When building without --enable-dtrace, emit dummy
do {} while (0)
statements for the stubbed-out TRACE_POSTGRESQL_foo() macros
instead of empty macros that totally elide the original probe
statement.
This fixes the
warning: suggest braces around empty body in an ‘if’ statement [-Wempty-body]
introduced by b94409a02f.
Author: Craig Ringer <craig.ringer@2ndquadrant.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/20210504221531.cfvpmmdfsou6eitb%40alap3.anarazel.de
This patch replaces use of the global "wrconn" variable in
AlterSubscription_refresh with a local variable of the same name, making
it consistent with other functions in subscriptioncmds.c (e.g.
DropSubscription).
The global wrconn is only meant to be used for logical apply/tablesync worker.
Abusing it this way is known to cause trouble if an apply worker
manages to do a subscription refresh, such as reported by Jeremy Finzel
and diagnosed by Andres Freund back in November 2020, at
https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20201111215820.qihhrz7fayu6myfi@alap3.anarazel.de
Backpatch to 10. In branch master, also move the connection establishment
to occur outside the PG_TRY block; this way we can remove a test for NULL in
PG_FINALLY, and it also makes the code more consistent with similar code in
the same file.
Author: Peter Smith <peter.b.smith@fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Bharath Rupireddy <bharath.rupireddyforpostgres@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Japin Li <japinli@hotmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAHut+Pu7Jv9L2BOEx_Z0UtJxfDevQSAUW2mJqWU+CtmDrEZVAg@mail.gmail.com
When ALTER TABLE .. ALTER CONSTRAINT changes deferrability properties
changed in a partitioned table, we failed to propagate those changes
correctly to partitions and to triggers. Repair by adding a recursion
mechanism to affect all derived constraints and all derived triggers.
(In particular, recurse to partitions even if their respective parents
are already in the desired state: it is possible for the partitions to
have been altered individually.) Because foreign keys involve tables in
two sides, we cannot use the standard ALTER TABLE recursion mechanism,
so we invent our own by following pg_constraint.conparentid down.
When ALTER TABLE .. ALTER CONSTRAINT is invoked on the derived
pg_constraint object that's automaticaly created in a partition as a
result of a constraint added to its parent, raise an error instead of
pretending to work and then failing to modify all the affected triggers.
Before this commit such a command would be allowed but failed to affect
all triggers, so it would silently misbehave. (Restoring dumps of
existing databases is not affected, because pg_dump does not produce
anything for such a derived constraint anyway.)
Add some tests for the case.
Backpatch to 11, where foreign key support was added to partitioned
tables by commit 3de241dba8. (A related change is commit f56f8f8da6
in pg12 which added support for FKs *referencing* partitioned tables;
this is what forces us to use an ad-hoc recursion mechanism for this.)
Diagnosed by Tom Lane from bug report from Ron L Johnson. As of this
writing, no reviews were offered.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/75fe0761-a291-86a9-c8d8-4906da077469@gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3144850.1607369633@sss.pgh.pa.us
The OID of the constraint is used instead of the OID of the trigger --
an easy mistake to make. Apparently the object-alter hooks are not very
well tested :-(
Backpatch to 12, where this typo was introduced by 578b229718
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210503231633.GA6994@alvherre.pgsql
When running ALTER TABLE t2 INHERIT t1, we must check that columns in
t2 that correspond to a generated column in t1 are also generated and
have the same generation expression. Otherwise, this would allow
creating setups that a normal CREATE TABLE sequence would not allow.
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/22de27f6-7096-8d96-4619-7b882932ca25@2ndquadrant.com
If dtrace is compiled in but disabled, the lwlock dtrace probes still
evaluate their arguments. Since PostgreSQL 13, T_NAME(lock) does
nontrivial work, so it should be avoided if not needed. To fix, make
these calls conditional on the *_ENABLED() macro corresponding to each
probe.
Reviewed-by: Craig Ringer <craig.ringer@enterprisedb.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAGRY4nwxKUS_RvXFW-ugrZBYxPFFM5kjwKT5O+0+Stuga5b4+Q@mail.gmail.com
Mention specifically that you can't call aggregates, window functions,
or procedures this way (the inability to call SRFs was already
mentioned).
Also, the claim that PQfn doesn't support NULL arguments or results
has been a lie since we invented protocol 3.0. Not sure why this
text was never updated for that, but do it now.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2039442.1615317309@sss.pgh.pa.us
Reject aggregates, window functions, and procedures. Aggregates
failed anyway, though with a somewhat obscure error message.
Window functions would hit an Assert or null-pointer dereference.
Procedures seemed to work as long as you didn't try to do
transaction control, but (a) transaction control is sort of the
point of a procedure, and (b) it's not entirely clear that no
bugs lurk in that path. Given the lack of testing of this area,
it seems safest to be conservative in what we support.
Also reject proretset functions, as the fastpath protocol can't
support returning a set.
Also remove an easily-triggered assertion that the given OID
isn't 0; the subsequent lookups can handle that case themselves.
Per report from Theodor-Arsenij Larionov-Trichkin.
Back-patch to all supported branches. (The procedure angle
only applies in v11+, of course.)
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2039442.1615317309@sss.pgh.pa.us
Commits 29aeda6e4 et al closed up some oversights involving not checking
for non-upgradable types within container types, such as arrays and
ranges. However, I only looked at version.c, failing to notice that
there were substantially-equivalent tests in check.c. (The division
of responsibility between those files is less than clear...)
In addition, because genbki.pl does not guarantee that auto-generated
rowtype OIDs will hold still across versions, we need to consider that
the composite type associated with a system catalog or view is
non-upgradable. It seems unlikely that someone would have a user
column declared that way, but if they did, trying to read it in another
PG version would likely draw "no such pg_type OID" failures, thanks
to the type OID embedded in composite Datums.
To support the composite and reg*-type cases, extend the recursive
query that does the search to allow any base query that returns
a column of pg_type OIDs, rather than limiting it to exactly one
starting type.
As before, back-patch to all supported branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2798740.1619622555@sss.pgh.pa.us
Attempting to use this function with event triggers failed, as, since
its introduction in a676201, this code has never associated an object
name with event triggers. This addresses the failure by adding the
event trigger name to the set defining its object address.
Note that regression tests are added within event_trigger and not
object_address to avoid issues with concurrent connections in parallel
schedules.
Author: Joel Jacobson
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3c905e77-a026-46ae-8835-c3f6cd1d24c8@www.fastmail.com
Backpatch-through: 9.6
For some reason, the "julian" option for extract()/date_part() has
never gotten listed in the manual. Also, while Appendix B mentioned
in passing that we don't conform to the usual astronomical definition
that a Julian date starts at noon UTC, it was kind of vague about what
we do instead. Clarify that, and add an example showing how to get
the astronomical definition if you want it.
It's been like this for ages, so back-patch to all supported branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1197050.1619123213@sss.pgh.pa.us
Previously it was documented that if using "-X none" option there was
no guarantee that all required WAL files were archived at the end of
pg_basebackup when taking a backup from the standby. But this limitation
was removed by commit 52f8a59dd9. Now, even when taking a backup
from the standby, pg_basebackup can wait for all required WAL files
to be archived. Therefore this commit removes such obsolete
description from the docs.
Also this commit adds new description about the limitation when
taking a backup from the standby, into the docs. The limitation is that
pg_basebackup cannot force the standbfy to switch to a new WAL file
at the end of backup, which may cause pg_basebackup to wait a long
time for the last required WAL file to be switched and archived,
especially when write activity on the primary is low.
Back-patch to v10 where the issue was introduced.
Reported-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi
Author: Kyotaro Horiguchi, Fujii Masao
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi, Fujii Masao
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210420.133235.1342729068750553399.horikyota.ntt@gmail.com
Adopt a more consistent policy about what slot-type-specific
getsysattr functions should do when system attributes are not
available. To wit, they should all throw the same user-oriented
error, rather than variously crashing or emitting developer-oriented
messages.
This closes a identifiable problem in commits a71cfc56b and
3fb93103a (in v13 and v12), so back-patch into those branches,
along with a test case to try to ensure we don't break it again.
It is not known that any of the former crash cases are reachable
in HEAD, but this seems like a good safety improvement in any case.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/141051591267657@mail.yandex.ru
If the source and destination partitions don't have identical
rowtypes (for example, one has dropped columns the other lacks),
then the planSlot contents will be different because of that.
If the query has a RETURNING list that tries to return resjunk
columns out of the planSlot, that is columns from tables that
were joined to the target table, we'd get errors or wrong answers.
That's because we used the RETURNING list generated for the
destination partition, which expects a planSlot matching that
partition's subplan.
The most practical fix seems to be to convert the updated destination
tuple back to the source partition's rowtype, and then apply the
RETURNING list generated for the source partition. This avoids making
fragile assumptions about whether the per-subpartition subplans
generated all the resjunk columns in the same order.
This has been broken since v11 introduced cross-partition UPDATE.
The lack of field complaints shows that non-identical partitions
aren't a common case; therefore, don't stress too hard about
making the conversion efficient.
There's no such bug in HEAD, because commit 86dc90056 got rid of
per-target-relation variance in the contents of the planSlot.
Hence, patch v11-v13 only.
Amit Langote and Etsuro Fujita, small changes by me
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+HiwqE_UK1jTSNrjb8mpTdivzd3dum6mK--xqKq0Y9VmfwWQA@mail.gmail.com
An oversight introduced by the incremental-sort patches caused
"could not find pathkey item to sort" errors in some situations
where a sort key involves an aggregate or window function.
The basic problem here is that find_em_expr_usable_for_sorting_rel
isn't properly modeling what prepare_sort_from_pathkeys will do
later. Rather than hoping we can keep those functions in sync,
let's refactor so that they actually share the code for
identifying a suitable sort expression.
With this refactoring, tlist.c's tlist_member_ignore_relabel
is unused. I removed it in HEAD but left it in place in v13,
in case any extensions are using it.
Per report from Luc Vlaming. Back-patch to v13 where the
problem arose.
James Coleman and Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/91f3ec99-85a4-fa55-ea74-33f85a5c651f@swarm64.com
In order to avoid getting old logfile contents certain functions in
PostgresNode were doing one of two things. On Windows it rotated the
logfile and restarted the server, while elsewhere it truncated the log
file. Both of these are unnecessary. We borrow from the buildfarm which
does this instead: note the size of the logfile before we start, and
then when fetching the logfile skip to that position before accumulating
contents. This is spelled differently on Windows but the effect is the
same. This is largely centralized in TestLib's slurp_file function,
which has a new optional parameter, the offset to skip to before
starting to reading the file. Code in the client becomes much neater.
Backpatch to all live branches.
Michael Paquier, slightly modified by me.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/YHajnhcMAI3++pJL@paquier.xyz
Most GUC check hooks that inspect database state have special checks
that prevent them from throwing hard errors for state-dependent issues
when source == PGC_S_TEST. This allows, for example,
"ALTER DATABASE d SET default_text_search_config = foo" when the "foo"
configuration hasn't been created yet. Without this, we have problems
during dump/reload or pg_upgrade, because pg_dump has no idea about
possible dependencies of GUC values and can't ensure a safe restore
ordering.
However, check_role() and check_session_authorization() hadn't gotten
the memo about that, and would throw hard errors anyway. It's not
entirely clear what is the use-case for "ALTER ROLE x SET role = y",
but we've now heard two independent complaints about that bollixing
an upgrade, so apparently some people are doing it.
Hence, fix these two functions to act more like other check hooks
with similar needs. (But I did not change their insistence on
being inside a transaction, as it's still not apparent that setting
either GUC from the configuration file would be wise.)
Also fix check_temp_buffers, which had a different form of the disease
of making state-dependent checks without any exception for PGC_S_TEST.
A cursory survey of other GUC check hooks did not find any more issues
of this ilk. (There are a lot of interdependencies among
PGC_POSTMASTER and PGC_SIGHUP GUCs, which may be a bad idea, but
they're not relevant to the immediate concern because they can't be
set via ALTER ROLE/DATABASE.)
Per reports from Charlie Hornsby and Nathan Bossart. Back-patch
to all supported branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/HE1P189MB0523B31598B0C772C908088DB7709@HE1P189MB0523.EURP189.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20160711223641.1426.86096@wrigleys.postgresql.org
Previously, get_cached_rowtype() cached a pointer to a reference-counted
tuple descriptor from the typcache, relying on the ExprContextCallback
mechanism to release the tupdesc refcount when the expression tree
using the tupdesc was destroyed. This worked fine when it was designed,
but the introduction of within-DO-block COMMITs broke it. The refcount
is logged in a transaction-lifespan resource owner, but plpgsql won't
destroy simple expressions made within the DO block (before its first
commit) until the DO block is exited. That results in a warning about
a leaked tupdesc refcount when the COMMIT destroys the original resource
owner, and then an error about the active resource owner not holding a
matching refcount when the expression is destroyed.
To fix, get rid of the need to have a shutdown callback at all, by
instead caching a pointer to the relevant typcache entry. Those
survive for the life of the backend, so we needn't worry about the
pointer becoming stale. (For registered RECORD types, we can still
cache a pointer to the tupdesc, knowing that it won't change for the
life of the backend.) This mechanism has been in use in plpgsql
and expandedrecord.c since commit 4b93f5799, and seems to work well.
This change requires modifying the ExprEvalStep structs used by the
relevant expression step types, which is slightly worrisome for
back-patching. However, there seems no good reason for extensions
to be familiar with the details of these particular sub-structs.
Per report from Rohit Bhogate. Back-patch to v11 where within-DO-block
COMMITs became a thing.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAAV6ZkQRCVBh8qAY+SZiHnz+U+FqAGBBDaDTjF2yiKa2nJSLKg@mail.gmail.com
heap_update needs to clear any existing "all visible" flag on
the old tuple's page (and on the new page too, if different).
Per coding rules, to do this it must acquire pin on the appropriate
visibility-map page while not holding exclusive buffer lock;
which creates a race condition since someone else could set the
flag whenever we're not holding the buffer lock. The code is
supposed to handle that by re-checking the flag after acquiring
buffer lock and retrying if it became set. However, one code
path through heap_update itself, as well as one in its subroutine
RelationGetBufferForTuple, failed to do this. The end result,
in the unlikely event that a concurrent VACUUM did set the flag
while we're transiently not holding lock, is a non-recurring
"PANIC: wrong buffer passed to visibilitymap_clear" failure.
This has been seen a few times in the buildfarm since recent VACUUM
changes that added code paths that could set the all-visible flag
while holding only exclusive buffer lock. Previously, the flag
was (usually?) set only after doing LockBufferForCleanup, which
would insist on buffer pin count zero, thus preventing the flag
from becoming set partway through heap_update. However, it's
clear that it's heap_update not VACUUM that's at fault here.
What's less clear is whether there is any hazard from these bugs
in released branches. heap_update is certainly violating API
expectations, but if there is no code path that can set all-visible
without a cleanup lock then it's only a latent bug. That's not
100% certain though, besides which we should worry about extensions
or future back-patch fixes that could introduce such code paths.
I chose to back-patch to v12. Fixing RelationGetBufferForTuple
before that would require also back-patching portions of older
fixes (notably 0d1fe9f74), which is more code churn than seems
prudent to fix a hypothetical issue.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2247102.1618008027@sss.pgh.pa.us
With the Oracle Developer Studio 12.6 compiler, #line directives alter
the current source file location for purposes of #include "..."
directives. Hence, a VPATH build failed with 'cannot find include file:
"specscanner.c"'. With two exceptions, parser-containing directories
already add "-I. -I$(srcdir)"; eliminate the exceptions. Back-patch to
9.6 (all supported versions).
Commit 6f38d4dac3 failed to heed a warning about the stability of the
value pointed to by "otid". The caller is allowed to pass in a pointer to
newtup->t_self, which will be updated during the execution of the
function. Instead, the SSI check should use the value we copy into
oldtup.t_self near the top of the function.
Not a live bug, because newtup->t_self doesn't really get updated until
a bit later, but it was confusing and broke the rule established by the
comment.
Back-patch to 13.
Reported-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2689164.1618160085%40sss.pgh.pa.us
There are hacks in parse_coerce.c to push down a requested coercion
to below any CollateExpr that may appear. However, we did that even
if the requested data type is non-collatable, leading to an invalid
expression tree in which CollateExpr is applied to a non-collatable
type. The fix is just to drop the CollateExpr altogether, reasoning
that it's useless.
This bug is ten years old, dating to the original addition of
COLLATE support. The lack of field complaints suggests that there
aren't a lot of user-visible consequences. We noticed the problem
because it would trigger an assertion in DefineVirtualRelation if
the invalid structure appears as an output column of a view; however,
in a non-assert build, you don't see a crash just a (subtly incorrect)
complaint about applying collation to a non-collatable type. I found
that by putting the incorrect structure further down in a view, I could
make a view definition that would fail dump/reload, per the added
regression test case. But CollateExpr doesn't do anything at run-time,
so this likely doesn't lead to any really exciting consequences.
Per report from Yulin Pei. Back-patch to all supported branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/HK0PR01MB22744393C474D503E16C8509F4709@HK0PR01MB2274.apcprd01.prod.exchangelabs.com
Currently, parallel vacuum workers don't use any buffer access strategy.
We can fix it either by propagating the access strategy from a leader or
allow each worker to use BAS_VACUUM access strategy type. We don't see
much use in propagating this information from leader as both leader and
workers are supposed to use the same strategy. We might want to use a
different access strategy for leader and workers but that would be a
separate optimization not suitable for back-branches. This has been fixed
in HEAD as commit f6b8f19a08.
Author: Amit Kapila
Reviewed-by: Sawada Masahiko, Bharath Rupireddy
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAA4eK1KbmJgRV2W3BbzRnKUSrukN7SbqBBriC4RDB5KBhopkGQ@mail.gmail.com
Using Roman numbers (via "RM" or "rm") for a conversion to calculate a
number of months has never considered the case of negative numbers,
where a conversion could easily cause out-of-bound memory accesses. The
conversions in themselves were not completely consistent either, as
specifying 12 would result in NULL, but it should mean XII.
This commit reworks the conversion calculation to have a more
consistent behavior:
- If the number of months and years is 0, return NULL.
- If the number of months is positive, return the exact month number.
- If the number of months is negative, do a backward calculation, with
-1 meaning December, -2 November, etc.
Reported-by: Theodor Arsenij Larionov-Trichkin
Author: Julien Rouhaud
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16953-f255a18f8c51f1d5@postgresql.org
backpatch-through: 9.6
Comment fixes are applied on HEAD, and documentation improvements are
applied on back-branches where needed.
Author: Justin Pryzby
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210408164008.GJ6592@telsasoft.com
Backpatch-through: 9.6
The code in bringetbitmap() simply added the whole matching page range
to the TID bitmap, as determined by pages_per_range, even if some of the
pages were beyond the end of the heap. The query then might fail with
an error like this:
ERROR: could not open file "base/20176/20228.2" (target block
262144): previous segment is only 131021 blocks
In this case, the relation has 262093 pages (131072 and 131021 pages),
but we're trying to acess block 262144, i.e. first block of the 3rd
segment. At that point _mdfd_getseg() notices the preceding segment is
incomplete, and fails.
Hitting this in practice is rather unlikely, because:
* Most indexes use power-of-two ranges, so segments and page ranges
align perfectly (segment end is also a page range end).
* The table size has to be just right, with the last segment being
almost full - less than one page range from full segment, so that the
last page range actually crosses the segment boundary.
* Prefetch has to be enabled. The regular page access checks that
pages are not beyond heap end, but prefetch does not. On older
releases (before 12) the execution stops after hitting the first
non-existent page, so the prefetch distance has to be sufficient
to reach the first page in the next segment to trigger the issue.
Since 12 it's enough to just have prefetch enabled, the prefetch
distance does not matter.
Fixed by not adding non-existent pages to the TID bitmap. Backpatch
all the way back to 9.6 (BRIN indexes were introduced in 9.5, but that
release is EOL).
Backpatch-through: 9.6
Instead of writing a query to psql's stdin, which can cause a failure
where psql exits before writing, reporting a write failure with a broken
pipe, this changes the logic to use -c. This was not seen in the
buildfarm as no animals with a sensitive environment are running the
kerberos tests, but let's be safe.
HEAD is able to handle the situation as of 6d41dd0 for all the test
suites doing connection checks. f44b9b6 has fixed the same problem for
the LDAP tests.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/YGu7ceWAiSNQDgH5@paquier.xyz
Backpatch-through: 11
Maxim Orlov reported that the shutdown of standby server could result in
the following assertion failure. The cause of this issue was that,
when the shutdown caused the startup process to exit, recovery-time
transaction tracking was not shut down even if it's already initialized,
and some locks the tracked transactions were holding could not be released.
At this situation, if other process was invoked and the PGPROC entry that
the startup process used was assigned to it, it found such unreleased locks
and caused the assertion failure, during the initialization of it.
TRAP: FailedAssertion("SHMQueueEmpty(&(MyProc->myProcLocks[i]))"
This commit fixes this issue by making the startup process shut down
transaction tracking and release all locks, at the exit of it.
Back-patch to all supported branches.
Reported-by: Maxim Orlov
Author: Fujii Masao
Reviewed-by: Maxim Orlov
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ad4ce692cc1d89a093b471ab1d969b0b@postgrespro.ru
spg_box_quad_leaf_consistent unconditionally returned the leaf
datum as leafValue, even though in its usage for poly_ops that
value is of completely the wrong type.
In versions before 12, that was harmless because the core code did
nothing with leafValue in non-index-only scans ... but since commit
2a6368343, if we were doing a KNN-style scan, spgNewHeapItem would
unconditionally try to copy the value using the wrong datatype
parameters. Said copying is a waste of time and space if we're not
going to return the data, but it accidentally failed to fail until
I fixed the datatype confusion in ac9099fc1.
Hence, change spgNewHeapItem to not copy the datum unless we're
actually going to return it later. This saves cycles and dodges
the question of whether lossy opclasses are returning the right
type. Also change spg_box_quad_leaf_consistent to not return
data that might be of the wrong type, as insurance against
somebody introducing a similar bug into the core code in future.
It seems like a good idea to back-patch these two changes into
v12 and v13, although I'm afraid to change spgNewHeapItem's
mistaken idea of which datatype to use in those branches.
Per buildfarm results from ac9099fc1.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3728741.1617381471@sss.pgh.pa.us
Command-line options, or previous "ALTER (ROLE|DATABASE) ...
SET ROLE ..." commands, can change the value of the default role
for a session. In the presence of one of these, RESET ROLE will
change the current user identifier to the default role rather
than the session user identifier. Fix the documentation to
reflect this reality. Backpatch to all supported versions.
Author: Nathan Bossart
Reviewed-By: Laurenz Albe, David G. Johnston, Joe Conway
Reported by: Nathan Bossart
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/flat/925134DB-8212-4F60-8AB1-B1231D750CB4%40amazon.com
Backpatch-through: 9.6
pg_checksums uses two counters, total size and current size,
to calculate the progress. Previously the progress that
pg_checksums reported could not reach 100% at the end.
The cause of this issue was that the sizes of only pages excluding
new ones in each file were counted as the current size
while the size of each file is counted as the total size.
That is, the total size of all new pages could be reported
as the difference between the total size and current size.
This commit fixes this issue by making pg_checksums count
the sizes of all pages including new ones in each file as
the current size.
Back-patch to v12 where progress reporting was added to pg_checksums.
Reported-by: Shinya Kato
Author: Shinya Kato
Reviewed-by: Fujii Masao
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/TYAPR01MB289656B1ACA0A5E7CAD07BE3C47A9@TYAPR01MB2896.jpnprd01.prod.outlook.com
The current instructions describing how to write the backup_label and
tablespace_map files are confusing. For example, opening a file in text
mode on Windows and copy-pasting the file's contents would result in a
failure at recovery because of the extra CRLF characters generated. The
documentation was not stating that clearly, and per discussion this is
not considered as a supported scenario.
This commit extends a bit the documentation to mention that it may be
required to open the file in binary mode before writing its data.
Reported-by: Wang Shenhao
Author: David Steele
Reviewed-by: Andrew Dunstan, Magnus Hagander
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/8373f61426074f2cb6be92e02f838389@G08CNEXMBPEKD06.g08.fujitsu.local
Backpatch-through: 9.6