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Heikki Linnakangas aa05c37e82 Add -d option to pg_basebackup and pg_receivexlog, for connection string.
Without this, there's no way to pass arbitrary libpq connection parameters
to these applications. It's a bit strange that the option is called
-d/--dbname, when in fact you can *not* pass a database name in it, but it's
consistent with other client applications where a connection string is also
passed using -d.

Original patch by Amit Kapila, heavily modified by me.
2013-02-25 14:59:33 +02:00
Peter Eisentraut 3163baa6d2 doc: Remove PostgreSQL version number from xml2 deprecation notice
It is obviously no longer true.
2013-02-24 15:38:07 -05:00
Peter Eisentraut 8e8d0f7e80 doc: Add more compatibility information for triggers
Louis-Claude Canon and Josh Kupershmidt
2013-02-23 00:28:33 -05:00
Alvaro Herrera 4591933549 Fix some typos and grammatical mistakes
... as well a update copyrights statements to 2013.

Noted by Thom Brown and Peter Geoghegan
2013-02-22 18:52:59 -03:00
Alvaro Herrera 639ed4e84b Add pg_xlogdump contrib program
This program relies on rm_desc backend routines and the xlogreader
infrastructure to emit human-readable rendering of WAL records.

Author: Andres Freund, with many reworks by Álvaro
Reviewed (in a much earlier version) by Peter Eisentraut
2013-02-22 16:56:55 -03:00
Tom Lane d0d75c4022 Add postgres_fdw contrib module.
There's still a lot of room for improvement, but it basically works,
and we need this to be present before we can do anything much with the
writable-foreign-tables patch.  So let's commit it and get on with testing.

Shigeru Hanada, reviewed by KaiGai Kohei and Tom Lane
2013-02-21 05:27:16 -05:00
Peter Eisentraut 9475db3a4e Add ALTER ROLE ALL SET command
This generalizes the existing ALTER ROLE ... SET and ALTER DATABASE
... SET functionality to allow creating settings that apply to all users
in all databases.

reviewed by Pavel Stehule
2013-02-17 23:45:36 -05:00
Peter Eisentraut ff64fd49ce doc: Add make target to produce EPUB from DocBook 2013-02-13 23:12:21 -05:00
Heikki Linnakangas 62401db45c Support unlogged GiST index.
The reason this wasn't supported before was that GiST indexes need an
increasing sequence to detect concurrent page-splits. In a regular WAL-
logged GiST index, the LSN of the page-split record is used for that
purpose, and in a temporary index, we can get away with a backend-local
counter. Neither of those methods works for an unlogged relation.

To provide such an increasing sequence of numbers, create a "fake LSN"
counter that is saved and restored across shutdowns. On recovery, unlogged
relations are blown away, so the counter doesn't need to survive that
either.

Jeevan Chalke, based on discussions with Robert Haas, Tom Lane and me.
2013-02-11 23:07:09 +02:00
Tom Lane 3a1f8cdfa9 Add an example of attaching a default value to an updatable view.
This is probably the single most useful thing that ALTER VIEW can do,
particularly now that we have auto-updatable views.  So show an explicit
example.
2013-02-09 11:43:48 -05:00
Tom Lane c61e26ee3e Add support for ALTER RULE ... RENAME TO.
Ali Dar, reviewed by Dean Rasheed.
2013-02-08 23:58:40 -05:00
Tom Lane 335c5e9206 doc: Fix mistakes in the most recent set of release notes.
Improve description of the vacuum_freeze_table_age bug (it's much more
serious than we realized at the time the fix was committed), and correct
attribution of pg_upgrade -O/-o fix (Marti Raudsepp contributed that,
but Bruce forgot to credit him in the commit log).

No need to back-patch right now, it'll happen when the next set of
release notes are prepared.
2013-02-08 10:41:15 -05:00
Peter Eisentraut 858ef718ba doc: Rewrite how to get the source code
Instead of hardcoding a specific link, give a general link to the
download section of the web site.  This gives the user more download
options and the sysadmins more flexibility.  Also, the previously
presented link didn't work for devel versions.
2013-02-07 23:28:42 -05:00
Andrew Dunstan e1c1e21732 Enable building with Microsoft Visual Studio 2012.
Backpatch to release 9.2

Brar Piening and Noah Misch, reviewed by Craig Ringer.
2013-02-06 14:52:29 -05:00
Tom Lane ab0f7b6089 Prevent execution of enum_recv() from SQL.
This function was misdeclared to take cstring when it should take internal.
This at least allows crashing the server, and in principle an attacker
might be able to use the function to examine the contents of server memory.

The correct fix is to adjust the system catalog contents (and fix the
regression tests that should have caught this but failed to).  However,
asking users to correct the catalog contents in existing installations
is a pain, so as a band-aid fix for the back branches, install a check
in enum_recv() to make it throw error if called with a cstring argument.
We will later revert this in HEAD in favor of correcting the catalogs.

Our thanks to Sumit Soni (via Secunia SVCRP) for reporting this issue.

Security: CVE-2013-0255
2013-02-04 16:25:01 -05:00
Tom Lane 318db6b2a0 Update release notes for 9.2.3, 9.1.8, 9.0.12, 8.4.16, 8.3.23. 2013-02-04 15:50:42 -05:00
Simon Riggs f480e29449 Reset vacuum_defer_cleanup_age to PGC_SIGHUP.
Revert commit 84725aa5ef
2013-02-04 16:39:55 +00:00
Simon Riggs bd56e74127 Reset master xmin when hot_standby_feedback disabled.
If walsender has xmin of standby then ensure we
reset the value to 0 when we change from hot_standby_feedback=on
to hot_standby_feedback=off.
2013-02-04 10:29:22 +00:00
Tom Lane 62e666400d Perform line wrapping and indenting by default in ruleutils.c.
This patch changes pg_get_viewdef() and allied functions so that
PRETTY_INDENT processing is always enabled.  Per discussion, only the
PRETTY_PAREN processing (that is, stripping of "unnecessary" parentheses)
poses any real forward-compatibility risk, so we may as well make dump
output look as nice as we safely can.

Also, set the default wrap length to zero (i.e, wrap after each SELECT
or FROM list item), since there's no very principled argument for the
former default of 80-column wrapping, and most people seem to agree this
way looks better.

Marko Tiikkaja, reviewed by Jeevan Chalke, further hacking by Tom Lane
2013-02-03 15:56:45 -05:00
Peter Eisentraut 330ed4ac6c PL/Python: Add result object str handler
This is intended so that say plpy.debug(rv) prints something useful for
debugging query execution results.

reviewed by Steve Singer
2013-02-03 00:31:01 -05:00
Tom Lane d2d153fdb0 Create a psql command \gset to store query results into psql variables.
This eases manipulation of query results in psql scripts.

Pavel Stehule, reviewed by Piyush Newe, Shigeru Hanada, and Tom Lane
2013-02-02 17:06:38 -05:00
Tom Lane 101d6ae755 Prevent "\g filename" from affecting subsequent commands after an error.
In the previous coding, psql's state variable saying that output should
go to a file was only reset after successful completion of a query
returning tuples.  Thus for example,

regression=# select 1/0
regression-# \g somefile
ERROR:  division by zero
regression=# select 1/2;
regression=#

... huh, I wonder where that output went.  Even more oddly, the state
was not reset even if it's the file that's causing the failure:

regression=# select 1/2 \g /foo
/foo: Permission denied
regression=# select 1/2;
/foo: Permission denied
regression=# select 1/2;
/foo: Permission denied

This seems to me not to satisfy the principle of least surprise.
\g is certainly not documented in a way that suggests its effects are
at all persistent.

To fix, adjust the code so that the flag is reset at exit from SendQuery
no matter what happened.

Noted while reviewing the \gset patch, which had comparable issues.
Arguably this is a bug fix, but I'll refrain from back-patching for now.
2013-02-02 14:22:17 -05:00
Simon Riggs 84725aa5ef Mark vacuum_defer_cleanup_age as PGC_POSTMASTER.
Following bug analysis of #7819 by Tom Lane
2013-02-02 18:49:54 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut f4987049ef doc: Tiny whitespace fix 2013-02-01 21:44:22 -05:00
Peter Eisentraut 5839052693 Add CREATE RECURSIVE VIEW syntax
This is specified in the SQL standard.  The CREATE RECURSIVE VIEW
specification is transformed into a normal CREATE VIEW statement with a
WITH RECURSIVE clause.

reviewed by Abhijit Menon-Sen and Stephen Frost
2013-01-31 22:31:58 -05:00
Bruce Momjian a11e15c7b6 pg_upgrade docs: mention modification of postgresql.conf in new cluster
Mention it might be necessary to modify postgresql.conf in the new
cluster to match the old cluster.

Backpatch to 9.2.

Suggested by user.
2013-01-31 16:32:35 -05:00
Tatsuo Ishii 6a651d85eb Add --aggregate-interval option.
The new option specifies length of aggregation interval (in
seconds). May be used only together with -l. With this option, the log
contains per-interval summary (number of transactions, min/max latency
and two additional fields useful for variance estimation).

Patch contributed by Tomas Vondra, reviewed by Pavel Stehule. Slight
change by Tatsuo Ishii, suggested by Robert Hass to emit an error
message indicating that the option is not currently supported on
Windows.
2013-01-31 15:53:58 +09:00
Peter Eisentraut 574f764321 pg_regress: Allow overriding diff options
By setting the environment variable PG_REGRESS_DIFF_OPTS, custom diff
options can be passed.

reviewed by Jeevan Chalke
2013-01-29 22:59:45 -05:00
Tom Lane 991f3e5ab3 Provide database object names as separate fields in error messages.
This patch addresses the problem that applications currently have to
extract object names from possibly-localized textual error messages,
if they want to know for example which index caused a UNIQUE_VIOLATION
failure.  It adds new error message fields to the wire protocol, which
can carry the name of a table, table column, data type, or constraint
associated with the error.  (Since the protocol spec has always instructed
clients to ignore unrecognized field types, this should not create any
compatibility problem.)

Support for providing these new fields has been added to just a limited set
of error reports (mainly, those in the "integrity constraint violation"
SQLSTATE class), but we will doubtless add them to more calls in future.

Pavel Stehule, reviewed and extensively revised by Peter Geoghegan, with
additional hacking by Tom Lane.
2013-01-29 17:08:26 -05:00
Heikki Linnakangas 89d00cbe01 Allow pgbench to use a scale larger than 21474.
Beyond 21474, the number of accounts exceed the range for int4. Change the
initialization code to use bigint for account id columns when scale is large
enough, and switch to using int64s for the variables in pgbench code. The
threshold where we switch to bigints is set at 20000, because that's easier
to remember and document than 21474, and ensures that there is some headroom
when int4s are used.

Greg Smith, with various changes by Euler Taveira de Oliveira, Gurjeet
Singh and Satoshi Nagayasu.
2013-01-29 12:05:55 +02:00
Alvaro Herrera ee22c55f5a REASSIGN OWNED: handle shared objects, too
Give away ownership of shared objects (databases, tablespaces) along
with local objects, per original code intention.  Try to make the
documentation clearer, too.

Per discussion about DROP OWNED's brokenness, in bug #7748.

This is not backpatched because it'd require some refactoring of the
ALTER/SET OWNER code for databases and tablespaces.
2013-01-28 18:45:50 -03:00
Alvaro Herrera ec41b8edc1 DROP OWNED: don't try to drop tablespaces/databases
My "fix" for bugs #7578 and #6116 on DROP OWNED at fe3b5eb08a not only
misstated that it applied to REASSIGN OWNED (which it did not affect),
but it also failed to fix the problems fully, because I didn't test the
case of owned shared objects.  Thus I created a new bug, reported by
Thomas Kellerer as #7748, which would cause DROP OWNED to fail with a
not-for-user-consumption error message.  The code would attempt to drop
the database, which not only fails to work because the underlying code
does not support that, but is a pretty dangerous and undesirable thing
to be doing as well.

This patch fixes that bug by having DROP OWNED only attempt to process
shared objects when grants on them are found, ignoring ownership.

Backpatch to 8.3, which is as far as the previous bug was backpatched.
2013-01-28 18:40:51 -03:00
Tom Lane 2378d79ab2 Make LATERAL implicit for functions in FROM.
The SQL standard does not have general functions-in-FROM, but it does
allow UNNEST() there (see the <collection derived table> production),
and the semantics of that are defined to include lateral references.
So spec compliance requires allowing lateral references within UNNEST()
even without an explicit LATERAL keyword.  Rather than making UNNEST()
a special case, it seems best to extend this flexibility to any
function-in-FROM.  We'll still allow LATERAL to be written explicitly
for clarity's sake, but it's now a noise word in this context.

In theory this change could result in a change in behavior of existing
queries, by allowing what had been an outer reference in a function-in-FROM
to be captured by an earlier FROM-item at the same level.  However, all
pre-9.3 PG releases have a bug that causes them to match variable
references to earlier FROM-items in preference to outer references (and
then throw an error).  So no previously-working query could contain the
type of ambiguity that would risk a change of behavior.

Per a suggestion from Andrew Gierth, though I didn't use his patch.
2013-01-26 16:18:42 -05:00
Bruce Momjian 4deb57de7d Issue ERROR if FREEZE mode can't be honored by COPY
Previously non-honored FREEZE mode was ignored.  This also issues an
appropriate error message based on the cause of the failure, per
suggestion from Tom.  Additional regression test case added.
2013-01-26 13:33:24 -05:00
Bruce Momjian 7c83619b50 doc: revert 80c20fcf3d and
0e93959a70

Revert patch that modified doc index mentions of search_path

Per Peter E.
2013-01-25 21:01:17 -05:00
Bruce Momjian bb1e504951 doc: mention commit_delay is only honored if fsync is enabled
per Tianyin Xu
2013-01-25 15:54:28 -05:00
Tom Lane 0d5fbdc157 Change plan caching to honor, not resist, changes in search_path.
In the initial implementation of plan caching, we saved the active
search_path when a plan was first cached, then reinstalled that path
anytime we needed to reparse or replan.  The idea of that was to try to
reselect the same referenced objects, in somewhat the same way that views
continue to refer to the same objects in the face of schema or name
changes.  Of course, that analogy doesn't bear close inspection, since
holding the search_path fixed doesn't cope with object drops or renames.
Moreover sticking with the old path seems to create more surprises than
it avoids.  So instead of doing that, consider that the cached plan depends
on search_path, and force reparse/replan if the active search_path is
different than it was when we last saved the plan.

This gets us fairly close to having "transparency" of plan caching, in the
sense that the cached statement acts the same as if you'd just resubmitted
the original query text for another execution.  There are still some corner
cases where this fails though: a new object added in the search path
schema(s) might capture a reference in the query text, but we'd not realize
that and force a reparse.  We might try to fix that in the future, but for
the moment it looks too expensive and complicated.
2013-01-25 14:14:41 -05:00
Bruce Momjian d309be0fb7 doc: merge ecpg username/password example into C comment
Backpatch to 9.2

per Tom Lane
2013-01-25 13:46:38 -05:00
Bruce Momjian 0e93959a70 doc: adjust search_path secondary index mention
per Tom Lane
2013-01-25 13:45:09 -05:00
Bruce Momjian 80c20fcf3d doc: split search_path index entries into separate secondaries
Karl O. Pinc
2013-01-25 12:49:29 -05:00
Robert Haas a37e83c0a9 Make it easy to time out pg_isready, and make the default 3 seconds.
Along the way, add a missing line to the help message.

Phil Sorber, reviewed by Fujii Masao
2013-01-25 12:03:37 -05:00
Bruce Momjian 88886c79cc docs: In ecpg, clarify how username/password colon parameters are used
Backpatch to 9.2.

Patch from Alan B
2013-01-25 11:18:57 -05:00
Heikki Linnakangas 8936867627 Add prosecdef to \df+ output.
Jon Erdman, reviewed by Phil Sorber and Stephen Frost.
2013-01-25 17:22:26 +02:00
Bruce Momjian 7441b49d19 doc: improve wording of "foreign data server" in file-fdw docs
Backpatch to 9.2

Shigeru HANADA
2013-01-25 10:14:03 -05:00
Magnus Hagander be926474be Make pg_dump exclude unlogged table data on hot standby slaves
Noted by Joe Van Dyk
2013-01-25 09:46:07 +01:00
Tom Lane 760f3c043a Fix concat() and format() to handle VARIADIC-labeled arguments correctly.
Previously, the VARIADIC labeling was effectively ignored, but now these
functions act as though the array elements had all been given as separate
arguments.

Pavel Stehule
2013-01-25 00:19:56 -05:00
Bruce Momjian 56a6317bf5 doc: add mention of ssi read anomolies to mvcc docs
From Jeff Davis, modified by Kevin Grittner
2013-01-24 21:44:54 -05:00
Bruce Momjian 9971f6f517 doc: correct sepgsql doc about permission checking of CASCADE
Backpatch to 9.2.

Patch from Kohei KaiGai
2013-01-24 21:21:50 -05:00
Tom Lane 2ddc600f8f Fix SPI documentation for new handling of ExecutorRun's count parameter.
Since 9.0, the count parameter has only limited the number of tuples
actually returned by the executor.  It doesn't affect the behavior of
INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE unless RETURNING is specified, because without
RETURNING, the ModifyTable plan node doesn't return control to execMain.c
for each tuple.  And we only check the limit at the top level.

While this behavioral change was unintentional at the time, discussion of
bug #6572 led us to the conclusion that we prefer the new behavior anyway,
and so we should just adjust the docs to match rather than change the code.
Accordingly, do that.  Back-patch as far as 9.0 so that the docs match the
code in each branch.
2013-01-24 18:34:00 -05:00
Simon Riggs f64315c6e6 Docs shouldn't say HOT Standby.
Not an acronym.

Jeff Janes
2013-01-24 08:01:16 +00:00