov, Pavel Stehule, Andrew Alsup, Erik Rijkers, Zhihong Yu,
Himanshu Upadhyaya, Daniel Gustafsson, Justin Pryzby.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/cd0bb935-0158-78a7-08b5-904886deac4b@postgrespro.ru
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/7e2cb85d-24cf-4abb-30a5-1a33715959bd@postgrespro.ru
2022-04-07 23:46:03 -04:00
Michael Paquier efb0ef909f Track I/O timing for temporary file blocks in EXPLAIN (BUFFERS)
Previously, the output of EXPLAIN (BUFFERS) option showed only the I/O
timing spent reading and writing shared and local buffers.  This commit
adds on top of that the I/O timing for temporary buffers in the output
of EXPLAIN (for spilled external sorts, hashes, materialization. etc).
This can be helpful for users in cases where the I/O related to
temporary buffers is the bottleneck.

Like its cousin, this information is available only when track_io_timing
is enabled.  Playing the patch, this is showing an extra overhead of up
to 1% even when using gettimeofday() as implementation for interval
timings, which is slightly within the usual range noise still that's
measurable.

Author: Masahiko Sawada
Reviewed-by: Georgios Kokolatos, Melanie Plageman, Julien Rouhaud,
Ranier Vilela
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAD21AoAJgotTeP83p6HiAGDhs_9Fw9pZ2J=_tYTsiO5Ob-V5GQ@mail.gmail.com
2022-04-08 11:27:21 +09:00
Thomas Munro dafae9707a Fix recovery_prefetch docs.
Correct a typo and a couple of sentences that weren't updated to reflect
recent changes to the code.

Reported-by: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220407125555.GC24419%40telsasoft.com
2022-04-08 13:43:37 +12:00
Tom Lane 3e707fbb40 psql: add \dconfig command to show server's configuration parameters.
Plain \dconfig is basically equivalent to SHOW except that you can
give it a pattern with wildcards, either to match multiple GUCs or
because you don't exactly remember the name you want.

\dconfig+ adds type, context, and access-privilege information,
mainly because every other kind of object privilege has a psql command
to show it, so GUC privileges should too.  (A form of this command was
in some versions of the patch series leading up to commit a0ffa885e.
We pulled it out then because of doubts that the design and code were
up to snuff, but I think subsequent work has resolved that.)

In passing, fix incorrect completion of GUC names in GRANT/REVOKE
ON PARAMETER: a0ffa885e neglected to use the VERBATIM form of
COMPLETE_WITH_QUERY, so it misbehaved for custom (qualified) GUC
names.

Mark Dilger and Tom Lane

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3118455.1649267333@sss.pgh.pa.us
2022-04-07 17:09:51 -04:00
Tomas Vondra 2c7ea57e56 Revert "Logical decoding of sequences"
This reverts a sequence of commits, implementing features related to
logical decoding and replication of sequences:

 - 0da92dc530
 - 80901b3291
 - b779d7d8fd
 - d5ed9da41d
 - a180c2b34d
 - 75b1521dae
 - 2d2232933b
 - 002c9dd97a
 - 05843b1aa4

The implementation has issues, mostly due to combining transactional and
non-transactional behavior of sequences. It's not clear how this could
be fixed, but it'll require reworking significant part of the patch.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/95345a19-d508-63d1-860a-f5c2f41e8d40@enterprisedb.com
2022-04-07 20:06:36 +02:00
Peter Eisentraut d7ab2a9a3c doc: Fix man page whitespace issues
Whitespace between tags is significant, and in some cases it creates
extra vertical space in man pages.  The fix is to remove some newlines
in the markup.
2022-04-07 18:25:12 +02:00
Peter Eisentraut 344d62fb9a Unlogged sequences
Add support for unlogged sequences.  Unlike for unlogged tables, this
is not a performance feature.  It allows sequences associated with
unlogged tables to be excluded from replication.

A new subcommand ALTER SEQUENCE ... SET LOGGED/UNLOGGED is added.

An identity/serial sequence now automatically gets and follows the
persistence level (logged/unlogged) of its owning table.  (The
sequences owned by temporary tables were already temporary through the
separate mechanism in RangeVarAdjustRelationPersistence().)  But you
can still change the persistence of an owned sequence separately.
Also, pg_dump and pg_upgrade preserve the persistence of existing
sequences.

Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/04e12818-2f98-257c-b926-2845d74ed04f%402ndquadrant.com
2022-04-07 16:18:00 +02:00
Peter Eisentraut d772b18d44 Avoid <substeps> element in man pages
The upstream DocBook manpages stylesheet apparently does not handle
the <substeps> element at all, and so the content comes out
unformatted, which is not useful.

As a workaround, replace <substeps> with a nested <procedure>, which
ends up effectively the same in output.
2022-04-07 13:45:25 +02:00
Thomas Munro 5dc0418fab Prefetch data referenced by the WAL, take II.
Introduce a new GUC recovery_prefetch.  When enabled, look ahead in the
WAL and try to initiate asynchronous reading of referenced data blocks
that are not yet cached in our buffer pool.  For now, this is done with
posix_fadvise(), which has several caveats.  Since not all OSes have
that system call, "try" is provided so that it can be enabled where
available.  Better mechanisms for asynchronous I/O are possible in later
work.

Set to "try" for now for test coverage.  Default setting to be finalized
before release.

The GUC wal_decode_buffer_size limits the distance we can look ahead in
bytes of decoded data.

The existing GUC maintenance_io_concurrency is used to limit the number
of concurrent I/Os allowed, based on pessimistic heuristics used to
infer that I/Os have begun and completed.  We'll also not look more than
maintenance_io_concurrency * 4 block references ahead.

Reviewed-by: Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@2ndquadrant.com>
Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> (earlier version)
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> (earlier version)
Reviewed-by: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com> (earlier version)
Tested-by: Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@2ndquadrant.com> (earlier version)
Tested-by: Jakub Wartak <Jakub.Wartak@tomtom.com> (earlier version)
Tested-by: Dmitry Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com> (earlier version)
Tested-by: Sait Talha Nisanci <Sait.Nisanci@microsoft.com> (earlier version)
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKGJ4VJN8ttxScUFM8dOKX0BrBiboo5uz1cq%3DAovOddfHpA%40mail.gmail.com
2022-04-07 19:42:14 +12:00
Jeff Davis 5c279a6d35 Custom WAL Resource Managers.
Allow extensions to specify a new custom resource manager (rmgr),
which allows specialized WAL. This is meant to be used by a Table
Access Method or Index Access Method.

Prior to this commit, only Generic WAL was available, which offers
support for recovery and physical replication but not logical
replication.

Reviewed-by: Julien Rouhaud, Bharath Rupireddy, Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ed1fb2e22d15d3563ae0eb610f7b61bb15999c0a.camel%40j-davis.com
2022-04-06 23:06:46 -07:00
Andres Freund 5891c7a8ed pgstat: store statistics in shared memory.
Previously the statistics collector received statistics updates via UDP and
shared statistics data by writing them out to temporary files regularly. These
files can reach tens of megabytes and are written out up to twice a
second. This has repeatedly prevented us from adding additional useful
statistics.

Now statistics are stored in shared memory. Statistics for variable-numbered
objects are stored in a dshash hashtable (backed by dynamic shared
memory). Fixed-numbered stats are stored in plain shared memory.

The header for pgstat.c contains an overview of the architecture.

The stats collector is not needed anymore, remove it.

By utilizing the transactional statistics drop infrastructure introduced in a
prior commit statistics entries cannot "leak" anymore. Previously leaked
statistics were dropped by pgstat_vacuum_stat(), called from [auto-]vacuum. On
systems with many small relations pgstat_vacuum_stat() could be quite
expensive.

Now that replicas drop statistics entries for dropped objects, it is not
necessary anymore to reset stats when starting from a cleanly shut down
replica.

Subsequent commits will perform some further code cleanup, adapt docs and add
tests.

Bumps PGSTAT_FILE_FORMAT_ID.

Author: Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com>
Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Author: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reviewed-By: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
Reviewed-By: "David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@2ndquadrant.com> (in a much earlier version)
Reviewed-By: Arthur Zakirov <a.zakirov@postgrespro.ru> (in a much earlier version)
Reviewed-By: Antonin Houska <ah@cybertec.at> (in a much earlier version)
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220303021600.hs34ghqcw6zcokdh@alap3.anarazel.de
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220308205351.2xcn6k4x5yivcxyd@alap3.anarazel.de
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210319235115.y3wz7hpnnrshdyv6@alap3.anarazel.de
2022-04-06 21:29:46 -07:00