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Robert Haas c70cc9afb3 doc: In FDW handler docs, mark up scan_clauses with <literal>.
Etsuro Fujita
2014-05-05 10:04:02 -04:00
Bruce Momjian d69ffd6f03 Add missing 9.4 release file. 2014-05-04 07:12:48 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 21223c24c2 Initial version of Postgres 9.4 release notes 2014-05-03 23:16:24 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 0717748c90 doc: Update pg_basebackup version compatibility claim for 9.4 2014-05-01 22:08:22 -04:00
Robert Haas 65fb5ff130 Documentation corrections for pg_replication_slots.
Thomas Reiss, with changes to the catalog_xmin language by me.
2014-04-30 22:55:16 -04:00
Tom Lane 2d00190495 Rationalize common/relpath.[hc].
Commit a730183926 created rather a mess by
putting dependencies on backend-only include files into include/common.
We really shouldn't do that.  To clean it up:

* Move TABLESPACE_VERSION_DIRECTORY back to its longtime home in
catalog/catalog.h.  We won't consider this symbol part of the FE/BE API.

* Push enum ForkNumber from relfilenode.h into relpath.h.  We'll consider
relpath.h as the source of truth for fork numbers, since relpath.c was
already partially serving that function, and anyway relfilenode.h was
kind of a random place for that enum.

* So, relfilenode.h now includes relpath.h rather than vice-versa.  This
direction of dependency is fine.  (That allows most, but not quite all,
of the existing explicit #includes of relpath.h to go away again.)

* Push forkname_to_number from catalog.c to relpath.c, just to centralize
fork number stuff a bit better.

* Push GetDatabasePath from catalog.c to relpath.c; it was rather odd
that the previous commit didn't keep this together with relpath().

* To avoid needing relfilenode.h in common/, redefine the underlying
function (now called GetRelationPath) as taking separate OID arguments,
and make the APIs using RelFileNode or RelFileNodeBackend into macro
wrappers.  (The macros have a potential multiple-eval risk, but none of
the existing call sites have an issue with that; one of them had such a
risk already anyway.)

* Fix failure to follow the directions when "init" fork type was added;
specifically, the errhint in forkname_to_number wasn't updated, and neither
was the SGML documentation for pg_relation_size().

* Fix tablespace-path-too-long check in CreateTableSpace() to account for
fork-name component of maximum-length pathnames.  This requires putting
FORKNAMECHARS into a header file, but it was rather useless (and
actually unreferenced) where it was.

The last couple of items are potentially back-patchable bug fixes,
if anyone is sufficiently excited about them; but personally I'm not.

Per a gripe from Christoph Berg about how include/common wasn't
self-contained.
2014-04-30 17:30:50 -04:00
Robert Haas 728c06f17f Minor fixes for ALTER TABLE documentation.
Etsuro Fujita
2014-04-28 10:10:51 -04:00
Tom Lane f0fedfe82c Allow polymorphic aggregates to have non-polymorphic state data types.
Before 9.4, such an aggregate couldn't be declared, because its final
function would have to have polymorphic result type but no polymorphic
argument, which CREATE FUNCTION would quite properly reject.  The
ordered-set-aggregate patch found a workaround: allow the final function
to be declared as accepting additional dummy arguments that have types
matching the aggregate's regular input arguments.  However, we failed
to notice that this problem applies just as much to regular aggregates,
despite the fact that we had a built-in regular aggregate array_agg()
that was known to be undeclarable in SQL because its final function
had an illegal signature.  So what we should have done, and what this
patch does, is to decouple the extra-dummy-arguments behavior from
ordered-set aggregates and make it generally available for all aggregate
declarations.  We have to put this into 9.4 rather than waiting till
later because it slightly alters the rules for declaring ordered-set
aggregates.

The patch turned out a bit bigger than I'd hoped because it proved
necessary to record the extra-arguments option in a new pg_aggregate
column.  I'd thought we could just look at the final function's pronargs
at runtime, but that didn't work well for variadic final functions.
It's probably just as well though, because it simplifies life for pg_dump
to record the option explicitly.

While at it, fix array_agg() to have a valid final-function signature,
and add an opr_sanity test to notice future deviations from polymorphic
consistency.  I also marked the percentile_cont() aggregates as not
needing extra arguments, since they don't.
2014-04-23 19:17:41 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 125ba2945a doc: Fix DocBook table column count declaration
This was broken in 26cd1d7d95.
2014-04-23 16:14:14 -04:00
Heikki Linnakangas 4a781f1e6c Fix typo, trance -> tranche, in docs.
Amit Langote
2014-04-23 13:00:08 +03:00
Bruce Momjian 2362c2bd23 doc: adjust 9970443640 for "null string"
Report by Andrew Dunstan
2014-04-22 20:33:12 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 9970443640 doc: improve wording of COPY commit 7ec73783d8 2014-04-22 19:16:54 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 8506a607a3 doc: mention CREATE MATERIALIZED VIEW AS can be EXPLAINed
Patch by Amit Langote

Report by

Backpatch through
2014-04-22 18:38:14 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 26cd1d7d95 docs: add results for JSON operator examples
Patch by Sehrope Sarkuni
2014-04-22 18:19:07 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 72590b3a69 docs: clearify use of pg_database.datistemplate
Patch by Rajeev rastogi
2014-04-22 18:10:14 -04:00
Bruce Momjian c27bf777cf doc: improve CREATE RULE event list
Patch by Fujii Masao

Report by Emanuel Calvo
2014-04-22 17:54:42 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 7ec73783d8 copy: update docs for FORCE_NULL and FORCE_NOT_NULL combination
Also update regression tests

Patch by Michael Paquier
2014-04-22 16:06:37 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 80ce90b9c4 doc: Improve "replication slot" index entries
Now that we have accumulated two different "replication slot" concepts,
make the index entries consistent.
2014-04-22 15:22:10 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 012025f9ae doc: CREATE DATABASE doesn't copy template database-level config params
Report by Alexey Bashtanov
2014-04-19 15:26:49 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 0e8beed515 doc: mention archive_command and recovery_command are exec'ed locally
Report by Craig Ringer
2014-04-19 14:59:47 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 4353d1809f docs: tablespaces cannot be accessed independently
Mention impossibility of moving tablespaces, backing them up
independently, or the inadvisability of placing them on temporary
file systems.

Patch by Craig Ringer, adjustments by Ian Lawrence Warwick and me
2014-04-19 10:52:49 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 13ecb822e8 libpq: have PQconnectdbParams() and PQpingParams accept "" as default
Previously, these functions treated "" optin values as defaults in some
ways, but not in others, like when comparing to .pgpass.  Also, add
documentation to clarify that now "" and NULL use defaults, like
PQsetdbLogin() has always done.

BACKWARD INCOMPATIBILITY

Patch by Adrian Vondendriesch, docs by me

Report by Jeff Janes
2014-04-19 08:41:51 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 52e757420f docs: adjustments for streaming standbys that disconnect frequently
Document problems when disconnection causes loss of hot_standby_feedback
and suggest adjusting max_standby_archive_delay and
max_standby_streaming_delay.

Initial patch by Marko Tiikkaja, adjustments by me
2014-04-17 10:52:48 -04:00
Tom Lane 5f86cbd714 Rename EXPLAIN ANALYZE's "total runtime" output to "execution time".
Now that EXPLAIN also outputs a "planning time" measurement, the use of
"total" here seems rather confusing: it sounds like it might include the
planning time which of course it doesn't.  Majority opinion was that
"execution time" is a better label, so we'll call it that.

This should be noted as a backwards incompatibility for tools that examine
EXPLAIN ANALYZE output.

In passing, I failed to resist the temptation to do a little editing on the
materialized-view example affected by this change.
2014-04-16 20:48:59 -04:00
Bruce Momjian e183d11262 docs: properly document psql auto encoding mode
In psql, both stdin and stdout must be terminals to get a client
encoding of 'auto'.

Patch by Albe Laurenz

Backpatch to 9.3.
2014-04-16 19:53:42 -04:00
Bruce Momjian be5f7fff47 doc: move min_recovery_apply_delay into the right section
Patch by Fujii Masao
2014-04-16 19:15:16 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 9c53346500 docs: make max_wal_senders higher to handle disconnects
Document abrupt streaming client disconnection might leave slots in use,
so max_wal_senders should be slightly higher than needed to allow for
immediate reconnection.

Per mention by Magnus
2014-04-16 15:06:49 -04:00
Robert Haas dfc0219f64 Add to_regprocedure() and to_regoperator().
These are natural complements to the functions added by commit
0886fc6a5c, but they weren't included
in the original patch for some reason.  Add them.

Patch by me, per a complaint by Tom Lane.  Review by Tatsuo
Ishii.
2014-04-16 12:21:43 -04:00
Bruce Momjian ed4a26260c doc: fix json_extract_path_text() typo by adding jsonb
Report from rudolf <stu3.1@eq.cz>
2014-04-16 11:24:38 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 4168c00a5d psql: conditionally display oids and replication identity
In psql \d+, display oids only when they exist, and display replication
identity only when it is non-default.  Also document the defaults for
replication identity for system and non-system tables.  Update
regression output.
2014-04-15 13:28:54 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut c92c3d50d7 vacuumdb: Add option --analyze-in-stages
Add vacuumdb option --analyze-in-stages which runs ANALYZE three times
with different configuration settings, adopting the logic from the
analyze_new_cluster.sh script that pg_upgrade generates.  That way,
users of pg_dump/pg_restore can also use that functionality.

Change pg_upgrade to create the script so that it calls vacuumdb instead
of implementing the logic itself.
2014-04-15 00:44:25 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 7d0f493f19 Add TAP tests for client programs
Reviewed-by: Pavel Stěhule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Erik Rijkers <er@xs4all.nl>
2014-04-14 21:33:46 -04:00
Robert Haas 69671ab548 doc: Suggesting clearing pg_replslot from a hot filesystem backup.
Maybe we'll settle on another way of solving this problem, but for
now this is the recommended procedure.

Per discussion with Michael Paquier.
2014-04-14 13:01:53 -04:00
Robert Haas c050b2aae3 doc: Update yet another place that didn't get the memo about matviews.
Etsuro Fujita
2014-04-14 12:48:25 -04:00
Robert Haas f0aa6c06d4 Correct description of constraint_name in ALTER TABLE documentation.
Apparently, the old text was written at a time when the only use of
constraint_name here was for a constraint to be dropped, but that's
no longer true.

Etsuro Fujita
2014-04-14 10:52:07 -04:00
Robert Haas 0c953540d2 Update list of relation types on which ALTER TABLE RENAME/OWNER work.
Etsuro Fujita
2014-04-14 10:44:59 -04:00
Stephen Frost 842faa714c Make security barrier views automatically updatable
Views which are marked as security_barrier must have their quals
applied before any user-defined quals are called, to prevent
user-defined functions from being able to see rows which the
security barrier view is intended to prevent them from seeing.

Remove the restriction on security barrier views being automatically
updatable by adding a new securityQuals list to the RTE structure
which keeps track of the quals from security barrier views at each
level, independently of the user-supplied quals.  When RTEs are
later discovered which have securityQuals populated, they are turned
into subquery RTEs which are marked as security_barrier to prevent
any user-supplied quals being pushed down (modulo LEAKPROOF quals).

Dean Rasheed, reviewed by Craig Ringer, Simon Riggs, KaiGai Kohei
2014-04-12 21:04:58 -04:00
Tom Lane a9d9acbf21 Create infrastructure for moving-aggregate optimization.
Until now, when executing an aggregate function as a window function
within a window with moving frame start (that is, any frame start mode
except UNBOUNDED PRECEDING), we had to recalculate the aggregate from
scratch each time the frame head moved.  This patch allows an aggregate
definition to include an alternate "moving aggregate" implementation
that includes an inverse transition function for removing rows from
the aggregate's running state.  As long as this can be done successfully,
runtime is proportional to the total number of input rows, rather than
to the number of input rows times the average frame length.

This commit includes the core infrastructure, documentation, and regression
tests using user-defined aggregates.  Follow-on commits will update some
of the built-in aggregates to use this feature.

David Rowley and Florian Pflug, reviewed by Dean Rasheed; additional
hacking by me
2014-04-12 12:03:30 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 3c41b812c5 docs: psql '--' comments are not passed to the server
C-style block comments are passed to the server.
2014-04-10 17:16:28 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 85c6bba2ce docs: add link to pg_start_backup() from pg_basebackup --checkpoint
This references the meaning of the fast/spread checkpoint option.

Per private IM report
2014-04-09 17:45:31 -04:00
Tom Lane f23a5630eb Add an in-core GiST index opclass for inet/cidr types.
This operator class can accelerate subnet/supernet tests as well as
btree-equivalent ordered comparisons.  It also handles a new network
operator inet && inet (overlaps, a/k/a "is supernet or subnet of"),
which is expected to be useful in exclusion constraints.

Ideally this opclass would be the default for GiST with inet/cidr data,
but we can't mark it that way until we figure out how to do a more or
less graceful transition from the current situation, in which the
really-completely-bogus inet/cidr opclasses in contrib/btree_gist are
marked as default.  Having the opclass in core and not default is better
than not having it at all, though.

While at it, add new documentation sections to allow us to officially
document GiST/GIN/SP-GiST opclasses, something there was never a clear
place to do before.  I filled these in with some simple tables listing
the existing opclasses and the operators they support, but there's
certainly scope to put more information there.

Emre Hasegeli, reviewed by Andreas Karlsson, further hacking by me
2014-04-08 15:46:43 -04:00
Robert Haas 02f65617ea doc: Fix typo.
Ian Barwick
2014-04-08 11:47:29 -04:00
Robert Haas 0886fc6a5c Add new to_reg* functions for error-free OID lookups.
These functions won't throw an error if the object doesn't exist,
or if (for functions and operators) there's more than one matching
object.

Yugo Nagata and Nozomi Anzai, reviewed by Amit Khandekar, Marti
Raudsepp, Amit Kapila, and me.
2014-04-08 10:27:56 -04:00
Simon Riggs 7d8f1de1bc Extra warnings and errors for PL/pgSQL
Infrastructure to allow
 plpgsql.extra_warnings
 plpgsql.extra_errors

Initial extra checks only for shadowed_variables

Marko Tiikkaja and Petr Jelinek
Reviewed by Simon Riggs and Pavel Stěhule
2014-04-06 12:21:51 -04:00
Simon Riggs e5550d5fec Reduce lock levels of some ALTER TABLE cmds
VALIDATE CONSTRAINT

CLUSTER ON
SET WITHOUT CLUSTER

ALTER COLUMN SET STATISTICS
ALTER COLUMN SET ()
ALTER COLUMN RESET ()

All other sub-commands use AccessExclusiveLock

Simon Riggs and Noah Misch

Reviews by Robert Haas and Andres Freund
2014-04-06 11:13:43 -04:00
Tom Lane c7b3539599 Fix non-equivalence of VARIADIC and non-VARIADIC function call formats.
For variadic functions (other than VARIADIC ANY), the syntaxes foo(x,y,...)
and foo(VARIADIC ARRAY[x,y,...]) should be considered equivalent, since the
former is converted to the latter at parse time.  They have indeed been
equivalent, in all releases before 9.3.  However, commit 75b39e790 made an
ill-considered decision to record which syntax had been used in FuncExpr
nodes, and then to make equal() test that in checking node equality ---
which caused the syntaxes to not be seen as equivalent by the planner.
This is the underlying cause of bug #9817 from Dmitry Ryabov.

It might seem that a quick fix would be to make equal() disregard
FuncExpr.funcvariadic, but the same commit made that untenable, because
the field actually *is* semantically significant for some VARIADIC ANY
functions.  This patch instead adopts the approach of redefining
funcvariadic (and aggvariadic, in HEAD) as meaning that the last argument
is a variadic array, whether it got that way by parser intervention or was
supplied explicitly by the user.  Therefore the value will always be true
for non-ANY variadic functions, restoring the principle of equivalence.
(However, the planner will continue to consider use of VARIADIC as a
meaningful difference for VARIADIC ANY functions, even though some such
functions might disregard it.)

In HEAD, this change lets us simplify the decompilation logic in
ruleutils.c, since the funcvariadic/aggvariadic flag tells directly whether
to print VARIADIC.  However, in 9.3 we have to continue to cope with
existing stored rules/views that might contain the previous definition.
Fortunately, this just means no change in ruleutils.c, since its existing
behavior effectively ignores funcvariadic for all cases other than VARIADIC
ANY functions.

In HEAD, bump catversion to reflect the fact that FuncExpr.funcvariadic
changed meanings; this is sort of pro forma, since I don't believe any
built-in views are affected.

Unfortunately, this patch doesn't magically fix everything for affected
9.3 users.  After installing 9.3.5, they might need to recreate their
rules/views/indexes containing variadic function calls in order to get
everything consistent with the new definition.  As in the cited bug,
the symptom of a problem would be failure to use a nominally matching
index that has a variadic function call in its definition.  We'll need
to mention this in the 9.3.5 release notes.
2014-04-03 22:02:24 -04:00
Tom Lane 42c6236f37 Fix documentation about joining pg_locks to other views.
The advice to join to pg_prepared_xacts via the transaction column was not
updated when the transaction column was replaced by virtualtransaction.
Since it's not quite obvious how to do that join, give an explicit example.
For consistency also give an example for the adjacent case of joining to
pg_stat_activity.  And link-ify the view references too, just because we
can.  Per bug #9840 from Alexey Bashtanov.

Michael Paquier and Tom Lane
2014-04-03 14:18:25 -04:00
Tom Lane 879808e519 Avoid promising that "ADD COLUMN ... DEFAULT NULL" is free.
The system realizes that DEFAULT NULL is dummy in simple cases, but not if
a cast function (such as a length coercion) needs to be applied.  It's
dubious that suppressing that function call would be appropriate, anyway.
For the moment, let's just adjust the docs to say that you should omit the
DEFAULT clause if you don't want a rewrite to happen.  Per gripe from Amit
Langote.
2014-04-03 12:38:00 -04:00
Tom Lane 6eff0accfe Doc: improve discussion of reverse+forward host name lookup in pg_hba.conf.
Fix some grammatical issues and make it a bit more readable.
2014-04-01 15:20:38 -04:00
Noah Misch 8f5578d0f9 Revert "Secure Unix-domain sockets of "make check" temporary clusters."
About half of the buildfarm members use too-long directory names,
strongly suggesting that this approach is a dead end.
2014-03-29 03:12:00 -04:00
Noah Misch 31c6e54ec9 Secure Unix-domain sockets of "make check" temporary clusters.
Any OS user able to access the socket can connect as the bootstrap
superuser and in turn execute arbitrary code as the OS user running the
test.  Protect against that by placing the socket in the temporary data
directory, which has mode 0700 thanks to initdb.  Back-patch to 8.4 (all
supported versions).  The hazard remains wherever the temporary cluster
accepts TCP connections, notably on Windows.

Attempts to run "make check" from a directory with a long name will now
fail.  An alternative not sharing that problem was to place the socket
in a subdirectory of /tmp, but that is only secure if /tmp is sticky.
The PG_REGRESS_SOCK_DIR environment variable is available as a
workaround when testing from long directory paths.

As a convenient side effect, this lets testing proceed smoothly in
builds that override DEFAULT_PGSOCKET_DIR.  Popular non-default values
like /var/run/postgresql are often unwritable to the build user.

Security: CVE-2014-0067
2014-03-29 00:52:56 -04:00
Noah Misch fbd32b0cab Document platform-specificity of unix_socket_permissions.
Back-patch to 8.4 (all supported versions).
2014-03-29 00:52:31 -04:00
Tom Lane e5a452b3a4 Improve documentation note about Python 2.3 and cdecimal.
Explain exactly what fails (ie, function arguments of type numeric)
if you don't have it.
2014-03-27 17:15:45 -04:00
Tom Lane f3cfc23195 Document that Python 2.3 requires cdecimal module for full functionality.
This has been true for some time, but we were leaving users to discover it
the hard way.

Back-patch to 9.2.  It might've been true before that, but we were claiming
Python 2.2 compatibility before that, so I won't guess at the exact
requirements back then.
2014-03-26 22:43:36 -04:00
Andrew Dunstan f9c6d72cbf Cleanup around json_to_record/json_to_recordset
Set function parameter names and defaults. Add jsonb versions (which the
code already provided for so the actual new code is trivial). Add jsonb
regression tests and docs.

Bump catalog version (which I apparently forgot to do when jsonb was
committed).
2014-03-26 10:18:24 -04:00
Heikki Linnakangas ce9bb92f8f Add -f/--follow option to pg_xlogdump.
This is useful for seeing what WAL records are inserted in real-time, by
pointing pg_xlogdump to a live server.
2014-03-26 13:48:20 +02:00
Magnus Hagander 36f7c3a1e0 Fix typos in pg_basebackup documentation
Joshua Tolley
2014-03-25 11:16:57 +01:00
Bruce Momjian 6c5ced1526 doc: list unlogged tables as a non-durable option 2014-03-24 22:04:44 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 5db55c6bbc Remove wchar.c Asserts that were stricter than the main code
Assert errors were thrown for functions being passed invalid encodings,
while the main code handled it just fine.

Also document that libpq's PQclientEncoding() returns -1 for an encoding
lookup failure.

Per report from Peter Geoghegan
2014-03-24 15:59:38 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 0b5c0f3bc7 docs: Add short "cover density" description
Also, previous commit 1420f3a982 to fix
ts_rank_cd() for stripped lexemes was from a patch created by Alex Hill.
2014-03-24 15:46:59 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 1420f3a982 Fix ts_rank_cd() to ignore stripped lexemes
Previously, stripped lexemes got a default location and could be
considered if mixed with non-stripped lexemes.

BACKWARD INCOMPATIBILITY CHANGE
2014-03-24 14:37:16 -04:00
Fujii Masao cf5d38f4b9 Fix START_REPLICATION syntax in document.
Enclose "TIMELINE tli" part with brackets because it's optional.

Backport to 9.3 where TIMELINE option was introduced.

Noted by Marko Tiikkaja
2014-03-24 19:30:32 +09:00
Heikki Linnakangas 3ed249b741 Fix "the the" typos.
Erik Rijkers
2014-03-24 08:42:13 +02:00
Andrew Dunstan ca07cd59b2 Fix mis-spelling in jsonb docs.
Per Thom Brown.
2014-03-23 18:25:16 -04:00
Andrew Dunstan d9134d0a35 Introduce jsonb, a structured format for storing json.
The new format accepts exactly the same data as the json type. However, it is
stored in a format that does not require reparsing the orgiginal text in order
to process it, making it much more suitable for indexing and other operations.
Insignificant whitespace is discarded, and the order of object keys is not
preserved. Neither are duplicate object keys kept - the later value for a given
key is the only one stored.

The new type has all the functions and operators that the json type has,
with the exception of the json generation functions (to_json, json_agg etc.)
and with identical semantics. In addition, there are operator classes for
hash and btree indexing, and two classes for GIN indexing, that have no
equivalent in the json type.

This feature grew out of previous work by Oleg Bartunov and Teodor Sigaev, which
was intended to provide similar facilities to a nested hstore type, but which
in the end proved to have some significant compatibility issues.

Authors: Oleg Bartunov,  Teodor Sigaev, Peter Geoghegan and Andrew Dunstan.
Review: Andres Freund
2014-03-23 16:40:19 -04:00
Noah Misch 7cbe57c34d Offer triggers on foreign tables.
This covers all the SQL-standard trigger types supported for regular
tables; it does not cover constraint triggers.  The approach for
acquiring the old row mirrors that for view INSTEAD OF triggers.  For
AFTER ROW triggers, we spool the foreign tuples to a tuplestore.

This changes the FDW API contract; when deciding which columns to
populate in the slot returned from data modification callbacks, writable
FDWs will need to check for AFTER ROW triggers in addition to checking
for a RETURNING clause.

In support of the feature addition, refactor the TriggerFlags bits and
the assembly of old tuples in ModifyTable.

Ronan Dunklau, reviewed by KaiGai Kohei; some additional hacking by me.
2014-03-23 02:16:34 -04:00
Fujii Masao fb1d92a9fa Some minor improvements to logical decoding document.
Also improve help message in pg_recvlogical.
2014-03-19 22:13:05 +09:00
Robert Haas 3ee4fcfc63 Logical decoding documentation corrections.
Thom Brown
2014-03-18 14:57:49 -04:00
Robert Haas 49c0864d7e Documentation for logical decoding.
Craig Ringer, Andres Freund, Christian Kruse, with edits by me.
2014-03-18 13:20:01 -04:00
Fujii Masao e726e59dc4 Fix help message and document in pg_receivexlog.
Add SLOTNAME placeholder to --slot option in help message and
document.
2014-03-18 21:15:45 +09:00
Tom Lane 551fb5ac74 Release notes for 9.3.4, 9.2.8, 9.1.13, 9.0.17, 8.4.21. 2014-03-17 15:28:22 -04:00
Fujii Masao 2bccced110 Fix typos in comments.
Thom Brown
2014-03-17 20:47:28 +09:00
Magnus Hagander 0294023a6b Cleanups from the remove-native-krb5 patch
krb_srvname is actually not available anymore as a parameter server-side, since
with gssapi we accept all principals in our keytab. It's still used in libpq for
client side specification.

In passing remove declaration of krb_server_hostname, where all the functionality
was already removed.

Noted by Stephen Frost, though a different solution than his suggestion
2014-03-16 15:22:45 +01:00
Tom Lane e3c9f23250 First-draft release notes for 9.3.4.
As usual, the release notes for older branches will be made by cutting
these down, but put them up for community review first.
2014-03-15 15:58:59 -04:00
Tom Lane f70a78bc1f Allow psql to print COPY command status in more cases.
Previously, psql would print the "COPY nnn" command status only for COPY
commands executed server-side.  Now it will print that for frontend copies
too (including \copy).  However, we continue to suppress the command status
for COPY TO STDOUT, since in that case the copy data has been routed to the
same place that the command status would go, and there is a risk of the
status line being mistaken for another line of COPY data.  Doing that would
break existing scripts, and it doesn't seem worth the benefit --- this case
seems fairly analogous to SELECT, for which we also suppress the command
status.

Kumar Rajeev Rastogi, with substantial review by Amit Khandekar
2014-03-13 13:49:03 -04:00
Heikki Linnakangas 16ff08b794 Fix a couple of typos in docs.
Thom Brown
2014-03-13 15:01:45 +02:00
Fujii Masao 588fb50715 Show PIDs of lock holders and waiters in log_lock_waits log message.
Christian Kruse, reviewed by Kumar Rajeev Rastogi.
2014-03-13 03:26:47 +09:00
Robert Haas a0b4c355c2 test_decoding: Documentation fix.
Andres Freund
2014-03-12 14:11:06 -04:00
Heikki Linnakangas c5608ea26a Allow opclasses to provide tri-valued GIN consistent functions.
With the GIN "fast scan" feature, GIN can skip items without fetching all
the keys for them, if it can prove that they don't match regardless of
those keys. So far, it has done the proving by calling the boolean
consistent function with all combinations of TRUE/FALSE for the unfetched
keys, but since that's O(n^2), it becomes unfeasible with more than a few
keys. We can avoid calling consistent with all the combinations, if we can
tell the operator class implementation directly which keys are unknown.

This commit includes a triConsistent function for the built-in array and
tsvector opclasses.

Alexander Korotkov, with some changes by me.
2014-03-12 17:51:30 +02:00
Robert Haas 5a991ef869 Allow logical decoding via the walsender interface.
In order for this to work, walsenders need the optional ability to
connect to a database, so the "replication" keyword now allows true
or false, for backward-compatibility, and the new value "database"
(which causes the "dbname" parameter to be respected).

walsender needs to loop not only when idle but also when sending
decoded data to the user and when waiting for more xlog data to decode.
This means that there are now three separate loops inside walsender.c;
although some refactoring has been done here, this is still a bit ugly.

Andres Freund, with contributions from Álvaro Herrera, and further
review by me.
2014-03-10 13:50:28 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 19026aadd8 doc: remove extra whitespace in SGML markup 2014-03-08 17:08:01 -05:00
Bruce Momjian 11d205e2bd pg_ctl: improve handling of invalid data directory
Return '4' and report a meaningful error message when a non-existent or
invalid data directory is passed.  Previously, pg_ctl would just report
the server was not running.

Patch by me and Amit Kapila
Report from Peter Eisentraut
2014-03-08 12:15:25 -05:00
Bruce Momjian 3624acd342 docs: small adjustements to recent SELECT and pg_upgrade improvements 2014-03-08 11:26:47 -05:00
Bruce Momjian 8879fa09ee pg_upgrade: document delete problems with tablespaces inside the cluster directory
Per report by Marc Mamin
2014-03-07 22:46:38 -05:00
Bruce Momjian ea43af38dc doc: improve server's keepalive description
Use superior libpq keepalive description for the server-level
parameters.

Per report by Tatsuo Ishii and Marko Tiikkaja
2014-03-07 22:02:38 -05:00
Bruce Momjian b0cb40f93a docs: improve TABLE command by showing supported clauses
Initial patch by Colin 't Hart
2014-03-07 20:56:16 -05:00
Bruce Momjian 4ea2e2d474 release notes: add item missed in 9.2.5 release
Item is "Prevent errors in WAL replay due to references to uninitialized
empty pages".

Report and text by Andres Freund

Backpatch through 9.2.
2014-03-07 13:45:38 -05:00
Heikki Linnakangas 2b8483d69d Fix name of syslog_ident GUC in docs.
Michael Paquier
2014-03-07 10:35:37 +02:00
Bruce Momjian e2224faf17 docs: to_timestamp and to_date do minimal range checking
Initial patch from Steve Crawford
2014-03-05 20:45:27 -05:00
Andrew Dunstan 3b5e03dca2 Provide a FORCE NULL option to COPY in CSV mode.
This forces an input field containing the quoted null string to be
returned as a NULL. Without this option, only unquoted null strings
behave this way. This helps where some CSV producers insist on quoting
every field, whether or not it is needed. The option takes a list of
fields, and only applies to those columns. There is an equivalent
column-level option added to file_fdw.

Ian Barwick, with some tweaking by Andrew Dunstan, reviewed by Payal
Singh.
2014-03-04 17:31:59 -05:00
Alvaro Herrera e2a0fc5363 auto_explain: Add logging of trigger execution
Author: Kyotaro HORIGUCHI
Reviewed-by: Jaime Casanova
2014-03-04 15:31:18 -03:00
Alvaro Herrera 84df54b22e Constructors for interval, timestamp, timestamptz
Author: Pavel Stěhule, editorialized somewhat by Álvaro Herrera
Reviewed-by: Tomáš Vondra, Marko Tiikkaja
With input from Fabrízio de Royes Mello, Jim Nasby
2014-03-04 15:09:43 -03:00
Robert Haas b89e151054 Introduce logical decoding.
This feature, building on previous commits, allows the write-ahead log
stream to be decoded into a series of logical changes; that is,
inserts, updates, and deletes and the transactions which contain them.
It is capable of handling decoding even across changes to the schema
of the effected tables.  The output format is controlled by a
so-called "output plugin"; an example is included.  To make use of
this in a real replication system, the output plugin will need to be
modified to produce output in the format appropriate to that system,
and to perform filtering.

Currently, information can be extracted from the logical decoding
system only via SQL; future commits will add the ability to stream
changes via walsender.

Andres Freund, with review and other contributions from many other
people, including Álvaro Herrera, Abhijit Menon-Sen, Peter Gheogegan,
Kevin Grittner, Robert Haas, Heikki Linnakangas, Fujii Masao, Abhijit
Menon-Sen, Michael Paquier, Simon Riggs, Craig Ringer, and Steve
Singer.
2014-03-03 16:32:18 -05:00
Heikki Linnakangas f8ce16d0d2 Rename huge_tlb_pages to huge_pages, and improve docs.
Christian Kruse
2014-03-03 20:52:48 +02:00
Alvaro Herrera 9067310cc5 pg_dump et al: Add --if-exists option
This option makes pg_dump, pg_dumpall and pg_restore inject an IF EXISTS
clause to each DROP command they emit.  (In pg_dumpall, the clause is
not added to individual objects drops, but rather to the CREATE DATABASE
commands, as well as CREATE ROLE and CREATE TABLESPACE.)

This allows for a better user dump experience when using --clean in case
some objects do not already exist.  Per bug #7873 by Dave Rolsky.

Author: Pavel Stěhule
Reviewed-by: Jeevan Chalke, Álvaro Herrera, Josh Kupershmidt
2014-03-03 15:02:18 -03:00
Robert Haas d83ee62231 Corrections to replication slots code and documentation.
Andres Freund, per a report from Vik Faering
2014-03-03 07:16:54 -05:00
Alvaro Herrera ef5856fd9b Allow BASE_BACKUP to be throttled
A new MAX_RATE option allows imposing a limit to the network transfer
rate from the server side.  This is useful to limit the stress that
taking a base backup has on the server.

pg_basebackup is now able to specify a value to the server, too.

Author: Antonin Houska

Patch reviewed by Stefan Radomski, Andres Freund, Zoltán Böszörményi,
Fujii Masao, and Álvaro Herrera.
2014-02-27 18:55:57 -03:00
Alvaro Herrera 4333eee82d doc: bgw_main takes a Datum argument, not void *.
Per report from James Harper.
2014-02-27 11:41:43 -03:00
Robert Haas dd1a3bccca Show xid and xmin in pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_replication.
Christian Kruse, reviewed by Andres Freund and myself, with further
minor adjustments by me.
2014-02-25 12:34:04 -05:00
Peter Eisentraut 32001ab0b7 Update and clarify ssl_ciphers default
- Write HIGH:MEDIUM instead of DEFAULT:!LOW:!EXP for clarity.
- Order 3DES last to work around inappropriate OpenSSL default.
- Remove !MD5 and @STRENGTH, because they are irrelevant.
- Add clarifying documentation.

Effectively, the new default is almost the same as the old one, but it
is arguably easier to understand and modify.

Author: Marko Kreen <markokr@gmail.com>
2014-02-24 20:30:28 -05:00