Not including the timeline IDs to the file names generated by pg_waldump
for the individual blocks saved could cause some of these files to be
overwritten when scanning segments across multiple timelines. Having
this information is also as much useful as the LSNs, to be able to know
from exactly which WAL segment a block is comes from.
While on it, this fixes a few comments in the tests, where the format of
the file was not described as matching with the reality.
Reported-by: Fujii Masao
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi, David Christensen
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ZJp921+nITFnvBVS@paquier.xyz
The documentation of the required privileges for maintenance
commands (i.e., VACUUM, ANALYZE, CLUSTER, LOCK TABLE, REFRESH
MATERIALIZED VIEW, and REINDEX) is redundant, inaccurate, and
difficult to read. This commit fixes and simplifies this
documentation by removing references to ownership, superuser, and
the pg_maintain role. In addition, this removes notes about
database-wide VACUUM and ANALYZE, clarifies matters for REINDEX on
partitioned indexes and tables, and strengthens the description of
the pg_maintain role.
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier, Jeff Davis
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20230615041044.GA736001%40nathanxps13
ff9618e82a introduced has_partition_ancestor_privs(), which is used
to check whether a user has MAINTAIN on any partition ancestors.
This involves syscache lookups, and presently this function does
not take any relation locks, so it is likely subject to the same
kind of cache lookup failures that were fixed by 19de0ab23c.
To fix this problem, this commit partially reverts ff9618e82a.
Specifically, it removes the partition-related changes, including
the has_partition_ancestor_privs() function mentioned above. This
means that MAINTAIN on a partitioned table is no longer sufficient
to perform maintenance commands on its partitions. This is more
like how privileges for maintenance commands work on supported
versions. Privileges are checked for each partition, so a command
that flows down to all partitions might refuse to process them
(e.g., if the current user doesn't have MAINTAIN on the partition).
In passing, adjust a few related comments and error messages, and
add a test for the privilege checks for CLUSTER on a partitioned
table.
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier, Jeff Davis
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20230613211246.GA219055%40nathanxps13
By default, triggers and rules do not fire on a logical replication
subscriber based on the "session_replication_role" GUC being set to
"replica". However, the docs in the logical replication section assumed
that the reader understood how this GUC worked. This modifies the docs to
be more explicit and links back to the GUC itself.
Author: Jonathan Katz, Peter Smith
Reviewed-by: Vignesh C, Euler Taveira
Backpatch-through: 11
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/5bb2c9a2-499f-e1a2-6e33-5ce96b35cc4a@postgresql.org
Statistics defined by the CREATE STATISTICS command are only used to
assist with the selectivity estimations of base relations, never for
joins. Here we mention this fact in the notes section of the CREATE
STATISTICS command.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAApHDvrMuVgDOrmg_EtFDZ=AOovq6EsJNnHH1ddyZ8EqL4yzMw@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 11
The existing errhint message and docs were missing the fact that we can't
disassociate from the slot unless the subscription is disabled.
Author: Robert Sjöblom, Peter Smith
Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut, Amit Kapila
Backpatch-through: 11
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/807bdf85-61ea-88e2-5712-6d9fcd4eabff@fortnox.se
For CREATE DATABASE, make LOCALE parameter apply regardless of the
provider used. Also affects initdb and createdb --locale arguments.
Previously, LOCALE (and --locale) only affected the database default
collation when using the libc provider.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1a63084d-221e-4075-619e-6b3e590f673e@enterprisedb.com
Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut
In the documentation, previously the example command for
ALTER FOREIGN TABLE ... OPTIONS incorrectly included both
the option name and value with the DROP operation.
The correct syntax for the DROP operation requires only
the name of the option to be specified. This commit fixes
the example by removing the option value from the DROP operation.
Back-patch to all supported versions.
Author: Mehmet Emin KARAKAS <emin100@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Fujii Masao
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CANQrdXAHzbcEYhjGoe5A42OmfvdQhHFJzyKj9gJvHuDKyOF5Ng@mail.gmail.com
The GUC settings lc_collate and lc_ctype are from a time when those
locale settings were cluster-global. When those locale settings were
made per-database (PG 8.4), the settings were kept as read-only. As
of PG 15, you can use ICU as the per-database locale provider, so
examining these settings is already less meaningful and possibly
confusing, since you need to look into pg_database to find out what is
really happening, and they would likely become fully obsolete in the
future anyway.
Reviewed-by: Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/696054d1-bc88-b6ab-129a-18b8bce6a6f0@enterprisedb.com
2dcd1578c4 left the --role option undocumented, which is
inconsistent with other deprecated options such as pg_dump's
--blobs and --no-blobs. This change adds --role back to
createuser's documentation and usage output and marks it as
deprecated.
Suggested-by: Peter Eisentraut
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/0e85c9e7-4804-1cdb-5a4a-c72c328f9ad8%40enterprisedb.com
That's how other boolean options are handled, so do likewise.
The previous coding with "enable" and "disable" was seemingly
modeled on gssencmode, but that's a three-way flag.
While at it, add PGGSSDELEGATION to the set of environment
variables cleared by pg_regress and Utils.pm.
Abhijit Menon-Sen, per gripe from Alvaro Herrera
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20230522091609.nlyuu4nolhycqs2p@alvherre.pgsql
This change renames --admin to --with-admin, --role to --member-of,
and --member to --with-member. Many people found the previous
names to be confusing. The --admin and --member options are new in
v16, but --role has been there for a while, so that one has been
kept (but left undocumented) for backward compatibility.
Suggested-by: Peter Eisentraut
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane, Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ZFvVZvQDliIWmOwg%40momjian.us
Tweak column widths in a couple of tables to avoid "contents
... exceed the available area" warnings. Remove usage of
some non-Latin-1 characters.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/614600.1684537037@sss.pgh.pa.us
Complete the task begun in 9c0a0e2ed: we don't want to use the
abbreviation "deleg" for GSS delegation in any user-visible places.
(For consistency, this also changes most internal uses too.)
Abhijit Menon-Sen and Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/949048.1684639317@sss.pgh.pa.us
* document to_reg* accepting OIDs
* document pg_log_standby_snapshot()
* document pg_input_is_valid() and pg_input_error_info()
* handle rename of function to pg_split_walfile_name()
* fix character encoding problem for Przemyslaw Sztoch
* remove partition section
Reported-by: jian he, Tom Lane, Bertrand Drouvot
Run pgindent, pgperltidy, and reformat-dat-files.
This set of diffs is a bit larger than typical. We've updated to
pg_bsd_indent 2.1.2, which properly indents variable declarations that
have multi-line initialization expressions (the continuation lines are
now indented one tab stop). We've also updated to perltidy version
20230309 and changed some of its settings, which reduces its desire to
add whitespace to lines to make assignments etc. line up. Going
forward, that should make for fewer random-seeming changes to existing
code.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20230428092545.qfb3y5wcu4cm75ur@alvherre.pgsql
Non-leaf pages of GiST indexes contain key attributes, leaf pages
contain both key and non-key attributes, and gist_page_items() ignored
the handling of non-key attributes. This caused a few problems when
using gist_page_items() on a GiST index with INCLUDE:
- On a non-leaf page, the function would crash.
- On a leaf page, the function would work, but miss to display all the
values for included attributes.
This commit fixes gist_page_items() to handle such cases in a more
appropriate way, and now displays the values of key and non-key
attributes for each item separately in a style consistent with what
ruleutils.c would generate for the attribute list, depending on the page
type dealt with. In a way similar to how a record is displayed, values
would be double-quoted for key or non-key attributes if required.
ruleutils.c did not provide a routine able to control if non-key
attributes should be displayed, so an extended() routine for index
definitions is added to work around the leaf and non-leaf page
differences.
While on it, this commit fixes a third problem related to the amount of
data reported for key attributes. The code originally relied on
BuildIndexValueDescription() (used for error reports on constraints)
that would not print all the data stored in the index but the index
opclass's input type, so this limited the amount of information
available. This switch makes gist_page_items() much cheaper as there is
no need to run ACL checks for each item printed, which is not an issue
anyway as superuser rights are required to execute the functions of
pageinspect. Opclasses whose data cannot be displayed can rely on
gist_page_items_bytea().
The documentation of this function was slightly incorrect for the
output results generated on HEAD and v15, so adjust it on these
branches.
Author: Alexander Lakhin, Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17884-cb8c326522977acb@postgresql.org
Backpatch-through: 14
Commit 3581cbdcd6 added a flag to identify empty BRIN ranges. This adds
the new flag to brin_page_items() output.
This is kept as a separate commit as it should not be backpatched.
Reviewed-by: Justin Pryzby, Matthias van de Meent, Alvaro Herrera
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/402430e4-7d9d-6cf1-09ef-464d80afff3b@enterprisedb.com
Separate the documentation for language tags themselves from the
available collation settings which can be included in a language tag.
Include tables of the available options, more details about the
effects of each option, and additional examples.
Also include an explanation of the "levels" of textual features and
how they relate to collation.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/25787ec7-4c04-9a8a-d241-4dc9be0b1ba3@postgresql.org
Reviewed-by: Jonathan S. Katz
28e626bde0 added the concept of IOOps but neglected to include writeback
operations. ac8d53dae5 added time spent doing these I/O operations. Without
counting writeback, checkpointer write time in the log often differed
substantially from that in pg_stat_io. To fix this, add IOOp IOOP_WRITEBACK
and track writeback in pg_stat_io.
Bumps catversion.
Author: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20230419172326.dhgyo4wrrhulovt6%40awork3.anarazel.de
Give the new GUC introduced by d4e71df6 a name that is clearly not
intended for mainstream use quite yet.
Future proposals would drop the prefix only after adding infrastructure
to make it efficient. Having the switch in the tree sooner is good
because it might lead to new discoveries about the hazards awaiting us
on a wide range of systems, but that name was too enticing and could
lead to cross-version confusion in future, per complaints from Noah and
Justin.
Suggested-by: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
Reviewed-by: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
Reviewed-by: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com> (the idea, not the patch)
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> (ditto)
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20230430041106.GA2268796%40rfd.leadboat.com
Don't use PSQL_WATCH_PAGER when stdin/stdout are not a terminal.
This corresponds to the restrictions on when other commands will
use [PSQL_]PAGER. There isn't a lot of sense in trying to use a
pager in non-interactive cases, and doing so allows an environment
setting to break our tests.
Also, ignore PSQL_WATCH_PAGER if it is set but empty or all-blank,
for the same reasons we ignore such settings of [PSQL_]PAGER (see
commit 18f8f784c).
No documentation change is really needed, since there is nothing
suggesting that these constraints on [PSQL_]PAGER didn't already
apply to PSQL_WATCH_PAGER too. But I rearranged the text
a little to make it read more naturally (IMHO anyway).
Per report from Pavel Stehule. Back-patch to v15 where
PSQL_WATCH_PAGER was introduced.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAFj8pRDTwFzmEWdA-gdAcUh0ZnxUioSfTMre71WyB_wNJy-8gw@mail.gmail.com
Fix a link from the "Heap-Only Tuples" documentation section.
Previously, its "fillfactor" link pointed to the "CREATE TABLE"
command's documentation. Now the link directly points to the fillfactor
storage parameter documentation (which is about half way into the
"CREATE TABLE" sect1).
Oversight in commit 115464bb.
Backpatch: 12-, the first version with a usable reloption link.
An update of the GUC stats_fetch_consistency in a transaction would be
able to trigger an assertion when doing cache->snapshot. In this case,
when retrieving a pgstat entry after the switch, a new snapshot would be
rebuilt, confusing pgstat_build_snapshot() because a snapshot is already
cached with an unexpected mode ("cache").
In order to fix this problem, this commit adds a flag to force a
snapshot clear each time this GUC is changed. Some tests are added to
check, while on it.
Some optimizations in avoiding the snapshot clear should be possible
depending on what is cached and the current GUC value, I guess, but this
solution is simple, and ensures that the state of the cache is updated
each time a new pgstat entry is fetched, hence being consistent with the
level wanted by the client that has set the GUC.
Note that cache->none and snapshot->none would not cause issues, as
fetching a pgstat entry would be retrieved from shared memory on the
second attempt, however a snapshot would still be cached. Similarly,
none->snapshot and none->cache would build a new snapshot on the second
fetch attempt. Finally, snapshot->cache would cache a new snapshot on
the second attempt.
Reported-by: Alexander Lakhin
Author: Kyotaro Horiguchi
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17804-2a118cd046f2d0e5@postgresql.org
backpatch-through: 15
Commit 1de58df4, which added page-level freezing, taught VACUUM to reuse
each page's "set-visibility-map" snapshotConflictHorizon for freezing
(at least in the vast majority of cases where freezing went ahead).
This made VACUUM FREEZE much less prone to generating recovery conflicts
on standbys; VACUUM FREEZE became only slightly more likely to cause
recovery conflicts than an equivalent VACUUM.
Update old documentation that specifically warned of the likelihood of
recovery conflicts from VACUUM FREEZE. Explain the same general issue
(the issue of VACUUM generating recovery conflicts even in the absence
of dead row cleanup) using the example of conflicts caused by VISIBLE
WAL records.
Add:
- "Restartpoint"
- "Log sequence number"
"LSN" was already listed in the Acronyms appendix, but it is more
suitable as a glossary entry, so move it there and have the acronyms
entry link into the glossary.
Also turn on DocBook parameter glossentry.show.acronym to show
acronyms for glossary entries, which is being used here.
Reviewed-by: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/60915312-62cd-9c94-0d94-556023ece45f%40enterprisedb.com
plperl, plpython, and pltcl all provide query-execution functions
that are thin wrappers around SPI_execute() or its variants.
The SPI functions document their row-count limit arguments clearly,
as "maximum number of rows to return, or 0 for no limit". However
the PLs' documentation failed to explain this special behavior of
zero, so that a reader might well assume it means "fetch zero
rows". Improve that.
Daniel Gustafsson and Tom Lane, per report from Kieran McCusker
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAGgUQ6H6qYScctOhktQ9HLFDDoafBKHyUgJbZ6q_dOApnzNTXg@mail.gmail.com
vacuum_defer_cleanup_age was introduced before hot_standby_feedback and
replication slots existed. It is hard to use reasonably - commonly it will
either be set too low (not preventing recovery conflicts, while still causing
some bloat), or too high (causing a lot of bloat). The alternatives do not
have that issue.
That on its own might not be sufficient reason to remove
vacuum_defer_cleanup_age, but it also complicates computation of xid
horizons. See e.g. the bug fixed in be504a3e97. It also is untested.
This commit removes TransactionIdRetreatSafely(), as there are no users
anymore. There might be potential future users, hence noting that here.
Reviewed-by: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
Reviewed-by: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20230317230930.nhsgk3qfk7f4axls@awork3.anarazel.de
Unaligned siglen could lead to an unaligned access to subsequent key fields.
Backpatch to 13, where opclass options were introduced.
Reported-by: Alexander Lakhin
Bug: 17847
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17847-171232970bea406b%40postgresql.org
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane, Pavel Borisov, Alexander Lakhin
Backpatch-through: 13
a9c70b46 added the statistics view pg_stat_io which contained columns
"io_context" and "io_object". Given that the columns are in the
pg_stat_io view, the "io" prefix is somewhat redundant, so remove it.
The code variables referring to these fields are kept unchanged so as
they can keep their context about I/O.
Bump catalog version.
Author: Melanie Plageman
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi, Fabrízio de Royes Mello
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAAKRu_aAQoJWrvT2BYYQvJChFKra_O-5ra3jhzKJZqWsTR1CPQ@mail.gmail.com
indexes-unique.html mentioned nothing about the availability of NULLS NOT
DISTINCT to modify the NULLs-are-not-equal behavior of unique indexes.
Add this to the synopsis and clarify what it does regarding NULLs.
Author: David Gilman, David Rowley
Reviewed-by: Corey Huinker
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CALBH9DDr3NLqzWop1z5uZE-M5G_GYUuAeHFHQeyzFbNd8W0d=Q@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 15, where NULLS NOT DISTINCT was added
This issue can be reproduced by running `make dist` from the root of the
tree. Error introduced in fcb21b3, where additions of links in
installation.sgml require custom rules in standalone-profile.xsl to make
sure that ./INSTALL is generated correctly for the distribution tarball,
where links are replaced by equivalent terms from the profile file
changed by this commit.
Per buildfarm member guaibasaurus.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ZD859FmcMRCNtz0W@paquier.xyz
We have two existing conventions for long options: either alphabetical
among short options, or all long options after all the short options.
But the convention apparently used here, next to a functionally
related option, is not one of them.
Here we remove the notes which mention which version the given vacuumdb
option is available from. There are now 11 of these notes and they're
both quite untidy and take up far more space than they seem to be worth.
On running a print preview of the compiled HTML, removing these notes
saves about 1 A4 page (~20% less space).
If people need to see which options are available on older versions, then
consulting the documents for that version seems like a good idea. In any
case, when using newer vacuumdb versions on older servers, the user will
receive an error if they try to use an unsupported option.
Additionally, 3 of the notes are warning about the option only being
available from PostgreSQL 9.6 and later. That version's support ended 2.5
years ago. So, it's quite clear that the value of these notes diminishes
over time.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAApHDvrCQn6tupx2R67VL9RP1Qy4dDuWKRvt4jaB0vk2akQchw@mail.gmail.com
Other vacuumdb options seem to have notes about which version they're
available from, so let's follow this trend for the newly added
--buffer-usage-limit option.
Tom Lane
Michael Paquier
Bruce Momjian
Peter Eisentraut
Nathan Bossart
Amit Kapila
David Rowley
Jeff Davis
Fujii Masao
Daniel Gustafsson
Alvaro Herrera
Tomas Vondra
Andres Freund
Alexander Korotkov
Thomas Munro
Peter Geoghegan
Etsuro Fujita
Noah Misch