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Peter Eisentraut 8fed2eadb8 doc: Fix order of protocol messages in listing
Move GSSENCRequest to the correct alphabetical position.
2020-10-27 08:43:35 +01:00
Amit Kapila 2f0760c9ff Update description of spilled counters in pg_stat_replication_slots view.
This is to make the description of spilled counters clear.

Author: Amit Kapila
Reviewed-by: Sawada Masahiko
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+fd4k5_pPAYRTDrO2PbtTOe0eHQpBvuqmCr8ic39uTNmR49Eg@mail.gmail.com
2020-10-27 08:22:39 +05:30
Bruce Momjian 2f17fe4318 doc: simplify wording of function error affects
Reported-by: bob.henkel@gmail.com

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/160324449781.693.8298142858847611071@wrigleys.postgresql.org

Backpatch-through: 9.5
2020-10-26 22:38:11 -04:00
Bruce Momjian e9661f2b0f doc: make blooms docs match reality
Parallel execution changed the way bloom queries are executed, so update
the EXPLAIN output, and restructure the docs to be clearer and more
accurate.

Reported-by: Daniel Westermann

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ZR0P278MB0122119FAE78721A694C30C8D2340@ZR0P278MB0122.CHEP278.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM

Author: Daniel Westermann and me

Backpatch-through: 9.6
2020-10-26 19:17:05 -04:00
Heikki Linnakangas fa42c2ecb0 docs: Remove notes about incompatibilies with very old versions.
These are old enough that they'll cause more confusion and distraction
to new readers, than they could help anyone upgrade from very old
servers.

Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/fd93f1c5-7818-a02c-01e5-1075ac0d4def%40iki.fi
2020-10-26 09:07:14 +02:00
Tom Lane 1b62d0fb3e Allow psql to re-use connection parameters after a connection loss.
Instead of immediately PQfinish'ing a dead connection, save it aside
so that we can still extract its parameters for \connect attempts.
(This works because PQconninfo doesn't care whether the PGconn is in
CONNECTION_BAD state.)  This allows developers to reconnect with
just \c after a database crash and restart.

It's tempting to use the same approach instead of closing the old
connection after a failed non-interactive \connect command.  However,
that would not be very safe: consider a script containing
	\c db1 user1 live_server
	\c db2 user2 dead_server
	\c db3
The script would be expecting to connect to db3 at dead_server, but
if we re-use parameters from the first connection then it might
successfully connect to db3 at live_server.  This'd defeat the goal
of not letting a script accidentally execute commands against the
wrong database.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/38464.1603394584@sss.pgh.pa.us
2020-10-23 17:07:15 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 83d727e5b2 doc: Fix order of protocol messages in listing
The order of AuthenticationGSSContinue and AuthenticationSSPI was
swapped, based on the other Authentication* protocol messages being
listed in subcode order.
2020-10-23 13:01:39 +02:00
Heikki Linnakangas 902b57c9bf doc: Remove reference to pre-8.2 pg_dump behaviour
The behavioural change in the -t/--table option happened around 15 years
ago and there seems little point in keeping it around.

Author: Ian Barwick
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAB8KJ%3Dh-XALik4M7gv-pX48%3D%2BSPWexfaYwa%2ByTnPwD3DxceXrg%40mail.gmail.com
2020-10-23 11:49:59 +03:00
Tom Lane c16a1bbcf4 Add documentation and tests for quote marks in ECPG literal queries.
ECPG's PREPARE ... FROM and EXECUTE IMMEDIATE can optionally take
the target query as a simple literal, rather than the more usual
string-variable reference.  This was previously documented as
being a C string literal, but that's a lie in one critical respect:
you can't write a data double quote as \" in such literals.  That's
because the lexer is in SQL mode at this point, so it'll parse
double-quoted strings as SQL identifiers, within which backslash
is not special, so \" ends the literal.

I looked into making this work as documented, but getting the lexer
to switch behaviors at just the right point is somewhere between
very difficult and impossible.  It's not really worth the trouble,
because these cases are next to useless: if you have a fixed SQL
statement to execute or prepare, you might as well write it as
a direct EXEC SQL, saving the messiness of converting it into
a string literal and gaining the opportunity for compile-time
SQL syntax checking.

Instead, let's just document (and test) the workaround of writing
a double quote as an octal escape (\042) in such cases.

There's no code behavioral change here, so in principle this could
be back-patched, but it's such a niche case I doubt it's worth
the trouble.

Per report from 1250kv.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/673825.1603223178@sss.pgh.pa.us
2020-10-22 18:29:46 -04:00
Tom Lane 3dfb1942d9 Avoid premature de-doubling of quote marks in ECPG strings.
If you write the literal 'abc''def' in an EXEC SQL command, that will
come out the other end as 'abc'def', triggering a syntax error in the
backend.  Likewise, "abc""def" is reduced to "abc"def" which is wrong
syntax for a quoted identifier.

The cause is that the lexer thinks it should emit just one quote
mark, whereas what it really should do is keep the string as-is.

Add some docs and test cases, too.

Although this seems clearly a bug, I fear users wouldn't appreciate
changing it in minor releases.  Some may well be working around it
by applying an extra doubling of affected quotes, as for example
sql/dyntest.pgc has been doing.

Per investigation of a report from 1250kv, although this isn't
exactly what he/she was on about.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/673825.1603223178@sss.pgh.pa.us
2020-10-22 18:29:46 -04:00
Tom Lane 94929f1cf6 Clean up some unpleasant behaviors in psql's \connect command.
The check for whether to complain about not having an old connection
to get parameters from was seriously out of date: it had not been
rethought when we invented connstrings, nor when we invented the
-reuse-previous option.  Replace it with a check that throws an
error if reuse-previous is active and we lack an old connection to
reuse.  While that doesn't move the goalposts very far in terms of
easing reconnection after a server crash, at least it's consistent.

If the user specifies a connstring plus additional parameters
(which is invalid per the documentation), the extra parameters were
silently ignored.  That seems like it could be really confusing,
so let's throw a syntax error instead.

Teach the connstring code path to re-use the old connection's password
in the same cases as the old-style-syntax code path would, ie if we
are reusing parameters and the values of username, host/hostaddr, and
port are not being changed.  Document this behavior, too, since it was
unmentioned before.  Also simplify the implementation a bit, giving
rise to two new and useful properties: if there's a "password=xxx" in
the connstring, we'll use it not ignore it, and by default (i.e.,
except with --no-password) we will prompt for a password if the
re-used password or connstring password doesn't work.  The previous
code just failed if the re-used password didn't work.

Given the paucity of field complaints about these issues, I don't
think that they rise to the level of back-patchable bug fixes,
and in any case they might represent undesirable behavior changes
in minor releases.  So no back-patch.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/235210.1603321144@sss.pgh.pa.us
2020-10-22 14:04:28 -04:00
Robert Haas 866e24d47d Extend amcheck to check heap pages.
Mark Dilger, reviewed by Peter Geoghegan, Andres Freund, Álvaro Herrera,
Michael Paquier, Amul Sul, and by me. Some last-minute cosmetic
revisions by me.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/12ED3DA8-25F0-4B68-937D-D907CFBF08E7@enterprisedb.com
2020-10-22 08:44:18 -04:00
Tom Lane 85c54287af Fix connection string handling in psql's \connect command.
psql's \connect claims to be able to re-use previous connection
parameters, but in fact it only re-uses the database name, user name,
host name (and possibly hostaddr, depending on version), and port.
This is problematic for assorted use cases.  Notably, pg_dump[all]
emits "\connect databasename" commands which we would like to have
re-use all other parameters.  If such a script is loaded in a psql run
that initially had "-d connstring" with some non-default parameters,
those other parameters would be lost, potentially causing connection
failure.  (Thus, this is the same kind of bug addressed in commits
a45bc8a4f and 8e5793ab6, although the details are much different.)

To fix, redesign do_connect() so that it pulls out all properties
of the old PGconn using PQconninfo(), and then replaces individual
properties in that array.  In the case where we don't wish to re-use
anything, get libpq's default settings using PQconndefaults() and
replace entries in that, so that we don't need different code paths
for the two cases.

This does result in an additional behavioral change for cases where
the original connection parameters allowed multiple hosts, say
"psql -h host1,host2", and the \connect request allows re-use of the
host setting.  Because the previous coding relied on PQhost(), it
would only permit reconnection to the same host originally selected.
Although one can think of scenarios where that's a good thing, there
are others where it is not.  Moreover, that behavior doesn't seem to
meet the principle of least surprise, nor was it documented; nor is
it even clear it was intended, since that coding long pre-dates the
addition of multi-host support to libpq.  Hence, this patch is content
to drop it and re-use the host list as given.

Per Peter Eisentraut's comments on bug #16604.  Back-patch to all
supported branches.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16604-933f4b8791227b15@postgresql.org
2020-10-21 16:19:00 -04:00
Amit Kapila 03d51b776d Change the attribute name in pg_stat_replication_slots view.
Change the attribute 'name' to 'slot_name' in pg_stat_replication_slots
view to make it clear and that way we will be consistent with the other
places like pg_stat_wal_receiver view where we display the same attribute.

In the passing, fix the typo in one of the macros in the related code.

Bump the catversion as we have modified the name in the catalog as well.

Reported-by: Noriyoshi Shinoda
Author: Noriyoshi Shinoda
Reviewed-by: Sawada  Masahiko and Amit Kapila
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+fd4k5_pPAYRTDrO2PbtTOe0eHQpBvuqmCr8ic39uTNmR49Eg@mail.gmail.com
2020-10-20 10:24:36 +05:30
Tom Lane 8e5793ab60 Fix connection string handling in src/bin/scripts/ programs.
When told to process all databases, clusterdb, reindexdb, and vacuumdb
would reconnect by replacing their --maintenance-db parameter with the
name of the target database.  If that parameter is a connstring (which
has been allowed for a long time, though we failed to document that
before this patch), we'd lose any other options it might specify, for
example SSL or GSS parameters, possibly resulting in failure to connect.
Thus, this is the same bug as commit a45bc8a4f fixed in pg_dump and
pg_restore.  We can fix it in the same way, by using libpq's rules for
handling multiple "dbname" parameters to add the target database name
separately.  I chose to apply the same refactoring approach as in that
patch, with a struct to handle the command line parameters that need to
be passed through to connectDatabase.  (Maybe someday we can unify the
very similar functions here and in pg_dump/pg_restore.)

Per Peter Eisentraut's comments on bug #16604.  Back-patch to all
supported branches.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16604-933f4b8791227b15@postgresql.org
2020-10-19 19:03:46 -04:00
Heikki Linnakangas c5f42daa60 Misc documentation fixes.
- Misc grammar and punctuation fixes.

- Stylistic cleanup: use spaces between function arguments and JSON fields
  in examples. For example "foo(a,b)" -> "foo(a, b)". Add semicolon after
  last END in a few PL/pgSQL examples that were missing them.

- Make sentence that talked about "..." and ".." operators more clear,
  by avoiding to end the sentence with "..". That makes it look the same
  as "..."

- Fix syntax description for HAVING: HAVING conditions cannot be repeated

Patch by Justin Pryzby, per Yaroslav Schekin's report. Backpatch to all
supported versions, to the extent that the patch applies easily.

Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20201005191922.GE17626%40telsasoft.com
2020-10-19 19:28:54 +03:00
Heikki Linnakangas 2a972e0165 Fix TRUNCATE doc: ALTER SEQUENCE RESTART is now transactional.
ALTER SEQUENCE RESTART was made transactional in commit 3d79013b97.
Backpatch to v10, where that was introduced.

Patch by Justin Pryzby, per Yaroslav Schekin's report.

Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20201005191922.GE17626%40telsasoft.com
2020-10-19 19:02:25 +03:00
Heikki Linnakangas c0bc4c682e Fix output of tsquery example in docs.
The output for this query changed in commit 4e2477b7b8. Backport to 9.6
like that commit.

Patch by Justin Pryzby, per Yaroslav Schekin's report.

Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20201005191922.GE17626%40telsasoft.com
2020-10-19 18:50:33 +03:00
Heikki Linnakangas 1a64c7636f Fix doc for full text search distance operator.
Commit 028350f619 changed its behavior from "at most" to "exactly", but
forgot to update the documentation. Backpatch to 9.6.

Patch by Justin Pryzby, per Yaroslav Schekin's report.

Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20201005191922.GE17626%40telsasoft.com
2020-10-19 17:58:38 +03:00
Magnus Hagander b4d5b458e6 Update link for pllua
Author: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/A05874AE-8771-4C61-A24E-0B6249B8F3C2@yesql.se
2020-10-19 13:48:00 +02:00
Amit Kapila 560d260d78 Change the docs for PARALLEL option of Vacuum.
The rules to choose the number of parallel workers to perform parallel
vacuum operation were not clearly specified.

Reported-by: Peter Eisentraut
Author: Amit Kapila
Backpatch-through: 13, where it was introduced
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/36aa8aea-61b7-eb3c-263b-648e0cb117b7@2ndquadrant.com
2020-10-19 09:13:17 +05:30
Tom Lane 7d00a6b2de In libpq for Windows, call WSAStartup once and WSACleanup not at all.
The Windows documentation insists that every WSAStartup call should
have a matching WSACleanup call.  However, if that ever had actual
relevance, it wasn't in this century.  Every remotely-modern Windows
kernel is capable of cleaning up when a process exits without doing
that, and must be so to avoid resource leaks in case of a process
crash.  Moreover, Postgres backends have done WSAStartup without
WSACleanup since commit 4cdf51e64 in 2004, and we've never seen any
indication of a problem with that.

libpq's habit of doing WSAStartup during connection start and
WSACleanup during shutdown is also rather inefficient, since a
series of non-overlapping connection requests leads to repeated,
quite expensive DLL unload/reload cycles.  We document a workaround
for that (having the application call WSAStartup for itself), but
that's just a kluge.  It's also worth noting that it's far from
uncommon for applications to exit without doing PQfinish, and
we've not heard reports of trouble from that either.

However, the real reason for acting on this is that recent
experiments by Alexander Lakhin suggest that calling WSACleanup
during PQfinish might be triggering the symptom we occasionally see
that a process using libpq fails to emit expected stdio output.

Therefore, let's change libpq so that it calls WSAStartup only
once per process, during the first connection attempt, and never
calls WSACleanup at all.

While at it, get rid of the only other WSACleanup call in our code
tree, in pg_dump/parallel.c; that presumably is equally useless.

If this proves to suppress the fairly-common ecpg test failures
we see on Windows, I'll back-patch, but for now let's just do it
in HEAD and see what happens.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ac976d8c-03df-d6b8-025c-15a2de8d9af1@postgrespro.ru
2020-10-17 16:53:48 -04:00
Tom Lane 540849814c Doc: caution against misuse of 'now' and related datetime literals.
Section 8.5.1.4, which defines these literals, made only a vague
reference to the fact that they might be evaluated too soon to be
safe in non-interactive contexts.  Provide a more explicit caution
against misuse.  Also, generalize the wording in the related tip in
section 9.9.4: while it clearly described this problem, it implied
(or really, stated outright) that the problem only applies to table
DEFAULT clauses.

Per gripe from Tijs van Dam.  Back-patch to all supported branches.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/c2LuRv9BiRT3bqIo5mMQiVraEXey_25B4vUn0kDqVqilwOEu_iVF1tbtvLnyQK7yDG3PFaz_GxLLPil2SDkj1MCObNRVaac-7j1dVdFERk8=@thalex.com
2020-10-17 16:02:47 -04:00
Tom Lane bc49f8780b Doc: tweak column widths in synchronous-commit-matrix table.
Commit a97e85f2b caused "exceed the available area" warnings in PDF
builds.  Fine-tune colwidth values to avoid that.

Back-patch to 9.6, like the prior patch.  (This is of dubious value
before v13, since we were far from free of such warnings in older
branches.  But we might as well keep the SGML looking the same in all
branches.)

Per buildfarm.
2020-10-16 11:36:34 -04:00
Bruce Momjian a97e85f2be doc: improve description of synchronous_commit modes
Previously it wasn't clear exactly what each of the synchronous_commit
modes accomplished.  This clarifies that, and adds a table describing it.
Only backpatched through 9.6 since 9.5 doesn't have all the options.

Reported-by: kghost0@gmail.com

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/159741195522.14321.13812604195366728976@wrigleys.postgresql.org

Backpatch-through: 9.6
2020-10-15 15:15:29 -04:00
Fujii Masao 564a410c81 doc: Mention that toast_tuple_target affects also column marked as Main.
Previously it was documented that toast_tuple_target affected column
marked as only External or Extended. But this description is not correct
and toast_tuple_target affects also column marked as Main.

Back-patch to v11 where toast_tuple_target reloption was introduced.

Author: Shinya Okano
Reviewed-by: Tatsuhito Kasahara, Fujii Masao
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/93f46e311a67422e89e770d236059817@oss.nttdata.com
2020-10-15 11:04:07 +09:00
Alvaro Herrera 4e9821b6fa Restore replication protocol's duplicate command tags
I removed the duplicate command tags for START_REPLICATION inadvertently
in commit 07082b08cc, but the replication protocol requires them.  The
fact that the replication protocol was broken was not noticed because
all our test cases use an optimized code path that exits early, failing
to verify that the behavior is correct for non-optimized cases.  Put
them back.

Also document this protocol quirk.

Add a test case that shows the failure.  It might still succeed even
without the patch when run on a fast enough server, but it suffices to
show the bug in enough cases that it would be noticed in buildfarm.

Author: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Reported-by: Henry Hinze <henry.hinze@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Petr Jelínek <petr.jelinek@2ndquadrant.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16643-eaadeb2a1a58d28c@postgresql.org
2020-10-14 20:12:26 -03:00
Heikki Linnakangas 178f2d560d Include result relation info in direct modify ForeignScan nodes.
FDWs that can perform an UPDATE/DELETE remotely using the "direct modify"
set of APIs need to access the ResultRelInfo of the target table. That's
currently available in EState.es_result_relation_info, but the next
commit will remove that field.

This commit adds a new resultRelation field in ForeignScan, to store the
target relation's RT index, and the corresponding ResultRelInfo in
ForeignScanState. The FDW's PlanDirectModify callback is expected to set
'resultRelation' along with 'operation'. The core code doesn't need them
for anything, they are for the convenience of FDW's Begin- and
IterateDirectModify callbacks.

Authors: Amit Langote, Etsuro Fujita
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CA%2BHiwqGEmiib8FLiHMhKB%2BCH5dRgHSLc5N5wnvc4kym%2BZYpQEQ%40mail.gmail.com
2020-10-14 10:58:38 +03:00
Peter Eisentraut 39b4a95100 Use https for gnu.org links
Mostly already done, but there were some stragglers.
2020-10-14 08:24:54 +02:00
Peter Eisentraut 323ae003e4 doc: Expand recursive query documentation
Break the section up with subsection headings.  Add examples for depth-
and breadth-first search ordering.  For consistency with the SQL
search clause, start the depth counting at 0 instead of 1 in the
examples.

Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/c5603982-0088-7f14-0caa-fdcd0c837b57@2ndquadrant.com
2020-10-13 06:54:20 +02:00
Tom Lane 78c0b6ed27 Re-allow testing of GiST buffered builds.
Commit 16fa9b2b3 broke the ability to reliably test GiST buffered builds,
because it caused sorted builds to be done instead if sortsupport is
available, regardless of any attempt to override that.  While a would-be
test case could try to work around that by choosing an opclass that has
no sortsupport function, coverage would be silently lost the moment
someone decides it'd be a good idea to add a sortsupport function.

Hence, rearrange the logic in gistbuild() so that if "buffering = on"
is specified in CREATE INDEX, we will use that method, sortsupport or no.

Also document the interaction between sorting and the buffering
parameter, as 16fa9b2b3 failed to do.

(Note that in fact we still lack any test coverage of buffered builds,
but this is a prerequisite to adding a non-fragile test.)

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3249980.1602532990@sss.pgh.pa.us
2020-10-12 17:09:50 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 3fb676504d Adjust cycle detection examples and tests
Adjust the existing cycle detection example and test queries to put
the cycle column before the path column.  This is mainly because the
SQL-standard CYCLE clause puts them in that order, and so if we added
that feature that would make the sequence of examples more consistent
and easier to follow.

Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/c5603982-0088-7f14-0caa-fdcd0c837b57@2ndquadrant.com
2020-10-12 08:01:21 +02:00
Amit Kapila 9868167500 Track statistics for spilling of changes from ReorderBuffer.
This adds the statistics about transactions spilled to disk from
ReorderBuffer. Users can query the pg_stat_replication_slots view to check
these stats and call pg_stat_reset_replication_slot to reset the stats of
a particular slot. Users can pass NULL in pg_stat_reset_replication_slot
to reset stats of all the slots.

This commit extends the statistics collector to track this information
about slots.

Author: Sawada Masahiko and Amit Kapila
Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila and Dilip Kumar
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+fd4k5_pPAYRTDrO2PbtTOe0eHQpBvuqmCr8ic39uTNmR49Eg@mail.gmail.com
2020-10-08 09:09:08 +05:30
Magnus Hagander 1b22224945 Further improvements on documentation for pg_dump -t
Ian submitted an updated patch just as I was pushing the previous one,
so use this newer wording instead.

Author: Ian Barwick
2020-10-06 15:50:03 +02:00
Magnus Hagander b8c4d38512 Clarify documentation around pg_dump -t option
The behavior is different for different types of objects, so make that
more clear.

Author: Ian Barwick
2020-10-06 15:46:36 +02:00
Magnus Hagander 5b36221c46 Expand installation documentation to cover binary installations
Reviewed-By: David G. Johnston, Daniel Gustafsson
2020-10-06 14:15:32 +02:00
Bruce Momjian dd0a64ed43 doc: show functions returning record types and use of ROWS FROM
Previously it was unclear exactly how ROWS FROM behaved and how to cast
the data types of columns returned by FROM functions.  Also document
that only non-OUT record functions can have their columns cast to data
types.

Reported-by: guyren@gmail.com

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/158638264419.662.2482095087061084020@wrigleys.postgresql.org

Backpatch-through: 9.5
2020-10-05 16:27:33 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 253f1025da Overhaul pg_hba.conf clientcert's API
Since PG 12, clientcert no longer supported only on/off, so remove 1/0
as possible values, and instead support only the text strings
'verify-ca' and 'verify-full'.

Remove support for 'no-verify' since that is possible by just not
specifying clientcert.

Also, throw an error if 'verify-ca' is used and 'cert' authentication is
used, since cert authentication requires verify-full.

Also improve the docs.

THIS IS A BACKWARD INCOMPATIBLE API CHANGE.

Reported-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200716.093012.1627751694396009053.horikyota.ntt@gmail.com

Author: Kyotaro Horiguchi

Backpatch-through: master
2020-10-05 15:48:50 -04:00
Tom Lane 9cc3d614a9 Doc: fix parameter names in the docs of a couple of functions.
The descriptions of make_interval() and pg_options_to_table()
were randomly different from the reality embedded in pg_proc.

(These are not all the discrepancies I found in a quick search,
but the others perhaps require more discussion, since there's
at least a case to be made for changing pg_proc not the docs.)

make_interval issue noted by Thomas Kellerer.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/7b154ef0-9f22-90b9-7734-4bf23686695b@gmx.net
2020-10-05 11:42:33 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 2453ea1422 Support for OUT parameters in procedures
Unlike for functions, OUT parameters for procedures are part of the
signature.  Therefore, they have to be listed in pg_proc.proargtypes
as well as mentioned in ALTER PROCEDURE and DROP PROCEDURE.

Reviewed-by: Andrew Dunstan <andrew.dunstan@2ndquadrant.com>
Reviewed-by: Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/2b8490fe-51af-e671-c504-47359dc453c5@2ndquadrant.com
2020-10-05 09:21:43 +02:00
Tom Lane 97b6144826 Make postgres.bki use the same literal-string syntax as postgresql.conf.
The BKI file's string quoting conventions were previously quite weird,
perhaps as a result of repurposing a function built to scan
single-quoted strings to scan double-quoted ones.  Change to use the
same rules as we use in GUC files, allowing some simplifications in
genbki.pl and initdb.c.

While at it, completely remove the backend's scanstr() function, which
was essentially a duplicate of the string dequoting code in guc-file.l.
Instead export that one (under a less generic name than it had) and let
bootscanner.l use it.  Now we can clarify that scansup.c exists only to
support the main lexer. We could alternatively have removed GUC_scanstr,
but this way seems better since the previous arrangement could mislead
a reader into thinking that scanstr() had something to do with the main
lexer's handling of string literals.  Maybe it did once, but if so it
was a long time ago.

This patch does not bump catversion, since the initially-installed
catalog contents don't change.  Note however that successful initdb
after applying this patch will require up-to-date postgres.bki as well
as postgres and initdb executables.

In passing, remove a bunch of very-long-obsolete #include's in
bootparse.y and bootscanner.l.

John Naylor

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CACPNZCtDpd18T0KATTmCggO2GdVC4ow86ypiq5ENff1VnauL8g@mail.gmail.com
2020-10-04 16:09:55 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 9081bddbd7 Improve <xref> vs. <command> formatting in the documentation
SQL commands are generally marked up as <command>, except when a link
to a reference page is used using <xref>.  But the latter doesn't
create monospace markup, so this looks strange especially when a
paragraph contains a mix of links and non-links.

We considered putting <command> in the <refentrytitle> on the target
side, but that creates some formatting side effects elsewhere.
Generally, it seems safer to solve this on the link source side.

We can't put the <xref> inside the <command>; the DTD doesn't allow
this.  DocBook 5 would allow the <command> to have the linkend
attribute itself, but we are not there yet.

So to solve this for now, convert the <xref>s to <link> plus
<command>.  This gives the correct look and also gives some more
flexibility what we can put into the link text (e.g., subcommands or
other clauses).  In the future, these could then be converted to
DocBook 5 style.

I haven't converted absolutely all xrefs to SQL command reference
pages, only those where we care about the appearance of the link text
or where it was otherwise appropriate to make the appearance match a
bit better.  Also in some cases, the links where repetitive, so in
those cases the links where just removed and replaced by a plain
<command>.  In cases where we just want the link and don't
specifically care about the generated link text (typically phrased
"for further information see <xref ...>") the xref is kept.

Reported-by: Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker <ilmari@ilmari.org>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/87o8pco34z.fsf@wibble.ilmari.org
2020-10-03 16:40:02 +02:00
Bruce Momjian 1a9388bd0f doc: libpq connection options can override command-line flags
Reported-by: Alexander Lakhin

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16486-b9c93d71c02c4907@postgresql.org

Backpatch-through: 9.5
2020-10-02 22:19:31 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 472e518a44 doc: clarify the use of ssh port forwarding
Reported-by: karimelghazouly@gmail.com

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/159854511172.24991.4373145230066586863@wrigleys.postgresql.org

Backpatch-through: 9.5
2020-10-02 21:39:33 -04:00
Michael Paquier 8550cbd0ba doc: Improve some documentation about HA and replication
This clarifies some wording in the description of the options available
as replication solutions.  While on it, this replaces some instances of
"master" with "primary", for consistency with recent changes like
9e101cf.

Author: Robert Treat
Reviewed-by: Magnus Hagander, Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAJSLCQ2TPaK_K8raofCamrqELCxY-H6mJrpDNRzc-LKpPY7c+g@mail.gmail.com
2020-10-02 10:36:35 +09:00
Fujii Masao 8d9a935965 Add pg_stat_wal statistics view.
This view shows the statistics about WAL activity. Currently it has only
two columns: wal_buffers_full and stats_reset. wal_buffers_full column
indicates the number of times WAL data was written to the disk because
WAL buffers got full. This information is useful when tuning wal_buffers.
stats_reset column indicates the time at which these statistics were
last reset.

pg_stat_wal view is also the basic infrastructure to expose other
various statistics about WAL activity later.

Bump PGSTAT_FILE_FORMAT_ID due to the change in pgstat format.

Bump catalog version.

Author: Masahiro Ikeda
Reviewed-by: Takayuki Tsunakawa, Kyotaro Horiguchi, Amit Kapila, Fujii Masao
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/188bd3f2d2233cf97753b5ced02bb050@oss.nttdata.com
2020-10-02 10:17:11 +09:00
Tom Lane 489c9c3407 Fix handling of BC years in to_date/to_timestamp.
Previously, a conversion such as
	to_date('-44-02-01','YYYY-MM-DD')
would result in '0045-02-01 BC', as the code attempted to interpret
the negative year as BC, but failed to apply the correction needed
for our internal handling of BC years.  Fix the off-by-one problem.

Also, arrange for the combination of a negative year and an
explicit "BC" marker to cancel out and produce AD.  This is how
the negative-century case works, so it seems sane to do likewise.

Continue to read "year 0000" as 1 BC.  Oracle would throw an error,
but we've accepted that case for a long time so I'm hesitant to
change it in a back-patch.

Per bug #16419 from Saeed Hubaishan.  Back-patch to all supported
branches.

Dar Alathar-Yemen and Tom Lane

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16419-d8d9db0a7553f01b@postgresql.org
2020-09-30 15:40:23 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 300b6984a5 Fix XML id to match GUC name
For some reason, the id of the description of
max_parallel_maintenance_workers has been
guc-max-parallel-workers-maintenance since the beginning.  Flip that
around to make it consistent.
2020-09-30 07:39:38 +02:00
David Rowley 2b888647d8 Doc: Improve clarity on partitioned table limitations
Explicitly mention that primary key constraints are also included in the
limitation that the constraint columns must be a superset of the partition key
columns.

Wording suggestion from Tom Lane.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/64062533.78364.1601415362244@mail.yahoo.com
Backpatch-through: 11, where unique constraints on partitioned tables were added
2020-09-30 13:02:08 +13:00
Tom Lane a094c8ff53 Fix make_timestamp[tz] to accept negative years as meaning BC.
Previously we threw an error.  But make_date already allowed the case,
so it is inconsistent as well as unhelpful for make_timestamp not to.

Both functions continue to reject year zero.

Code and test fixes by Peter Eisentraut, doc changes by me

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/13c0992c-f15a-a0ca-d839-91d3efd965d9@2ndquadrant.com
2020-09-29 13:48:06 -04:00
Fujii Masao fd26f78231 Archive timeline history files in standby if archive_mode is set to "always".
Previously the standby server didn't archive timeline history files
streamed from the primary even when archive_mode is set to "always",
while it archives the streamed WAL files. This could cause the PITR to
fail because there was no required timeline history file in the archive.
The cause of this issue was that walreceiver didn't mark those files as
ready for archiving.

This commit makes walreceiver mark those streamed timeline history
files as ready for archiving if archive_mode=always. Then the archiver
process archives the marked timeline history files.

Back-patch to all supported versions.

Reported-by: Grigory Smolkin
Author: Grigory Smolkin, Fujii Masao
Reviewed-by: David Zhang, Anastasia Lubennikova
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/54b059d4-2b48-13a4-6f43-95a087c92367@postgrespro.ru
2020-09-29 16:21:46 +09:00
Robert Haas aecf5ee2bb Add new 'old_snapshot' contrib module.
You can use this to view the contents of the time to XID mapping
which the server maintains when old_snapshot_threshold != -1.
Being able to view that information may be interesting for users,
and it's definitely useful for figuring out whether the mapping
is being maintained correctly. It isn't, so that will need to be
fixed in a subsequent commit.

Patch by me, reviewed by Thomas Munro, Dilip Kumar, Hamid Akhtar.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmoY=aqf0zjTD+3dUWYkgMiNDegDLFjo+6ze=Wtpik+3XqA@mail.gmail.com
2020-09-24 13:55:47 -04:00
Tom Lane fc5f107a8c Doc: sync lobj.sgml's copy of testlo.c with the latter file.
Zhijie Hou

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ce2cd951fe9b448a9cda99dc1a871fb9@G08CNEXMBPEKD05.g08.fujitsu.local
2020-09-24 10:39:11 -04:00
Tom Lane 9436041ed8 Copy editing: fix a bunch of misspellings and poor wording.
99% of this is docs, but also a couple of comments.  No code changes.

Justin Pryzby

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200919175804.GE30557@telsasoft.com
2020-09-21 12:43:42 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 80fc96eceb Standardize order of use strict and use warnings in Perl code
The standard order in PostgreSQL and other code is use strict first,
but some code was uselessly inconsistent about this.
2020-09-21 17:04:36 +02:00
Tom Lane 06a7c3154f Allow most keywords to be used as column labels without requiring AS.
Up to now, if you tried to omit "AS" before a column label in a SELECT
list, it would only work if the column label was an IDENT, that is not
any known keyword.  This is rather unfriendly considering that we have
so many keywords and are constantly growing more.  In the wake of commit
1ed6b8956 it's possible to improve matters quite a bit.

We'd originally tried to make this work by having some of the existing
keyword categories be allowed without AS, but that didn't work too well,
because each category contains a few special cases that don't work
without AS.  Instead, invent an entirely orthogonal keyword property
"can be bare column label", and mark all keywords that way for which
we don't get shift/reduce errors by doing so.

It turns out that of our 450 current keywords, all but 39 can be made
bare column labels, improving the situation by over 90%.  This number
might move around a little depending on future grammar work, but it's
a pretty nice improvement.

Mark Dilger, based on work by myself and Robert Haas;
review by John Naylor

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/38ca86db-42ab-9b48-2902-337a0d6b8311@2ndquadrant.com
2020-09-18 16:46:36 -04:00
Tom Lane 1ed6b89563 Remove support for postfix (right-unary) operators.
This feature has been a thorn in our sides for a long time, causing
many grammatical ambiguity problems.  It doesn't seem worth the
pain to continue to support it, so remove it.

There are some follow-on improvements we can make in the grammar,
but this commit only removes the bare minimum number of productions,
plus assorted backend support code.

Note that pg_dump and psql continue to have full support, since
they may be used against older servers.  However, pg_dump warns
about postfix operators.  There is also a check in pg_upgrade.

Documentation-wise, I (tgl) largely removed the "left unary"
terminology in favor of saying "prefix operator", which is
a more standard and IMO less confusing term.

I included a catversion bump, although no initial catalog data
changes here, to mark the boundary at which oprkind = 'r'
stopped being valid in pg_operator.

Mark Dilger, based on work by myself and Robert Haas;
review by John Naylor

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/38ca86db-42ab-9b48-2902-337a0d6b8311@2ndquadrant.com
2020-09-17 19:38:05 -04:00
Tom Lane 76f412ab31 Remove factorial operators, leaving only the factorial() function.
The "!" operator is our only built-in postfix operator.  Remove it,
on the way to removal of grammar support for postfix operators.

There is also a "!!" prefix operator, but since it's been marked
deprecated for most of its existence, we might as well remove it too.

Also zap the SQL alias function numeric_fac(), which seems to have
equally little reason to live.

Mark Dilger, based on work by myself and Robert Haas;
review by John Naylor

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/38ca86db-42ab-9b48-2902-337a0d6b8311@2ndquadrant.com
2020-09-17 16:17:27 -04:00
Tom Lane 99175141c9 Improve common/logging.c's support for multiple verbosity levels.
Instead of hard-wiring specific verbosity levels into the option
processing of client applications, invent pg_logging_increase_verbosity()
and encourage clients to implement --verbose by calling that.  Then,
the common convention that more -v's gets you more verbosity just works.

In particular, this allows resurrection of the debug-grade messages that
have long existed in pg_dump and its siblings.  They were unreachable
before this commit due to lack of a way to select PG_LOG_DEBUG logging
level.  (It appears that they may have been unreachable for some time
before common/logging.c was introduced, too, so I'm not specifically
blaming cc8d41511 for the oversight.  One reason for thinking that is
that it's now apparent that _allocAH()'s message needs a null-pointer
guard.  Testing might have failed to reveal that before 96bf88d52.)

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1173106.1600116625@sss.pgh.pa.us
2020-09-17 12:52:18 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 45b9805706 Allow CURRENT_ROLE where CURRENT_USER is accepted
In the particular case of GRANTED BY, this is specified in the SQL
standard.  Since in PostgreSQL, CURRENT_ROLE is equivalent to
CURRENT_USER, and CURRENT_USER is already supported here, adding
CURRENT_ROLE is trivial.  The other cases are PostgreSQL extensions,
but for the same reason it also makes sense there.

Reviewed-by: Vik Fearing <vik@postgresfriends.org>
Reviewed-by: Asif Rehman <asifr.rehman@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/f2feac44-b4c5-f38f-3699-2851d6a76dc9%402ndquadrant.com
2020-09-17 11:40:08 +02:00
Heikki Linnakangas 16fa9b2b30 Add support for building GiST index by sorting.
This adds a new optional support function to the GiST access method:
sortsupport. If it is defined, the GiST index is built by sorting all data
to the order defined by the sortsupport's comparator function, and packing
the tuples in that order to GiST pages. This is similar to how B-tree
index build works, and is much faster than inserting the tuples one by
one. The resulting index is smaller too, because the pages are packed more
tightly, upto 'fillfactor'. The normal build method works by splitting
pages, which tends to lead to more wasted space.

The quality of the resulting index depends on how good the opclass-defined
sort order is. A good order preserves locality of the input data.

As the first user of this facility, add 'sortsupport' function to the
point_ops opclass. It sorts the points in Z-order (aka Morton Code), by
interleaving the bits of the X and Y coordinates.

Author: Andrey Borodin
Reviewed-by: Pavel Borisov, Thomas Munro
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/1A36620E-CAD8-4267-9067-FB31385E7C0D%40yandex-team.ru
2020-09-17 11:33:40 +03:00
Michael Paquier 089da3c477 doc: Apply more consistently <productname> markup for OpenSSL
OpenSSL was quoted in inconsistent ways in many places of the docs,
sometimes with <application>, <productname> or just nothing.

Author: Daniel Gustafsson
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/DA91E5F0-5F9D-41A7-A7A6-B91CDE0F1D63@yesql.se
2020-09-17 16:33:22 +09:00
Fujii Masao e568ed0eb0 Add leader_pid field into the example of file_fdw for csvlog.
Commit b8fdee7d0c added leader_pid field into csvlog,
but forgot to update the example of file_fdw for csvlog.

Author: Yuta Katsuragi
2020-09-16 18:47:39 +09:00
Robert Haas 34a947ca13 New contrib module, pg_surgery, with heap surgery functions.
Sometimes it happens that the visibility information for a tuple
becomes corrupted, either due to bugs in the database software or
external factors. Provide a function heap_force_kill() that can
be used to truncate such dead tuples to dead line pointers, and
a function heap_force_freeze() that can be used to overwrite the
visibility information in such a way that the tuple becomes
all-visible.

These functions are unsafe, in that you can easily use them to
corrupt a database that was not previously corrupted, and you can
use them to further corrupt an already-corrupted database or to
destroy data. The documentation accordingly cautions against
casual use. However, in some cases they permit recovery of data
that would otherwise be very difficult to recover, or to allow a
system to continue to function when it would otherwise be difficult
to do so.

Because we may want to add other functions for performing other
kinds of surgery in the future, the new contrib module is called
pg_surgery rather than something specific to these functions. I
proposed back-patching this so that it could be more easily used
by people running existing releases who are facing these kinds of
problems, but that proposal did not attract enough support, so
no back-patch for now.

Ashutosh Sharma, reviewed and tested by Andrey M. Borodin,
M. Beena Emerson, Masahiko Sawada, Rajkumar Raghuwanshi,
Asim Praveen, and Mark Dilger, and somewhat revised by me.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmoZW1fsU-QUNCRUQMGUygBDPVeOTLCqRdQZch=EYZnctSA@mail.gmail.com
2020-09-10 11:14:07 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 4fff515e9e doc: Remove buggy ICU collation from documentation
We have had multiple reports that point to the
'@colReorder=latn-digit' collation customization being buggy.  We have
reported this to ICU and are waiting for a fix.  In the meantime,
remove references to this from the documentation and replace it by
another reordering example.  Apparently, many users have been picking
up this example specifically from the documentation.

Author: Jehan-Guillaume de Rorthais <jgdr@dalibo.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/153201618542.1404.3611626898935613264%40wrigleys.postgresql.org
2020-09-10 15:31:09 +02:00
Magnus Hagander 994a58407c Fix title in reference section
Reported-by: Robert Kahlert
Author: Daniel Gustafsson
2020-09-10 14:15:26 +02:00
Michael Paquier aad546bd0a doc: Fix some grammar and inconsistencies
Some comments are fixed while on it.

Author: Justin Pryzby
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200818171702.GK17022@telsasoft.com
Backpatch-through: 9.6
2020-09-10 15:50:19 +09:00
Tom Lane a273dcc6fd Doc: adjust documentation related to index support functions.
Commit 15cb2bd27 neglected to make the running text match the
tables, leaving the reader with the strong impression that
we cannot count.  Also, don't drop an unrelated para between
a table and the para describing it.
2020-09-09 12:00:49 -04:00
Tom Lane f3e1e66196 Minor fixes in docs and error messages.
Alexander Lakhin

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ce7debdd-c943-d7a7-9b41-687107b27831@gmail.com
2020-09-09 11:53:39 -04:00
Magnus Hagander 60df530c57 Add missing quote in docs
Mistake in commit 68b603e1a9.

Reported-by: Ian Barwick
2020-09-09 12:20:53 +02:00
Michael Paquier a6642b3ae0 Add support for partitioned tables and indexes in REINDEX
Until now, REINDEX was not able to work with partitioned tables and
indexes, forcing users to reindex partitions one by one.  This extends
REINDEX INDEX and REINDEX TABLE so as they can accept a partitioned
index and table in input, respectively, to reindex all the partitions
assigned to them with physical storage (foreign tables, partitioned
tables and indexes are then discarded).

This shares some logic with schema and database REINDEX as each
partition gets processed in its own transaction after building a list of
relations to work on.  This choice has the advantage to minimize the
number of invalid indexes to one partition with REINDEX CONCURRENTLY in
the event a cancellation or failure in-flight, as the only indexes
handled at once in a single REINDEX CONCURRENTLY loop are the ones from
the partition being working on.

Isolation tests are added to emulate some cases I bumped into while
developing this feature, particularly with the concurrent drop of a
leaf partition reindexed.  However, this is rather limited as LOCK would
cause REINDEX to block in the first transaction building the list of
partitions.

Per its multi-transaction nature, this new flavor cannot run in a
transaction block, similarly to REINDEX SCHEMA, SYSTEM and DATABASE.

Author: Justin Pryzby, Michael Paquier
Reviewed-by: Anastasia Lubennikova
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/db12e897-73ff-467e-94cb-4af03705435f.adger.lj@alibaba-inc.com
2020-09-08 10:09:22 +09:00
Peter Eisentraut 74ff28197c doc: Fix table cell overflow
Fix one instance of a table cell overflow by adding a zero-width
space.  The visual impact of this is minimal, but since this is
currently the only such case reported by FOP ("contents of ... exceed
the available area"), it seems worth getting rid of.
2020-09-07 09:59:50 +02:00
Michael Paquier f0942b1327 doc: Tweak sentence for pg_checksums when enabling checksums
The previous version of the docs mentioned that files are rewritten,
implying that a second copy of each file gets created, but each file is
updated in-place.

Author: Michael Banck
Reviewed-by: Daniel Gustafsson, Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/858086b6a42fb7d17995b6175856f7e7ec44d0a2.camel@credativ.de
Backpatch-through: 12
2020-09-07 14:34:59 +09:00
Magnus Hagander 68b603e1a9 Change path in example of file_fdw for logs
It's better to use a relative path into the data directory, than to a
hardcoded home directory of user 'josh'.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CABUevEyuf67Yu_r9gpDMs5MKifK7+-+pe=ZjKzya4JEn9kUk1w@mail.gmail.com
2020-09-06 19:28:32 +02:00
Peter Eisentraut cd153b54eb doc: Don't hide the "Up" link when it is the same as "Home"
The original stylesheets seemed to think this was a good idea, but our
users find it confusing and unhelpful, so undo that logic.

Reported-by: Fabien COELHO <coelho@cri.ensmp.fr>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/alpine.DEB.2.22.394.2006210914370.859381%40pseudo
2020-09-06 16:55:36 +02:00
Peter Eisentraut 49d7165117 doc: Change table alias names to lower case in tutorial chapter
This is needlessly different from our usual style otherwise.

Author: Jürgen Purtz <juergen@purtz.de>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/158996922318.7035.10603922579567326239@wrigleys.postgresql.org
2020-09-04 08:45:57 +02:00
Peter Eisentraut 79fd620b20 doc: Fix whitespace issue in PDF
Move <indexterm> outside of <para> to avoid whitespace issue in PDF
output.

Author: Jürgen Purtz <juergen@purtz.de>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/158996922318.7035.10603922579567326239@wrigleys.postgresql.org
2020-09-04 08:39:01 +02:00
Peter Eisentraut 6eee73e4e5 doc: Use tags consistently in the tutorial chapter
Make more consistent use of <screen> and <programlisting>.

Author: Jürgen Purtz <juergen@purtz.de>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/158996922318.7035.10603922579567326239@wrigleys.postgresql.org
2020-09-04 08:19:20 +02:00
Tom Lane 8f8154a503 Allow records to span multiple lines in pg_hba.conf and pg_ident.conf.
A backslash at the end of a line now causes the next line to be appended
to the current one (effectively, the backslash and newline are discarded).
This allows long HBA entries to be created without legibility problems.

While we're here, get rid of the former hard-wired length limit on
pg_hba.conf lines, by using an expansible StringInfo buffer instead
of a fixed-size local variable.

Since the same code is used to read the ident map file, these changes
apply there as well.

Fabien Coelho, reviewed by Justin Pryzby and David Zhang

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/alpine.DEB.2.21.2003251906140.15243@pseudo
2020-09-03 12:16:48 -04:00
Tom Lane d2511d7132 Doc: mention packager-supplied tools for server start/stop, initdb, etc.
The majority of our audience is probably using a pre-packaged Postgres
build rather than raw sources.  For them, much of runtime.sgml is not
too relevant, and they should be reading the packager's docs instead.
Add some notes pointing that way in appropriate places.

Text by me; thanks to Daniel Gustafsson for review and discussion,
and to Laurenz Albe for an earlier version.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/159430831443.16535.11360317280100947016@wrigleys.postgresql.org
2020-09-03 11:45:26 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 5ccf322118 doc: Make SQL command names in the catalog documentation links
In passing, fix the initdb references to be <application> rather than
<command>, which is what we normally use.

Author: Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker <ilmari@ilmari.org>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/87mu5xqc11.fsf@wibble.ilmari.org
2020-09-03 13:17:22 +02:00
Peter Eisentraut cb6eb4a09e doc: Add missing cross-links in system catalog documentation
This makes the first mention of a system catalog or view in each
paragraph in the system system catalog and view documentation pages
hyperlinks, for easier navigation.

Also linkify the first mention of pg_hba.conf in pg_hba_file_rules, as
that's more specific and easier to spot than the link to the client
authentication chapter.

Author: Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker <ilmari@ilmari.org>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/87mu5xqc11.fsf@wibble.ilmari.org
2020-09-03 13:17:22 +02:00
Peter Eisentraut 4220e5721a Fix XML id to match containing page
This was apparently a typo when this part of the documentation was
first added.
2020-09-03 12:47:33 +02:00
Amit Kapila 464824323e Add support for streaming to built-in logical replication.
To add support for streaming of in-progress transactions into the
built-in logical replication, we need to do three things:

* Extend the logical replication protocol, so identify in-progress
transactions, and allow adding additional bits of information (e.g.
XID of subtransactions).

* Modify the output plugin (pgoutput) to implement the new stream
API callbacks, by leveraging the extended replication protocol.

* Modify the replication apply worker, to properly handle streamed
in-progress transaction by spilling the data to disk and then
replaying them on commit.

We however must explicitly disable streaming replication during
replication slot creation, even if the plugin supports it. We
don't need to replicate the changes accumulated during this phase,
and moreover we don't have a replication connection open so we
don't have where to send the data anyway.

Author: Tomas Vondra, Dilip Kumar and Amit Kapila
Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila, Kuntal Ghosh and Ajin Cherian
Tested-by: Neha Sharma, Mahendra Singh Thalor and Ajin Cherian
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/688b0b7f-2f6c-d827-c27b-216a8e3ea700@2ndquadrant.com
2020-09-03 07:54:07 +05:30
Tom Lane 66f1630680 Add string_to_table() function.
This splits a string at occurrences of a delimiter.  It is exactly like
string_to_array() except for producing a set of values instead of an
array of values.  Thus, the relationship of these two functions is
the same as between regexp_split_to_table() and regexp_split_to_array().

Although the same results could be had from unnest(string_to_array()),
this is somewhat faster than that, and anyway it seems reasonable to
have it for symmetry with the regexp functions.

Pavel Stehule, reviewed by Peter Smith

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAFj8pRD8HOpjq2TqeTBhSo_QkzjLOhXzGCpKJ4nCs7Y9SQkuPw@mail.gmail.com
2020-09-02 18:23:56 -04:00
Michael Paquier 07f386ede0 Add access method names to \d[i|m|t]+ in psql
Listing a full set of relations with those psql meta-commands, without a
matching pattern, has never showed the access method associated with
each relation.  This commit adds the access method of tables, indexes
and matviews, masking it for relation kinds where it does not apply.

Note that when HIDE_TABLEAM is enabled, the information does not show
up.  This is available when connecting to a backend version of at least
12, where table AMs have been introduced.

Author: Georgios Kokolatos
Reviewed-by: Vignesh C, Michael Paquier, Justin Pryzby
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/svaS1VTOEscES9CLKVTeKItjJP1EEJuBhTsA0ESOdlnbXeQSgycYwVlliL5zt8Jwcfo4ATYDXtEqsExxjkSkkhCSTCL8fnRgaCAJdr0unUg=@protonmail.com
2020-09-02 16:59:22 +09:00
Bruce Momjian db864c3c36 doc: clarify that max_wal_size is "during" checkpoints
Previous wording was "between".

Reported-by: Pavel Luzanov

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/26906a54-d7cb-2f8e-eed7-e31660024694@postgrespro.ru

Backpatch-through: 9.5
2020-09-01 17:00:10 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera afc7e0ad55
Raise error on concurrent drop of partitioned index
We were already raising an error for DROP INDEX CONCURRENTLY on a
partitioned table, albeit a different and confusing one:
  ERROR:  DROP INDEX CONCURRENTLY must be first action in transaction

Change that to throw a more comprehensible error:
  ERROR:  cannot drop partitioned index \"%s\" concurrently

Michael Paquier authored the test case for indexes on temporary
partitioned tables.

Backpatch to 11, where indexes on partitioned tables were added.

Reported-by: Jan Mussler <jan.mussler@zalando.de>
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16594-d2956ca909585067@postgresql.org
2020-09-01 13:40:43 -04:00
Bruce Momjian ab3c6d4155 doc: document how the backup manifest is transferred
Reported-by: Bernd Helmle

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/31acf8b0f1f701d53245e0cae38abdf5c3a0d559.camel@oopsware.de

Backpatch-through: 13
2020-08-31 18:48:38 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 953c64e0f6 doc: add commas after 'i.e.' and 'e.g.'
This follows the American format,
https://jakubmarian.com/comma-after-i-e-and-e-g/. There is no intention
of requiring this format for future text, but making existing text
consistent every few years makes sense.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200825183619.GA22369@momjian.us

Backpatch-through: 9.5
2020-08-31 18:33:37 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 50ed605b3e pg_upgrade doc: mention saving postgresql.conf.auto files
Also mention files included by postgresql.conf.

Reported-by: Álvaro Herrera

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/08AD4526-75AB-457B-B2DD-099663F28040@yesql.se

Backpatch-through: 9.5
2020-08-31 17:36:23 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera 0ebe82a941
doc: Update partitioning limitation on BEFORE triggers
Reported-by: Erwin Brandstetter <brsaweda@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAGHENJ6Le7S3qJJx2TvWvTwRNS3N=BtoNeb7AF2rZvfNBMeQcg@mail.gmail.com
2020-08-31 17:09:02 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 9524fa1aa5 docs: in mapping SQL to C data types, timestamp isn't a pointer
It is an int64.

Reported-by: ajulien@shaktiware.fr

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/159845038271.24995.15682121015698255155@wrigleys.postgresql.org

Backpatch-through: 9.5
2020-08-31 17:05:53 -04:00
Bruce Momjian de2d1920dd doc: cross-link file-fdw and CSV config log sections
There is an file-fdw example that reads the server config file, so cross
link them.

Reported-by: Oleg Samoilov

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/159800192078.2886.10431506404995508950@wrigleys.postgresql.org

Backpatch-through: 9.5
2020-08-31 16:59:59 -04:00
Bruce Momjian b1ae70b3b4 docs: clarify intermediate certificate creation instructions
Specifically, explain the v3_ca openssl specification.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200824175653.GA32411@momjian.us

Backpatch-through: 9.5
2020-08-31 16:21:03 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 70e791f47e docs: replace "stable storage" with "durable" in descriptions
For PG, "durable storage" has a clear meaning, while "stable storage"
does not, so use the former.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200817165222.GA31806@momjian.us

Backpatch-through: 9.5
2020-08-31 15:23:19 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 06eba0fd10 doc: improve description of subscripting of arrays
It wasn't clear the non-integers are cast to integers for subscripting,
rather than throwing an error.

Reported-by: sean@materialize.io

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/159538675800.624.7728794628229799531@wrigleys.postgresql.org

Backpatch-through: 9.5
2020-08-31 13:49:17 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 47c427d006 docs: improve 'capitals' inheritance example
Adds constraints and improves wording.

Reported-by: 2552891@gmail.com

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/159586122762.680.1361378513036616007@wrigleys.postgresql.org

Backpatch-through: 9.5
2020-08-31 13:43:05 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 243a3b92a6 doc: clarify the useful features of procedures
This was not clearly documented when procedures were added in PG 11.

Reported-by: Robin Abbi

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAGmg_NX327KKVuJmbWZD=pGutYFxzZjX1rU+3ji8UuX=8ONn9Q@mail.gmail.com

Backpatch-through: 11
2020-08-31 13:20:04 -04:00
Magnus Hagander 3a788db601 Fix docs bug stating file_fdw requires absolute paths
It has always (since the first commit) worked with relative paths, so
use the same wording as other parts of the documentation.

Author: Bruce Momjian
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CABUevExx-hm=cit+A9LeKBH39srvk8Y2tEZeEAj5mP8YfzNKUg@mail.gmail.com
2020-08-31 13:03:54 +02:00