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Andres Freund c03c1449c0 Fix issues around EXPLAIN with JIT.
I (Andres) was more than a bit hasty in committing 33001fd7a7
after last minute changes, leading to a number of problems (jit output
was only shown for JIT in parallel workers, and just EXPLAIN without
ANALYZE didn't work).  Lukas luckily found these issues quickly.

Instead of combining instrumentation in in standard_ExecutorEnd(), do
so on demand in the new ExplainPrintJITSummary().

Also update a documentation example of the JIT output, changed in
52050ad8eb.

Author: Lukas Fittl, with minor changes by me
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAP53PkxmgJht69pabxBXJBM+0oc6kf3KHMborLP7H2ouJ0CCtQ@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch: 11, where JIT compilation was introduced
2018-10-03 12:48:37 -07:00
Michael Paquier 80810ca629 Fix documentation of pgrowlocks using "lock_type" instead of "modes"
The example used in the documentation is outdated as well.  This is an
oversight from 0ac5ad5, which bumped up pgrowlocks but forgot some bits
of the documentation.

Reported-by: Chris Wilson
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/153838692816.2950.12001142346234155699@wrigleys.postgresql.org
Backpatch-through: 9.3
2018-10-02 16:34:41 +09:00
Peter Eisentraut a6949ca34d doc: Clarify CREATE TABLESPACE documentation
Be more specific about when and how to create the directory and what
permissions it should have.

Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/5ca60e1a-26f9-89fd-e912-021dd2b8afe2%40gmail.com
2018-10-01 14:07:01 +02:00
Andres Freund 92a0342a90 Correct overflow handling in pgbench.
This patch attempts, although it's quite possible there are a few
holes, to properly detect and reported signed integer overflows in
pgbench.

Author: Fabien Coelho
Reviewed-By: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20171212052943.k2hlckfkeft3eiio@alap3.anarazel.de
2018-09-27 21:50:57 -07:00
Andres Freund 27e082b0c6 Clean up in the wake of TupleDescGetSlot() removal / 10763358c3.
The previous commit wasn't careful enough to remove all traces of
TupleDescGetSlot().

Besides fixing the oversight of not removing TupleDescGetSlot()'s
declaration, this also removes FuncCallContext->slot. That was
documented to be for use in combination with TupleDescGetSlot(), a
cursory search over extensions finds no users, and there doesn't seem
to be convincing reasons to keep it around. If we later in the v12
release cycle find users, we can re-consider this part of the commit.

Reported-By: Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180926000413.GC1659@paquier.xyz
2018-09-27 11:38:11 -07:00
Tom Lane fd582317e1 Sync our Snowball stemmer dictionaries with current upstream.
We haven't touched these since text search functionality landed in core
in 2007 :-(.  While the upstream project isn't a beehive of activity,
they do make additions and bug fixes from time to time.  Update our
copies of these files.

Also update our documentation about how to keep things in sync, since
they're not making distribution tarballs these days.  Fortunately,
their source code turns out to be a breeze to build.

Notable changes:

* The non-UTF8 version of the hungarian stemmer now works in LATIN2
not LATIN1.

* New stemmers have appeared for arabic, indonesian, irish, lithuanian,
nepali, and tamil.  These all work in UTF8, and the indonesian and
irish ones also work in LATIN1.

(There are some new stemmers that I did not incorporate, mainly because
their names don't match the underlying languages, suggesting that they're
not to be considered mainstream.)

Worth noting: the upstream Nepali dictionary was contributed by
Arthur Zakirov.

initdb forced because the contents of snowball_create.sql have
changed.

Still TODO: see about updating the stopword lists.

Arthur Zakirov, minor mods and doc work by me

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180626122025.GA12647@zakirov.localdomain
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180219140849.GA9050@zakirov.localdomain
2018-09-24 17:29:38 -04:00
Joe Conway c62dd80cdf Document aclitem functions and operators
aclitem functions and operators have been heretofore undocumented.
Fix that. While at it, ensure the non-operator aclitem functions have
pg_description strings.

Does not seem worthwhile to back-patch.

Author: Fabien Coelho, with pg_description from John Naylor, and significant
refactoring and editorialization by me.
Reviewed by: Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/flat/alpine.DEB.2.21.1808010825490.18204%40lancre
2018-09-24 10:14:57 -04:00
Tom Lane 73a6005137 Doc: warn against using parallel restore with --load-via-partition-root.
This isn't terribly safe, and making it so doesn't seem like a small
project, so for the moment just warn against it.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/13624.1535486019@sss.pgh.pa.us
2018-09-23 18:34:18 -04:00
Michael Paquier db361db2fc Make GUC wal_sender_timeout user-settable
Being able to use a value that can be changed on a connection basis is
useful with clusters distributed geographically, and makes failure
detection more flexible.  A note is added in the documentation about the
use of "options" in primary_conninfo, which can be hard to grasp for
newcomers with the need of two single quotes when listing a set of
parameters.

Author: Tsunakawa Takayuki
Reviewed-by: Masahiko Sawada, Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/0A3221C70F24FB45833433255569204D1FAAD3AE@G01JPEXMBYT05
2018-09-22 15:23:59 +09:00
Bruce Momjian 1f7fc7670c doc: JIT is enabled by default in PG 12
JIT was disabled by default in a PG 11 in a separate commit that will
normally not appear in the PG 12 git logs.  Therefore, create a PG 12
document and mention the fact that JIT is enabled by default in this
release.  (A similar change in parallelism was missed in a prior
release.)

Reported-by: Andres Freund

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180922000554.qukbhhlagpnopvko@alap3.anarazel.de

Backpatch-through: head
2018-09-21 20:28:55 -04:00
Bruce Momjian f77de4b0c0 docs: remove use of escape strings and use bytea hex output
standard_conforming_strings defaulted to 'on' in PG 9.1.
bytea_output defaulted to 'hex' in PG 9.0.

Reported-by: André Hänsel

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/12e601d447ac$345994a0$9d0cbde0$@webkr.de

Backpatch-through: 9.3
2018-09-21 19:55:07 -04:00
Michael Paquier ce9cf8e7e6 Document lock taken on referenced table when adding a foreign key
This can happen for CREATE TABLE and ALTER TABLE, so a mention is added
to both of them in the concerned subsections.

Author: Adrien Nayrat
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/c4e8af11-1dfc-766a-c953-76979b9fcdaa@anayrat.info
2018-09-21 15:03:37 +09:00
Tom Lane 3dc820c43e Teach genbki.pl to auto-generate pg_type entries for array types.
This eliminates some more tedium in adding new catalog entries,
specifically the need to set up an array type when adding a new
built-in data type.  Now it's sufficient to assign an OID for the
array type and write it in an "array_type_oid" metadata field.
You don't have to fill the base type's typarray link explicitly, either.

No catversion bump since the contents of pg_type aren't changed.
(Well, their order might be different, but that doesn't matter.)

John Naylor, reviewed and whacked around a bit by
Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker, and some more by me.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAJVSVGVTb6m9pJF49b3SuA8J+T-THO9c0hxOmoyv-yGKh-FbNg@mail.gmail.com
2018-09-20 15:14:46 -04:00
Alexander Korotkov 2a6368343f Add support for nearest-neighbor (KNN) searches to SP-GiST
Currently, KNN searches were supported only by GiST.  SP-GiST also capable to
support them.  This commit implements that support.  SP-GiST scan stack is
replaced with queue, which serves as stack if no ordering is specified.  KNN
support is provided for three SP-GIST opclasses: quad_point_ops, kd_point_ops
and poly_ops (catversion is bumped).  Some common parts between GiST and SP-GiST
KNNs are extracted into separate functions.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/570825e8-47d0-4732-2bf6-88d67d2d51c8%40postgrespro.ru
Author: Nikita Glukhov, Alexander Korotkov based on GSoC work by Vlad Sterzhanov
Review: Andrey Borodin, Alexander Korotkov
2018-09-19 01:54:10 +03:00
Peter Eisentraut f9907c6ac2 Add list of acknowledgments to release notes
This contains all individuals mentioned in the commit messages during
PostgreSQL 11 development.

current through 7a2f70f0e5
2018-09-16 22:06:42 +02:00
Bruce Momjian da1db40435 doc: clarify pg_basebackup's -C/--create-slot description
The previous text was overly complex.

Backpatch-through: 11
2018-09-16 11:35:34 -04:00
Tom Lane 8f32bacc00 In v11, disable JIT by default (it's still enabled by default in HEAD).
Per discussion, JIT isn't quite mature enough to ship enabled-by-default.

I failed to resist the temptation to do a bunch of copy-editing on the
related documentation.  Also, clean up some inconsistencies in which
section of config.sgml the JIT GUCs are documented in vs. what guc.c
and postgresql.config.sample had.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180914222657.mw25esrzbcnu6qlu@alap3.anarazel.de
2018-09-15 17:24:35 -04:00
Tom Lane 2970afa6cf Add PQresultMemorySize function to report allocated size of a PGresult.
This number can be useful for application memory management, and the
overhead to track it seems pretty trivial.

Lars Kanis, reviewed by Pavel Stehule, some mods by me

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/fa16a288-9685-14f2-97c8-b8ac84365a4f@greiz-reinsdorf.de
2018-09-11 18:45:12 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 0d45cd96fd doc: adjust PG 11 release notes
Fixes for channel binding, SQL procedures, and pg_trgm.

Backpatch-through: 11
2018-09-11 17:01:51 -04:00
Alexander Korotkov cf98467242 Improve behavior of to_timestamp()/to_date() functions
to_timestamp()/to_date() functions were introduced mainly for Oracle
compatibility, and became very popular among PostgreSQL users.  However, some
behavior of to_timestamp()/to_date() functions are both incompatible with Oracle
and confusing for our users.  This behavior is related to handling of spaces and
separators in non FX (fixed format) mode.  This commit reworks this behavior
making less confusing, better documented and more compatible with Oracle.

Nevertheless, there are still following incompatibilities with Oracle.
1) We don't insist that there are no format string patterns unmatched to
   input string.
2) In FX mode we don't insist space and separators in format string to exactly
   match input string.
3) When format string patterns are divided by mix of spaces and separators, we
   don't distinguish them, while Oracle takes into account only last group of
   spaces/separators.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1873520224.1784572.1465833145330.JavaMail.yahoo%40mail.yahoo.com
Author: Artur Zakirov, Alexander Korotkov, Liudmila Mantrova
Review: Amul Sul, Robert Haas, Tom Lane, Dmitry Dolgov, David G. Johnston
2018-09-09 21:19:51 +03:00
Andrew Gierth 7b6b167fa3 Refactor installation of extension headers.
Commit be54b3777 failed on gmake 3.80 due to a chained conditional,
which on closer examination could be removed entirely with some
refactoring elsewhere for a net simplification and more robustness
against empty expansions. Along the way, add some more comments.

Also make explicit in the documentation and comments that built
headers are not removed by 'make clean', since we don't typically want
that for headers generated by a separate ./configure step, and it's
much easier to add your own 'distclean' rule or use EXTRA_CLEAN than
to try and override a deletion rule in pgxs.mk.

Per buildfarm member prariedog and comments by Michael Paquier, though
all the actual changes are my fault.
2018-09-07 14:19:14 +01:00
Tom Lane a5322ca10f Make contrib/unaccent's unaccent() function work when not in search path.
Since the fixes for CVE-2018-1058, we've advised people to schema-qualify
function references in order to fix failures in code that executes under
a minimal search_path setting.  However, that's insufficient to make the
single-argument form of unaccent() work, because it looks up the "unaccent"
text search dictionary using the search path.

The most expedient answer seems to be to remove the search_path dependency
by making it look in the same schema that the unaccent() function itself
is declared in.  This will definitely work for the normal usage of this
function with the unaccent dictionary provided by the extension.
It's barely possible that there are people who were relying on the
search-path-dependent behavior to select other dictionaries with the same
name; but if there are any such people at all, they can still get that
behavior by writing unaccent('unaccent', ...), or possibly
unaccent('unaccent'::text::regdictionary, ...) if the lookup has to be
postponed to runtime.

Per complaint from Gunnlaugur Thor Briem.  Back-patch to all supported
branches.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAPs+M8LCex6d=DeneofdsoJVijaG59m9V0ggbb3pOH7hZO4+cQ@mail.gmail.com
2018-09-06 10:49:45 -04:00
Andrew Gierth be54b3777f Allow extensions to install built as well as unbuilt headers.
Commit df163230b overlooked the case that an out-of-tree extension
might need to build its header files (e.g. via ./configure). If it is
also doing a VPATH build, the HEADERS_* rules in the original commit
would then fail to find the files, since they would be looking only
under $(srcdir) and not in the build directory.

Fix by adding HEADERS_built and HEADERS_built_$(MODULE) which behave
like DATA_built in that they look in the build dir rather than the
source dir (and also make the files dependencies of the "all" target).

No Windows support appears to be needed for this, since it is only
relevant to out-of-tree builds (no support exists in Mkvcbuild.pm to
build extension header files in any case).
2018-09-05 22:01:21 +01:00
Tom Lane ae5205c8a8 Make argument names of pg_get_object_address consistent, and fix docs.
pg_get_object_address and pg_identify_object_as_address are supposed
to be inverses, but they disagreed as to the names of the arguments
representing the textual form of an object address.  Moreover, the
documented argument names didn't agree with reality at all, either
for these functions or pg_identify_object.

In HEAD and v11, I think we can get away with renaming the input
arguments of pg_get_object_address to match the outputs of
pg_identify_object_as_address.  In theory that might break queries
using named-argument notation to call pg_get_object_address, but
it seems really unlikely that anybody is doing that, or that they'd
have much trouble adjusting if they were.  In older branches, we'll
just live with the lack of consistency.

Aside from fixing the documentation of these functions to match reality,
I couldn't resist the temptation to do some copy-editing.

Per complaint from Jean-Pierre Pelletier.  Back-patch to 9.5 where these
functions were introduced.  (Before v11, this is a documentation change
only.)

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CANGqjDnWH8wsTY_GzDUxbt4i=y-85SJreZin4Hm8uOqv1vzRQA@mail.gmail.com
2018-09-05 13:47:28 -04:00
Bruce Momjian dd6073f22a docs: improve AT TIME ZONE description
The previous description was unclear.  Also add a third example, change
use of time zone acronyms to more verbose descriptions, and add a
mention that using 'time' with AT TIME ZONE uses the current time zone
rules.

Backpatch-through: 9.3
2018-09-04 22:34:07 -04:00
Tom Lane 17b7c302b5 Fully enforce uniqueness of constraint names.
It's been true for a long time that we expect names of table and domain
constraints to be unique among the constraints of that table or domain.
However, the enforcement of that has been pretty haphazard, and it missed
some corner cases such as creating a CHECK constraint and then an index
constraint of the same name (as per recent report from André Hänsel).
Also, due to the lack of an actual unique index enforcing this, duplicates
could be created through race conditions.

Moreover, the code that searches pg_constraint has been quite inconsistent
about how to handle duplicate names if one did occur: some places checked
and threw errors if there was more than one match, while others just
processed the first match they came to.

To fix, create a unique index on (conrelid, contypid, conname).  Since
either conrelid or contypid is zero, this will separately enforce
uniqueness of constraint names among constraints of any one table and any
one domain.  (If we ever implement SQL assertions, and put them into this
catalog, more thought might be needed.  But it'd be at least as reasonable
to put them into a new catalog; having overloaded this one catalog with
two kinds of constraints was a mistake already IMO.)  This index can replace
the existing non-unique index on conrelid, though we need to keep the one
on contypid for query performance reasons.

Having done that, we can simplify the logic in various places that either
coped with duplicates or neglected to, as well as potentially improve
lookup performance when searching for a constraint by name.

Also, as per our usual practice, install a preliminary check so that you
get something more friendly than a unique-index violation report in the
case complained of by André.  And teach ChooseIndexName to avoid choosing
autogenerated names that would draw such a failure.

While it's not possible to make such a change in the back branches,
it doesn't seem quite too late to put this into v11, so do so.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/0c1001d4428f$0942b430$1bc81c90$@webkr.de
2018-09-04 13:45:35 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera c076f3d74a Remove pg_constraint.conincluding
This column was added in commit 8224de4f42 ("Indexes with INCLUDE
columns and their support in B-tree") to ease writing the ruleutils.c
supporting code for that feature, but it turns out to be unnecessary --
we can do the same thing with just one more syscache lookup.

Even the documentation for the new column being removed in this commit
is awkward.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180902165018.33otxftp3olgtu4t@alvherre.pgsql
2018-09-03 12:59:26 -03:00
Tom Lane 4299c32316 Doc: fix oversights in "Client/Server Character Set Conversions" table.
This table claimed that JOHAB could be used as a server encoding, which
was true originally but hasn't been true since 8.3.  It also lacked
entries for EUC_JIS_2004 and SHIFT_JIS_2004.

JOHAB problem noted by Lars Kanis, the others by me.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/c0f514a1-b7a9-b9ea-1c02-c34aead56c06@greiz-reinsdorf.de
2018-09-01 16:02:47 -04:00
Alexander Korotkov ec74369931 Implement "pg_ctl logrotate" command
Currently there are two ways to trigger log rotation in logging collector
process: call pg_rotate_logfile() SQL-function or send SIGUSR1 signal directly
to logging collector process.  However, it's nice to have more suitable way
for external tools to do that, which wouldn't require SQL connection or
knowledge of logging collector pid.  This commit implements triggering log
rotation by "pg_ctl logrotate" command.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180416.115435.28153375.horiguchi.kyotaro%40lab.ntt.co.jp
Author: Kyotaro Horiguchi, Alexander Kuzmenkov, Alexander Korotkov
2018-09-01 19:46:49 +03:00
Alvaro Herrera a846e6d023 pg_verify_checksums: rename -d to --verbose
Using -d is odd, because we normally reserve that for a database
argument, so rename it to -v and add long version --verbose.

Also, reduce it to emit one line per file checked rather than one line
per block.

Per a complaint from Michael Banck.

Author: Yugo Nagata <nagata@sraoss.co.jp>
Reviewed-by: Michael Banck <michael.banck@credativ.de>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180827113411.GA22768@nighthawk.caipicrew.dd-dns.de
2018-08-30 06:35:55 -03:00
Alvaro Herrera 4db226b756 Mention change of width of values generated by SERIAL sequences
This changed during pg10 development, but had not been documented.

Co-authored-by: Jonathan S. Katz <jkatz@postgresql.org>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180828163408.vl44nwetdybwffyk@alvherre.pgsql
2018-08-30 05:42:46 -03:00
Michael Paquier bfea331a5e Rework option set of vacuumlo
Like oid2name, vacuumlo has been lacking consistency with other
utilities for its options:
- Connection options gain long aliases.
- Document environment variables which could be used: PGHOST, PGPORT and
PGUSER.

Documentation and code is reordered to be more consistent. A basic set
of TAP tests has been added while on it.

Author: Tatsuro Yamada
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/c7e7f25c-1747-cd0f-9335-390bc97b2db5@lab.ntt.co.jp
2018-08-28 21:42:45 +09:00
Michael Paquier 1aaf532dea Rework option set of oid2name
oid2name has done little effort to keep an interface consistent with
other binary utilities:
- -H was used instead of -h/-host.  This option is now marked as
deprecated, still its output is accepted to be backward-compatible.
- -P has been removed from the code, and was still documented.
- All options gain long aliases, making connection options more similar
to other binaries.
- Document environment variables which could be used: PGHOST, PGPORT and
PGUSER.

A basic set of TAP tests is added on the way, and documentation is
cleaned up to be more consistent with other things.

Author: Tatsuro Yamada
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/c7e7f25c-1747-cd0f-9335-390bc97b2db5@lab.ntt.co.jp
2018-08-28 21:33:32 +09:00
Bruce Momjian cc2e457fe8 doc: "Latest checkpoint location" will not match in pg_upgrade
Mention that "Latest checkpoint location" will not match in pg_upgrade
if the standby server is still running during the upgrade, which is
possible.  "Match" text first appeared in PG 9.5.

Reported-by: Paul Bonaud

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/c7268794-edb4-1772-3bfd-04c54585c24e@trainline.com

Backpatch-through: 9.5
2018-08-25 13:35:14 -04:00
Bruce Momjian dcb2efdbdd doc: add doc link for 'applicable_roles'
Reported-by: Ashutosh Sharma

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAE9k0PnhnL6MNDLuvkk8USzOa_DpzDzFQPAM_uaGuXbh9HMKYw@mail.gmail.com

Author: Ashutosh Sharma

Backpatch-through: 9.3
2018-08-25 13:01:24 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 7abf8ee1e8 docs: Clarify pg_ctl initdb option text to match options proto.
The options string appeared in PG 10.

Reported-by: pgsql-kr@postgresql.kr

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/153500377658.1378.6587007319641704057@wrigleys.postgresql.org

Backpatch-through: 10
2018-08-25 12:01:53 -04:00
Bruce Momjian a6ca9c2a1b docs: clarify plpython SD and GD dictionary behavior
Reported-by: Adam Bielański

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/153484305538.1370.7605856225879294548@wrigleys.postgresql.org

Backpatch-through: 9.3
2018-08-25 11:52:30 -04:00
Michael Paquier db72302b0a Fix documentation for run-time partition pruning
Since 5220bb7, not only Append, but also MergeAppend support the
operation.

Author: Amit Langote
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/59d8eb92-4536-c44e-54e2-305b9b3d8eb7@lab.ntt.co.jp
2018-08-24 22:54:07 +09:00
Andres Freund d9dd406fe2 Require C99 (and thus MSCV 2013 upwards).
In 86d78ef50e I enabled configure to check for C99 support, with the
goal of checking which platforms support C99.  While there are a few
machines without C99 support among our buildfarm animals,
de-supporting them for v12 was deemed acceptable.

While not tested in aforementioned commit, the biggest increase in
minimum compiler version comes from MSVC, which gained C99 support
fairly late. The subset in MSVC 2013 is sufficient for our needs, at
this point. While that is a significant increase in minimum version,
the existing windows binaries are already built with a new enough
version.

Make configure error out if C99 support could not be detected. For
MSVC builds, increase the minimum version to 2013.

The increase to MSVC 2013 allows us to get rid of VCBuildProject.pm,
as that was only required for MSVC 2005/2008.

Author: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/97d4b165-192d-3605-749c-f614a0c4e783@2ndquadrant.com
2018-08-23 18:33:57 -07:00
Tom Lane 5ca0077419 In libpq, don't look up all the hostnames at once.
Historically, we looked up the target hostname in connectDBStart, so that
PQconnectPoll did not need to do DNS name resolution.  The patches that
added multiple-target-host support to libpq preserved this division of
labor; but it's really nonsensical now, because it means that if any one
of the target hosts fails to resolve in DNS, the connection fails.  That
negates the no-single-point-of-failure goal of the feature.  Additionally,
DNS lookups aren't exactly cheap, but the code did them all even if the
first connection attempt succeeds.

Hence, rearrange so that PQconnectPoll does the lookups, and only looks
up a hostname when it's time to try that host.  This does mean that
PQconnectPoll could block on a DNS lookup --- but if you wanted to avoid
that, you should be using hostaddr, as the documentation has always
specified.  It seems fairly unlikely that any applications would really
care whether the lookup occurs inside PQconnectStart or PQconnectPoll.

In addition to calling out that fact explicitly, do some other minor
wordsmithing in the docs around the multiple-target-host feature.

Since this seems like a bug in the multiple-target-host feature,
backpatch to v10 where that was introduced.  In the back branches,
avoid moving any existing fields of struct pg_conn, just in case
any third-party code is looking into that struct.

Tom Lane, reviewed by Fabien Coelho

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/4913.1533827102@sss.pgh.pa.us
2018-08-23 16:39:36 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 2d41d914ab Copy-editing of pg_verify_checksums help and ref page
Reformat synopsis, put options into better order, make the desciption
line a bit shorter, and put more details into the description.
2018-08-23 20:32:56 +02:00
Alvaro Herrera d10f774165 Return type of txid_status is text, not txid_status
Thinko in commit 857ee8e39.

Discovered-by: Gianni Ciolli
2018-08-23 11:43:36 -03:00
Peter Eisentraut 7ceb6fb84c doc: Clarify some wording in PL/pgSQL about transactions
Some text was still claiming that committing transactions was not
possible in PL/pgSQL.
2018-08-22 15:42:22 +02:00
Peter Eisentraut 0a63f996e0 Change PROCEDURE to FUNCTION in CREATE TRIGGER syntax
Since procedures are now a different thing from functions, change the
CREATE TRIGGER and CREATE EVENT TRIGGER syntax to use FUNCTION in the
clause that specifies the function.  PROCEDURE is still accepted for
compatibility.

pg_dump and ruleutils.c output is not changed yet, because that would
require a change in information_schema.sql and thus a catversion change.

Reported-by: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan S. Katz <jonathan.katz@excoventures.com>
2018-08-22 14:44:49 +02:00
Peter Eisentraut d12782898e Change PROCEDURE to FUNCTION in CREATE OPERATOR syntax
Since procedures are now a different thing from functions, change the
CREATE OPERATOR syntax to use FUNCTION in the clause that specifies the
function.  PROCEDURE is still accepted for compatibility.

Reported-by: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan S. Katz <jonathan.katz@excoventures.com>
2018-08-22 14:44:49 +02:00
Peter Eisentraut b19495772e doc: Update uses of the word "procedure"
Historically, the term procedure was used as a synonym for function in
Postgres/PostgreSQL.  Now we have procedures as separate objects from
functions, so we need to clean up the documentation to not mix those
terms.

In particular, mentions of "trigger procedures" are changed to "trigger
functions", and access method "support procedures" are changed to
"support functions".  (The latter already used FUNCTION in the SQL
syntax anyway.)  Also, the terminology in the SPI chapter has been
cleaned up.

A few tests, examples, and code comments are also adjusted to be
consistent with documentation changes, but not everything.

Reported-by: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan S. Katz <jonathan.katz@excoventures.com>
2018-08-22 14:44:49 +02:00
Alvaro Herrera 69c7890441 Fix typo 2018-08-21 17:00:54 -03:00
Tom Lane 47183265ed Doc: remove obsolete advice about manually inserting snprintf into build.
This para is obsolete, first because nobody is using Solaris 7 anymore,
and second because if someone was, configure should catch the snprintf
buffer overrun problem automatically (since commit 9bed827b1), and third
because this is incorrect advice about how to manually force use of
snprintf.c anyway, and has been so at least since commit 3bc6bdf32.
The lack of complaints about it reinforces the conclusion that Solaris 7
no longer exists in the wild; so I don't feel a need to insert correct
advice instead.
2018-08-18 14:02:35 -04:00
Michael Paquier ee80124811 Mention ownership requirements for REFRESH MATERIALIZED VIEW in docs
Author: Dian Fay
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/745abbd2-a1a0-ead8-2cb2-768c16747d97@gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 9.3
2018-08-17 11:29:15 +09:00
Thomas Munro 96e98fa260 Proof-reading for documentation.
Somebody accidentally a word.  Back-patch to 9.6.

Reported-by: Justin Pryzby
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180816195431.GA23707%40telsasoft.com
2018-08-17 11:36:34 +12:00
Peter Eisentraut 6f1591955d doc: Update broken links
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/153044458767.13254.16049977382403131287%40wrigleys.postgresql.org
2018-08-14 22:54:52 +02:00
Tom Lane 1e6e98f763 Fix libpq's implementation of per-host connection timeouts.
Commit 5f374fe7a attempted to turn the connect_timeout from an overall
maximum time limit into a per-host limit, but it didn't do a great job of
that.  The timer would only get restarted if we actually detected timeout
within connectDBComplete(), not if we changed our attention to a new host
for some other reason.  In that case the old timeout continued to run,
possibly causing a premature timeout failure for the new host.

Fix that, and also tweak the logic so that if we do get a timeout,
we advance to the next available IP address, not to the next host name.
There doesn't seem to be a good reason to assume that all the IP
addresses supplied for a given host name will necessarily fail the
same way as the current one.  Moreover, this conforms better to the
admittedly-vague documentation statement that the timeout is "per
connection attempt".  I changed that to "per host name or IP address"
to be clearer.  (Note that reconnections to the same server, such as for
switching protocol version or SSL status, don't get their own separate
timeout; that was true before and remains so.)

Also clarify documentation about the interpretation of connect_timeout
values less than 2.

This seems like a bug, so back-patch to v10 where this logic came in.

Tom Lane, reviewed by Fabien Coelho

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/5735.1533828184@sss.pgh.pa.us
2018-08-13 13:07:52 -04:00
Alexander Korotkov e01d3477e7 Add missing documentation for argument of amcostestimate()
5262f7a4fc have introduced parallel index scan.  In order to estimate the
number of parallel workers, it adds extra argument to amcostestimate() index
access method API function.  However, this extra argument was missed in the
documentation.  This commit fixes that.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/4128fdb4-8b63-2e05-38f6-3125f8c27263%40lab.ntt.co.jp
Author: Tatsuro Yamada, Alexander Korotkov
Backpatch-through: 10
2018-08-10 14:14:36 +03:00
Alexander Korotkov 3abc5a67ed Fix misspelled pg_trgm contrib name in PostgreSQL 11 release notes
Author: Masahiko Sawada
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAD21AoD0Eii9y9f3cQV9AsaUF%3DMmOrQuZLHqoobFp%3DmSKEx1CA%40mail.gmail.com
2018-08-10 12:58:57 +03:00
Alvaro Herrera a5db27418e Add RECURSIVE to documentation index
Author: Daniel Vérité <daniel@manitou-mail.org>
Reviewed-by: Fabien COELHO <coelho@cri.ensmp.fr>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/76d905d7-7eb7-4574-b6ec-a0ca3a1523c0@manitou-mail.org
2018-08-09 16:19:32 -04:00
Tom Lane 8694a1ce40 Document need to clear MAKELEVEL when invoking PG build from a makefile.
Since commit 3b8f6e75f, failure to do this would lead to
submake-generated-headers not doing anything, so that references to
generated or symlinked headers would fail.  Previous to that, the
omission only led to temp-install not doing anything, which apparently
affects many fewer people (doesn't anybody use "make check" in their
build rules??).  Hence, backpatch to v11 but not further.

Per complaints from Christoph Berg, Jakob Egger, and others.
2018-08-09 15:21:09 -04:00
Bruce Momjian b284262e40 docs: Only first instance of a PREPARE parameter sets data type
If the first reference to $1 is "($1 = col) or ($1 is null)", the data
type can be determined, but not for "($1 is null) or ($1 = col)".  This
change documents this.

Reported-by: Morgan Owens

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/153233728858.1404.15268121695358514937@wrigleys.postgresql.org

Backpatch-through: 9.3
2018-08-09 10:13:15 -04:00
Michael Paquier 661dd23950 Restrict access to reindex of shared catalogs for non-privileged users
A database owner running a database-level REINDEX has the possibility to
also do the operation on shared system catalogs without being an owner
of them, which allows him to block resources it should not have access
to.  The same goes for a schema owner.  For example, PostgreSQL would go
unresponsive and even block authentication if a lock is waited for
pg_authid.  This commit makes sure that a user running a REINDEX SYSTEM,
DATABASE or SCHEMA only works on the following relations:
- The user is a superuser
- The user is the table owner
- The user is the database/schema owner, only if the relation worked on
is not shared.

Robert has worded most the documentation changes, and I have coded the
core part.

Reported-by: Lloyd Albin, Jeremy Schneider
Author: Michael Paquier, Robert Haas
Reviewed by: Nathan Bossart, Kyotaro Horiguchi
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/152512087100.19803.12733865831237526317@wrigleys.postgresql.org
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180805211059.GA2185@paquier.xyz
Backpatch-through: 11- as the current behavior has been around for a
very long time and could be disruptive for already released branches.
2018-08-09 09:40:15 +02:00
Peter Geoghegan 313cbdc7f6 Doc: Correct description of amcheck example query.
The amcheck documentation incorrectly claimed that its example query
verifies every catalog index in the database.  In fact, the query only
verifies the 10 largest indexes (as determined by pg_class.relpages).
Adjust the description accordingly.

Backpatch: 10-, where contrib/amcheck was introduced.
2018-08-08 12:56:11 -07:00
Tom Lane e0ee930539 Last-minute updates for release notes.
Security: CVE-2018-10915, CVE-2018-10925
2018-08-06 13:13:40 -04:00
Tom Lane aa291a4cf7 Release notes for 10.5, 9.6.10, 9.5.14, 9.4.19, 9.3.24. 2018-08-05 16:38:42 -04:00
Tom Lane a3274e0d28 Doc: fix incorrectly stated argument list for pgcrypto's hmac() function.
The bytea variant takes (bytea, bytea, text).
Per unsigned report.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/153344327294.1404.654155870612982042@wrigleys.postgresql.org
2018-08-05 13:03:42 -04:00
Heikki Linnakangas 77291139c7 Remove support for tls-unique channel binding.
There are some problems with the tls-unique channel binding type. It's not
supported by all SSL libraries, and strictly speaking it's not defined for
TLS 1.3 at all, even though at least in OpenSSL, the functions used for it
still seem to work with TLS 1.3 connections. And since we had no
mechanism to negotiate what channel binding type to use, there would be
awkward interoperability issues if a server only supported some channel
binding types. tls-server-end-point seems feasible to support with any SSL
library, so let's just stick to that.

This removes the scram_channel_binding libpq option altogether, since there
is now only one supported channel binding type.

This also removes all the channel binding tests from the SSL test suite.
They were really just testing the scram_channel_binding option, which
is now gone. Channel binding is used if both client and server support it,
so it is used in the existing tests. It would be good to have some tests
specifically for channel binding, to make sure it really is used, and the
different combinations of a client and a server that support or doesn't
support it. The current set of settings we have make it hard to write such
tests, but I did test those things manually, by disabling
HAVE_BE_TLS_GET_CERTIFICATE_HASH and/or
HAVE_PGTLS_GET_PEER_CERTIFICATE_HASH.

I also removed the SCRAM_CHANNEL_BINDING_TLS_END_POINT constant. This is a
matter of taste, but IMO it's more readable to just use the
"tls-server-end-point" string.

Refactor the checks on whether the SSL library supports the functions
needed for tls-server-end-point channel binding. Now the server won't
advertise, and the client won't choose, the SCRAM-SHA-256-PLUS variant, if
compiled with an OpenSSL version too old to support it.

In the passing, add some sanity checks to check that the chosen SASL
mechanism, SCRAM-SHA-256 or SCRAM-SHA-256-PLUS, matches whether the SCRAM
exchange used channel binding or not. For example, if the client selects
the non-channel-binding variant SCRAM-SHA-256, but in the SCRAM message
uses channel binding anyway. It's harmless from a security point of view,
I believe, and I'm not sure if there are some other conditions that would
cause the connection to fail, but it seems better to be strict about these
things and check explicitly.

Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/ec787074-2305-c6f4-86aa-6902f98485a4%40iki.fi
2018-08-05 13:44:21 +03:00
Tom Lane 7a46068f47 Update version 11 release notes.
Remove description of commit 1944cdc98, which has now been back-patched
so it's not relevant to v11 any longer.  Add descriptions of other
recent commits that seemed worth mentioning.

I marked the update as stopping at 2018-07-30, because it's unclear
whether d06eebce5 will be allowed to stay in v11, and I didn't feel like
putting effort into writing a description of it yet.  If it does stay,
I think it will deserve mention in the Source Code section.
2018-08-04 23:49:53 -04:00
Tom Lane c1455de2af First-draft release notes for 10.5.
As usual, the release notes for other branches will be made by cutting
these down, but put them up for community review first.
2018-08-03 18:09:20 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera f6f8d55c4b Add 'n' to list of possible values to pg_default_acl.defaclobjtype
This was missed in commit ab89e465cb20; backpatch to v10.

Author: Fabien Coelho <coelho@cri.ensmp.fr>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/alpine.DEB.2.21.1807302243001.13230@lancre
2018-08-03 16:45:08 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera 416db2412b Fix pg_replication_slot example output
The example output of pg_replication_slot is wrong.  Correct it and make
the output stable by explicitly listing columns to output.

Author: Kyotaro Horiguchi <horiguchi.kyotaro@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180731.190909.42582169.horiguchi.kyotaro@lab.ntt.co.jp
2018-08-03 16:34:59 -04:00
Tom Lane e3f99e03e2 Fix libpq's code for searching .pgpass; rationalize empty-list-item cases.
Before v10, we always searched ~/.pgpass using the host parameter,
and nothing else, to match to the "hostname" field of ~/.pgpass.
(However, null host or host matching DEFAULT_PGSOCKET_DIR was replaced by
"localhost".)  In v10, this got broken by commit 274bb2b38, repaired by
commit bdac9836d, and broken again by commit 7b02ba62e; in the code
actually shipped, we'd search with hostaddr if both that and host were
specified --- though oddly, *not* if only hostaddr were specified.
Since this is directly contrary to the documentation, and not
backwards-compatible, it's clearly a bug.

However, the change wasn't totally without justification, even though it
wasn't done quite right, because the pre-v10 behavior has arguably been
buggy since we added hostaddr.  If hostaddr is specified and host isn't,
the pre-v10 code will search ~/.pgpass for "localhost", and ship that
password off to a server that most likely isn't local at all.  That's
unhelpful at best, and could be a security breach at worst.

Therefore, rather than just revert to that old behavior, let's define
the behavior as "search with host if provided, else with hostaddr if
provided, else search for localhost".  (As before, a host name matching
DEFAULT_PGSOCKET_DIR is replaced by localhost.)  This matches the
behavior of the actual connection code, so that we don't pick up an
inappropriate password; and it allows useful searches to happen when
only hostaddr is given.

While we're messing around here, ensure that empty elements within a
host or hostaddr list select the same behavior as a totally-empty
field would; for instance "host=a,,b" is equivalent to "host=a,/tmp,b"
if DEFAULT_PGSOCKET_DIR is /tmp.  Things worked that way in some cases
already, but not consistently so, which contributed to the confusion
about what key ~/.pgpass would get searched with.

Update documentation accordingly, and also clarify some nearby text.

Back-patch to v10 where the host/hostaddr list functionality was
introduced.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/30805.1532749137@sss.pgh.pa.us
2018-08-01 12:30:36 -04:00
Robert Haas e80f2b335e Update parallel.sgml for Parallel Append
Patch by me, reviewed by Thomas Munro, in response to a complaint
from Adrien Nayrat.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/baa0d036-7349-f722-ef88-2d8bb3413045@anayrat.info
2018-08-01 08:14:05 -04:00
Andrew Gierth df163230b9 Provide for contrib and pgxs modules to install include files.
This allows out-of-tree PLs and similar code to get access to
definitions needed to work with extension data types.

The following existing modules now install headers: contrib/cube,
contrib/hstore, contrib/isn, contrib/ltree, contrib/seg.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/87y3euomjh.fsf%40news-spur.riddles.org.uk
2018-07-31 20:07:39 +01:00
Andrew Dunstan ed0cfde2e7 Remove SGMLism from commit 2d36a5e9da 2018-07-31 08:16:30 -04:00
Andrew Dunstan 2d36a5e9da Provide a log_level setting for auto_explain
Up to now the log level has been hardcoded at LOG. A new
auto_explain.log_level setting allows that to be modified.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAPPfruyZh+snR2AdmutrA0B_caj=yWZkLqxUTZYNjJCaQ_wKQg@mail.gmail.com

Tom Dunstan and Andrew Dunstan
Reviewed by Daniel Gustafsson
2018-07-31 08:03:57 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 70de0abdb7 doc: Improve CREATE COLLATION locking documentation
Move out of the concurrency control chapter, where mostly only user
table locks are discussed, and move to CREATE COLLATION reference page.

Author: Amit Langote <Langote_Amit_f8@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Author: Kyotaro HORIGUCHI <horiguchi.kyotaro@lab.ntt.co.jp>
2018-07-30 22:09:48 +02:00
Tom Lane 9295d7cf50 Doc: fix oversimplified example for CREATE POLICY.
As written, this policy constrained only the post-image not the pre-image
of rows, meaning that users could delete other users' rows or take
ownership of such rows, contrary to what the docs claimed would happen.
We need two separate policies to achieve the documented effect.

While at it, try to explain what's happening a bit more fully.

Per report from Олег Самойлов.  Back-patch to 9.5 where this was added.
Thanks to Stephen Frost for off-list discussion.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3298321532002010@sas1-2b3c3045b736.qloud-c.yandex.net
2018-07-30 11:54:41 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 98efa76fe3 Add ssl_library preset parameter
This allows querying the SSL implementation used on the server side.
It's analogous to using PQsslAttribute(conn, "library") in libpq.

Reviewed-by: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
2018-07-30 13:46:27 +02:00
Noah Misch e09144e6ce Document security implications of qualified names.
Commit 5770172cb0 documented secure schema
usage, and that advice suffices for using unqualified names securely.
Document, in typeconv-func primarily, the additional issues that arise
with qualified names.  Back-patch to 9.3 (all supported versions).

Reviewed by Jonathan S. Katz.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180721012446.GA1840594@rfd.leadboat.com
2018-07-28 20:08:01 -07:00
Tomas Vondra 167075be3a Add strict_multi_assignment and too_many_rows plpgsql checks
Until now shadowed_variables was the only plpgsql check supported by
plpgsql.extra_warnings and plpgsql.extra_errors.  This patch introduces
two new checks - strict_multi_assignment and too_many_rows.  Unlike
shadowed_variables, these new checks are enforced at run-time.

strict_multi_assignment checks that commands allowing multi-assignment
(for example SELECT INTO) have the same number of sources and targets.
too_many_rows checks that queries with an INTO clause return one row
exactly.

These checks are aimed at cases that are technically valid and allowed,
but are often a sign of a bug.  Therefore those checks are expected to
be enabled primarily in development and testing environments.

Author: Pavel Stehule
Reviewed-by: Stephen Frost, Tomas Vondra
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CAFj8pRA2kKRDKpUNwLY0GeG1OqOp+tLS2yQA1V41gzuSz-hCng@mail.gmail.com
2018-07-25 01:46:32 +02:00
Andres Freund 487bcc6ea6 doc: Fix reference to "decoder" to instead be the correct "output plugin".
Author: Jonathan Katz
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/DD02DD86-5989-4BFD-8712-468541F68383@postgresql.org
Backpatch: 9.4-, where logical decoding was added
2018-07-24 10:42:59 -07:00
Peter Eisentraut fb421231da psql: Add option for procedures to \df 2018-07-24 11:38:53 +02:00
Andres Freund 013f320dc3 Mop-up for 3522d0eaba, which missed some alternative output files. 2018-07-22 17:39:02 -07:00
Andres Freund 86eaf208ea Hand code string to integer conversion for performance.
As benchmarks show, using libc's string-to-integer conversion is
pretty slow. At least part of the reason for that is that strtol[l]
have to be more generic than what largely is required inside pg.

This patch considerably speeds up int2/int4 input (int8 already was
already using hand-rolled code).

Most of the existing pg_atoi callers have been converted. But as one
requires pg_atoi's custom delimiter functionality, and as it seems
likely that there's external pg_atoi users, it seems sensible to just
keep pg_atoi around.

Author: Andres Freund
Reviewed-By: Robert Haas
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20171208214437.qgn6zdltyq5hmjpk@alap3.anarazel.de
2018-07-22 14:58:23 -07:00
Andres Freund 3522d0eaba Deduplicate "invalid input syntax" messages for various types.
Previously a lot of the error messages referenced the type in the
error message itself. That requires that the message is translated
separately for each type.

Note that currently a few smallint cases continue to reference the
integer, rather than smallint, type. A later patch will create a
separate routine for 16bit input.

Author: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180707200158.wpqkd7rjr4jxq5g7@alap3.anarazel.de
2018-07-22 14:58:01 -07:00
Heikki Linnakangas 5220bb7533 Expand run-time partition pruning to work with MergeAppend
This expands the support for the run-time partition pruning which was added
for Append in 499be013de to also allow unneeded subnodes of a MergeAppend
to be removed.

Author: David Rowley
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAKJS1f_F_V8D7Wu-HVdnH7zCUxhoGK8XhLLtd%3DCu85qDZzXrgg%40mail.gmail.com
2018-07-19 13:49:43 +03:00
Tom Lane 701fd0bbc9 Drop the rule against included index columns duplicating key columns.
The initial version of the included-index-column feature stated that
included columns couldn't be the same as any key column of the index.
While it'd be pretty silly to do that, since the included column would be
entirely redundant, we've never prohibited redundant index columns before
so it's not very consistent to do so here.  Moreover, the prohibition
was itself badly implemented, so that it failed to reject columns that
were effectively identical but not spelled quite alike, as reported by
Aditya Toshniwal.

(Moreover, it's not hard to imagine that for some non-btree index types,
such cases would be non-silly anyhow: the index might use a lossy
representation for key columns but be able to support retrieval of the
original form of included columns.)

Hence, let's just drop the prohibition.

In passing, do some copy-editing on the documentation for the
included-column feature.

Yugo Nagata; documentation and test corrections by me

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAM9w-_mhBCys4fQNfaiQKTRrVWtoFrZ-wXmDuE9Nj5y-Y7aDKQ@mail.gmail.com
2018-07-18 14:43:03 -04:00
Heikki Linnakangas 6b387179ba Fix misc typos, mostly in comments.
A collection of typos I happened to spot while reading code, as well as
grepping for common mistakes.

Backpatch to all supported versions, as applicable, to avoid conflicts
when backporting other commits in the future.
2018-07-18 16:17:32 +03:00
Alvaro Herrera c6736ff760 doc: move PARTITION OF stanza to just below PARTITION BY
It's more logical this way, since the new ordering matches the way the
tables are created; but in any case, the previous location of PARTITION OF
did not appear carefully chosen anyway (since it didn't match the
location in which it appears in the synopsys either, which is what we
normally do.)

In the PARTITION BY stanza, add a link to the partitioning section in
the DDL chapter, too.

Suggested-by: David G. Johnston
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAKFQuwY4Ld7ecxL_KAmaxwt0FUu5VcPPN2L4dh+3BeYbrdBa5g@mail.gmail.com
2018-07-17 00:54:34 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut f7cb2842bf Add plan_cache_mode setting
This allows overriding the choice of custom or generic plan.

Author: Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CAFj8pRAGLaiEm8ur5DWEBo7qHRWTk9HxkuUAz00CZZtJj-LkCA%40mail.gmail.com
2018-07-16 13:35:41 +02:00
Peter Eisentraut a06e56b247 doc: Update redirecting links
Update links that resulted in redirects.  Most are changes from http to
https, but there are also some other minor edits.  (There are still some
redirects where the target URL looks less elegant than the one we
currently have.  I have left those as is.)
2018-07-16 10:48:05 +02:00
Tom Lane 28a1ae5342 Fix crash in contrib/ltree's lca() function for empty input array.
lca_inner() wasn't prepared for the possibility of getting no inputs.
Fix that, and make some cosmetic improvements to the code while at it.

Also, I thought the documentation of this function as returning the
"longest common prefix" of the paths was entirely misleading; it really
returns a path one shorter than the longest common prefix, for the typical
definition of "prefix".  Don't use that term in the docs, and adjust the
examples to clarify what really happens.

This has been broken since its beginning, so back-patch to all supported
branches.

Per report from Hailong Li.  Thanks to Pierre Ducroquet for diagnosing
and for the initial patch, though I whacked it around some and added
test cases.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/5b0d8e4f-f2a3-1305-d612-e00e35a7be66@qunar.com
2018-07-13 18:45:30 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 333224c99e Update documentation editor setup instructions
Now that the documentation sources are in XML rather than SGML, some of
the documentation about the editor, or more specifically Emacs, setup
needs updating.  The updated instructions recommend using nxml-mode,
which works mostly out of the box, with some small tweaks in
emacs.samples and .dir-locals.el.

Also remove some obsolete stuff in .dir-locals.el.  I did, however,
leave the sgml-mode settings in there so that someone using Emacs
without emacs.samples gets those settings when editing a *.sgml file.
2018-07-13 21:23:41 +02:00
Bruce Momjian 394811501c docs: Remove "New" description of the libpqxx interface
Backpatch-through: 9.3
2018-07-13 11:16:56 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 3884072329 Prohibit transaction commands in security definer procedures
Starting and aborting transactions in security definer procedures
doesn't work.  StartTransaction() insists that the security context
stack is empty, so this would currently cause a crash, and
AbortTransaction() resets it.  This could be made to work by
reorganizing the code, but right now we just prohibit it.

Reported-by: amul sul <sulamul@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CAAJ_b96Gupt_LFL7uNyy3c50-wbhA68NUjiK5%3DrF6_w%3Dpq_T%3DQ%40mail.gmail.com
2018-07-13 10:41:32 +02:00
Peter Eisentraut 1f4ec89459 Remove obsolete documentation build tools for Windows
The scripts and instructions have been nonfunctional at least since
PostgreSQL 10 (commit 510074f9f0) and
nobody has stepped up to fix them.  So right now just remove them until
someone wants to resurrect them.

Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/B74C0219-6BA9-46E1-A524-5B9E8CD3BDB3%40yesql.se
2018-07-13 10:01:04 +02:00
Thomas Munro 387a5cfb94 Add pg_dump --on-conflict-do-nothing option.
When dumping INSERT statements, optionally add ON CONFLICT DO NOTHING.

Author: Surafel Temesgen
Reviewed-by: Takeshi Ideriha, Nico Williams, Dilip Kumar
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CALAY4q-PQ9cOEzs2%2BQHK5ObfF_4QbmBaYXbZx6BGGN66Q-n8FA%40mail.gmail.com
2018-07-13 13:57:03 +12:00
Tom Lane 632b4ae92d Doc: minor improvement in pl/pgsql FETCH/MOVE documentation.
Explain that you can use any integer expression for the "count" in
pl/pgsql's versions of FETCH/MOVE, unlike the SQL versions which only
allow a constant.

Remove the duplicate version of this para under MOVE.  I don't see
a good reason to maintain two identical paras when we just said that
MOVE works exactly like FETCH.

Per Pavel Stehule, though I didn't use his text.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAFj8pRAcvSXcNdUGx43bOK1e3NNPbQny7neoTLN42af+8MYWEA@mail.gmail.com
2018-07-12 12:29:03 -04:00
Tom Lane 11a3aeeb5e Doc: clarify release note text about v11's new window function features.
Jonathan S. Katz

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/30468663-E67D-4753-8269-7E6A4001A281@excoventures.com
2018-07-12 11:13:41 -04:00
Tom Lane e0cd0ea4f9 Doc: update documentation for requirement of ORDER BY in GROUPS mode.
Commit ff4f88916 adjusted the code to enforce the SQL spec's requirement
that a window using GROUPS mode must have an ORDER BY clause.  But I missed
that the documentation explicitly said you didn't have to have one.

Also minor wordsmithing in the window-function section of select.sgml.

Per Masahiko Sawada, though I didn't use his patch.
2018-07-12 11:10:24 -04:00
Michael Paquier 56a7147213 Block replication slot advance for these not yet reserving WAL
Such replication slots are physical slots freshly created without WAL
being reserved, which is the default behavior, which have not been used
yet as WAL consumption resources to retain WAL.  This prevents advancing
a slot to a position older than any WAL available, which could falsify
calculations for WAL segment recycling.

This also cleans up a bit the code, as ReplicationSlotRelease() would be
called on ERROR, and improves error messages.

Reported-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi
Author: Michael Paquier
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund, Álvaro Herrera, Kyotaro Horiguchi
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180626071305.GH31353@paquier.xyz
2018-07-11 08:56:24 +09:00
Peter Eisentraut bcbd940806 Remove dynamic_shared_memory_type=none
PostgreSQL nowadays offers some kind of dynamic shared memory feature on
all supported platforms.  Having the choice of "none" prevents us from
relying on DSM in core features.  So this patch removes the choice of
"none".

Author: Kyotaro Horiguchi <horiguchi.kyotaro@lab.ntt.co.jp>
2018-07-10 18:35:24 +02:00
Michael Paquier 8a00b96aa9 Add pg_rewind --no-sync
This is an option consistent with what pg_dump and pg_basebackup provide
which is useful for leveraging the I/O effort when testing things, not
to be used in a production environment.

Author: Michael Paquier
Reviewed-by: Heikki Linnakangas
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180325122607.GB3707@paquier.xyz
2018-07-10 08:51:10 +09:00
Bruce Momjian 6abad00585 rel notes: mention enabling of parallelism in PG 10
Reported-by: Justin Pryzby

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180525010025.GT30060@telsasoft.com

Backpatch-through: 10
2018-07-09 11:19:18 -04:00
Michael Paquier cccf81d259 Fix table format in documentation for I/O wait events
This is an oversight from c55de5e.

Author: Julien Rouhaud
2018-07-09 10:46:27 +09:00
Jeff Davis a45adc747e Fix WITH CHECK OPTION on views referencing postgres_fdw tables.
If a view references a foreign table, and the foreign table has a
BEFORE INSERT trigger, then it's possible for a tuple inserted or
updated through the view to be changed such that it violates the
view's WITH CHECK OPTION constraint.

Before this commit, postgres_fdw handled this case inconsistently. A
RETURNING clause on the INSERT or UPDATE statement targeting the view
would cause the finally-inserted tuple to be read back, and the WITH
CHECK OPTION violation would throw an error. But without a RETURNING
clause, postgres_fdw would not read the final tuple back, and WITH
CHECK OPTION would not throw an error for the violation (or may throw
an error when there is no real violation). AFTER ROW triggers on the
foreign table had a similar effect as a RETURNING clause on the INSERT
or UPDATE statement.

To fix, this commit retrieves the attributes needed to enforce the
WITH CHECK OPTION constraint along with the attributes needed for the
RETURNING clause (if any) from the remote side. Thus, the WITH CHECK
OPTION constraint is always evaluated against the final tuple after
any triggers on the remote side.

This fix may be considered inconsistent with CHECK constraints
declared on foreign tables, which are not enforced locally at all
(because the constraint is on a remote object). The discussion
concluded that this difference is reasonable, because the WITH CHECK
OPTION is a constraint on the local view (not any remote object);
therefore it only makes sense to enforce its WITH CHECK OPTION
constraint locally.

Author: Etsuro Fujita
Reviewed-by: Arthur Zakirov, Stephen Frost
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/7eb58fab-fd3b-781b-ac33-f7cfec96021f%40lab.ntt.co.jp
2018-07-08 16:53:36 -07:00
Michael Paquier eb270b00b2 Add note in pg_rewind documentation about read-only files
When performing pg_rewind, the presence of a read-only file which is not
accessible for writes will cause a failure while processing.  This can
cause the control file of the target data folder to be truncated,
causing it to not be reusable with a successive run.

Also, when pg_rewind fails mid-flight, there is likely no way to be able
to recover the target data folder anyway, in which case a new base
backup is the best option.  A note is added in the documentation as
well about.

Reported-by: Christian H.
Author: Michael Paquier
Reviewed-by: Andrew Dunstan
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180104200633.17004.16377%40wrigleys.postgresql.org
2018-07-07 08:10:10 +09:00
Peter Eisentraut 0c06534bd6 doc: Reword old inheritance partitioning documentation
Prefer to use phrases like "child" instead of "partition" when
describing the legacy inheritance-based partitioning.  The word
"partition" now has a fixed meaning for the built-in partitioning, so
keeping it out of the documentation of the old method makes things
clearer.

Author: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
2018-07-05 23:08:56 +02:00
Peter Eisentraut 17411e0ffa doc: Fix typos
Author: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
2018-07-05 22:52:57 +02:00
Peter Eisentraut b46727e07a doc: Reorganize CREATE TABLE / LIKE option documentation
This section once started out small but has now grown quite a bit and
needs a bit of structure.

Rewrite as list, add documentation of EXCLUDING, and improve the
documentation of INCLUDING ALL instead of just listing all the options
again.

per report from Yugo Nagata that EXCLUDING was not documented, that part
reviewed by Daniel Gustafsson, most of the rewrite was by me
2018-07-04 10:45:15 +02:00
Michael Paquier c55de5e512 Add wait event for fsync of WAL segments
This has been visibly a forgotten spot in the first implementation of
wait events for I/O added by 249cf07, and what has been missing is a
fsync call for WAL segments which is a wrapper reacting on the value of
GUC wal_sync_method.

Reported-by: Konstantin Knizhnik
Author: Konstantin Knizhnik
Reviewed-by: Craig Ringer, Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/4a243897-0ad8-f471-aa40-242591f2476e@postgrespro.ru
2018-07-02 22:19:46 +09:00
Peter Eisentraut 7bdea62635 Fix libpq example programs
When these programs call pg_catalog.set_config, they need to check for
PGRES_TUPLES_OK instead of PGRES_COMMAND_OK.  Fix for
5770172cb0.

Reported-by: Ideriha, Takeshi <ideriha.takeshi@jp.fujitsu.com>
2018-07-01 14:06:40 +02:00
Andrew Dunstan feced1387f Stamp HEAD as 12devel
Let the hacking begin ...
2018-06-30 12:47:59 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut f7481d2c3c Documentation spell checking and markup improvements 2018-06-29 21:26:41 +02:00
Peter Eisentraut 539f32bdd6 doc: Replace non-ASCII lines in psql example output 2018-06-29 21:23:23 +02:00
Michael Paquier dad335b89f Replace search.cpan.org with metacpan.org
search.cpan.org has been EOL'd, with metacpan.org being the official
replacement to which URLs now redirect.  Update links to match the new
URL. Also update links to CPAN to use https as it will redirect from
http.

Author: Daniel Gustafsson
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/B74C0219-6BA9-46E1-A524-5B9E8CD3BDB3@yesql.se
2018-06-29 22:02:20 +09:00
Michael Paquier dad5f8a3d5 Make capitalization of term "OpenSSL" more consistent
This includes code comments and documentation.  No backpatch as this is
cosmetic even if there are documentation changes which are user-facing.

Author: Daniel Gustafsson
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/BB89928E-2BC7-489E-A5E4-6D204B3954CF@yesql.se
2018-06-29 09:45:44 +09:00
Peter Eisentraut ae5ed75ed4 doc: Improve wording and fix whitespace 2018-06-27 07:51:20 +02:00
Peter Eisentraut c9d6a45724 doc: Document some nuances of logical replication of TRUNCATE 2018-06-27 07:40:18 +02:00
Alexander Korotkov 4d54543efa Fix upper limit for vacuum_cleanup_index_scale_factor
6ca33a88 sets upper limit for vacuum_cleanup_index_scale_factor to
DBL_MAX.  DBL_MAX appears to be platform-dependent. That causes
many buildfarm animals to fail, because we check boundaries of
vacuum_cleanup_index_scale_factor in regression tests.

This commit changes upper limit from DBL_MAX to just "large enough"
limit, which was arbitrary selected as 1e10.

Author: Alexander Korotkov
Reported-by: Tom Lane, Darafei Praliaskouski
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAPpHfdvewmr4PcpRjrkstoNn1n2_6dL-iHRB21CCfZ0efZdBTg%40mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAC8Q8tLYFOpKNaPS_E7V8KtPdE%3D_TnAn16t%3DA3LuL%3DXjfOO-BQ%40mail.gmail.com
2018-06-26 21:55:59 +03:00
Bruce Momjian a89357e2f7 |--- gitweb/email subject limit -----------------|-------------|
doc:  PG 11 relnotes: remove channel binding from major features

Also move to the source code section, and expand the paragraph
2018-06-26 14:31:57 -04:00
Fujii Masao bbbbc2f8f3 Fix documentation bug related to backup history file.
The backup history file has been no longer necessary for recovery
since the version 9.0. It's now basically just for informational purpose.
But previously the documentations still described that a recovery
requests the backup history file to proceed. The commit fixes this
documentation bug.

Back-patch to all supported versions.

Author: Yugo Nagata
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180626174752.0ce505e3.nagata@sraoss.co.jp
2018-06-27 00:45:21 +09:00
Alexander Korotkov 6ca33a885b Increase upper limit for vacuum_cleanup_index_scale_factor
Upper limits for vacuum_cleanup_index_scale_factor GUC and reloption
were initially set to 100.0 in 857f9c36.  However, after further
discussion, it appears that some users like to disable B-tree cleanup
index scan completely (assuming there are no deleted pages).

vacuum_cleanup_index_scale_factor is used barely to protect against
stalled index statistics.  And after detailed consideration it appears
that risk of stalled index statistics is low.  And it would be nice to
allow advanced users setting higher values of
vacuum_cleanup_index_scale_factor.  So, set upper limit for these
GUC and reloption to DBL_MAX.

Author: Alexander Korotkov
Reviewed-by: Masahiko Sawada
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAC8Q8tJCb%3DgxhzcV7T6ctx7PY-Ux1oA-AsTJc6cAVNsQiYcCzA%40mail.gmail.com
2018-06-26 15:00:51 +03:00
Michael Paquier c672d709b0 Fix description and documentation related to pg_restore --no-comments
These descriptions have been referring to object dump, but a restore
operation is done.

Reported-by: Andrey Lizenko
Author: Andrey Lizenko
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/152992021588.1268.16786093506650391435@wrigleys.postgresql.org
2018-06-26 14:57:53 +09:00
Alvaro Herrera 1d4e5edc1d Stamp 11beta2. 2018-06-25 11:09:49 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 370e68ae1c doc: adjust order of NUMERIC arguments to match syntax
Specifically, mention precision before scale

Reported-by: claytonjsalem@gmail.com

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/152967566691.1268.1062965601465200209@wrigleys.postgresql.org

Backpatch-through: 9.3
2018-06-24 18:07:00 -04:00
Bruce Momjian b6e94b820a doc: show how interval's 3 unit buckets behave using EXTRACT()
This clarifies when justify_days() and justify_hours() are useful.
Paragraph moved too.

Reported-by: vodevsh@gmail.com

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/152698651482.26744.15456677499485530703@wrigleys.postgresql.org

Backpatch-through: 9.3
2018-06-23 23:32:42 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 2d502b8128 doc: update PG 11 release notes, mostly typo fixes
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAJnrtny0mYCMoRanZ1wvGqcPV-UDBoPetavDM1SqxnGVfZRV3g@mail.gmail.com

Author: Brad DeJong
2018-06-23 17:15:34 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 21c1f0c607 doc: mention use of cross platform logical replication
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAJrrPGfdknoqZcMipPy8XnH3hO3uRic6JTD=jv35oj1DWqL07g@mail.gmail.com

Author: Haribabu Kommi
2018-06-23 16:35:25 -04:00
Alexander Korotkov 9a994e37e0 Fixes for vacuum_cleanup_index_scale_factor GUC option
vacuum_cleanup_index_scale_factor was located in autovacuum group of
GUCs.  However, it affects not only autovacuum, but also manually run
VACUUM.  It appears that "client connection defaults" group of GUCs
is more appropriate for vacuum_cleanup_index_scale_factor, because
vacuum_*_age options are already located there.

Also, vacuum_cleanup_index_scale_factor was missed in
postgresql.conf.sample.  So, add it there with appropriate comment.

Author: Masahiko Sawada with minor editorization by me
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAD21AoArsoXMLKudXSKN679FRzs6oubEchM53bHwn8Tp%3D2boNg%40mail.gmail.com
2018-06-22 12:26:21 +03:00
Alvaro Herrera c7048977a7 Disclaim support for default namespace in XMLTABLE
Pavel Stehule's original patch had support for default namespace, but I
ripped it out before commit -- hence the docs were correct when written,
and I broke them by omission :-(.  Remove the offending phrase.

Author: Daniel Gustafsson
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1550C5E5-FC70-4493-A226-AA137D831E8D@yesql.se
2018-06-21 17:01:10 -04:00
Alexander Korotkov bee6a683a5 Improve wording of release notes item
PostgreSQL 11 introduces compress method for SP-GiST opclasses.  That
was mistakenly interpreted as compression support for SP-GiST while
actually that allows lossy representation of leaf keys.

Author: Alexander Korotkov, based on proposal by Darafei Praliaskouski
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAC8Q8tKbYmNdiyWr7hE4GfMY4fbqHKkFziKgrUuWHH6HJQs3og%40mail.gmail.com
2018-06-21 15:49:19 +03:00
Magnus Hagander 74cfbc8efd Fix typo
Reported using the website comment form
2018-06-20 16:06:03 +02:00
Magnus Hagander d9443d9608 Fix a number of typos
Author: Liudmila Mantrova <l.mantrova@postgrespro.ru>
2018-06-20 16:01:18 +02:00
Magnus Hagander 741ee9dc81 Support long option for --pgdata in pg_verify_checksums
Author: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
2018-06-20 14:33:48 +02:00
Magnus Hagander d73300a286 Document the -D and $PGDATA switch/env for pg_verify_checksums
Author: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
2018-06-20 14:32:51 +02:00
Magnus Hagander b92ef305c3 Move pg_verify_checksum docs to Server utils
Author: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
2018-06-20 14:28:56 +02:00
Michael Paquier 1c7c317cd9 Clarify use of temporary tables within partition trees
Since their introduction, partition trees have been a bit lossy
regarding temporary relations.  Inheritance trees respect the following
patterns:
1) a child relation can be temporary if the parent is permanent.
2) a child relation can be temporary if the parent is temporary.
3) a child relation cannot be permanent if the parent is temporary.
4) The use of temporary relations also imply that when both parent and
child need to be from the same sessions.

Partitions share many similar patterns with inheritance, however the
handling of the partition bounds make the situation a bit tricky for
case 1) as the partition code bases a lot of its lookup code upon
PartitionDesc which does not really look after relpersistence.  This
causes for example a temporary partition created by session A to be
visible by another session B, preventing this session B to create an
extra partition which overlaps with the temporary one created by A with
a non-intuitive error message.  There could be use-cases where mixing
permanent partitioned tables with temporary partitions make sense, but
that would be a new feature.  Partitions respect 2), 3) and 4) already.

It is a bit depressing to see those error checks happening in
MergeAttributes() whose purpose is different, but that's left as future
refactoring work.

Back-patch down to 10, which is where partitioning has been introduced,
except that default partitions do not apply there.  Documentation also
includes limitations related to the use of temporary tables with
partition trees.

Reported-by: David Rowley
Author: Amit Langote, Michael Paquier
Reviewed-by: Ashutosh Bapat, Amit Langote, Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAKJS1f94Ojk0og9GMkRHGt8wHTW=ijq5KzJKuoBoqWLwSVwGmw@mail.gmail.com
2018-06-20 10:42:25 +09:00
Bruce Momjian 87a19eb9bf doc: explain use of json_populate_record{set}()
The set-returning nature of these functions make their use unclear. The
modified paragraph was added in PG 9.4.

Reported-by: yshaladi@denodo.com

Discussion:  https://postgr.es/m/152571684246.9460.18059951267371255159@wrigleys.postgresql.org

Backpatch-through: 9.4
2018-06-19 13:43:40 -04:00
Alexander Korotkov fb6accd27b Fix typos in release notes
Author: Daniel Gustafsson
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/8E8CF1F8-BCB2-4D86-A059-4BF5138F6D87%40yesql.se
2018-06-19 18:32:20 +03:00
Tom Lane b97a3465d7 Consider syntactic form when disambiguating function vs column reference.
Postgres has traditionally considered the syntactic forms f(x) and x.f
to be equivalent, allowing tricks such as writing a function and then
using it as though it were a computed-on-demand column.  However, our
behavior when both interpretations are feasible left something to be
desired: we always chose the column interpretation.  This could lead
to very surprising results, as in a recent bug report from Neil Conway.
It also created a dump-and-reload hazard, since what was a function
call in a dumped view could get interpreted as a column reference
at reload, if a matching column name had been added to the underlying
table since the view was created.

What seems better, in ambiguous situations, is to prefer the choice
matching the syntactic form of the reference.  This seems much less
astonishing in general, and it fixes the dump/reload hazard.

Although this could be called a bug fix, there have been few complaints
and there's some small risk of breaking applications that depend on the
old behavior, so no back-patch.  It does seem reasonable to slip it
into v11, though.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAOW5sYa3Wp7KozCuzjOdw6PiOYPi6D=VvRybtH2S=2C0SVmRmA@mail.gmail.com
2018-06-18 11:39:33 -04:00
Thomas Munro 4c8156d871 Add PGTYPESchar_free() to avoid cross-module problems on Windows.
On Windows, it is sometimes important for corresponding malloc() and
free() calls to be made from the same DLL, since some build options can
result in multiple allocators being active at the same time.  For that
reason we already provided PQfreemem().  This commit adds a similar
function for freeing string results allocated by the pgtypes library.

Author: Takayuki Tsunakawa
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/0A3221C70F24FB45833433255569204D1F8AD5D6%40G01JPEXMBYT05
2018-06-18 18:33:53 +12:00
Peter Geoghegan 514d4a1338 Remove INCLUDE attributes section from docs.
Discussing covering indexes in a chapter that is mostly about the
behavior of B-Tree operator classes is unnecessary.  The CREATE INDEX
documentation's handling of covering indexes seems sufficient.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-WzmpU=L_6VjhhOAMfoyHLr-pZd1kDc+jpa3c3a8EOmtcXA@mail.gmail.com
2018-06-16 15:28:50 -07:00
Alexander Korotkov e146e4d02d Documentation improvement for pg_trgm
Documentation of word_similarity() and strict_word_similarity() functions
contains some vague wordings which could confuse users.  This patch makes
those wordings more clear.  word_similarity() was introduced in PostgreSQL 9.6,
and corresponding part of documentation needs to be backpatched.

Author: Bruce Momjian, Alexander Korotkov
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180526165648.GB12510%40momjian.us
Backpatch: 9.6, where word_similarity() was introduced
2018-06-13 18:23:00 +03:00
Peter Eisentraut b5d099f82a doc: Replace non-ASCII lines in psql example output
We normally use the default line mode in examples.
2018-06-12 08:19:52 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 8f6c94272c doc: Suggest logical replication more prominently for upgrading
The previous wording suggested only Slony, and there are more options
available.
2018-06-11 21:34:32 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 387543f7bd Make new error code name match SQL standard more closely
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/dff3d555-bea4-ac24-29b2-29521b9d08e8%402ndquadrant.com
2018-06-11 11:15:28 -04:00
Michael Paquier d61bfdda8c Fix grammar in documentation related to checkpoint_flush_after
Reported-by: Christopher Jones
2018-06-11 09:54:25 +09:00
Michael Paquier c83e202990 Fix grammar in REVOKE documentation
Reported-by: Erwin Brandstetter
2018-06-10 22:44:17 +09:00
Peter Eisentraut 5efbdd36f1 doc: Move some new options into better positions on man pages 2018-06-07 23:36:04 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 3b9b7516f4 ecpg: Document new compatibility option
It's listed in --help, so it should be listed in the man page as well.
2018-06-07 23:33:24 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 4d6a854f17 Put new command-line options into alphabetical order 2018-06-04 15:03:15 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera 12b9affb32 Tweak partitioning documentation wording
For clarity, precision, grammar.

Author: Justin Pryzby
Reviewed-by: Amit Langote, Álvaro Herrera
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180523213513.GM30060@telsasoft.com
2018-06-01 14:54:43 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera d3b10f0d64 Fix grammar
Reported-by: Pavlo Golub
Author: Michaël Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/152741547.20180530101229@cybertec.at
2018-05-30 14:11:42 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 6a75b58065 doc: mark 'replaceable' parameter for backup program listing
Reported-by: Liudmila Mantrova

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/f3e2c0f5-5266-d626-58d7-b77e1b29d870@postgrespro.ru

Author: Liudmila Mantrova

Backpatch-through: 9.3
2018-05-28 14:19:45 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 99164e6952 doc: adjust DECLARE docs to mention FOR UPDATE behavior
Reported-by: Peter Eisentraut

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/8dc63ba7-dc56-fc7c-fc16-4fae03e3bfe6@2ndquadrant.com

Author: Peter Eisentraut, Tom Lane, me

Backpatch-through: 9.3
2018-05-28 13:16:02 -04:00
Magnus Hagander 7019c21c1b Remove incorrect statement about IPC configuration on OpenBSD
kern.ipc.shm_use_phys is not a sysctl on OpenBSD, and SEMMAP is not
a kernel configuration option. These were probably copy pasteos from
when the documentation had a single paragraph for *BSD.

Author: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
2018-05-25 13:59:50 +02:00
Bruce Momjian 0c7e6b791a doc: PG 11 rel notes: add PL/pgSQL composite DDL item
Reported-by: Tom Lane
2018-05-23 22:06:31 -04:00
Bruce Momjian e41c2b057f doc: PG 11 release notes fix for pg_dump --create, author 2018-05-22 22:39:48 -04:00
Bruce Momjian fd287b4669 doc: PG 11 release notes, add third author 2018-05-22 21:42:25 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 9490c2da28 doc: PG 11 release note fixes: PGhost, typo 2018-05-22 21:40:55 -04:00
Tom Lane 586e4e6df5 Stamp 11beta1. 2018-05-21 17:08:10 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut ca797f5c04 doc: Use = after long options in documentation
It's good for consistency and makes the examples easier to read.
2018-05-21 14:54:24 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut f037de6aeb doc: Fix some trailing whitespace 2018-05-21 14:49:53 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 477d243b0f doc: Whitespace fixes in man pages 2018-05-21 14:43:24 -04:00
Tom Lane 4aad161c9a Doc: preliminary list of PG11 major features.
This might get bike-shedded a bit later, but it's better than shipping
beta1 with no list.

Jonathan Katz

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/D73971C5-8277-44F2-95D9-C0B6E46EB55B@postgresql.org
2018-05-21 12:37:12 -04:00
Andrew Gierth 1da162e1f5 Fix SQL:2008 FETCH FIRST syntax to allow parameters.
OFFSET <x> ROWS FETCH FIRST <y> ROWS ONLY syntax is supposed to accept
<simple value specification>, which includes parameters as well as
literals. When this syntax was added all those years ago, it was done
inconsistently, with <x> and <y> being different subsets of the
standard syntax.

Rectify that by making <x> and <y> accept the same thing, and allowing
either a (signed) numeric literal or a c_expr there, which allows for
parameters, variables, and parenthesized arbitrary expressions.

Per bug #15200 from Lukas Eder.

Backpatch all the way, since this has been broken from the start.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/877enz476l.fsf@news-spur.riddles.org.uk
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/152647780335.27204.16895288237122418685@wrigleys.postgresql.org
2018-05-21 17:27:08 +01:00
Peter Eisentraut 806d08c048 Update key words table for version 11 2018-05-21 12:14:46 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 17485552ec doc: Fix some whitespace issues 2018-05-21 11:42:43 -04:00
Tom Lane f755a152d4 Improve spelling of new FINALFUNC_MODIFY aggregate attribute.
I'd used SHARABLE as a value originally, but Peter Eisentraut points out
that dictionaries agree that SHAREABLE is the preferred spelling.
Run around and change that before it's too late.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/d2e1afd4-659c-50d6-1b20-7cfd3675e909@2ndquadrant.com
2018-05-21 11:41:42 -04:00
Tom Lane 3f5e3a9844 Doc: fix bogus cross-reference link.
An xref to a <para>'s ID isn't very helpful because paras don't have
names.  This causes a warning while building PDFs, though for some
reason not while building HTML.  The link arguably went to the wrong
place, too.

To fix, introduce a sub-section we can reference.
2018-05-21 11:21:08 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 3ce7f72529 pg_basebackup: Remove short option -k
-k meant --no-verify-checksums, which is the opposite of what initdb
uses -k for.  After discussion, a short option does not seem necessary,
so just keep the long option.

Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/d510f8aa-19e1-d06e-7630-ad27f7441d68%402ndquadrant.com
2018-05-21 10:01:49 -04:00
Tom Lane c6e846446d printf("%lf") is not portable, so omit the "l".
The "l" (ell) width spec means something in the corresponding scanf usage,
but not here.  While modern POSIX says that applying "l" to "f" and other
floating format specs is a no-op, SUSv2 says it's undefined.  Buildfarm
experience says that some old compilers emit warnings about it, and at
least one old stdio implementation (mingw's "ANSI" option) actually
produces wrong answers and/or crashes.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/21670.1526769114@sss.pgh.pa.us
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/c085e1da-0d64-1c15-242d-c921f32e0d5c@dunslane.net
2018-05-20 11:40:54 -04:00
Andrew Gierth 93f6c6328d doc: fix description of backward_scan
The description of the index property backward_scan was incorrect and
misleading; rectify.

Backpatch to 9.6 where the amutils functionality was introduced.
2018-05-17 21:23:48 +01:00
Bruce Momjian 91ff29f036 doc: fix PG 11 attribution 2018-05-17 14:23:22 -04:00
Bruce Momjian b2b82228ee doc: PG 11 release notes adjustments 2018-05-16 20:36:22 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 6bd1b4c31b docs: add space in PG 11 release notes, huge/large
Reported-by: Tatsuo Ishii
2018-05-15 20:03:42 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 7a4a375423 docs: PG 11 rel notes, 'ps' display/background worker item 2018-05-15 19:57:40 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 3b07f6dadb doc: adjust Extended Query PG 11 release note item
Reported-by: Tatsuo Ishii
2018-05-15 19:12:16 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 3122e32091 docs: update PG 11 release notes based on feedback 2018-05-15 15:55:53 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 185f4f84d5 doc: clarify SCRAM channel binding
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180514231020.GB1600@paquier.xyz

Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier
2018-05-14 20:45:35 -04:00
Bruce Momjian cf9c75ccea doc: update PG 11 release notes with suggested changes 2018-05-14 16:41:49 -04:00
Tom Lane 60e2d9ab14 Doc: fix minor release-note typo.
Liudmila Mantrova

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/d13458be-c4b9-0fd8-f333-c8de4d0c9120@postgrespro.ru
2018-05-14 12:08:02 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 8c6227a2f3 doc: update PG 11 rel. notes for ALTER TABLE's non-null default
Reported-by: Peter Geoghegan
2018-05-12 20:46:37 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera bebc46931a docs: Rework sections on partition pruning/exclusion
Explain partition pruning more thoroughly, in a section above the one
that explains constraint exclusion, since the new feature is the one
that will be used more extensively from now on.  Move some of the
material from the constraint exclusion subsection to the one on
partition pruning, so that we can explain the legacy method by
explaining the differences with the new one instead of repeating it.

Author: David Rowley, Álvaro Herrera
Reviewed-by: Amit Langote, David G. Johnston, Justin Pryzby
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAKJS1f8PECxEi1YQ9nhVtshtfOMHUzAMm_Zp4gGCOCnMPjEKJA@mail.gmail.com
2018-05-12 12:08:17 -03:00
Tom Lane d9fcf7f5e3 Doc: fix overenthusiastic markup.
I get "WARNING: nested link may be undefined in output: <xref @linkend =
'pgbench'> nested inside parent element link" from this.

Also remove some trailing whitespace.
2018-05-11 17:19:21 -04:00
Bruce Momjian fb68638ae8 docs: more PG 11 markup and email suggestions 2018-05-11 17:06:22 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 6186d0bd61 doc: markup for PG 11 release notes and included email tips 2018-05-11 14:47:26 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 5631c99d2a docs: initial draft of PG 11 release notes 2018-05-11 10:54:03 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 25468994ca docs: clarify that CREATE TABLE ... _AS_ can be parallelized
CREATE TABLE without AS doesn't have anything to parallelize.
2018-05-10 22:37:26 -04:00
Teodor Sigaev 8e12f4a250 Various improvements of skipping index scan during vacuum technics
- Change vacuum_cleanup_index_scale_factor GUC to PGC_USERSET.
  vacuum_cleanup_index_scale_factor GUC was defined as PGC_SIGHUP.  But this
  GUC affects not only autovacuum.  So it might be useful to change it from user
  session in order to influence manually runned VACUUM.
- Add missing tab-complete support for vacuum_cleanup_index_scale_factor
  reloption.
- Fix condition for B-tree index cleanup.
  Zero value of vacuum_cleanup_index_scale_factor means that user wants B-tree
  index cleanup to be never skipped.
- Documentation and comment improvements

Authors: Justin Pryzby, Alexander Korotkov, Liudmila Mantrova
Reviewed by: all authors and Robert Haas
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/20180502023025.GD7631%40telsasoft.com
2018-05-10 13:31:47 +03:00
Robert Haas ddc1f32ee5 doc: Restrictions on InitPlans in parallel queries relaxed.
This updates the documentation for changes originally made in commit
e89a71fb44.

Patch by me, reviewed (but not entirely endorsed) by Amit Kapila.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+Tgmoa+vupW8V_gBonz6hU7WwN2zJ=UTsVWCVB+rN6vaaXfZw@mail.gmail.com
2018-05-09 15:15:03 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera 550091f218 Add relkind 'I' to catalog.sgml's list relkinds
Commit 8b08f7d482 added a relkind for local partitioned indexes, but
failed to add it to pg_class's list of possible relkinds.  Repair.

Author: Peter Geoghegan, Michaël Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-WzkOKptQiE51Bh4_xeEHhaBwHkZkGtKizrFMgEkfUuRRQg@mail.gmail.com
2018-05-09 13:46:12 -03:00
Tom Lane f34f0e4c58 Last-minute updates for release notes.
The set of functions that need parallel-safety adjustments isn't the
same in 9.6 as 10, so I shouldn't have blindly back-patched that list.
Adjust as needed.  Also, provide examples of the commands to issue.
2018-05-07 13:13:27 -04:00
Tom Lane b56d5f230f Last-minute updates for release notes.
Security: CVE-2018-1115
2018-05-07 11:50:15 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut a43a4509f8 doc: Improve spelling and wording a bit 2018-05-07 11:05:19 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut baf21b922a doc: Fix minor markup issue
There shouldn't be a line break between two adjacent tags, because that
will appear as whitespace in the output.  (The rendering engine might in
turn collapse that whitespace away, so it might not actually make a
difference, but it's more correct this way.)
2018-05-07 10:21:47 -04:00
Robert Haas f955d7ee16 Documentation updates for partitioning.
Takayuki Tsunakawa

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/0A3221C70F24FB45833433255569204D1F965627@G01JPEXMBYT05
2018-05-07 09:48:47 -04:00
Tom Lane 2667e019c6 Release notes for 10.4, 9.6.9, 9.5.13, 9.4.18, 9.3.23. 2018-05-06 15:30:44 -04:00
Tom Lane d160882a17 Fix bootstrap parser so that its keywords are unreserved words.
Mark Dilger pointed out that the bootstrap parser does not allow
any of its keywords to appear as column values unless they're quoted,
and proposed dealing with that by quoting such values in genbki.pl.
Looking closer, though, we also have that problem with respect to table,
column, and type names appearing in the .bki file: the parser would fail
if any of those matched any of its keywords.  While so far there have
been no conflicts (that I've heard of), this seems like a booby trap
waiting to catch somebody.  Rather than clutter genbki.pl with enough
quoting logic to handle all that, let's make the bootstrap parser grow
up a little bit and treat its keywords as unreserved.

Experimentation shows that it's fairly easy to do so with the exception
of _null_, which I don't have a big problem with keeping as a reserved
word.  The only change needed is that we can't have the "close" command
take an optional table name: it has to either require or forbid the
table name to avoid shift/reduce conflicts.  genbki.pl has historically
always included the table name, so I took that option.

The implementation has bootscanner.l passing forward the string value
of each keyword, in case bootparse.y needs that.  This avoids needing to
know the precise spelling of each keyword in bootparse.y, which is good
because that's not always obvious from the token name.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3024FC91-DB6D-4732-B31C-DF772DF039A0@gmail.com
2018-05-05 16:23:07 -04:00
Tom Lane 488ccfe40a First-draft release notes for 10.4.
As usual, the release notes for other branches will be made by cutting
these down, but put them up for community review first.
2018-05-04 18:56:50 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut bcded2609a doc: Correct update on limitations of partitions
Amit Langote
2018-05-02 12:06:25 -04:00
Heikki Linnakangas f66912b0a0 Remove remaining references to version-0 calling convention in docs.
Support for version-0 calling convention was removed in PostgreSQL v10.
Change the SPI example to use version 1 convention, so that it actually
works.

Author: John Naylor
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAJVSVGVydmhLBdm80Rw3G8Oq5TnA7eCxUv065yoZfNfLbF1tzA@mail.gmail.com
2018-05-02 17:51:11 +03:00
Bruce Momjian 7f6570b3a8 docs: Remove tabs recently introduced by me. 2018-05-02 08:33:36 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 81ff9ec8f8 doc comments: rendering engines are another UTF8 restriction 2018-05-01 10:17:55 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 3960fa5f63 docs comments: clarify why not to use UTF8 still in docs
Back branches still are SGML.
2018-05-01 09:26:11 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 5a6ab0a1b1 doc: Update limitations of partitions
David Rowley, Amit Langote
2018-05-01 07:48:51 -04:00
Tom Lane 84549ebd4c Tweak reformat_dat_file.pl to make it more easily hand-invokable.
Use the same code we already applied in duplicate_oids and unused_oids
to let this script find Catalog.pm without help.  This removes the need
to supply a -I switch in most cases.

Also, mark the script executable, again to follow the precedent of
duplicate_oids and unused_oids.  Now you can just do
"./reformat_dat_file.pl pg_proc.dat"
if you want to reformat only one or a few .dat files rather than all.

It'd be possible to remove the -I switches in the Makefile's convenience
targets, but I chose to leave them: they don't hurt anything, and it's
possible that in weird VPATH situations they might be of value.
2018-04-28 16:09:03 -04:00
Tom Lane 4094031dd3 Assorted minor doc/comment fixes.
Identify pg_replication_origin as a shared catalog in catalogs.sgml,
using the same boilerplate wording used for most other shared catalogs
(and tweak another place where someone had randomly deviated from
that boilerplate).

Make an example in mmgr/README more consistent with surrounding text.

Update an obsolete cross-reference in a comment in storage/block.h.

Zhuo Ql

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/44296255.1819230.1524889719001@mail.yahoo.com
2018-04-28 11:46:15 -04:00
Tom Lane 2e83e6bd74 Adjust hints and docs to suggest CREATE EXTENSION not CREATE LANGUAGE.
The core PLs have been extension-ified for seven years now, and we can
reasonably hope that all out-of-core PLs have been too.  So adjust a few
places that were still recommending CREATE LANGUAGE as the user-level
way to install a PL.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmoaJTUDMSuSCg4k08Dv8vhbrJq9nP3ZfPbmysVz_616qxw@mail.gmail.com
2018-04-27 13:42:03 -04:00
Tom Lane a0854f1072 Avoid parsing catalog data twice during BKI file construction.
In the wake of commit 5602265f7, we were doing duplicate-OID detection
quite inefficiently, by invoking duplicate_oids which does all the same
parsing of catalog headers and .dat files as genbki.pl does.  That adds
under half a second on modern machines, but quite a bit more on slow
buildfarm critters, so it seems worth avoiding.  Let's just extend
genbki.pl a little so it can also detect duplicate OIDs, and remove
the duplicate_oids call from the build process.

(This also means that duplicate OID detection will happen during
Windows builds, which AFAICS it didn't before.)

This makes the use-case for duplicate_oids a bit dubious, but it's
possible that people will still want to run that check without doing
a whole build run, so let's keep that script.

In passing, move down genbki.pl's creation of its temp output files
so that it doesn't happen until after we've done parsing and validation
of the input.  This avoids leaving a lot of clutter around after a
failure.

John Naylor and Tom Lane

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/37D774E4-FE1F-437E-B3D2-593F314B7505@postgrespro.ru
2018-04-26 13:22:27 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 1900365c1e docs: remove "III" version text from pgAdmin link
Reported-by: vodevsh@gmail.com

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/152404286919.19366.7988650271505173666@wrigleys.postgresql.org

Backpatch-through: 9.3
2018-04-26 11:10:43 -04:00
Tom Lane f04d4ac919 Reindent Perl files with perltidy version 20170521.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CABUevEzK3cNiHZQ18f5tK0guoT+cN_jWeVzhYYxY=r+1Q3SmoA@mail.gmail.com
2018-04-25 14:00:19 -04:00
Teodor Sigaev 4eaf7eaccb Add missing and dangling downlink checks to amcheck
When bt_index_parent_check() is called with the heapallindexed option,
allocate a second Bloom filter to fingerprint block numbers that appear
in the downlinks of internal pages.  Use Bloom filter probes when
walking the B-Tree to detect missing downlinks.  This can detect subtle
problems with page deletion/VACUUM, such as corruption caused by the bug
just fixed in commit 6db4b499.

The downlink Bloom filter is bound in size by work_mem.  Its optimal
size is typically far smaller than that of the regular heapallindexed
Bloom filter, especially when the index has high fan-out.

Author: Peter Geoghegan
Reviewer: Teodor Sigaev
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-WznUzY4fWTjm1tBB3JpVz8cCfz7k_qVp5BhuPyhivmWJFg@mail.gmail.com
2018-04-25 18:02:55 +03:00
Magnus Hagander 7f58f666cd Fix typo
Author: Michael Paquier
2018-04-25 09:29:50 +02:00
Alvaro Herrera 055fb8d33d Add GUC enable_partition_pruning
This controls both plan-time and execution-time new-style partition
pruning.  While finer-grain control is possible (maybe using an enum GUC
instead of boolean), there doesn't seem to be much need for that.

This new parameter controls partition pruning for all queries:
trivially, SELECT queries that affect partitioned tables are naturally
under its control since they are using the new technology.  However,
while UPDATE/DELETE queries do not use the new code, we make the new GUC
control their behavior also (stealing control from
constraint_exclusion), because it is more natural, and it leads to a
more natural transition to the future in which those queries will also
use the new pruning code.

Constraint exclusion still controls pruning for regular inheritance
situations (those not involving partitioned tables).

Author: David Rowley
Review: Amit Langote, Ashutosh Bapat, Justin Pryzby, David G. Johnston
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAKJS1f_0HwsxJG9m+nzU+CizxSdGtfe6iF_ykPYBiYft302DCw@mail.gmail.com
2018-04-23 17:57:43 -03:00
Tom Lane 4df58f7ed7 Fix handling of partition bounds for boolean partitioning columns.
Previously, you could partition by a boolean column as long as you
spelled the bound values as string literals, for instance FOR VALUES
IN ('t').  The trouble with this is that ruleutils.c printed that as
FOR VALUES IN (TRUE), which is reasonable syntax but wasn't accepted by
the grammar.  That results in dump-and-reload failures for such cases.

Apply a minimal fix that just causes TRUE and FALSE to be converted to
strings 'true' and 'false'.  This is pretty grotty, but it's too late for
a more principled fix in v11 (to say nothing of v10).  We should revisit
the whole issue of how partition bound values are parsed for v12.

Amit Langote

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/e05c5162-1103-7e37-d1ab-6de3e0afaf70@lab.ntt.co.jp
2018-04-23 15:29:11 -04:00
Teodor Sigaev 9975c128a1 Update trigram example in docs to correct state
Author: Liudmila Mantrova
2018-04-23 16:55:13 +03:00
Magnus Hagander 9cad926eb8 Add missing documentation for BGWORKER_BYPASS_ALLOWCONN
This was missed in eed1ce72e1.

Reported by Michael Paquier
2018-04-22 14:03:36 +02:00
Peter Eisentraut 56811e5732 doc: Restructure authentication methods sections
Move the authentication methods sections up to sect1, so they are easier
to navigate in HTML.
2018-04-21 10:17:23 -04:00
Heikki Linnakangas fe7fc52645 Improve docs for the new INCLUDE directive in CREATE/ALTER TABLE.
Author: Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20180411082020.GD19732%40paquier.xyz
2018-04-18 05:45:32 -04:00
Tom Lane 55d26ff638 Rationalize handling of single and double quotes in bootstrap data.
Change things around so that proper quoting of values interpolated into
the BKI data by initdb is the responsibility of initdb, not something
we half-heartedly handle by putting double quotes into the raw BKI data.
(Note: experimentation shows that it still doesn't work to put a double
quote into the initial superuser username, but that's the fault of
inadequate quoting while interpolating the name into SQL scripts;
the BKI aspect of it works fine now.)

Having done that, we can remove the special-case handling of values
that look like "something" from genbki.pl, and instead teach it to
escape double --- and single --- quotes properly.  This removes the
nowhere-documented need to treat those specially in the BKI source
data; whatever you write will be passed through unchanged into the
inserted data value, modulo Perl's rules about single-quoted strings.

Add documentation explaining the (pre-existing) handling of backslashes
in the BKI data.

Per an earlier discussion with John Naylor.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAJVSVGUNao=-Q2-vAN3PYcdF5tnL5JAHwGwzZGuYHtq+Mk_9ng@mail.gmail.com
2018-04-17 19:53:50 -04:00
Tatsuo Ishii 03030512d1 Add more infinite recursion detection while locking a view.
Also add regression test cases for detecting infinite recursion in
locking view tests.  Some document enhancements. Patch by Yugo Nagata.
2018-04-17 16:59:17 +09:00
Magnus Hagander 90372729f4 Fix build of pg_verify_checksum docs
They were accidentally excluded when reverting the backend online
checksum functionality, and since they weren't built the incorrect
reference to a removed section also did not trigger a problem.

Author: Christoph Berg
2018-04-15 13:57:02 +02:00
Magnus Hagander 645387927f Clarify pg_verify_checksum documentation
Make it clear that a cluster has to be shut down cleanly before
pg_verify_checksum can be run against it.

Author: Michael Paquier
Review: Daniel Gustafsson
2018-04-15 13:52:57 +02:00
Magnus Hagander 44e2df461f Remove -f option from pg_verify_checksums
This option makes no sense when the cluster checksum state cannot be
changed, and should have been removed in the revert.

Author: Daniel Gustafsson
Review: Michael Paquier
2018-04-15 13:52:48 +02:00
Simon Riggs 08ea7a2291 Revert MERGE patch
This reverts commits d204ef6377,
83454e3c2b and a few more commits thereafter
(complete list at the end) related to MERGE feature.

While the feature was fully functional, with sufficient test coverage and
necessary documentation, it was felt that some parts of the executor and
parse-analyzer can use a different design and it wasn't possible to do that in
the available time. So it was decided to revert the patch for PG11 and retry
again in the future.

Thanks again to all reviewers and bug reporters.

List of commits reverted, in reverse chronological order:

 f1464c5380 Improve parse representation for MERGE
 ddb4158579 MERGE syntax diagram correction
 530e69e59b Allow cpluspluscheck to pass by renaming variable
 01b88b4df5 MERGE minor errata
 3af7b2b0d4 MERGE fix variable warning in non-assert builds
 a5d86181ec MERGE INSERT allows only one VALUES clause
 4b2d44031f MERGE post-commit review
 4923550c20 Tab completion for MERGE
 aa3faa3c7a WITH support in MERGE
 83454e3c2b New files for MERGE
 d204ef6377 MERGE SQL Command following SQL:2016

Author: Pavan Deolasee
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier
2018-04-12 11:22:56 +01:00
Peter Eisentraut f1f537cb46 doc: Add more information about logical replication privileges
In particular, the requirement to have SELECT privilege for the initial
table copy was previously not documented.

Author: Shinoda, Noriyoshi <noriyoshi.shinoda@hpe.com>
2018-04-11 09:01:57 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 036ca6f7bb doc: Fix typos in pgbench documentation
Author: Fabien COELHO <coelho@cri.ensmp.fr>
Reviewed-by: Edmund Horner <ejrh00@gmail.com>
2018-04-11 08:34:30 -04:00
Tom Lane 3b8f6e75f3 Fix partial-build problems introduced by having more generated headers.
Commit 372728b0d created some problems for usages like building a
subdirectory without having first done "make all" at the top level,
or for proceeding directly to "make install" without "make all".
The only reasonably clean way to fix this seems to be to force the
submake-generated-headers rule to fire in *any* "make all" or "make
install" command anywhere in the tree.  To avoid lots of redundant work,
as well as parallel make jobs possibly clobbering each others' output, we
still need to be sure that the rule fires only once in a recursive build.
For that, adopt the same MAKELEVEL hack previously used for "temp-install".
But try to document it a bit better.

The submake-errcodes mechanism previously used in src/port/ and src/common/
is subsumed by this, so we can get rid of those special cases.  It was
inadequate for src/common/ anyway after the aforesaid commit, and it always
risked parallel attempts to build errcodes.h.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/E1f5FAB-0006LU-MB@gemulon.postgresql.org
2018-04-09 16:42:10 -04:00
Tom Lane 2cdf359fc4 Make reformat_dat_file.pl preserve all blank lines.
In its original form, reformat_dat_file.pl smashed consecutive blank
lines to a single blank line, which was helpful for mopping up excess
whitespace during the bootstrap data format conversion.  But going
forward, there seems little reason to do that; if developers want to
put in multiple blank lines, let 'em.  This makes it conform to the
documentation I (tgl) wrote, too.

In passing, clean up some sloppy markup choices in bki.sgml.

John Naylor

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/28827.1523039259@sss.pgh.pa.us
2018-04-09 14:58:39 -04:00
Magnus Hagander a228cc13ae Revert "Allow on-line enabling and disabling of data checksums"
This reverts the backend sides of commit 1fde38beaa.
I have, at least for now, left the pg_verify_checksums tool in place, as
this tool can be very valuable without the rest of the patch as well,
and since it's a read-only tool that only runs when the cluster is down
it should be a lot safer.
2018-04-09 19:03:42 +02:00
Teodor Sigaev 03c11796a9 Improve covering index documentation
Add missed description of pg_constraint.conincluding

Shinoda, Noriyoshi and Alexander Korotkov
2018-04-09 17:53:42 +03:00
Tom Lane 893e9e6540 Doc: clarify explanation of pg_dump usage.
This section confusingly used both "infile" and "outfile" to refer
to the same file, i.e. the textual output of pg_dump.  Use "dumpfile"
for both cases, per suggestion from Jonathan Katz.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/152311295239.31235.6487236091906987117@wrigleys.postgresql.org
2018-04-08 16:35:42 -04:00
Tom Lane 372728b0d4 Replace our traditional initial-catalog-data format with a better design.
Historically, the initial catalog data to be installed during bootstrap
has been written in DATA() lines in the catalog header files.  This had
lots of disadvantages: the format was badly underdocumented, it was
very difficult to edit the data in any mechanized way, and due to the
lack of any abstraction the data was verbose, hard to read/understand,
and easy to get wrong.

Hence, move this data into separate ".dat" files and represent it in a way
that can easily be read and rewritten by Perl scripts.  The new format is
essentially "key => value" for each column; while it's a bit repetitive,
explicit labeling of each value makes the data far more readable and less
error-prone.  Provide a way to abbreviate entries by omitting field values
that match a specified default value for their column.  This allows removal
of a large amount of repetitive boilerplate and also lowers the barrier to
adding new columns.

Also teach genbki.pl how to translate symbolic OID references into
numeric OIDs for more cases than just "regproc"-like pg_proc references.
It can now do that for regprocedure-like references (thus solving the
problem that regproc is ambiguous for overloaded functions), operators,
types, opfamilies, opclasses, and access methods.  Use this to turn
nearly all OID cross-references in the initial data into symbolic form.
This represents a very large step forward in readability and error
resistance of the initial catalog data.  It should also reduce the
difficulty of renumbering OID assignments in uncommitted patches.

Also, solve the longstanding problem that frontend code that would like to
use OID macros and other information from the catalog headers often had
difficulty with backend-only code in the headers.  To do this, arrange for
all generated macros, plus such other declarations as we deem fit, to be
placed in "derived" header files that are safe for frontend inclusion.
(Once clients migrate to using these pg_*_d.h headers, it will be possible
to get rid of the pg_*_fn.h headers, which only exist to quarantine code
away from clients.  That is left for follow-on patches, however.)

The now-automatically-generated macros include the Anum_xxx and Natts_xxx
constants that we used to have to update by hand when adding or removing
catalog columns.

Replace the former manual method of generating OID macros for pg_type
entries with an automatic method, ensuring that all built-in types have
OID macros.  (But note that this patch does not change the way that
OID macros for pg_proc entries are built and used.  It's not clear that
making that match the other catalogs would be worth extra code churn.)

Add SGML documentation explaining what the new data format is and how to
work with it.

Despite being a very large change in the catalog headers, there is no
catversion bump here, because postgres.bki and related output files
haven't changed at all.

John Naylor, based on ideas from various people; review and minor
additional coding by me; previous review by Alvaro Herrera

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAJVSVGWO48JbbwXkJz_yBFyGYW-M9YWxnPdxJBUosDC9ou_F0Q@mail.gmail.com
2018-04-08 13:17:27 -04:00
Andrew Gierth 49b0e300f7 Support index INCLUDE in the AM properties interface.
This rectifies an oversight in commit 8224de4f4, by adding a new
property 'can_include' for pg_indexam_has_property, and adjusting the
results of pg_index_column_has_property to give more appropriate
results for INCLUDEd columns.
2018-04-08 06:02:05 +01:00
Stephen Frost c37b3d08ca Allow group access on PGDATA
Allow the cluster to be optionally init'd with read access for the
group.

This means a relatively non-privileged user can perform a backup of the
cluster without requiring write privileges, which enhances security.

The mode of PGDATA is used to determine whether group permissions are
enabled for directory and file creates.  This method was chosen as it's
simple and works well for the various utilities that write into PGDATA.

Changing the mode of PGDATA manually will not automatically change the
mode of all the files contained therein.  If the user would like to
enable group access on an existing cluster then changing the mode of all
the existing files will be required.  Note that pg_upgrade will
automatically change the mode of all migrated files if the new cluster
is init'd with the -g option.

Tests are included for the backend and all the utilities which operate
on the PG data directory to ensure that the correct mode is set based on
the data directory permissions.

Author: David Steele <david@pgmasters.net>
Reviewed-By: Michael Paquier, with discussion amongst many others.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ad346fe6-b23e-59f1-ecb7-0e08390ad629%40pgmasters.net
2018-04-07 17:45:39 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera 499be013de Support partition pruning at execution time
Existing partition pruning is only able to work at plan time, for query
quals that appear in the parsed query.  This is good but limiting, as
there can be parameters that appear later that can be usefully used to
further prune partitions.

This commit adds support for pruning subnodes of Append which cannot
possibly contain any matching tuples, during execution, by evaluating
Params to determine the minimum set of subnodes that can possibly match.
We support more than just simple Params in WHERE clauses. Support
additionally includes:

1. Parameterized Nested Loop Joins: The parameter from the outer side of the
   join can be used to determine the minimum set of inner side partitions to
   scan.

2. Initplans: Once an initplan has been executed we can then determine which
   partitions match the value from the initplan.

Partition pruning is performed in two ways.  When Params external to the plan
are found to match the partition key we attempt to prune away unneeded Append
subplans during the initialization of the executor.  This allows us to bypass
the initialization of non-matching subplans meaning they won't appear in the
EXPLAIN or EXPLAIN ANALYZE output.

For parameters whose value is only known during the actual execution
then the pruning of these subplans must wait.  Subplans which are
eliminated during this stage of pruning are still visible in the EXPLAIN
output.  In order to determine if pruning has actually taken place, the
EXPLAIN ANALYZE must be viewed.  If a certain Append subplan was never
executed due to the elimination of the partition then the execution
timing area will state "(never executed)".  Whereas, if, for example in
the case of parameterized nested loops, the number of loops stated in
the EXPLAIN ANALYZE output for certain subplans may appear lower than
others due to the subplan having been scanned fewer times.  This is due
to the list of matching subnodes having to be evaluated whenever a
parameter which was found to match the partition key changes.

This commit required some additional infrastructure that permits the
building of a data structure which is able to perform the translation of
the matching partition IDs, as returned by get_matching_partitions, into
the list index of a subpaths list, as exist in node types such as
Append, MergeAppend and ModifyTable.  This allows us to translate a list
of clauses into a Bitmapset of all the subpath indexes which must be
included to satisfy the clause list.

Author: David Rowley, based on an earlier effort by Beena Emerson
Reviewers: Amit Langote, Robert Haas, Amul Sul, Rajkumar Raghuwanshi,
Jesper Pedersen
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAOG9ApE16ac-_VVZVvv0gePSgkg_BwYEV1NBqZFqDR2bBE0X0A@mail.gmail.com
2018-04-07 17:54:39 -03:00
Teodor Sigaev 8224de4f42 Indexes with INCLUDE columns and their support in B-tree
This patch introduces INCLUDE clause to index definition.  This clause
specifies a list of columns which will be included as a non-key part in
the index.  The INCLUDE columns exist solely to allow more queries to
benefit from index-only scans.  Also, such columns don't need to have
appropriate operator classes.  Expressions are not supported as INCLUDE
columns since they cannot be used in index-only scans.

Index access methods supporting INCLUDE are indicated by amcaninclude flag
in IndexAmRoutine.  For now, only B-tree indexes support INCLUDE clause.

In B-tree indexes INCLUDE columns are truncated from pivot index tuples
(tuples located in non-leaf pages and high keys).  Therefore, B-tree indexes
now might have variable number of attributes.  This patch also provides
generic facility to support that: pivot tuples contain number of their
attributes in t_tid.ip_posid.  Free 13th bit of t_info is used for indicating
that.  This facility will simplify further support of index suffix truncation.
The changes of above are backward-compatible, pg_upgrade doesn't need special
handling of B-tree indexes for that.

Bump catalog version

Author: Anastasia Lubennikova with contribition by Alexander Korotkov and me
Reviewed by: Peter Geoghegan, Tomas Vondra, Antonin Houska, Jeff Janes,
			 David Rowley, Alexander Korotkov
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/56168952.4010101@postgrespro.ru
2018-04-07 23:00:39 +03:00
Teodor Sigaev 1c1791e000 Add json(b)_to_tsvector function
Jsonb has a complex nature so there isn't best-for-everything way to convert it
to tsvector for full text search. Current to_tsvector(json(b)) suggests to
convert only string values, but it's possible to index keys, numerics and even
booleans value. To solve that json(b)_to_tsvector has a second required
argument contained a list of desired types of json fields. Second argument is
a jsonb scalar or array right now with possibility to add new options in a
future.

Bump catalog version

Author: Dmitry Dolgov with some editorization by me
Reviewed by: Teodor Sigaev
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CA+q6zcXJQbS1b4kJ_HeAOoOc=unfnOrUEL=KGgE32QKDww7d8g@mail.gmail.com
2018-04-07 20:58:03 +03:00
Peter Eisentraut 039eb6e92f Logical replication support for TRUNCATE
Update the built-in logical replication system to make use of the
previously added logical decoding for TRUNCATE support.  Add the
required truncate callback to pgoutput and a new logical replication
protocol message.

Publications get a new attribute to determine whether to replicate
truncate actions.  When updating a publication via pg_dump from an older
version, this is not set, thus preserving the previous behavior.

Author: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>
Author: Marco Nenciarini <marco.nenciarini@2ndquadrant.it>
Author: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>
Reviewed-by: Petr Jelinek <petr.jelinek@2ndquadrant.com>
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
2018-04-07 11:34:11 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 5dfd1e5a66 Logical decoding of TRUNCATE
Add a new WAL record type for TRUNCATE, which is only used when
wal_level >= logical.  (For physical replication, TRUNCATE is already
replicated via SMGR records.)  Add new callback for logical decoding
output plugins to receive TRUNCATE actions.

Author: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>
Author: Marco Nenciarini <marco.nenciarini@2ndquadrant.it>
Author: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>
Reviewed-by: Petr Jelinek <petr.jelinek@2ndquadrant.com>
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
2018-04-07 11:34:10 -04:00
Tom Lane eb2a0e00b1 Doc: fix broken markup.
Commit 3d956d956 was apparently not checked against HEAD's doc toolchain.
Per buildfarm.
2018-04-06 20:54:52 -04:00
Robert Haas 3d956d9562 Allow insert and update tuple routing and COPY for foreign tables.
Also enable this for postgres_fdw.

Etsuro Fujita, based on an earlier patch by Amit Langote. The larger
patch series of which this is a part has been reviewed by Amit
Langote, David Fetter, Maksim Milyutin, Álvaro Herrera, Stephen Frost,
and me.  Minor documentation changes to the final version by me.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/29906a26-da12-8c86-4fb9-d8f88442f2b9@lab.ntt.co.jp
2018-04-06 19:22:03 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera 3cabe38630 Fix badly edited doc sentence
Noted by Vik Fearing and Robert Haas
2018-04-06 17:41:44 -03:00
Stephen Frost 11523e860f Support new default roles with adminpack
This provides a newer version of adminpack which works with the newly
added default roles to support GRANT'ing to non-superusers access to
read and write files, along with related functions (unlinking files,
getting file length, renaming/removing files, scanning the log file
directory) which are supported through adminpack.

Note that new versions of the functions are required because an
environment might have an updated version of the library but still have
the old adminpack 1.0 catalog definitions (where EXECUTE is GRANT'd to
PUBLIC for the functions).

This patch also removes the long-deprecated alternative names for
functions that adminpack used to include and which are now included in
the backend, in adminpack v1.1.  Applications using the deprecated names
should be updated to use the backend functions instead.  Existing
installations which continue to use adminpack v1.0 should continue to
function until/unless adminpack is upgraded.

Reviewed-By: Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20171231191939.GR2416%40tamriel.snowman.net
2018-04-06 14:47:10 -04:00
Stephen Frost 0fdc8495bf Add default roles for file/program access
This patch adds new default roles named 'pg_read_server_files',
'pg_write_server_files', 'pg_execute_server_program' which
allow an administrator to GRANT to a non-superuser role the ability to
access server-side files or run programs through PostgreSQL (as the user
the database is running as).  Having one of these roles allows a
non-superuser to use server-side COPY to read, write, or with a program,
and to use file_fdw (if installed by a superuser and GRANT'd USAGE on
it) to read from files or run a program.

The existing misc file functions are also changed to allow a user with
the 'pg_read_server_files' default role to read any files on the
filesystem, matching the privileges given to that role through COPY and
file_fdw from above.

Reviewed-By: Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20171231191939.GR2416%40tamriel.snowman.net
2018-04-06 14:47:10 -04:00
Magnus Hagander 1fde38beaa Allow on-line enabling and disabling of data checksums
This makes it possible to turn checksums on in a live cluster, without
the previous need for dump/reload or logical replication (and to turn it
off).

Enabling checkusm starts a background process in the form of a
launcher/worker combination that goes through the entire database and
recalculates checksums on each and every page. Only when all pages have
been checksummed are they fully enabled in the cluster. Any failure of
the process will revert to checksums off and the process has to be
started.

This adds a new WAL record that indicates the state of checksums, so
the process works across replicated clusters.

Authors: Magnus Hagander and Daniel Gustafsson
Review: Tomas Vondra, Michael Banck, Heikki Linnakangas, Andrey Borodin
2018-04-05 22:04:48 +02:00
Bruce Momjian c39e903d51 doc: remove mention of the DMOZ catalog in ltree docs
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAF4Au4xYem_W3KOuxcKct7=G4j8Z3uO9j3DUKTFJqUsfp_9pQg@mail.gmail.com

Author: Oleg Bartunov

Backpatch-through: 9.3
2018-04-05 15:55:41 -04:00
Simon Riggs ddb4158579 MERGE syntax diagram correction
Reported-by: Andrew Gierth
2018-04-05 20:36:23 +01:00
Teodor Sigaev 1664ae1978 Add websearch_to_tsquery
Error-tolerant conversion function with web-like syntax for search query,
it simplifies  constraining search engine with close to habitual interface for
users.

Bump catalog version

Authors: Victor Drobny, Dmitry Ivanov with editorization by me
Reviewed by: Aleksander Alekseev, Tomas Vondra, Thomas Munro, Aleksandr Parfenov
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/fe931111ff7e9ad79196486ada79e268@postgrespro.ru
2018-04-05 19:55:11 +03:00
Teodor Sigaev f4cd7102b5 Add support of bool, bpchar, name and uuid to btree_gin
Mostly for completeness, but I believe there are cases to use that in
multicolumn GIN indexes.

Bump btree_gin module version

Author: Matheus Oliveira
Reviewed by: Tomas Vondra
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CAJghg4LMJf6Z13fnZD-MBNiGxzd0cA2=F3TDjNkX3eQH58hktQ@mail.gmail.com
2018-04-05 18:19:10 +03:00
Simon Riggs a5d86181ec MERGE INSERT allows only one VALUES clause
Doc syntax and brief mention of restriction
2018-04-05 12:03:42 +01:00