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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
Teodor Sigaev a02d51c0d3 Fix misprint in documentation
Masahiko Sawada
2018-04-05 13:06:05 +03:00
Peter Eisentraut a56e26784d doc: Improve indentation of SQL examples
Some of these were indented using 8 spaces whereas the rest uses 4
spaces.  Probably originally some difference in tab size.
2018-04-04 20:57:26 -04:00
Bruce Momjian cd1661bbcc docs: update ltree URL for the DMOZ catalog
Reported-by: bbrincat@gmail.com

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/152283596377.1441.11672249301622760943@wrigleys.postgresql.org

Author: Oleg Bartunov

Backpatch-through: 9.3
2018-04-04 15:06:21 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera 3de241dba8 Foreign keys on partitioned tables
Author: Álvaro Herrera
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20171231194359.cvojcour423ulha4@alvherre.pgsql
Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut
2018-04-04 14:02:49 -03:00
Teodor Sigaev 857f9c36cd Skip full index scan during cleanup of B-tree indexes when possible
Vacuum of index consists from two stages: multiple (zero of more) ambulkdelete
calls and one amvacuumcleanup call. When workload on particular table
is append-only, then autovacuum isn't intended to touch this table. However,
user may run vacuum manually in order to fill visibility map and get benefits
of index-only scans. Then ambulkdelete wouldn't be called for indexes
of such table (because no heap tuples were deleted), only amvacuumcleanup would
be called In this case, amvacuumcleanup would perform full index scan for
two objectives: put recyclable pages into free space map and update index
statistics.

This patch allows btvacuumclanup to skip full index scan when two conditions
are satisfied: no pages are going to be put into free space map and index
statistics isn't stalled. In order to check first condition, we store
oldest btpo_xact in the meta-page. When it's precedes RecentGlobalXmin, then
there are some recyclable pages. In order to check second condition we store
number of heap tuples observed during previous full index scan by cleanup.
If fraction of newly inserted tuples is less than
vacuum_cleanup_index_scale_factor, then statistics isn't considered to be
stalled. vacuum_cleanup_index_scale_factor can be defined as both reloption and GUC (default).

This patch bumps B-tree meta-page version. Upgrade of meta-page is performed
"on the fly": during VACUUM meta-page is rewritten with new version. No special
handling in pg_upgrade is required.

Author: Masahiko Sawada, Alexander Korotkov
Review by: Peter Geoghegan, Kyotaro Horiguchi, Alexander Korotkov, Yura Sokolov
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CAD21AoAX+d2oD_nrd9O2YkpzHaFr=uQeGr9s1rKC3O4ENc568g@mail.gmail.com
2018-04-04 19:29:00 +03:00
Teodor Sigaev 710d90da1f Add prefix operator for TEXT type.
The prefix operator along with SP-GiST indexes can be used as an alternative
for LIKE 'word%' commands  and it doesn't have a limitation of string/prefix
length as B-Tree has.

Bump catalog version

Author: Ildus Kurbangaliev with some editorization by me
Review by: Arthur Zakirov, Alexander Korotkov, and me
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/20180202180327.222b04b3@wp.localdomain
2018-04-03 19:46:45 +03:00
Peter Eisentraut 341e166180 Transforms for jsonb to PL/Perl
Add a new contrib module jsonb_plperl that provides a transform between
jsonb and PL/Perl.  jsonb values are converted to appropriate Perl types
such as arrays and hashes, and vice versa.

Author: Anthony Bykov <a.bykov@postgrespro.ru>
Reviewed-by: Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Aleksander Alekseev <a.alekseev@postgrespro.ru>
Reviewed-by: Nikita Glukhov <n.gluhov@postgrespro.ru>
2018-04-03 09:47:18 -04:00
Magnus Hagander 4eb77d50c2 Validate page level checksums in base backups
When base backups are run over the replication protocol (for example
using pg_basebackup), verify the checksums of all data blocks if
checksums are enabled. If checksum failures are encountered, log them
as warnings but don't abort the backup.

This becomes the default behaviour in pg_basebackup (provided checksums
are enabled on the server), so add a switch (-k) to disable the checks
if necessary.

Author: Michael Banck
Reviewed-By: Magnus Hagander, David Steele
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180228180856.GE13784@nighthawk.caipicrew.dd-dns.de
2018-04-03 13:47:16 +02:00
Simon Riggs aa3faa3c7a WITH support in MERGE
Author: Peter Geoghegan
Recursive support removed, no tests
Docs added by me
2018-04-03 12:13:59 +01:00
Simon Riggs 83454e3c2b New files for MERGE 2018-04-03 10:22:21 +01:00
Simon Riggs d204ef6377 MERGE SQL Command following SQL:2016
MERGE performs actions that modify rows in the target table
using a source table or query. MERGE provides a single SQL
statement that can conditionally INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE rows
a task that would other require multiple PL statements.
e.g.

MERGE INTO target AS t
USING source AS s
ON t.tid = s.sid
WHEN MATCHED AND t.balance > s.delta THEN
  UPDATE SET balance = t.balance - s.delta
WHEN MATCHED THEN
  DELETE
WHEN NOT MATCHED AND s.delta > 0 THEN
  INSERT VALUES (s.sid, s.delta)
WHEN NOT MATCHED THEN
  DO NOTHING;

MERGE works with regular and partitioned tables, including
column and row security enforcement, as well as support for
row, statement and transition triggers.

MERGE is optimized for OLTP and is parameterizable, though
also useful for large scale ETL/ELT. MERGE is not intended
to be used in preference to existing single SQL commands
for INSERT, UPDATE or DELETE since there is some overhead.
MERGE can be used statically from PL/pgSQL.

MERGE does not yet support inheritance, write rules,
RETURNING clauses, updatable views or foreign tables.
MERGE follows SQL Standard per the most recent SQL:2016.

Includes full tests and documentation, including full
isolation tests to demonstrate the concurrent behavior.

This version written from scratch in 2017 by Simon Riggs,
using docs and tests originally written in 2009. Later work
from Pavan Deolasee has been both complex and deep, leaving
the lead author credit now in his hands.
Extensive discussion of concurrency from Peter Geoghegan,
with thanks for the time and effort contributed.

Various issues reported via sqlsmith by Andreas Seltenreich

Authors: Pavan Deolasee, Simon Riggs
Reviewer: Peter Geoghegan, Amit Langote, Tomas Vondra, Simon Riggs

Discussion:
https://postgr.es/m/CANP8+jKitBSrB7oTgT9CY2i1ObfOt36z0XMraQc+Xrz8QB0nXA@mail.gmail.com
https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-WzkJdBuxj9PO=2QaO9-3h3xGbQPZ34kJH=HukRekwM-GZg@mail.gmail.com
2018-04-03 09:28:16 +01:00
Simon Riggs aa5877bb26 Revert "MERGE SQL Command following SQL:2016"
This reverts commit e6597dc353.
2018-04-02 21:36:38 +01:00
Simon Riggs 7cf8a5c302 Revert "Modified files for MERGE"
This reverts commit 354f13855e.
2018-04-02 21:34:15 +01:00
Simon Riggs 354f13855e Modified files for MERGE 2018-04-02 21:12:47 +01:00
Simon Riggs e6597dc353 MERGE SQL Command following SQL:2016
MERGE performs actions that modify rows in the target table
using a source table or query. MERGE provides a single SQL
statement that can conditionally INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE rows
a task that would other require multiple PL statements.
e.g.

MERGE INTO target AS t
USING source AS s
ON t.tid = s.sid
WHEN MATCHED AND t.balance > s.delta THEN
  UPDATE SET balance = t.balance - s.delta
WHEN MATCHED THEN
  DELETE
WHEN NOT MATCHED AND s.delta > 0 THEN
  INSERT VALUES (s.sid, s.delta)
WHEN NOT MATCHED THEN
  DO NOTHING;

MERGE works with regular and partitioned tables, including
column and row security enforcement, as well as support for
row, statement and transition triggers.

MERGE is optimized for OLTP and is parameterizable, though
also useful for large scale ETL/ELT. MERGE is not intended
to be used in preference to existing single SQL commands
for INSERT, UPDATE or DELETE since there is some overhead.
MERGE can be used statically from PL/pgSQL.

MERGE does not yet support inheritance, write rules,
RETURNING clauses, updatable views or foreign tables.
MERGE follows SQL Standard per the most recent SQL:2016.

Includes full tests and documentation, including full
isolation tests to demonstrate the concurrent behavior.

This version written from scratch in 2017 by Simon Riggs,
using docs and tests originally written in 2009. Later work
from Pavan Deolasee has been both complex and deep, leaving
the lead author credit now in his hands.
Extensive discussion of concurrency from Peter Geoghegan,
with thanks for the time and effort contributed.

Various issues reported via sqlsmith by Andreas Seltenreich

Authors: Pavan Deolasee, Simon Riggs
Reviewers: Peter Geoghegan, Amit Langote, Tomas Vondra, Simon Riggs

Discussion:
https://postgr.es/m/CANP8+jKitBSrB7oTgT9CY2i1ObfOt36z0XMraQc+Xrz8QB0nXA@mail.gmail.com
https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-WzkJdBuxj9PO=2QaO9-3h3xGbQPZ34kJH=HukRekwM-GZg@mail.gmail.com
2018-04-02 21:04:35 +01:00
Peter Eisentraut a92f24fc53 Fix XML syntax in documentation 2018-04-02 13:56:59 -04:00
Robert Haas 7e0d64c7a5 postgres_fdw: Push down partition-wise aggregation.
Since commit 7012b132d0, postgres_fdw
has been able to push down the toplevel aggregation operation to the
remote server.  Commit e2f1eb0ee3 made
it possible to break down the toplevel aggregation into one
aggregate per partition.  This commit lets postgres_fdw push down
aggregation in that case just as it does at the top level.

In order to make this work, this commit adds an additional argument
to the GetForeignUpperPaths FDW API.  A matching argument is added
to the signature for create_upper_paths_hook.  Third-party code using
either of these will need to be updated.

Also adjust create_foreignscan_plan() so that it picks up the correct
set of relids in this case.

Jeevan Chalke, reviewed by Ashutosh Bapat and by me and with some
adjustments by me.  The larger patch series of which this patch is a
part was also reviewed and tested by Antonin Houska, Rajkumar
Raghuwanshi, David Rowley, Dilip Kumar, Konstantin Knizhnik, Pascal
Legrand, and Rafia Sabih.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAM2+6=V64_xhstVHie0Rz=KPEQnLJMZt_e314P0jaT_oJ9MR8A@mail.gmail.com
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAM2+6=XPWujjmj5zUaBTGDoB38CemwcPmjkRy0qOcsQj_V+2sQ@mail.gmail.com
2018-04-02 10:51:50 -04:00
Andres Freund 7f563c09f8 Add amcheck verification of heap relations belonging to btree indexes.
Add a new, optional, capability to bt_index_check() and
bt_index_parent_check():  check that each heap tuple that should have an
index entry does in fact have one.  The extra checking is performed at
the end of the existing nbtree checks.

This is implemented by using a Bloom filter data structure.  The
implementation performs set membership tests within a callback (the same
type of callback that each index AM registers for CREATE INDEX).  The
Bloom filter is populated during the initial index verification scan.

Reusing the CREATE INDEX infrastructure allows the new verification
option to automatically benefit from the heap consistency checks that
CREATE INDEX already performs.  CREATE INDEX does thorough sanity
checking of HOT chains, so the new check actually manages to detect
problems in heap-only tuples.

Author: Peter Geoghegan
Reviewed-By: Pavan Deolasee, Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-Wzm5VmG7cu1N-H=nnS57wZThoSDQU+F5dewx3o84M+jY=g@mail.gmail.com
2018-03-31 19:52:01 -07:00
Fujii Masao 9a895462d9 Enhance pg_stat_wal_receiver view to display host and port of sender server.
Previously there was no way in the standby side to find out the host and port
of the sender server that the walreceiver was currently connected to when
multiple hosts and ports were specified in primary_conninfo. For that purpose,
this patch adds sender_host and sender_port columns into pg_stat_wal_receiver
view. They report the host and port that the active replication connection
currently uses.

Bump catalog version.

Author: Haribabu Kommi
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier and me

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAJrrPGcV_aq8=cdqkFhVDJKEnDQ70yRTTdY9RODzMnXNrCz2Ow@mail.gmail.com
2018-03-31 07:51:22 +09:00
Bruce Momjian 681673e0c6 docs: add parameter with brackets around varbit()
Reported-by: scott.ure@caseware.com

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/152074343671.1853.18284519607571497106@wrigleys.postgresql.org

Author: Euler Taveira

Backpatch-through: 10
2018-03-30 11:18:08 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 756dca8e7f doc: document "IS NOT DOCUMENT"
Reported-by: scott.ure@caseware.com

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/152056505045.4963.16783351661813640274@wrigleys.postgresql.org

Author: Euler Taveira

Backpatch-through: 10
2018-03-30 10:39:48 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 3da7502cd0 docs: fix spacing around "if not exists" brackets
Reported-by: Fabrízio de Royes Mello

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAFcNs+qDD+QKcF8YCPQnjAxoWN61qY_YdFLB3iQqbWCLSCyY0g@mail.gmail.com

Author: Fabrízio de Royes Mello
2018-03-29 21:25:39 -04:00
Tatsuo Ishii 34c20de4d0 Allow to lock views.
Now all tables used in view definitions can be recursively locked by a
LOCK command.

Author: Yugo Nagata
Reviewed by Robert Haas, Thomas Munro and me.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20171011183629.eb2817b3.nagata%40sraoss.co.jp
2018-03-30 09:18:02 +09:00
Andres Freund fb60478011 Improve JIT docs.
Author: John Naylor and Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAJVSVGUs-VcwSY7-Kx-GQe__8hvWuA4Uhyf3gxoMXeiZqebE9g@mail.gmail.com
2018-03-29 16:13:40 -07:00
Bruce Momjian 7fe04ce920 docs: fix INSTALL.xml build by using "standalone-ignore"
Was broken by "jit" link.
2018-03-29 07:53:57 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 056a5a3f63 Allow committing inside cursor loop
Previously, committing or aborting inside a cursor loop was prohibited
because that would close and remove the cursor.  To allow that,
automatically convert such cursors to holdable cursors so they survive
commits or rollbacks.  Portals now have a new state "auto-held", which
means they have been converted automatically from pinned.  An auto-held
portal is kept on transaction commit or rollback, but is still removed
when returning to the main loop on error.

This supports all languages that have cursor loop constructs: PL/pgSQL,
PL/Python, PL/Perl.

Reviewed-by: Ildus Kurbangaliev <i.kurbangaliev@postgrespro.ru>
2018-03-28 19:03:26 -04:00
Andres Freund a0a08c1d85 Fix mistakes in the just added JIT docs.
Reported-By: Lukas Fittl
Author: Andres Freund
2018-03-28 15:07:08 -07:00
Andres Freund e6c039d13e Add documentation for the JIT feature.
As promised in earlier commits, this adds documentation about the new
build options, the new GUCs, about the planner logic when JIT is used,
and the benefits of JIT in general.

Also adds a more implementation oriented README.

I'm sure we're going to want to expand this further, but I think this
is a reasonable start.

Author: Andres Freund, with contributions by Thomas Munro
Reviewed-By: Thomas Munro
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170901064131.tazjxwus3k2w3ybh@alap3.anarazel.de
2018-03-28 14:22:42 -07:00
Fujii Masao 266b6acb31 Make pg_rewind skip files and directories that are removed during server start.
The target cluster that was rewound needs to perform recovery from
the checkpoint created at failover, which leads it to remove or recreate
some files and directories that may have been copied from the source
cluster. So pg_rewind can skip synchronizing such files and directories,
and which reduces the amount of data transferred during a rewind
without changing the usefulness of the operation.

Author: Michael Paquier
Reviewed-by: Anastasia Lubennikova, Stephen Frost and me

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180205071022.GA17337@paquier.xyz
2018-03-29 04:56:52 +09:00
Peter Eisentraut d92bc83c48 PL/pgSQL: Nested CALL with transactions
So far, a nested CALL or DO in PL/pgSQL would not establish a context
where transaction control statements were allowed.  This fixes that by
handling CALL and DO specially in PL/pgSQL, passing the atomic/nonatomic
execution context through and doing the required management around
transaction boundaries.

Reviewed-by: Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@2ndquadrant.com>
2018-03-28 13:31:27 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 3f44e3db72 Transforms for jsonb to PL/Python
Add a new contrib module jsonb_plpython that provide a transform between
jsonb and PL/Python.  jsonb values are converted to appropriate Python
types such as dicts and lists, and vice versa.

Author: Anthony Bykov <a.bykov@postgrespro.ru>
Reviewed-by: Aleksander Alekseev <a.alekseev@postgrespro.ru>
Reviewed-by: Nikita Glukhov <n.gluhov@postgrespro.ru>
2018-03-28 08:37:18 -04:00
Andrew Dunstan 16828d5c02 Fast ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMN with a non-NULL default
Currently adding a column to a table with a non-NULL default results in
a rewrite of the table. For large tables this can be both expensive and
disruptive. This patch removes the need for the rewrite as long as the
default value is not volatile. The default expression is evaluated at
the time of the ALTER TABLE and the result stored in a new column
(attmissingval) in pg_attribute, and a new column (atthasmissing) is set
to true. Any existing row when fetched will be supplied with the
attmissingval. New rows will have the supplied value or the default and
so will never need the attmissingval.

Any time the table is rewritten all the atthasmissing and attmissingval
settings for the attributes are cleared, as they are no longer needed.

The most visible code change from this is in heap_attisnull, which
acquires a third TupleDesc argument, allowing it to detect a missing
value if there is one. In many cases where it is known that there will
not be any (e.g.  catalog relations) NULL can be passed for this
argument.

Andrew Dunstan, heavily modified from an original patch from Serge
Rielau.
Reviewed by Tom Lane, Andres Freund, Tomas Vondra and David Rowley.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/31e2e921-7002-4c27-59f5-51f08404c858@2ndQuadrant.com
2018-03-28 10:43:52 +10:30
Simon Riggs c203d6cf81 Allow HOT updates for some expression indexes
If the value of an index expression is unchanged after UPDATE,
allow HOT updates where previously we disallowed them, giving
a significant performance boost in those cases.

Particularly useful for indexes such as JSON->>field where the
JSON value changes but the indexed value does not.

Submitted as "surjective indexes" patch, now enabled by use
of new "recheck_on_update" parameter.

Author: Konstantin Knizhnik
Reviewer: Simon Riggs, with much wordsmithing and some cleanup
2018-03-27 19:57:02 +01:00
Peter Eisentraut 1944cdc982 libpq: PQhost to return active connected host or hostaddr
Previously, PQhost didn't return the connected host details when the
connection type was CHT_HOST_ADDRESS (i.e., via hostaddr).  Instead, it
returned the complete host connection parameter (which could contain
multiple hosts) or the default host details, which was confusing and
arguably incorrect.

Change this to return the actually connected host or hostaddr
irrespective of the connection type.  When hostaddr but no host was
specified, hostaddr is now returned.  Never return the original host
connection parameter, and document that PQhost cannot be relied on
before the connection is established.

PQport is similarly changed to always return the active connection port
and never the original connection parameter.

Author: Hari Babu <kommi.haribabu@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro HORIGUCHI <horiguchi.kyotaro@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Reviewed-by: David G. Johnston <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>
2018-03-27 12:32:18 -04:00
Teodor Sigaev 920a5e500a Skip temp tables from basebackup.
Do not store temp tables in basebackup, they will not be visible anyway, so,
there are not reasons to store them.

Author: David Steel
Reviewed by: me
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/5ea4d26a-a453-c1b7-eff9-5a3ef8f8aceb@pgmasters.net
2018-03-27 16:14:40 +03:00
Teodor Sigaev 64f85894ad Set random seed for pgbench.
Setting random could increase reproducibility of test in some cases. Patch
suggests three providers for seed: time (default), strong random
generator (if available) and unsigned constant. Seed could be set from
command line or enviroment variable.

Author: Fabien Coelho
Reviewed by: Chapman Flack
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/20160407082711.q7iq3ykffqxcszkv@alap3.anarazel.de
2018-03-26 18:26:27 +03:00
Alvaro Herrera 555ee77a96 Handle INSERT .. ON CONFLICT with partitioned tables
Commit eb7ed3f306 enabled unique constraints on partitioned tables,
but one thing that was not working properly is INSERT/ON CONFLICT.
This commit introduces a new node keeps state related to the ON CONFLICT
clause per partition, and fills it when that partition is about to be
used for tuple routing.

Author: Amit Langote, Álvaro Herrera
Reviewed-by: Etsuro Fujita, Pavan Deolasee
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180228004602.cwdyralmg5ejdqkq@alvherre.pgsql
2018-03-26 10:43:54 -03:00
Tom Lane c515ff8d0a Doc: add example of type resolution in nested UNIONs.
Section 10.5 didn't say explicitly that multiple UNIONs are resolved
pairwise.  Since the resolution algorithm is described as taking any
number of inputs, readers might well think that a query like
"select x union select y union select z" would be resolved by
considering x, y, and z in one resolution step.  But that's not what
happens (and I think that behavior is per SQL spec).  Add an example
clarifying this point.

Per bug #15129 from Philippe Beaudoin.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/152196085023.32649.9916472370480121694@wrigleys.postgresql.org
2018-03-25 16:15:15 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut bf4a8676c3 pg_resetwal: Allow users to change the WAL segment size
This adds a new option --wal-segsize (analogous to initdb) that changes
the WAL segment size in pg_control.

Author: Nathan Bossart <bossartn@amazon.com>
2018-03-25 14:58:49 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 8ad8d916f9 initdb: Further polishing of --wal-segsize option
Extend documentation.  Improve option parsing in case no argument was
specified.
2018-03-25 14:58:21 -04:00
Tom Lane ee4a2c4a03 Doc: remove extra comma in syntax summary for array_fill().
Noted by Scott Ure.  Back-patch to all supported branches.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/152199346794.4544.1888397173908716912@wrigleys.postgresql.org
2018-03-25 12:38:21 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut e22b27f0cb Add long options to pg_resetwal and pg_controldata
We were running out of good single-letter options for some upcoming
pg_resetwal functionality, so add long options to create more
possibilities.  Add to pg_controldata as well for symmetry.

based on patch by Bossart, Nathan <bossartn@amazon.com>
2018-03-24 21:49:53 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 4644a1170f Improve pg_resetwal documentation
Clarify that the -l option takes a file name, not an "address", and that
that might be different from the LSN if nondefault WAL segment sizes are
used.
2018-03-24 15:38:57 -04:00
Noah Misch c92f7c6223 Don't qualify type pg_catalog.text in extend-extensions-example.
Extension scripts begin execution with pg_catalog at the front of the
search path, so type names reliably refer to pg_catalog.  Remove these
superfluous qualifications.  Earlier <programlisting> of this <sect1>
already omitted them.  Back-patch to 9.3 (all supported versions).
2018-03-23 20:31:03 -07:00
Teodor Sigaev 8694cc96b5 Exclude unlogged tables from base backups
Exclude unlogged tables from base backup entirely except init fork which marks
created unlogged table. The next question is do not backup temp table but
it's a story for separate patch.

Author: David Steele
Review by: Adam Brightwell, Masahiko Sawada
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/04791bab-cb04-ba43-e9c0-664a4c1ffb2c@pgmasters.net
2018-03-23 19:14:12 +03:00
Alvaro Herrera 86f575948c Allow FOR EACH ROW triggers on partitioned tables
Previously, FOR EACH ROW triggers were not allowed in partitioned
tables.  Now we allow AFTER triggers on them, and on trigger creation we
cascade to create an identical trigger in each partition.  We also clone
the triggers to each partition that is created or attached later.

This means that deferred unique keys are allowed on partitioned tables,
too.

Author: Álvaro Herrera
Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut, Simon Riggs, Amit Langote, Robert Haas,
	Thomas Munro
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20171229225319.ajltgss2ojkfd3kp@alvherre.pgsql
2018-03-23 10:48:22 -03:00
Tom Lane 7c91a0364f Sync up our various ways of estimating pg_class.reltuples.
VACUUM thought that reltuples represents the total number of tuples in
the relation, while ANALYZE counted only live tuples.  This can cause
"flapping" in the value when background vacuums and analyzes happen
separately.  The planner's use of reltuples essentially assumes that
it's the count of live (visible) tuples, so let's standardize on having
it mean live tuples.

Another issue is that the definition of "live tuple" isn't totally clear;
what should be done with INSERT_IN_PROGRESS or DELETE_IN_PROGRESS tuples?
ANALYZE's choices in this regard are made on the assumption that if the
originating transaction commits at all, it will happen after ANALYZE
finishes, so we should ignore the effects of the in-progress transaction
--- unless it is our own transaction, and then we should count it.
Let's propagate this definition into VACUUM, too.

Likewise propagate this definition into CREATE INDEX, and into
contrib/pgstattuple's pgstattuple_approx() function.

Tomas Vondra, reviewed by Haribabu Kommi, some corrections by me

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16db4468-edfa-830a-f921-39a50498e77e@2ndquadrant.com
2018-03-22 15:47:41 -04:00
Robert Haas f644c3b386 doc: Update parallel join documentation for Parallel Shared Hash.
Thomas Munro

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAEepm=3XdL=+bn3=WQVCCT5wwfAEv-4onKpk+XQZdwDXv6etzA@mail.gmail.com
2018-03-22 13:26:12 -04:00
Robert Haas e2f1eb0ee3 Implement partition-wise grouping/aggregation.
If the partition keys of input relation are part of the GROUP BY
clause, all the rows belonging to a given group come from a single
partition.  This allows aggregation/grouping over a partitioned
relation to be broken down * into aggregation/grouping on each
partition.  This should be no worse, and often better, than the normal
approach.

If the GROUP BY clause does not contain all the partition keys, we can
still perform partial aggregation for each partition and then finalize
aggregation after appending the partial results.  This is less certain
to be a win, but it's still useful.

Jeevan Chalke, Ashutosh Bapat, Robert Haas.  The larger patch series
of which this patch is a part was also reviewed and tested by Antonin
Houska, Rajkumar Raghuwanshi, David Rowley, Dilip Kumar, Konstantin
Knizhnik, Pascal Legrand, and Rafia Sabih.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAM2+6=V64_xhstVHie0Rz=KPEQnLJMZt_e314P0jaT_oJ9MR8A@mail.gmail.com
2018-03-22 12:49:48 -04:00
Teodor Sigaev f67b113ac6 Add \if support to pgbench
Patch adds \if to pgbench as it done for psql. Implementation shares condition
stack code with psql, so, this code is moved to fe_utils directory.

Author: Fabien COELHO with minor editorization by me
Review by: Vik Fearing, Fedor Sigaev
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/alpine.DEB.2.20.1711252200190.28523@lancre
2018-03-22 17:42:03 +03:00
Teodor Sigaev e51a04840a Add general purpose hasing functions to pgbench.
Hashing function is useful for simulating real-world workload in test like
WEB workload, as an example - YCSB benchmarks.

Author: Ildar Musin with minor editorization by me
Reviewed by: Fabien Coelho, me
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/0e8bd39e-dfcd-2879-f88f-272799ad7ef2@postgrespro.ru
2018-03-21 18:01:23 +03:00
Tatsuo Ishii 8bb3c7d347 Fix typo.
Patch by me.
2018-03-21 23:19:46 +09:00
Peter Eisentraut 325f2ec555 Handle heap rewrites even better in logical decoding
Logical decoding should not publish anything about tables created as
part of a heap rewrite during DDL.  Those tables don't exist externally,
so consumers of logical decoding cannot do anything sensible with that
information.  In ab28feae2b, we worked
around this for built-in logical replication, but that was hack.

This is a more proper fix: We mark such transient heaps using the new
field pg_class.relwrite, linking to the original relation OID.  By
default, we ignore them in logical decoding before they get to the
output plugin.  Optionally, a plugin can register their interest in
getting such changes, if they handle DDL specially, in which case the
new field will help them get information about the actual table.

Reviewed-by: Craig Ringer <craig@2ndquadrant.com>
2018-03-21 09:15:04 -04:00
Teodor Sigaev be8a7a6866 Add strict_word_similarity to pg_trgm module
strict_word_similarity is similar to existing word_similarity function but
it takes into account word boundaries to compute similarity.

Author: Alexander Korotkov
Review by: David Steele, Liudmila Mantrova, me
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CY4PR17MB13207ED8310F847CF117EED0D85A0@CY4PR17MB1320.namprd17.prod.outlook.com
2018-03-21 14:57:42 +03:00
Teodor Sigaev aea7c17e86 Rework word_similarity documentation, make it close to actual algorithm.
word_similarity before claimed as returning similarity of closest word in
string, but, actually it returns similarity of substring. Also fix mistyped
comments.

Author: Alexander Korotkov
Review by: David Steele, Liudmila Mantrova
Discussionis:
https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CY4PR17MB13207ED8310F847CF117EED0D85A0@CY4PR17MB1320.namprd17.prod.outlook.com
https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/f43b242d-000c-f4c8-cb8b-d37e9752cd93%40postgrespro.ru
2018-03-21 14:35:56 +03:00
Peter Eisentraut d652e3525b doc: Small wording improvement 2018-03-21 07:27:26 -04:00
Andres Freund 6869b4f258 Add C++ support to configure.
This is an optional dependency. It'll be used for the upcoming LLVM
based just in time compilation support, which needs to wrap a few LLVM
C++ APIs so they're accessible from C..

For now test for C++ compilers unconditionally, without failing if not
present, to ensure wide buildfarm coverage. If we're bothered by the
additional test times (which are quite short) or verbosity, we can
later make the tests conditional on --with-llvm.

Author: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170901064131.tazjxwus3k2w3ybh@alap3.anarazel.de
2018-03-20 15:48:48 -07:00
Tom Lane b6cbe9ea1a Doc: typo fix, "PG_" should be "TG_" here.
Too much PG on the brain in commit 769159fd3, evidently.
Noted by marcelhuberfoo@gmail.com.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/152154834496.11957.17112112802418832865@wrigleys.postgresql.org
2018-03-20 11:34:25 -04:00
Tom Lane a467832047 Doc: note that statement-level view triggers require an INSTEAD OF trigger.
If a view lacks an INSTEAD OF trigger, DML on it can only work by rewriting
the command into a command on the underlying base table(s).  Then we will
fire triggers attached to those table(s), not those for the view.  This
seems appropriate from a consistency standpoint, but nowhere was the
behavior explicitly documented, so let's do that.

There was some discussion of throwing an error or warning if a statement
trigger is created on a view without creating a row INSTEAD OF trigger.
But a simple implementation of that would result in dump/restore ordering
hazards.  Given that it's been like this all along, and we hadn't heard
a complaint till now, a documentation improvement seems sufficient.

Per bug #15106 from Pu Qun.  Back-patch to all supported branches.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/152083391168.1215.16892140713507052796@wrigleys.postgresql.org
2018-03-18 15:10:28 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut e3bdb2d926 Set libpq sslcompression to off by default
Since SSL compression is no longer recommended, turn the default in
libpq from on to off.

OpenSSL 1.1.0 and many distribution packages already turn compression
off by default, so such a server won't accept compression anyway.  So
this will mainly affect users of older OpenSSL installations.

Also update the documentation to make clear that this setting is no
longer recommended.

Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/595cf3b1-4ffe-7f05-6f72-f72b7afa7993%402ndquadrant.com
2018-03-17 09:17:33 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 8a3d942529 Add ssl_passphrase_command setting
This allows specifying an external command for prompting for or
otherwise obtaining passphrases for SSL key files.  This is useful
because in many cases there is no TTY easily available during service
startup.

Also add a setting ssl_passphrase_command_supports_reload, which allows
supporting SSL configuration reload even if SSL files need passphrases.

Reviewed-by: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
2018-03-17 08:28:51 -04:00
Tom Lane 013c0baadd Doc: explicitly point out that enum values can't be dropped.
This was not stated in so many words anywhere.  Document it to make
clear that it's a design limitation and not just an oversight or
documentation omission.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/152089733343.1222.6927268289645380498@wrigleys.postgresql.org
2018-03-16 13:44:43 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut f66e8bf875 Remove pg_class.relhaspkey
It is not used for anything internally, and it cannot be relied on for
external uses, so it can just be removed.  To correct recommended way to
check for a primary key is in pg_index.

Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/b1a24c6c-6913-f89c-674e-0704f0ed69db@2ndquadrant.com
2018-03-14 15:31:34 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 33803f67f1 Support INOUT arguments in procedures
In a top-level CALL, the values of INOUT arguments will be returned as a
result row.  In PL/pgSQL, the values are assigned back to the input
arguments.  In other languages, the same convention as for return a
record from a function is used.  That does not require any code changes
in the PL implementations.

Reviewed-by: Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>
2018-03-14 12:07:28 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera 484a4a08ab Log when a BRIN autosummarization request fails
Autovacuum's 'workitem' request queue is of limited size, so requests
can fail if they arrive more quickly than autovacuum can process them.
Emit a log message when this happens, to provide better visibility of
this.

Backpatch to 10.  While this represents an API change for
AutoVacuumRequestWork, that function is not yet prepared to deal with
external modules calling it, so there doesn't seem to be any risk (other
than log spam, that is.)

Author: Masahiko Sawada
Reviewed-by: Fabrízio Mello, Ildar Musin, Álvaro Herrera
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAD21AoB1HrQhp6_4rTyHN5kWEJCEsG8YzsjZNt-ctoXSn5Uisw@mail.gmail.com
2018-03-14 11:59:40 -03:00
Alvaro Herrera 63cbee6a78 doc: Reword restriction on partition keys in unique indexes
New wording from David G. Johnston, who noticed the unreadable original
also.  Include his suggested test case as well.

Fix a typo I noticed elsewhere while doing this.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAKFQuwY4Ld7ecxL_KAmaxwt0FUu5VcPPN2L4dh+3BeYbrdBa5g@mail.gmail.com
2018-03-12 13:32:28 -03:00
Alvaro Herrera 3beb46ae81 docs: Fix typo: a -> an
David Rowley
2018-03-12 12:58:35 -03:00
Alvaro Herrera c4af6960e3 Remove doc sentence no longer applicable
Amit Langote
2018-03-12 11:38:40 -03:00
Tom Lane 4e0c743c18 Fix cross-checking of ReservedBackends/max_wal_senders/MaxConnections.
We were independently checking ReservedBackends < MaxConnections and
max_wal_senders < MaxConnections, but because walsenders aren't allowed
to use superuser-reserved connections, that's really the wrong thing.
Correct behavior is to insist on ReservedBackends + max_wal_senders being
less than MaxConnections.  Fix the code and associated documentation.

This has been wrong for a long time, but since the situation probably
hardly ever arises in the field (especially pre-v10, when the default
for max_wal_senders was zero), no back-patch.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/28271.1520195491@sss.pgh.pa.us
2018-03-08 11:25:26 -05:00
Peter Eisentraut d40c7cd004 doc: Add more substructure to SSL documentation
The SSL documentation text has gotten a bit long, so add some
subsections and reorder for better flow.
2018-03-07 11:32:51 -05:00
Peter Eisentraut a3739e376f doc: Improve calculation of vm.nr_hugepages
The previous method worked off the full virtual address space, not just
the shared memory usage.

Author: Tsunakawa, Takayuki <tsunakawa.takay@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
Reviewed-by: Vasundhar Boddapati <bvasundhar@gmail.com>
2018-03-06 21:45:28 -05:00
Peter Eisentraut 0c2c81b403 doc: Add replication parameter to libpq documentation
Author: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Reported-by: Şahap Aşçı <sahapasci@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Vik Fearing <vik.fearing@2ndquadrant.com>
2018-03-06 21:00:10 -05:00
Peter Eisentraut 4c831aeaa7 Tests for Kerberos/GSSAPI authentication
Like the LDAP and SSL tests, these are not run by default but can be
selected via PG_TEST_EXTRA.

Reviewed-by: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@enterprisedb.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
2018-03-06 10:57:36 -05:00
Andres Freund 854dd8cff5 Add parenthesized options syntax for ANALYZE.
This is analogous to the syntax allowed for VACUUM. This allows us to
avoid making new options reserved keywords and makes it easier to
allow arbitrary argument order. Oh, and it's consistent with the other
commands, too.

Author: Nathan Bossart
Reviewed-By: Michael Paquier, Masahiko Sawada
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/D3FC73E2-9B1A-4DB4-8180-55F57D116B4E@amazon.com
2018-03-05 16:21:05 -08:00
Alvaro Herrera 5564c11815 Clone extended stats in CREATE TABLE (LIKE INCLUDING ALL)
The LIKE INCLUDING ALL clause to CREATE TABLE intuitively indicates
cloning of extended statistics on the source table, but it failed to do
so.  Patch it up so that it does.  Also include an INCLUDING STATISTICS
option to the LIKE clause, so that the behavior can be requested
individually, or excluded individually.

While at it, reorder the INCLUDING options, both in code and in docs, in
alphabetical order which makes more sense than feature-implementation
order that was previously used.

Backpatch this to Postgres 10, where extended statistics were
introduced, because this is seen as an oversight in a fresh feature
which is better to get consistent from the get-go instead of changing
only in pg11.

In pg11, comments on statistics objects are cloned too.  In pg10 they
are not, because I (Álvaro) was too coward to change the parse node as
required to support it.  Also, in pg10 I chose not to renumber the
parser symbols for the various INCLUDING options in LIKE, for the same
reason.  Any corresponding user-visible changes (docs) are backpatched,
though.

Reported-by: Stephen Froehlich
Author: David Rowley
Reviewed-by: Álvaro Herrera, Tomas Vondra
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CY1PR0601MB1927315B45667A1B679D0FD5E5EF0@CY1PR0601MB1927.namprd06.prod.outlook.com
2018-03-05 19:37:19 -03:00
Peter Eisentraut dd9ed0bf70 doc: Tiny whitespace fix 2018-03-05 11:27:08 -05:00
Peter Eisentraut 7726147f53 doc: Small wording improvement
Replace "checkpoint segment" with "WAL segment".

Reported-by: Maksim Milyutin <milyutinma@gmail.com>
2018-03-03 14:23:13 -05:00
Peter Eisentraut e568eed2fc doc: Fix links to pg_stat_replication
In PostgreSQL 9.5, the documentation for pg_stat_replication was moved,
so some of the links pointed to an appropriate location.

Author: Maksim Milyutin <milyutinma@gmail.com>
2018-03-03 14:16:39 -05:00
Peter Eisentraut 506652bcae doc: Improve wording 2018-03-03 09:56:17 -05:00
Peter Eisentraut fdb34824e0 Add PG_TEST_EXTRA to control optional test suites
The SSL and LDAP test suites are not run by default, as they are not
secure for multi-user environments.  This commit adds an extra make
variable to optionally enable them, for example:

make check-world PG_TEST_EXTRA='ldap ssl'

Author: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
2018-03-03 01:40:48 -05:00
Peter Eisentraut fd1a421fe6 Add prokind column, replacing proisagg and proiswindow
The new column distinguishes normal functions, procedures, aggregates,
and window functions.  This replaces the existing columns proisagg and
proiswindow, and replaces the convention that procedures are indicated
by prorettype == 0.  Also change prorettype to be VOIDOID for procedures.

Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
2018-03-02 13:48:33 -05:00
Andres Freund 9c4968469a doc: mention PROVE_TESTS in section of TAP tests.
Author: Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180217140305.GB31338@paquier.xyz
2018-03-01 01:50:27 -08:00
Andres Freund a88609089a doc: Add WaitForBackgroundWorkerShutdown() to bgw docs.
Commit 924bcf4f16 added WaitForBackgroundWorkerShutdown, but didn't
add it to the documentation. Fix that and two small spelling errors in
the WaitForBackgroundWorkerStartup paragraph.

Author: Daniel Gustafsson
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/C8738949-0350-4999-A1DA-26E209FF248D@yesql.se
2018-03-01 01:46:04 -08:00
Andres Freund 8c438fcc9f doc: Add random_zipfian to list of random functions with argument.
Author: Ildar Musin
Reviewed-By: Fabian Coelho
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/6376ed81-3ce8-14f4-4758-099872f4ce7d@postgrespro.ru
2018-03-01 01:40:00 -08:00
Tom Lane d3b851e9a3 Doc: remove duplicate poly_ops row from SP-GiST opclass table.
Commit ff963b393 added two identical copies of this row.

Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/d8j8tdevb7x.fsf@dalvik.ping.uio.no
2018-02-28 18:54:57 -05:00
Robert Haas 73797b7884 Document LWTRANCHE_PARALLEL_HASH_JOIN.
Thomas Munro

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAEepm=3g1hhbFzYkR_QT9RmBvsGX4UaeCtX-4Js8OOEMmFeaSQ@mail.gmail.com
2018-02-28 11:46:26 -05:00
Peter Eisentraut 6d933da306 doc: Improve man build speed
Turn off man.endnotes.are.numbered parameter, which we don't need, but
which increases performance vastly if off.  Also turn on
man.output.quietly, which also makes things a bit faster, but which is
also less useful now as a progress indicator because the build is so
fast now.
2018-02-28 09:26:36 -05:00
Peter Eisentraut d21ddc220f Fix warnings in man page build
The changes in the CREATE POLICY man page from commit
87c2a17fee triggered a stylesheet bug that
created some warning messages and incorrect output.  This installs a
workaround.

Also improve the whitespace a bit so it looks better.
2018-02-28 08:22:51 -05:00
Robert Haas 6614aaa699 doc: Fix grammar.
Michael Paquier

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/20180209135327.GC29003@paquier.xyz
2018-02-27 14:41:10 -05:00
Tom Lane 8af3855699 Last-minute updates for release notes.
Security: CVE-2018-1058
2018-02-26 12:14:27 -05:00
Noah Misch 5770172cb0 Document security implications of search_path and the public schema.
The ability to create like-named objects in different schemas opens up
the potential for users to change the behavior of other users' queries,
maliciously or accidentally.  When you connect to a PostgreSQL server,
you should remove from your search_path any schema for which a user
other than yourself or superusers holds the CREATE privilege.  If you do
not, other users holding CREATE privilege can redefine the behavior of
your commands, causing them to perform arbitrary SQL statements under
your identity.  "SET search_path = ..." and "SELECT
pg_catalog.set_config(...)" are not vulnerable to such hijacking, so one
can use either as the first command of a session.  As special
exceptions, the following client applications behave as documented
regardless of search_path settings and schema privileges: clusterdb
createdb createlang createuser dropdb droplang dropuser ecpg (not
programs it generates) initdb oid2name pg_archivecleanup pg_basebackup
pg_config pg_controldata pg_ctl pg_dump pg_dumpall pg_isready
pg_receivewal pg_recvlogical pg_resetwal pg_restore pg_rewind pg_standby
pg_test_fsync pg_test_timing pg_upgrade pg_waldump reindexdb vacuumdb
vacuumlo.  Not included are core client programs that run user-specified
SQL commands, namely psql and pgbench.  PostgreSQL encourages non-core
client applications to do likewise.

Document this in the context of libpq connections, psql connections,
dblink connections, ECPG connections, extension packaging, and schema
usage patterns.  The principal defense for applications is "SELECT
pg_catalog.set_config('search_path', '', false)", and the principal
defense for databases is "REVOKE CREATE ON SCHEMA public FROM PUBLIC".
Either one is sufficient to prevent attack.  After a REVOKE, consider
auditing the public schema for objects named like pg_catalog objects.

Authors of SECURITY DEFINER functions use some of the same defenses, and
the CREATE FUNCTION reference page already covered them thoroughly.
This is a good opportunity to audit SECURITY DEFINER functions for
robust security practice.

Back-patch to 9.3 (all supported versions).

Reviewed by Michael Paquier and Jonathan S. Katz.  Reported by Arseniy
Sharoglazov.

Security: CVE-2018-1058
2018-02-26 07:39:44 -08:00
Tom Lane 1316417bba Release notes for 10.3, 9.6.8, 9.5.12, 9.4.17, 9.3.22. 2018-02-25 14:52:51 -05:00
Tom Lane eec1a8cb6c First-draft release notes for 10.3. 2018-02-23 17:20:26 -05:00
Noah Misch fe35cea7cf Synchronize doc/ copies of src/test/examples/.
This is mostly cosmetic, but it might fix build failures, on some
platform, when copying from the documentation.

Back-patch to 9.3 (all supported versions).
2018-02-23 11:24:04 -08:00
Peter Eisentraut 0db2fc98cd Update gratuitous use of MD5 in documentation
It seems some people are bothered by the outdated MD5 appearing in
example code.  So replace it with more modern alternatives or by
a different example function.

Reported-by: Jon Wolski <jonwolski@gmail.com>
2018-02-22 11:34:54 -05:00
Peter Eisentraut 10cfce34c0 Add user-callable SHA-2 functions
Add the user-callable functions sha224, sha256, sha384, sha512.  We
already had these in the C code to support SCRAM, but there was no test
coverage outside of the SCRAM tests.  Adding these as user-callable
functions allows writing some tests.  Also, we have a user-callable md5
function but no more modern alternative, which led to wide use of md5 as
a general-purpose hash function, which leads to occasional complaints
about using md5.

Also mark the existing md5 functions as leak-proof.

Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
2018-02-22 11:34:53 -05:00
Alvaro Herrera 9a89f6d854 Adjust ALTER TABLE docs on partitioned constraints
Move the "additional restrictions" comment to ALTER TABLE ADD
CONSTRAINT instead of ADD CONSTRAINT USING INDEX; and in the latter
instead indicate that partitioned tables are unsupported

Noted by David G. Johnston
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAKFQuwY4Ld7ecxL_KAmaxwt0FUu5VcPPN2L4dh+3BeYbrdBa5g@mail.gmail.com
2018-02-20 12:08:55 -03:00
Alvaro Herrera eb7ed3f306 Allow UNIQUE indexes on partitioned tables
If we restrict unique constraints on partitioned tables so that they
must always include the partition key, then our standard approach to
unique indexes already works --- each unique key is forced to exist
within a single partition, so enforcing the unique restriction in each
index individually is enough to have it enforced globally.  Therefore we
can implement unique indexes on partitions by simply removing a few
restrictions (and adding others.)

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20171222212921.hi6hg6pem2w2t36z@alvherre.pgsql
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20171229230607.3iib6b62fn3uaf47@alvherre.pgsql
Reviewed-by: Simon Riggs, Jesper Pedersen, Peter Eisentraut, Jaime
	Casanova, Amit Langote
2018-02-19 17:40:00 -03:00
Peter Eisentraut 2fb1abaeb0 Rename enable_partition_wise_join to enable_partitionwise_join
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/ad24e4f4-6481-066e-e3fb-6ef4a3121882%402ndquadrant.com
2018-02-16 10:33:59 -05:00
Tom Lane 439c7bc1a0 Doc: fix minor bug in CREATE TABLE example.
One example in create_table.sgml claimed to be showing table constraint
syntax, but it was really column constraint syntax due to the omission
of a comma.  This is both wrong and confusing, so fix it in all
supported branches.

Per report from neil@postgrescompare.com.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/151871659877.1393.2431103178451978795@wrigleys.postgresql.org
2018-02-15 13:56:38 -05:00