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Author SHA1 Message Date
Daniel Gustafsson 385b317715 Replace link to Hunspell with the current homepage
The Hunspell project moved from Sourceforge to Github sometime
in 2016, so update our links to match the new URL.  Backpatch
the doc changes to all supported versions.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/DC9A662A-360D-4125-A453-5A6CB9C6C4B4@yesql.se
Backpatch-through: v11
2022-11-21 23:25:48 +01:00
Tom Lane 2e4229691c Doc: improve tutorial section about grouped aggregates.
Commit fede15417 introduced FILTER by jamming it into the existing
example introducing HAVING, which seems pedagogically poor to me;
and it added no information about what the keyword actually does.
Not to mention that the claimed output didn't match the sample
data being used in this running example.

Revert that and instead make an independent example using FILTER.
To help drive home the point that it's a per-aggregate filter,
we need to use two aggregates not just one; for consistency
expand all the examples in this segment to do that.

Also adjust the example using WHERE ... LIKE so that it'd produce
nonempty output with this sample data, and show that output.

Back-patch, as the previous patch was.  (Sadly, v10 is now out
of scope.)

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/166794307526.652.9073408178177444190@wrigleys.postgresql.org
2022-11-08 18:25:03 -05:00
Tom Lane e527cb8cec Release notes for 15.1, 14.6, 13.9, 12.13, 11.18, 10.23. 2022-11-06 11:07:28 -05:00
David Rowley f892150076 Doc: fix outdated wording about parallel seq scans
56788d215 adjusted the parallel seq scan code so that instead of handing
out a single block at a time to parallel workers, it now hands out ranges
of blocks.

Here we update the documentation which still claimed that workers received
just 1 block at a time.

Reported-by: Zhang Mingli
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17c99615-2c3b-4e4e-9d0b-424a66a7bccd@Spark
Backpatch-through: 14, where 56788d215 was added.
2022-10-21 09:30:27 +13:00
Bruce Momjian 51683feb97 doc: move the mention of aggregate JSON functions up in section
It was previously easily overlooked at the end of several tables.

Reported-by: Alex Denman

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/166335888474.659.16897487975376230364@wrigleys.postgresql.org

Backpatch-through: 10
2022-10-17 15:21:29 -04:00
Bruce Momjian b661aea772 doc: warn pg_stat_reset() can cause vacuum/analyze problems
The fix is to run ANALYZE.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/YzRr+ys98UzVQJvK@momjian.us,
   https://postgr.es/m/flat/CAKJS1f8DTbCHf9gedU0He6ARsd58E6qOhEHM1caomqj_r9MOiQ%40mail.gmail.com,
   https://postgr.es/m/CAKJS1f80o98hcfSk8j%3DfdN09S7Sjz%2BvuzhEwbyQqvHJb_sZw0g%40mail.gmail.com

Backpatch-through: 10
2022-10-17 15:07:03 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera 3fe6f261f7
Fix typo in CREATE PUBLICATION reference page
While at it, simplify wording a bit.

Author: Takamichi Osumi <osumi.takamichi@fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Smith <smithpb2250@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/TYCPR01MB8373F93F5D094A2BE648990DED259@TYCPR01MB8373.jpnprd01.prod.outlook.com
2022-10-13 13:36:14 +02:00
Tom Lane c612730371 Doc: improve recommended systemd unit file.
Add
    After=network-online.target
    Wants=network-online.target
to the suggested unit file for starting a Postgres server.
This delays startup until the network interfaces have been
configured; without that, any attempt to bind to a specific
IP address will fail.

If listen_addresses is set to "localhost" or "*", it might be
possible to get away with the less restrictive "network.target",
but I don't think we need to get into such detail here.

Per suggestion from Pablo Federico.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/166552157407.591805.10036014441784710940@wrigleys.postgresql.org
2022-10-12 10:51:31 -04:00
Daniel Gustafsson 064e1c879d doc: Fix PQsslAttribute docs for compression
The compression parameter to PQsslAttribute has never returned the
compression method used, it has always returned "on" or "off since
it was added in commit 91fa7b4719. Backpatch through v10.

Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/B9EC60EC-F665-47E8-A221-398C76E382C9@yesql.se
Backpatch-through: v10
2022-09-30 12:03:48 +02:00
Bruce Momjian 81c094bd93 doc: clarify internal behavior of RECURSIVE CTE queries
Reported-by: Tom Lane

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3976627.1662651004@sss.pgh.pa.us

Backpatch-through: 10
2022-09-28 13:14:38 -04:00
Bruce Momjian bbdc1d2334 revert "warn of SECURITY DEFINER schemas for non-sql_body funcs"
doc revert of commit 1703726488.  Change was applied to irrelevant
branches, and was not detailed enough to be helpful in relevant
branches.

Reported-by: Peter Eisentraut, Noah Misch

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2dc9de4-24fc-3222-87d3-0def8057d7d8@enterprisedb.com

Backpatch-through: 10
2022-09-28 13:05:20 -04:00
Fujii Masao be032619d4 docs: Fix snapshot name in SET TRANSACTION docs.
Commit 6c2003f8a1 changed the snapshot names mentioned in
SET TRANSACTION docs, however, there was one place that
the commit missed updating the name.

Back-patch to all supported versions.

Author: Japin Li
Reviewed-by: Fujii Masao
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/MEYP282MB1669BD4280044501165F8B07B64F9@MEYP282MB1669.AUSP282.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM
2022-09-22 12:55:23 +09:00
Michael Paquier 382cc68007 doc: Fix parameter name for pg_create_logical_replication_slot()
The parameter controlling if two-phase transactions can be decoded was
named "two_phase" in the documentation while its procedure defines
"twophase".

Author: Florin Irion
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/5eeabd10-1aff-ea61-f92d-9fa0d9a7e207@gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 14
2022-09-20 19:28:47 +09:00
Daniel Gustafsson 293a6ac4b9 doc: Fix link to FreeBSD documentation project
The FreeBSD site was changed with a redirect, which in turn seems to
lead to a 404. Replace with the working link.

Author: James Coleman <jtc331@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAAaqYe_JZRj+KPn=hACtwsg1iLRYs=jYvxG1NW4AnDeUL1GD-Q@mail.gmail.com
2022-09-12 22:17:17 +02:00
Tom Lane e55ccb3b17 Reject bogus output from uuid_create(3).
When using the BSD UUID functions, contrib/uuid-ossp expects
uuid_create() to produce a version-1 UUID.  FreeBSD still does so,
but in recent NetBSD releases that function produces a version-4
(random) UUID instead.  That's not acceptable for our purposes:
if the user wanted v4 she would have asked for v4, not v1.
Hence, check the version digit and complain if it's not '1'.

Also drop the documentation's claim that the NetBSD implementation
is usable.  It might be, depending on which OS version you're using,
but we're not going to get into that kind of detail.

(Maybe someday we should ditch all these external libraries
and just write our own UUID code, but today is not that day.)

Nazir Bilal Yavuz, with cosmetic adjustments and docs by me.
Backpatch to all supported versions.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3848059.1661038772@sss.pgh.pa.us
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17358-89806e7420797025@postgresql.org
2022-09-09 12:41:36 -04:00
David Rowley a254545a54 Doc: clarify partitioned table limitations
Improve documentation regarding the limitations of unique and primary key
constraints on partitioned tables.  The existing documentation didn't make
it clear that the constraint columns had to be present in the partition
key as bare columns.  The reader could be led to believe that it was ok to
include the constraint columns as part of a function call's parameters or
as part of an expression.  Additionally, the documentation didn't mention
anything about the fact that we disallow unique and primary key
constraints if the partition keys contain *any* function calls or
expressions, regardless of if the constraint columns appear as columns
elsewhere in the partition key.

The confusion here was highlighted by a report on the general mailing list
by James Vanns.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH7vdhNF0EdYZz3GLpgE3RSJLwWLhEk7A_fiKS9dPBT3Dz_3eA@mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAApHDvoU-u9iTqKjteYRFfi+UNEk7dbSAcyxEQD==vZt9B1KnA@mail.gmail.com
Reviewed-by: Erik Rijkers
Backpatch-through: 11
2022-09-05 18:44:11 +12:00
Michael Paquier bc73bd26f1 doc: Fix two queries related to jsonb functions
These have been updated by the revert done in 2f2b18b, but the
pre-revert state was correct.  Note that the result was incorrectly
formatted in the first case.

Author: Erik Rijkers
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/13777e96-24b6-396b-cb16-8ad01b6ac130@xs4all.nl
Backpatch-through: 13
2022-09-03 20:57:30 +09:00
Bruce Momjian 4130742739 doc: simplify docs about analyze and inheritance/partitions
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/YxAqYijOsLzgLQgy@momjian.us

Backpatch-through: 10
2022-09-02 23:32:19 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 3eef32c58b doc: clarify recursion internal behavior
Reported-by: Drew DeVault

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20211018091720.31299-1-sir@cmpwn.com

Backpatch-through: 10
2022-09-02 21:57:41 -04:00
Etsuro Fujita 5527b79cc0 Doc: Update struct Trigger definition.
Commit 487e9861d added a new field to struct Trigger, but failed to
update the documentation to match; backpatch to v13 where that came in.

Reviewed by Richard Guo.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAPmGK17NY92CyxJ%2BBG7A3JZurmng4jfRfzPiBTtNupGMF0xW1g%40mail.gmail.com
2022-09-02 16:45:03 +09:00
Bruce Momjian 8f32ac5a16 doc: in create statistics docs, mention analyze for parent info
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/Yv1Bw8J+1pYfHiRl@momjian.us

Backpatch-through: 10
2022-08-31 23:11:46 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 6fac58814c doc: mention "bloom" as a possible index access method
Also remove USING erroneously added recently.

Reported-by: Jeff Janes

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAMkU=1zhCpC7hottyMWM5Pimr9vRLprSwzLg+7PgajWhKZqRzw@mail.gmail.com

Backpatch-through: 10
2022-08-31 22:35:09 -04:00
Bruce Momjian d11a53a8e0 doc: use FILTER in aggregate example
Reported-by: michal.palenik@freemap.sk

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/163499710897.684.7420075366995883688@wrigleys.postgresql.org

Backpatch-through: 10
2022-08-31 22:19:06 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 9d8f19201a doc: clarify that pgcrypto's gen_random_uuid calls core func.
Previously it was just marked as a duplicate of the core function.

Reported-by: Andreas Dijkman

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17349-24d61e214429e8c1@postgresql.org

Backpatch-through: 13
2022-08-31 22:04:36 -04:00
Bruce Momjian d514d77ac3 doc: split out the NATURAL/CROSS JOIN in SELECT syntax
This allows the syntax to be more accurate about what clauses are
supported.  Also switch an example query to use the ANSI join syntax.

Reported-by: Joel Jacobson

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/67b71d3e-0c22-44df-a223-351f14418319@www.fastmail.com

Backpatch-through: 11
2022-08-31 21:46:14 -04:00
Bruce Momjian b566f320c8 doc: warn of SECURITY DEFINER schemas for non-sql_body functions
Non-sql_body functions are evaluated at runtime.

Reported-by: Erki Eessaar

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/AM9PR01MB8268BF5E74E119828251FD34FE409@AM9PR01MB8268.eurprd01.prod.exchangelabs.com

Backpatch-through: 10
2022-08-31 21:10:37 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 4eab0181a0 doc: mention that SET TIME ZONE often needs to be quoted
Also mention that time zone abbreviations are not supported.

Reported-by: philippe.godfrin@nov.com

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/163888728952.1269.5167822676466793158@wrigleys.postgresql.org

Backpatch-through: 10
2022-08-31 20:27:27 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 92557ac314 doc: document the maximum char/varchar length value
Reported-by: Japin Li

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/MEYP282MB1669B13E98AE531617CB1386B6979@MEYP282MB1669.AUSP282.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM

Backpatch-through: 10
2022-08-31 19:43:06 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 086ec88cda doc: show direction is optional in FETCH/MOVE's FROM/IN syntax
It used to show direction was required for FROM/IN.

Reported-by: Rob <rirans@comcast.net>

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20211015165248.isqjceyilelhnu3k@localhost

Author: Rob <rirans@comcast.net>

Backpatch-through: 10
2022-08-31 19:28:42 -04:00
Bruce Momjian c1f54eac3a doc: simplify WITH clause syntax in CREATE DATABASE
Reported-by: Rob <rirans@comcast.net>

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20211016171149.yaouvlw5kvux6dvk@localhost

Author: Rob <rirans@comcast.net>

Backpatch-through: 10
2022-08-31 17:08:44 -04:00
Tom Lane 7f5dd42a40 Doc: fix example of recursive query.
Compute total number of sub-parts correctly, per jason@banfelder.net

Simon Riggs

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/166161184718.1235920.6304070286124217754@wrigleys.postgresql.org
2022-08-28 10:44:52 -04:00
Tom Lane 04f1013be0 Doc: document possible need to raise kernel's somaxconn limit.
On fast machines, it's possible for applications such as pgbench
to issue connection requests so quickly that the postmaster's
listen queue overflows in the kernel, resulting in unexpected
failures (with not-very-helpful error messages).  Most modern OSes
allow the queue size to be increased, so document how to do that.

Per report from Kevin McKibbin.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CADc_NKg2d+oZY9mg4DdQdoUcGzN2kOYXBu-3--RW_hEe0tUV=g@mail.gmail.com
2022-08-23 09:55:51 -04:00
Tom Lane eb0097c6f3 Doc: prefer sysctl to /proc/sys in docs and comments.
sysctl is more portable than Linux's /proc/sys file tree, and
often easier to use too.  That's why most of our docs refer to
sysctl when talking about how to adjust kernel parameters.
Bring the few stragglers into line.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/361175.1661187463@sss.pgh.pa.us
2022-08-23 09:42:02 -04:00
Daniel Gustafsson 1d968b8704 doc: Remove reference to tty libpq connstring param
The tty connection string parameter was removed in commit 14d9b3760
but the reference to it in the docs was mistakenly kept.  Fix by
removing it from the libpq documentation.  Backpatch through v14
where the parameter was removed.

Author: Noriyoshi Shinoda <noriyoshi.shinoda@hpe.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/DM4PR84MB173433216FCC2A3961879000EE6B9@DM4PR84MB1734.NAMPRD84.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM
Backpatch-through: 14
2022-08-16 22:54:43 +02:00
Tatsuo Ishii a1a5e6d95c doc: fix wrong tag used in create sequence manual.
In ref/create_sequence.sgml <literal> tag was used for nextval function name.
This should have been <function> tag.

Author: Noboru Saito
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAAM3qnJTDFFfRf5JHJ4AYrNcqXgMmj0pbH0%2Bvm%3DYva%2BpJyGymA%40mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 10
2022-08-16 09:27:34 +09:00
Bruce Momjian 88b54b0791 doc: add missing role attributes to user management section
Reported-by: Shinya Kato

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1ecdb1ff78e9b03dfce37e85eaca725a@oss.nttdata.com

Author: Shinya Kato

Backpatch-through: 10
2022-08-12 15:43:23 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 675a368a35 doc: add section about heap-only tuples (HOT)
Reported-by: Jonathan S. Katz

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/c59ffbd5-96ac-a5a5-a401-14f627ca1405@postgresql.org

Backpatch-through: 11
2022-08-12 15:05:13 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 9039e34e7e doc: warn about security issues around log files
Reported-by: Simon Riggs

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CANP8+jJESuuXYq9Djvf-+tx2vY2OFLmfEuu+UvwHNJ1RT7iJCQ@mail.gmail.com

Author: Simon Riggs

Backpatch-through: 10
2022-08-12 12:02:20 -04:00
Bruce Momjian ec98eac987 doc: clarify configuration file for Windows builds
The use of file 'config.pl' was not clearly explained.

Reported-by: liambowen@gmail.com

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/164246013804.31952.4958087335645367498@wrigleys.postgresql.org

Backpatch-through: 10
2022-08-12 11:35:23 -04:00
Bruce Momjian e6f7892914 doc: document the CREATE INDEX "USING" clause
Somehow this was in the syntax but had no description.

Reported-by: robertcorrington@gmail.com

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/164228771825.31954.2719791849363756957@wrigleys.postgresql.org

Backpatch-through: 10
2022-08-12 11:26:03 -04:00
Bruce Momjian ff48a0c80e doc: clarify CREATE TABLE AS ... IF NOT EXISTS
Mention that the table is not modified if it already exists.

Reported-by: frank_limpert@yahoo.com

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/164441177106.9677.5991676148704507229@wrigleys.postgresql.org

Backpatch-through: 10
2022-08-12 10:59:00 -04:00
Bruce Momjian a8fade6cb5 doc: improve wal_level docs for the 'minimal' level
Reported-by: David G. Johnston

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAKFQuwZ24UcfkoyLLSW3PMGQATomOcw1nuYFRuMev-NoOF+mYw@mail.gmail.com

Author: David G. Johnston

Backpatch-through: 14, partial to 13
2022-08-12 10:30:01 -04:00
Bruce Momjian ec3530f459 doc: clarify DROP EXTENSION dependent members text
Member tracking was added in PG 13.

Reported-by: David G. Johnston

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAKFQuwY1YtxQHVWUFYvSnOjZ5VPpXjF33V52bSKEwFjK2K=1Aw@mail.gmail.com

Author: David G. Johnston

Backpatch-through: 13
2022-08-12 09:06:48 -04:00
Tom Lane ea2917ca90 Last-minute updates for release notes.
Security: CVE-2022-2625
2022-08-08 11:28:47 -04:00
Tom Lane 5721da7e41 In extensions, don't replace objects not belonging to the extension.
Previously, if an extension script did CREATE OR REPLACE and there was
an existing object not belonging to the extension, it would overwrite
the object and adopt it into the extension.  This is problematic, first
because the overwrite is probably unintentional, and second because we
didn't change the object's ownership.  Thus a hostile user could create
an object in advance of an expected CREATE EXTENSION command, and would
then have ownership rights on an extension object, which could be
modified for trojan-horse-type attacks.

Hence, forbid CREATE OR REPLACE of an existing object unless it already
belongs to the extension.  (Note that we've always forbidden replacing
an object that belongs to some other extension; only the behavior for
previously-free-standing objects changes here.)

For the same reason, also fail CREATE IF NOT EXISTS when there is
an existing object that doesn't belong to the extension.

Our thanks to Sven Klemm for reporting this problem.

Security: CVE-2022-2625
2022-08-08 11:12:31 -04:00
Tom Lane 3526a8f7b4 Release notes for 14.5, 13.8, 12.12, 11.17, 10.22. 2022-08-07 15:46:27 -04:00
Tom Lane aab05919a6 First-draft release notes for 14.5.
As usual, the release notes for older branches will be made by cutting
these down, but put them up for community review first.

Due to the out-of-cycle release of 14.4, there are a number of commits
that appeared in 14.4 that are not yet shipped in the earlier branches.
This draft repeats those release note entries for convenience in
preparing the older-branch notes later.  They'll be stripped out of
the 14.5 section after that's done.
2022-08-05 17:38:53 -04:00
John Naylor 120e159b7d Fix assorted doc typos
Erik Rijkers and Justin Pryzby

Backpatch to v14

Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/b79bfeff-d0e3-29a3-2576-0e325848dede%40xs4all.nl
2022-08-04 16:10:21 +07:00
John Naylor d107e73fa8 Clarify DROP EXTENSION docs regarding explicitly dependent routines
Per suggestion from Robert Haas

Backpatch to v14

Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CA%2BTgmoZ1QvHquYHLkMy1oHKqz4-E7QQctj6e0ocq_GP1B5%2B9bA%40mail.gmail.com
2022-08-04 15:49:33 +07:00
Alvaro Herrera 961cab0a5a
Allow "in place" tablespaces.
This is a backpatch to branches 10-14 of the following commits:

7170f2159f Allow "in place" tablespaces.
c6f2f01611 Fix pg_basebackup with in-place tablespaces.
f6f0db4d62 Fix pg_tablespace_location() with in-place tablespaces
7a7cd84893 doc: Remove mention to in-place tablespaces for pg_tablespace_location()
5344723755 Remove unnecessary Windows-specific basebackup code.

In-place tablespaces were introduced as a testing helper mechanism, but
they are going to be used for a bugfix in WAL replay to be backpatched
to all stable branches.

I (Álvaro) had to adjust some code to account for lack of
get_dirent_type() in branches prior to 14.

Author: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
Author: Michaël Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Author: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220722081858.omhn2in5zt3g4nek@alvherre.pgsql
2022-07-27 07:55:13 +02:00