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Bruce Momjian
f9c1bb73ab doc: remove mention of bitwise operators as solely type-limited
There are other operators that have limited number data type support, so
just remove the sentence.

Reported-by: Sergei Agalakov

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/158032651854.19851.16261832706661813796@wrigleys.postgresql.org

Backpatch-through: 9.5
2020-03-31 18:44:29 -04:00
Bruce Momjian
22d233bac3 doc: clarify hierarchy of objects: global, db, schema, etc.
The previous wording was confusing because it wasn't in decreasing order
and had to backtrack.  Also clarify role/user wording.

Reported-by: jbird@nuna.com

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/158057750885.1123.2806779262588618988@wrigleys.postgresql.org

Backpatch-through: 9.5
2020-03-31 18:10:39 -04:00
Bruce Momjian
f0862643ee doc: restore wording from recent patch "rolled back to"
Reported-by: Tom Lane

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/31072.1585690490@sss.pgh.pa.us

Backpatch-through: 9.5 - 12
2020-03-31 17:52:48 -04:00
Bruce Momjian
3f8276a2f0 doc: clarify when row-level locks are released
They are released just like table-level locks.  Also clean up wording.

Reported-by: me@sillymon.ch

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/158074944048.1095.4309647363871637715@wrigleys.postgresql.org

Backpatch-through: 9.5
2020-03-31 17:27:32 -04:00
Bruce Momjian
d684700136 doc: add namespace column to pg_buffercache example query
Without the namespace, the table name could be ambiguous.

Reported-by: adunham@arbormetrix.com

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/158155175140.23798.2189464781144503491@wrigleys.postgresql.org

Backpatch-through: 9.5
2020-03-31 17:16:33 -04:00
Bruce Momjian
51a1c77bd7 doc: clarify which table creation is used for inheritance part.
Previously people might assume that the partition syntax version of
CREATE TABLE is to be used for the inheritance partition table example;
mention that the non-partitioned version should be used.

Reported-by: mib@nic.at

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/158089540905.1098.15071165437284409576@wrigleys.postgresql.org

Backpatch-through: 10
2020-03-31 17:08:27 -04:00
Tom Lane
6c426cd437 Fix race condition in statext_store().
Must hold some lock on the pg_statistic_ext_data catalog *before*
we look up the tuple we aim to replace.  Otherwise a concurrent
VACUUM FULL or similar operation could move it to a different TID,
leaving us trying to replace the wrong tuple.

Back-patch to v12 where this got broken.

Credit goes to Dean Rasheed; I'm just doing the clerical work.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEZATCU0zHMDiQV0g8P2U+YSP9C1idUPrn79DajsbonwkN0xvQ@mail.gmail.com
2020-03-31 17:06:22 -04:00
Bruce Momjian
1fd0eee66f doc: adjust UPDATE/DELETE's FROM/USING to match SELECT's FROM
Previously the syntax and wording were unclear.

Reported-by: Alexey Bashtanov

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/968d4724-8e58-788f-7c45-f7b1813824cc@imap.cc

Backpatch-through: 9.5
2020-03-31 16:31:44 -04:00
Bruce Momjian
297a174d25 Allow ecpg to be built stand-alone, allow parallel libpq make
This change defines SHLIB_PREREQS for the libpgport dependency, rather
than using a makefile rule.  This was broken in PG 12.

Reported-by: Filip Janus

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/E5Dc85EGUY4wyG8cjAU0qoEdCJxGK_qhW1s9qSuYq9A@mail.gmail.com

Author: Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker (for libpq)

Backpatch-through: 12
2020-03-31 14:17:32 -04:00
Tom Lane
ee40e8975e Teach pg_ls_dir_files() to ignore ENOENT failures from stat().
Buildfarm experience shows that this function can fail with ENOENT
if some other process unlinks a file between when we read the directory
entry and when we try to stat() it.  The problem is old but we had
not noticed it until 085b6b667 added regression test coverage.

To fix, just ignore ENOENT failures.  There is one other case that
this might hide: a symlink that points to nowhere.  That seems okay
though, at least better than erroring.

Back-patch to v10 where this function was added, since the regression
test cases were too.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200308173103.GC1357@telsasoft.com
2020-03-31 12:57:55 -04:00
Tom Lane
94c9152dc8 Back-patch addition of stack overflow and interrupt checks for lquery.
Experimentation shows that it's not hard at all to drive the
old implementation of "ltree ~ lquery" match to stack overflow,
so throw in a check_stack_depth() call, as I just did in HEAD.

I wasn't able to make it take a long time, because all the
pathological cases I tried hit stack overflow first; but
I bet there are some others that do take a long time, so add
CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS() too.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAP_rww=waX2Oo6q+MbMSiZ9ktdj6eaJj0cQzNu=Ry2cCDij5fw@mail.gmail.com
2020-03-31 11:37:44 -04:00
Michael Paquier
3ec8576a02 Revert "Skip redundant anti-wraparound vacuums"
This reverts commit 2aa6e33, that added a fast path to skip
anti-wraparound and non-aggressive autovacuum jobs (these have no sense
as anti-wraparound implies aggressive).  With a cluster using a high
amount of relations with a portion of them being heavily updated, this
could cause autovacuum to lock down, with autovacuum workers attempting
repeatedly those jobs on the same relations for the same database, that
just kept being skipped.  This lock down can be solved with a manual
VACUUM FREEZE.

Justin King has reported one environment where the issue happened, and
Julien Rouhaud and I have been able to reproduce it in a second
environment.  With a very aggressive autovacuum_freeze_max_age,
triggering those jobs with pgbench is a matter of minutes, and hitting
the lock down is a lot harder (my local tests failed to do that).

Note that anti-wraparound and non-aggressive jobs can only be triggered
on a subset of shared catalogs:
- pg_auth_members
- pg_authid
- pg_database
- pg_replication_origin
- pg_shseclabel
- pg_subscription
- pg_tablespace
While the lock down was possible down to v12, the root cause of those
jobs is a much older issue, which needs more analysis.

Bonus thanks to Andres Freund for the discussion.

Reported-by: Justin King
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAE39h22zPLrkH17GrkDgAYL3kbjvySYD1io+rtnAUFnaJJVS4g@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 12
2020-03-31 08:27:54 +09:00
Peter Geoghegan
97cda93d81 Consistently truncate non-key suffix columns.
INCLUDE indexes failed to have their non-key attributes physically
truncated away in certain rare cases.  This led to physically larger
pivot tuples that contained useless non-key attribute values.  The
impact on users should be negligible, but this is still clearly a
regression (Postgres 11 supports INCLUDE indexes, and yet was not
affected).

The bug appeared in commit dd299df8, which introduced "true" suffix
truncation of key attributes.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-Wz=E8pkV9ivRSFHtv812H5ckf8s1-yhx61_WrJbKccGcrQ@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch: 12-, where "true" suffix truncation was introduced.
2020-03-30 12:03:57 -07:00
Tom Lane
de5b9db364 Be more careful about extracting encoding from locale strings on Windows.
GetLocaleInfoEx() can fail on strings that setlocale() was perfectly
happy with.  A common way for that to happen is if the locale string
is actually a Unix-style string, say "et_EE.UTF-8".  In that case,
what's after the dot is an encoding name, not a Windows codepage number;
blindly treating it as a codepage number led to failure, with a fairly
silly error message.  Hence, check to see if what's after the dot is
all digits, and if not, treat it as a literal encoding name rather than
a codepage number.  This will do the right thing with many Unix-style
locale strings, and produce a more sensible error message otherwise.

Somewhat independently of that, treat a zero (CP_ACP) result from
GetLocaleInfoEx() as meaning that we must use UTF-8 encoding.

Back-patch to all supported branches.

Juan José Santamaría Flecha

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/24905.1585445371@sss.pgh.pa.us
2020-03-30 11:14:58 -04:00
Tom Lane
756781cc8b Doc: correct misstatement about ltree label maximum length.
The documentation says that the max length is 255 bytes, but
code inspection says it's actually 255 characters; and relevant
lengths are stored as uint16 so that that works.
2020-03-29 18:54:19 -04:00
Tom Lane
2bb6bdbe5d Protect against overflow of ltree.numlevel and lquery.numlevel.
These uint16 fields could be overflowed by excessively long input,
producing strange results.  Complain for invalid input.

Likewise check for out-of-range values of the repeat counts in lquery.
(We don't try too hard on that one, notably not bothering to detect
if atoi's result has overflowed.)

Also detect length overflow in ltree_concat.

In passing, be more consistent about whether "syntax error" messages
include the type name.  Also, clarify the documentation about what
the size limit is.

This has been broken for a long time, so back-patch to all supported
branches.

Nikita Glukhov, reviewed by Benjie Gillam and Tomas Vondra

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAP_rww=waX2Oo6q+MbMSiZ9ktdj6eaJj0cQzNu=Ry2cCDij5fw@mail.gmail.com
2020-03-28 17:09:51 -04:00
Andres Freund
1d377f203e Ensure snapshot is registered within ScanPgRelation().
In 9.4 I added support to use a historical snapshot in
ScanPgRelation(), while adding logical decoding. Unfortunately a
conflict with the concurrent removal of SnapshotNow was incorrectly
resolved, leading to an unregistered snapshot being used.

It is not correct to use an unregistered (or non-active) snapshot for
anything non-trivial, because catalog invalidations can cause the
snapshot to be invalidated.

Luckily it seems unlikely to actively cause problems in practice, as
ScanPgRelation() requires that we already have a lock on the relation,
we only look for a single row, and we don't appear to rely on the
result's tid to be correct. It however is clearly wrong and potential
negative consequences would likely be hard to find. So it seems worth
backpatching the fix, even without a concrete hazard.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200229052459.wzhqnbhrriezg4v2@alap3.anarazel.de
Backpatch: 9.5-
2020-03-28 12:04:44 -07:00
Tom Lane
a54a873207 Ensure that plpgsql cleans up cleanly during parallel-worker exit.
plpgsql_xact_cb ought to treat events XACT_EVENT_PARALLEL_COMMIT and
XACT_EVENT_PARALLEL_ABORT like XACT_EVENT_COMMIT and XACT_EVENT_ABORT
respectively, since its goal is to do process-local cleanup.  This
oversight caused plpgsql's end-of-transaction cleanup to not get done
in parallel workers.  Since a parallel worker will exit just after the
transaction cleanup, the effects of this are limited.  I couldn't find
any case in the core code with user-visible effects, but perhaps there
are some in extensions.  In any case it's wrong, so let's fix it before
it bites us not after.

In passing, add some comments around the handling of expression
evaluation resources in DO blocks.  There's no live bug there, but it's
quite unobvious what's happening; at least I thought so.  This isn't
related to the other issue, except that I found both things while poking
at expression-evaluation performance.

Back-patch the plpgsql_xact_cb fix to 9.5 where those event types
were introduced, and the DO-block commentary to v11 where DO blocks
gained the ability to issue COMMIT/ROLLBACK.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/10353.1585247879@sss.pgh.pa.us
2020-03-26 18:06:55 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut
223e9c77dc Drop slot's LWLock before returning from SaveSlotToPath()
When SaveSlotToPath() is called with elevel=LOG, the early exits didn't
release the slot's io_in_progress_lock.

This could result in a walsender being stuck on the lock forever.  A
possible way to get into this situation is if the offending code paths
are triggered in a low disk space situation.

Author: Pavan Deolasee <pavan.deolasee@2ndquadrant.com>
Reported-by: Craig Ringer <craig@2ndquadrant.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/56a138c5-de61-f553-7e8f-6789296de785%402ndquadrant.com
2020-03-26 13:31:07 +01:00
Tom Lane
a867154516 Re-implement the ereport() macro using __VA_ARGS__.
Now that we require C99, we can depend on __VA_ARGS__ to work, and
revising ereport() to use it has several significant benefits:

* The extra parentheses around the auxiliary function calls are now
optional.  Aside from being a bit less ugly, this removes a common
gotcha for new contributors, because in some cases the compiler errors
you got from forgetting them were unintelligible.

* The auxiliary function calls are now evaluated as a comma expression
list rather than as extra arguments to errfinish().  This means that
compilers can be expected to warn about no-op expressions in the list,
allowing detection of several other common mistakes such as forgetting
to add errmsg(...) when converting an elog() call to ereport().

* Unlike the situation with extra function arguments, comma expressions
are guaranteed to be evaluated left-to-right, so this removes platform
dependency in the order of the auxiliary function calls.  While that
dependency hasn't caused us big problems in the past, this change does
allow dropping some rather shaky assumptions around errcontext() domain
handling.

There's no intention to make wholesale changes of existing ereport
calls, but as proof-of-concept this patch removes the extra parens
from a couple of calls in postgres.c.

While new code can be written either way, code intended to be
back-patched will need to use extra parens for awhile yet.  It seems
worth back-patching this change into v12, so as to reduce the window
where we have to be careful about that by one year.  Hence, this patch
is careful to preserve ABI compatibility; a followup HEAD-only patch
will make some additional simplifications.

Andres Freund and Tom Lane

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+fd4k6N8EjNvZpM8nme+y+05mz-SM8Z_BgkixzkA34R+ej0Kw@mail.gmail.com
2020-03-24 11:48:33 -04:00
Andres Freund
7c83642002 Add regression tests for constraint errors in partitioned tables.
While #16293 only applied to 11 (and 10 to some degree), it seems best
to add tests to all branches with partitioning support.

Reported-By: Daniel WM
Author: Andres Freund
Bug: #16293
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16293-26f5777d10143a66@postgresql.org
Backpatch: 10-
2020-03-23 14:52:17 -07:00
Tom Lane
64232dab8a Doc: explain that LIKE et al can be used in ANY (sub-select) etc.
This wasn't stated anywhere, and it's perhaps not that obvious,
since we get questions about it from time to time.  Also undocumented
was that the parser actually translates these into operators.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAFj8pRBkvZ71BqGKZnBBG4=0cKG+s50Dy+DYmrizUKEpAtdc+w@mail.gmail.com
2020-03-23 12:42:15 -04:00
Tom Lane
036fdf6be2 Fix our getopt_long's behavior for a command line argument of just "-".
src/port/getopt_long.c failed on such an argument, always seeing it
as an unrecognized switch.  This is unhelpful; better is to treat such
an item as a non-switch argument.  That behavior is what we find in
GNU's getopt_long(); it's what src/port/getopt.c does; and it is
required by POSIX for getopt(), which getopt_long() ought to be
generally a superset of.  Moreover, it's expected by ecpg, which
intends an argument of "-" to mean "read from stdin".  So fix it.

Also add some documentation about ecpg's behavior in this area, since
that was miserably underdocumented.  I had to reverse-engineer it
from the code.

Per bug #16304 from James Gray.  Back-patch to all supported branches,
since this has been broken forever.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16304-c662b00a1322db7f@postgresql.org
2020-03-23 11:58:01 -04:00
Michael Paquier
d2159c6778 Doc: Fix type of some storage parameters in CREATE TABLE page
autovacuum_vacuum_scale_factor and autovacuum_analyze_scale_factor have
been documented as "float4", but "floating type" is used in this case
for GUCs and relation options in the documentation.

Author: Atsushi Torikoshi
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CACZ0uYFf_p9BpbjLccx3CA=eM1Hk2Te=ULY4iptGLUhL-JxCPA@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 9.5
2020-03-23 13:38:10 +09:00
Noah Misch
63631ee64f Revert "Skip WAL for new relfilenodes, under wal_level=minimal."
This reverts commit cb2fd7eac2.  Per
numerous buildfarm members, it was incompatible with parallel query, and
a test case assumed LP64.  Back-patch to 9.5 (all supported versions).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200321224920.GB1763544@rfd.leadboat.com
2020-03-22 09:24:13 -07:00
Noah Misch
e4b0a02ef8 Skip WAL for new relfilenodes, under wal_level=minimal.
Until now, only selected bulk operations (e.g. COPY) did this.  If a
given relfilenode received both a WAL-skipping COPY and a WAL-logged
operation (e.g. INSERT), recovery could lose tuples from the COPY.  See
src/backend/access/transam/README section "Skipping WAL for New
RelFileNode" for the new coding rules.  Maintainers of table access
methods should examine that section.

To maintain data durability, just before commit, we choose between an
fsync of the relfilenode and copying its contents to WAL.  A new GUC,
wal_skip_threshold, guides that choice.  If this change slows a workload
that creates small, permanent relfilenodes under wal_level=minimal, try
adjusting wal_skip_threshold.  Users setting a timeout on COMMIT may
need to adjust that timeout, and log_min_duration_statement analysis
will reflect time consumption moving to COMMIT from commands like COPY.

Internally, this requires a reliable determination of whether
RollbackAndReleaseCurrentSubTransaction() would unlink a relation's
current relfilenode.  Introduce rd_firstRelfilenodeSubid.  Amend the
specification of rd_createSubid such that the field is zero when a new
rel has an old rd_node.  Make relcache.c retain entries for certain
dropped relations until end of transaction.

Back-patch to 9.5 (all supported versions).  This introduces a new WAL
record type, XLOG_GIST_ASSIGN_LSN, without bumping XLOG_PAGE_MAGIC.  As
always, update standby systems before master systems.  This changes
sizeof(RelationData) and sizeof(IndexStmt), breaking binary
compatibility for affected extensions.  (The most recent commit to
affect the same class of extensions was
089e4d405d0f3b94c74a2c6a54357a84a681754b.)

Kyotaro Horiguchi, reviewed (in earlier, similar versions) by Robert
Haas.  Heikki Linnakangas and Michael Paquier implemented earlier
designs that materially clarified the problem.  Reviewed, in earlier
designs, by Andrew Dunstan, Andres Freund, Alvaro Herrera, Tom Lane,
Fujii Masao, and Simon Riggs.  Reported by Martijn van Oosterhout.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20150702220524.GA9392@svana.org
2020-03-21 09:38:30 -07:00
Noah Misch
a5abec521c In log_newpage_range(), heed forkNum and page_std arguments.
The function assumed forkNum=MAIN_FORKNUM and page_std=true, ignoring
the actual arguments.  Existing callers passed exactly those values, so
there's no live bug.  Back-patch to v12, where the function first
appeared, because another fix needs this.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20191118045434.GA1173436@rfd.leadboat.com
2020-03-21 09:38:30 -07:00
Noah Misch
88b3a6cd26 During heap rebuild, lock any TOAST index until end of transaction.
swap_relation_files() calls toast_get_valid_index() to find and lock
this index, just before swapping with the rebuilt TOAST index.  The
latter function releases the lock before returning.  Potential for
mischief is low; a concurrent session can issue ALTER INDEX ... SET
(fillfactor = ...), which is not alarming.  Nonetheless, changing
pg_class.relfilenode without a lock is unconventional.  Back-patch to
9.5 (all supported versions), because another fix needs this.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20191226001521.GA1772687@rfd.leadboat.com
2020-03-21 09:38:30 -07:00
Noah Misch
b35017549c Fix cosmetic blemishes involving rd_createSubid.
Remove an obsolete comment from AtEOXact_cleanup().  Restore formatting
of a comment in struct RelationData, mangled by the pgindent run in
commit 9af4159fce.  Back-patch to 9.5 (all
supported versions), because another fix stacks on this.
2020-03-21 09:38:30 -07:00
Bruce Momjian
ff339f4359 docs: use alias in WHERE clause of full text search example
The current doc query specified an alias in the FROM clause and used in
it the target list, but not in the WHERE clause.

Reported-by: axykon@gmail.com

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/158316348159.30450.16075357948244298217@wrigleys.postgresql.org

Backpatch-through: 9.5
2020-03-20 20:19:32 -04:00
Andrew Dunstan
d0747714e6 Turn off deprecated bison warnings under MSVC
These are disabled by the configure code, so this is just fixing an
inconsistency in the MSVC code.

Backpatch to all live branches.
2020-03-20 14:02:05 -04:00
Bruce Momjian
9f62ea27e3 pg_upgrade: make get_major_server_version() err msg consistent
This patch fixes the error message in get_major_server_version() to be
"could not parse version file", and uses the full file path name, rather
than just the data directory path.

Also, commit 4109bb5de4 added the cause of the failure to the  "could
not open" error message, and improved quoting.  This patch backpatches
the "could not open" cause to PG 12, where it was first widely used, and
backpatches the quoting fix in that patch to all supported releases.

Reported-by: Tom Lane

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/87pne2w98h.fsf@wibble.ilmari.org

Author: Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker

Backpatch-through: 9.5
2020-03-19 15:20:55 -04:00
Michael Paquier
fdaa16aecf Fix comment related to concurrent index swapping in index.c
A comment about switching indisvalid of the new and old indexes swapped
in REINDEX CONCURRENTLY got this backwards.

Issue introduced by 5dc92b8, the original commit of REINDEX
CONCURRENTLY.

Author: Julien Rouhaud
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200318143340.GA46897@nol
Backpatch-through: 12
2020-03-19 09:51:40 +09:00
Fujii Masao
21b1cb6a78 Correct the descriptions of recovery-related wait events in docs.
This commit corrects the descriptions of RecoveryWalAll and RecoveryWalStream
wait events in the documentation.

Back-patch to v10 where those wait events were added.

Author: Fujii Masao
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi, Atsushi Torikoshi
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/124997ee-096a-5d09-d8da-2c7a57d0816e@oss.nttdata.com
2020-03-18 23:08:17 +09:00
Amit Kapila
e37824136f Add missing errcode() in a few ereport calls.
This will allow to specifying SQLSTATE error code for the errors in the
missing places.

Reported-by: Sawada Masahiko
Author: Sawada Masahiko
Backpatch-through: 9.5
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+fd4k6N8EjNvZpM8nme+y+05mz-SM8Z_BgkixzkA34R+ej0Kw@mail.gmail.com
2020-03-18 09:33:01 +05:30
Michael Paquier
c5b6b9c0d7 Fix typo in indexcmds.c
Introduced by 61d7c7b.

Backpatch-through: 12
2020-03-18 11:15:21 +09:00
Alvaro Herrera
e58e13e846
Fix consistency issues with replication slot copy
Commit 9f06d79ef831's replication slot copying failed to
properly reserve the WAL that the slot is expecting to see
during DecodingContextFindStartpoint (to set the confirmed_flush
LSN), so concurrent activity could remove that WAL and cause the
copy process to error out.  But it doesn't actually *need* that
WAL anyway: instead of running decode to find confirmed_flush, it
can be copied from the source slot. Fix this by rearranging things
to avoid DecodingContextFindStartpoint() (leaving the target slot's
confirmed_flush_lsn to invalid), and set that up afterwards by copying
from the target slot's value.

Also ensure the source slot's confirmed_flush_lsn is valid.

Reported-by: Arseny Sher
Author: Masahiko Sawada, Arseny Sher
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/871rr3ohbo.fsf@ars-thinkpad
2020-03-17 16:13:18 -03:00
Tom Lane
bcd460003a Doc: clarify behavior of "anyrange" pseudo-type.
I noticed that we completely failed to document the restriction
that an "anyrange" result type has to be inferred from an "anyrange"
input.  The docs also were less clear than they could be about the
relationship between "anyrange" and "anyarray".

It's been like this all along, so back-patch.
2020-03-17 15:05:17 -04:00
Tom Lane
d8e7f81494 Use pkg-config, if available, to locate libxml2 during configure.
If pkg-config is installed and knows about libxml2, use its information
rather than asking xml2-config.  Otherwise proceed as before.  This
patch allows "configure --with-libxml" to succeed on platforms that
have pkg-config but not xml2-config, which is likely to soon become
a typical situation.

The old mechanism can be forced by setting XML2_CONFIG explicitly
(hence, build processes that were already doing so will certainly
not need adjustment).  Also, it's now possible to set XML2_CFLAGS
and XML2_LIBS explicitly to override both programs.

There is a small risk of this breaking existing build processes,
if there are multiple libxml2 installations on the machine and
pkg-config disagrees with xml2-config about which to use.  The
only case where that seems really likely is if a builder has tried
to select a non-default xml2-config by putting it early in his PATH
rather than setting XML2_CONFIG.  Plan to warn against that in the
minor release notes.

Back-patch to v10; before that we had no pkg-config infrastructure,
and it doesn't seem worth adding it for this.

Hugh McMaster and Tom Lane; Peter Eisentraut also made an earlier
attempt at this, from which I lifted most of the docs changes.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAN9BcdvfUwc9Yx5015bLH2TOiQ-M+t_NADBSPhMF7dZ=pLa_iw@mail.gmail.com
2020-03-17 12:09:26 -04:00
Tom Lane
2a89455aad Avoid holding a directory FD open across assorted SRF calls.
This extends the fixes made in commit 085b6b667 to other SRFs with the
same bug, namely pg_logdir_ls(), pgrowlocks(), pg_timezone_names(),
pg_ls_dir(), and pg_tablespace_databases().

Also adjust various comments and documentation to warn against
expecting to clean up resources during a ValuePerCall SRF's final
call.

Back-patch to all supported branches, since these functions were
all born broken.

Justin Pryzby, with cosmetic tweaks by me

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200308173103.GC1357@telsasoft.com
2020-03-16 21:05:53 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera
f340977a4f
Document pg_ls_*dir hiding of directories and special files
It's strange that a directory-listing function does not list all entries
in a directory, so let's at least document it.  This involves

pg_ls_logdir
pg_ls_waldir
pg_ls_archive_statusdir
pg_ls_tmpdir

Backpatch as far back as it applies cleanly (and as far as as each
function exists).  REL_10_STABLE uses different wording, but hopefully
people are not reading docs so old to write new apps anyway.

Author: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200305161838.GJ684@telsasoft.com
2020-03-16 19:12:14 -03:00
Alvaro Herrera
cf72898c68
Plug memory leak
Introduced by b08dee24a5.  Noted by Coverity.
2020-03-16 16:27:13 -03:00
Tom Lane
390984f926 Restructure polymorphic-type resolution in funcapi.c.
resolve_polymorphic_tupdesc() and resolve_polymorphic_argtypes() failed to
cover the case of having to resolve anyarray given only an anyrange input.
The bug was masked if anyelement was also used (as either input or
output), which probably helps account for our not having noticed.

While looking at this I noticed that resolve_generic_type() would produce
the wrong answer if asked to make that same resolution.  ISTM that
resolve_generic_type() is confusingly defined and overly complex, so
rather than fix it, let's just make funcapi.c do the specific lookups
it requires for itself.

With this change, resolve_generic_type() is not used anywhere, so remove
it in HEAD.  In the back branches, leave it alone (complete with bug)
just in case any external code is using it.

While we're here, make some other refactoring adjustments in funcapi.c
with an eye to upcoming future expansion of the set of polymorphic types:

* Simplify quick-exit tests by adding an overall have_polymorphic_result
flag.  This is about a wash now but will be a win when there are more
flags.

* Reduce duplication of code between resolve_polymorphic_tupdesc() and
resolve_polymorphic_argtypes().

* Don't bother to validate correct matching of anynonarray or anyenum;
the parser should have done that, and even if it didn't, just doing
"return false" here would lead to a very confusing, off-point error
message.  (Really, "return false" in these two functions should only
occur if the call_expr isn't supplied or we can't obtain data type
info from it.)

* For the same reason, throw an elog rather than "return false" if
we fail to resolve a polymorphic type.

The bug's been there since we added anyrange, so back-patch to
all supported branches.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/6093.1584202130@sss.pgh.pa.us
2020-03-14 14:42:22 -04:00
Tom Lane
f393fb20a1 Doc: fix mistaken reference to "PG_ARGNULL_xxx()" macro.
This should of course be just "PG_ARGISNULL()".

Also reorder a couple of paras to make the discussion of PG_ARGISNULL
less disjointed.

Back-patch to v10 where the error was introduced.

Laurenz Albe and Tom Lane, per an anonymous docs comment

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/158399487096.5708.10696365251766477013@wrigleys.postgresql.org
2020-03-13 12:49:10 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut
c9ef507e82 Preserve replica identity index across ALTER TABLE rewrite
If an index was explicitly set as replica identity index, this setting
was lost when a table was rewritten by ALTER TABLE.  Because this
setting is part of pg_index but actually controlled by ALTER
TABLE (not part of CREATE INDEX, say), we have to do some extra work
to restore it.

Based-on-patch-by: Quan Zongliang <quanzongliang@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Euler Taveira <euler.taveira@2ndquadrant.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/c70fcab2-4866-0d9f-1d01-e75e189db342@gmail.com
2020-03-13 11:57:20 +01:00
Tom Lane
630590d6ff Fix test case instability introduced in 085b6b667.
I forgot that the WAL directory might hold other files besides WAL
segments, notably including new segments still being filled.
That means a blind test for the first file's size being 16MB can
fail.  Restrict based on file name length to make it more robust.

Per buildfarm.
2020-03-11 18:24:13 -04:00
Peter Geoghegan
393b449f1a Paper over bt_metap() oldest_xact bug in backbranches.
The data types that contrib/pageinspect's bt_metap() function were
declared to return as OUT arguments were wrong in some cases.  In
particular, the oldest_xact column (a TransactionId/xid field) was
declared integer/int4 within the pageinspect extension's sql file.  This
led to errors when an oldest_xact value that exceeded 2^31-1 was
encountered.

We cannot fix the declaration on Postgres 11 or 12.  All we can do is
ameliorate the problem.  Use "%d" instead of "%u" to format the output
of the oldest_xact value.  This makes the C code match the declaration,
suppressing unhelpful error messages that might otherwise make
bt_metap() totally unusable.  A bogus negative oldest_xact value will be
displayed instead of raising an error.

This commit addresses the same issue as master branch commit 691e8b2e18,
which actually fixed the problem.  Backpatch to the 11 and 12 branches
only, since they are the only branches (other than master) that have
oldest_xact.  All of the other problematic columns already display bogus
output for out of range values.

Reported-By: Victor Yegorov
Bug: #16285
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200309223557.aip5n6ewln4ixbbi@alap3.anarazel.de
Backpatch: 11 and 12 only
2020-03-11 14:15:02 -07:00
Alvaro Herrera
f977e6dec8
Add pg_dump support for ALTER obj DEPENDS ON EXTENSION
pg_dump is oblivious to this kind of dependency, so they're lost on
dump/restores (and pg_upgrade).  Have pg_dump emit ALTER lines so that
they're preserved.  Add some pg_dump tests for the whole thing, also.

Reviewed-by: Tom Lane (offlist)
Reviewed-by: Ibrar Ahmed
Reviewed-by: Ahsan Hadi (who also reviewed commit 899a04f5ed)
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200217225333.GA30974@alvherre.pgsql
2020-03-11 16:54:54 -03:00
Tom Lane
3c8864fc1c Avoid holding a directory FD open across pg_ls_dir_files() calls.
This coding technique is undesirable because (a) it leaks the FD for
the rest of the transaction if the SRF is not run to completion, and
(b) allocated FDs are a scarce resource, but multiple interleaved
uses of the relevant functions could eat many such FDs.

In v11 and later, a query such as "SELECT pg_ls_waldir() LIMIT 1"
yields a warning about the leaked FD, and the only reason there's
no warning in earlier branches is that fd.c didn't whine about such
leaks before commit 9cb7db3f0.  Even disregarding the warning, it
wouldn't be too hard to run a backend out of FDs with careless use
of these SQL functions.

Hence, rewrite the function so that it reads the directory within
a single call, returning the results as a tuplestore rather than
via value-per-call mode.

There are half a dozen other built-in SRFs with similar problems,
but let's fix this one to start with, just to see if the buildfarm
finds anything wrong with the code.

In passing, fix bogus error report for stat() failure: it was
whining about the directory when it should be fingering the
individual file.  Doubtless a copy-and-paste error.

Back-patch to v10 where this function was added.

Justin Pryzby, with cosmetic tweaks and test cases by me

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200308173103.GC1357@telsasoft.com
2020-03-11 15:27:59 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera
b7739ebecd
Avoid duplicates in ALTER ... DEPENDS ON EXTENSION
If the command is attempted for an extension that the object already
depends on, silently do nothing.

In particular, this means that if a database containing multiple such
entries is dumped, the restore will silently do the right thing and
record just the first one.  (At least, in a world where pg_dump does
dump such entries -- which it doesn't currently, but it will.)

Backpatch to 9.6, where this kind of dependency was introduced.

Reviewed-by: Ibrar Ahmed, Tom Lane (offlist)
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200217225333.GA30974@alvherre.pgsql
2020-03-11 11:04:59 -03:00