1. Backends waiting for buffer I/O are now interruptible.
2. If something goes wrong in a backend that is currently performing
I/O, waiting backends no longer wake up until that backend reaches
AbortBufferIO() and broadcasts on the CV. Previously, any waiters would
wake up (because the I/O lock was automatically released) and then
busy-loop until AbortBufferIO() cleared BM_IO_IN_PROGRESS.
3. LWLockMinimallyPadded is removed, as it would now be unused.
Author: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> (earlier version, 2016)
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKGJ8nBFrjLuCTuqKN0pd2PQOwj9b_jnsiGFFMDvUxahj_A%40mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+Tgmoaj2aPti0yho7FeEf2qt-JgQPRWb0gci_o1Hfr=C56Xng@mail.gmail.com
When a foreign key constraint is applied to a partitioned table, each
leaf partition inherits a similar FK constraint. We were processing all
of those constraints independently, meaning that in large partitioning
trees we'd build up large collections of cached FK-checking query plans.
However, in all cases but one, the generated queries are actually
identical for all members of the inheritance tree (because, in most
cases, the query only mentions the topmost table of the other side of
the FK relationship). So we can share a single cached plan among all
the partitions, saving memory, not to mention time to build and maintain
the cached plans.
Keisuke Kuroda and Amit Langote
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/cab4b85d-9292-967d-adf2-be0d803c3e23@nttcom.co.jp_1
In the current lazy vacuum implementation, some index AMs such as
btree indexes call lazy_tid_reaped() for each index tuple during
ambulkdelete to check if the index tuple points to the (collected)
garbage tuple. In that function, we simply call bsearch(), but we
should be able to know the result without bsearch() if the index tuple
points to the heap tuple that is out of range of the collected garbage
tuples. Therefore, add a simple bound check before resorting to
bsearch(). Testing has shown that this can give significant
performance benefits.
Author: Masahiko Sawada <masahiko.sawada@2ndquadrant.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CA+fd4k76j8jKzJzcx8UqEugvayaMSnQz0iLUt_XgBp-_-bd22A@mail.gmail.com
Initialize other newly added variables in max_parallel_hazard_context via
is_parallel_safe() because we don't check the parallel-safety of target
relations in that function.
Reported-by: Tom Lane as per buildfarm
Author: Amit Kapila
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2060179.1615347455@sss.pgh.pa.us
Parallel SELECT can't be utilized for INSERT in the following cases:
- INSERT statement uses the ON CONFLICT DO UPDATE clause
- Target table has a parallel-unsafe: trigger, index expression or
predicate, column default expression or check constraint
- Target table has a parallel-unsafe domain constraint on any column
- Target table is a partitioned table with a parallel-unsafe partition key
expression or support function
The planner is updated to perform additional parallel-safety checks for
the cases listed above, for determining whether it is safe to run INSERT
in parallel-mode with an underlying parallel SELECT. The planner will
consider using parallel SELECT for "INSERT INTO ... SELECT ...", provided
nothing unsafe is found from the additional parallel-safety checks, or
from the existing parallel-safety checks for SELECT.
While checking parallel-safety, we need to check it for all the partitions
on the table which can be costly especially when we decide not to use a
parallel plan. So, in a separate patch, we will introduce a GUC and or a
reloption to enable/disable parallelism for Insert statements.
Prior to entering parallel-mode for the execution of INSERT with parallel
SELECT, a TransactionId is acquired and assigned to the current
transaction state. This is necessary to prevent the INSERT from attempting
to assign the TransactionId whilst in parallel-mode, which is not allowed.
This approach has a disadvantage in that if the underlying SELECT does not
return any rows, then the TransactionId is not used, however that
shouldn't happen in practice in many cases.
Author: Greg Nancarrow, Amit Langote, Amit Kapila
Reviewed-by: Amit Langote, Hou Zhijie, Takayuki Tsunakawa, Antonin Houska, Bharath Rupireddy, Dilip Kumar, Vignesh C, Zhihong Yu, Amit Kapila
Tested-by: Tang, Haiying
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAJcOf-cXnB5cnMKqWEp2E2z7Mvcd04iLVmV=qpFJrR3AcrTS3g@mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAJcOf-fAdj=nDKMsRhQzndm-O13NY4dL6xGcEvdX5Xvbbi0V7g@mail.gmail.com
This commit adds new GUC track_wal_io_timing. When this is enabled,
the total amounts of time XLogWrite writes and issue_xlog_fsync syncs
WAL data to disk are counted in pg_stat_wal. This information would be
useful to check how much WAL write and sync affect the performance.
Enabling track_wal_io_timing will make the server query the operating
system for the current time every time WAL is written or synced,
which may cause significant overhead on some platforms. To avoid such
additional overhead in the server with track_io_timing enabled,
this commit introduces track_wal_io_timing as a separate parameter from
track_io_timing.
Note that WAL write and sync activity by walreceiver has not been tracked yet.
This commit makes the server also track the numbers of times XLogWrite
writes and issue_xlog_fsync syncs WAL data to disk, in pg_stat_wal,
regardless of the setting of track_wal_io_timing. This counters can be
used to calculate the WAL write and sync time per request, for example.
Bump PGSTAT_FILE_FORMAT_ID.
Bump catalog version.
Author: Masahiro Ikeda
Reviewed-By: Japin Li, Hayato Kuroda, Masahiko Sawada, David Johnston, Fujii Masao
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/0509ad67b585a5b86a83d445dfa75392@oss.nttdata.com
The command (TO or FROM), its type (file, pipe, program or callback),
and the number of tuples excluded by a WHERE clause in COPY FROM are
added to the progress reporting already available.
The column "lines_processed" is renamed to "tuples_processed" to
disambiguate the meaning of this column in the cases of CSV and BINARY
COPY and to be more consistent with the other catalog progress views.
Bump catalog version, again.
Author: Matthias van de Meent
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier, Justin Pryzby, Bharath Rupireddy, Josef
Šimánek, Tomas Vondra
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEze2WiOcgdH4aQA8NtZq-4dgvnJzp8PohdeKchPkhMY-jWZXA@mail.gmail.com
PostgreSQL disabled compression as of e3bdb2d and the documentation
recommends against using it since. Additionally, SSL compression has
been disabled in OpenSSL since version 1.1.0, and was disabled in many
distributions long before that. The most recent TLS version, TLSv1.3,
disallows compression at the protocol level.
This commit removes the feature itself, removing support for the libpq
parameter sslcompression (parameter still listed for compatibility
reasons with existing connection strings, just ignored), and removes
the equivalent field in pg_stat_ssl and de facto PgBackendSSLStatus.
Note that, on top of removing the ability to activate compression by
configuration, compression is actively disabled in both frontend and
backend to avoid overrides from local configurations.
A TAP test is added for deprecated SSL parameters to check after
backwards compatibility.
Bump catalog version.
Author: Daniel Gustafsson
Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut, Magnus Hagander, Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/7E384D48-11C5-441B-9EC3-F7DB1F8518F6@yesql.se
Throw a "function protocol violation" error if a function in FROM
tries to return a set though it wasn't marked proretset. Although
such cases work at the moment, it doesn't seem like something we
want to guarantee will keep working. Besides, there are other
negative consequences of not setting the proretset flag, such as
potentially bad plans.
No back-patch, since if there is any third-party code violating
this expectation, people wouldn't appreciate us breaking it in
a minor release.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1636062.1615141782@sss.pgh.pa.us
"SELECT pg_import_system_collations(0)" caused an assertion failure.
With a random nonzero argument --- or indeed with zero, in non-assert
builds --- it would happily make pg_collation entries with garbage
values of collnamespace. These are harmless as far as I can tell
(unless maybe the OID happens to become used for a schema, later on?).
In any case this isn't a security issue, since the function is
superuser-only. But it seems like a gotcha for unwary DBAs, so let's
add a check that the given OID belongs to some schema.
Back-patch to v10 where this function was introduced.
Coverity is still unhappy after commit 190c79884, and after looking
closer I think it might be onto something. The callers of newdfa()
typically drop out if v->err has been set nonzero, which newdfa()
is faithfully doing if it fails. However, what if v->err was already
nonzero before we entered newdfa()? Then newdfa() could succeed and
the caller would promptly leak its result.
I don't think this scenario can actually happen, but the predicate
"v->err is always zero when newdfa() is called" seems difficult to be
entirely sure of; there's a good deal of code that potentially could
get that wrong.
It seems better to adjust the callers to directly check for a null
result instead of relying on ISERR() tests. This is slightly cheaper
than the previous coding anyway.
Lacking evidence that there's any real bug, no back-patch.
Commit 1eb6d6527a allowed to track replica origin replay progress for 2PC
but it was not complete. It misses to properly track the progress for
rollback prepared especially it missed updating the code for recovery.
Additionally, we need to allow tracking it on subscriber nodes where
wal_level might not be logical.
It is required to track decoding of 2PC which is committed in PG14
(a271a1b50e) and also nobody complained about this till now so not
backpatching it.
Author: Amit Kapila
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier and Ajin Cherian
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAA4eK1L-kHmMnSdrRW6UhRbCjR7cgh04c+6psY15qzT6ktcd+g@mail.gmail.com
Protocol version 3 was introduced in PostgreSQL 7.4. There shouldn't be
many clients or servers left out there without version 3 support. But as
a courtesy, I kept just enough of the old protocol support that we can
still send the "unsupported protocol version" error in v2 format, so that
old clients can display the message properly. Likewise, libpq still
understands v2 ErrorResponse messages when establishing a connection.
The impetus to do this now is that I'm working on a patch to COPY
FROM, to always prefetch some data. We cannot do that safely with the
old protocol, because it requires parsing the input one byte at a time
to detect the end-of-copy marker.
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane, Alvaro Herrera, John Naylor
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/9ec25819-0a8a-d51a-17dc-4150bb3cca3b%40iki.fi
Commit 0aa8a01d04 extends the output plugin API to allow decoding of
prepared xacts and allowed the user to enable/disable the two-phase option
via pg_logical_slot_get_changes(). This can lead to a problem such that
the first time when it gets changes via pg_logical_slot_get_changes()
without two_phase option enabled it will not get the prepared even though
prepare is after consistent snapshot. Now next time during getting changes,
if the two_phase option is enabled it can skip prepare because by that
time start decoding point has been moved. So the user will only get commit
prepared.
Allow to enable/disable this option at the create slot time and default
will be false. It will break the existing slots which is fine in a major
release.
Author: Ajin Cherian
Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila and Vignesh C
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/d0f60d60-133d-bf8d-bd70-47784d8fabf3@enterprisedb.com
Adjust some "can't happen" error messages that assumed that the page
deletion target page must be a half-dead page. This assumption was
wrong in the case of an internal target page. Simply refer to these
pages as the target page instead.
Internal pages are never marked half-dead. There is exactly one
half-dead page for each subtree undergoing deletion. The half-dead page
is also the target subtree's leaf-level page. This has been the case
since commit efada2b8, which totally overhauled nbtree page deletion.
This allows clients to find out the setting at connection time without
having to expend a query round trip to do so; which is helpful when
trying to identify read/write servers. (One must also look at
in_hot_standby, but that's already GUC_REPORT, cf bf8a662c9.)
Modifying libpq to make use of this will come soon, but I felt it
cleaner to push the server change separately.
Haribabu Kommi, Greg Nancarrow, Vignesh C; reviewed at various times
by Laurenz Albe, Takayuki Tsunakawa, Peter Smith.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAF3+xM+8-ztOkaV9gHiJ3wfgENTq97QcjXQt+rbFQ6F7oNzt9A@mail.gmail.com
This extends the changes made in commit cebc1d34e, teaching
parseqatom() to generate fewer or cheaper subre nodes in some edge
cases. The case of interest here is a quantified atom that is "messy"
only because it has greediness opposite to what preceded it (whereas
captures and backrefs are intrinsically messy). In this case we don't
need an iteration node, since we don't care where the sub-matches of
the quantifier are; and we might also not need a second concatenation
node. This seems of only marginal real-world use according to my
testing, but I wanted to get it in before wrapping up this series of
regex performance fixes.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1340281.1613018383@sss.pgh.pa.us
In some cases, at the time that we're doing an NFA-based precheck
of whether a backref subexpression can match at a particular place
in the string, we already know which substring the referenced
subexpression matched. If so, we might as well forget about the NFA
and just compare the substring; this is faster and it gives an exact
rather than approximate answer.
In general, this optimization can help while we are prechecking within
the second child expression of a concat node, while the capture was
within the first child expression; then the substring was saved during
cdissect() of the first child and will be available to NFA checks done
while cdissect() recurses into the second child. It can help quite a
lot if the tree looks like
concat
/ \
capture concat
/ \
expensive stuff backref
as we will be able to avoid recursively dissecting the "expensive
stuff" before discovering that the backref isn't satisfied with a
particular midpoint that the lower concat node is testing. This
doesn't help if the concat tree is left-deep, as the capture node
won't get set soon enough (and it's hard to fix that without changing
the engine's match behavior). Fortunately, right-deep concat trees
are the common case.
Patch by me, reviewed by Joel Jacobson
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/661609.1614560029@sss.pgh.pa.us
POSIX defines the behavior of back-references thus:
The back-reference expression '\n' shall match the same (possibly
empty) string of characters as was matched by a subexpression
enclosed between "\(" and "\)" preceding the '\n'.
As far as I can see, the back-reference is supposed to consider only
the data characters matched by the referenced subexpression. However,
because our engine copies the NFA constructed from the referenced
subexpression, it effectively enforces any constraints therein, too.
As an example, '(^.)\1' ought to match 'xx', or any other string
starting with two occurrences of the same character; but in our code
it does not, and indeed can't match anything, because the '^' anchor
constraint is included in the backref's copied NFA. If POSIX intended
that, you'd think they'd mention it. Perl for one doesn't act that
way, so it's hard to conclude that this isn't a bug.
Fix by modifying the backref's NFA immediately after it's copied from
the reference, replacing all constraint arcs by EMPTY arcs so that the
constraints are treated as automatically satisfied. This still allows
us to enforce matching rules that depend only on the data characters;
for example, in '(^\d+).*\1' the NFA matching step will still know
that the backref can only match strings of digits.
Perhaps surprisingly, this change does not affect the results of any
of a rather large corpus of real-world regexes. Nonetheless, I would
not consider back-patching it, since it's a clear compatibility break.
Patch by me, reviewed by Joel Jacobson
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/661609.1614560029@sss.pgh.pa.us
The same code pattern was repeated twice to enable or disable ROW LEVEL
SECURITY with an ALTER TABLE command. This makes the code slightly
cleaner.
Author: Justin Pryzby
Reviewed-by: Zhihong Yu
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210228211854.GC20769@telsasoft.com
Point to the specific line where the error was detected; the
previous code tended to include several preceding lines as well.
Avoid re-scanning the entire input to recompute which line that
was. Simplify the logic a bit. Add test cases.
Simon Riggs and Hamid Akhtar, reviewed by Daniel Gustafsson and myself
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CANbhV-EPBnXm3MF_TTWBwwqgn1a1Ghmep9VHfqmNBQ8BT0f+_g@mail.gmail.com
In commit a271a1b50e, we allowed decoding at prepare time and the prepare
was decoded again if there is a restart after decoding it. It was done
that way because we can't distinguish between the cases where we have not
decoded the prepare because it was prior to consistent snapshot or we have
decoded it earlier but restarted. To distinguish between these two cases,
we have introduced an initial_consistent_point at the slot level which is
an LSN at which we found a consistent point at the time of slot creation.
This is also the point where we have exported a snapshot for the initial
copy. So, prepare transaction prior to this point are sent along with
commit prepared.
This commit bumps SNAPBUILD_VERSION because of change in SnapBuild. It
will break existing slots which is fine in a major release.
Author: Ajin Cherian, based on idea by Andres Freund
Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila and Vignesh C
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/d0f60d60-133d-bf8d-bd70-47784d8fabf3@enterprisedb.com
This avoids the need to set up and tear down a fresh WaitEventSet every
time we need need to wait. We have to add an explicit exit on
postmaster exit (FeBeWaitSet isn't set up to do that automatically), so
move the code to do that into a new function to avoid repetition.
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com> (earlier version)
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKGJAC4Oqao%3DqforhNey20J8CiG2R%3DoBPqvfR0vOJrFysGw%40mail.gmail.com
Commit a271a1b50e introduced decoding at prepare time in ReorderBuffer.
This can lead to deadlock for out-of-core logical replication solutions
that uses this feature to build distributed 2PC in case such transactions
lock [user] catalog tables exclusively. They need to inform users to not
have locks on catalog tables (via explicit LOCK command) in such
transactions.
Reported-by: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210222222847.tpnb6eg3yiykzpky@alap3.anarazel.de
Cut down on system calls and other overheads by waiting for SIGURG
explicitly with kqueue instead of using a signal handler and self-pipe.
Affects *BSD and macOS systems.
This leaves only the poll implementation with a signal handler and the
traditional self-pipe trick.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+hUKGJjxPDpzBE0a3hyUywBvaZuC89yx3jK9RFZgfv_KHU7gg@mail.gmail.com
Cut down on system calls and other overheads by reading from a signalfd
instead of using a signal handler and self-pipe. Affects Linux sytems,
and possibly others including illumos that implement the Linux epoll and
signalfd interfaces.
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+hUKGJjxPDpzBE0a3hyUywBvaZuC89yx3jK9RFZgfv_KHU7gg@mail.gmail.com
Traditionally, SIGUSR1 has been overloaded for ad-hoc signals,
procsignal.c signals and latch.c wakeups. Move that last use over to a
new dedicated signal. SIGURG is normally used to report out-of-band
socket data, but PostgreSQL doesn't use that facility.
The signal handler is now installed in all postmaster children by
InitializeLatchSupport(). Those wishing to disconnect from it should
call ShutdownLatchSupport().
Future patches will use this separation of signals to avoid the need for
a signal handler on some operating systems.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+hUKGJjxPDpzBE0a3hyUywBvaZuC89yx3jK9RFZgfv_KHU7gg@mail.gmail.com
Commit 82ebbeb0 added a workaround for systems with no epoll_create1()
and EPOLL_CLOEXEC. Linux < 2.6.27 and glibc < 2.9 are long gone. Now
seems like a good time to drop the extra code, because otherwise we'd
have to add similar already-dead workaround code to new patches using
XXX_CLOEXEC flags that arrived in the same kernel release.
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKGKL_%3DaO%3Dr30N%3Ds9VoDgTqHpRSzePRbA9dkYO7snc7HsxA%40mail.gmail.com
AfterTriggerSaveEvent() wrongly allocates the slot in execution-span
memory context, whereas the correct thing is to allocate it in
a transaction-span context, because that's where the enclosing
AfterTriggersTableData instance belongs into.
Backpatch to 12 (the test back to 11, where it works well with no code
changes, and it's good to have to confirm that the case was previously
well supported); this bug seems introduced by commit ff11e7f4b9.
Reported-by: Bertrand Drouvot <bdrouvot@amazon.com>
Author: Amit Langote <amitlangote09@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/39a71864-b120-5a5c-8cc5-c632b6f16761@amazon.com
This adds a new executor node named TID Range Scan. The query planner
will generate paths for TID Range scans when quals are discovered on base
relations which search for ranges on the table's ctid column. These
ranges may be open at either end. For example, WHERE ctid >= '(10,0)';
will return all tuples on page 10 and over.
To support this, two new optional callback functions have been added to
table AM. scan_set_tidrange is used to set the scan range to just the
given range of TIDs. scan_getnextslot_tidrange fetches the next tuple
in the given range.
For AMs were scanning ranges of TIDs would not make sense, these functions
can be set to NULL in the TableAmRoutine. The query planner won't
generate TID Range Scan Paths in that case.
Author: Edmund Horner, David Rowley
Reviewed-by: David Rowley, Tomas Vondra, Tom Lane, Andres Freund, Zhihong Yu
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAMyN-kB-nFTkF=VA_JPwFNo08S0d-Yk0F741S2B7LDmYAi8eyA@mail.gmail.com
The previous logic here created a separate pool of arcs for each
state, so that the out-arcs of each state were physically stored
within it. Perhaps this choice was driven by trying to not include
a "from" pointer within each arc; but Spencer gave up on that idea
long ago, and it's hard to see what the value is now. The approach
turns out to be fairly disastrous in terms of memory consumption,
though. In the first place, NFAs built by this engine seem to have
about 4 arcs per state on average, with a majority having only one
or two out-arcs. So pre-allocating 10 out-arcs for each state is
already cause for a factor of two or more bloat. Worse, the NFA
optimization phase moves arcs around with abandon. In a large NFA,
some of the states will have hundreds of out-arcs, so towards the
end of the optimization phase we have a significant number of states
whose arc pools have room for hundreds of arcs each, even though only
a few of those arcs are in use. We have seen real-world regexes in
which this effect bloats the memory requirement by 25X or even more.
Hence, get rid of the per-state arc pools in favor of a single arc
pool for the whole NFA, with variable-sized allocation batches
instead of always asking for 10 at a time. While we're at it,
let's batch the allocations of state structs too, to further reduce
the malloc traffic.
This incidentally allows moveouts() to be optimized in a similar
way to moveins(): when moving an arc to another state, it's now
valid to just re-link the same arc struct into a different outchain,
where before the code invariants required us to make a physically
new arc and then free the old one.
These changes reduce the regex compiler's typical space consumption
for average-size regexes by about a factor of two, and much more for
large or complicated regexes. In a large test set of real-world
regexes, we formerly had half a dozen cases that failed with "regular
expression too complex" due to exceeding the REG_MAX_COMPILE_SPACE
limit (about 150MB); we would have had to raise that limit to
something close to 400MB to make them work with the old code. Now,
none of those cases need more than 13MB to compile. Furthermore,
the test set is about 10% faster overall due to less malloc traffic.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/168861.1614298592@sss.pgh.pa.us
makeDependencyGraphWalker and checkWellFormedRecursionWalker
thought they could hold onto a pointer to a list's first
cons cell while the list was modified by recursive calls.
That was okay when the cons cell was actually separately
palloc'd ... but since commit 1cff1b95a, it's quite unsafe,
leading to core dumps or incorrect complaints of faulty
WITH nesting.
In the field this'd require at least a seven-deep WITH nest
to cause an issue, but enabling DEBUG_LIST_MEMORY_USAGE
allows the bug to be seen with lesser nesting depths.
Per bug #16801 from Alexander Lakhin. Back-patch to v13.
Michael Paquier and Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16801-393c7922143eaa4d@postgresql.org
Teach VACUUM VERBOSE to report on pages deleted by the _current_ VACUUM
operation -- these are newly deleted pages. VACUUM VERBOSE continues to
report on the total number of deleted pages in the entire index (no
change there). The former is a subset of the latter.
The distinction between each category of deleted index page only arises
with index AMs where page deletion is supported and is decoupled from
page recycling for performance reasons.
This is follow-up work to commit e5d8a999, which made nbtree store
64-bit XIDs (not 32-bit XIDs) in pages at the point at which they're
deleted. Note that the btm_last_cleanup_num_delpages metapage field
added by that commit usually gets set to pages_newly_deleted. The
exceptions (the scenarios in which they're not equal) all seem to be
tricky cases for the implementation (of page deletion and recycling) in
general.
Author: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-WznpdHvujGUwYZ8sihX%3Dd5u-tRYhi-F4wnV2uN2zHpMUXw%40mail.gmail.com
We aren't publishing this file as documentation, and it's been
much more haphazardly maintained than the real docs in func.sgml,
so let's just drop it. I think the only reason I included it in
commit 7bcc6d98f was that the Berkeley-era sources had had a man
page in this directory.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/4099447.1614186542@sss.pgh.pa.us
Newline is certainly not a digit, nor a word character, so it is
sensible that it should match these complemented character classes.
Previously, \D and \W acted that way by default, but in
newline-sensitive mode ('n' or 'p' flag) they did not match newlines.
This behavior was previously forced because explicit complemented
character classes don't match newlines in newline-sensitive mode;
but as of the previous commit that implementation constraint no
longer exists. It seems useful to change this because the primary
real-world use for newline-sensitive mode seems to be to match the
default behavior of other regex engines such as Perl and Javascript
... and their default behavior is that these match newlines.
The old behavior can be kept by writing an explicit complemented
character class, i.e. [^[:digit:]] or [^[:word:]]. (This means
that \D and \W are not exactly equivalent to those strings, but
they weren't anyway.)
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3220564.1613859619@sss.pgh.pa.us
The complement-class escapes \D, \S, \W are now allowed within
bracket expressions. There is no semantic difficulty with doing
that, but the rather hokey macro-expansion-based implementation
previously used here couldn't cope.
Also, invent "word" as an allowed character class name, thus "\w"
is now equivalent to "[[:word:]]" outside brackets, or "[:word:]"
within brackets. POSIX allows such implementation-specific
extensions, and the same name is used in e.g. bash.
One surprising compatibility issue this raises is that constructs
such as "[\w-_]" are now disallowed, as our documentation has always
said they should be: character classes can't be endpoints of a range.
Previously, because \w was just a macro for "[:alnum:]_", such a
construct was read as "[[:alnum:]_-_]", so it was accepted so long as
the character after "-" was numerically greater than or equal to "_".
Some implementation cleanup along the way:
* Remove the lexnest() hack, and in consequence clean up wordchrs()
to not interact with the lexer.
* Fix colorcomplement() to not be O(N^2) in the number of colors
involved.
* Get rid of useless-as-far-as-I-can-see calls of element()
on single-character character element names in brackpart().
element() always maps these to the character itself, and things
would be quite broken if it didn't --- should "[a]" match something
different than "a" does? Besides, the shortcut path in brackpart()
wasn't doing this anyway, making it even more inconsistent.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2845172.1613674385@sss.pgh.pa.us
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3220564.1613859619@sss.pgh.pa.us
Bruce Momjian
Thomas Munro
Tom Lane
Peter Eisentraut
Amit Kapila
Fujii Masao
Michael Paquier
Heikki Linnakangas
Peter Geoghegan
Alvaro Herrera
David Rowley