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Michael Paquier c789f0f6cc dblink: Replace WAIT_EVENT_EXTENSION with custom wait events
Two custom wait events are added here:
- "DblinkConnect", when waiting to establish a connection to a remote
server.
- "DblinkGetConnect", when waiting to establish a connection to a remote
server but it could not be found in the list of already-opened ones.

Author: Masahiro Ikeda
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/197bce267fa691a0ac62c86c4ab904c4@oss.nttdata.com
2023-10-05 10:23:22 +09:00
Michael Paquier d61f2538a3 postgres_fdw: Replace WAIT_EVENT_EXTENSION with custom wait events
Three custom wait events are added here:
- "PostgresFdwCleanupResult", waiting while cleaning up PQgetResult() on
transaction abort.
- "PostgresFdwConnect", waiting to establish a connection to a remote
server.
- "PostgresFdwGetResult", waiting to receive a result from a remote
server.

Author: Masahiro Ikeda
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/197bce267fa691a0ac62c86c4ab904c4@oss.nttdata.com
2023-10-05 09:50:42 +09:00
Nathan Bossart 684d9bfdd5 Document that --sync-method takes an argument.
This was missed in commit 8c16ad3b43.

Reported-by: Robert Haas
Reviewed-by: Daniel Gustafsson, Robert Haas, Alvaro Herrera, Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BTgmoZi7pcx-ec3oJLWSr2R%3DDn2Zeiyx3EXQKc_1TTvA6Eepg%40mail.gmail.com
2023-10-04 14:40:50 -05:00
Peter Eisentraut af2324fabf doc: Clarify not-null constraints in information schema
Add a bit of clarification in various places that not-null constraints
are included under check constraints in the information schema.
2023-10-04 15:03:48 +02:00
Michael Paquier c8e318b1b8 worker_spi: Rename custom wait event to "WorkerSpiMain"
This naming is more consistent with all the other user-facing wait event
strings.  Other in-core modules will use the same naming convention, so
let's be consistent here as well.

Extracted from a larger patch by the same author.

Author: Masahiro Ikeda
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/197bce267fa691a0ac62c86c4ab904c4@oss.nttdata.com
2023-10-04 16:20:41 +09:00
Tom Lane 77d0ad6c46 Doc: suppress "exceed the available area" warning in PDF build.
Allow a line break in example output, as we have done elsewhere.
Overlength output was added in commit 1e68e43d3.

While here, adjust some shaky grammar in an adjacent note
(from a different commit, c9af05465).

Per buildfarm.
2023-10-03 14:13:53 -04:00
Andrew Dunstan f6d4c9cf16 Provide FORCE_NULL * and FORCE_NOT_NULL * options for COPY FROM
These options already exist, but you need to specify a column list for
them, which can be cumbersome. We already have the possibility of all
columns for FORCE QUOTE, so this is simply extending that facility to
FORCE_NULL and FORCE_NOT_NULL.

Author: Zhang Mingli
Reviewed-By: Richard Guo, Kyatoro Horiguchi, Michael Paquier.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CACJufxEnVqzOFtqhexF2+AwOKFrV8zHOY3y=p+gPK6eB14pn_w@mail.gmail.com
2023-09-30 12:34:41 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 0cfc231aa1 doc: remove PG version mention in EXPLAIN output
Reported-by: Daniel Westermann

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/GV0P278MB0419DF1A8673E8D17A6287FAD2FA9@GV0P278MB0419.CHEP278.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM

Backpatch-through: master
2023-09-29 18:33:03 -04:00
Tom Lane 75af0f401f Doc: improve description of dump/restore's --clean and --if-exists.
Try to make these option descriptions a little clearer for novices.
Per gripe from Attila Gulyás.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/169590536647.3727336.11070254203649648453@wrigleys.postgresql.org
2023-09-29 13:13:54 -04:00
Daniel Gustafsson ccd42ca046 doc: Change statistics function xref to the right target
Commit 7d3b7011b added a link to the statistics functions, which at the
time were anchored under the section for statistics views.  aebe989477
added a separate section for statistics functions, but the link was not
updated to point to the new anchor.  Fix by changing the xref.

Backpatch to all supported branches.

Author: Peter Smith <peter.b.smith@fujitsu.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAHut+Ptr0jKzNNtWnssLq+3jNhbyaBseqf6NPrWHk08mQFRoTg@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 11
2023-09-29 15:55:37 +02:00
Michael Paquier 3ef18a90bd doc: Fix descriptions related to the handling of non-ASCII characters
Since 45b1a67a0f, non-printable ASCII characters do not show up in
various configuration paths as question marks, but as hexadecimal
escapes.  The documentation was not updated to reflect that.

Author: Hayato Kuroda
Reviewed-by: Jian He, Tom Lane, Karl O. Pinc, Peter Smith
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/TYAPR01MB586631D0961BF9C44893FAB1F523A@TYAPR01MB5866.jpnprd01.prod.outlook.com
Backpatch-through: 16
2023-09-29 10:34:04 +09:00
Daniel Gustafsson 22ff5c9d78 doc: Clarify where ereport severity levels are defined
For a reader unfamiliar with the postgres code it might take some
grepping to find where elevels are defined. This adds a reference
to elog.h in the text like how SQLSTATE errorcodes are referenced
to errcodes.h on the same page.

Author: Kuwamura Masaki <kuwamura@db.is.i.nagoya-u.ac.jp>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAMyC8qqp1UDA9zothnJ9CbUYByytwpALS3LkdZ6bs1w5kZw5Xg@mail.gmail.com
2023-09-28 15:33:37 +02:00
Peter Eisentraut 5f1b00e64a doc: Improve documentation about pg_resetwal -f option
Reviewed-by: Aleksander Alekseev <aleksander@timescale.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/0f3ab4a1-ae80-56e8-3426-6b4a02507687@eisentraut.org
2023-09-28 12:08:54 +02:00
Bruce Momjian 5f567b3c35 doc: clarify the effect of concurrent work_mem allocations
Reported-by: Sami Imseih

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/66590882-F48C-4A25-83E3-73792CF8C51F@amazon.com

Backpatch-through: 11
2023-09-26 19:44:22 -04:00
Bruce Momjian eec2190b8c doc: clarify handling of time zones with "time with time zone"
Reported-by: davecramer@postgres.rocks

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/168451942371.714.9173574930845904336@wrigleys.postgresql.org

Backpatch-through: 11
2023-09-26 19:23:59 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 3fea854691 doc: clarify the behavior of unopenable listen_addresses
Reported-by: Gurjeet Singh

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CABwTF4WYPD9ov-kcSq1+J+ZJ5wYDQLXquY6Lu2cvb-Y7pTpSGA@mail.gmail.com

Backpatch-through: 11
2023-09-26 19:02:18 -04:00
Bruce Momjian b0d049e8fa doc: pg_upgrade, clarify standby servers must remain running
Also mention that mismatching primary/standby LSNs should never
happen.

Reported-by: Nikolay Samokhvalov

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAM527d8heqkjG5VrvjU3Xjsqxg41ufUyabD9QZccdAxnpbRH-Q@mail.gmail.com

Backpatch-through: 11
2023-09-26 18:54:10 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 15d5d7405d pgrowlocks: change lock mode output labels for consistency
Change "Share" to "For Share" and "Key Share" to "For Key Share" for
consistency with other lock mode labels.

BACKWARD COMPATIBILITY BREAK

Reported-by: David Cook

Discussion:  https://postgr.es/m/CA+dNBPNBf+FCEwohe7SH1tSks0R_G4F=tuvM=hnPs4qWiAH8vg@mail.gmail.com

Backpatch-through: master
2023-09-26 17:41:48 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 1b5a00450a doc: mention GROUP BY columns can reference target col numbers
Reported-by: hape <postgres-hape@gmx.de>

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/168871536004.379168.9352636188330923805@wrigleys.postgresql.org

Backpatch-through: 11
2023-09-26 17:31:32 -04:00
Michael Paquier dbd44ea30c doc: Tell about "vcregress taptest" for regression tests on Windows
There was no mention of this command in the documentation, and it is
useful to run the TAP tests of a target source directory.

Author: Yugo Nagata
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20230925153204.926d685d347ee1c8f527090c@sraoss.co.jp
Backpatch-through: 11
2023-09-26 08:16:12 +09:00
Nathan Bossart 13aeaf0797 Add worker type to pg_stat_subscription.
Thanks to commit 2a8b40e368, the logical replication worker type is
easily determined.  The worker type could already be deduced via
other columns such as leader_pid and relid, but that is unnecessary
complexity for users.

Bumps catversion.

Author: Peter Smith
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier, Maxim Orlov, Amit Kapila
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAHut%2BPtmbSMfErSk0S7xxVdZJ9XVE3xVLhqBTmT91kf57BeKDQ%40mail.gmail.com
2023-09-25 14:12:43 -07:00
Andres Freund a2c2fbf740 docs: Clarify --with-segsize-blocks documentation
Without the added "relation" it's not immediately clear that the option
relates to the relation segment size and not e.g. the WAL segment size.

The option was added in d3b111e32.

Reported-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/837536.1695348498@sss.pgh.pa.us
Backpatch: 16-
2023-09-25 10:36:04 -07:00
Daniel Gustafsson 7750fefdb2 Add GUC for temporarily disabling event triggers
In order to troubleshoot misbehaving or buggy event triggers, the
documented advice is to enter single-user mode.  In an attempt to
reduce the number of situations where single-user mode is required
(or even recommended) for non-extraordinary maintenance, this GUC
allows to temporarily suspend event triggers.

This was originally extracted from a larger patchset which aimed
at supporting event triggers on login events.

Reviewed-by: Ted Yu <yuzhihong@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Mikhail Gribkov <youzhick@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz
Reviewed-by: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/9140106E-F9BF-4D85-8FC8-F2D3C094A6D9@yesql.se
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/0d46d29f-4558-3af9-9c85-7774e14a7709@postgrespro.ru
2023-09-25 12:41:49 +02:00
Tom Lane 755eb44d3c Doc: copy-edit the introductory para for the pg_class catalog.
The previous wording had a faint archaic whiff to it, and more
importantly used "catalogs" as a verb, which while cutely
self-referential seems likely to provoke confusion in this
particular context.  Also consistently use "kind" not "type" to
refer to the different kinds of relations distinguished by relkind.

Per gripe from Martin Nash.  Back-patch to supported versions.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/169518739902.3727338.4793815593763320945@wrigleys.postgresql.org
2023-09-22 14:52:36 -04:00
Daniel Gustafsson cca97ce6a6 Allow dbname in pg_basebackup/pg_receivewal connstring
As physical replication work at the cluster level and not database
level, any dbname in the connection string is ignored. Proxies and
middleware used in connecting to the cluster might however need to
know the dbname in order to make the correct routing decision for
the connection.

With this the startup packet will include the dbname parameter.

Author: Jelte Fennema-Nio <me@jeltef.nl>
Reviewed-by: Tristen Raab <tristen.raab@highgo.ca>
Reviewed-by: Jim Jones <jim.jones@uni-muenster.de>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAGECzQTw-dZkVT_RELRzfWRzY714-VaTjoBATYfZq93R8C-auA@mail.gmail.com
2023-09-21 13:53:07 +02:00
Michael Paquier e5975c2daa doc: Fix description of BUFFER_USAGE_LIMIT for VACUUM and ANALYZE
BUFFER_USAGE_LIMIT requires a parameter, and 'B' is a supported unit.

Author: Ryoga Yoshida
Reviewed-by: Shinya Kato
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/9374034cb91b647b55a774a8980b0228@oss.nttdata.com
Backpatch-through: 16
2023-09-20 13:36:54 +09:00
Michael Paquier 59f47fb98d unaccent: Add support for quoted translated characters
As reported in bug #18057, the extension unaccent removes in its rule
file whitespace characters that are intentionally specified when
building unaccent.rules from UnicodeData.txt, causing an incorrect
translation for some characters like numeric symbols.  This is caused by
the fact that all whitespaces before and after the origin and target
characters are all discarded (this limitation is documented).

This commit makes possible the use of quotes around target characters,
so as whitespaces can be considered part of target characters.  Some
target characters use a double quote, these require an extra double
quote.

The documentation is updated to show how to use quoted areas,
generate_unaccent_rules.py is updated to generate unaccent.rules and a
couple of tests are added for numeric symbols.  While working on this
patch, I have implemented a fake rule file to test the parsing logic
implemented, which is not included here as it would just consume extra
cycles in the tests, and it requires the manipulation of an installation
tree to be able to work correctly.

As this requires a change of format in unaccent.rules, this cannot be
backpatched, unfortunately.  The idea to use double quotes as escaped
characters comes from Tom Lane.

Reported-by: Martin Schlossarek
Author: Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18057-62712cad01bd202c@postgresql.org
2023-09-20 12:29:36 +09:00
Tom Lane f73fa5a470 Don't crash if cursor_to_xmlschema is used on a non-data-returning Portal.
cursor_to_xmlschema() assumed that any Portal must have a tupDesc,
which is not so.  Add a defensive check.

It's plausible that this mistake occurred because of the rather
poorly chosen name of the lookup function SPI_cursor_find(),
which in such cases is returning something that isn't very much
like a cursor.  Add some documentation to try to forestall future
errors of the same ilk.

Report and patch by Boyu Yang (docs changes by me).  Back-patch
to all supported branches.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/dd343010-c637-434c-a8cb-418f53bda3b8.yangboyu.yby@alibaba-inc.com
2023-09-18 14:28:17 -04:00
Daniel Gustafsson 51908a37d7 doc: Add example for how to set file_fdw column option
The documentation is pretty light on how to set column options
on foreign tables, and the file_fdw docs refer to COPY when
documenting force_null even though it's not used in the same
way. Add a small example to describe how to use it.

Reported-by: Boshomi Phenix <boshomi@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAJVkCUparn4_Oarernm=U6LWVsTkecKcALHtwGr5M3qJRj_czw@mail.gmail.com
2023-09-18 14:59:16 +02:00
Bruce Momjian 320a27aab6 doc: remove mention of backslash doubling in strings
Reported-by: Laurenz Albe

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/0b03f91a875fb44182f5bed9e1d404ed6d138066.camel@cybertec.at

Author: Laurenz Albe

Backpatch-through: 11
2023-09-08 17:25:15 -04:00
Daniel Gustafsson 5a3423ad8e Add JIT deform_counter
generation_counter includes time spent on both JIT:ing expressions
and tuple deforming which are configured independently via options
jit_expressions and jit_tuple_deforming.  As they are  combined in
the same counter it's not apparent what fraction of time the tuple
deforming takes.

This adds deform_counter dedicated to tuple deforming, which allows
seeing more directly the influence jit_tuple_deforming is having on
the query. The counter is exposed in EXPLAIN and pg_stat_statements
bumpin pg_stat_statements to 1.11.

Author: Dmitry Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220612091253.eegstkufdsu4kfls@erthalion.local
2023-09-08 15:05:12 +02:00
Daniel Gustafsson 6fe3cefde4 doc: Extend documentation of PG_TEST_EXTRA
Extend the PG_TEST_EXTRA documentation to mention resource intensive
tests as well. The previous wording only mentioned special software
and security in the main paragraph, with resource usage listed on one
of the tests in the list.

Backpatch to v15 where f47ed79cc8 added wal_consistenct_checking as
a PG_TEST_EXTRA target.

Author: Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAN55FZ0OthTuBdiNkaX2BvxuHdK4Y1MVEb8_uEuD1yHMPmT9Og@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 15
2023-09-08 11:34:43 +02:00
Bruce Momjian 8438a3ffef doc: change "cross product" to "Cartesian product"
Reported-by: Erik Wienhold

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2053109544.160895.1684955437950@office.mailbox.org

Author: Erik Wienhold

Backpatch-through: master
2023-09-07 15:48:18 -04:00
Nathan Bossart 8c16ad3b43 Allow using syncfs() in frontend utilities.
This commit allows specifying a --sync-method in several frontend
utilities that must synchronize many files to disk (initdb,
pg_basebackup, pg_checksums, pg_dump, pg_rewind, and pg_upgrade).
On Linux, users can specify "syncfs" to synchronize the relevant
file systems instead of calling fsync() for every single file.  In
many cases, using syncfs() is much faster.

As with recovery_init_sync_method, this new option comes with some
caveats.  The descriptions of these caveats have been moved to a
new appendix section in the documentation.

Co-authored-by: Justin Pryzby
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier, Thomas Munro, Robert Haas, Justin Pryzby
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210930004340.GM831%40telsasoft.com
2023-09-06 16:27:16 -07:00
Bruce Momjian 059e4ee921 doc: mention that to_char() values are rounded
Reported-by: barsikdacat@gmail.com

Diagnosed-by: Laurenz Albe

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/168991536429.626.9957835774751337210@wrigleys.postgresql.org

Author: Laurenz Albe

Backpatch-through: 11
2023-09-06 16:52:24 -04:00
Bruce Momjian a899d07b24 doc: mention libpq regression tests
Reported-by: Ryo Matsumura

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/TYCPR01MB11316B3FB56EE54D70BF0CEF6E8E4A@TYCPR01MB11316.jpnprd01.prod.outlook.com

Backpatch-through: 11
2023-09-05 13:05:28 -04:00
Thomas Munro f691f5b80a Remove the "snapshot too old" feature.
Remove the old_snapshot_threshold setting and mechanism for producing
the error "snapshot too old", originally added by commit 848ef42b.
Unfortunately it had a number of known problems in terms of correctness
and performance, mostly reported by Andres in the course of his work on
snapshot scalability.  We agreed to remove it, after a long period
without an active plan to fix it.

This is certainly a desirable feature, and someone might propose a new
or improved implementation in the future.

Reported-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CACG%3DezYV%2BEvO135fLRdVn-ZusfVsTY6cH1OZqWtezuEYH6ciQA%40mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200401064008.qob7bfnnbu4w5cw4%40alap3.anarazel.de
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BTgmoY%3Daqf0zjTD%2B3dUWYkgMiNDegDLFjo%2B6ze%3DWtpik%2B3XqA%40mail.gmail.com
2023-09-05 19:53:43 +12:00
Etsuro Fujita 7ef5f5fb32 Doc: Improve documentation for creating custom scan paths.
This improves the documentation related to parallel query a little bit.

Reviewed by Richard Guo.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAPmGK159eJShAR4ek4Db8oHD4%2BZ18zwJkisEWkqRN-80BdDGFQ%40mail.gmail.com
2023-08-30 17:45:00 +09:00
Tatsuo Ishii 3c662643c4 Allow pgbench to exit immediately when any client is aborted.
Previously when client was aborted due to some error during
benchmarking, other clients continued their run until certain number
of transactions specified -t was reached or the time specified by -T
was expired. At the end, the results are printed with caution: "Run
was aborted; the above results are incomplete" shows.

New option "--exit-on-abort" allows pgbench to exit immediately in
this case so that users could quickly fix the cause of the failure and
try again another round of benchmarking.

Author: Yugo Nagata
Reviewed-by: Fabien COELHO, Tatsuo Ishii
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/flat/20230804130325.df32e60879c38c92bca64207%40sraoss.co.jp
2023-08-30 10:03:31 +09:00
Peter Eisentraut 63956bed7b Rename logical_replication_mode to debug_logical_replication_streaming
The logical_replication_mode GUC is intended for testing and debugging
purposes, but its current name may be misleading and encourage users to make
unnecessary changes.

To avoid confusion, renaming the GUC to a less misleading name
debug_logical_replication_streaming that casual users are less likely to mistakenly
assume needs to be modified in a regular logical replication setup.

Author: Hou Zhijie <houzj.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Smith <smithpb2250@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/d672d774-c44b-6fec-f993-793e744f169a%40eisentraut.org
2023-08-29 15:19:56 +02:00
Daniel Gustafsson f347ec76e2 Allow \watch queries to stop on minimum rows returned
When running a repeat query with \watch in psql, it can be
helpful to be able to stop the watch process when the query
no longer returns the expected amount of rows.  An example
would be to watch for the presence of a certain event in
pg_stat_activity and stopping when the event is no longer
present, or to watch an index creation and stop when the
index is created.

This adds a min_rows=MIN parameter to \watch which can be
set to a non-negative integer, and the watch query will
stop executing when it returns less than MIN rows.

Author: Greg Sabino Mullane <htamfids@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAKAnmmKStATuddYxP71L+p0DHtp9Rvjze3XRoy0Dyw67VQ45UA@mail.gmail.com
2023-08-29 11:30:11 +02:00
Alvaro Herrera b0e96f3119
Catalog not-null constraints
We now create contype='n' pg_constraint rows for not-null constraints.

We propagate these constraints to other tables during operations such as
adding inheritance relationships, creating and attaching partitions and
creating tables LIKE other tables.  We also spawn not-null constraints
for inheritance child tables when their parents have primary keys.
These related constraints mostly follow the well-known rules of
conislocal and coninhcount that we have for CHECK constraints, with some
adaptations: for example, as opposed to CHECK constraints, we don't
match not-null ones by name when descending a hierarchy to alter it,
instead matching by column name that they apply to.  This means we don't
require the constraint names to be identical across a hierarchy.

For now, we omit them for system catalogs.  Maybe this is worth
reconsidering.  We don't support NOT VALID nor DEFERRABLE clauses
either; these can be added as separate features later (this patch is
already large and complicated enough.)

psql shows these constraints in \d+.

pg_dump requires some ad-hoc hacks, particularly when dumping a primary
key.  We now create one "throwaway" not-null constraint for each column
in the PK together with the CREATE TABLE command, and once the PK is
created, all those throwaway constraints are removed.  This avoids
having to check each tuple for nullness when the dump restores the
primary key creation.

pg_upgrading from an older release requires a somewhat brittle procedure
to create a constraint state that matches what would be created if the
database were being created fresh in Postgres 17.  I have tested all the
scenarios I could think of, and it works correctly as far as I can tell,
but I could have neglected weird cases.

This patch has been very long in the making.  The first patch was
written by Bernd Helmle in 2010 to add a new pg_constraint.contype value
('n'), which I (Álvaro) then hijacked in 2011 and 2012, until that one
was killed by the realization that we ought to use contype='c' instead:
manufactured CHECK constraints.  However, later SQL standard
development, as well as nonobvious emergent properties of that design
(mostly, failure to distinguish them from "normal" CHECK constraints as
well as the performance implication of having to test the CHECK
expression) led us to reconsider this choice, so now the current
implementation uses contype='n' again.  During Postgres 16 this had
already been introduced by commit e056c557ae, but there were some
problems mainly with the pg_upgrade procedure that couldn't be fixed in
reasonable time, so it was reverted.

In 2016 Vitaly Burovoy also worked on this feature[1] but found no
consensus for his proposed approach, which was claimed to be closer to
the letter of the standard, requiring an additional pg_attribute column
to track the OID of the not-null constraint for that column.
[1] https://postgr.es/m/CAKOSWNkN6HSyatuys8xZxzRCR-KL1OkHS5-b9qd9bf1Rad3PLA@mail.gmail.com

Author: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Author: Bernd Helmle <mailings@oopsware.de>
Reviewed-by: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>
Reviewed-by: Dean Rasheed <dean.a.rasheed@gmail.com>
2023-08-25 13:31:24 +02:00
Nathan Bossart 260a1f18da Add to_bin() and to_oct().
This commit introduces functions for converting numbers to their
equivalent binary and octal representations.  Also, the base
conversion code for these functions and to_hex() has been moved to
a common helper function.

Co-authored-by: Eric Radman
Reviewed-by: Ian Barwick, Dag Lem, Vignesh C, Tom Lane, Peter Eisentraut, Kirk Wolak, Vik Fearing, John Naylor, Dean Rasheed
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/Y6IyTQQ/TsD5wnsH%40vm3.eradman.com
2023-08-23 07:49:03 -07:00
Daniel Gustafsson ee99330a0b doc: Replace list of drivers and PLs with wiki link
The list of external language drivers and procedural languages was
never complete or exhaustive, and rather than attempting to manage
it the content has migrated to the wiki.  This replaces the tables
altogether with links to the wiki as we regularly get requests for
adding various projects,  which we reject without any clear policy
for why or how the content should be managed.

The threads linked to below are the most recent discussions about
this, the archives contain many more.

Backpatch to all supported branches since the list on the wiki
applies to all branches.

Author: Jonathan Katz <jkatz@postgresql.org>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/169165415312.635.10247434927885764880@wrigleys.postgresql.org
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/169177958824.635.11087800083040275266@wrigleys.postgresql.org
Backpatch-through: v11
2023-08-23 14:13:07 +02:00
Peter Eisentraut 17ec2c5dfa doc: Add more ICU rules examples
In particular, add an example EBCDIC collation.

Author: Daniel Verite <daniel@manitou-mail.org>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/35cc1684-e516-4a01-a256-351632d47066@manitou-mail.org
2023-08-23 11:23:42 +02:00
Peter Eisentraut ed057fb687 doc: Improve ICU external link
It previously pointed to the collation API documentation, which our
users don't need, but the containing chapter seems useful.
2023-08-23 08:25:56 +02:00
Peter Eisentraut ed9330cff5 Improve vertical spacing of documentation markup 2023-08-23 08:12:50 +02:00
Michael Paquier 1e68e43d3f Add system view pg_wait_events
This new view, wrapped around a SRF, shows some information known about
wait events, as of:
- Name.
- Type (Activity, I/O, Extension, etc.).
- Description.

All the information retrieved comes from wait_event_names.txt, and the
description is the same as the documentation with filters applied to
remove any XML markups.  This view is useful when joined with
pg_stat_activity to get the description of a wait event reported.

Custom wait events for extensions are included in the view.

Original idea by Yves Colin.

Author: Bertrand Drouvot
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi, Masahiro Ikeda, Tom Lane, Michael
Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/0e2ae164-dc89-03c3-cf7f-de86378053ac@gmail.com
2023-08-20 15:35:02 +09:00
Peter Eisentraut 78806a9509 Remove incorrect field from information schema
The source code comment already said that the presence of the field
element_types.domain_default might be a bug in the standard, since it
never made sense there.  Indeed, the field is gone in newer versions
of the standard.  So just remove it.
2023-08-16 13:46:26 +02:00
Etsuro Fujita 9e9931d2bf Re-allow FDWs and custom scan providers to replace joins with pseudoconstant quals.
This was disabled in commit 6f80a8d9c due to the lack of support for
handling of pseudoconstant quals assigned to replaced joins in
createplan.c.  To re-allow it, this patch adds the support by 1)
modifying the ForeignPath and CustomPath structs so that if they
represent foreign and custom scans replacing a join with a scan, they
store the list of RestrictInfo nodes to apply to the join, as in
JoinPaths, and by 2) modifying create_scan_plan() in createplan.c so
that it uses that list in that case, instead of the baserestrictinfo
list, to get pseudoconstant quals assigned to the join, as mentioned in
the commit message for that commit.

Important item for the release notes: this is non-backwards-compatible
since it modifies the ForeignPath and CustomPath structs, as mentioned
above, and changes the argument lists for FDW helper functions
create_foreignscan_path(), create_foreign_join_path(), and
create_foreign_upper_path().

Richard Guo, with some additional changes by me, reviewed by Nishant
Sharma, Suraj Kharage, and Richard Guo.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CADrsxdbcN1vejBaf8a%2BQhrZY5PXL-04mCd4GDu6qm6FigDZd6Q%40mail.gmail.com
2023-08-15 16:45:00 +09:00
Michael Paquier af720b4c50 Change custom wait events to use dynamic shared hash tables
Currently, the names of the custom wait event must be registered for
each backend, requiring all these to link to the shared memory area of
an extension, even if these are not loaded with
shared_preload_libraries.

This patch relaxes the constraints related to this infrastructure by
storing the wait events and their names in two dynamic hash tables in
shared memory.  This has the advantage to simplify the registration of
custom wait events to a single routine call that returns an event ID
ready for consumption:
uint32 WaitEventExtensionNew(const char *wait_event_name);

The caller of this routine can then cache locally the ID returned, to be
used for pgstat_report_wait_start(), WaitLatch() or a similar routine.

The implementation uses two hash tables: one with a key based on the
event name to avoid duplicates and a second using the event ID as key
for event lookups, like on pg_stat_activity.  These tables can hold a
minimum of 16 entries, and a maximum of 128 entries, which should be plenty
enough.

The code changes done in worker_spi show how things are simplified (most
of the code removed in this commit comes from there):
- worker_spi_init() is gone.
- No more shared memory hooks required (size requested and
initialization).
- The custom wait event ID is cached in the process that needs to set
it, with one single call to WaitEventExtensionNew() to retrieve it.

Per suggestion from Andres Freund.

Author: Masahiro Ikeda, with a few tweaks from me.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20230801032349.aaiuvhtrcvvcwzcx@awork3.anarazel.de
2023-08-14 14:47:27 +09:00
Etsuro Fujita 74a2dfee22 Doc: update documentation for creating custom scan paths.
Commit f49842d1e added a new callback for custom scan paths, but missed
updating the documentation.

Back-patch to all supported branches.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAPmGK15ODkN%2B%3DhkBCufj1HBW0x5OTb65Xuy7ryXchMdiCMpx_g%40mail.gmail.com
2023-08-03 17:45:00 +09:00
Michael Paquier c9af054653 Support custom wait events for wait event type "Extension"
Two backend routines are added to allow extension to allocate and define
custom wait events, all of these being allocated in the type
"Extension":
* WaitEventExtensionNew(), that allocates a wait event ID computed from
a counter in shared memory.
* WaitEventExtensionRegisterName(), to associate a custom string to the
wait event ID allocated.

Note that this includes an example of how to use this new facility in
worker_spi with tests in TAP for various scenarios, and some
documentation about how to use them.

Any code in the tree that currently uses WAIT_EVENT_EXTENSION could
switch to this new facility to define custom wait events.  This is left
as work for future patches.

Author: Masahiro Ikeda
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund, Michael Paquier, Tristan Partin, Bharath
Rupireddy
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/b9f5411acda0cf15c8fbb767702ff43e@oss.nttdata.com
2023-07-31 17:09:24 +09:00
Nathan Bossart 6d982e3b3b Harmonize password reuse in vacuumdb, clusterdb, and reindexdb.
Commits 83dec5a712 and ff402ae11b taught vacuumdb to reuse
passwords instead of prompting repeatedly.  However, the docs still
warn about repeated prompts, and this improvement was not applied
to clusterdb and reindexdb.  This commit allows clusterdb and
reindexdb to reuse passwords just like vacuumdb does, and it
expunges the aforementioned warnings from the docs.

Reviewed-by: Gurjeet Singh, Zhang Mingli
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20230628045741.GA1813397%40nathanxps13
2023-07-28 10:07:44 -07:00
Amit Langote e055b6be7e doc: add missing <returnvalue> and whitespace
Missed in commit 03734a7fed.

Author: Shinoda, Noriyoshi <noriyoshi.shinoda@hpe.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/DM4PR84MB1734E58BB4DC0E1B6E2990EBEE01A%40DM4PR84MB1734.NAMPRD84.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM
2023-07-28 16:05:44 +09:00
Amit Langote 03734a7fed Add more SQL/JSON constructor functions
This Patch introduces three SQL standard JSON functions:

JSON()
JSON_SCALAR()
JSON_SERIALIZE()

JSON() produces json values from text, bytea, json or jsonb values,
and has facilitites for handling duplicate keys.

JSON_SCALAR() produces a json value from any scalar sql value,
including json and jsonb.

JSON_SERIALIZE() produces text or bytea from input which containis
or represents json or jsonb;

For the most part these functions don't add any significant new
capabilities, but they will be of use to users wanting standard
compliant JSON handling.

Catversion bumped as this changes ruleutils.c.

Author: Nikita Glukhov <n.gluhov@postgrespro.ru>
Author: Teodor Sigaev <teodor@sigaev.ru>
Author: Oleg Bartunov <obartunov@gmail.com>
Author: Alexander Korotkov <aekorotkov@gmail.com>
Author: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
Author: Amit Langote <amitlangote09@gmail.com>

Reviewers have included (in no particular order) Andres Freund, Alexander
Korotkov, Pavel Stehule, Andrew Alsup, Erik Rijkers, Zihong Yu,
Himanshu Upadhyaya, Daniel Gustafsson, Justin Pryzby, Álvaro Herrera,
Peter Eisentraut

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/cd0bb935-0158-78a7-08b5-904886deac4b@postgrespro.ru
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220616233130.rparivafipt6doj3@alap3.anarazel.de
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/abd9b83b-aa66-f230-3d6d-734817f0995d%40postgresql.org
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+HiwqE4XTdfb1nW=Ojoy_tQSRhYt-q_kb6i5d4xcKyrLC1Nbg@mail.gmail.com
2023-07-26 17:08:33 +09:00
Michael Paquier e35cc3b3f2 pgbench: Use COPY for client-side data generation
This commit switches the client-side data generation from INSERT queries
to COPY for the two tables pgbench_branches and pgbench_tellers.
pgbench_accounts was already using COPY.

COPY is a better interface for bulk loading or high latency connections
(this point can be countered with the option for server-side data
generation, still client-side is the default), and measurements have
proved that using it for these two other tables can lead to improvements
during initialization.  I did not notice slowdowns at large scale
numbers on a local setup, either, most of the work happening for the
accounts table.

Previously COPY was only used for the pgbench_accounts table because the
amount of data was much larger than the two other tables.  The code is
refactored so as all three tables use the same code path to execute the
COPY queries, with a callback to build data rows.

Author: Tristan Partin
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CSTU5P82ONZ1.19XFUGHMXHBRY@c3po
2023-07-24 13:48:22 +09:00
Daniel Gustafsson 29a0ccbce9 Revert "Add notBefore and notAfter to SSL cert info display"
Due to an oversight in reviewing, this used functionality not
compatible with old versions of OpenSSL.

This reverts commit 75ec5e7bec.
2023-07-20 17:18:12 +02:00
Daniel Gustafsson 75ec5e7bec Add notBefore and notAfter to SSL cert info display
This adds the X509 attributes notBefore and notAfter to sslinfo
as well as pg_stat_ssl to allow verifying and identifying the
validity period of the current client certificate.

Author: Cary Huang <cary.huang@highgo.ca>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/182b8565486.10af1a86f158715.2387262617218380588@highgo.ca
2023-07-20 17:07:32 +02:00
Nathan Bossart ab29a7a9c6 Doc: move unparenthesized syntaxes for a few commands.
Move documentation of the unparenthesized syntaxes for VACUUM,
ANALYZE, EXPLAIN, and CLUSTER to the "Compatibility" section of
their documentation to improve readability of the preferred,
parenthesized syntaxes.

Author: Melanie Plageman
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAAKRu_bc5uHieG1976kGqJKxyWtyQt9yvktjsVX%2Bi7NOigDjOA%40mail.gmail.com
2023-07-19 15:26:59 -07:00
Nathan Bossart cdaedfc96d Support parenthesized syntax for CLUSTER without a table name.
b5913f6120 added a parenthesized syntax for CLUSTER, but it
requires specifying a table name.  This is unlike commands such as
VACUUM and ANALYZE, which do not require specifying a table in the
parenthesized syntax.  This change resolves this inconsistency.
This is preparatory work for a follow-up commit that will move the
unparenthesized syntax to the "Compatibility" section of the
CLUSTER documentation.

Reviewed-by: Melanie Plageman, Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAAKRu_bc5uHieG1976kGqJKxyWtyQt9yvktjsVX%2Bi7NOigDjOA%40mail.gmail.com
2023-07-19 15:26:52 -07:00
Nathan Bossart 018b61f81b Rearrange CLUSTER rules in gram.y.
This change moves the unparenthesized syntax for CLUSTER to the end
of the ClusterStmt rules in preparation for a follow-up commit that
will move this syntax to the "Compatibility" section of the CLUSTER
documentation.  The documentation for the CLUSTER syntaxes has also
been consolidated.

Suggested-by: Melanie Plageman
Discussion https://postgr.es/m/CAAKRu_bc5uHieG1976kGqJKxyWtyQt9yvktjsVX%2Bi7NOigDjOA%40mail.gmail.com
2023-07-19 15:26:43 -07:00
Tom Lane d65ddaca93 Add psql \drg command to display role grants.
With the addition of INHERIT and SET options for role grants,
the historical display of role memberships in \du/\dg is woefully
inadequate.  Besides those options, there are pre-existing
shortcomings that you can't see the ADMIN option nor the grantor.

To fix this, remove the "Member of" column from \du/\dg altogether
(making that output usefully narrower), and invent a new meta-command
"\drg" that is specifically for displaying role memberships.  It
shows one row for each role granted to the selected role(s), with
the grant options and grantor.

We would not normally back-patch such a feature addition post
feature freeze, but in this case the change is mainly driven by
v16 changes in the server, so it seems appropriate to include it
in v16.

Pavel Luzanov, with bikeshedding and review from a lot of people,
but particularly David Johnston

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/b9be2d0e-a9bc-0a30-492f-a4f68e4f7740@postgrespro.ru
2023-07-19 12:46:30 -04:00
Tom Lane 15c68cd84a Doc: improve description of IN and row-constructor comparisons.
IN and NOT IN work fine on records and arrays, so just say that
they accept "expressions" not "scalar expressions".  I think that
that phrasing was meant to say that they don't work on set-returning
expressions, but that's not the common meaning of "scalar".

Revise the description of row-constructor comparisons to make it
perhaps a bit less confusing.  (This partially reverts some
dubious wording changes made by commit f56651519.)

Per gripe from Ilya Nenashev.  Back-patch to supported branches.
In HEAD and v16, also drop a NOTE about pre-8.2 behavior, which
is hopefully no longer of interest to anybody.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/168968062460.632.14303906825812821399@wrigleys.postgresql.org
2023-07-19 11:00:34 -04:00
Michael Paquier 3f8c98d0b6 pg_archivecleanup: Add --clean-backup-history
By default, pg_archivecleanup does not remove backup history files.
These are just few bytes useful for debugging purposes, still keeping
them around can bloat an archive path history files mixed with the WAL
segments if the path has a long history.

This patch adds a new option to control if backup history files are
removed, depending on the oldest segment name to keep around.

While on it, the TAP tests are refactored so as these are now able to
handle lists of files.  Each file has a flag to track if it should still
exist or not depending on the oldest segment defined with the command
run.

Author: Atsushi Torikoshi
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi, Fujii Masao, Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/d660ef741ce3d82f3b4283f1cafd576c@oss.nttdata.com
2023-07-19 13:41:22 +09:00
Amit Kapila 961cf5c905 Doc: Update the logical replication restriction w.r.t Replica Identity Full.
Author: Kuroda Hayato
Reviewed-by: Peter Smith, Onder Kalaci, Sergei Kornilov, Amit Kapila
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/TYAPR01MB58662174ED62648E0D611194F530A@TYAPR01MB5866.jpnprd01.prod.outlook.com
2023-07-19 08:11:44 +05:30
Tom Lane 137b131d6f Doc: fix out-of-date example of SPI usage.
The "count" argument of SPI_exec() only limits execution when
the query is actually returning rows.  This was not the case
before PG 9.0, so this example was correct when written; but
we missed updating it in commit 2ddc600f8.  Extend the example
to show the behavior both with and without RETURNING.

While here, improve the commentary and markup for the rest
of the example.

David G. Johnston and Tom Lane, per report from Curt Kolovson.
Back-patch to all supported branches.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CANhYJV6HWtgz_qjx_APfK0PAgLUzY-2vjLuj7i_o=TZF1LAQew@mail.gmail.com
2023-07-18 11:59:39 -04:00
Nathan Bossart 884eee5bfb Remove db_user_namespace.
This feature was intended to be a temporary measure to support
per-database user names.  A better one hasn't materialized in the
~21 years since it was added, and nobody claims to be using it, so
let's just remove it.

Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier, Magnus Hagander
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20230630200509.GA2830328%40nathanxps13
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20230630215608.GD2941194%40nathanxps13
2023-07-17 11:44:59 -07:00
Nathan Bossart a0363ab7aa Fix privilege check for SET SESSION AUTHORIZATION.
Presently, the privilege check for SET SESSION AUTHORIZATION checks
whether the original authenticated role was a superuser at
connection start time.  Even if the role loses the superuser
attribute, its existing sessions are permitted to change session
authorization to any role.

This commit modifies this privilege check to verify the original
authenticated role currently has superuser.  In the event that the
authenticated role loses superuser within a session authorization
change, the authorization change will remain in effect, which means
the user can still take advantage of the target role's privileges.
However, [RE]SET SESSION AUTHORIZATION will only permit switching
to the original authenticated role.

Author: Joseph Koshakow
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAAvxfHc-HHzONQ2oXdvhFF9ayRnidPwK%2BfVBhRzaBWYYLVQL-g%40mail.gmail.com
2023-07-13 21:13:45 -07:00
Amit Kapila edca342434 Allow the use of a hash index on the subscriber during replication.
Commit 89e46da5e5 allowed using BTREE indexes that are neither
PRIMARY KEY nor REPLICA IDENTITY on the subscriber during apply of
update/delete. This patch extends that functionality to also allow HASH
indexes.

We explored supporting other index access methods as well but they don't
have a fixed strategy for equality operation which is required by the
current infrastructure in logical replication to scan the indexes.

Author: Kuroda Hayato
Reviewed-by: Peter Smith, Onder Kalaci, Amit Kapila
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/TYAPR01MB58669D7414E59664E17A5827F522A@TYAPR01MB5866.jpnprd01.prod.outlook.com
2023-07-14 08:21:54 +05:30
Thomas Munro d0c28601ef Remove wal_sync_method=fsync_writethrough on Windows.
The "fsync" level already flushes drive write caches on Windows (as does
"fdatasync"), so it only confuses matters to have an apparently higher
level that isn't actually different at all.

That leaves "fsync_writethrough" only for macOS, where it actually does
something different.

Reviewed-by: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKGJ2CG2SouPv2mca2WCTOJxYumvBARRcKPraFMB6GSEMcA%40mail.gmail.com
2023-07-14 12:30:13 +12:00
Andres Freund c66a7d75e6 Handle DROP DATABASE getting interrupted
Until now, when DROP DATABASE got interrupted in the wrong moment, the removal
of the pg_database row would also roll back, even though some irreversible
steps have already been taken. E.g. DropDatabaseBuffers() might have thrown
out dirty buffers, or files could have been unlinked. But we continued to
allow connections to such a corrupted database.

To fix this, mark databases invalid with an in-place update, just before
starting to perform irreversible steps. As we can't add a new column in the
back branches, we use pg_database.datconnlimit = -2 for this purpose.

An invalid database cannot be connected to anymore, but can still be
dropped.

Unfortunately we can't easily add output to psql's \l to indicate that some
database is invalid, it doesn't fit in any of the existing columns.

Add tests verifying that a interrupted DROP DATABASE is handled correctly in
the backend and in various tools.

Reported-by: Evgeny Morozov <postgresql3@realityexists.net>
Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20230509004637.cgvmfwrbht7xm7p6@awork3.anarazel.de
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20230314174521.74jl6ffqsee5mtug@awork3.anarazel.de
Backpatch: 11-, bug present in all supported versions
2023-07-13 13:03:28 -07:00
Masahiko Sawada fd48a86c62 Doc: clarify the conditions of usable indexes for REPLICA IDENTITY FULL tables.
Commit 89e46da5e allowed REPLICA IDENTITY FULL tables to use an index
on the subscriber during apply of update/delete. This commit clarifies
in the documentation that the leftmost field of candidate indexes must
be a column (not an expression) that references the published relation
column.

The source code comments are also updated accordingly.

Reviewed-by: Peter Smith, Amit Kapila
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAD21AoDJjffEvUFKXT27Q5U8-UU9JHv4rrJ9Ke8Zkc5UPWHLvA@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 16
2023-07-13 15:03:17 +09:00
Daniel Gustafsson e68dd9e907 doc: Clarify the errhint example
The errhint example wasn't using the mandated style for errhint
which was needlessly confusing.  Fix by rewriting it using the
mandated style.

Reported-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reviewed-by: Gurjeet Singh <gurjeet@singh.im>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan S. Katz <jkatz@postgresql.org>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/F02F4B4F-7B7E-406A-B25A-FF2AA300AB9A@yesql.se
2023-07-12 19:38:51 +02:00
Peter Eisentraut 8c852ba9a4 Allow some exclusion constraints on partitions
Previously we only allowed unique B-tree constraints on partitions
(and only if the constraint included all the partition keys).  But we
could allow exclusion constraints with the same restriction.  We also
require that those columns be compared for equality, not something
like &&.

Author: Paul A. Jungwirth <pj@illuminatedcomputing.com>
Reviewed-by: Ronan Dunklau <ronan.dunklau@aiven.io>
Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/ec8b1d9b-502e-d1f8-e909-1bf9dffe6fa5@illuminatedcomputing.com
2023-07-12 09:25:17 +02:00
Thomas Munro ce0b0fa3e7 Doc: Adjust libpq docs about thread safety.
Describe the situation now that --disable-thread-safety is gone.

Author: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKGLtmexrpMtxBRLCVePqV_dtWG-ZsEbyPrYc%2BNBB2TkNsw%40mail.gmail.com
2023-07-12 08:57:55 +12:00
Thomas Munro 68a4b58eca Remove --disable-thread-safety and related code.
All supported computers have either POSIX or Windows threads, and we no
longer have any automated testing of --disable-thread-safety.  We define
a vestigial ENABLE_THREAD_SAFETY macro to 1 in ecpg_config.h in case it
is useful, but we no longer test it anywhere in PostgreSQL code, and
associated dead code paths are removed.

The Meson and perl-based Windows build scripts never had an equivalent
build option.

Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
Reviewed-by: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKGLtmexrpMtxBRLCVePqV_dtWG-ZsEbyPrYc%2BNBB2TkNsw%40mail.gmail.com
2023-07-12 08:20:43 +12:00
Masahiko Sawada 46ebdfe164 Report index vacuum progress.
This commit adds two columns: indexes_total and indexes_processed, to
pg_stat_progress_vacuum system view to show the index vacuum
progress. These numbers are reported in the "vacuuming indexes" and
"cleaning up indexes" phases.

This uses the new parallel message type for progress reporting added
by be06506e7.

Bump catversion because this changes the definition of
pg_stat_progress_vacuum.

Author: Sami Imseih
Reviewed by: Masahiko Sawada, Michael Paquier, Nathan Bossart, Andres Freund
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/5478DFCD-2333-401A-B2F0-0D186AB09228@amazon.com
2023-07-11 12:34:01 +09:00
Peter Eisentraut 3c963d33ea doc: Use proper markup for emphasis 2023-07-09 10:02:15 +02:00
Peter Eisentraut be2ab58f62 doc: Move DEFAULT parameter on COPY reference page
The DEFAULT parameter seems most similar to the NULL parameter, so
move it next to it, instead of having it at the end of the parameter
list because it was the last one added.
2023-07-09 09:48:16 +02:00
Peter Eisentraut f8d03ea727 Remove unnecessary unbind in LDAP search+bind mode
Comments in src/backend/libpq/auth.c say: (after successfully finding
the final DN to check the user-supplied password against)

/* Unbind and disconnect from the LDAP server */

and later

/*
 * Need to re-initialize the LDAP connection, so that we can bind to
 * it with a different username.
 */

But the protocol actually permits multiple subsequent authentications
("binds") over a single connection.

So, it seems like the whole connection re-initialization thing was
just a confusion and can be safely removed, thus saving quite a few
network round-trips, especially for the case of ldaps/starttls.

Author: Anatoly Zaretsky <anatoly.zaretsky@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CALbq6kmJ-1+58df4B51ctPfTOSyPbY8Qi2=ct8oR=i4TamkUoQ@mail.gmail.com
2023-07-09 08:51:46 +02:00
David Rowley c23e7ea4d6 Doc: update old reference to "result cache"
During the PostgreSQL 14 cycle, the Memoize executor node was briefly
called "Result Cache" until it was renamed in 83f4fcc65.  That commit
missed one reference.

Reported-by: Paul A Jungwirth
Packpatch-through: 14, where Memoize was added
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+renyX=40YXhsfPTzn13oNOPO3TJ12CK9GX-2P2pvnQiScefA@mail.gmail.com
2023-07-09 16:14:00 +12:00
Nathan Bossart 151c22deee Revert MAINTAIN privilege and pg_maintain predefined role.
This reverts the following commits: 4dbdb82513, c2122aae63,
5b1a879943, 9e1e9d6560, ff9618e82a, 60684dd834, 4441fc704d,
and b5d6382496.  A role with the MAINTAIN privilege may be able to
use search_path tricks to escalate privileges to the table owner.
Unfortunately, it is too late in the v16 development cycle to apply
the proposed fix, i.e., restricting search_path when running
maintenance commands.

Bumps catversion.

Reviewed-by: Jeff Davis
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/E1q7j7Y-000z1H-Hr%40gemulon.postgresql.org
Backpatch-through: 16
2023-07-07 11:25:13 -07:00
Michael Paquier a14354cac0 Add GUC parameter "huge_pages_status"
This is useful to show the allocation state of huge pages when setting
up a server with "huge_pages = try", where allocating huge pages would
be attempted but the server would continue its startup sequence even if
the allocation fails.  The effective status of huge pages is not easily
visible without OS-level tools (or for instance, a lookup at
/proc/N/smaps), and the environments where Postgres runs may not
authorize that.  Like the other GUCs related to huge pages, this works
for Linux and Windows.

This GUC can report as values:
- "on", if huge pages were allocated.
- "off", if huge pages were not allocated.
- "unknown", a special state that could only be seen when using for
example postgres -C because it is only possible to know if the shared
memory allocation worked after we can check for the GUC values, even if
checking a runtime-computed GUC.  This value should never be seen when
querying for the GUC on a running server.  An assertion is added to
check that.

The discussion has also turned around having a new function to grab this
status, but this would have required more tricks for -DEXEC_BACKEND,
something that GUCs already handle.

Noriyoshi Shinoda has initiated the thread that has led to the result of
this commit.

Author: Justin Pryzby
Reviewed-by: Nathan Bossart, Kyotaro Horiguchi, Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/TU4PR8401MB1152EBB0D271F827E2E37A01EECC9@TU4PR8401MB1152.NAMPRD84.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM
2023-07-06 14:42:36 +09:00
Michael Paquier fa88928470 Generate automatically code and documentation related to wait events
The documentation and the code is generated automatically from a new
file called wait_event_names.txt, formatted in sections dedicated to
each wait event class (Timeout, Lock, IO, etc.) with three tab-separated
fields:
- C symbol in enums
- Format in the system views
- Description in the docs

Using this approach has several advantages, as we have proved to be
rather bad in maintaining this area of the tree across the years:
- The order of each item in the documentation and the code, which should
be alphabetical, has become incorrect multiple times, and the script
generating the code and documentation has a few rules to enforce that,
making the maintenance a no-brainer.
- Some wait events were added to the code, but not documented, so this
cannot be missed now.
- The order of the tables for each wait event class is enforced in the
documentation (the input .txt file does so as well for clarity, though
this is not mandatory).
- Less code, shaving 1.2k lines from the tree, with 1/3 of the savings
coming from the code, the rest from the documentation.

The wait event types "Lock" and "LWLock" still have their own code path
for their code, hence only the documentation is created for them.  These
classes are listed with a special marker called WAIT_EVENT_DOCONLY in
the input file.

Adding a new wait event now requires only an update of
wait_event_names.txt, with "Lock" and "LWLock" treated as exceptions.

This commit has been tested with configure/Makefile, the CI and VPATH
build.  clean, distclean and maintainer-clean were working fine.

Author: Bertrand Drouvot, Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/77a86b3a-c4a8-5f5d-69b9-d70bbf2e9b98@gmail.com
2023-07-05 10:53:11 +09:00
Michael Paquier 28b5726561 libpq: Add support for Close on portals and statements
The following routines are added to libpq:
PGresult *PQclosePrepared(PGconn *conn, const char *stmt);
PGresult *PQclosePortal(PGconn *conn, const char *portal);
int PQsendClosePrepared(PGconn *conn, const char *stmt);
int PQsendClosePortal(PGconn *conn, const char *portal);

The "send" routines are non-blocking versions of the two others.

Close messages are part of the protocol but they did not have a libpq
implementation.  And, having these routines is for instance useful with
connection poolers as these can detect more easily Close messages
than DEALLOCATE queries.

The implementation takes advantage of what the Describe routines rely on
for portals and statements.  Some regression tests are added in
libpq_pipeline, for the four new routines, by closing portals and
statements created already by the tests.

Author: Jelte Fennema
Reviewed-by: Jian He, Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAGECzQTb4xFAopAVokudB+L62Kt44mNAL4Z9zZ7UTrs1TRFvWA@mail.gmail.com
2023-07-04 14:48:10 +09:00
Nathan Bossart 957845789b Increase size of bgw_library_name.
This commit increases the size of the bgw_library_name member of
the BackgroundWorker struct from BGW_MAXLEN (96) bytes to MAXPGPATH
(default of 1024) bytes so that it can store longer file names
(e.g., absolute paths).

Author: Yurii Rashkovskii
Reviewed-by: Daniel Gustafsson, Aleksander Alekseev
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BRLCQyjFV5Y8tG5QgUb6gjteL4S3p%2B1gcyqWTqigyM93WZ9Pg%40mail.gmail.com
2023-07-03 15:02:16 -07:00
Peter Eisentraut 3ee2f25d21 Change type of pg_statistic_ext.stxstattarget
Change from int32 to int16, to match attstattarget (changed in
90189eefc1).

Reviewed-by: Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@enterprisedb.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/d6069765-5971-04d3-c10d-e4f7b2e9c459%40eisentraut.org
2023-07-03 07:18:57 +02:00
Michael Paquier 8e278b6576 Remove support for OpenSSL 1.0.1
Here are some notes about this change:
- As X509_get_signature_nid() should always exist (OpenSSL and
LibreSSL), hence HAVE_X509_GET_SIGNATURE_NID is now gone.
- OPENSSL_API_COMPAT is bumped to 0x10002000L.
- One comment related to 1.0.1e introduced by 74242c2 is removed.

Upstream OpenSSL still provides long-term support for 1.0.2 in a closed
fashion, so removing it is out of scope for a few years, at least.

Reviewed-by: Jacob Champion, Daniel Gustafsson
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ZG3JNursG69dz1lr@paquier.xyz
2023-07-03 13:20:27 +09:00
Michael Paquier 8c12838001 Make PG_TEST_NOCLEAN work for temporary directories in TAP tests
When set, this environment variable was only effective for data
directories but not for all the other temporary files created by
PostgreSQL::Test::Utils.  Keeping the temporary files after a successful
run can be useful for debugging purposes.

The documentation is updated to reflect the new behavior, with contents
available in doc/ since v16 and in src/test/perl/README since v15.

Author: Jacob Champion
Reviewed-by: Daniel Gustafsson
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAAWbhmgHtDH1SGZ+Fw05CsXtE0mzTmjbuUxLB9mY9iPKgM6cUw@mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/YyPd9unV14SX2bLF@paquier.xyz
Backpatch-through: 11
2023-07-03 10:06:04 +09:00
Michael Paquier dd7c60f193 Introduce long options in pg_archivecleanup
This patch is a preliminary refactoring for an upcoming patch aimed at
adding new options to this tool, and using long options for these is
more user-friendly.  The existing short options gain long flavors, as
of:
* -d/--debug
* -n/--dry-run
* -x/--strip-extension

Author: Atsushi Torikoshi
Reviewed-by: Fujii Masao, Kyotaro Horiguchi, Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/d660ef741ce3d82f3b4283f1cafd576c@oss.nttdata.com
2023-06-30 15:47:11 +09:00
Tom Lane 5bcc7e6dc8 Stamp HEAD as 17devel.
Let the hacking begin ...
2023-06-29 19:05:23 -04:00
Tom Lane ac1e974221 Doc: minor wording adjustments in transaction isolation discussion.
Re-word for more clarity, per gripe from Anton Sidyakin.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/168745911769.2239590.6062411529242609290@wrigleys.postgresql.org
2023-06-28 12:48:14 -04:00
Michael Paquier b381d96370 Add timeline ID to file names generated with pg_waldump --save-fullpage
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
2023-06-28 16:26:55 +09:00
Bruce Momjian 228a2fab9c doc: PG 16 relnotes, update for beta 2 2023-06-26 13:44:40 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 239fd118b0 doc: rename "decades" to be more generic
Reported-by: Michael Paquier

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ZJTzwD2rTbHWWQ9g@paquier.xyz

Backpatch-through: 11
2023-06-23 22:50:55 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut b63cda34e2 doc: Improve punctuation 2023-06-23 14:48:38 +02:00
Peter Eisentraut 37a6d81c45 doc: Clean up title case use 2023-06-23 14:14:57 +02:00
Nathan Bossart c2122aae63 Improve privilege documentation for maintenance commands.
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
2023-06-22 15:48:38 -07:00
Nathan Bossart 4dbdb82513 Fix cache lookup hazards introduced by ff9618e82a.
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
2023-06-22 15:48:20 -07:00
Amit Kapila f5c446e336 Doc: Clarify the behavior of triggers/rules in a logical subscriber.
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
2023-06-22 12:37:19 +05:30
David Rowley c2d35bb88e Doc: mention that extended stats aren't used for joins
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
2023-06-22 12:45:50 +12:00
Bruce Momjian 05ffc1fadb doc: update PG history as over "three decades"
Reported-by: Pierre <pbaumard@gmail.com>

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/168724660637.399156.7642965215720120947@wrigleys.postgresql.org

Backpatch-through: 11
2023-06-21 19:20:07 -04:00
Jeff Davis 2535c74b1a initdb: change default --locale-provider back to libc.
Reverts 27b62377b4.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/eff031036baa07f325de29215371a4c9e69d61f3.camel@j-davis.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3353947.1682092131@sss.pgh.pa.us
2023-06-21 11:10:03 -07:00
Amit Kapila a734caa25f Fix the errhint message and docs for drop subscription failure.
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
2023-06-21 10:36:09 +05:30
Bruce Momjian 8a300fc3af docs: adjust tag indenting and add MERGE mention
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAMpnoC4_WsY3gsY+ud-Z0GDbafR=K7t7cXn2gatEqFnsRNY3yQ@mail.gmail.com

Author: Will Mortensen
2023-06-20 13:15:18 -04:00
Jeff Davis a14e75eb0b CREATE DATABASE: make LOCALE apply to all collation providers.
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
2023-06-16 10:27:32 -07:00
Peter Eisentraut b93c63d197 doc: Move list entry to proper position 2023-06-13 15:00:52 +02:00
Bruce Momjian b9e3f8005c doc: PG 16 relnotes, add author
Reported-by: Masahiko Sawada

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAD21AoDP46y+1yUMikYWhCfkhSEuoXmHq2SV8_PyQoM1uWBRbg@mail.gmail.com
2023-06-09 21:04:28 -04:00
Fujii Masao 378d73ef20 doc: Fix example command for ALTER FOREIGN TABLE ... OPTIONS.
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
2023-06-08 20:12:51 +09:00
Peter Eisentraut fb5a7d84d2 doc: Fix confusing positioning of notes in connection settings
Reported-by: Jonathan S. Katz <jkatz@postgresql.org>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/6f825d42-a1ce-492a-2ea7-c83e6e65fa8b%40postgresql.org
2023-06-07 17:55:46 +02:00
Peter Eisentraut b0f6c43716 Remove read-only server settings lc_collate and lc_ctype
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
2023-06-07 16:57:06 +02:00
Bruce Momjian 3f1aaaa180 doc: PG 16 relnotes, fix PREPARE/EXECUTE wording
Reported-by: Erik Rijkers

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/73f361d0-237e-3413-224b-86ab6b71a3dd@xs4all.nl
2023-06-05 14:00:37 -04:00
David Rowley 8cddea9a53 Doc: unify use of timestamp with time zone vs timestamptz
For pg_stat_all_tables, last_vacuum, last_autovacuum and co all used the
full "timestamp with time zone" type name.  For consistency, make the
newly added "last_seq_scan" also use the full type name instead of
"timestamptz".

Author: Noriyoshi Shinoda
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/DM4PR84MB17348EA11FA90A9BE896AF89EE489%40DM4PR84MB1734.NAMPRD84.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM
2023-06-05 17:34:27 +12:00
Tom Lane 0211544969 Doc: explain about dependency tracking for new-style SQL functions.
5.14 Dependency Tracking was not updated when we added new-style
SQL functions.  Improve that.

Noted by Sami Imseih.  Back-patch to v14 where
new-style SQL functions came in.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2C1933AB-C2F8-499B-9D18-4AC1882256A0@amazon.com
2023-06-04 13:27:34 -04:00
Michael Paquier d0f4824a54 doc: Add note to prevent server spoofing with SCRAM
The set of recommendations added in the documentation with this commit
helps in avoiding SCRAM exchanges with untrusted servers.

Author: Jacob Champion, Jonathan Katz
Reviewed-by: Stephen Frost, Daniel Gustafsson, Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAAWbhmg5Gh0JetNbQi7z0yOsdsN9YECv8GoY-QBGBBiip9+JOw@mail.gmail.com
2023-06-03 17:44:09 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 47b7051bc8 doc: PG 16 relnotes, add psql \df+ source code change
Reported-by: bzm@2bz.de

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17957-e1db8b1c15af444a@postgresql.org
2023-06-01 19:59:46 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 9eb1817d5c doc: add missing "the" in LATERAL sentence.
Backpatch-through: 11
2023-06-01 10:22:16 -04:00
Bruce Momjian e6a254c0d4 doc: PG 16 relnotes, move memory item and reword OUTER item
Reported-by: David Rowley

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAApHDvqmqxcX2n9NwvsfnsN0be6DjmyLSjz3Jk2DaZO5OLW+pw@mail.gmail.com
2023-05-31 07:01:21 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 409d24485c doc: PG 16 relnotes, add memory overhead reduction item
Reported-by: David Rowley

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAApHDvqnUoyrJxS4uqnKo87b3_cUjaDDte4NQag49YHu1oEOgA@mail.gmail.com
2023-05-30 19:32:15 -04:00
Bruce Momjian f7c16a120c doc: PG 16 relnotes, adjust subscription origin mention
Reported-by: Masahiko Sawada

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAD21AoC+VihMWs3-xVB3Z=8LzLbsQc52TO29o25rzfqcnJDCUQ@mail.gmail.com
2023-05-30 19:08:14 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 0bcb3ca3b9 doc: PG 16 relnotes, adjust auto_explain logging item
Reported-by: Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/878rdctb7o.fsf@wibble.ilmari.org
2023-05-30 06:04:09 -04:00
Daniel Gustafsson e77c6c55e8 doc: Add missing backend_type to pg_stat_activity
Commit 0c679464a8 added the missing backendDesc for B_STANDALONE_BACKEND
but missed updating the list of backend types in the documentation.  Fix
by adding it to the list.

Author: Noriyoshi Shinoda <noriyoshi.shinoda@hpe.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/DM4PR84MB1734ECEA02BCB59564E8FC03EE4A9@DM4PR84MB1734.NAMPRD84.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM
2023-05-30 10:31:11 +02:00
Bruce Momjian 5a64640966 doc: PG 16 relnotes: adjust outer/full hash join parallelization
Reported-by: David Rowley

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAApHDvph4djrP+zjOK67VcgbB_p9Zn8QoO7Qctt4oQgUC_ejEw@mail.gmail.com
2023-05-29 14:36:27 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 9e28b83ae6 doc: PG 16 relnotes, fix duplicate author and commit
Reported-by: Masahiko Sawada

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAD21AoALE_joh=H-j5sdaAfDs=BXtCy6BQKYZBTi=neU8k0VFw@mail.gmail.com
2023-05-29 13:49:05 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 503b0556d9 doc: PG 16 relnotes, fix "locale" typo and windows locale text
Reported-by: Laurenz Albe, Álvaro Herrera

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/70a09a9fa557b632f4b1505395aaa6c4cb77b55a.camel@cybertec.at
2023-05-27 23:04:48 -04:00
Jeff Davis f4a9422c0c Doc fixes for commit 1e16af8ab5.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/275c47ea-e7f3-e654-c99a-63bc116997d7@enterprisedb.com
2023-05-25 17:05:50 -07:00
Daniel Gustafsson 913b3da6ae doc: fix typo in language tag documentation
Commit 1e16af8ab5 accidentally mistyped 'language' in one place.
2023-05-25 12:49:26 +02:00
Daniel Gustafsson 661bf96cd2 doc: Fix example query for pg_walinspect
The LIMIT clause had ended up in the wrong place in the query.
Backpatch to v15 where pg_walinspect was introduced.

Reported-by: Jian He <jian.universality@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CACJufxHqXDr4NnmwmR6pEiVPAg54J0dgwMuYQzrH5BX6+NtF1g@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 15
2023-05-25 12:43:16 +02:00
Bruce Momjian 46ba86cd32 doc: PG 16 relnotes, add author from previous merge
Reported-by: John Naylor

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAFBsxsEMoNdg6CCMuQ-6YJ8G=AgGNMVuiTb5Di5bsoPfBb=9CA@mail.gmail.com
2023-05-24 22:03:40 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 5c2c59ba0b doc: PG 16 relnotes, wording adjustments
Reported-by: Erik Rijkers

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/c4a88acf-ab1a-a912-d4a9-5e19b323c5ed@xs4all.nl
2023-05-24 12:18:43 -04:00
Bruce Momjian ad5406246b doc: PG 16 relnotes, merge and move vector items
Reported-by: John Naylor

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAFBsxsEPg8L2MmGqavc8JByC=WF_Mnkhn-KKnFPkcqh0hydung@mail.gmail.com
2023-05-24 09:54:34 -04:00
Bruce Momjian a817edbf6f doc: PG 16 relnotes, update xid/subxid searches item
Reported-by: John Naylor

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAFBsxsEPg8L2MmGqavc8JByC=WF_Mnkhn-KKnFPkcqh0hydung@mail.gmail.com
2023-05-24 00:09:13 -04:00
Nathan Bossart 381d19b3ea Document deprecated createuser option.
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
2023-05-23 19:35:05 -07:00
Bruce Momjian 5cb54fc310 doc: PG 16 relnotes, SIMD improvements
Reported-by: John Naylor

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAFBsxsEuAx4_nq=200u=70S5r83C2hzO-a9+c6YXTCbOFeDAfw@mail.gmail.com
2023-05-23 00:27:01 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 60751aa503 doc: PG 16 relnotes, add major features list
Reported-by: Jonathan Katz

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2fd2cc0e-df39-3e77-8fcf-35aad5796b0a@postgresql.org
2023-05-22 13:58:24 -04:00
Tom Lane 1f9f6aa491 Spell the values of libpq's gssdelegation parameter as "0" and "1".
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
2023-05-22 11:50:27 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 4123455a9e doc: PG 16 relnotes, improve desc. of pg_log_standby_snapshot() 2023-05-22 10:21:20 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera 4042b2e187
pg_dump doc: mention 'long' is valid for --compress
Apparently an oversight in 2820adf775.
2023-05-22 12:26:40 +02:00
Bruce Momjian ac298d3cb5 doc: PG 16 relnotes, improve description of standby log. decode
Improve description of "Allow logical decoding on standbys".
2023-05-21 23:39:50 -04:00
Nathan Bossart 2dcd1578c4 Rename some createuser options.
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
2023-05-21 20:06:38 -07:00
Bruce Momjian de7c3fd34e doc: PG 16 relnotes, misc merged items and bootstrap detail
Reported-by: Andres Freund, jian he

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20230521171341.jjxykfsefsek4kzj@awork3.anarazel.de, 20230521171341.jjxykfsefsek4kzj@awork3.anarazel.de
2023-05-21 22:52:42 -04:00
Bruce Momjian c822358a25 doc: PG 16 relnotes, misc. updates
Reported-by: Tom Lane

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/277016.1684689065@sss.pgh.pa.us
2023-05-21 15:57:59 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 30579d23b2 doc: PG 16 relnotes, add commits
Reported-by: Ian Lawrence Barwick

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAB8KJ=hLvQDb53WdigV7OBEBh5tzQ7eA=pG0ZpccoRVBUNCXYA@mail.gmail.com
2023-05-21 11:56:16 -04:00
Tom Lane b62381d9a2 Doc: fix some rendering problems in the PDF docs build.
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
2023-05-21 11:21:19 -04:00
Tom Lane a2eb99a01e Expand some more uses of "deleg" to "delegation" or "delegated".
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
2023-05-21 10:55:18 -04:00
Nathan Bossart f4001a5537 Fix remaining references to gss_accept_deleg.
These were missed in 9c0a0e2ed9.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20230521031757.GA3835667%40nathanxps13
2023-05-20 20:32:56 -07:00
Bruce Momjian 9c0a0e2ed9 rename "gss_accept_deleg" to "gss_accept_delegation".
This is more consistent with existing GUC spelling.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ZGdnEsGtNj7+fZoa@momjian.us
2023-05-20 21:32:54 -04:00
Bruce Momjian cf109ffc20 doc: PG 16 relnotes, misc updates
*  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
2023-05-20 21:03:13 -04:00
Tom Lane 0245f8db36 Pre-beta mechanical code beautification.
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
2023-05-19 17:24:48 -04:00
Bruce Momjian e5f85744ea doc: PG 16 relnotes, delete reverted grant, adjust version num
Reported-by: Nathan Bossart, Sehrope Sarkuni
2023-05-19 12:30:14 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 6ff33cdbab doc: PG 16 relnotes, merge REINDEX and reindexdb items
Reported-by: Vibhor Kumar
2023-05-19 09:30:00 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 1a620cbae5 doc: PG 16 relnotes, add missing parentheses
Reported-by: Hans Buschmann
2023-05-19 08:31:11 -04:00
Michael Paquier e7bff46e50 pageinspect: Fix gist_page_items() with included columns
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
2023-05-19 12:37:58 +09:00
Bruce Momjian 613a7eca9c doc: improve pg_walinspect and role membership items
Reported-by: Peter Geoghegan
2023-05-18 23:17:03 -04:00
Bruce Momjian ce3673dade doc: improve description of adding roles as members
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ZFvVZvQDliIWmOwg@momjian.us
2023-05-18 22:22:17 -04:00
Bruce Momjian f79ee34702 doc: update PG 16 relnotes for pg_walinspect changes
Reported-by: Peter Geoghegan
2023-05-18 21:44:45 -04:00
Tomas Vondra 428c0cae92 Show empty BRIN ranges in brin_page_items
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
2023-05-19 02:00:21 +02:00
Bruce Momjian 1158c8c4e3 doc: PG 16 relnotes, add freeze and update walinspect items
Reported-by: Peter Geoghegan
2023-05-18 18:53:28 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 07ef30a028 docs: re-order some PG 16 relnotes items
Reported-by: Jonathan Katz
2023-05-18 18:25:21 -04:00
Bruce Momjian d8a81108a8 doc: more PG 16 relnote wording improvements 2023-05-18 17:43:10 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 0791930aaa doc: add more sections to PG 16 release notes 2023-05-18 16:33:05 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 206a67e27f doc: first draft of the PG 16 release notes 2023-05-18 16:00:04 -04:00
Jeff Davis c9dc480a21 Fix documentation build broken by 1e16af8ab5. 2023-05-18 11:04:30 -07:00
Jeff Davis 1e16af8ab5 Doc improvements for language tags and custom ICU collations.
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
2023-05-18 10:37:55 -07:00
Jeff Davis 6de31ce446 Reduce icu_validation_level default to WARNING.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/daa9f060aa2349ebc84444515efece49e7b32c5d.camel@j-davis.com
2023-05-17 13:18:40 -07:00
Andres Freund 093e5c57d5 Add writeback to pg_stat_io
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
2023-05-17 11:18:35 -07:00
Alexander Korotkov b9a7a82272 Revert "Add USER SET parameter values for pg_db_role_setting"
This reverts commit 096dd80f3c and its fixups beecbe8e50, afdd9f7f0e,
529da086ba, db93e739ac.

Catversion is bumped.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/d46f9265-ff3c-6743-2278-6772598233c2%40pgmasters.net
2023-05-17 20:28:57 +03:00
Michael Paquier 44e977d7ec doc: Fix ordering of entries in wait event table for I/O type
Issue spotted while reviewing a different patch touching this area.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ZGM1U5D5EuBUbasi@paquier.xyz
2023-05-16 16:51:44 +09:00
Michael Paquier 08c45ae235 doc: Fix incorrect version list for Windows SDK
References to SDK 8.1a should have been cleaned up in 495ed0e, as only
version 10 and above are supported with Windows 10 and newer versions.

Reported-by: Thomas Munro
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+hUKG++qE9uVjQaTTD7oaC8a2T3h8K50=Eqyx9uUZvOHa__ww@mail.gmail.com
2023-05-15 16:02:07 +09:00
Thomas Munro 319bae9a8d Rename io_direct to debug_io_direct.
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
2023-05-15 10:31:14 +12:00
Tom Lane 51b2c08798 Tighten usage of PSQL_WATCH_PAGER.
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
2023-05-12 16:11:14 -04:00
Peter Geoghegan 375407f494 Doc: Fix link to fillfactor reloption.
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.
2023-05-10 10:49:50 -07:00
Michael Paquier 605994651b Fix assertion failure when updating stats_fetch_consistency in a transaction
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
2023-05-10 11:24:30 +09:00
Peter Geoghegan 5698f07947 Doc: update VACUUM FREEZE query conflict guidance.
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.
2023-05-08 13:17:31 -07:00
Michael Paquier 0890f7d528 doc: Fix some markups in logical replication section
Author: Peter Smith
Reviewed-by: David Zhang
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAHut+Pst11ac2hcmePt1=oTmBwTT=DAssRR1nsdoy4BT+68=Mg@mail.gmail.com
2023-05-08 13:47:36 +09:00
Peter Eisentraut 919c486a27 doc: New glossary entries
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
2023-05-04 07:32:09 +02:00
Tom Lane 6489875ce6 Doc: clarify behavior of row-limit arguments in the PLs' SPI wrappers.
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
2023-05-02 17:55:01 -04:00
Michael Paquier 6fd8ae6888 doc: Fix typo in pg_amcheck for term "schema"
Author: Alexander Lakhin
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/e8c38840-596a-83d6-bd8d-cebc51111572@gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 14
2023-05-02 11:40:46 +09:00
Etsuro Fujita 4def50eba9 doc: Fix grammar. 2023-04-26 20:15:00 +09:00
Andres Freund 1118cd37eb Remove vacuum_defer_cleanup_age
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
2023-04-24 12:21:02 -07:00
Noah Misch 244ab8c00c Remove new <para id="contrib-obsolete">.
Just intagg is obsolete, and having a one-entry list gives undue weight.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20230409185050.GA949159@rfd.leadboat.com
2023-04-23 18:58:19 -07:00
Alexander Korotkov 8bbd0cce92 Validate ltree siglen GiST option to be int-aligned
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
2023-04-23 14:30:09 +03:00
Fujii Masao 0a16512d40 doc: Add documentation for PGLOADBALANCEHOSTS environment variable in libpq.
Commit 7f5b19817e introduced the PGLOADBALANCEHOSTS environment
variable for connection load balancing in libpq. However, documentation
for this variable was missing.

Author: Fujii Masao
Reviewed-by: Jelte Fennema
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/e2b44cf7-aa16-e726-1d4a-a69508ebf6b9@oss.nttdata.com
2023-04-21 16:46:41 +09:00
Michael Paquier 0ecb87e1fa Remove io prefix from pg_stat_io columns
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
2023-04-21 07:21:50 +09:00
David Rowley 0d0aeb04c1 Doc: clarify NULLS NOT DISTINCT use in unique indexes
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
2023-04-20 23:51:38 +12:00
Michael Paquier dea4343535 Fix generation of distribution tarball
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
2023-04-19 13:59:52 +09:00
Jeff Davis fcb21b3acd Build ICU support by default.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/82c4c816-06f6-d3e3-ba02-fca4a5cef065%40enterprisedb.com
Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut
2023-04-18 13:25:44 -07:00
David Rowley eef231e816 Fix some typos and some incorrectly duplicated words
Author: Justin Pryzby
Reviewed-by: David Rowley
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ZD3D1QxoccnN8A1V@telsasoft.com
2023-04-18 14:03:49 +12:00
Peter Eisentraut 2434d60a2a Put new command-line option into sensible order in help output
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.
2023-04-17 11:09:17 +02:00
David Rowley fde9c06881 Doc: remove notes about the version vacuumdb options are valid from
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
2023-04-17 09:28:34 +12:00
David Rowley e9f451accb Doc: add note about --buffer-usage-limit being v16 onwards
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.
2023-04-16 21:47:01 +12:00
David Rowley c0235013c1 Improve VACUUM/ANALYZE BUFFER_USAGE_LIMIT docs
This addresses various deficiencies in the documentation for VACUUM and
ANALYZE's BUFFER_USEAGE_LIMIT docs.

Here we declare "size" in the syntax synopsis for VACUUM and ANALYZE's
BUFFER_USAGE_LIMIT option and then define exactly what values can be
specified for it in the section for that below.

Also, fix the incorrect ordering of vacuumdb options both in the documents
and in vacuumdb's --help output.  These should be in alphabetical order.

In passing also add the minimum/maximum range for the BUFFER_USAGE_LIMIT
option.  These will also serve as example values that can be modified and
used.

Reported-by: Peter Eisentraut
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16845cb1-b228-e157-f293-5892bced9253@enterprisedb.com
2023-04-16 12:05:34 +12:00
Daniel Gustafsson 928e05ddfd doc: PQinitOpenSSL and PQinitSSL are obsolete in OpenSSL 1.1.0+
Starting with OpenSSL 1.1.0 there is no need to call PQinitOpenSSL
or PQinitSSL to avoid duplicate initialization of OpenSSL.  Add a
note to the documentation to explain this.

Backpatch to all supported versions as older OpenSSL versions are
equally likely to be used for all branches.

Reported-by: Sebastien Flaesch <sebastien.flaesch@4js.com>
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/DBAP191MB12895BFFEC4B5FE0460D0F2FB0459@DBAP191MB1289.EURP191.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM
Backpatch-through: 11, all supported versions
2023-04-14 10:15:50 +02:00
Michael Paquier c7dc56bd6b doc: Fix some grammar for logical decoding description and functions
This documentation is has been added for the support of logical decoding
on standbys.  Some markups were missing, hence add some where required.

Author: Thom Brown
Reviewed-by: Justin Pryzby, Daniel Gustafsson
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAA-aLv7xCZ0nBJa-NWe0rxBB28TjFjS2JtjiZMoQ+0wsugG+hQ@mail.gmail.com
2023-04-14 13:08:02 +09:00
Stephen Frost f7431bca8b Explicitly require MIT Kerberos for GSSAPI
WHen building with GSSAPI support, explicitly require MIT Kerberos and
check for gssapi_ext.h in configure.ac and meson.build.  Also add
documentation explicitly stating that we now require MIT Kerberos when
building with GSSAPI support.

Reveiwed by: Johnathan Katz
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/abcc73d0-acf7-6896-e0dc-f5bc12a61bb1@postgresql.org
2023-04-13 08:55:13 -04:00
Stephen Frost 6633cfb216 De-Revert "Add support for Kerberos credential delegation"
This reverts commit 3d03b24c3 (Revert Add support for Kerberos
credential delegation) which was committed on the grounds of concern
about portability, but on further review and discussion, it's clear that
we are better off explicitly requiring MIT Kerberos as that appears to
be the only GSSAPI library currently that's under proper maintenance
and ongoing development.  The API used for storing credentials was added
to MIT Kerberos over a decade ago while for the other libraries which
appear to be mainly based on Heimdal, which exists explicitly to be a
re-implementation of MIT Kerberos, the API never made it to a released
version (even though it was added to the Heimdal git repo over 5 years
ago..).

This post-feature-freeze change was approved by the RMT.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ZDDO6jaESKaBgej0%40tamriel.snowman.net
2023-04-13 08:55:07 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut e2922702a3 doc: Make HTML ids discoverable
In the HTML output, this decorates section headers and variable list
terms with a marker ("#") that is a link to the same section/term.
That way, links inside a page can be discovered for easier sharing.
The marker only appears when hovering.

This now requires that all elements that are candidates for such a
link have an id attribute.  Otherwise, an error will be generated.
All previously missing ids have been added prior to this patch.

Author: Brar Piening <brar@gmx.de>
Reviewed-by: Karl O. Pinc <kop@karlpinc.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CAB8KJ=jpuQU9QJe4+RgWENrK5g9jhoysMw2nvTN_esoOU0=a_w@mail.gmail.com
2023-04-13 10:16:33 +02:00
Peter Eisentraut a34901dd03 Add missing XML ID attribute
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/dc813a6f-60d9-991f-eecd-675a0921de11@gmx.de
2023-04-13 09:48:38 +02:00
Alvaro Herrera 9ce04b50e1
Revert "Catalog NOT NULL constraints" and fallout
This reverts commit e056c557ae and minor later fixes thereof.

There's a few problems in this new feature -- most notably regarding
pg_upgrade behavior, but others as well.  This new feature is not in any
way critical on its own, so instead of scrambling to fix it we revert it
and try again in early 17 with these issues in mind.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3801207.1681057430@sss.pgh.pa.us
2023-04-12 19:29:21 +02:00
Robert Haas 4b1ad19a4e Document BaseBackupSync and BaseBackupWrite wait events.
Commit 3500ccc39b should have done
this, but I overlooked it.

Per complaint from Thomas Munro.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+hUKGJixAHc860Ej9Qzd_z96Z6aoajAgJ18bYfV3Lfn6t9=+Q@mail.gmail.com
2023-04-12 11:26:16 -04:00
Daniel Gustafsson 91199dd281 doc: Reword unexplained abbreviation
The previous wording used MVF to indicate the Most Common Values'
Frequencies, but the abbreviation was never explained or defined.
Reword to mcv_freqs to make the use clearer.

Also add MCF and MCV as acronyms as they were using <acronym>
markup but were missing from the acronyms page.

Reported-by: Eric Mutta <eric.mutta@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/166112292492.654.5377188452604176150@wrigleys.postgresql.org
2023-04-12 16:16:12 +02:00
Michael Paquier 644b848f50 doc: Fix some typos and grammar
This is a first batch of the fixes, for the most obvious fixes.  A
little bit more is under discussion.

Author: Thom Brown, Justin Pryzby
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAA-aLv7xCZ0nBJa-NWe0rxBB28TjFjS2JtjiZMoQ+0wsugG+hQ@mail.gmail.com
2023-04-12 13:03:09 +09:00
Robert Haas bc25d6c54a Document new pg_subscription columns.
Commit 482675987b and commit
c3afe8cf5a forgot to take care
of this.

Noriyoshi Shinoda

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/DM4PR84MB17345D8760165F14A199B81CEE9A9@DM4PR84MB1734.NAMPRD84.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM
2023-04-11 11:00:36 -04:00
David Rowley d866f0374c Doc: use "an SQL" consistently rather than "a SQL"
Similarly to what was done in 04539e73f and 7bdd489d3, we standardized on
SQL being pronounced "es-que-ell" rather than "sequel" in our
documentation.

This fixes the instances of "a SQL" that have crept in during the v16
cycle.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAApHDvpML27UqFXnrYO1MJddsKVMQoiZisPvsAGhKE_tsKXquw%40mail.gmail.com
2023-04-11 18:52:17 +12:00
Tom Lane 4380c2509d Doc: add missed entries in BRIN extensibility tables.
The tables in "71.3. Extensibility" listing the support functions
for bloom and minmax-multi opclasses should include the associated
options function.  While this isn't quite as required as the rest,
you need it for full functionality of the opclass.

Back-patch to v14 where these functions were added.
2023-04-10 15:50:29 -04:00
Peter Geoghegan 5d6728e588 Fix nbtree posting list update desc output.
We cannot use the generic array_desc approach with per-tuple nbtree
posting list update metadata because array_desc can only deal with fixed
width elements (e.g., page offset numbers).  Using array_desc led to
incorrect rmgr descriptions for updates from nbtree DELETE/VACUUM WAL
records.

To fix, add specialized code to describe the update metadata as array
elements in desc output.  We now iterate over the update metadata using
an approach that matches related REDO routines.

Also stop showing the updates offset number array separately in nbtree
DELETE/VACUUM desc output.  It's redundant information, since the same
page offset numbers appear in the description of each individual update
element.  Also make some small tweaks to the way that we format arrays
in all desc routines (not just nbtree desc routines) to make arrays a
little less verbose.

Oversight in commit 1c453cfd, which enhanced the nbtree rmgr desc
routines.

Author: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-WzkbYuvwYKm-Y-72QEh6SPMQcAo9uONv+mR3bMGcu9E_Cg@mail.gmail.com
2023-04-10 11:15:41 -07:00
Tom Lane fbbd7edca8 Doc: adjust examples of EXTRACT() output to match current reality.
EXTRACT(EPOCH), EXTRACT(SECOND), and some related cases print more
trailing zeroes than they used to.  This behavior change happened
with commit a2da77cdb (Change return type of EXTRACT to numeric),
and it was intentional according to the commit log:

    - Return values when extracting fields with possibly fractional
      values, such as second and epoch, now have the full scale that the
      value has internally (so, for example, '1.000000' instead of just
      '1').

It's been like that for two releases now, so while I suggested
changing this back, it's probably better to adjust the documentation
examples.

Per bug #17866 from Евгений Жужнев.  Back-patch to v14 where the
change came in.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17866-18eb70095b1594e2@postgresql.org
2023-04-10 13:09:18 -04:00
Tom Lane 26f36fe844 Doc: avoid using pg_get_publication_tables() in an example.
pg_get_publication_tables() is undocumented because it's only meant
as infrastructure for the pg_publication_tables system view.
That being the case, we should use the view not the bare function
in this sample query.

Shi Yu

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/OSZPR01MB63107E83D07FEDEEABD83A23FD949@OSZPR01MB6310.jpnprd01.prod.outlook.com
2023-04-10 12:22:10 -04:00
Stephen Frost 3d03b24c35 Revert "Add support for Kerberos credential delegation"
This reverts commit 3d4fa227bc.

Per discussion and buildfarm, this depends on APIs that seem to not
be available on at least one platform (NetBSD).  Should be certainly
possible to rework to be optional on that platform if necessary but bit
late for that at this point.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3286097.1680922218@sss.pgh.pa.us
2023-04-08 07:21:35 -04:00
Andres Freund 0fdab27ad6 Allow logical decoding on standbys
Unsurprisingly, this requires wal_level = logical to be set on the primary and
standby. The infrastructure added in 26669757b6 ensures that slots are
invalidated if the primary's wal_level is lowered.

Creating a slot on a standby waits for a xl_running_xact record to be
processed. If the primary is idle (and thus not emitting xl_running_xact
records), that can take a while.  To make that faster, this commit also
introduces the pg_log_standby_snapshot() function. By executing it on the
primary, completion of slot creation on the standby can be accelerated.

Note that logical decoding on a standby does not itself enforce that required
catalog rows are not removed. The user has to use physical replication slots +
hot_standby_feedback or other measures to prevent that. If catalog rows
required for a slot are removed, the slot is invalidated.

See 6af1793954 for an overall design of logical decoding on a standby.

Bumps catversion, for the addition of the pg_log_standby_snapshot() function.

Author: "Drouvot, Bertrand" <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> (in an older version)
Author: Amit Khandekar <amitdkhan.pg@gmail.com> (in an older version)
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reviewed-by: FabrÌzio de Royes Mello <fabriziomello@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
2023-04-08 02:20:05 -07:00
Andres Freund 26669757b6 Handle logical slot conflicts on standby
During WAL replay on the standby, when a conflict with a logical slot is
identified, invalidate such slots. There are two sources of conflicts:
1) Using the information added in 6af1793954, logical slots are invalidated if
   required rows are removed
2) wal_level on the primary server is reduced to below logical

Uses the infrastructure introduced in the prior commit. FIXME: add commit
reference.

Change InvalidatePossiblyObsoleteSlot() to use a recovery conflict to
interrupt use of a slot, if called in the startup process. The new recovery
conflict is added to pg_stat_database_conflicts, as confl_active_logicalslot.

See 6af1793954 for an overall design of logical decoding on a standby.

Bumps catversion for the addition of the pg_stat_database_conflicts column.
Bumps PGSTAT_FILE_FORMAT_ID for the same reason.

Author: "Drouvot, Bertrand" <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Author: Amit Khandekar <amitdkhan.pg@gmail.com> (in an older version)
Reviewed-by: "Drouvot, Bertrand" <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reviewed-by: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Fabrízio de Royes Mello <fabriziomello@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Bharath Rupireddy <bharath.rupireddyforpostgres@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20230407075009.igg7be27ha2htkbt@awork3.anarazel.de
2023-04-08 00:05:44 -07:00
Andres Freund be87200efd Support invalidating replication slots due to horizon and wal_level
Needed for logical decoding on a standby. Slots need to be invalidated because
of the horizon if rows required for logical decoding are removed. If the
primary's wal_level is lowered from 'logical', logical slots on the standby
need to be invalidated.

The new invalidation methods will be used in a subsequent commit.

Logical slots that have been invalidated can be identified via the new
pg_replication_slots.conflicting column.

See 6af1793954 for an overall design of logical decoding on a standby.

Bumps catversion for the addition of the new pg_replication_slots column.

Author: "Drouvot, Bertrand" <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Author: Amit Khandekar <amitdkhan.pg@gmail.com> (in an older version)
Reviewed-by: "Drouvot, Bertrand" <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reviewed-by: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Fabrízio de Royes Mello <fabriziomello@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Bharath Rupireddy <bharath.rupireddyforpostgres@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20230407075009.igg7be27ha2htkbt@awork3.anarazel.de
2023-04-07 22:40:27 -07:00
Thomas Munro d4e71df6d7 Add io_direct setting (developer-only).
Provide a way to ask the kernel to use O_DIRECT (or local equivalent)
where available for data and WAL files, to avoid or minimize kernel
caching.  This hurts performance currently and is not intended for end
users yet.  Later proposed work would introduce our own I/O clustering,
read-ahead, etc to replace the facilities the kernel disables with this
option.

The only user-visible change, if the developer-only GUC is not used, is
that this commit also removes the obscure logic that would activate
O_DIRECT for the WAL when wal_sync_method=open_[data]sync and
wal_level=minimal (which also requires max_wal_senders=0).  Those are
non-default and unlikely settings, and this behavior wasn't (correctly)
documented.  The same effect can be achieved with io_direct=wal.

Author: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Author: Bharath Rupireddy <bharath.rupireddyforpostgres@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
Reviewed-by: Bharath Rupireddy <bharath.rupireddyforpostgres@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKGK1X532hYqJ_MzFWt0n1zt8trz980D79WbjwnT-yYLZpg%40mail.gmail.com
2023-04-08 16:35:07 +12:00
Amit Kapila d73c285af5 Doc: Fix the datatype of the newly added SUBSCRIPTION options.
In docs, the datatype of "password_required" and "run_as_owner" was
incorrectly specified as a string.

Author: Amit Kapila
Reviewed-by: Sawada Masahiko
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAHut+Pu=pnJf=SS1583pknSQ3CbOqLCkWcJCQYt6zxTagHEdmw@mail.gmail.com
2023-04-08 09:42:50 +05:30
Stephen Frost 3d4fa227bc Add support for Kerberos credential delegation
Support GSSAPI/Kerberos credentials being delegated to the server by a
client.  With this, a user authenticating to PostgreSQL using Kerberos
(GSSAPI) credentials can choose to delegate their credentials to the
PostgreSQL server (which can choose to accept them, or not), allowing
the server to then use those delegated credentials to connect to
another service, such as with postgres_fdw or dblink or theoretically
any other service which is able to be authenticated using Kerberos.

Both postgres_fdw and dblink are changed to allow non-superuser
password-less connections but only when GSSAPI credentials have been
delegated to the server by the client and GSSAPI is used to
authenticate to the remote system.

Authors: Stephen Frost, Peifeng Qiu
Reviewed-By: David Christensen
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CO1PR05MB8023CC2CB575E0FAAD7DF4F8A8E29@CO1PR05MB8023.namprd05.prod.outlook.com
2023-04-07 21:58:04 -04:00
Andres Freund ac8d53dae5 Track IO times in pg_stat_io
a9c70b46db and 8aaa04b32S added counting of IO operations to a new view,
pg_stat_io. Now, add IO timing for reads, writes, extends, and fsyncs to
pg_stat_io as well.

This combines the tracking for pgBufferUsage with the tracking for pg_stat_io
into a new function pgstat_count_io_op_time(). This should make it a bit
easier to avoid the somewhat costly instr_time conversion done for
pgBufferUsage.

Author: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reviewed-by: Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/flat/CAAKRu_ay5iKmnbXZ3DsauViF3eMxu4m1oNnJXqV_HyqYeg55Ww%40mail.gmail.com
2023-04-07 17:04:56 -07:00
Peter Geoghegan 7d8219a444 Show more detail in heapam rmgr descriptions.
Add helper functions that output arrays in a standard format, and use
the functions inside heapdesc routines.  This allows tools like
pg_walinspect to show a detailed description of the page offset number
arrays for records like PRUNE and VACUUM (unless there was an FPI).

Also document the conventions that desc routines should follow.  Only
the heapdesc routines follow the conventions for now, so they're just
guidelines for the time being.

Based on a suggestion from Andres Freund.

Author: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/flat/20230109215842.fktuhesvayno6o4g%40awork3.anarazel.de
2023-04-07 16:08:52 -07:00
Tom Lane a290378a37 Add support for Daitch-Mokotoff Soundex in contrib/fuzzystrmatch.
This modernized version of Soundex works significantly better than
the original, particularly for non-English names.

Dag Lem, reviewed by quite a few people along the way

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/yger1atbgfy.fsf@sid.nimrod.no
2023-04-07 17:32:26 -04:00
Tom Lane f3fa31327e Add pg_buffercache_usage_counts() to contrib/pg_buffercache.
It was pointed out that pg_buffercache_summary()'s report of
the overall average usage count isn't that useful, and what
would be more helpful in many cases is to report totals for
each possible usage count.  Add a new function to do it like
that.  Since pg_buffercache 1.4 is already new for v16,
we don't need to create a new extension version; we'll just
define this as part of 1.4.

Nathan Bossart

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20230130233040.GA2800702@nathanxps13
2023-04-07 14:25:53 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera e056c557ae
Catalog NOT NULL constraints
We now create pg_constaint rows for NOT NULL constraints with
contype='n'.

We propagate these constraints during operations such as adding
inheritance relationships, creating and attaching partitions, creating
tables LIKE other tables.  We mostly follow the well-known rules of
conislocal and coninhcount that we have for CHECK constraints, with some
adaptations; for example, as opposed to CHECK constraints, we don't
match NOT NULL ones by name when descending a hierarchy to alter it;
instead we match by column number.  This means we don't require the
constraint names to be identical across a hierarchy.

For now, we omit them from system catalogs.  Maybe this is worth
reconsidering.  We don't support NOT VALID nor DEFERRABLE clauses
either; these can be added as separate features later (this patch is
already large and complicated enough.)

This has been very long in the making.  The first patch was written by
Bernd Helmle in 2010 to add a new pg_constraint.contype value ('n'),
which I (Álvaro) then hijacked in 2011 and 2012, until that one was
killed by the realization that we ought to use contype='c' instead:
manufactured CHECK constraints.  However, later SQL standard
development, as well as nonobvious emergent properties of that design
(mostly, failure to distinguish them from "normal" CHECK constraints as
well as the performance implication of having to test the CHECK
expression) led us to reconsider this choice, so now the current
implementation uses contype='n' again.

In 2016 Vitaly Burovoy also worked on this feature[1] but found no
consensus for his proposed approach, which was claimed to be closer to
the letter of the standard, requiring additional pg_attribute columns to
track the OID of the NOT NULL constraint for that column.
[1] https://postgr.es/m/CAKOSWNkN6HSyatuys8xZxzRCR-KL1OkHS5-b9qd9bf1Rad3PLA@mail.gmail.com

Author: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Author: Bernd Helmle <mailings@oopsware.de>
Reviewed-by: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CACA0E642A0267EDA387AF2B%40%5B172.26.14.62%5D
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/AANLkTinLXMOEMz+0J29tf1POokKi4XDkWJ6-DDR9BKgU@mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20110707213401.GA27098@alvh.no-ip.org
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1343682669-sup-2532@alvh.no-ip.org
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAKOSWNkN6HSyatuys8xZxzRCR-KL1OkHS5-b9qd9bf1Rad3PLA@mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220817181249.q7qvj3okywctra3c@alvherre.pgsql
2023-04-07 19:59:57 +02:00
Tom Lane ff245a3788 Doc: improve descriptions of max_[pred_]locks_per_transaction GUCs.
The old wording described these as being multiplied by max_connections
plus max_prepared_transactions, which hasn't been exactly right for
some time thanks to the addition of various auxiliary processes.
Moreover, exactness here is a bit pointless given that the lock tables
can expand into the initially-unallocated "slop" space in shared
memory.  Rather than trying to track exactly what the code is doing,
let's just use the term "server processes".

Likewise adjust these GUCs' description strings in guc_tables.c.

Wang Wei, reviewed by Nathan Bossart and myself

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/OS3PR01MB6275BDD09C9B875C65FCC5AB9EA39@OS3PR01MB6275.jpnprd01.prod.outlook.com
2023-04-07 13:29:29 -04:00
Tom Lane 888f2ea0a8 Add array_sample() and array_shuffle() functions.
These are useful in Monte Carlo applications.

Martin Kalcher, reviewed/adjusted by Daniel Gustafsson and myself

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/9d160a44-7675-51e8-60cf-6d64b76db831@aboutsource.net
2023-04-07 11:47:07 -04:00
David Rowley ae78cae3be Add --buffer-usage-limit option to vacuumdb
1cbbee033 added BUFFER_USAGE_LIMIT to the VACUUM and ANALYZE commands, so
here we permit that option to be specified in vacuumdb.

In passing, adjust the documents for vacuum_buffer_usage_limit and the
BUFFER_USAGE_LIMIT VACUUM option to mention "kB" rather than "KB".  Do the
same for the ERROR message in ExecVacuum() and
check_vacuum_buffer_usage_limit().  Without that we might tell a user that
the valid minimum value is 128 KB only to reject that because we accept
only "kB" and not "KB".

Also, add a small reminder comment in vacuum.h to try to trigger the
memory of anyone adding new fields to VacuumParams that they might want to
consider if vacuumdb needs to grow a new option too.

Author: Melanie Plageman
Reviewed-by: Justin Pryzby
Reviewed-by: David Rowley
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ZAzTg3iEnubscvbf@telsasoft.com
2023-04-07 12:47:10 +12:00
David Rowley 1cbbee0338 Add VACUUM/ANALYZE BUFFER_USAGE_LIMIT option
Add new options to the VACUUM and ANALYZE commands called
BUFFER_USAGE_LIMIT to allow users more control over how large to make the
buffer access strategy that is used to limit the usage of buffers in
shared buffers.  Larger rings can allow VACUUM to run more quickly but
have the drawback of VACUUM possibly evicting more buffers from shared
buffers that might be useful for other queries running on the database.

Here we also add a new GUC named vacuum_buffer_usage_limit which controls
how large to make the access strategy when it's not specified in the
VACUUM/ANALYZE command.  This defaults to 256KB, which is the same size as
the access strategy was prior to this change.  This setting also
controls how large to make the buffer access strategy for autovacuum.

Per idea by Andres Freund.

Author: Melanie Plageman
Reviewed-by: David Rowley
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund
Reviewed-by: Justin Pryzby
Reviewed-by: Bharath Rupireddy
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20230111182720.ejifsclfwymw2reb@awork3.anarazel.de
2023-04-07 11:40:31 +12:00
Tom Lane 31ae2aa9d2 psql: set SHELL_ERROR and SHELL_EXIT_CODE in more places.
Make the \g, \o, \w, and \copy commands set these variables
when closing a pipe.  We missed doing this in commit b0d8f2d98,
but it seems like a good idea.

There are some remaining places in psql that intentionally don't
update these variables after running a child program:
	* pager invocations
	* backtick evaluation within a prompt
	* \e (edit query buffer)

Corey Huinker and Tom Lane

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CADkLM=eSKwRGF-rnRqhtBORRtL49QsjcVUCa-kLxKTqxypsakw@mail.gmail.com
2023-04-06 17:33:38 -04:00
Tom Lane 00beecfe83 psql: add an optional execution-count limit to \watch.
\watch can now be told to stop after N executions of the query.

With the idea that we might want to add more options to \watch
in future, this patch generalizes the command's syntax to a list
of name=value options, with the interval allowed to omit the name
for backwards compatibility.

Andrey Borodin, reviewed by Kyotaro Horiguchi, Nathan Bossart,
Michael Paquier, Yugo Nagata, and myself

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAAhFRxiZ2-n_L1ErMm9AZjgmUK=qS6VHb+0SaMn8sqqbhF7How@mail.gmail.com
2023-04-06 13:18:14 -04:00
Tomas Vondra 2820adf775 Support long distance matching for zstd compression
zstd compression supports a special mode for finding matched in distant
past, which may result in better compression ratio, at the expense of
using more memory (the window size is 128MB).

To enable this optional mode, use the "long" keyword when specifying the
compression method (--compress=zstd:long).

Author: Justin Pryzby
Reviewed-by: Tomas Vondra, Jacob Champion
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20230224191840.GD1653@telsasoft.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220327205020.GM28503@telsasoft.com
2023-04-06 17:18:42 +02:00
Etsuro Fujita 983ec23007 postgres_fdw: Add support for parallel abort.
postgres_fdw aborts remote (sub)transactions opened on remote server(s)
in a local (sub)transaction one by one when the local (sub)transaction
aborts.  This patch allows it to abort the remote (sub)transactions in
parallel to improve performance.  This is enabled by the server option
"parallel_abort".  The default is false.

Etsuro Fujita, reviewed by David Zhang.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAPmGK15FuPVGx3TGHKShsbPKKtF1y58-ZLcKoxfN-nqLj1dZ%3Dg%40mail.gmail.com
2023-04-06 17:30:00 +09:00
Andres Freund 31966b151e bufmgr: Introduce infrastructure for faster relation extension
The primary bottlenecks for relation extension are:

1) The extension lock is held while acquiring a victim buffer for the new
   page. Acquiring a victim buffer can require writing out the old page
   contents including possibly needing to flush WAL.

2) When extending via ReadBuffer() et al, we write a zero page during the
   extension, and then later write out the actual page contents. This can
   nearly double the write rate.

3) The existing bulk relation extension infrastructure in hio.c just amortized
   the cost of acquiring the relation extension lock, but none of the other
   costs.

Unfortunately 1) cannot currently be addressed in a central manner as the
callers to ReadBuffer() need to acquire the extension lock. To address that,
this this commit moves the responsibility for acquiring the extension lock
into bufmgr.c functions. That allows to acquire the relation extension lock
for just the required time. This will also allow us to improve relation
extension further, without changing callers.

The reason we write all-zeroes pages during relation extension is that we hope
to get ENOSPC errors earlier that way (largely works, except for CoW
filesystems). It is easier to handle out-of-space errors gracefully if the
page doesn't yet contain actual tuples. This commit addresses 2), by using the
recently introduced smgrzeroextend(), which extends the relation, without
dirtying the kernel page cache for all the extended pages.

To address 3), this commit introduces a function to extend a relation by
multiple blocks at a time.

There are three new exposed functions: ExtendBufferedRel() for extending the
relation by a single block, ExtendBufferedRelBy() to extend a relation by
multiple blocks at once, and ExtendBufferedRelTo() for extending a relation up
to a certain size.

To avoid duplicating code between ReadBuffer(P_NEW) and the new functions,
ReadBuffer(P_NEW) now implements relation extension with
ExtendBufferedRel(), using a flag to tell ExtendBufferedRel() that the
relation lock is already held.

Note that this commit does not yet lead to a meaningful performance or
scalability improvement - for that uses of ReadBuffer(P_NEW) will need to be
converted to ExtendBuffered*(), which will be done in subsequent commits.

Reviewed-by: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>
Reviewed-by: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20221029025420.eplyow6k7tgu6he3@awork3.anarazel.de
2023-04-05 16:21:09 -07:00
Daniel Gustafsson 8eda731465 Allow to use system CA pool for certificate verification
This adds a new option to libpq's sslrootcert, "system", which will load
the system trusted CA roots for certificate verification. This is a more
convenient way to achieve this than pointing to the system CA roots
manually since the location can differ by installation and be locally
adjusted by env vars in OpenSSL.

When sslrootcert is set to system, sslmode is forced to be verify-full
as weaker modes aren't providing much security for public CAs.

Changing the location of the system roots by setting environment vars is
not supported by LibreSSL so the tests will use a heuristic to determine
if the system being tested is LibreSSL or OpenSSL.

The workaround in .cirrus.yml is required to handle a strange interaction
between homebrew and the openssl@3 formula; hopefully this can be removed
in the near future.

The original patch was written by Thomas Habets, which was later revived
by Jacob Champion.

Author: Jacob Champion <jchampion@timescale.com>
Author: Thomas Habets <thomas@habets.se>
Reviewed-by: Jelte Fennema <postgres@jeltef.nl>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
Reviewed-by: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CA%2BkHd%2BcJwCUxVb-Gj_0ptr3_KZPwi3%2B67vK6HnLFBK9MzuYrLA%40mail.gmail.com
2023-04-05 23:22:17 +02:00
Tomas Vondra 84adc8e20f pg_dump: Add support for zstd compression
Allow pg_dump to use the zstd compression, in addition to gzip/lz4. Bulk
of the new compression method is implemented in compress_zstd.{c,h},
covering the pg_dump compression APIs. The rest of the patch adds test
and makes various places aware of the new compression method.

The zstd library (which this patch relies on) supports multithreaded
compression since version 1.5. We however disallow that feature for now,
as it might interfere with parallel backups on platforms that rely on
threads (e.g. Windows). This can be improved / relaxed in the future.

This also fixes a minor issue in InitDiscoverCompressFileHandle(), which
was not updated to check if the file already has the .lz4 extension.

Adding zstd compression was originally proposed in 2020 (see the second
thread), but then was reworked to use the new compression API introduced
in e9960732a9. I've considered both threads when compiling the list of
reviewers.

Author: Justin Pryzby
Reviewed-by: Tomas Vondra, Jacob Champion, Andreas Karlsson
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20230224191840.GD1653@telsasoft.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20201221194924.GI30237@telsasoft.com
2023-04-05 21:39:33 +02:00
John Naylor 542b6347bf doc: Update error messages in RLS examples
Since 8b9e9644d, the messages for failed permissions checks report
"table" where appropriate, rather than "relation".

Backpatch to all supported branches
2023-04-05 14:26:03 +07:00
Peter Eisentraut c9f57541d9 doc: Update SQL features/conformance information to SQL:2023
Optional subfeatures have been changed to top-level features, so there
is a bit of a churn in the list for that.

Some existing functions have been added to the standard, so they are
moved from the "other" to the "standard" lists in their sections.

Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/63f285d9-4ec8-0c9e-4bf5-e76334ddc0af@enterprisedb.com
2023-04-05 09:20:25 +02:00
Peter Eisentraut 1993f3feb7 doc: Update SQL keywords list to SQL:2023
Per previous convention (see
ace397e9d2), drop SQL:2011 and only keep
the latest two standards and SQL-92.

Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/63f285d9-4ec8-0c9e-4bf5-e76334ddc0af@enterprisedb.com
2023-04-05 07:55:28 +02:00
Andres Freund 9d2a464a04 meson: docs: Allow configuring simple/website style
The meson docs generation hardcoded using the website style so far. Make it
configurable via a meson option.

Reviewed-by: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
Reported-by: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3fc3bb9b-f7f8-d442-35c1-ec82280c564a@enterprisedb.com
2023-04-04 21:31:27 -07:00
Andres Freund b8059bdf1e docs: html: load stylesheet via custom.css.source
Until now the meson built docs did not have a working reference to the css
stylesheet, it was copied in the make target. Instead of duplicating that for
meson, use the docbook-xsl parameter custom.css.source to reference it. An
additional benefit of that approach is that the stylesheet is now included in
the single-file HTML documentation.

Reported-by: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3fc3bb9b-f7f8-d442-35c1-ec82280c564a@enterprisedb.com
2023-04-04 21:29:45 -07:00
Andres Freund 0012979d98 docs: html: copy images to output as part of xslt build
Until now the meson built HTML docs had non-working references to images. They
were copied in the make target. Instead of duplicating that for meson, copy
them as part of the xslt stylesheet.

Reported-by: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3fc3bb9b-f7f8-d442-35c1-ec82280c564a@enterprisedb.com
2023-04-04 21:29:44 -07:00
Andres Freund ef07d351a1 meson: add docs, docs_pdf options
Detect and report if the tools necessary to build documentation are available
during configure. This is represented as two new options 'docs' and
'docs_pdf', both defaulting to 'auto'.

This should also fix a meson error about the installdocs target, when none of
the doc tools are found.

Reviewed-by: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20230325201414.sh7c6xlut2fpunnv@awork3.anarazel.de
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ZB8331v5IhUA/pNu@telsasoft.com
2023-04-04 21:29:39 -07:00
Andres Freund 0ba827ecfc meson: docs: Preparatory cleanups
These are just minor prerequisite changes for later commits. Kept separate for
easier review.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3fc3bb9b-f7f8-d442-35c1-ec82280c564a@enterprisedb.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20230329224132.fnymznyxmta5ugrs@awork3.anarazel.de
2023-04-04 21:27:47 -07:00
Andres Freund d75c7fbaf9 docs: Remove support for 'htmlhelp' format
We had partial support for generating documentation suitable for .chm
files. However, we only had wired up generating the input files using
docbook-xsl, not generating an actual .chm file. Nor did we document how to do
so.  Additionally, it was very slow to generate htmlhelp, as we never applied
the docbook-xsl stylesheet performance improvements to htmlhelp.

It doesn't look like there's any interest in the htmlhelp output, so remove
it, instead of spending cycles to finish the support.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20230324165822.wcrj3akllbqquy7u@awork3.anarazel.de
2023-04-04 19:25:14 -07:00
Michael Paquier e126d817c7 doc: Add more details about pg_stat_get_xact_blocks_{fetched,hit}
The explanation describing the dependency to system read() calls for
these two functions has been removed in ddfc2d9.  And after more
discussion about d69c404, we have concluded that adding more details
makes them easier to understand.

While on it, use the term "block read requests" (maybe found in cache)
rather than "buffers fetched" and "buffer hits".

Per discussion with Melanie Plageman, Kyotaro Horiguchi, Bertrand
Drouvot and myself.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAAKRu_ZmdiScT4q83OAbfmR5AH-L5zWya3SXjaxiJvhCob-e2A@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 11
2023-04-05 07:59:43 +09:00
Jeff Davis ea1db8ae70 Canonicalize ICU locale names to language tags.
Convert to BCP47 language tags before storing in the catalog, except
during binary upgrade or when the locale comes from an existing
collation or template database.

The resulting language tags can vary slightly between ICU
versions. For instance, "@colBackwards=yes" is converted to
"und-u-kb-true" in older versions of ICU, and to the simpler (but
equivalent) "und-u-kb" in newer versions.

The process of canonicalizing to a language tag also understands more
input locale string formats than ucol_open(). For instance,
"fr_CA.UTF-8" is misinterpreted by ucol_open() and the region is
ignored; effectively treating it the same as the locale "fr" and
opening the wrong collator. Canonicalization properly interprets the
language and region, resulting in the language tag "fr-CA", which can
then be understood by ucol_open().

This commit fixes a problem in prior versions due to ucol_open()
misinterpreting locale strings as described above. For instance,
creating an ICU collation with locale "fr_CA.UTF-8" would store that
string directly in the catalog, which would later be passed to (and
misinterpreted by) ucol_open(). After this commit, the locale string
will be canonicalized to language tag "fr-CA" in the catalog, which
will be properly understood by ucol_open(). Because this fix affects
the resulting collator, we cannot change the locale string stored in
the catalog for existing databases or collations; otherwise we'd risk
corrupting indexes. Therefore, only canonicalize locales for
newly-created (not upgraded) collations/databases. For similar
reasons, do not backport.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/8c7af6820aed94dc7bc259d2aa7f9663518e6137.camel@j-davis.com
Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut
2023-04-04 10:38:58 -07:00
Tom Lane d3d53f955c Add a way to get the current function's OID in pl/pgsql.
Invent "GET DIAGNOSTICS oid_variable = PG_ROUTINE_OID".
This is useful for avoiding the maintenance nuisances that come
with embedding a function's name in its body, as one might do
for logging purposes for example.  Typically users would cast the
result to regproc or regprocedure to get something human-readable,
but we won't pre-judge whether that's appropriate.

Pavel Stehule, reviewed by Kirk Wolak and myself

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAFj8pRA4zMd5pY-B89Gm64bDLRt-L+akOd34aD1j4PEstHHSVQ@mail.gmail.com
2023-04-04 13:33:18 -04:00
Robert Haas 482675987b Add a run_as_owner option to subscriptions.
This option is normally false, but can be set to true to obtain
the legacy behavior where the subscription runs with the permissions
of the subscription owner rather than the permissions of the
table owner. The advantages of this mode are (1) it doesn't require
that the subscription owner have permission to SET ROLE to each
table owner and (2) since no role switching occurs, the
SECURITY_RESTRICTED_OPERATION restrictions do not apply.

On the downside, it allows any table owner to easily usurp
the privileges of the subscription owner - basically, to take
over their account. Because that's generally quite undesirable,
we don't make this mode the default, but we do make it available,
just in case the new behavior causes too many problems for someone.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmoZ-WEeG6Z14AfH7KhmpX2eFh+tZ0z+vf0=eMDdbda269g@mail.gmail.com
2023-04-04 12:03:03 -04:00
Robert Haas 1e10d49b65 Perform logical replication actions as the table owner.
Up until now, logical replication actions have been performed as the
subscription owner, who will generally be a superuser.  Commit
cec57b1a0f documented hazards
associated with that situation, namely, that any user who owns a
table on the subscriber side could assume the privileges of the
subscription owner by attaching a trigger, expression index, or
some other kind of executable code to it. As a remedy, it suggested
not creating configurations where users who are not fully trusted
own tables on the subscriber.

Although that will work, it basically precludes using logical
replication in the way that people typically want to use it,
namely, to replicate a database from one node to another
without necessarily having any restrictions on which database
users can own tables. So, instead, change logical replication to
execute INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, and TRUNCATE operations as the
table owner when they are replicated.

Since this involves switching the active user frequently within
a session that is authenticated as the subscription user, also
impose SECURITY_RESTRICTED_OPERATION restrictions on logical
replication code. As an exception, if the table owner can SET
ROLE to the subscription owner, these restrictions have no
security value, so don't impose them in that case.

Subscription owners are now required to have the ability to
SET ROLE to every role that owns a table that the subscription
is replicating. If they don't, replication will fail. Superusers,
who normally own subscriptions, satisfy this property by default.
Non-superusers users who own subscriptions will need to be
granted the roles that own relevant tables.

Patch by me, reviewed (but not necessarily in its entirety) by
Jelte Fennema, Jeff Davis, and Noah Misch.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmoaSCkg9ww9oppPqqs+9RVqCexYCE6Aq=UsYPfnOoDeFkw@mail.gmail.com
2023-04-04 11:25:23 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 3077324b03 Add missing XML ID attributes
Author: Brar Piening <brar@gmx.de>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/dc813a6f-60d9-991f-eecd-675a0921de11@gmx.de
2023-04-04 16:20:34 +02:00
Andres Freund 8a2b1b1477 bufmgr: Remove buffer-write-dirty tracepoints
The trace point was using the relfileno / fork / block for the to-be-read-in
buffer. Some upcoming work would make that more expensive to provide. We still
have buffer-flush-start/done, which can serve most tracing needs that
buffer-write-dirty could serve.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/f5164e7a-eef6-8972-75a3-8ac622ed0c6e@iki.fi
2023-04-03 18:02:41 -07:00
David Rowley 4830f10243 Disable vacuum's use of a buffer access strategy during failsafe
Traditionally, vacuum always makes use of a buffer access strategy 32
buffers in size.  This means that running vacuums tend not to cause too
many shared buffers to become dirty, however, this can cause vacuums to
run much more slowly than they otherwise could as WAL flushes will occur
more frequently due to having to flush WAL out to the LSN of the dirty
page before that page can be written to disk.

When we are performing failsafe VACUUMs (as added in 1e55e7d17), we really
want to make the vacuum work go as quickly as possible, so here we disable
the buffer access strategy when entering failsafe mode while vacuuming a
relation.

Per idea and analyis from Andres Freund.

In passing, also include some changes I had intended for 32fbe0239.

Author: Melanie Plageman
Reviewed-by: Justin Pryzby, David Rowley
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20230111182720.ejifsclfwymw2reb%40awork3.anarazel.de
2023-04-03 23:05:58 +12:00
David Rowley c8f8d0eb18 Doc: add Buffer Access Strategy to the glossary
It seems useful to add this to the glossary as there's discussion around
adding an option to VACUUM to disable and adjust the size of the buffer
access strategy that VACUUM uses.

Author: Melanie Plageman
Reviewed-by: Justin Pryzby, David Rowley
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ZBYDTrD1kyGg%2BHkS%40telsasoft.com
2023-04-01 10:41:27 +13:00
Peter Geoghegan df4f3ab517 Add show_data option to pg_get_wal_block_info.
Allow users to opt out of returning FPI data and block data from
pg_get_wal_block_info as an optimization.  Testing has shown that this
can make function execution over twice as fast in some cases.

When pg_get_wal_block_info is called with "show_data := false", it
always returns NULL values for its block_data and block_fpi_data bytea
output parameters.  Nothing else changes.  In particular, the function
will still return the usual per-block summary of block data/FPI space
overhead.  Use of "show_data := false" is therefore feasible with all
queries that don't specifically require these raw binary strings.

Follow-up to recent work in commit 122376f0.  There still hasn't been a
stable release with the pg_get_wal_block_info function, so no bump in
the pg_walinspect extension version.

Per suggestion from Melanie Plageman.

Author: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAAKRu_bJvbcYBRj2cN6G2xV7B7-Ja+pjTO1nEnEhRR8OXYiABA@mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-Wzm9shOkEDM10_+qOZkRSQhKVxwBFiehH6EHWQQRd_rDPw@mail.gmail.com
2023-03-31 14:02:52 -07:00
Alvaro Herrera 6ee30209a6
SQL/JSON: support the IS JSON predicate
This patch introduces the SQL standard IS JSON predicate. It operates
on text and bytea values representing JSON, as well as on the json and
jsonb types. Each test has IS and IS NOT variants and supports a WITH
UNIQUE KEYS flag. The tests are:

IS JSON [VALUE]
IS JSON ARRAY
IS JSON OBJECT
IS JSON SCALAR

These should be self-explanatory.

The WITH UNIQUE KEYS flag makes these return false when duplicate keys
exist in any object within the value, not necessarily directly contained
in the outermost object.

Author: Nikita Glukhov <n.gluhov@postgrespro.ru>
Author: Teodor Sigaev <teodor@sigaev.ru>
Author: Oleg Bartunov <obartunov@gmail.com>
Author: Alexander Korotkov <aekorotkov@gmail.com>
Author: Amit Langote <amitlangote09@gmail.com>
Author: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>

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

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAF4Au4w2x-5LTnN_bxky-mq4=WOqsGsxSpENCzHRAzSnEd8+WQ@mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/cd0bb935-0158-78a7-08b5-904886deac4b@postgrespro.ru
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220616233130.rparivafipt6doj3@alap3.anarazel.de
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/abd9b83b-aa66-f230-3d6d-734817f0995d%40postgresql.org
2023-03-31 22:34:04 +02:00
Daniel Gustafsson 558fff0adf pg_regress: Emit TAP compliant output
This converts pg_regress output format to emit TAP compliant output
while keeping it as human readable as possible for use without TAP
test harnesses. As verbose harness related information isn't really
supported by TAP this also reduces the verbosity of pg_regress runs
which makes scrolling through log output in buildfarm/CI runs a bit
easier as well.

As the meson TAP parser conumes whitespace, the leading indentation
for differentiating parallel tests from sequential tests has been
changed to a single character prefix.

This patch has been around for an extended period of time, reviewers
listed below may have been involved in reviewing a version quite
different from the version in this commit.  The original idea for
this patch was a hacking session with Jinbao Chen.

TAP format testing is also enabled in meson as of this.

Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Reviewed-by: Nikolay Shaplov <dhyan@nataraj.su>
Reviewed-by: Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker <ilmari@ilmari.org>
Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/BD4B107D-7E53-4794-ACBA-275BEB4327C9@yesql.se
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220221164736.rq3ornzjdkmwk2wo@alap3.anarazel.de
2023-03-31 13:00:02 +02:00
Amit Kapila ed94e8563e Add XML ID attributes to create_publication.sgml.
This commit adds XML ID attributes to all varlistentries in
create_publication.sgml. This allows us to include links to refer to
publication options, making documents more readable.

Author: Kuroda Hayato
Reviewed-by: Peter Smith, Amit Kapila
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/TYAPR01MB58668219FEA4EC231486A433F58E9@TYAPR01MB5866.jpnprd01.prod.outlook.com
2023-03-31 08:59:55 +05:30
Andres Freund 8aaa04b32d Track shared buffer hits in pg_stat_io
Among other things, this should make it easier to calculate a useful cache hit
ratio by excluding buffer reads via buffer access strategies. As buffer access
strategies reuse buffers (and thus evict the prior buffer contents), it is
normal to see reads on repeated scans of the same data.

Author: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAAKRu_beMa9Hzih40%3DXPYqhDVz6tsgUGTrhZXRo%3Dunp%2Bszb%3DUA%40mail.gmail.com
2023-03-30 19:24:21 -07:00
Peter Geoghegan 122376f028 Show record information in pg_get_wal_block_info.
Expand the output parameters in pg_walinspect's pg_get_wal_block_info
function to return additional information that was previously only
available from pg_walinspect's pg_get_wal_records_info function.  Some
of the details are attributed to individual block references, rather
than aggregated into whole-record values, since the function returns one
row per block reference per WAL record (unlike pg_get_wal_records_info,
which always returns one row per WAL record).

This structure is much easier to work with when writing queries that
track how individual blocks changed over time, or when attributing costs
to individual blocks (not WAL records) is useful.

This is the second time that pg_get_wal_block_info has been enhanced in
recent weeks.  Commit 9ecb134a expanded on the original version of the
function added in commit c31cf1c0 (where it first appeared under the
name pg_get_wal_fpi_info).  There still hasn't been a stable release
since commit c31cf1c0, so no bump in the pg_walinspect extension
version.

Author: Bharath Rupireddy <bharath.rupireddyforpostgres@gmail.com>
Author: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
Reviewed-By: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
Reviewed-By: Kyotaro HORIGUCHI <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CALj2ACVRK5=Z+2ZVsjgTTSkfEnQzCuwny7iigpG7g1btk4Ws2A@mail.gmail.com
2023-03-30 12:26:12 -07:00
Robert Haas 9c487efe35 Fix documentation build for c3afe8cf5a.
This documentation hunk was intended to be part of that commit,
but I goofed.
2023-03-30 12:06:34 -04:00
Robert Haas c3afe8cf5a Add new predefined role pg_create_subscription.
This role can be granted to non-superusers to allow them to issue
CREATE SUBSCRIPTION. The non-superuser must additionally have CREATE
permissions on the database in which the subscription is to be
created.

Most forms of ALTER SUBSCRIPTION, including ALTER SUBSCRIPTION .. SKIP,
now require only that the role performing the operation own the
subscription, or inherit the privileges of the owner. However, to
use ALTER SUBSCRIPTION ... RENAME or ALTER SUBSCRIPTION ... OWNER TO,
you also need CREATE permission on the database. This is similar to
what we do for schemas. To change the owner of a schema, you must also
have permission to SET ROLE to the new owner, similar to what we do
for other object types.

Non-superusers are required to specify a password for authentication
and the remote side must use the password, similar to what is required
for postgres_fdw and dblink.  A superuser who wants a non-superuser to
own a subscription that does not rely on password authentication may
set the new password_required=false property on that subscription. A
non-superuser may not set password_required=false and may not modify a
subscription that already has password_required=false.

This new password_required subscription property works much like the
eponymous postgres_fdw property.  In both cases, the actual semantics
are that a password is not required if either (1) the property is set
to false or (2) the relevant user is the superuser.

Patch by me, reviewed by Andres Freund, Jeff Davis, Mark Dilger,
and Stephen Frost (but some of those people did not fully endorse
all of the decisions that the patch makes).

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmoaDH=0Xj7OBiQnsHTKcF2c4L+=gzPBUKSJLh8zed2_+Dg@mail.gmail.com
2023-03-30 11:37:19 -04:00
Daniel Gustafsson 7f5b19817e Support connection load balancing in libpq
This adds support for load balancing connections with libpq using a
connection parameter: load_balance_hosts=<string>. When setting the
param to random, hosts and addresses will be connected to in random
order. This then results in load balancing across these addresses and
hosts when multiple clients or frequent connection setups are used.

The randomization employed performs two levels of shuffling:

  1. The given hosts are randomly shuffled, before resolving them
     one-by-one.
  2. Once a host its addresses get resolved, the returned addresses
     are shuffled, before trying to connect to them one-by-one.

Author: Jelte Fennema <postgres@jeltef.nl>
Reviewed-by: Aleksander Alekseev <aleksander@timescale.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael Banck <mbanck@gmx.net>
Reviewed-by: Andrey Borodin <amborodin86@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/PR3PR83MB04768E2FF04818EEB2179949F7A69@PR3PR83MB0476.EURPRD83.prod.outlook.
2023-03-29 21:53:38 +02:00
Alvaro Herrera 7081ac46ac
SQL/JSON: add standard JSON constructor functions
This commit introduces the SQL/JSON standard-conforming constructors for
JSON types:

JSON_ARRAY()
JSON_ARRAYAGG()
JSON_OBJECT()
JSON_OBJECTAGG()

Most of the functionality was already present in PostgreSQL-specific
functions, but these include some new functionality such as the ability
to skip or include NULL values, and to allow duplicate keys or throw
error when they are found, as well as the standard specified syntax to
specify output type and format.

Author: Nikita Glukhov <n.gluhov@postgrespro.ru>
Author: Teodor Sigaev <teodor@sigaev.ru>
Author: Oleg Bartunov <obartunov@gmail.com>
Author: Alexander Korotkov <aekorotkov@gmail.com>
Author: Amit Langote <amitlangote09@gmail.com>

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

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAF4Au4w2x-5LTnN_bxky-mq4=WOqsGsxSpENCzHRAzSnEd8+WQ@mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/cd0bb935-0158-78a7-08b5-904886deac4b@postgrespro.ru
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220616233130.rparivafipt6doj3@alap3.anarazel.de
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/abd9b83b-aa66-f230-3d6d-734817f0995d%40postgresql.org
2023-03-29 12:11:36 +02:00
Peter Eisentraut 5aae36dc9c meson: Change default buildtype to debugoptimized
This matches the Autoconf default (-O2 + debug) better.  The previous
default setting "release" used -O3, which resulted in different
compiler warnings.  At least for now, we want to avoid such
divergence.

Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CAFj8pRBJD_Y-XcqwXSbWS24z%2B84FFX7ajhCan9ixc_m4bD63sA%40mail.gmail.com
2023-03-29 09:48:18 +02:00
Amit Kapila 062a844424 Avoid syncing data twice for the 'publish_via_partition_root' option.
When there are multiple publications for a subscription and one of those
publishes via the parent table by using publish_via_partition_root and the
other one directly publishes the child table, we end up copying the same
data twice during initial synchronization. The reason for this was that we
get both the parent and child tables from the publisher and try to copy
the data for both of them.

This patch extends the function pg_get_publication_tables() to take a
publication list as its input parameter. This allows us to exclude a
partition table whose ancestor is published by the same publication list.

This problem does exist in back-branches but we decide to fix it there in
a separate commit if required. The fix for back-branches requires quite
complicated changes to fetch the required table information from the
publisher as we can't update the function pg_get_publication_tables() in
back-branches. We are not sure whether we want to deviate and complicate
the code in back-branches for this problem as there are no field reports
yet.

Author: Wang wei
Reviewed-by: Peter Smith, Jacob Champion, Kuroda Hayato, Vignesh C, Osumi Takamichi, Amit Kapila
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/OS0PR01MB57167F45D481F78CDC5986F794B99@OS0PR01MB5716.jpnprd01.prod.outlook.com
2023-03-29 10:46:58 +05:30
Amit Kapila de5a47af2d Add XML ID attributes to create_subscription.sgml.
Commit ecb696527c added an XML ID attribute to one varlistentry in
create_subscription.sgml. Following 78ee60ed84, this commit adds XML ID
attributes to all varlistentries in create_subscription.sgml.
Additionally, links are added to refer to the subscription options,
enhancing the readability of documents.

Author: Kuroda Hayato
Reviewed-by: Peter Smith, Amit Kapila
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/TYAPR01MB58667AE04D291924671E2051F5879@TYAPR01MB5866.jpnprd01.prod.outlook.com
2023-03-29 09:58:14 +05:30
Jeff Davis 1671f990dd Validate ICU locales.
For ICU collations, ensure that the locale's language exists in ICU,
and that the locale can be opened.

Basic validation helps avoid minor mistakes and misspellings, which
often fall back to the root locale instead of the intended
locale. It's even more important to avoid such mistakes in ICU
versions 54 and earlier, where the same (misspelled) locale string
could fall back to different locales depending on the environment.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/11b1eeb7e7667fdd4178497aeb796c48d26e69b9.camel@j-davis.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/df2efad0cae7c65180df8e5ebb709e5eb4f2a82b.camel@j-davis.com
Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut
2023-03-28 16:34:29 -07:00
Peter Eisentraut 90189eefc1 Save a few bytes in pg_attribute
Change the columns attndims, attstattarget, and attinhcount from int32
to int16, and reorder a bit.  This saves some space (currently 4
bytes) in pg_attribute and tuple descriptors, which translates into
small performance benefits and/or room for new columns in pg_attribute
needed by future features.

attndims and attinhcount are never realistically used with values
larger than int16.  Just to be sure, add some overflow checks.
attstattarget is currently limited explicitly to 10000.

For consistency, pg_constraint.coninhcount is also changed like
attinhcount.

Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/d07ffc2b-e0e8-77f7-38fb-be921dff71af%40enterprisedb.com
2023-03-28 10:05:56 +02:00
Daniel Gustafsson 5a91c79755 doc: fix Apple Silicon Homebrew prefix change documentation
Commit 4c8d65408 incorrectly stated that Homebrew has changed its
prefix for Apple M1 machines, but the prefix change applies to all
Apple Silicon based machines.  Fix by writing Apple Silicon instead
of Apple M1.

Reported-by: Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker <ilmari@ilmari.org>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/87mt3ys8ng.fsf@wibble.ilmari.org
2023-03-27 14:16:45 +02:00
Daniel Gustafsson 4c8d654084 doc: Fix XML_CATALOG_FILES env var for Apple M1 machines
Homebrew changed the prefix for Apple M1 based machines, so our
advice for XML_CATALOG_FILES needs to mention both.  More info
on the Homebrew change can be found at:

  https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/issues/9177

Author: Julien Rouhaud <julien.rouhaud@free.fr>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20230327082441.h7pa2vqiobbyo7rd@jrouhaud
2023-03-27 11:56:19 +02:00
Daniel Gustafsson b577743000 Make SCRAM iteration count configurable
Replace the hardcoded value with a GUC such that the iteration
count can be raised in order to increase protection against
brute-force attacks.  The hardcoded value for SCRAM iteration
count was defined to be 4096, which is taken from RFC 7677, so
set the default for the GUC to 4096 to match.  In RFC 7677 the
recommendation is at least 15000 iterations but 4096 is listed
as a SHOULD requirement given that it's estimated to yield a
0.5s processing time on a mobile handset of the time of RFC
writing (late 2015).

Raising the iteration count of SCRAM will make stored passwords
more resilient to brute-force attacks at a higher computational
cost during connection establishment.  Lowering the count will
reduce computational overhead during connections at the tradeoff
of reducing strength against brute-force attacks.

There are however platforms where even a modest iteration count
yields a too high computational overhead, with weaker password
encryption schemes chosen as a result.  In these situations,
SCRAM with a very low iteration count still gives benefits over
weaker schemes like md5, so we allow the iteration count to be
set to one at the low end.

The new GUC is intentionally generically named such that it can
be made to support future SCRAM standards should they emerge.
At that point the value can be made into key:value pairs with
an undefined key as a default which will be backwards compatible
with this.

Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan S. Katz <jkatz@postgresql.org>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/F72E7BC7-189F-4B17-BF47-9735EB72C364@yesql.se
2023-03-27 09:46:29 +02:00
Tom Lane 6eefe2ce46 Doc: clarify introduction to database roles.
Word-smith section 22.1 ("Database Roles") a little bit in hopes
of removing confusion about how the bootstrap superuser's name
is chosen.

While here, I couldn't help noticing that the claim that the bootstrap
superuser is the only initially-existing role has been a lie since
we started to invent predefined roles.  We don't want too much detail
in this very introductory text, but it seems worth changing it to say
that it's the only initially-existing login-capable role.

Per documentation comment from Maja Zaloznik.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/167931662853.3349090.18217722739345182859@wrigleys.postgresql.org
2023-03-26 14:48:04 -04:00
Tom Lane 27f5c712b2 Fix CREATE INDEX progress reporting for multi-level partitioning.
The "partitions_total" and "partitions_done" fields were updated
as though the current level of partitioning was the only one.
In multi-level cases, not only could partitions_total change
over the course of the command, but partitions_done could go
backwards or exceed the currently-reported partitions_total.

Fix by setting partitions_total to the total number of direct
and indirect children once at command start, and then just
incrementing partitions_done at appropriate points.  Invent
a new progress monitoring function "pgstat_progress_incr_param"
to simplify doing the latter.  We can avoid adding cost for the
former when doing CREATE INDEX, because ProcessUtility already
enumerates the children and it's pretty easy to pass the count
down to DefineIndex.  In principle the same could be done in
ALTER TABLE, but that's structurally difficult; for now, just
eat the cost of an extra find_all_inheritors scan in that case.

Ilya Gladyshev and Justin Pryzby

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a15f904a70924ffa4ca25c3c744cff31e0e6e143.camel@gmail.com
2023-03-25 15:34:03 -04:00
Tom Lane f34a893531 Doc: fix another "contents...exceed the available area" PDF warning.
New since yesterday :-(
2023-03-25 13:22:59 -04:00
Tom Lane 7023207cfd Doc: fix examples for pg_input_error_info().
These were causing "contents ... exceed the available area"
warnings in PDF builds, and also didn't quite follow our markup
conventions for function examples.  To fix the overwidth
problem, reduce the number of fields shown in one example,
and also insert &zwsp; to let the header line be broken in
a reasonable place.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20230324194701.dqkzcdtlcikseo22@awork3.anarazel.de
2023-03-24 19:31:21 -04:00
Andres Freund 642d877976 docs: Explain how to silence overly verbose messages by fop
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20230324194701.dqkzcdtlcikseo22@awork3.anarazel.de
2023-03-24 14:18:40 -07:00
Tom Lane 3c05284d83 Invent GENERIC_PLAN option for EXPLAIN.
This provides a very simple way to see the generic plan for a
parameterized query.  Without this, it's necessary to define
a prepared statement and temporarily change plan_cache_mode,
which is a bit tedious.

One thing that's a bit of a hack perhaps is that we disable
execution-time partition pruning when the GENERIC_PLAN option
is given.  That's because the pruning code may attempt to
fetch the value of one of the parameters, which would fail.

Laurenz Albe, reviewed by Julien Rouhaud, Christoph Berg,
Michel Pelletier, Jim Jones, and myself

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/0a29b954b10b57f0d135fe12aa0909bd41883eb0.camel@cybertec.at
2023-03-24 17:07:22 -04:00
Andres Freund 069ef254f1 meson: docs: add texinfo target 2023-03-23 23:14:31 -07:00
Michael Paquier 36f40ce2dc libpq: Add sslcertmode option to control client certificates
The sslcertmode option controls whether the server is allowed and/or
required to request a certificate from the client.  There are three
modes:
- "allow" is the default and follows the current behavior, where a
configured client certificate is sent if the server requests one
(via one of its default locations or sslcert).  With the current
implementation, will happen whenever TLS is negotiated.
- "disable" causes the client to refuse to send a client certificate
even if sslcert is configured or if a client certificate is available in
one of its default locations.
- "require" causes the client to fail if a client certificate is never
sent and the server opens a connection anyway.  This doesn't add any
additional security, since there is no guarantee that the server is
validating the certificate correctly, but it may helpful to troubleshoot
more complicated TLS setups.

sslcertmode=require requires SSL_CTX_set_cert_cb(), available since
OpenSSL 1.0.2.  Note that LibreSSL does not include it.

Using a connection parameter different than require_auth has come up as
the simplest design because certificate authentication does not rely
directly on any of the AUTH_REQ_* codes, and one may want to require a
certificate to be sent in combination of a given authentication method,
like SCRAM-SHA-256.

TAP tests are added in src/test/ssl/, some of them relying on sslinfo to
check if a certificate has been set.  These are compatible across all
the versions of OpenSSL supported on HEAD (currently down to 1.0.1).

Author: Jacob Champion
Reviewed-by: Aleksander Alekseev, Peter Eisentraut, David G. Johnston,
Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/9e5a8ccddb8355ea9fa4b75a1e3a9edc88a70cd3.camel@vmware.com
2023-03-24 13:34:26 +09:00
Andres Freund f13eb16485 meson: add install-{docs,doc-html,doc-man} targets
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3fc3bb9b-f7f8-d442-35c1-ec82280c564a@enterprisedb.com
2023-03-23 21:20:18 -07:00
Etsuro Fujita 0f0a7183d7 Doc: Improve description of the "batch_size" option for postgres_fdw.
Document that the actual number of rows postgres_fdw inserts at once in
the COPY case is determined in a similar way to the INSERT case, but it
has a restriction that does not apply to the INSERT case.

Follow-up for commit 97da48246.

Reviewed-by: Daniel Gustafsson and Tatsuo Ishii
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAPmGK14NMXDMW4qK9kHUzudN9t71uvrMKPna02X6zwgQJ6E1_g%40mail.gmail.com
2023-03-24 12:55:00 +09:00
Daniel Gustafsson eb2618a03c doc: fix another case of missing productname markup
As a follow-up commit to 0f85db92b9, this adds <productname> markup
to another case of "PostgreSQL".

Author: Hayato Kuroda <kuroda.hayato@fujitsu.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/TYAPR01MB58667A7C8317E267467CC599F5869@TYAPR01MB5866.jpnprd01.prod.outlook.com
2023-03-23 21:35:26 +01:00
Peter Geoghegan ae4fdde135 Count updates that move row to a new page.
Add pgstat counter to track row updates that result in the successor
version going to a new heap page, leaving behind an original version
whose t_ctid points to the new version.  The current count is shown by
the n_tup_newpage_upd column of each of the pg_stat_*_tables views.

The new n_tup_newpage_upd column complements the existing n_tup_hot_upd
and n_tup_upd columns.  Tables that have high n_tup_newpage_upd values
(relative to n_tup_upd) are good candidates for tuning heap fillfactor.

Corey Huinker, with small tweaks by me.

Author: Corey Huinker <corey.huinker@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
Reviewed-By: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CADkLM=ded21M9iZ36hHm-vj2rE2d=zcKpUQMds__Xm2pxLfHKA@mail.gmail.com
2023-03-23 11:16:17 -07:00
Amit Kapila ecb696527c Allow logical replication to copy tables in binary format.
This patch allows copying tables in the binary format during table
synchronization when the binary option for a subscription is enabled.
Previously, tables are copied in text format even if the subscription is
created with the binary option enabled. Copying tables in binary format
may reduce the time spent depending on column types.

A binary copy for initial table synchronization is supported only when
both publisher and subscriber are v16 or later.

Author: Melih Mutlu
Reviewed-by: Peter Smith, Shi yu, Euler Taveira, Vignesh C,  Kuroda Hayato, Osumi Takamichi, Bharath Rupireddy, Hou Zhijie
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAGPVpCQvAziCLknEnygY0v1-KBtg%2BOm-9JHJYZOnNPKFJPompw%40mail.gmail.com
2023-03-23 08:45:51 +05:30
Thomas Munro 8fba928fd7 Improve the naming of Parallel Hash Join phases.
* Commit 3048898e dropped -ING from PHJ wait event names.  Update the
  corresponding barrier phases names to match.

* Rename the "DONE" phases to "FREE".  That's symmetrical with
  "ALLOCATE", and names the activity that actually happens in that phase
  (as we do for the other phases) rather than a state.  The bug fixed by
  commit 8d578b9b might have been more obvious with this name.

* Rename the batch/bucket growth barriers' "ALLOCATE" phases to
  "REALLOCATE", a better description of what they do.

* Update the high level comments about phases to highlight phases
  are executed by a single process with an asterisk (mostly memory
  management phases).

No behavior change, as this is just improving internal identifiers.  The
only user-visible sign of this is that a couple of wait events' display
names change from "...Allocate" to "...Reallocate" in pg_stat_activity,
to stay in sync with the internal names.

Reviewed-by: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKG%2BMDpwF2Eo2LAvzd%3DpOh81wUTsrwU1uAwR-v6OGBB6%2B7g%40mail.gmail.com
2023-03-23 13:14:25 +13:00
Tom Lane 3e51b278db Add "-c name=value" switch to initdb.
This option, or its long form --set, sets the GUC "name" to "value".
The setting applies in the bootstrap and standalone servers run by
initdb, and is also written into the generated postgresql.conf.

This can save an extra editing step when creating a new cluster,
but the real use-case is for coping with situations where the
bootstrap server fails to start due to environmental issues;
for example, if it's necessary to force huge_pages to off.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2844176.1674681919@sss.pgh.pa.us
2023-03-22 13:49:05 -04:00
Michael Paquier d69c404c4c doc: Add description of some missing monitoring functions
This commit adds some documentation about two monitoring functions:
- pg_stat_get_xact_blocks_fetched()
- pg_stat_get_xact_blocks_hit()

The description of these functions has been removed in ddfc2d9, later
simplified by 5f2b089, assuming that all the functions whose
descriptions were removed are used in system views.  Unfortunately, some
of them were are not used in any system views, so they lacked
documentation.

This gap exists in the docs for a long time, so backpatch all the way
down.

Reported-by: Michael Paquier
Author: Bertrand Drouvot
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ZBeeH5UoNkTPrwHO@paquier.xyz
Backpatch-through: 11
2023-03-22 18:31:52 +09:00
Tom Lane b0d8f2d983 Add SHELL_ERROR and SHELL_EXIT_CODE magic variables to psql.
These are set after a \! command or a backtick substitution.
SHELL_ERROR is just "true" for error (nonzero exit status) or "false"
for success, while SHELL_EXIT_CODE records the actual exit status
following standard shell/system(3) conventions.

Corey Huinker, reviewed by Maxim Orlov and myself

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CADkLM=cWao2x2f+UDw15W1JkVFr_bsxfstw=NGea7r9m4j-7rQ@mail.gmail.com
2023-03-21 13:03:56 -04:00
Daniel Gustafsson 0f85db92b9 docs: use consistent markup for PostgreSQL
"PostgreSQL" should use <productname> markup consistenktly, so that
if we do apply styling on it it will be consistently applied.  Fix
by renaming the one exception to the rule.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/F2EF5217-27A3-4962-9AE5-2E6C2CB3D0FF@yesql.se
2023-03-21 17:23:20 +01:00
Peter Eisentraut 4c8044c044 pg_waldump: Allow hexadecimal values for -t/--timeline option
This makes it easier to specify values taken directly from WAL file
names.

The option parsing is arranged in the style of option_parse_int() (but
we need to parse unsigned int), to allow future refactoring in the
same manner.

Reviewed-by: Sébastien Lardière <sebastien@lardiere.net>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/8fef346e-2541-76c3-d768-6536ae052993@lardiere.net
2023-03-21 08:05:23 +01:00
Andres Freund 7730ceb43f meson: rename html_help target to htmlhelp
Reported-by: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3fc3bb9b-f7f8-d442-35c1-ec82280c564a@enterprisedb.com
2023-03-20 17:23:57 -07:00
Tom Lane 72a5b1fc88 Add @extschema:name@ and no_relocate options to extensions.
@extschema:name@ extends the existing @extschema@ feature so that
we can also insert the schema name of some required extension,
thus making cross-extension references robust even if they are in
different schemas.

However, this has the same hazard as @extschema@: if the schema
name is embedded literally in an installed object, rather than being
looked up once during extension script execution, then it's no longer
safe to relocate the other extension to another schema.  To deal with
that without restricting things unnecessarily, add a "no_relocate"
option to extension control files.  This allows an extension to
specify that it cannot handle relocation of some of its required
extensions, even if in themselves those extensions are relocatable.
We detect "no_relocate" requests of dependent extensions during
ALTER EXTENSION SET SCHEMA.

Regina Obe, reviewed by Sandro Santilli and myself

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/003001d8f4ae$402282c0$c0678840$@pcorp.us
2023-03-20 18:37:11 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera 30e9f2608a
doc/PDF: Add page breaks for <sect1> in contrib appendix
This better separates the content for each extension/module.

Author: Karl Pinc <kop@karlpinc.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20230120142225.3d3be8a3@slate.karlpinc.com
2023-03-20 14:01:09 +01:00
Tomas Vondra 19d8e2308b Ignore BRIN indexes when checking for HOT updates
When determining whether an index update may be skipped by using HOT, we
can ignore attributes indexed by block summarizing indexes without
references to individual tuples that need to be cleaned up.

A new type TU_UpdateIndexes provides a signal to the executor to
determine which indexes to update - no indexes, all indexes, or only the
summarizing indexes.

This also removes rd_indexattr list, and replaces it with rd_attrsvalid
flag. The list was not used anywhere, and a simple flag is sufficient.

This was originally committed as 5753d4ee32, but then got reverted by
e3fcca0d0d because of correctness issues.

Original patch by Josef Simanek, various fixes and improvements by Tomas
Vondra and me.

Authors: Matthias van de Meent, Josef Simanek, Tomas Vondra
Reviewed-by: Tomas Vondra, Alvaro Herrera
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/05ebcb44-f383-86e3-4f31-0a97a55634cf@enterprisedb.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAFp7QwpMRGcDAQumN7onN9HjrJ3u4X3ZRXdGFT0K5G2JWvnbWg%40mail.gmail.com
2023-03-20 11:02:42 +01:00
Peter Eisentraut 0b51d423e9 doc: Additional information about timeline ID hexadecimal format
Timeline IDs are sometimes presented to the user in hexadecimal format
(for example in WAL file names).  Add a few bits of information to
clarify this.

Author: Sébastien Lardière <sebastien@lardiere.net>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/8fef346e-2541-76c3-d768-6536ae052993@lardiere.net
2023-03-20 08:48:46 +01:00
Tom Lane 4f46f870fa Doc: fix documentation example for bytea hex output format.
Per report from rsindlin

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/167907221210.1803488.5939223864945604536@wrigleys.postgresql.org
2023-03-18 16:11:22 -04:00
Tom Lane 75bd846b68 Add functions to do timestamptz arithmetic in a non-default timezone.
Add versions of timestamptz + interval, timestamptz - interval, and
generate_series(timestamptz, ...) in which a timezone can be specified
explicitly instead of defaulting to the TimeZone GUC setting.

The new functions for the first two are named date_add and
date_subtract.  This might seem too generic, but we could use
overloading to add additional variants if that seems useful.

Along the way, improve the docs' pretty inadequate explanation
of how timestamptz +- interval works.

Przemysław Sztoch and Gurjeet Singh; cosmetic changes and most of
the docs work by me

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/01a84551-48dd-1359-bf7e-f6b0203a6bd0@sztoch.pl
2023-03-18 14:12:16 -04:00
Tom Lane bc8cd50fef Fix pg_dump for hash partitioning on enum columns.
Hash partitioning on an enum is problematic because the hash codes are
derived from the OIDs assigned to the enum values, which will almost
certainly be different after a dump-and-reload than they were before.
This means that some rows probably end up in different partitions than
before, causing restore to fail because of partition constraint
violations.  (pg_upgrade dodges this problem by using hacks to force
the enum values to keep the same OIDs, but that's not possible nor
desirable for pg_dump.)

Users can work around that by specifying --load-via-partition-root,
but since that's a dump-time not restore-time decision, one might
find out the need for it far too late.  Instead, teach pg_dump to
apply that option automatically when dealing with a partitioned
table that has hash-on-enum partitioning.

Also deal with a pre-existing issue for --load-via-partition-root
mode: in a parallel restore, we try to TRUNCATE target tables just
before loading them, in order to enable some backend optimizations.
This is bad when using --load-via-partition-root because (a) we're
likely to suffer deadlocks from restore jobs trying to restore rows
into other partitions than they came from, and (b) if we miss getting
a deadlock we might still lose data due to a TRUNCATE removing rows
from some already-completed restore job.

The fix for this is conceptually simple: just don't TRUNCATE if we're
dealing with a --load-via-partition-root case.  The tricky bit is for
pg_restore to identify those cases.  In dumps using COPY commands we
can inspect each COPY command to see if it targets the nominal target
table or some ancestor.  However, in dumps using INSERT commands it's
pretty impractical to examine the INSERTs in advance.  To provide a
solution for that going forward, modify pg_dump to mark TABLE DATA
items that are using --load-via-partition-root with a comment.
(This change also responds to a complaint from Robert Haas that
the dump output for --load-via-partition-root is pretty confusing.)
pg_restore checks for the special comment as well as checking the
COPY command if present.  This will fail to identify the combination
of --load-via-partition-root and --inserts in pre-existing dump files,
but that should be a pretty rare case in the field.  If it does
happen you will probably get a deadlock failure that you can work
around by not using parallel restore, which is the same as before
this bug fix.

Having done this, there seems no remaining reason for the alarmism
in the pg_dump man page about combining --load-via-partition-root
with parallel restore, so remove that warning.

Patch by me; thanks to Julien Rouhaud for review.  Back-patch to
v11 where hash partitioning was introduced.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1376149.1675268279@sss.pgh.pa.us
2023-03-17 13:31:40 -04:00
Michael Paquier 98ae2c84a4 libpq: Remove code for SCM credential authentication
Support for SCM credential authentication has been removed in the
backend in 9.1, and libpq has kept some code to handle it for
compatibility.

Commit be4585b, that did the cleanup of the backend code, has done
so because the code was not really portable originally.  And, as there
are likely little chances that this is used these days, this removes the
remaining code from libpq.  An error will now be raised by libpq if
attempting to connect to a server that returns AUTH_REQ_SCM_CREDS,
instead.

References to SCM credential authentication are removed from the
protocol documentation.  This removes some meson and configure checks.

Author: Michael Paquier
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ZBLH8a4otfqgd6Kn@paquier.xyz
2023-03-17 10:52:26 +09:00
Tom Lane f170b572d2 Doc: mention CREATE+ATTACH PARTITION with CREATE TABLE...PARTITION OF.
Clarify that ATTACH/DETACH PARTITION can be used to perform partition
maintenance with less locking than straight CREATE TABLE/DROP TABLE.
This was already stated in some places, but not emphasized.

Back-patch to v14 where DETACH PARTITION CONCURRENTLY was added.
(We had lower lock levels for ATTACH PARTITION before that, but
this wording wouldn't apply.)

Justin Pryzby, reviewed by Robert Treat and Jakub Wartak;
a little further wordsmithing by me

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220718143304.GC18011@telsasoft.com
2023-03-16 16:50:56 -04:00
Tom Lane 483bdb2afe Support [NO] INDENT option in XMLSERIALIZE().
This adds the ability to pretty-print XML documents ... according to
libxml's somewhat idiosyncratic notions of what's pretty, anyway.
One notable divergence from a strict reading of the spec is that
libxml is willing to collapse empty nodes "<node></node>" to just
"<node/>", whereas SQL and the underlying XML spec say that this
option should only result in whitespace tweaks.  Nonetheless,
it seems close enough to justify using the SQL-standard syntax.

Jim Jones, reviewed by Peter Smith and myself

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2f5df461-dad8-6d7d-4568-08e10608a69b@uni-muenster.de
2023-03-15 16:59:09 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera a0137388cb
doc: Add lists of modules trusted/obsolete
Author: Karl Pinc <kop@karlpinc.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20230102180015.372995a9@slate.karlpinc.com
2023-03-15 09:32:44 +01:00
Amit Kapila 89e46da5e5 Allow the use of indexes other than PK and REPLICA IDENTITY on the subscriber.
Using REPLICA IDENTITY FULL on the publisher can lead to a full table scan
per tuple change on the subscription when REPLICA IDENTITY or PK index is
not available. This makes REPLICA IDENTITY FULL impractical to use apart
from some small number of use cases.

This patch allows using indexes other than PRIMARY KEY or REPLICA
IDENTITY on the subscriber during apply of update/delete. The index that
can be used must be a btree index, not a partial index, and it must have
at least one column reference (i.e. cannot consist of only expressions).
We can uplift these restrictions in the future. There is no smart
mechanism to pick the index. If there is more than one index that
satisfies these requirements, we just pick the first one. We discussed
using some of the optimizer's low-level APIs for this but ruled it out
as that can be a maintenance burden in the long run.

This patch improves the performance in the vast majority of cases and the
improvement is proportional to the amount of data in the table. However,
there could be some regression in a small number of cases where the indexes
have a lot of duplicate and dead rows. It was discussed that those are
mostly impractical cases but we can provide a table or subscription level
option to disable this feature if required.

Author: Onder Kalaci, Amit Kapila
Reviewed-by: Peter Smith, Shi yu, Hou Zhijie, Vignesh C, Kuroda Hayato, Amit Kapila
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CACawEhVLqmAAyPXdHEPv1ssU2c=dqOniiGz7G73HfyS7+nGV4w@mail.gmail.com
2023-03-15 08:49:04 +05:30
Tom Lane a563c24c95 Allow pg_dump to include/exclude child tables automatically.
This patch adds new pg_dump switches
    --table-and-children=pattern
    --exclude-table-and-children=pattern
    --exclude-table-data-and-children=pattern
which act the same as the existing --table, --exclude-table, and
--exclude-table-data switches, except that any partitions or
inheritance child tables of the table(s) matching the pattern
are also included or excluded.

Gilles Darold, reviewed by Stéphane Tachoires

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/5aa393b5-5f67-8447-b83e-544516990ee2@migops.com
2023-03-14 16:09:03 -04:00
Daniel Gustafsson bdc8d803e8 doc: spell out full productname
Use PostgreSQL consistently for referring to the productname rather
than Postgres.  This also adds <productname> markup.

Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Reviewed-by: "Jonathan S. Katz" <jkatz@postgresql.org>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/9C019644-9EA4-4B79-A52C-5C47A5B6B2DF@yesql.se
2023-03-14 14:41:55 +01:00
Michael Paquier 5c1b662807 Rework design of functions in pg_walinspect
This commit reworks a bit the set-returning functions of pg_walinspect,
making them more flexible regarding their end LSN:
- pg_get_wal_records_info()
- pg_get_wal_stats()
- pg_get_wal_block_info()

The end LSNs given to these functions is now handled so as a value
higher than the current LSN of the cluster (insert LSN for a primary, or
replay LSN for a standby) does not raise an error, giving more
flexibility to monitoring queries.  Instead, the functions return
results up to the current LSN, as found at the beginning of each
function call.

As an effect of that, pg_get_wal_records_info_till_end_of_wal() and
pg_get_wal_stats_till_end_of_wal() are now removed from 1.1, as the
existing, equivalent functions are able to offer the same
possibilities.

Author: Bharath Rupireddy
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CALj2ACU0_q-o4DSweyaW9NO1KBx-QkN6G_OzYQvpjf3CZVASkg@mail.gmail.com
2023-03-14 20:13:02 +09:00
Dean Rasheed d5d574146d Add support for the error functions erf() and erfc().
Expose the standard error functions as SQL-callable functions. These
are expected to be useful to people working with normal distributions,
and we use them here to test the distribution from random_normal().

Since these functions are defined in the POSIX and C99 standards, they
should in theory be available on all supported platforms. If that
turns out not to be the case, more work will be needed.

On all platforms tested so far, using extra_float_digits = -1 in the
regression tests is sufficient to allow for variations between
implementations. However, past experience has shown that there are
almost certainly going to be additional unexpected portability issues,
so these tests may well need further adjustments, based on the
buildfarm results.

Dean Rasheed, reviewed by Nathan Bossart and Thomas Munro.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEZATCXv5fi7+Vu-POiyai+ucF95+YMcCMafxV+eZuN1B-=MkQ@mail.gmail.com
2023-03-14 09:17:36 +00:00
Michael Paquier 3a465cc678 libpq: Add support for require_auth to control authorized auth methods
The new connection parameter require_auth allows a libpq client to
define a list of comma-separated acceptable authentication types for use
with the server.  There is no negotiation: if the server does not
present one of the allowed authentication requests, the connection
attempt done by the client fails.

The following keywords can be defined in the list:
- password, for AUTH_REQ_PASSWORD.
- md5, for AUTH_REQ_MD5.
- gss, for AUTH_REQ_GSS[_CONT].
- sspi, for AUTH_REQ_SSPI and AUTH_REQ_GSS_CONT.
- scram-sha-256, for AUTH_REQ_SASL[_CONT|_FIN].
- creds, for AUTH_REQ_SCM_CREDS (perhaps this should be removed entirely
now).
- none, to control unauthenticated connections.

All the methods that can be defined in the list can be negated, like
"!password", in which case the server must NOT use the listed
authentication type.  The special method "none" allows/disallows the use
of unauthenticated connections (but it does not govern transport-level
authentication via TLS or GSSAPI).

Internally, the patch logic is tied to check_expected_areq(), that was
used for channel_binding, ensuring that an incoming request is
compatible with conn->require_auth.  It also introduces a new flag,
conn->client_finished_auth, which is set by various authentication
routines when the client side of the handshake is finished.  This
signals to check_expected_areq() that an AUTH_REQ_OK from the server is
expected, and allows the client to complain if the server bypasses
authentication entirely, with for example the reception of a too-early
AUTH_REQ_OK message.

Regression tests are added in authentication TAP tests for all the
keywords supported (except "creds", because it is around only for
compatibility reasons).  A new TAP script has been added for SSPI, as
there was no script dedicated to it yet.  It relies on SSPI being the
default authentication method on Windows, as set by pg_regress.

Author: Jacob Champion
Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut, David G. Johnston, Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/9e5a8ccddb8355ea9fa4b75a1e3a9edc88a70cd3.camel@vmware.com
2023-03-14 14:00:05 +09:00
Andrew Dunstan 9f8377f7a2 Add a DEFAULT option to COPY FROM
This allows for a string which if an input field matches causes the
column's default value to be inserted. The advantage of this is that
the default can be inserted in some rows and not others, for which
non-default data is available.

The file_fdw extension is also modified to take allow use of this
option.

Israel Barth Rubio

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAO_rXXAcqesk6DsvioOZ5zmeEmpUN5ktZf-9=9yu+DTr0Xr8Uw@mail.gmail.com
2023-03-13 10:01:56 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 6a3002715e meson: Make auto the default of the ssl option
The 'ssl' option is of type 'combo', but we add a choice 'auto' that
simulates the behavior of a feature option.  This way, openssl is used
automatically by default if present, but we retain the ability to
potentially select another ssl library.

Author: Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/ad65ffd1-a9a7-fda1-59c6-f7dc763c3051%40enterprisedb.com
2023-03-13 07:04:11 +01:00
Jeff Davis c45dc7ffbb initdb: derive encoding from locale for ICU; similar to libc.
Previously, the default encoding was derived from the locale when
using libc; while the default was always UTF-8 when using ICU. That
would throw an error when the locale was not compatible with UTF-8.

This commit causes initdb to derive the default encoding from the
locale for both providers. If --no-locale is specified (or if the
locale is C or POSIX), the default encoding will be UTF-8 for ICU
(because ICU does not support SQL_ASCII) and SQL_ASCII for libc.

Per buildfarm failure on system "hoverfly" related to commit
27b62377b4.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/d191d5841347301a8f1238f609471ddd957fc47e.camel%40j-davis.com
2023-03-10 10:51:24 -08:00
Peter Eisentraut 0d21d4b9bc Add standard collation UNICODE
This adds a new predefined collation named UNICODE, which sorts by the
default Unicode collation algorithm specifications, per SQL standard.

This only works if ICU support is built.

Reviewed-by: Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/1293e382-2093-a2bf-a397-c04e8f83d3c2@enterprisedb.com
2023-03-10 13:35:43 +01:00
Peter Eisentraut cd42785974 doc: Better example for custom ICU rules
Use a more practical example, and also add some explanation.

Reported-by: Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>
2023-03-10 09:25:03 +01:00
Michael Paquier 9ecb134a93 pg_walinspect: pg_get_wal_fpi_info() -> pg_get_wal_block_info()
This commit reworks pg_get_wal_fpi_info() to become aware of all the
block information that can be attached to a record rather than just its
full-page writes:
- Addition of the block id as assigned by XLogRegisterBuffer(),
XLogRegisterBlock() or XLogRegisterBufData().
- Addition of the block data, as bytea, or NULL if none.  The length of
the block data can be guessed with length(), so there is no need to
store its length in a separate field.
- Addition of the full-page image length, as counted without a hole or
even compressed.
- Modification of the handling of the full-page image data.  This is
still a bytea, but it could become NULL if none is assigned to a block.
- Addition of the full-page image flags, tracking if a page is stored
with a hole, if it needs to be applied and the type of compression
applied to it, as of all the BKPIMAGE_* values in xlogrecord.h.

The information of each block is returned as one single record, with the
record's ReadRecPtr included to be able to join the block information
with the existing pg_get_wal_records_info().  Note that it is perfectly
possible for a block to hold both data and full-page image.

Thanks also to Kyotaro Horiguchi and Matthias van de Meent for the
discussion.

This commit uses some of the work proposed by Melanie, though it has
been largely redesigned and rewritten by me.  Bharath has helped in
refining a bit the whole.

Reported-by: Melanie Plageman
Author: Michael Paquier, Melanie Plageman, Bharath Rupireddy
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAAKRu_bORebdZmcV8V4cZBzU8M_C6tDDdbiPhCZ6i-iuSXW9TA@mail.gmail.com
2023-03-10 10:09:07 +09:00
Jeff Davis 27b62377b4 Use ICU by default at initdb time.
If the ICU locale is not specified, initialize the default collator
and retrieve the locale name from that.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/510d284759f6e943ce15096167760b2edcb2e700.camel@j-davis.com
Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut
2023-03-09 10:52:41 -08:00
Alvaro Herrera a7e584a7d6
HTML docs: Add padding to table.simplelist for more readable output
This couples with a to-be-pushed pgweb patch to synchronize the other
stylesheet under which these docs are rendered on the website.

Author: Karl Pinc <kop@karlpinc.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20230122144246.0ff87372@slate.karlpinc.com
2023-03-09 19:47:19 +01:00
Michael Paquier f1c3963292 doc: Add guidelines to generate coverage reports with meson
These instructions were already available for configure-based builds,
but not the meson-based builds.  This commit closes the gap.

Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/d3751ca3-1ac9-cc5e-9315-cf9fb0eaa9e9@enterprisedb.com
2023-03-09 09:21:47 +09:00
Peter Eisentraut 30a53b7929 Allow tailoring of ICU locales with custom rules
This exposes the ICU facility to add custom collation rules to a
standard collation.

New options are added to CREATE COLLATION, CREATE DATABASE, createdb,
and initdb to set the rules.

Reviewed-by: Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Verite <daniel@manitou-mail.org>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/821c71a4-6ef0-d366-9acf-bb8e367f739f@enterprisedb.com
2023-03-08 16:56:37 +01:00
Peter Eisentraut ce1215d9b0 Add support for unit "B" to pg_size_bytes()
This makes it consistent with the units support in GUC.

Reviewed-by: David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Dean Rasheed <dean.a.rasheed@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/0106914a-9eb5-22be-40d8-652cc88c827d%40enterprisedb.com
2023-03-07 20:31:16 +01:00
Peter Eisentraut af4d5715fc doc: Update pg_size_pretty documentation about petabytes support
Missing documentation update for ca2e4472ba.

Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAApHDvrCwMgSD_93LZr4CLMas8Hc61fXAQ-Cd4%3D%2ByoRfHnYbJA%40mail.gmail.com
2023-03-07 19:56:37 +01:00
Daniel Gustafsson d3406d8036 Fix handling of default option values in createuser
Add description of which one is the default between two complementary
options of --bypassrls and --replication in the help text and docs. In
correspondence let the command always include the tokens corresponding
to every options of that kind in the SQL command sent to server. Tests
are updated accordingly.

Also fix the checks of some trivalue vars which were using literal zero
for checking default value instead of the enum label TRI_DEFAULT. While
not a bug, since TRI_DEFAULT is defined as zero, fixing improves read-
ability improved readability (and avoid bugs if the enum is changed).

Author: Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220810.151243.1073197628358749087.horikyota.ntt@gmail.com
2023-03-06 14:16:32 +01:00
Michael Paquier 4211fbd841 Add PROCESS_MAIN to VACUUM
Disabling this option is useful to run VACUUM (with or without FULL) on
only the toast table of a relation, bypassing the main relation.  This
option is enabled by default.

Running directly VACUUM on a toast table was already possible without
this feature, by using the non-deterministic name of a toast relation
(as of pg_toast.pg_toast_N, where N would be the OID of the parent
relation) in the VACUUM command, and it required a scan of pg_class to
know the name of the toast table.  So this feature is basically a
shortcut to be able to run VACUUM or VACUUM FULL on a toast relation,
using only the name of the parent relation.

A new switch called --no-process-main is added to vacuumdb, to work as
an equivalent of PROCESS_MAIN.

Regression tests are added to cover VACUUM and VACUUM FULL, looking at
pg_stat_all_tables.vacuum_count to see how many vacuums have run on
each table, main or toast.

Author: Nathan Bossart
Reviewed-by: Masahiko Sawada
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20221230000028.GA435655@nathanxps13
2023-03-06 16:41:05 +09:00
Peter Eisentraut 102a5c164a SQL JSON path enhanced numeric literals
Add support for non-decimal integer literals and underscores in
numeric literals to SQL JSON path language.  This follows the rules of
ECMAScript, as referred to by the SQL standard.

Internally, all the numeric literal parsing of jsonpath goes through
numeric_in, which already supports all this, so this patch is just a
bit of lexer work and some tests and documentation.

Reviewed-by: Dean Rasheed <dean.a.rasheed@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/b11b25bb-6ec1-d42f-cedd-311eae59e1fb@enterprisedb.com
2023-03-05 15:19:58 +01:00
Tom Lane 6949b921d5 Avoid failure when altering state of partitioned foreign-key triggers.
Beginning in v15, if you apply ALTER TABLE ENABLE/DISABLE TRIGGER to
a partitioned table, it also affects the partitions' cloned versions
of the affected trigger(s).  The initial implementation of this
located the clones by name, but that fails on foreign-key triggers
which have names incorporating their own OIDs.  We can fix that, and
also make the behavior more bulletproof in the face of user-initiated
trigger renames, by identifying the cloned triggers by tgparentid.

Following the lead of earlier commits in this area, I took care not
to break ABI in the v15 branch, even though I rather doubt there
are any external callers of EnableDisableTrigger.

While here, update the documentation, which was not touched when
the semantics were changed.

Per bug #17817 from Alan Hodgson.  Back-patch to v15; older versions
do not have this behavior.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17817-31dfb7c2100d9f3d@postgresql.org
2023-03-04 13:32:35 -05:00
Tom Lane 3dfae91f7a Show "internal name" not "source code" in psql's \df+ command.
Our previous habit of showing the full function body is really
pretty unfriendly for tabular viewing of functions, and now that
we have \sf and \ef commands there seems no good reason why \df+
has to do it.  It still seems to make sense to show prosrc for
internal and C-language functions, since in those cases prosrc
is just the C function name; but then let's rename the column to
"Internal name" which is a more accurate descriptor.

Isaac Morland

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAMsGm5eqKc6J1=Lwn=ZONG=6ZDYWRQ4cgZQLqMuZGB1aVt_JBg@mail.gmail.com
2023-03-02 17:15:13 -05:00
Tomas Vondra 6095069b40 Improve wording in pg_dump compression docs
A couple minor corrections in pg_dump comments and docs, related to the
recently introduced compression API.

Reported-by: Justin Pryzby
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20230227044910.GO1653@telsasoft.com
2023-03-01 16:11:38 +01:00
Peter Eisentraut d2f44cc36e meson: Add equivalent of configure --disable-rpath option
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/33e957e6-4b4e-b0ed-1cc1-6335a24543ff%40enterprisedb.com
2023-03-01 08:05:42 +01:00
Michael Paquier 6da67a0c11 doc: Mention de-normalization of deallocated entries in pg_stat_statements
The current implementation of query normalization in pg_stat_statements
is optimistic.  If an entry is deallocated between the post-analyze hook
and the planner and/or execution hook, it can be possible to find query
strings with literal constant values (like "SELECT 1, 2") rather than
their normalized flavor (like "SELECT $1, $2").

This commit adds in the documentation a paragraph about this limitation,
and that this risk can be reduced by increasing pg_stat_statements.max,
particularly if pg_stat_statements_info reports a high number of
deallocations.

Author: Sami Imseih
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/9CFF3512-355B-4676-8CCC-6CF622F4DC1A@amazon.com
2023-03-01 10:47:01 +09:00
Michael Paquier 6a88a05861 doc: Update pg_stat_statements about query ID calculation of utilities
Since 3db72eb, the calculation of the query ID hash for utilities is not
done based on the textual query strings, but on their internal Query
representation, meaning that there can be an overlap when they use
literal constants.  The documentation of pg_stat_statements was missing
a refresh about that.

Extracted from a larger patch by me.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/Y+MRdEq9W9XVa2AB@paquier.xyz
2023-03-01 10:31:55 +09:00
Michael Paquier 019f862466 doc: Fix description of pg_get_wal_stats_till_end_of_wal() in pg_walinspect
end_lsn was mentioned as an input parameter, but that should not be the
case.  Error introduced in 58597ed.

Author: Nathan Bossart
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20230228195740.GA1397484@nathanxps13
Backpatch-through: 15
2023-03-01 08:38:43 +09:00
Michael Paquier b8da37b3ad Rework pg_input_error_message(), now renamed pg_input_error_info()
pg_input_error_info() is now a SQL function able to return a row with
more than just the error message generated for incorrect data type
inputs when these are able to handle soft failures, returning more
contents of ErrorData, as of:
- The error message (same as before).
- The error detail, if set.
- The error hint, if set.
- SQL error code.

All the regression tests that relied on pg_input_error_message() are
updated to reflect the effects of the rename.

Per discussion with Tom Lane and Andrew Dunstan.

Author: Nathan Bossart
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/139a68e1-bd1f-a9a7-b5fe-0be9845c6311@dunslane.net
2023-02-28 08:04:13 +09:00
Heikki Linnakangas 46647cc4b8 Replace single-quotes with double-quotes in a few SGML attributes.
Both are valid SGML, but let's be consistent.

Author: Peter Smith
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAHut%2BPtghjg0SBUTv%3D4Bpcy68d1zD3VAnZ3wX1DQSp39XKD9Sw%40mail.gmail.com
2023-02-27 09:55:39 +02:00
Heikki Linnakangas 0a0500207a pg_rewind: Remove notice in docs about running CHECKPOINT after promote.
Commit 009eeee746 made it unnecessary. pg_rewind now works on a
recently promoted standby.

Author: Kyotaro Horiguchi, Keisuke Kuroda
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/aeb5f31a-8de2-40a8-64af-ab659a309d6b%40iki.fi
2023-02-27 09:34:43 +02:00
Dean Rasheed ee7e8f3838 Doc: Miscellaneous doc updates for MERGE.
Update a few places in the documentation that should mention MERGE
among the list of applicable commands. In a couple of places, a
slightly more detailed description of what happens for MERGE seems
appropriate.

Reviewed by Alvaro Herrera.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAEZATCWqHLcxab89ATMQZNGFG_mxDPM%2BjzkSbXKD3JYPfRGvtw%40mail.gmail.com
2023-02-26 09:06:04 +00:00
Tomas Vondra 0da243fed0 Add LZ4 compression to pg_dump
Expand pg_dump's compression streaming and file APIs to support the lz4
algorithm. The newly added compress_lz4.{c,h} files cover all the
functionality of the aforementioned APIs. Minor changes were necessary
in various pg_backup_* files, where code for the 'lz4' file suffix has
been added, as well as pg_dump's compression option parsing.

Author: Georgios Kokolatos
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier, Rachel Heaton, Justin Pryzby, Shi Yu, Tomas Vondra
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/faUNEOpts9vunEaLnmxmG-DldLSg_ql137OC3JYDmgrOMHm1RvvWY2IdBkv_CRxm5spCCb_OmKNk2T03TMm0fBEWveFF9wA1WizPuAgB7Ss%3D%40protonmail.com
2023-02-23 21:19:26 +01:00
Dean Rasheed d0460a31de Add missing support for the latest SPI status codes.
SPI_result_code_string() was missing support for SPI_OK_TD_REGISTER,
and in v15 and later, it was missing support for SPI_OK_MERGE, as was
pltcl_process_SPI_result().

The last of those would trigger an error if a MERGE was executed from
PL/Tcl. The others seem fairly innocuous, but worth fixing.

Back-patch to all supported branches. Before v15, this is just adding
SPI_OK_TD_REGISTER to SPI_result_code_string(), which is unlikely to
be seen by anyone, but seems worth doing for completeness.

Reviewed by Tom Lane.

Discussion:
  https://postgr.es/m/CAEZATCUg8V%2BK%2BGcafOPqymxk84Y_prXgfe64PDoopjLFH6Z0Aw%40mail.gmail.com
  https://postgr.es/m/CAEZATCUMe%2B_KedPMM9AxKqm%3DSZogSxjUcrMe%2BsakusZh3BFcQw%40mail.gmail.com
2023-02-22 13:23:09 +00:00
Daniel Gustafsson e00bc6c922 doc: Add default value of createrole_self_grant
Document that the default value for createrole_self_grant is an empty
string which in turn disable the feature.

Author: Shi Yu <shiy.fnst@fujitsu.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/OSZPR01MB63105D0D96A9A72A7FCD4FFEFDA09@OSZPR01MB6310.jpnprd01.prod.outlook.com
2023-02-22 11:05:20 +01:00
Peter Eisentraut 2ddab010c2 Implement ANY_VALUE aggregate
SQL:2023 defines an ANY_VALUE aggregate whose purpose is to emit an
implementation-dependent (i.e. non-deterministic) value from the
aggregated rows.

Author: Vik Fearing <vik@postgresfriends.org>
Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>
Reviewed-by: David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/5cff866c-10a8-d2df-32cb-e9072e6b04a2@postgresfriends.org
2023-02-22 09:33:07 +01:00
Michael Paquier 1a943d03d6 doc: Add missing values for meson options -Dcassert and -Db_coverage
The -Dcassert and -Db_coverage that can be specified to a meson command
require values after an equal sign but the documentation did not
properly reflect that.  All the other options specify the argument
values they expect, so close the gap.

Author: Jelte Fennema
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAGECzQRXd1z+AoQ4tC5tqPk1_NQJohf6xwdEL=z9KgxHau2maQ@mail.gmail.com
2023-02-22 10:55:14 +09:00
Michael Paquier 35739b87dc Redesign archive modules
A new callback named startup_cb, called shortly after a module is
loaded, is added.  This makes possible the initialization of any
additional state data required by a module.  This initial state data can
be saved in a ArchiveModuleState, that is now passed down to all the
callbacks that can be defined in a module.  With this design, it is
possible to have a per-module state, aimed at opening the door to the
support of more than one archive module.

The initialization of the callbacks is changed so as
_PG_archive_module_init() does not anymore give in input a
ArchiveModuleCallbacks that a module has to fill in with callback
definitions.  Instead, a module now needs to return a const
ArchiveModuleCallbacks.

All the structure and callback definitions of archive modules are moved
into their own header, named archive_module.h, from pgarch.h.
Command-based archiving follows the same line, with a new set of files
named shell_archive.{c,h}.

There are a few more items that are under discussion to improve the
design of archive modules, like the fact that basic_archive calls
sigsetjmp() by itself to define its own error handling flow.  These will
be adjusted later, the changes done here cover already a good portion
of what has been discussed.

Any modules created for v15 will need to be adjusted to this new
design.

Author: Nathan Bossart
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20230130194810.6fztfgbn32e7qarj@awork3.anarazel.de
2023-02-17 14:26:42 +09:00
Amit Kapila fce003cfde Add a new wait state and use it when sending data in the apply worker.
d9d7fe68d3 made use of an existing wait event when sending data from the
apply worker, but we should have invented a new wait event since this is a
new place to wait.

This patch corrects the mistake by using a new wait event
"LogicalApplySendData".

Author: Hou Zhijie
Reviewed-by: Peter Smith
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmobWzbr9H3yN3dLVckviEZKemPwd+XyCFKEgyZQZhgP66Q@mail.gmail.com
2023-02-16 07:46:31 +05:30
David Rowley 5352ca22e0 Rename force_parallel_mode to debug_parallel_query
force_parallel_mode is meant to be used to allow us to exercise the
parallel query infrastructure to ensure that it's working as we expect.
It seems some users think this GUC is for forcing the query planner into
picking a parallel plan regardless of the costs.  A quick look at the
documentation would have made them realize that they were wrong, but the
GUC is likely too conveniently named which, evidently, seems to often
result in users expecting that it forces the planner into usefully
parallelizing queries.

Here we rename the GUC to something which casual users are less likely to
mistakenly think is what they need to make their query run more quickly.

For now, the old name can still be used.  We'll revisit if the old name
mapping can be removed once the buildfarm configs are all updated.

Reviewed-by: John Naylor
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAApHDvrsOi92_uA7PEaHZMH-S4Xv+MGhQWA+GrP8b1kjpS1HjQ@mail.gmail.com
2023-02-15 21:21:59 +13:00
Michael Paquier 8e0e0698f1 doc: Fix spelling of option -Dtap_tests for meson
This option was documented as -Dtap-tests, but the option requires an
underscore in its name.

Author: Katsuragi Yuta
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/cff4558e170be78d8fd64ed45edbe1cb@oss.nttdata.com
2023-02-15 15:01:24 +09:00
Jeff Davis a8a44828a2 Correct docs for the default locale_provider of a new database.
If the locale provider is not specified, it defaults to be the same as
the template from which it was created. Previously, the documentation
said the default was libc.

Also adjust wording of CREATE DATABASE and CREATE COLLATION docs to be
definite that there are exactly two possible collation providers.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/6befdaada61c046b67f3b269f7fa6f069a35803e.camel%40j-davis.com
Reviewed-by: Nathan Bossart
2023-02-13 17:16:13 -08:00
Andres Freund a9c70b46db Add pg_stat_io view, providing more detailed IO statistics
Builds on 28e626bde0 and f30d62c2fc. See the former for motivation.

Rows of the view show IO operations for a particular backend type, IO target
object, IO context combination (e.g. a client backend's operations on
permanent relations in shared buffers) and each column in the view is the
total number of IO Operations done (e.g. writes). So a cell in the view would
be, for example, the number of blocks of relation data written from shared
buffers by client backends since the last stats reset.

In anticipation of tracking WAL IO and non-block-oriented IO (such as
temporary file IO), the "op_bytes" column specifies the unit of the "reads",
"writes", and "extends" columns for a given row.

Rows for combinations of IO operation, backend type, target object and context
that never occur, are ommitted entirely. For example, checkpointer will never
operate on temporary relations.

Similarly, if an IO operation never occurs for such a combination, the IO
operation's cell will be null, to distinguish from 0 observed IO
operations. For example, bgwriter should not perform reads.

Note that some of the cells in the view are redundant with fields in
pg_stat_bgwriter (e.g. buffers_backend). For now, these have been kept for
backwards compatibility.

Bumps catversion.

Author: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Author: Samay Sharma <smilingsamay@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Maciek Sakrejda <m.sakrejda@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Lukas Fittl <lukas@fittl.com>
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reviewed-by: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200124195226.lth52iydq2n2uilq@alap3.anarazel.de
2023-02-11 09:52:15 -08:00
Michael Paquier ef7002dbe0 Fix various typos in code and tests
Most of these are recent, and the documentation portions are new as of
v16 so there is no need for a backpatch.

Author: Justin Pryzby
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20230208155644.GM1653@telsasoft.com
2023-02-09 14:43:53 +09:00
Andres Freund 28e626bde0 pgstat: Infrastructure for more detailed IO statistics
This commit adds the infrastructure for more detailed IO statistics. The calls
to actually count IOs, a system view to access the new statistics,
documentation and tests will be added in subsequent commits, to make review
easier.

While we already had some IO statistics, e.g. in pg_stat_bgwriter and
pg_stat_database, they did not provide sufficient detail to understand what
the main sources of IO are, or whether configuration changes could avoid
IO. E.g., pg_stat_bgwriter.buffers_backend does contain the number of buffers
written out by a backend, but as that includes extending relations (always
done by backends) and writes triggered by the use of buffer access strategies,
it cannot easily be used to tune background writer or checkpointer. Similarly,
pg_stat_database.blks_read cannot easily be used to tune shared_buffers /
compute a cache hit ratio, as the use of buffer access strategies will often
prevent a large fraction of the read blocks to end up in shared_buffers.

The new IO statistics count IO operations (evict, extend, fsync, read, reuse,
and write), and are aggregated for each combination of backend type (backend,
autovacuum worker, bgwriter, etc), target object of the IO (relations, temp
relations) and context of the IO (normal, vacuum, bulkread, bulkwrite).

What is tracked in this series of patches, is sufficient to perform the
aforementioned analyses. Further details, e.g. tracking the number of buffer
hits, would make that even easier, but was left out for now, to keep the scope
of the already large patchset manageable.

Bumps PGSTAT_FILE_FORMAT_ID.

Author: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reviewed-by: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200124195226.lth52iydq2n2uilq@alap3.anarazel.de
2023-02-08 20:53:42 -08:00
Tom Lane 969509c3f2 Stop recommending auto-download of DTD files, and indeed disable it.
It appears no longer possible to build the SGML docs without a local
installation of the DocBook DTD, because sourceforge.net now only
permits HTTPS access, and no common version of xsltproc supports that.
Hence, remove the bits of our documentation suggesting that that's
possible or useful.

In fact, we might as well add the --nonet option to the build recipes
automatically, for a bit of extra security.

Also fix our documentation-tool-installation recipes for macOS to
ensure that xmllint and xsltproc are pulled in from MacPorts or
Homebrew.  The previous recipes assumed you could use the
Apple-supplied versions of these tools; which still works, except that
you'd need to set an environment variable to ensure that they would
find DTD files provided by those package managers.  Simpler and easier
to just recommend pulling in the additional packages.

In HEAD, also document how to build docs using Meson, and adjust
"ninja docs" to just build the HTML docs, for consistency with the
default behavior of doc/src/sgml/Makefile.

In a fit of neatnik-ism, I also made the ordering of the package
lists match the order in which the tools are described at the head
of the appendix.

Aleksander Alekseev, Peter Eisentraut, Tom Lane

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAJ7c6TO8Aro2nxg=EQsVGiSDe-TstP4EsSvDHd7DSRsP40PgGA@mail.gmail.com
2023-02-08 17:15:25 -05:00
Peter Eisentraut aa69541046 Remove useless casts to (void *) in arguments of some system functions
The affected functions are: bsearch, memcmp, memcpy, memset, memmove,
qsort, repalloc

Reviewed-by: Corey Huinker <corey.huinker@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/fd9adf5d-b1aa-e82f-e4c7-263c30145807%40enterprisedb.com
2023-02-07 06:57:59 +01:00
Peter Eisentraut 7ba09efe24 doc: Fix SQL keywords lists
Some keywords were listed as both reserved and nonreserved.  Fix as
appropriate.
2023-02-06 17:54:10 +01:00
Peter Eisentraut 0ae4e49fa6 doc: Fix description of SQL standard parts
The splitting into parts actually started earlier than the text had
claimed, but that is ancient history anyway by now and does not need
to be mentioned.  Update that and tweak the text a bit.
2023-02-06 14:01:16 +01:00
Michael Paquier d07c2948bf Add support for progress reporting to pg_verifybackup
This adds a new option to pg_verifybackup called -P/--progress, showing
every second some information about the progress of the checksum
verification based on the data of a backup manifest.

Similarly to what is done for pg_rewind and pg_basebackup, the
information printed in the progress report consists of the current
amount of data computed and the total amount of data that will be
computed.  Note that files found with an incorrect size do not have
their checksum verified, hence their size is not appended to the total
amount of data estimated during the first scan of the manifest data
(such incorrect sizes could be overly high, for one, falsifying the
progress report).

Author: Masahiko Sawada
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAD21AoC5+JOgMd4o3z_oxw0f8JDSsCYY7zSbhe-O9x7f33rw_A@mail.gmail.com
2023-02-06 14:40:31 +09:00
Dean Rasheed faff8f8e47 Allow underscores in integer and numeric constants.
This allows underscores to be used in integer and numeric literals,
and their corresponding type input functions, for visual grouping.
For example:

    1_500_000_000
    3.14159_26535_89793
    0xffff_ffff
    0b_1001_0001

A single underscore is allowed between any 2 digits, or immediately
after the base prefix indicator of non-decimal integers, per SQL:202x
draft.

Peter Eisentraut and Dean Rasheed

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/84aae844-dc55-a4be-86d9-4f0fa405cc97%40enterprisedb.com
2023-02-04 09:48:51 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 2010d8b75a doc: Fix XML formatting that psql cannot handle
Breaking <phrase> over two lines is not handled by psql's
create_help.pl.  (It creates faulty \help output.)

Undo the formatting change introduced by
9bdad1b515 to fix this for now.
2023-02-03 09:04:35 +01:00
Thomas Munro 117d2604c2 Doc: Abstract AF_UNIX sockets don't work on Windows.
An early release of AF_UNIX in Windows apparently supported Linux-style
"abstract" Unix sockets, but they do not seem to work in current Windows
versions and there is no mention of any of this in the Winsock
documentation.  Remove the mention of Windows from the documentation.

Back-patch to 14, where commit c9f0624b landed.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKGKrYbSZhrk4NGfoQGT_3LQS5pC5KNE1g0tvE_pPBZ7uew%40mail.gmail.com
2023-02-02 18:25:10 +13:00
Amit Kapila 9f2213a7c5 Allow the logical_replication_mode to be used on the subscriber.
Extend the existing developer option 'logical_replication_mode' to help
test the parallel apply of large transactions on the subscriber.

When set to 'buffered', the leader sends changes to parallel apply workers
via a shared memory queue. When set to 'immediate', the leader serializes
all changes to files and notifies the parallel apply workers to read and
apply them at the end of the transaction.

This helps in adding tests to cover the serialization code path in
parallel streaming mode.

Author: Hou Zhijie
Reviewed-by: Peter Smith, Kuroda Hayato, Sawada Masahiko, Amit Kapila
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAA4eK1+wyN6zpaHUkCLorEWNx75MG0xhMwcFhvjqm2KURZEAGw@mail.gmail.com
2023-02-02 08:15:18 +05:30
Tom Lane 856ca51a23 Doc: clarify use of NULL to drop comments and security labels.
This was only mentioned in the description of the text/label, which
are marked as being in quotes in the synopsis, which can cause
confusion (as witnessed on IRC).

Also separate the literal and NULL cases in the parameter list, per
suggestion from Tom Lane.

Also add an example of dropping a security label.

Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker, with some tweaks by me

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/87sffqk4zp.fsf@wibble.ilmari.org
2023-01-31 14:32:24 -05:00
Tom Lane 2489d76c49 Make Vars be outer-join-aware.
Traditionally we used the same Var struct to represent the value
of a table column everywhere in parse and plan trees.  This choice
predates our support for SQL outer joins, and it's really a pretty
bad idea with outer joins, because the Var's value can depend on
where it is in the tree: it might go to NULL above an outer join.
So expression nodes that are equal() per equalfuncs.c might not
represent the same value, which is a huge correctness hazard for
the planner.

To improve this, decorate Var nodes with a bitmapset showing
which outer joins (identified by RTE indexes) may have nulled
them at the point in the parse tree where the Var appears.
This allows us to trust that equal() Vars represent the same value.
A certain amount of klugery is still needed to cope with cases
where we re-order two outer joins, but it's possible to make it
work without sacrificing that core principle.  PlaceHolderVars
receive similar decoration for the same reason.

In the planner, we include these outer join bitmapsets into the relids
that an expression is considered to depend on, and in consequence also
add outer-join relids to the relids of join RelOptInfos.  This allows
us to correctly perceive whether an expression can be calculated above
or below a particular outer join.

This change affects FDWs that want to plan foreign joins.  They *must*
follow suit when labeling foreign joins in order to match with the
core planner, but for many purposes (if postgres_fdw is any guide)
they'd prefer to consider only base relations within the join.
To support both requirements, redefine ForeignScan.fs_relids as
base+OJ relids, and add a new field fs_base_relids that's set up by
the core planner.

Large though it is, this commit just does the minimum necessary to
install the new mechanisms and get check-world passing again.
Follow-up patches will perform some cleanup.  (The README additions
and comments mention some stuff that will appear in the follow-up.)

Patch by me; thanks to Richard Guo for review.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/830269.1656693747@sss.pgh.pa.us
2023-01-30 13:16:20 -05:00
Tom Lane ec7e053a98 Doc: clarify behavior of boolean options in replication commands.
defGetBoolean() allows the "value" part of "option = value"
syntax to be omitted, in which case it's taken as "true".
This is acknowledged in our syntax summaries for relevant commands,
but we don't seem to have documented the actual behavior anywhere.
Do so for CREATE/ALTER PUBLICATION/SUBSCRIPTION.  Use generic
boilerplate text for this, with the idea that we can copy-and-paste
it into other relevant reference pages, whenever someone gets
around to that.

Peter Smith, edited a bit by me

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAHut+PvwjZfdGt2R8HTXgSZft=jZKymrS8KUg31pS7zqaaWKKw@mail.gmail.com
2023-01-30 11:59:37 -05:00
Amit Kapila 1e8b61735c Rename GUC logical_decoding_mode to logical_replication_mode.
Rename the developer option 'logical_decoding_mode' to the more flexible
name 'logical_replication_mode' because doing so will make it easier to
extend this option in the future to help test other areas of logical
replication.

Currently, it is used on the publisher side to allow streaming or
serializing each change in logical decoding. In the upcoming patch, we are
planning to use it on the subscriber. On the subscriber, it will allow
serializing the changes to file and notifies the parallel apply workers to
read and apply them at the end of the transaction.

We discussed exposing this parameter as a subscription option but
it did not seem advisable since it is primarily used for testing/debugging
and there is no other such parameter. We also discussed having separate
GUCs for publisher and subscriber but for current testing/debugging
requirements, one GUC is sufficient.

Author: Hou Zhijie
Reviewed-by: Peter Smith, Kuroda Hayato, Sawada Masahiko, Amit Kapila
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAD21AoAy2c=Mx=FTCs+EwUsf2kQL5MmU3N18X84k0EmCXntK4g@mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAA4eK1+wyN6zpaHUkCLorEWNx75MG0xhMwcFhvjqm2KURZEAGw@mail.gmail.com
2023-01-30 08:02:08 +05:30
Peter Eisentraut 17e72ec45d doc: Adjust a few more references to "postmaster"
Reported-by: Karl O. Pinc <kop@karlpinc.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/ece84b69-8f94-8b88-925f-64207cb3a2f0@enterprisedb.com
2023-01-27 08:42:08 +01:00
Tom Lane e35bb9f158 Doc: use less-awkward phrasing.
Improve wording in note about tools required to build
from the source repository.

Laurenz Albe, per gripe from Riivo Kolka

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/167463493588.2667301.13267758265445155872@wrigleys.postgresql.org
2023-01-26 11:34:17 -05:00
Peter Eisentraut 37e2673350 Don't install postmaster symlink anymore
This has long been deprecated.  Some of the build systems didn't even
install it.

Also remove man page.

Reviewed-by: Karl O. Pinc <kop@karlpinc.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/ece84b69-8f94-8b88-925f-64207cb3a2f0@enterprisedb.com
2023-01-26 11:33:01 +01:00
Peter Geoghegan 6c6b497266 Revert "Add eager and lazy freezing strategies to VACUUM."
This reverts commit 4d41799261.  Broad
concerns about regressions caused by eager freezing strategy have been
raised.  Whether or not these concerns can be worked through in any time
frame is far from certain.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20230126004347.gepcmyenk2csxrri@awork3.anarazel.de
2023-01-25 22:22:27 -08:00
Jeff Davis 8b5f36bb6c Clarify documentation for CLUSTER on partitioned tables.
Author: Nathan Bossart
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20230114224000.GA2505377@nathanxps13
2023-01-25 20:23:32 -08:00
Michael Paquier 9aeff092c0 Revert "Rename contrib module basic_archive to basic_wal_module"
This reverts commit 0ad3c60, as per feedback from Tom Lane, Robert Haas
and Andres Freund.  The new name used for the module had little
support.

This moves back to basic_archive as module name, and we will likely use
that as template for recovery modules, as well.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmoYG5uGOp7DGFT5gzC1kKFWGjkLSj_wOQxGhfMcvVEiKGA@mail.gmail.com
2023-01-26 09:13:39 +09:00
Peter Geoghegan 1a8e72bff7 Doc: update VACUUM VERBOSE freezing tip.
VACUUM VERBOSE/autovacuuming logging have reported on the number of
pages frozen by VACUUM since commit d977ffd9 added that capability.
This information is directly related to relfrozenxid advancement, so
update an older tip from the documentation about how relfrozenxid is
reported on by the same instrumentation code.  Now the tip directly
mentions newly frozen pages, too.
2023-01-25 14:31:41 -08:00
Peter Geoghegan 4d41799261 Add eager and lazy freezing strategies to VACUUM.
Eager freezing strategy avoids large build-ups of all-visible pages.  It
makes VACUUM trigger page-level freezing whenever doing so will enable
the page to become all-frozen in the visibility map.  This is useful for
tables that experience continual growth, particularly strict append-only
tables such as pgbench's history table.  Eager freezing significantly
improves performance stability by spreading out the cost of freezing
over time, rather than doing most freezing during aggressive VACUUMs.
It complements the insert autovacuum mechanism added by commit b07642db.

VACUUM determines its freezing strategy based on the value of the new
vacuum_freeze_strategy_threshold GUC (or reloption) with logged tables.
Tables that exceed the size threshold use the eager freezing strategy.
Unlogged tables and temp tables always use eager freezing strategy,
since the added cost is negligible there.  Non-permanent relations won't
incur any extra overhead in WAL written (for the obvious reason), nor in
pages dirtied (since any extra freezing will only take place on pages
whose PD_ALL_VISIBLE bit needed to be set either way).

VACUUM uses lazy freezing strategy for logged tables that fall under the
GUC size threshold.  Page-level freezing triggers based on the criteria
established in commit 1de58df4, which added basic page-level freezing.

Eager freezing is strictly more aggressive than lazy freezing.  Settings
like vacuum_freeze_min_age still get applied in just the same way in
every VACUUM, independent of the strategy in use.  The only mechanical
difference between eager and lazy freezing strategies is that only the
former applies its own additional criteria to trigger freezing pages.
Note that even lazy freezing strategy will trigger freezing whenever a
page happens to have required that an FPI be written during pruning,
provided that the page will thereby become all-frozen in the visibility
map afterwards (due to the FPI optimization from commit 1de58df4).

The vacuum_freeze_strategy_threshold default setting is 4GB.  This is a
relatively low setting that prioritizes performance stability.  It will
be reviewed at the end of the Postgres 16 beta period.

Author: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
Reviewed-By: Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>
Reviewed-By: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reviewed-By: Matthias van de Meent <boekewurm+postgres@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-WzkFok_6EAHuK39GaW4FjEFQsY=3J0AAd6FXk93u-Xq3Fg@mail.gmail.com
2023-01-25 14:15:38 -08:00
Michael Paquier d7c4830abb doc: Fix network_ops -> inet_ops in SpGiST operator class list
network_ops is an opclass family of SpGiST, and the opclass able to
work on the inet type is named inet_ops.

Oversight in 7a1cd52, that reworked the design of the table listing all
the operators available.

Reported-by: Laurence Parry
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane, David G. Johnston
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/167458110639.2667300.14741268666497110766@wrigleys.postgresql.org
Backpatch-through: 14
2023-01-25 20:00:36 +09:00
Michael Paquier 0ad3c60caf Rename contrib module basic_archive to basic_wal_module
This rename is in preparation for the introduction of recovery modules,
where basic_wal_module will be used as a base template for the set of
callbacks introduced.  The former name did not really reflect all that.

Author: Nathan Bossart
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20221227192449.GA3672473@nathanxps13
2023-01-25 14:36:51 +09:00
Robert Haas f1358ca52d Adjust interaction of CREATEROLE with role properties.
Previously, a CREATEROLE user without SUPERUSER could not alter
REPLICATION users in any way, and could not set the BYPASSRLS
attribute. However, they could manipulate the CREATEDB property
even if they themselves did not possess it.

With this change, a CREATEROLE user without SUPERUSER can set or
clear the REPLICATION, BYPASSRLS, or CREATEDB property on a new
role or a role that they have rights to manage if and only if
that property is set for their own role.

This implements the standard idea that you can't give permissions
you don't have (but you can give the ones you do have). We might
in the future want to provide more powerful ways to constrain
what a CREATEROLE user can do - for example, to limit whether
CONNECTION LIMIT can be set or the values to which it can be set -
but that is left as future work.

Patch by me, reviewed by Nathan Bossart, Tushar Ahuja, and Neha
Sharma.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmobX=LHg_J5aT=0pi9gJy=JdtrUVGAu0zhr-i5v5nNbJDg@mail.gmail.com
2023-01-24 10:57:09 -05:00
Michael Paquier c31cf1c03d pg_walinspect: Add pg_get_wal_fpi_info()
This function is able to extract the full page images from a range of
records, specified as of input arguments start_lsn and end_lsn.  Like
the other functions of this module, an error is returned if using LSNs
that do not reflect real system values.  All the FPIs stored in a single
record are extracted.

The module's version is bumped to 1.1.

Author: Bharath Rupireddy
Reviewed-by: Bertrand Drouvot
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CALj2ACVCcvzd7WiWvD=6_7NBvVB_r6G0EGSxL4F8vosAi6Se4g@mail.gmail.com
2023-01-23 13:55:18 +09:00
David Rowley 16fd03e956 Allow parallel aggregate on string_agg and array_agg
This adds combine, serial and deserial functions for the array_agg() and
string_agg() aggregate functions, thus allowing these aggregates to
partake in partial aggregations.  This allows both parallel aggregation to
take place when these aggregates are present and also allows additional
partition-wise aggregation plan shapes to include plans that require
additional aggregation once the partially aggregated results from the
partitions have been combined.

Author: David Rowley
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund, Tomas Vondra, Stephen Frost, Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAKJS1f9sx_6GTcvd6TMuZnNtCh0VhBzhX6FZqw17TgVFH-ga_A@mail.gmail.com
2023-01-23 17:35:01 +13:00
Tom Lane 5a3a95385b Track logrep apply workers' last start times to avoid useless waits.
Enforce wal_retrieve_retry_interval on a per-subscription basis,
rather than globally, and arrange to skip that delay in case of
an intentional worker exit.  This probably makes little difference
in the field, where apply workers wouldn't be restarted often;
but it has a significant impact on the runtime of our logical
replication regression tests (even though those tests use
artificially-small wal_retrieve_retry_interval settings already).

Nathan Bossart, with mostly-cosmetic editorialization by me

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20221122004119.GA132961@nathanxps13
2023-01-22 14:08:46 -05:00
Robert Haas 6e2775e4d4 Add new GUC reserved_connections.
This provides a way to reserve connection slots for non-superusers.
The slots reserved via the new GUC are available only to users who
have the new predefined role pg_use_reserved_connections.
superuser_reserved_connections remains as a final reserve in case
reserved_connections has been exhausted.

Patch by Nathan Bossart. Reviewed by Tushar Ahuja and by me.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/20230119194601.GA4105788@nathanxps13
2023-01-20 15:39:13 -05:00
Robert Haas 6c1d5ba486 Update docs and error message for superuser_reserved_connections.
Commit ea92368cd1 made max_wal_senders
a separate pool of backends from max_connections, but the documentation
and error message for superuser_reserved_connections weren't updated
at the time, and as a result are somewhat misleading. Update.

This is arguably a back-patchable bug fix, but because it seems quite
minor, no back-patch.

Patch by Nathan Bossart. Reviewed by Tushar Ahuja and by me.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/20230119194601.GA4105788@nathanxps13
2023-01-20 15:23:04 -05:00
Alvaro Herrera e86c8b728f
Describe each contrib module in its SGML section title
The original titles only had the module name, which is not very useful
when scanning the list.  By adding a very brief description to each
title, the table of contents becomes friendlier.

Also amend the introduction in the "additional modules" appendix, using
the word "Extension" more extensively.  Nowadays, almost all contrib
modules are extensions, so this is also helpful.

Author: Karl O. Pinc <kop@karlpinc.com>
Reviewed-by: Brar Piening <brar@gmx.de>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20230102180015.372995a9@slate.karlpinc.com
2023-01-20 20:01:59 +01:00
Amit Kapila 7670add9f4 Improve the description of Output Plugin Callbacks.
We were inconsistently specifying the required and optional marking for
plugin callbacks. Additionally, this patch improves the description for
stream_prepare callback.

Author: Wang wei
Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/OS3PR01MB627553DAFD39ECDADD08DC909EFC9@OS3PR01MB6275.jpnprd01.prod.outlook.com
2023-01-20 08:12:19 +05:30
Michael Paquier efb6f4a4f9 Support the same patterns for pg-user in pg_ident.conf as in pg_hba.conf
While pg_hba.conf has support for non-literal username matches, and
this commit extends the capabilities that are supported for the
PostgreSQL user listed in an ident entry part of pg_ident.conf, with
support for:
1. The "all" keyword, where all the requested users are allowed.
2. Membership checks using the + prefix.
3. Using a regex to match against multiple roles.

1. is a feature that has been requested by Jelte Fennema, 2. something
that has been mentioned independently by Andrew Dunstan, and 3. is
something I came up with while discussing how to extend the first one,
whose implementation is facilitated by 8fea868.

This allows matching certain system users against many different
postgres users with a single line in pg_ident.conf.  Without this, one
would need one line for each of the postgres users that a system user
can log in as, which can be cumbersome to maintain.

Tests are added to the TAP test of peer authentication to provide
coverage for all that.

Note that this introduces a set of backward-incompatible changes to be
able to detect the new patterns, for the following cases:
- A role named "all".
- A role prefixed with '+' characters, which is something that would not
have worked in HBA entries anyway.
- A role prefixed by a slash character, similarly to 8fea868.
Any of these can be still be handled by using quotes in the Postgres
role defined in an ident entry.

A huge advantage of this change is that the code applies the same checks
for the Postgres roles in HBA and ident entries, via the common routine
check_role().

**This compatibility change should be mentioned in the release notes.**

Author: Jelte Fennema
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/DBBPR83MB0507FEC2E8965012990A80D0F7FC9@DBBPR83MB0507.EURPRD83.prod.outlook.com
2023-01-20 11:21:55 +09:00
Michael Paquier 4f74f5641d doc: Fix some issues in logical replication section
wal_retrieve_retry_interval was mentioned under an incorrect name, and
wal_sender_timeout was not listed as affecting WAL senders in logical
replication mode.

Author: Takamichi Osumi
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/TYCPR01MB8373D65E6B0A769ED12EADCBEDC79@TYCPR01MB8373.jpnprd01.prod.outlook.com
2023-01-19 14:00:23 +09:00
Amit Kapila d540a02a72 Display the leader apply worker's PID for parallel apply workers.
Add leader_pid to pg_stat_subscription. leader_pid is the process ID of
the leader apply worker if this process is a parallel apply worker. If
this field is NULL, it indicates that the process is a leader apply
worker or a synchronization worker. The new column makes it easier to
distinguish parallel apply workers from other kinds of workers and helps
to identify the leader for the parallel workers corresponding to a
particular subscription.

Additionally, update the leader_pid column in pg_stat_activity as well to
display the PID of the leader apply worker for parallel apply workers.

Author: Hou Zhijie
Reviewed-by: Peter Smith, Sawada Masahiko, Amit Kapila, Shveta Mallik
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAA4eK1+wyN6zpaHUkCLorEWNx75MG0xhMwcFhvjqm2KURZEAGw@mail.gmail.com
2023-01-18 09:03:12 +05:30
Tom Lane 09d465c397 Doc: fix a few oddly-spelled SGML ID attributes.
Avoid use of "_" in SGML IDs.  Awhile back that was actually
disallowed by the toolchain, as a consequence of which our convention
has been to use "-" instead.  Fix a couple of stragglers that are
particularly inconsistent with that convention and with related IDs.

This is just neatnik-ism, so no need for back-patch.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/769446.1673478332@sss.pgh.pa.us
2023-01-17 17:13:20 -05:00
Michael Paquier 0b717432ff Track behavior of \1 in pg_ident.conf when quoted
Entries of pg-user in pg_ident.conf that are quoted and include '\1'
allow a replacement from a subexpression in a system user regexp.  This
commit adds a test to track this behavior and a note in the
documentation, as it could be affected by the use of an AuthToken for
the pg-user in the IdentLines parsed.

This subject has come up in the discussion aimed at extending the
support of pg-user in ident entries for more patterns.

Author: Jelte Fennema
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAGECzQRNow4MwkBjgPxywXdJU_K3a9+Pm78JB7De3yQwwkTDew@mail.gmail.com
2023-01-17 13:41:09 +09:00
Robert Haas 6fa66ec88f Assorted improvements to SECURITY DEFINER functions documentation.
Add a cross-reference from the part of the page that introdues SECURITY
INVOKER and SECURITY DEFINER to the part of the page that talks about
writing SECURITY DEFINER functions safely, so that users are less likely
to miss it.

Remove discussion of the pre-8.3 behavior on the theory that it's
probably not very relevant any more, that release having gone out of
support nearly a decade ago.

Add a mention of the new createrole_self_grant GUC, which in
certain cases might need to be set to a safe value to avoid
unexpected consequences.

Possibly this section needs major surgery rather than just these
small tweaks, but hopefully this is at least a small step
forward.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+Tgmoauqd1cHQjsNEoxL5O-kEO4iC9dAPyCudSvmNqPJGmy9g@mail.gmail.com
2023-01-16 10:49:59 -05:00
Robert Haas 3cdf7502f8 More documentation update for GRANT ... WITH SET OPTION.
Update the reference pages for various ALTER commands that
mentioned that you must be a member of role that will be the
new owner to instead say that you must be able to SET ROLE
to the new owner. Update ddl.sgml's generate statement on this
topic along similar lines.

Likewise, update CREATE SCHEMA and CREATE DATABASE, which
have options to specify who will own the new objects, to say
that you must be able to SET ROLE to the role that will own
them.

Finally, update the documentation for the GRANT statement
itself with some general principles about how the SET option
works and how it can be used.

Patch by me, reviewed (but not fully endorsed) by Noah Misch.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmoZk6VB3DQ83+DO5P_HP=M9PQAh1yj-KgeV30uKefVaWDg@mail.gmail.com
2023-01-16 10:35:29 -05:00
Tatsuo Ishii 1334b79a35 Doc: fix typo in backup.sgml.
<varname>archive_command</varname> was unnecessarily repeated.

Author: Tatsuo Ishii
Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila
Backpatch-through: 15
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/flat/20230114.110234.666053507266410467.t-ishii%40sranhm.sra.co.jp
2023-01-14 18:16:09 +09:00
Jeff Davis ff9618e82a Fix MAINTAIN privileges for toast tables and partitions.
Commit 60684dd8 left loose ends when it came to maintaining toast
tables or partitions.

For toast tables, simply skip the privilege check if the toast table
is an indirect target of the maintenance command, because the main
table privileges have already been checked.

For partitions, allow the maintenance command if the user has the
MAINTAIN privilege on the partition or any parent.

Also make CLUSTER emit "skipping" messages when the user doesn't have
privileges, similar to VACUUM.

Author: Nathan Bossart
Reported-by: Pavel Luzanov
Reviewed-by: Pavel Luzanov, Ted Yu
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20230113231339.GA2422750@nathanxps13
2023-01-14 00:16:23 -08:00
Jeff Davis c44f6334ca Simplify permissions for LOCK TABLE.
The prior behavior was confusing and hard to document. For instance,
if you had UPDATE privileges, you could lock a table in any lock mode
except ACCESS SHARE mode.

Now, if granted a privilege to lock at a given mode, one also has
privileges to lock at a less-conflicting mode. MAINTAIN, UPDATE,
DELETE, and TRUNCATE privileges allow any lock mode. INSERT privileges
allow ROW EXCLUSIVE (or below). SELECT privileges allow ACCESS SHARE.

Reviewed-by: Nathan Bossart
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/9550c76535404a83156252b25a11babb4792ea1e.camel%40j-davis.com
2023-01-13 14:33:19 -08:00
Michael Paquier 58597edea1 doc: Simplify description of functions for pg_walinspect
As introduced in 2258e76, the docs were hard to parse:
- The examples used listed a lot of long records, bloating the output.
These are switched to show less records with the expanded format,
similarly to pageinspect.
- The function descriptions listed all the OUT parameters, producing
long lines.  This is updated so as only the input parameters are
documented, clarifying the whole.
- Remove one example on pg_get_wal_stats() when per_record is set to
true, which is not really necessary once we know the output produced,
and the behavior of the parameter is documented.

While on it, fix a few grammar mistakes and simplify a couple of
sentences.

Author: Bharath Rupireddy
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CALj2ACVGcUpziGgQrcT-1G3dHWQQfWjYBu1YQ2ypv9y86dgogg@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 15
2023-01-13 09:29:44 +09:00
Tom Lane d93d68aeea Doc: fix silly thinko in 8bf6ec3ba.
Amit Langote

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+HiwqG2v-SnWyJuyVM-Z8DEFukY8+qe3XLMwSG4Xp7Yf=RioA@mail.gmail.com
2023-01-11 22:19:55 -05:00
Tom Lane 8bf6ec3ba3 Improve handling of inherited GENERATED expressions.
In both partitioning and traditional inheritance, require child
columns to be GENERATED if and only if their parent(s) are.
Formerly we allowed the case of an inherited column being
GENERATED when its parent isn't, but that results in inconsistent
behavior: the column can be directly updated through an UPDATE
on the parent table, leading to it containing a user-supplied
value that might not match the generation expression.  This also
fixes an oversight that we enforced partition-key-columns-can't-
be-GENERATED against parent tables, but not against child tables
that were dynamically attached to them.

Also, remove the restriction that the child's generation expression
be equivalent to the parent's.  In the wake of commit 3f7836ff6,
there doesn't seem to be any reason that we need that restriction,
since generation expressions are always computed per-table anyway.
By removing this, we can also allow a child to merge multiple
inheritance parents with inconsistent generation expressions, by
overriding them with its own expression, much as we've long allowed
for DEFAULT expressions.

Since we're rejecting a case that we used to accept, this doesn't
seem like a back-patchable change.  Given the lack of field
complaints about the inconsistent behavior, it's likely that no
one is doing this anyway, but we won't change it in minor releases.

Amit Langote and Tom Lane

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2793383.1672944799@sss.pgh.pa.us
2023-01-11 15:55:02 -05:00
Michael Paquier 5f6401f81c Fix typos in code and comments
Author: Justin Pryzby
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20230110045722.GD9837@telsasoft.com
2023-01-11 15:16:38 +09:00
Robert Haas e5b8a4c098 Add new GUC createrole_self_grant.
Can be set to the empty string, or to either or both of "set" or
"inherit". If set to a non-empty value, a non-superuser who creates
a role (necessarily by relying up the CREATEROLE privilege) will
grant that role back to themselves with the specified options.

This isn't a security feature, because the grant that this feature
triggers can also be performed explicitly. Instead, it's a user experience
feature. A superuser would necessarily inherit the privileges of any
created role and be able to access all such roles via SET ROLE;
with this patch, you can configure createrole_self_grant = 'set, inherit'
to provide a similar experience for a user who has CREATEROLE but not
SUPERUSER.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmobN59ct+Emmz6ig1Nua2Q-_o=r6DSD98KfU53kctq_kQw@mail.gmail.com
2023-01-10 12:44:49 -05:00
Robert Haas cf5eb37c5e Restrict the privileges of CREATEROLE users.
Previously, CREATEROLE users were permitted to make nearly arbitrary
changes to roles that they didn't create, with certain exceptions,
particularly superuser roles.  Instead, allow CREATEROLE users to make such
changes to roles for which they possess ADMIN OPTION, and to
grant membership only in roles for which they possess ADMIN OPTION.

When a CREATEROLE user who is not a superuser creates a role, grant
ADMIN OPTION on the newly-created role to the creator, so that they
can administer roles they create or for which they have been given
privileges.

With these changes, CREATEROLE users still have very significant
powers that unprivileged users do not receive: they can alter, rename,
drop, comment on, change the password for, and change security labels
on roles.  However, they can now do these things only for roles for
which they possess appropriate privileges, rather than all
non-superuser roles; moreover, they cannot grant a role such as
pg_execute_server_program unless they themselves possess it.

Patch by me, reviewed by Mark Dilger.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmobN59ct+Emmz6ig1Nua2Q-_o=r6DSD98KfU53kctq_kQw@mail.gmail.com
2023-01-10 12:44:30 -05:00
Peter Eisentraut d952373a98 New header varatt.h split off from postgres.h
This new header contains all the variable-length data types support
(TOAST support) from postgres.h, which isn't needed by large parts of
the backend code.

Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/ddcce239-0f29-6e62-4b47-1f8ca742addf%40enterprisedb.com
2023-01-10 05:54:36 +01:00
Amit Kapila cd06ccd78f Document the newly added wait events added by commit 216a784829.
Author: Shinoda, Noriyoshi
Reviewed-by: Hou Zhijie
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/DM4PR84MB173460530245F56364E1DAF7EEFE9@DM4PR84MB1734.NAMPRD84.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM
2023-01-10 09:38:08 +05:30
Amit Kapila f745739697 Fix the display of lock information for specktoken.
A transaction id is now displayed in the transactionid field and
speculative insertion token is displayed in the objid field.

Author: Sawada Masahiko
Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAD21AoCEKxZztULP1CDm45aSNNR1QO-Bh1q6LMTspQ78PBuJrw@mail.gmail.com
2023-01-10 08:53:47 +05:30
Tom Lane 78ee60ed84 Doc: add XML ID attributes to <sectN> and <varlistentry> tags.
This doesn't have any external effect at the moment, but it
will allow adding useful link-discoverability features later.

Brar Piening, reviewed by Karl Pinc.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAB8KJ=jpuQU9QJe4+RgWENrK5g9jhoysMw2nvTN_esoOU0=a_w@mail.gmail.com
2023-01-09 15:08:24 -05:00
Tom Lane 38d81760c4 Invent random_normal() to provide normally-distributed random numbers.
There is already a version of this in contrib/tablefunc, but it
seems sufficiently widely useful to justify having it in core.

Paul Ramsey

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CACowWR0DqHAvOKUCNxTrASFkWsDLqKMd6WiXvVvaWg4pV1BMnQ@mail.gmail.com
2023-01-09 12:44:00 -05:00
Amit Kapila 216a784829 Perform apply of large transactions by parallel workers.
Currently, for large transactions, the publisher sends the data in
multiple streams (changes divided into chunks depending upon
logical_decoding_work_mem), and then on the subscriber-side, the apply
worker writes the changes into temporary files and once it receives the
commit, it reads from those files and applies the entire transaction. To
improve the performance of such transactions, we can instead allow them to
be applied via parallel workers.

In this approach, we assign a new parallel apply worker (if available) as
soon as the xact's first stream is received and the leader apply worker
will send changes to this new worker via shared memory. The parallel apply
worker will directly apply the change instead of writing it to temporary
files. However, if the leader apply worker times out while attempting to
send a message to the parallel apply worker, it will switch to
"partial serialize" mode -  in this mode, the leader serializes all
remaining changes to a file and notifies the parallel apply workers to
read and apply them at the end of the transaction. We use a non-blocking
way to send the messages from the leader apply worker to the parallel
apply to avoid deadlocks. We keep this parallel apply assigned till the
transaction commit is received and also wait for the worker to finish at
commit. This preserves commit ordering and avoid writing to and reading
from files in most cases. We still need to spill if there is no worker
available.

This patch also extends the SUBSCRIPTION 'streaming' parameter so that the
user can control whether to apply the streaming transaction in a parallel
apply worker or spill the change to disk. The user can set the streaming
parameter to 'on/off', or 'parallel'. The parameter value 'parallel' means
the streaming will be applied via a parallel apply worker, if available.
The parameter value 'on' means the streaming transaction will be spilled
to disk. The default value is 'off' (same as current behaviour).

In addition, the patch extends the logical replication STREAM_ABORT
message so that abort_lsn and abort_time can also be sent which can be
used to update the replication origin in parallel apply worker when the
streaming transaction is aborted. Because this message extension is needed
to support parallel streaming, parallel streaming is not supported for
publications on servers < PG16.

Author: Hou Zhijie, Wang wei, Amit Kapila with design inputs from Sawada Masahiko
Reviewed-by: Sawada Masahiko, Peter Smith, Dilip Kumar, Shi yu, Kuroda Hayato, Shveta Mallik
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAA4eK1+wyN6zpaHUkCLorEWNx75MG0xhMwcFhvjqm2KURZEAGw@mail.gmail.com
2023-01-09 07:52:45 +05:30
Dean Rasheed d913928c9c psql: Add support for \dpS and \zS.
This allows an optional "S" modifier to be added to \dp and \z, to
have them include system objects in the list.

Note that this also changes the behaviour of a bare \dp or \z without
the "S" modifier to include temp objects in the list, and exclude
information_schema objects, making them consistent with other psql
meta-commands.

Nathan Bossart, reviewed by Maxim Orlov.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20221206193606.GB3078082@nathanxps13
2023-01-07 11:09:26 +00:00
Andrew Dunstan b1665bf01e Allow hyphens in ltree labels
Also increase the allowed length of labels to 1000 characters

Garen Torikian

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAGXsc+-mNg9Gc0rp-ER0sv+zkZSZp2wE9-LX6XcoWSLVz22tZA@mail.gmail.com
2023-01-06 16:05:46 -05:00
Tom Lane a46a7011b2 Add options to control whether VACUUM runs vac_update_datfrozenxid.
VACUUM normally ends by running vac_update_datfrozenxid(), which
requires a scan of pg_class.  Therefore, if one attempts to vacuum a
database one table at a time --- as vacuumdb has done since v12 ---
we will spend O(N^2) time in vac_update_datfrozenxid().  That causes
serious performance problems in databases with tens of thousands of
tables, and indeed the effect is measurable with only a few hundred.
To add insult to injury, only one process can run
vac_update_datfrozenxid at the same time per DB, so this behavior
largely defeats vacuumdb's -j option.

Hence, invent options SKIP_DATABASE_STATS and ONLY_DATABASE_STATS
to allow applications to postpone vac_update_datfrozenxid() until the
end of a series of VACUUM requests, and teach vacuumdb to use them.

Per bug #17717 from Gunnar L.  Sadly, this answer doesn't seem
like something we'd consider back-patching, so the performance
problem will remain in v12-v15.

Tom Lane and Nathan Bossart

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17717-6c50eb1c7d23a886@postgresql.org
2023-01-06 14:17:25 -05:00