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Tom Lane 62535cae97 Remove dead code in ECPGconnect(), and improve documentation.
The stanza in ECPGconnect() that intended to allow specification of a
Unix socket directory path in place of a port has never executed since
it was committed, nearly two decades ago; the preceding strrchr()
already found the last colon so there cannot be another one.  The lack
of complaints about that is doubtless related to the fact that no
user-facing documentation suggested it was possible.

Rather than try to fix that up, let's just remove the unreachable
code, and instead document the way that does work to write a socket
directory path, namely specifying it as a "host" option.

In support of that, make another pass at clarifying the syntax
documentation for ECPG connection targets, particularly documenting
which things are parsed as identifiers and where to use double quotes.
Rearrange some things that seemed poorly ordered, and fix a couple of
minor doc errors.

Kyotaro Horiguchi, per gripe from Shenhao Wang
(docs changes mostly by me)

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ae52a416bbbf459c96bab30b3038e06c@G08CNEXMBPEKD06.g08.fujitsu.local
2021-02-11 15:05:55 -05:00
Fujii Masao 890d2182a2 Revert "Display the time when the process started waiting for the lock, in pg_locks."
This reverts commit 3b733fcd04.

Per buildfarm members prion and rorqual.
2021-02-09 18:30:40 +09:00
Fujii Masao 3b733fcd04 Display the time when the process started waiting for the lock, in pg_locks.
This commit adds new column "waitstart" into pg_locks view. This column
reports the time when the server process started waiting for the lock
if the lock is not held. This information is useful, for example, when
examining the amount of time to wait on a lock by subtracting
"waitstart" in pg_locks from the current time, and identify the lock
that the processes are waiting for very long.

This feature uses the current time obtained for the deadlock timeout
timer as "waitstart" (i.e., the time when this process started waiting
for the lock). Since getting the current time newly can cause overhead,
we reuse the already-obtained time to avoid that overhead.

Note that "waitstart" is updated without holding the lock table's
partition lock, to avoid the overhead by additional lock acquisition.
This can cause "waitstart" in pg_locks to become NULL for a very short
period of time after the wait started even though "granted" is false.
This is OK in practice because we can assume that users are likely to
look at "waitstart" when waiting for the lock for a long time.

Bump catalog version.

Author: Atsushi Torikoshi
Reviewed-by: Ian Lawrence Barwick, Robert Haas, Justin Pryzby, Fujii Masao
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a96013dc51cdc56b2a2b84fa8a16a993@oss.nttdata.com
2021-02-09 18:10:19 +09:00
Michael Paquier 7cb3048f38 Add option PROCESS_TOAST to VACUUM
This option controls if toast tables associated with a relation are
vacuumed or not when running a manual VACUUM.  It was already possible
to trigger a manual VACUUM on a toast relation without processing its
main relation, but a manual vacuum on a main relation always forced a
vacuum on its toast table.  This is useful in scenarios where the level
of bloat or transaction age of the main and toast relations differs a
lot.

This option is an extension of the existing VACOPT_SKIPTOAST that was
used by autovacuum to control if toast relations should be skipped or
not.  This internal flag is renamed to VACOPT_PROCESS_TOAST for
consistency with the new option.

A new option switch, called --no-process-toast, is added to vacuumdb.

Author: Nathan Bossart
Reviewed-by: Kirk Jamison, Michael Paquier, Justin Pryzby
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/BA8951E9-1524-48C5-94AF-73B1F0D7857F@amazon.com
2021-02-09 14:13:57 +09:00
Tatsuo Ishii 04fd3eeba5 Docs: fix pg_wal_lsn_diff manual.
The manual did not mention whether its return value is (first arg -
second arg) or (second arg - first arg). The order matters because the
return value could have a sign. Fix the manual so that it mentions the
function returns (first arg - second arg).

Patch reviewed by Tom Lane.

Back-patch through v13. Older version's doc format is difficult to add
more description.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/flat/20210206.151125.960423226279810864.t-ishii%40sraoss.co.jp
2021-02-07 13:43:50 +09:00
Peter Eisentraut 3c78e0569c Refactor Windows error message for easier translation
In the error messages referring to the user right "Lock pages in
memory", this is a term from the Windows OS, so it should be
translated in accordance with the OS localization.  Refactor the error
messages so this is easier and clearer.  Also fix the capitalization
to match the existing capitalization in the OS.
2021-02-04 13:31:13 +01:00
Michael Paquier c5b286047c Add TABLESPACE option to REINDEX
This patch adds the possibility to move indexes to a new tablespace
while rebuilding them.  Both the concurrent and the non-concurrent cases
are supported, and the following set of restrictions apply:
- When using TABLESPACE with a REINDEX command that targets a
partitioned table or index, all the indexes of the leaf partitions are
moved to the new tablespace.  The tablespace references of the non-leaf,
partitioned tables in pg_class.reltablespace are not changed. This
requires an extra ALTER TABLE SET TABLESPACE.
- Any index on a toast table rebuilt as part of a parent table is kept
in its original tablespace.
- The operation is forbidden on system catalogs, including trying to
directly move a toast relation with REINDEX.  This results in an error
if doing REINDEX on a single object.  REINDEX SCHEMA, DATABASE and
SYSTEM skip system relations when TABLESPACE is used.

Author: Alexey Kondratov, Michael Paquier, Justin Pryzby
Reviewed-by: Álvaro Herrera, Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/8a8f5f73-00d3-55f8-7583-1375ca8f6a91@postgrespro.ru
2021-02-04 14:34:20 +09:00
Tom Lane ba0faf81c6 Remove special BKI_LOOKUP magic for namespace and role OIDs.
Now that commit 62f34097c attached BKI_LOOKUP annotation to all the
namespace and role OID columns in the catalogs, there's no real reason
to have the magic PGNSP and PGUID symbols.  Get rid of them in favor
of implementing those lookups according to genbki.pl's normal pattern.

This means that in the catalog headers, BKI_DEFAULT(PGNSP) becomes
BKI_DEFAULT(pg_catalog), which seems a lot more transparent.
BKI_DEFAULT(PGUID) becomes BKI_DEFAULT(POSTGRES), which is perhaps
less so; but you can look into pg_authid.dat to discover that
POSTGRES is the nonce name for the bootstrap superuser.

This change also means that if we ever need cross-references in the
initial catalog data to any of the other built-in roles besides
POSTGRES, or to some other built-in schema besides pg_catalog,
we can just do it.

No catversion bump here, as there's no actual change in the contents
of postgres.bki.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3240355.1612129197@sss.pgh.pa.us
2021-02-03 12:01:48 -05:00
Tom Lane 62f34097c8 Build in some knowledge about foreign-key relationships in the catalogs.
This follows in the spirit of commit dfb75e478, which created primary
key and uniqueness constraints to improve the visibility of constraints
imposed on the system catalogs.  While our catalogs contain many
foreign-key-like relationships, they don't quite follow SQL semantics,
in that the convention for an omitted reference is to write zero not
NULL.  Plus, we have some cases in which there are arrays each of whose
elements is supposed to be an FK reference; SQL has no way to model that.
So we can't create actual foreign key constraints to describe the
situation.  Nonetheless, we can collect and use knowledge about these
relationships.

This patch therefore adds annotations to the catalog header files to
declare foreign-key relationships.  (The BKI_LOOKUP annotations cover
simple cases, but we weren't previously distinguishing which such
columns are allowed to contain zeroes; we also need new markings for
multi-column FK references.)  Then, Catalog.pm and genbki.pl are
taught to collect this information into a table in a new generated
header "system_fk_info.h".  The only user of that at the moment is
a new SQL function pg_get_catalog_foreign_keys(), which exposes the
table to SQL.  The oidjoins regression test is rewritten to use
pg_get_catalog_foreign_keys() to find out which columns to check.
Aside from removing the need for manual maintenance of that test
script, this allows it to cover numerous relationships that were not
checked by the old implementation based on findoidjoins.  (As of this
commit, 217 relationships are checked by the test, versus 181 before.)

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3240355.1612129197@sss.pgh.pa.us
2021-02-02 17:11:55 -05:00
Tom Lane 479331406e Doc: consistently identify OID catalog columns that can be zero.
Not all OID-reference columns that can contain zeroes (indicating
"no reference") were explicitly marked in catalogs.sgml.  Fix that,
and try to make the style a little more consistent while at it ---
for example, consistently write "zero" not "0" for these cases.

Joel Jacobson and Tom Lane

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/4ed9a372-7bf9-479a-926c-ae8e774717a8@www.fastmail.com
2021-02-02 16:15:29 -05:00
Tom Lane 9522085ac9 Doc: work a little harder on the initial examples for regex matching.
Writing unnecessary '.*' at start and end of a POSIX regex doesn't
do much except confuse the reader about whether that might be
necessary after all.  Make the examples in table 9.16 a tad more
realistic, and try to turn the next group of examples into something
self-contained.

Per gripe from rmzgrimes.  Back-patch to v13 because it's easy.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/161215841824.14653.8969016349304314299@wrigleys.postgresql.org
2021-02-01 16:38:52 -05:00
Peter Eisentraut 3696a600e2 SEARCH and CYCLE clauses
This adds the SQL standard feature that adds the SEARCH and CYCLE
clauses to recursive queries to be able to do produce breadth- or
depth-first search orders and detect cycles.  These clauses can be
rewritten into queries using existing syntax, and that is what this
patch does in the rewriter.

Reviewed-by: Vik Fearing <vik@postgresfriends.org>
Reviewed-by: Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/db80ceee-6f97-9b4a-8ee8-3ba0c58e5be2@2ndquadrant.com
2021-02-01 14:32:51 +01:00
Michael Paquier fe61df7f82 Introduce --with-ssl={openssl} as a configure option
This is a replacement for the existing --with-openssl, extending the
logic to make easier the addition of new SSL libraries.  The grammar is
chosen to be similar to --with-uuid, where multiple values can be
chosen, with "openssl" as the only supported value for now.

The original switch, --with-openssl, is kept for compatibility.

Author: Daniel Gustafsson, Michael Paquier
Reviewed-by: Jacob Champion
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/FAB21FC8-0F62-434F-AA78-6BD9336D630A@yesql.se
2021-02-01 19:19:44 +09:00
Alexander Korotkov aa6e46daf5 Throw error when assigning jsonb scalar instead of a composite object
During the jsonb subscripting assignment, the provided path might assume an
object or an array where the source jsonb has a scalar value.  Initial
subscripting assignment logic will skip such an update operation with no
message shown.  This commit makes it throw an error to indicate this type
of situation.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2Bq6zcV8qvGcDXurwwgUbwACV86Th7G80pnubg42e-p9gsSf%3Dg%40mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2Bq6zcX3mdxGCgdThzuySwH-ApyHHM-G4oB1R0fn0j2hZqqkLQ%40mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2Bq6zcVDuGBv%3DM0FqBYX8DPebS3F_0KQ6OVFobGJPM507_SZ_w%40mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2Bq6zcVovR%2BXY4mfk-7oNk-rF91gH0PebnNfuUjuuDsyHjOcVA%40mail.gmail.com
Author: Dmitry Dolgov
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane, Arthur Zakirov, Pavel Stehule, Dian M Fay
Reviewed-by: Andrew Dunstan, Chapman Flack, Merlin Moncure, Peter Geoghegan
Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera, Jim Nasby, Josh Berkus, Victor Wagner
Reviewed-by: Aleksander Alekseev, Robert Haas, Oleg Bartunov
2021-01-31 23:51:06 +03:00
Alexander Korotkov 81fcc72e66 Filling array gaps during jsonb subscripting
This commit introduces two new flags for jsonb assignment:

* JB_PATH_FILL_GAPS: Appending array elements on the specified position, gaps
  are filled with nulls (similar to the JavaScript behavior).  This mode also
  instructs to   create the whole path in a jsonb object if some part of the
  path (more than just the last element) is not present.

* JB_PATH_CONSISTENT_POSITION: Assigning keeps array positions consistent by
  preventing prepending of elements.

Both flags are used only in jsonb subscripting assignment.

Initially proposed by Nikita Glukhov based on polymorphic subscripting
patch, but transformed into an independent change.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2Bq6zcV8qvGcDXurwwgUbwACV86Th7G80pnubg42e-p9gsSf%3Dg%40mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2Bq6zcX3mdxGCgdThzuySwH-ApyHHM-G4oB1R0fn0j2hZqqkLQ%40mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2Bq6zcVDuGBv%3DM0FqBYX8DPebS3F_0KQ6OVFobGJPM507_SZ_w%40mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2Bq6zcVovR%2BXY4mfk-7oNk-rF91gH0PebnNfuUjuuDsyHjOcVA%40mail.gmail.com
Author: Dmitry Dolgov
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane, Arthur Zakirov, Pavel Stehule, Dian M Fay
Reviewed-by: Andrew Dunstan, Chapman Flack, Merlin Moncure, Peter Geoghegan
Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera, Jim Nasby, Josh Berkus, Victor Wagner
Reviewed-by: Aleksander Alekseev, Robert Haas, Oleg Bartunov
2021-01-31 23:51:01 +03:00
Alexander Korotkov 676887a3b0 Implementation of subscripting for jsonb
Subscripting for jsonb does not support slices, does not have a limit for the
number of subscripts, and an assignment expects a replace value to have jsonb
type.  There is also one functional difference between assignment via
subscripting and assignment via jsonb_set().  When an original jsonb container
is NULL, the subscripting replaces it with an empty jsonb and proceeds with
an assignment.

For the sake of code reuse, we rearrange some parts of jsonb functionality
to allow the usage of the same functions for jsonb_set and assign subscripting
operation.

The original idea belongs to Oleg Bartunov.

Catversion is bumped.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2Bq6zcV8qvGcDXurwwgUbwACV86Th7G80pnubg42e-p9gsSf%3Dg%40mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2Bq6zcX3mdxGCgdThzuySwH-ApyHHM-G4oB1R0fn0j2hZqqkLQ%40mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2Bq6zcVDuGBv%3DM0FqBYX8DPebS3F_0KQ6OVFobGJPM507_SZ_w%40mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2Bq6zcVovR%2BXY4mfk-7oNk-rF91gH0PebnNfuUjuuDsyHjOcVA%40mail.gmail.com
Author: Dmitry Dolgov
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane, Arthur Zakirov, Pavel Stehule, Dian M Fay
Reviewed-by: Andrew Dunstan, Chapman Flack, Merlin Moncure, Peter Geoghegan
Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera, Jim Nasby, Josh Berkus, Victor Wagner
Reviewed-by: Aleksander Alekseev, Robert Haas, Oleg Bartunov
2021-01-31 23:50:40 +03:00
Peter Eisentraut 6533062244 doc: Clarify status of SELECT INTO on reference page
The documentation as well as source code comments weren't entirely
clear whether SELECT INTO was truly deprecated (thus in theory
destined to be removed eventually), or just a less recommended
variant.  After discussion, it appears that other implementations also
use SELECT INTO in direct SQL in a way similar to PostgreSQL, so it
seems worth keeping it for compatibility.  Update the language in the
documentation to that effect.

Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/96dc0df3-e13a-a85d-d045-d6e2c85218da%40enterprisedb.com
2021-01-30 11:21:32 +01:00
Peter Eisentraut 6aaaa76bb4 Allow GRANTED BY clause in normal GRANT and REVOKE statements
The SQL standard allows a GRANTED BY clause on GRANT and
REVOKE (privilege) statements that can specify CURRENT_USER or
CURRENT_ROLE.  In PostgreSQL, both of these are the default behavior.
Since we already have all the parsing support for this for the
GRANT (role) statement, we might as well add basic support for this
for the privilege variant as well.  This allows us to check off SQL
feature T332.  In the future, perhaps more interesting things could be
done with this, too.

Reviewed-by: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/f2feac44-b4c5-f38f-3699-2851d6a76dc9@2ndquadrant.com
2021-01-30 09:45:11 +01:00
Tom Lane f743a2bbd4 Doc: improve cross-references for SET/SHOW.
The corresponding functions set_config and current_setting were
mostly not hyperlinked.  Clarify their descriptions a tad, too.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/161183356250.4077.687338658090583892@wrigleys.postgresql.org
2021-01-29 10:46:14 -05:00
Alexander Korotkov b41645460a Document behavior of the .** jsonpath accessor in the lax mode
When the .** jsonpath accessor handles the array, it selects both array and
each of its elements.  When using lax mode, subsequent accessors automatically
unwrap arrays.  So, the content of each array element may be selected twice.

Even though this behavior is counterintuitive, it's correct because everything
works as designed.  This commit documents it.

Backpatch to 12 where the jsonpath language was introduced.

Reported-by: Thomas Kellerer
Bug: #16828
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16828-2b0229babfad2d8c%40postgresql.org
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAPpHfdtS-nNidT%3DEqZbAYOPcnNOWh_sd6skVdu2CAQUGdvpT8Q%40mail.gmail.com
Author: Alexandex Korotkov, revised by Tom Lane
Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera, Thomas Kellerer, Tom Lane
Backpatch-through: 12
2021-01-29 15:28:07 +03:00
Michael Paquier 2a5862f013 doc: Improve wording of section for repslot statistics
This documentation has been added in 9868167, so no backpatch is
needed.

Author: Justin Pryzby, Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20201222041153.GK30237@telsasoft.com
2021-01-29 14:24:49 +09:00
Thomas Munro 5c6d184213 Remove documentation of waiting restore_command.
Following the removal of pg_standby, also remove the documentation
section that describes how to write your own "waiting restore_command"
along the same lines.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20201029024412.GP5380%40telsasoft.com
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
2021-01-29 14:16:29 +13:00
Thomas Munro 514b411a2b Retire pg_standby.
pg_standby was useful more than a decade ago, but now it is obsolete.
It has been proposed that we retire it many times.  Now seems like a
good time to finally do it, because "waiting restore commands"
are incompatible with a proposed recovery prefetching feature.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20201029024412.GP5380%40telsasoft.com
Author: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
Reviewed-by: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>
Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Reviewed-by: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@oss.nttdata.com>
2021-01-29 14:09:41 +13:00
Alvaro Herrera 6f5c8a8ec2
Remove bogus restriction from BEFORE UPDATE triggers
In trying to protect the user from inconsistent behavior, commit
487e9861d0 "Enable BEFORE row-level triggers for partitioned tables"
tried to prevent BEFORE UPDATE FOR EACH ROW triggers from moving the row
from one partition to another.  However, it turns out that the
restriction is wrong in two ways: first, it fails spuriously, preventing
valid situations from working, as in bug #16794; and second, they don't
protect from any misbehavior, because tuple routing would cope anyway.

Fix by removing that restriction.

We keep the same restriction on BEFORE INSERT FOR EACH ROW triggers,
though.  It is valid and useful there.  In the future we could remove it
by having tuple reroute work for inserts as it does for updates.

Backpatch to 13.

Author: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Reported-by: Phillip Menke <pg@pmenke.de>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16794-350a655580fbb9ae@postgresql.org
2021-01-28 16:56:07 -03:00
Peter Eisentraut b034ef9b37 Remove gratuitous uses of deprecated SELECT INTO
CREATE TABLE AS has been preferred over SELECT INTO (outside of ecpg
and PL/pgSQL) for a long time.  There were still a few uses of SELECT
INTO in tests and documentation, some old, some more recent.  This
changes them to CREATE TABLE AS.  Some occurrences in the tests remain
where they are specifically testing SELECT INTO parsing or similar.

Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/96dc0df3-e13a-a85d-d045-d6e2c85218da%40enterprisedb.com
2021-01-28 14:28:41 +01:00
Peter Geoghegan e19594c5c0 Reduce the default value of vacuum_cost_page_miss.
When commit f425b605 introduced cost based vacuum delays back in 2004,
the defaults reflected then-current trends in hardware, as well as
certain historical limitations in PostgreSQL.  There have been enormous
improvements in both areas since that time.  The cost limit GUC defaults
finally became much more representative of current trends following
commit cbccac37, which decreased autovacuum_vacuum_cost_delay's default
by 10x for PostgreSQL 12 (it went from 20ms to only 2ms).

The relative costs have shifted too.  This should also be accounted for
by the defaults.  More specifically, the relative importance of avoiding
dirtying pages within VACUUM has greatly increased, primarily due to
main memory capacity scaling and trends in flash storage.  Within
Postgres itself, improvements like sequential access during index
vacuuming (at least in nbtree and GiST indexes) have also been
contributing factors.

To reflect all this, decrease the default of vacuum_cost_page_miss to 2.
Since the default of vacuum_cost_page_dirty remains 20, dirtying a page
is now considered 10x "costlier" than a page miss by default.

Author: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-WzmLPFnkWT8xMjmcsm7YS3+_Qi3iRWAb2+_Bc8UhVyHfuA@mail.gmail.com
2021-01-27 15:11:13 -08:00
Tom Lane 662affcfe9 Doc: improve documentation for UNNEST().
Per a user question, spell out that UNNEST() returns array elements
in storage order; also provide an example to clarify the behavior for
multi-dimensional arrays.

While here, also clarify the SELECT reference page's description of
WITH ORDINALITY.  These details were already given in 7.2.1.4, but
a reference page should not omit details.

Back-patch to v13; there's not room in the table in older versions.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/FF1FB31F-0507-4F18-9559-2DE6E07E3B43@gmail.com
2021-01-27 12:50:22 -05:00
Michael Paquier 32bef75829 doc: Remove reference to views for TRUNCATE privilege
The page about privilege rights mentioned that TRUNCATE could be applied
to views or even other relation types.  This is confusing as this
command can be used only on tables and on partitioned tables.

Oversight in afc4a78.

Reported-by: Harisai Hari
Reviewed-by: Laurenz Albe
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/161157636877.14625.15340884663716426087@wrigleys.postgresql.org
Backpatch-through: 12
2021-01-27 13:40:33 +09:00
Tom Lane d5a83d79c9 Rethink recently-added SPI interfaces.
SPI_execute_with_receiver and SPI_cursor_parse_open_with_paramlist are
new in v14 (cf. commit 2f48ede08).  Before they can get out the door,
let's change their APIs to follow the practice recently established by
SPI_prepare_extended etc: shove all optional arguments into a struct
that callers are supposed to pre-zero.  The hope is to allow future
addition of more options without either API breakage or a continuing
proliferation of new SPI entry points.  With that in mind, choose
slightly more generic names for them: SPI_execute_extended and
SPI_cursor_parse_open respectively.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAFj8pRCLPdDAETvR7Po7gC5y_ibkn_-bOzbeJb39WHms01194Q@mail.gmail.com
2021-01-26 16:37:12 -05:00
Fujii Masao 411ae64997 postgres_fdw: Add functions to discard cached connections.
This commit introduces two new functions postgres_fdw_disconnect()
and postgres_fdw_disconnect_all(). The former function discards
the cached connections to the specified foreign server. The latter discards
all the cached connections. If the connection is used in the current
transaction, it's not closed and a warning message is emitted.

For example, these functions are useful when users want to explicitly
close the foreign server connections that are no longer necessary and
then to prevent them from eating up the foreign servers connections
capacity.

Author: Bharath Rupireddy, tweaked a bit by Fujii Masao
Reviewed-by: Alexey Kondratov, Zhijie Hou, Zhihong Yu, Fujii Masao
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CALj2ACVvrp5=AVp2PupEm+nAC8S4buqR3fJMmaCoc7ftT0aD2A@mail.gmail.com
2021-01-26 15:35:54 +09:00
Tom Lane ee895a655c Improve performance of repeated CALLs within plpgsql procedures.
This patch essentially is cleaning up technical debt left behind
by the original implementation of plpgsql procedures, particularly
commit d92bc83c4.  That patch (or more precisely, follow-on patches
fixing its worst bugs) forced us to re-plan CALL and DO statements
each time through, if we're in a non-atomic context.  That wasn't
for any fundamental reason, but just because use of a saved plan
requires having a ResourceOwner to hold a reference count for the
plan, and we had no suitable resowner at hand, nor would the
available APIs support using one if we did.  While it's not that
expensive to create a "plan" for CALL/DO, the cycles do add up
in repeated executions.

This patch therefore makes the following API changes:

* GetCachedPlan/ReleaseCachedPlan are modified to let the caller
specify which resowner to use to pin the plan, rather than forcing
use of CurrentResourceOwner.

* spi.c gains a "SPI_execute_plan_extended" entry point that lets
callers say which resowner to use to pin the plan.  This borrows the
idea of an options struct from the recently added SPI_prepare_extended,
hopefully allowing future options to be added without more API breaks.
This supersedes SPI_execute_plan_with_paramlist (which I've marked
deprecated) as well as SPI_execute_plan_with_receiver (which is new
in v14, so I just took it out altogether).

* I also took the opportunity to remove the crude hack of letting
plpgsql reach into SPI private data structures to mark SPI plans as
"no_snapshot".  It's better to treat that as an option of
SPI_prepare_extended.

Now, when running a non-atomic procedure or DO block that contains
any CALL or DO commands, plpgsql creates a ResourceOwner that
will be used to pin the plans of the CALL/DO commands.  (In an
atomic context, we just use CurrentResourceOwner, as before.)
Having done this, we can just save CALL/DO plans normally,
whether or not they are used across transaction boundaries.
This seems to be good for something like 2X speedup of a CALL
of a trivial procedure with a few simple argument expressions.
By restricting the creation of an extra ResourceOwner like this,
there's essentially zero penalty in cases that can't benefit.

Pavel Stehule, with some further hacking by me

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAFj8pRCLPdDAETvR7Po7gC5y_ibkn_-bOzbeJb39WHms01194Q@mail.gmail.com
2021-01-25 22:28:29 -05:00
Robert Haas d18e75664a Remove CheckpointLock.
Up until now, we've held this lock when performing a checkpoint or
restartpoint, but commit 076a055acf back
in 2004 and commit 7e48b77b1c from 2009,
taken together, have removed all need for this. In the present code,
there's only ever one process entitled to attempt a checkpoint: either
the checkpointer, during normal operation, or the postmaster, during
single-user operation. So, we don't need the lock.

One possible concern in making this change is that it means that
a substantial amount of code where HOLD_INTERRUPTS() was previously
in effect due to the preceding LWLockAcquire() will now be
running without that. This could mean that ProcessInterrupts()
gets called in places from which it didn't before. However, this
seems unlikely to do very much, because the checkpointer doesn't
have any signal mapped to die(), so it's not clear how,
for example, ProcDiePending = true could happen in the first
place. Similarly with ClientConnectionLost and recovery conflicts.

Also, if there are any such problems, we might want to fix them
rather than reverting this, since running lots of code with
interrupt handling suspended is generally bad.

Patch by me, per an inquiry by Amul Sul. Review by Tom Lane
and Michael Paquier.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAAJ_b97XnBBfYeSREDJorFsyoD1sHgqnNuCi=02mNQBUMnA=FA@mail.gmail.com
2021-01-25 12:34:38 -05:00
Tom Lane 951862eda5 Doc: improve documentation of pg_proc.protrftypes.
Add a "references" link pointing to pg_type, as we have for other arrays
of type OIDs.  Wordsmith the explanation a bit.

Joel Jacobson, additional editing by me

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/d1cc628c-3953-4209-957b-29427acc38c8@www.fastmail.com
2021-01-25 11:20:17 -05:00
Tom Lane 7e57255f61 Doc: clean up contrib/pageinspect's GIST function documentation.
I came to fix the overwidth-PDF-page warnings seen in the buildfarm,
but stayed long enough to copy-edit some nearby text.
2021-01-23 22:40:46 -05:00
Tom Lane 183bbd1b6d Doc: update example connection-failure messages in the documentation.
Now that the dust has more or less settled on 52a10224e and follow-ons,
make sure the examples in the documentation are up-to-date.
2021-01-23 15:50:51 -05:00
Tom Lane 50bebc1ae1 Doc: improve directions for building on macOS.
In light of recent discussions, we should instruct people to
install Apple's command line tools; installing Xcode is secondary.

Also, fix sample command for finding out the default sysroot,
as we now know that the command originally recommended can give
a result that doesn't match your OS version.

Also document the workaround to use if you really don't want
configure to select a sysroot at all.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210119111625.20435-1-james.hilliard1@gmail.com
2021-01-22 18:58:25 -05:00
Tom Lane 58cd8dca3d Avoid redundantly prefixing PQerrorMessage for a connection failure.
libpq's error messages for connection failures pretty well stand on
their own, especially since commits 52a10224e/27a48e5a1.  Prefixing
them with 'could not connect to database "foo"' or the like is just
redundant, and perhaps even misleading if the specific database name
isn't relevant to the failure.  (When it is, we trust that the
backend's error message will include the DB name.)  Indeed, psql
hasn't used any such prefix in a long time.  So, make all our other
programs and documentation examples agree with psql's practice.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1094524.1611266589@sss.pgh.pa.us
2021-01-22 16:52:31 -05:00
Tom Lane 7cd9765f9b Re-allow DISTINCT in pl/pgsql expressions.
I'd omitted this from the grammar in commit c9d529848, figuring that
it wasn't worth supporting.  However we already have one complaint,
so it seems that judgment was wrong.  It doesn't require a huge
amount of code, so add it back.  (I'm still drawing the line at
UNION/INTERSECT/EXCEPT though: those'd require an unreasonable
amount of grammar refactoring, and the single-result-row restriction
makes them near useless anyway.)

Also rethink the documentation: this behavior is a property of
all pl/pgsql expressions, not just assignments.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210122134106.e94c5cd7@mail.verfriemelt.org
2021-01-22 16:26:22 -05:00
Tom Lane ab66645628 Doc: remove misleading claim in documentation of PQreset().
This text claimed that the reconnection would occur "to the same
server", but there is no such guarantee in the code, nor would
insisting on that be an improvement.

Back-patch to v10 where multi-host connection strings were added.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1095901.1611268376@sss.pgh.pa.us
2021-01-22 11:29:43 -05:00
Magnus Hagander 0a9ae44288 Remove reference to ftp servers from documentation
It's been a long time since we used ftp, but there was a single
reference left in the docs.

Author: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/6880D602-7286-46EC-8A03-14E3248FEC7A@yesql.se
2021-01-22 12:49:53 +01:00
Heikki Linnakangas 29ad6595ef doc: Copy-edit the "Overview of PostgreSQL Internals" chapter
Rephrase a few sentences to be more concise.

Refer to the postmaster process as "postmaster", not "postgres". This
originally said "postmaster process", but was changed to "postgres
process" in commit 5266f221a2, when we merged the "postmaster" and
"postgres" commands, and "postmaster" became just a symlink. That was a
case of overzealous search & replace, because the process is still called
"postmaster".

Author: Erik Rijkers and Jürgen Purtz
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/aa31f359-1168-ded5-53d0-0ed228bfe097%40iki.fi
2021-01-22 11:10:42 +02:00
Tomas Vondra b663a41363 Implement support for bulk inserts in postgres_fdw
Extends the FDW API to allow batching inserts into foreign tables. That
is usually much more efficient than inserting individual rows, due to
high latency for each round-trip to the foreign server.

It was possible to implement something similar in the regular FDW API,
but it was inconvenient and there were issues with reporting the number
of actually inserted rows etc. This extends the FDW API with two new
functions:

* GetForeignModifyBatchSize - allows the FDW picking optimal batch size

* ExecForeignBatchInsert - inserts a batch of rows at once

Currently, only INSERT queries support batching. Support for DELETE and
UPDATE may be added in the future.

This also implements batching for postgres_fdw. The batch size may be
specified using "batch_size" option both at the server and table level.

The initial patch version was written by me, but it was rewritten and
improved in many ways by Takayuki Tsunakawa.

Author: Takayuki Tsunakawa
Reviewed-by: Tomas Vondra, Amit Langote
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200628151002.7x5laxwpgvkyiu3q@development
2021-01-20 23:57:27 +01:00
Tomas Vondra ad600bba04 psql \dX: list extended statistics objects
The new command lists extended statistics objects. All past releases
with extended statistics are supported.

This is a simplified version of commit 891a1d0bca, which had to be
reverted due to not considering pg_statistic_ext_data is not accessible
by regular users. Fields requiring access to this catalog were removed.
It's possible to add them, but it'll require changes to core.

Author: Tatsuro Yamada
Reviewed-by: Julien Rouhaud, Alvaro Herrera, Tomas Vondra, Noriyoshi Shinoda
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/c027a541-5856-75a5-0868-341301e1624b%40nttcom.co.jp_1
2021-01-20 22:57:21 +01:00
Thomas Munro 679744cf1b Fix sample output of EXPLAIN ANALYZE.
Since commit f0f13a3a08, we estimate
ModifyTable paths without a RETURNING clause differently.  Update an
example from the manual that showed the old behavior.

Author: Takayuki Tsunakawa <tsunakawa.takay@fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/TYAPR01MB29905674F41693BBA9DA28CAFEA20%40TYAPR01MB2990.jpnprd01.prod.outlook.com
2021-01-20 22:38:24 +13:00
Peter Eisentraut f18aa1b203 pageinspect: Change block number arguments to bigint
Block numbers are 32-bit unsigned integers.  Therefore, the smallest
SQL integer type that they can fit in is bigint.  However, in the
pageinspect module, most input and output parameters dealing with
block numbers were declared as int.  The behavior with block numbers
larger than a signed 32-bit integer was therefore dubious.  Change
these arguments to type bigint and add some more explicit error
checking on the block range.

(Other contrib modules appear to do this correctly already.)

Since we are changing argument types of existing functions, in order
to not misbehave if the binary is updated before the extension is
updated, we need to create new C symbols for the entry points, similar
to how it's done in other extensions as well.

Reported-by: Ashutosh Bapat <ashutosh.bapat.oss@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/d8f6bdd536df403b9b33816e9f7e0b9d@G08CNEXMBPEKD05.g08.fujitsu.local
2021-01-19 11:03:38 +01:00
Fujii Masao ee79a548e7 doc: Add note about the server name of postgres_fdw_get_connections() returns.
Previously the document didn't mention the case where
postgres_fdw_get_connections() returns NULL in server_name column.
Users might be confused about why NULL was returned.

This commit adds the note that, in postgres_fdw_get_connections(),
the server name of an invalid connection will be NULL if the server is dropped.

Suggested-by: Zhijie Hou
Author: Bharath Rupireddy
Reviewed-by: Zhijie Hou, Fujii Masao
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/e7ddd14e96444fce88e47a709c196537@G08CNEXMBPEKD05.g08.fujitsu.local
2021-01-19 15:04:58 +09:00
Bruce Momjian 9e7dbe3369 doc: adjust alignment of doc file list for "pg_waldump.sgml"
Backpatch-through: 10
2021-01-18 18:48:25 -05:00
Tom Lane a6cf3df4eb Add bytea equivalents of ltrim() and rtrim().
We had bytea btrim() already, but for some reason not the other two.

Joel Jacobson

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/d10cd5cd-a901-42f1-b832-763ac6f7ff3a@www.fastmail.com
2021-01-18 15:11:32 -05:00
Peter Eisentraut 15251c0a60 Pause recovery for insufficient parameter settings
When certain parameters are changed on a physical replication primary,
this is communicated to standbys using the XLOG_PARAMETER_CHANGE WAL
record.  The standby then checks whether its own settings are at least
as big as the ones on the primary.  If not, the standby shuts down
with a fatal error.

This patch changes this behavior for hot standbys to pause recovery at
that point instead.  That allows read traffic on the standby to
continue while database administrators figure out next steps.  When
recovery is unpaused, the server shuts down (as before).  The idea is
to fix the parameters while recovery is paused and then restart when
there is a maintenance window.

Reviewed-by: Sergei Kornilov <sk@zsrv.org>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/4ad69a4c-cc9b-0dfe-0352-8b1b0cd36c7b@2ndquadrant.com
2021-01-18 09:04:04 +01:00
Fujii Masao 708d165ddb postgres_fdw: Add function to list cached connections to foreign servers.
This commit adds function postgres_fdw_get_connections() to return
the foreign server names of all the open connections that postgres_fdw
established from the local session to the foreign servers. This function
also returns whether each connection is valid or not.

This function is useful when checking all the open foreign server connections.
If we found some connection to drop, from the result of function, probably
we can explicitly close them by the function that upcoming commit will add.

This commit bumps the version of postgres_fdw to 1.1 since it adds
new function.

Author: Bharath Rupireddy, tweaked by Fujii Masao
Reviewed-by: Zhijie Hou, Alexey Kondratov, Zhihong Yu, Fujii Masao
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2d5cb0b3-a6e8-9bbb-953f-879f47128faa@oss.nttdata.com
2021-01-18 15:11:08 +09:00
Magnus Hagander cf621d9d84 Add documentation chapter about checksums
Data checksums did not have a longer discussion in the docs,
this adds a short section with an overview.

Extracted from the larger patch for on-line enabling of checksums, which
has many more authors and reviewers.

Author: Daniel Gustafsson
Reviewed-By: Magnus Hagander, Michael Banck (and others through the big patch)
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/5ff49fa4.1c69fb81.658f3.04ac@mx.google.com
2021-01-17 15:31:23 +01:00
Tomas Vondra 1db0d173a2 Revert "psql \dX: list extended statistics objects"
Reverts 891a1d0bca, because the new  psql command \dX only worked for
users users who can read pg_statistic_ext_data catalog, and most regular
users lack that privilege (the catalog may contain sensitive user data).

Reported-by: Noriyoshi Shinoda
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/c027a541-5856-75a5-0868-341301e1624b%40nttcom.co.jp_1
2021-01-17 15:11:14 +01:00
Magnus Hagander e09155bd62 Add --no-instructions parameter to initdb
Specifying this parameter removes the informational messages about how
to start the server. This is intended for use by wrappers in different
packaging systems, where those instructions would most likely be wrong
anyway, but the other output from initdb would still be useful (and thus
just redirecting everything to /dev/null would be bad).

Author: Magnus Hagander
Reviewed-By: Peter Eisentraut
Discusion: https://postgr.es/m/CABUevEzo4t5bmTXF0_B9WzmuWpVbMpkNZZiGvzV8NZa-=fPqeQ@mail.gmail.com
2021-01-17 14:34:41 +01:00
Magnus Hagander 960869da08 Add pg_stat_database counters for sessions and session time
This add counters for number of sessions, the different kind of session
termination types, and timers for how much time is spent in active vs
idle in a database to pg_stat_database.

Internally this also renames the parameter "force" to disconnect. This
was the only use-case for the parameter before, so repurposing it to
this mroe narrow usecase makes things cleaner than inventing something
new.

Author: Laurenz Albe
Reviewed-By: Magnus Hagander, Soumyadeep Chakraborty, Masahiro Ikeda
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/b07e1f9953701b90c66ed368656f2aef40cac4fb.camel@cybertec.at
2021-01-17 13:52:31 +01:00
Tomas Vondra 891a1d0bca psql \dX: list extended statistics objects
The new command lists extended statistics objects, possibly with their
sizes. All past releases with extended statistics are supported.

Author: Tatsuro Yamada
Reviewed-by: Julien Rouhaud, Alvaro Herrera, Tomas Vondra
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/c027a541-5856-75a5-0868-341301e1624b%40nttcom.co.jp_1
2021-01-17 00:16:45 +01:00
Jeff Davis a32d98351e Documenation fixups for replication protocol.
There is no CopyResponse message; it should be CopyOutResponse.

Also, if there is no WAL to stream, the server does not immediately
send a CommandComplete; it's a historical timeline, so it will send a
response tuple first.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/0a2c985ebcaa1acd385350aeba561b6509187394.camel@j-davis.com
2021-01-16 14:40:12 -08:00
Alvaro Herrera ebfe2dbd6b
Prevent drop of tablespaces used by partitioned relations
When a tablespace is used in a partitioned relation (per commits
ca4103025d in pg12 for tables and 33e6c34c32 in pg11 for indexes),
it is possible to drop the tablespace, potentially causing various
problems.  One such was reported in bug #16577, where a rewriting ALTER
TABLE causes a server crash.

Protect against this by using pg_shdepend to keep track of tablespaces
when used for relations that don't keep physical files; we now abort a
tablespace if we see that the tablespace is referenced from any
partitioned relations.

Backpatch this to 11, where this problem has been latent all along.  We
don't try to create pg_shdepend entries for existing partitioned
indexes/tables, but any ones that are modified going forward will be
protected.

Note slight behavior change: when trying to drop a tablespace that
contains both regular tables as well as partitioned ones, you'd
previously get ERRCODE_OBJECT_NOT_IN_PREREQUISITE_STATE and now you'll
get ERRCODE_DEPENDENT_OBJECTS_STILL_EXIST.  Arguably, the latter is more
correct.

It is possible to add protecting pg_shdepend entries for existing
tables/indexes, by doing
  ALTER TABLE ONLY some_partitioned_table SET TABLESPACE pg_default;
  ALTER TABLE ONLY some_partitioned_table SET TABLESPACE original_tablespace;
for each partitioned table/index that is not in the database default
tablespace.  Because these partitioned objects do not have storage, no
file needs to be actually moved, so it shouldn't take more time than
what's required to acquire locks.

This query can be used to search for such relations:
SELECT ... FROM pg_class WHERE relkind IN ('p', 'I') AND reltablespace <> 0

Reported-by: Alexander Lakhin <exclusion@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16577-881633a9f9894fd5@postgresql.org
Author: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
2021-01-14 15:32:14 -03:00
Alvaro Herrera 93c39f987e
Call out vacuum considerations in create index docs
Backpatch to pg12, which is as far as it goes without conflicts.

Author: James Coleman <jtc331@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: "David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAAaqYe9oEfbz7AxXq7OX+FFVi5w5p1e_Of8ON8ZnKO9QqBfmjg@mail.gmail.com
2021-01-13 17:55:41 -03:00
Tom Lane c21ea4d53e Disallow a digit as the first character of a variable name in pgbench.
The point of this restriction is to avoid trying to substitute variables
into timestamp literal values, which may contain strings like '12:34'.

There is a good deal more that should be done to reduce pgbench's
tendency to substitute where it shouldn't.  But this is sufficient to
solve the case complained of by Jaime Soler, and it's simple enough
to back-patch.

Back-patch to v11; before commit 9d36a3866, pgbench had a slightly
different definition of what a variable name is, and anyway it seems
unwise to change long-stable branches for this.

Fabien Coelho

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/alpine.DEB.2.22.394.2006291740420.805678@pseudo
2021-01-13 14:52:59 -05:00
Tom Lane 06ed235ade Doc: clarify behavior of back-half options in pg_dump.
Options that change how the archive data is converted to SQL text
are ignored when dumping to archive formats.  The documentation
previously said "not meaningful", which is not helpful.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/161052021249.12228.9598689907884726185@wrigleys.postgresql.org
2021-01-13 13:30:04 -05:00
Peter Geoghegan d168b66682 Enhance nbtree index tuple deletion.
Teach nbtree and heapam to cooperate in order to eagerly remove
duplicate tuples representing dead MVCC versions.  This is "bottom-up
deletion".  Each bottom-up deletion pass is triggered lazily in response
to a flood of versions on an nbtree leaf page.  This usually involves a
"logically unchanged index" hint (these are produced by the executor
mechanism added by commit 9dc718bd).

The immediate goal of bottom-up index deletion is to avoid "unnecessary"
page splits caused entirely by version duplicates.  It naturally has an
even more useful effect, though: it acts as a backstop against
accumulating an excessive number of index tuple versions for any given
_logical row_.  Bottom-up index deletion complements what we might now
call "top-down index deletion": index vacuuming performed by VACUUM.
Bottom-up index deletion responds to the immediate local needs of
queries, while leaving it up to autovacuum to perform infrequent clean
sweeps of the index.  The overall effect is to avoid certain
pathological performance issues related to "version churn" from UPDATEs.

The previous tableam interface used by index AMs to perform tuple
deletion (the table_compute_xid_horizon_for_tuples() function) has been
replaced with a new interface that supports certain new requirements.
Many (perhaps all) of the capabilities added to nbtree by this commit
could also be extended to other index AMs.  That is left as work for a
later commit.

Extend deletion of LP_DEAD-marked index tuples in nbtree by adding logic
to consider extra index tuples (that are not LP_DEAD-marked) for
deletion in passing.  This increases the number of index tuples deleted
significantly in many cases.  The LP_DEAD deletion process (which is now
called "simple deletion" to clearly distinguish it from bottom-up
deletion) won't usually need to visit any extra table blocks to check
these extra tuples.  We have to visit the same table blocks anyway to
generate a latestRemovedXid value (at least in the common case where the
index deletion operation's WAL record needs such a value).

Testing has shown that the "extra tuples" simple deletion enhancement
increases the number of index tuples deleted with almost any workload
that has LP_DEAD bits set in leaf pages.  That is, it almost never fails
to delete at least a few extra index tuples.  It helps most of all in
cases that happen to naturally have a lot of delete-safe tuples.  It's
not uncommon for an individual deletion operation to end up deleting an
order of magnitude more index tuples compared to the old naive approach
(e.g., custom instrumentation of the patch shows that this happens
fairly often when the regression tests are run).

Add a further enhancement that augments simple deletion and bottom-up
deletion in indexes that make use of deduplication: Teach nbtree's
_bt_delitems_delete() function to support granular TID deletion in
posting list tuples.  It is now possible to delete individual TIDs from
posting list tuples provided the TIDs have a tableam block number of a
table block that gets visited as part of the deletion process (visiting
the table block can be triggered directly or indirectly).  Setting the
LP_DEAD bit of a posting list tuple is still an all-or-nothing thing,
but that matters much less now that deletion only needs to start out
with the right _general_ idea about which index tuples are deletable.

Bump XLOG_PAGE_MAGIC because xl_btree_delete changed.

No bump in BTREE_VERSION, since there are no changes to the on-disk
representation of nbtree indexes.  Indexes built on PostgreSQL 12 or
PostgreSQL 13 will automatically benefit from bottom-up index deletion
(i.e. no reindexing required) following a pg_upgrade.  The enhancement
to simple deletion is available with all B-Tree indexes following a
pg_upgrade, no matter what PostgreSQL version the user upgrades from.

Author: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
Reviewed-By: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>
Reviewed-By: Victor Yegorov <vyegorov@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-Wzm+maE3apHB8NOtmM=p-DO65j2V5GzAWCOEEuy3JZgb2g@mail.gmail.com
2021-01-13 09:21:32 -08:00
Peter Geoghegan 9dc718bdf2 Pass down "logically unchanged index" hint.
Add an executor aminsert() hint mechanism that informs index AMs that
the incoming index tuple (the tuple that accompanies the hint) is not
being inserted by execution of an SQL statement that logically modifies
any of the index's key columns.

The hint is received by indexes when an UPDATE takes place that does not
apply an optimization like heapam's HOT (though only for indexes where
all key columns are logically unchanged).  Any index tuple that receives
the hint on insert is expected to be a duplicate of at least one
existing older version that is needed for the same logical row.  Related
versions will typically be stored on the same index page, at least
within index AMs that apply the hint.

Recognizing the difference between MVCC version churn duplicates and
true logical row duplicates at the index AM level can help with cleanup
of garbage index tuples.  Cleanup can intelligently target tuples that
are likely to be garbage, without wasting too many cycles on less
promising tuples/pages (index pages with little or no version churn).

This is infrastructure for an upcoming commit that will teach nbtree to
perform bottom-up index deletion.  No index AM actually applies the hint
just yet.

Author: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
Reviewed-By: Victor Yegorov <vyegorov@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-Wz=CEKFa74EScx_hFVshCOn6AA5T-ajFASTdzipdkLTNQQ@mail.gmail.com
2021-01-13 08:11:00 -08:00
Fujii Masao 39b03690b5 Log long wait time on recovery conflict when it's resolved.
This is a follow-up of the work done in commit 0650ff2303. This commit
extends log_recovery_conflict_waits so that a log message is produced
also when recovery conflict has already been resolved after deadlock_timeout
passes, i.e., when the startup process finishes waiting for recovery
conflict after deadlock_timeout. This is useful in investigating how long
recovery conflicts prevented the recovery from applying WAL.

Author: Fujii Masao
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi, Bertrand Drouvot
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/9a60178c-a853-1440-2cdc-c3af916cff59@amazon.com
2021-01-13 22:59:17 +09:00
Magnus Hagander e6eeb8d799 Remove incorrect markup
Seems 737d69ffc3 made a copy/paste or automation error resulting in two
extra right-parenthesis.

Reported-By: Michael Vastola
Backpatch-through: 13
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/161051035421.12224.1741822783166533529@wrigleys.postgresql.org
2021-01-13 11:07:37 +01:00
Heikki Linnakangas 756ab29124 Add functions to 'pageinspect' to inspect GiST indexes.
Author: Andrey Borodin and me
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/3E4F9093-A1B5-4DF8-A292-0B48692E3954%40yandex-team.ru
2021-01-13 10:33:33 +02:00
Tom Lane cc865c0f31 Doc: fix description of privileges needed for ALTER PUBLICATION.
Adding a table to a publication requires ownership of the table
(in addition to ownership of the publication).  This was mentioned
nowhere.
2021-01-12 12:52:14 -05:00
Bruce Momjian 01334c92fa doc: expand description of how non-SELECT queries are processed
The previous description of how the executor processes non-SELECT
queries was very dense, causing lack of clarity.  This expanded text
spells it out more simply.

Reported-by: fotis.koutoupas@gmail.com

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/160912275508.676.17469511338925622905@wrigleys.postgresql.org

Backpatch-through: 9.5
2021-01-09 12:11:16 -05:00
Tomas Vondra ebb5457cfa Minor fixes in COPY progress docs
Author: Justin Pryzby
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAFp7Qwr6_FmRM6pCO0x_a0mymOfX_Gg+FEKet4XaTGSW=LitKQ@mail.gmail.com
2021-01-07 17:33:00 +01:00
Fujii Masao 0650ff2303 Add GUC to log long wait times on recovery conflicts.
This commit adds GUC log_recovery_conflict_waits that controls whether
a log message is produced when the startup process is waiting longer than
deadlock_timeout for recovery conflicts. This is useful in determining
if recovery conflicts prevent the recovery from applying WAL.

Note that currently a log message is produced only when recovery conflict
has not been resolved yet even after deadlock_timeout passes, i.e.,
only when the startup process is still waiting for recovery conflict
even after deadlock_timeout.

Author: Bertrand Drouvot, Masahiko Sawada
Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera, Kyotaro Horiguchi, Fujii Masao
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/9a60178c-a853-1440-2cdc-c3af916cff59@amazon.com
2021-01-08 00:47:03 +09:00
Tom Lane 9877374bef Add idle_session_timeout.
This GUC variable works much like idle_in_transaction_session_timeout,
in that it kills sessions that have waited too long for a new client
query.  But it applies when we're not in a transaction, rather than
when we are.

Li Japin, reviewed by David Johnston and Hayato Kuroda, some
fixes by me

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/763A0689-F189-459E-946F-F0EC4458980B@hotmail.com
2021-01-06 18:28:52 -05:00
Tomas Vondra 8a4f618e7a Report progress of COPY commands
This commit introduces a view pg_stat_progress_copy, reporting progress
of COPY commands.  This allows rough estimates how far a running COPY
progressed, with the caveat that the total number of bytes may not be
available in some cases (e.g. when the input comes from the client).

Author: Josef Šimánek
Reviewed-by: Fujii Masao, Bharath Rupireddy, Vignesh C, Matthias van de Meent
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAFp7QwqMGEi4OyyaLEK9DR0+E+oK3UtA4bEjDVCa4bNkwUY2PQ@mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAFp7Qwr6_FmRM6pCO0x_a0mymOfX_Gg+FEKet4XaTGSW=LitKQ@mail.gmail.com
2021-01-06 21:51:06 +01:00
Peter Eisentraut 4656e3d668 Replace CLOBBER_CACHE_ALWAYS with run-time GUC
Forced cache invalidation (CLOBBER_CACHE_ALWAYS) has been impractical
to use for testing in PostgreSQL because it's so slow and because it's
toggled on/off only at build time.  It is helpful when hunting bugs in
any code that uses the sycache/relcache because causes cache
invalidations to be injected whenever it would be possible for an
invalidation to occur, whether or not one was really pending.

Address this by providing run-time control over cache clobber
behaviour using the new debug_invalidate_system_caches_always GUC.
Support is not compiled in at all unless assertions are enabled or
CLOBBER_CACHE_ENABLED is explicitly defined at compile time.  It
defaults to 0 if compiled in, so it has negligible effect on assert
build performance by default.

When support is compiled in, test code can now set
debug_invalidate_system_caches_always=1 locally to a backend to test
specific queries, functions, extensions, etc.  Or tests can toggle it
globally for a specific test case while retaining normal performance
during test setup and teardown.

For backwards compatibility with existing test harnesses and scripts,
debug_invalidate_system_caches_always defaults to 1 if
CLOBBER_CACHE_ALWAYS is defined, and to 3 if CLOBBER_CACHE_RECURSIVE
is defined.

CLOBBER_CACHE_ENABLED is now visible in pg_config_manual.h, as is the
related RECOVER_RELATION_BUILD_MEMORY setting for the relcache.

Author: Craig Ringer <craig.ringer@2ndquadrant.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CAMsr+YF=+ctXBZj3ywmvKNUjWpxmuTuUKuv-rgbHGX5i5pLstQ@mail.gmail.com
2021-01-06 10:46:44 +01:00
Fujii Masao 25dde58357 doc: Fix description about default behavior of recovery_target_timeline.
The default value of recovery_target_timeline was changed in v12,
but the description about the default behavior of that was not updated.

Back-patch to v12 where the default behavior of recovery_target_timeline
was changed.

Author: Benoit Lobréau
Reviewed-by: Fujii Masao
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAPE8EZ7c3aruEmM24GYkj8y8WmHKD1m9TtPtgCF0nQ3zw4LCkQ@mail.gmail.com
2021-01-06 11:58:23 +09:00
Tom Lane bf8a662c9a Introduce a new GUC_REPORT setting "in_hot_standby".
Aside from being queriable via SHOW, this value is sent to the client
immediately at session startup, and again later on if the server gets
promoted to primary during the session.  The immediate report will be
used in an upcoming patch to avoid an extra round trip when trying to
connect to a primary server.

Haribabu Kommi, Greg Nancarrow, Tom Lane; reviewed at various times
by Laurenz Albe, Takayuki Tsunakawa, Peter Smith.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAF3+xM+8-ztOkaV9gHiJ3wfgENTq97QcjXQt+rbFQ6F7oNzt9A@mail.gmail.com
2021-01-05 16:18:05 -05:00
Bruce Momjian 47b2ed1d06 doc: improve NLS instruction wording
Reported-by: "Tang, Haiying"

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/bbbccf7a3c2d436e85d45869d612fd6b@G08CNEXMBPEKD05.g08.fujitsu.local

Author: "Tang, Haiying"

Backpatch-through: 9.5
2021-01-05 14:26:37 -05:00
Peter Eisentraut 854434c50a doc: Document how to run regression tests with custom server settings
Author: Craig Ringer <craig.ringer@2ndquadrant.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CAMsr+YF=+ctXBZj3ywmvKNUjWpxmuTuUKuv-rgbHGX5i5pLstQ@mail.gmail.com
2021-01-05 08:17:40 +01:00
Tom Lane c9d5298485 Re-implement pl/pgsql's expression and assignment parsing.
Invent new RawParseModes that allow the core grammar to handle
pl/pgsql expressions and assignments directly, and thereby get rid
of a lot of hackery in pl/pgsql's parser.  This moves a good deal
of knowledge about pl/pgsql into the core code: notably, we have to
invent a CoercionContext that matches pl/pgsql's (rather dubious)
historical behavior for assignment coercions.  That's getting away
from the original idea of pl/pgsql as an arm's-length extension of
the core, but really we crossed that bridge a long time ago.

The main advantage of doing this is that we can now use the core
parser to generate FieldStore and/or SubscriptingRef nodes to handle
assignments to pl/pgsql variables that are records or arrays.  That
fixes a number of cases that had never been implemented in pl/pgsql
assignment, such as nested records and array slicing, and it allows
pl/pgsql assignment to support the datatype-specific subscripting
behaviors introduced in commit c7aba7c14.

There are cosmetic benefits too: when a syntax error occurs in a
pl/pgsql expression, the error report no longer includes the confusing
"SELECT" keyword that used to get prefixed to the expression text.
Also, there seem to be some small speed gains.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/4165684.1607707277@sss.pgh.pa.us
2021-01-04 11:52:00 -05:00
Tom Lane 844fe9f159 Add the ability for the core grammar to have more than one parse target.
This patch essentially allows gram.y to implement a family of related
syntax trees, rather than necessarily always parsing a list of SQL
statements.  raw_parser() gains a new argument, enum RawParseMode,
to say what to do.  As proof of concept, add a mode that just parses
a TypeName without any other decoration, and use that to greatly
simplify typeStringToTypeName().

In addition, invent a new SPI entry point SPI_prepare_extended() to
allow SPI users (particularly plpgsql) to get at this new functionality.
In hopes of making this the last variant of SPI_prepare(), set up its
additional arguments as a struct rather than direct arguments, and
promise that future additions to the struct can default to zero.
SPI_prepare_cursor() and SPI_prepare_params() can perhaps go away at
some point.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/4165684.1607707277@sss.pgh.pa.us
2021-01-04 11:03:22 -05:00
Amit Kapila a271a1b50e Allow decoding at prepare time in ReorderBuffer.
This patch allows PREPARE-time decoding of two-phase transactions (if the
output plugin supports this capability), in which case the transactions
are replayed at PREPARE and then committed later when COMMIT PREPARED
arrives.

Now that we decode the changes before the commit, the concurrent aborts
may cause failures when the output plugin consults catalogs (both system
and user-defined).

We detect such failures with a special sqlerrcode
ERRCODE_TRANSACTION_ROLLBACK introduced by commit 7259736a6e and stop
decoding the remaining changes. Then we rollback the changes when rollback
prepared is encountered.

Author: Ajin Cherian and Amit Kapila based on previous work by Nikhil Sontakke and Stas Kelvich
Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila, Peter Smith, Sawada Masahiko, Arseny Sher, and Dilip Kumar
Tested-by: Takamichi Osumi
Discussion:
https://postgr.es/m/02DA5F5E-CECE-4D9C-8B4B-418077E2C010@postgrespro.ru
https://postgr.es/m/CAMGcDxeqEpWj3fTXwqhSwBdXd2RS9jzwWscO-XbeCfso6ts3+Q@mail.gmail.com
2021-01-04 08:34:50 +05:30
Bruce Momjian ca3b37487b Update copyright for 2021
Backpatch-through: 9.5
2021-01-02 13:06:25 -05:00
Tom Lane 4d3f03f422 Doc: improve explanation of EXTRACT(EPOCH) for timestamp without tz.
Try to be clearer about what computation is actually happening here.

Per bug #16797 from Dana Burd.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16797-f264b0b980b53b8b@postgresql.org
2021-01-01 15:51:09 -05:00
Tom Lane 319f4d54e8 Doc: spell out comparison behaviors for the date/time types.
The behavior of cross-type comparisons among date/time data types was
not really explained anywhere.  You could probably infer it if you
recognized the applicability of comments elsewhere about datatype
conversions, but it seems worthy of explicit documentation.

Per bug #16797 from Dana Burd.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16797-f264b0b980b53b8b@postgresql.org
2020-12-30 17:48:43 -05:00
Tom Lane 860fe27ee1 Fix up usage of krb_server_keyfile GUC parameter.
secure_open_gssapi() installed the krb_server_keyfile setting as
KRB5_KTNAME unconditionally, so long as it's not empty.  However,
pg_GSS_recvauth() only installed it if KRB5_KTNAME wasn't set already,
leading to a troubling inconsistency: in theory, clients could see
different sets of server principal names depending on whether they
use GSSAPI encryption.  Always using krb_server_keyfile seems like
the right thing, so make both places do that.  Also fix up
secure_open_gssapi()'s lack of a check for setenv() failure ---
it's unlikely, surely, but security-critical actions are no place
to be sloppy.

Also improve the associated documentation.

This patch does nothing about secure_open_gssapi()'s use of setenv(),
and indeed causes pg_GSS_recvauth() to use it too.  That's nominally
against project portability rules, but since this code is only built
with --with-gssapi, I do not feel a need to do something about this
in the back branches.  A fix will be forthcoming for HEAD though.

Back-patch to v12 where GSSAPI encryption was introduced.  The
dubious behavior in pg_GSS_recvauth() goes back further, but it
didn't have anything to be inconsistent with, so let it be.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2187460.1609263156@sss.pgh.pa.us
2020-12-30 11:38:42 -05:00
Amit Kapila 0aa8a01d04 Extend the output plugin API to allow decoding of prepared xacts.
This adds six methods to the output plugin API, adding support for
streaming changes of two-phase transactions at prepare time.

* begin_prepare
* filter_prepare
* prepare
* commit_prepared
* rollback_prepared
* stream_prepare

Most of this is a simple extension of the existing methods, with the
semantic difference that the transaction is not yet committed and maybe
aborted later.

Until now two-phase transactions were translated into regular transactions
on the subscriber, and the GID was not forwarded to it. None of the
two-phase commands were communicated to the subscriber.

This patch provides the infrastructure for logical decoding plugins to be
informed of two-phase commands Like PREPARE TRANSACTION, COMMIT PREPARED
and ROLLBACK PREPARED commands with the corresponding GID.

This also extends the 'test_decoding' plugin, implementing these new
methods.

This commit simply adds these new APIs and the upcoming patch to "allow
the decoding at prepare time in ReorderBuffer" will use these APIs.

Author: Ajin Cherian and Amit Kapila based on previous work by Nikhil Sontakke and Stas Kelvich
Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila, Peter Smith, Sawada Masahiko, and Dilip Kumar
Discussion:
https://postgr.es/m/02DA5F5E-CECE-4D9C-8B4B-418077E2C010@postgrespro.ru
https://postgr.es/m/CAMGcDxeqEpWj3fTXwqhSwBdXd2RS9jzwWscO-XbeCfso6ts3+Q@mail.gmail.com
2020-12-30 16:17:26 +05:30
Tom Lane f20dc2c8dd Doc: fix up PDF build warnings from over-width table columns.
Addition of multirange info to tables 8.27 and 65.1 made them start
throwing "exceed the available area" warnings in PDF docs builds.

For 8.27, twiddling the existing column width hints was enough to
fix this.  For 65.1, I twiddled the widths a little, but to really
fix it I had to insert a space after each comma in the table, to
allow a line break to occur there.  (This seemed easier to read
and maintain than the alternative of inserting &zwsp; entities.)

Per buildfarm.
2020-12-29 20:44:03 -05:00
Alexander Korotkov db6335b5b1 Add support of multirange matching to the existing range GiST indexes
6df7a9698b has introduced a set of operators between ranges and multiranges.
Existing GiST indexes for ranges could easily support majority of them.
This commit adds support for new operators to the existing range GiST indexes.
New operators resides the same strategy numbers as existing ones.  Appropriate
check function is determined using the subtype.

Catversion is bumped.
2020-12-29 23:36:43 +03:00
Alexander Korotkov 4d7684cc75 Implement operators for checking if the range contains a multirange
We have operators for checking if the multirange contains a range but don't
have the opposite.  This commit improves completeness of the operator set by
adding two new operators: @> (anyrange,anymultirange) and
<@(anymultirange,anyrange).

Catversion is bumped.
2020-12-29 23:35:33 +03:00
Michael Paquier 1b3433e25f doc: Improve description of min_dynamic_shared_memory
While on it, fix one oversight in 90fbf7c, that introduced a reference
to an incorrect value for the compression level of pg_dump.

Author: Justin Pryzby
Reviewed-by: Thomas Munro, Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+hUKGJRTLWWPcQfjm_xaOk98M8aROK903X92O0x-4vLJPWrrA@mail.gmail.com
2020-12-29 16:49:14 +09:00
Tom Lane 622ae4621e Fix assorted issues in backend's GSSAPI encryption support.
Unrecoverable errors detected by GSSAPI encryption can't just be
reported with elog(ERROR) or elog(FATAL), because attempting to
send the error report to the client is likely to lead to infinite
recursion or loss of protocol sync.  Instead make this code do what
the SSL encryption code has long done, which is to just report any
such failure to the server log (with elevel COMMERROR), then pretend
we've lost the connection by returning errno = ECONNRESET.

Along the way, fix confusion about whether message translation is done
by pg_GSS_error() or its callers (the latter should do it), and make
the backend version of that function work more like the frontend
version.

Avoid allocating the port->gss struct until it's needed; we surely
don't need to allocate it in the postmaster.

Improve logging of "connection authorized" messages with GSS enabled.
(As part of this, I back-patched the code changes from dc11f31a1.)

Make BackendStatusShmemSize() account for the GSS-related space that
will be allocated by CreateSharedBackendStatus().  This omission
could possibly cause out-of-shared-memory problems with very high
max_connections settings.

Remove arbitrary, pointless restriction that only GSS authentication
can be used on a GSS-encrypted connection.

Improve documentation; notably, document the fact that libpq now
prefers GSS encryption over SSL encryption if both are possible.

Per report from Mikael Gustavsson.  Back-patch to v12 where
this code was introduced.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/e5b0b6ed05764324a2f3fe7acfc766d5@smhi.se
2020-12-28 17:44:17 -05:00
Bruce Momjian 3187ef7c46 Revert "Add key management system" (978f869b99) & later commits
The patch needs test cases, reorganization, and cfbot testing.
Technically reverts commits 5c31afc49d..e35b2bad1a (exclusive/inclusive)
and 08db7c63f3..ccbe34139b.

Reported-by: Tom Lane, Michael Paquier

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/E1ktAAG-0002V2-VB@gemulon.postgresql.org
2020-12-27 21:37:42 -05:00
Bruce Momjian ccbe34139b initdb: document that -K requires an argument
Reported-by: "Shinoda, Noriyoshi"

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/TU4PR8401MB1152E92B4D44C81E496D6032EEDB0@TU4PR8401MB1152.NAMPRD84.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM

Author: "Shinoda, Noriyoshi"

Backpatch-through: msater
2020-12-26 10:00:05 -05:00
Bruce Momjian 3d4843babc doc: fix SGML markup for pg_alterckey from commit 62afb42a7f
Backpatch-through: master
2020-12-26 01:10:24 -05:00
Bruce Momjian 82f8c45be5 pg_alterckey: adjust doc build and Win32 sleep/open build fails
Fix for commit 62afb42a7f.

Reported-by: Tom Lane

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1252111.1608953815@sss.pgh.pa.us

Backpatch-through: master
2020-12-25 22:47:16 -05:00
Bruce Momjian 300e430c76 Allow ssl_passphrase_command to prompt the terminal
Previously the command could not access the terminal for a passphrase.

Backpatch-through: master
2020-12-25 20:41:06 -05:00
Bruce Momjian 62afb42a7f Add pg_alterckey utility to change the cluster key
This can change the key that encrypts the data encryption keys used for
cluster file encryption.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20201202213814.GG20285@momjian.us

Backpatch-through: master
2020-12-25 20:24:53 -05:00
Bruce Momjian 26d60f2a6c fixes docs and missing initdb help option for commit 978f869b99
Reported-by: Erik Rijkers

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a27e7bb60fc4c4a1fe960f7b055ba822@xs4all.nl

Backpatch-through: master
2020-12-25 14:00:22 -05:00
Bruce Momjian 978f869b99 Add key management system
This adds a key management system that stores (currently) two data
encryption keys of length 128, 192, or 256 bits.  The data keys are
AES256 encrypted using a key encryption key, and validated via GCM
cipher mode.  A command to obtain the key encryption key must be
specified at initdb time, and will be run at every database server
start.  New parameters allow a file descriptor open to the terminal to
be passed.  pg_upgrade support has also been added.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+fd4k7q5o6Nc_AaX6BcYM9yqTbC6_pnH-6nSD=54Zp6NBQTCQ@mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20201202213814.GG20285@momjian.us

Author: Masahiko Sawada, me, Stephen Frost
2020-12-25 10:19:44 -05:00
Michael Paquier 90fbf7c57d Fix typos and grammar in docs and comments
This fixes several areas of the documentation and some comments in
matters of style, grammar, or even format.

Author: Justin Pryzby
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20201222041153.GK30237@telsasoft.com
2020-12-24 17:05:49 +09:00
Bruce Momjian 6ecf488d91 dummy commit 2020-12-23 09:33:20 -05:00
Tom Lane ff5d5611c0 Remove "invalid concatenation of jsonb objects" error case.
The jsonb || jsonb operator arbitrarily rejected certain combinations
of scalar and non-scalar inputs, while being willing to concatenate
other combinations.  This was of course quite undocumented.  Rather
than trying to document it, let's just remove the restriction,
creating a uniform rule that unless we are handling an object-to-object
concatenation, non-array inputs are converted to one-element arrays,
resulting in an array-to-array concatenation.  (This does not change
the behavior for any case that didn't throw an error before.)

Per complaint from Joel Jacobson.  Back-patch to all supported branches.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/163099.1608312033@sss.pgh.pa.us
2020-12-21 13:11:50 -05:00
Tom Lane eea1e08cfc Doc: fix description of how to use src/tutorial files.
The separate "cd" command before invoking psql made sense (or at least
I thought so) when it was added in commit ed1939332.  But 4e3a61635
removed the supporting text that explained when to use it, making it
just confusing.  So drop it.

Also switch from four-dot to three-dot filler for the unsupplied
part of the path, since at least one person has read the four-dot
filler as a typo for "../..".  And fix these/those inconsistency.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/160837647714.673.5195186835607800484@wrigleys.postgresql.org
2020-12-20 15:28:22 -05:00
Tom Lane 1990ce186e Doc: improve description of pgbench script weights.
Point out the workaround to be used if you want to write a script
file name that includes "@".  Clean up the text a little.

Fabien Coelho, additional wordsmithing by me

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1c4e81550d214741827a03292222db8d@G08CNEXMBPEKD06.g08.fujitsu.local
2020-12-20 13:37:25 -05:00
Alexander Korotkov 6df7a9698b Multirange datatypes
Multiranges are basically sorted arrays of non-overlapping ranges with
set-theoretic operations defined over them.

Since v14, each range type automatically gets a corresponding multirange
datatype.  There are both manual and automatic mechanisms for naming multirange
types.  Once can specify multirange type name using multirange_type_name
attribute in CREATE TYPE.  Otherwise, a multirange type name is generated
automatically.  If the range type name contains "range" then we change that to
"multirange".  Otherwise, we add "_multirange" to the end.

Implementation of multiranges comes with a space-efficient internal
representation format, which evades extra paddings and duplicated storage of
oids.  Altogether this format allows fetching a particular range by its index
in O(n).

Statistic gathering and selectivity estimation are implemented for multiranges.
For this purpose, stored multirange is approximated as union range without gaps.
This field will likely need improvements in the future.

Catversion is bumped.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CALNJ-vSUpQ_Y%3DjXvTxt1VYFztaBSsWVXeF1y6gTYQ4bOiWDLgQ%40mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a0b8026459d1e6167933be2104a6174e7d40d0ab.camel%40j-davis.com#fe7218c83b08068bfffb0c5293eceda0
Author: Paul Jungwirth, revised by me
Reviewed-by: David Fetter, Corey Huinker, Jeff Davis, Pavel Stehule
Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera, Tom Lane, Isaac Morland, David G. Johnston
Reviewed-by: Zhihong Yu, Alexander Korotkov
2020-12-20 07:20:33 +03:00
Fujii Masao 2e0fedf036 pg_stat_statements: Track time at which all statistics were last reset.
This commit adds "stats_reset" column into the pg_stat_statements_info
view. This column indicates the time at which all statistics in the
pg_stat_statements view were last reset.

Per discussion, this commit also changes pg_stat_statements_info code
so that "dealloc" column is reset at the same time as "stats_reset" is reset,
i.e., whenever all pg_stat_statements entries are removed, for the sake
of consistency. Previously "dealloc" was reset only when
pg_stat_statements_reset(0, 0, 0) is called and was not reset when
pg_stat_statements_reset() with non-zero value argument discards all
entries. This was confusing.

Author: Naoki Nakamichi, Yuki Seino
Reviewed-by: Yuki Seino, Kyotaro Horiguchi, Li Japin, Fujii Masao
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/c102cf3180d0ee73c1c5a0f7f8558322@oss.nttdata.com
2020-12-18 10:49:58 +09:00
Michael Paquier bce641a2af doc: Fix explanation related to pg_shmem_allocations
Offsets are shown as NULL only for anonymous allocations.

Author: Benoit Lobréau
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAPE8EZ5Lnoyqoz7aZpvQM0E8sW+hw+k6G2NULe+m4arFRrA1aA@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 13
2020-12-16 10:36:03 +09:00
Bruce Momjian 02c767b0fe doc: clarify COPY TO for partitioning/inheritance
It was not clear how COPY TO behaved with partitioning/inheritance
because the paragraphs were so far apart.  Also reword to simplify.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20201203211723.GR24052@telsasoft.com

Author: Justin Pryzby

Backpatch-through: 10
2020-12-15 19:20:25 -05:00
Tom Lane 0ec5f7e782 Allow subscripting of hstore values.
This is basically a finger exercise to prove that it's possible for
an extension module to add subscripting ability.  Subscripted fetch
from an hstore is not different from the existing "hstore -> text"
operator.  Subscripted update does seem to be a little easier to
use than the traditional update method using hstore concatenation,
but it's not a fundamentally new ability.

However, there may be some value in the code as sample code, since
it shows what's basically the minimum-complexity way to implement
subscripting when one needn't consider nested container objects.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3724341.1607551174@sss.pgh.pa.us
2020-12-11 18:58:21 -05:00
Tom Lane 8c15a29745 Allow ALTER TYPE to update an existing type's typsubscript value.
This is essential if we'd like to allow existing extension data types
to support subscripting in future, since dropping and recreating the
type isn't a practical thing for an extension upgrade script, and
direct manipulation of pg_type isn't a great answer either.

There was some discussion about also allowing alteration of typelem,
but it's less clear whether that's a good idea or not, so for now
I forebore.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3724341.1607551174@sss.pgh.pa.us
2020-12-11 18:58:21 -05:00
Tom Lane c7aba7c14e Support subscripting of arbitrary types, not only arrays.
This patch generalizes the subscripting infrastructure so that any
data type can be subscripted, if it provides a handler function to
define what that means.  Traditional variable-length (varlena) arrays
all use array_subscript_handler(), while the existing fixed-length
types that support subscripting use raw_array_subscript_handler().
It's expected that other types that want to use subscripting notation
will define their own handlers.  (This patch provides no such new
features, though; it only lays the foundation for them.)

To do this, move the parser's semantic processing of subscripts
(including coercion to whatever data type is required) into a
method callback supplied by the handler.  On the execution side,
replace the ExecEvalSubscriptingRef* layer of functions with direct
calls to callback-supplied execution routines.  (Thus, essentially
no new run-time overhead should be caused by this patch.  Indeed,
there is room to remove some overhead by supplying specialized
execution routines.  This patch does a little bit in that line,
but more could be done.)

Additional work is required here and there to remove formerly
hard-wired assumptions about the result type, collation, etc
of a SubscriptingRef expression node; and to remove assumptions
that the subscript values must be integers.

One useful side-effect of this is that we now have a less squishy
mechanism for identifying whether a data type is a "true" array:
instead of wiring in weird rules about typlen, we can look to see
if pg_type.typsubscript == F_ARRAY_SUBSCRIPT_HANDLER.  For this
to be bulletproof, we have to forbid user-defined types from using
that handler directly; but there seems no good reason for them to
do so.

This patch also removes assumptions that the number of subscripts
is limited to MAXDIM (6), or indeed has any hard-wired limit.
That limit still applies to types handled by array_subscript_handler
or raw_array_subscript_handler, but to discourage other dependencies
on this constant, I've moved it from c.h to utils/array.h.

Dmitry Dolgov, reviewed at various times by Tom Lane, Arthur Zakirov,
Peter Eisentraut, Pavel Stehule

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+q6zcVDuGBv=M0FqBYX8DPebS3F_0KQ6OVFobGJPM507_SZ_w@mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+q6zcVovR+XY4mfk-7oNk-rF91gH0PebnNfuUjuuDsyHjOcVA@mail.gmail.com
2020-12-09 12:40:37 -05:00
Tom Lane a676386b58 Remove operator_precedence_warning.
This GUC was always intended as a temporary solution to help with
finding 9.4-to-9.5 migration issues.  Now that all pre-9.5 branches
are out of support, and 9.5 will be too before v14 is released,
it seems like it's okay to drop it.  Doing so allows removal of
several hundred lines of poorly-tested code in parse_expr.c,
which have been a fertile source of bugs when people did use this.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2234320.1607117945@sss.pgh.pa.us
2020-12-08 16:29:52 -05:00
Tom Lane f2a69b352d Doc: clarify that CREATE TABLE discards redundant unique constraints.
The SQL standard says that redundant unique constraints are disallowed,
but we long ago decided that throwing an error would be too
user-unfriendly, so we just drop redundant ones.  The docs weren't very
clear about that though, as this behavior was only explained for PRIMARY
KEY vs UNIQUE, not UNIQUE vs UNIQUE.

While here, I couldn't resist doing some copy-editing and markup-fixing
on the adjacent text about INCLUDE options.

Per bug #16767 from Matthias vd Meent.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16767-1714a2056ca516d0@postgresql.org
2020-12-08 13:09:47 -05:00
Tom Lane 9a2641911a Doc: explain that the string types can't store \0 (ASCII NUL).
This restriction was mentioned in connection with string literals,
but it wasn't made clear that it's a general restriction not just
a syntactic limitation in query strings.

Per unsigned documentation comment.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/160720552914.710.16625261471128631268@wrigleys.postgresql.org
2020-12-08 12:06:19 -05:00
Bruce Momjian 3f8971d92e doc: remove unnecessary blank before command option text
Backpatch-through: 11
2020-12-03 11:33:24 -05:00
Bruce Momjian a659e789b7 docs: list single-letter options first in command-line summary
In a few places, the long-version options were listed before the
single-letter ones in the command summary of a few commands.  This
didn't match other commands, and didn't match the option ordering later
in the same reference page.

Backpatch-through: 9.5
2020-12-03 10:28:58 -05:00
Michael Paquier b5913f6120 Refactor CLUSTER and REINDEX grammar to use DefElem for option lists
This changes CLUSTER and REINDEX so as a parenthesized grammar becomes
possible for options, while unifying the grammar parsing rules for
option lists with the existing ones.

This is a follow-up of the work done in 873ea9e for VACUUM, ANALYZE and
EXPLAIN.  This benefits REINDEX for a potential backend-side filtering
for collatable-sensitive indexes and TABLESPACE, while CLUSTER would
benefit from the latter.

Author: Alexey Kondratov, Justin Pryzby
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/8a8f5f73-00d3-55f8-7583-1375ca8f6a91@postgrespro.ru
2020-12-03 10:13:21 +09:00
Fujii Masao 01469241b2 Track total number of WAL records, FPIs and bytes generated in the cluster.
Commit 6b466bf5f2 allowed pg_stat_statements to track the number of
WAL records, full page images and bytes that each statement generated.
Similarly this commit allows us to track the cluster-wide WAL statistics
counters.

New columns wal_records, wal_fpi and wal_bytes are added into the
pg_stat_wal view, and reports the total number of WAL records,
full page images and bytes generated in the , respectively.

Author: Masahiro Ikeda
Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila, Movead Li, Kyotaro Horiguchi, Fujii Masao
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/35ef960128b90bfae3b3fdf60a3a860f@oss.nttdata.com
2020-12-02 13:00:15 +09:00
Fujii Masao 942305a363 Allow restore_command parameter to be changed with reload.
This commit changes restore_command from PGC_POSTMASTER to PGC_SIGHUP.

As the side effect of this commit, restore_command can be reset to
empty during archive recovery. In this setting, archive recovery
tries to replay only WAL files available in pg_wal directory. This is
the same behavior as when the command that always fails is specified
in restore_command.

Note that restore_command still must be specified (not empty) when
starting archive recovery, even after applying this commit. This is
necessary as the safeguard to prevent users from forgetting to
specify restore_command and starting archive recovery.

Thanks to Peter Eisentraut, Michael Paquier, Andres Freund,
Robert Haas and Anastasia Lubennikova for discussion.

Author: Sergei Kornilov
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi, Fujii Masao
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2317771549527294@sas2-985f744271ca.qloud-c.yandex.net
2020-12-02 11:00:15 +09:00
Heikki Linnakangas 415dc20096 docs: ulink all references to RFC's
Make sure that the first mentions of RFC's are ulinked to their ietf.org
entry, and subsequent ones are marked as acronyms. This makes references
to RFC's consistent across the documentation.

Author: Daniel Gustafsson
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/2C697878-4D01-4F06-8312-2FEDE931E973%40yesql.se
2020-12-01 14:36:30 +02:00
Fujii Masao 0a4db67b5e doc: Add additional index entries for progress reporting views.
In the docs, the index entries for progress reporting views link to
the "Viewing Statistics" section, but previously they did not link to
the dedicated section (e.g., "ANALYZE Progress Reporting") for
each view. This was inconvenient when finding the section describing
the detailed information about each view, from the index.
This commit adds additional index entries linking to those dedicated
sections.

Author: Fujii Masao
Reviewed-by: Shinya Kato
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/e49c2768-65d2-188a-5424-270fa29ccc84@oss.nttdata.com
2020-12-01 17:19:23 +09:00
Michael Paquier 8a17f44c1e doc: Remove more notes about compatibilities with past versions
This is a follow-up of the work done in fa42c2e, that did not include
all the fixes previously agreed on.  The contents removed here can be
confusing to the reader as they refer to rather old server versions.

Author: Stephen Frost, Tom Lane, Heikki Linnakangas, Yaroslav Schekin
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAB8KJ=jYHgnxLLZSNJz7gBTck4TxomngCmGkw3nEMSNF0yL6wA@mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1599765595731-0.post@n3.nabble.com
2020-12-01 16:32:26 +09:00
Alvaro Herrera 58ebe967f8
Document concurrent indexes waiting on each other
Because regular CREATE INDEX commands are independent, and there's no
logical data dependency, it's not immediately obvious that transactions
held by concurrent index builds on one table will block the second phase
of concurrent index creation on an unrelated table, so document this
caveat.

Backpatch this all the way back.  In branch master, mention that only
some indexes are involved.

Author: James Coleman <jtc331@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: David Johnston <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAAaqYe994=PUrn8CJZ4UEo_S-FfRr_3ogERyhtdgHAb2WG_Ufg@mail.gmail.com
2020-11-30 18:24:55 -03:00
Tom Lane 4823c4f6ac Remove configure-time probe for DocBook DTD.
Checking for DocBook being installed was valuable when we were on the
OpenSP docs toolchain, because that was rather hard to get installed
fully.  Nowadays, as long as you have xmllint and xsltproc installed,
you're good, because those programs will fetch the DocBook files off
the net at need.  Moreover, testing this at configure time means that
a network access may well occur whether or not you have any interest
in building the docs later.  That can be slow (typically 2 or 3
seconds, though much higher delays have been reported), and it seems
not very nice to be doing an off-machine access without warning, too.

Hence, drop the PGAC_CHECK_DOCBOOK probe, and adjust related
documentation.  Without that macro, there's not much left of
config/docbook.m4 at all, so I just removed it.

Back-patch to v11, where we started to use xmllint in the
PGAC_CHECK_DOCBOOK probe.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/E2EE6B76-2D96-408A-B961-CAE47D1A86F0@yesql.se
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/A55A7FC9-FA60-47FE-98B5-139CDC57CE6E@gmail.com
2020-11-30 15:24:13 -05:00
Tom Lane d5e2bdf7dd Doc: clarify behavior of PQconnectdbParams().
The documentation omitted the critical tidbit that a keyword-array entry
is simply ignored if its corresponding value-array entry is NULL or an
empty string; it will *not* override any previously-obtained value for
the parameter.  (See conninfo_array_parse().)  I'd supposed that would
force the setting back to default, which is what led me into bug #16746;
but it doesn't.

While here, I couldn't resist the temptation to do some copy-editing,
both in the description of PQconnectdbParams() and in the section
about connection URI syntax.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/931505.1606618746@sss.pgh.pa.us
2020-11-29 13:58:30 -05:00
Fujii Masao 9fbc3f318d pg_stat_statements: Track number of times pgss entries were deallocated.
If more distinct statements than pg_stat_statements.max are observed,
pg_stat_statements entries about the least-executed statements are
deallocated. This commit enables us to track the total number of times
those entries were deallocated. That number can be viewed in the
pg_stat_statements_info view that this commit adds. It's useful when
tuning pg_stat_statements.max parameter. If it's high, i.e., the entries
are deallocated very frequently, which might cause the performance
regression and we can increase pg_stat_statements.max to avoid those
frequent deallocations.

The pg_stat_statements_info view is intended to display the statistics
of pg_stat_statements module itself. Currently it has only one column
"dealloc" indicating the number of times entries were deallocated.
But an upcoming patch will add other columns (for example, the time
at which pg_stat_statements statistics were last reset) into the view.

Author: Katsuragi Yuta, Yuki Seino
Reviewed-by: Fujii Masao
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/0d9f1107772cf5c3f954e985464c7298@oss.nttdata.com
2020-11-26 21:18:05 +09:00
Fujii Masao 4a36eab79a doc: Add description about re-analysis and re-planning of a prepared statement.
A prepared statement is re-analyzed and re-planned whenever database
objects used in the statement have undergone definitional changes or
the planner statistics of them have been updated. The former has been
documented from before, but the latter was not previously. This commit
adds the description about the latter case into the docs.

Author: Atsushi Torikoshi
Reviewed-by: Andy Fan, Fujii Masao
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3ac82f4817c9fe274a905c8a38d87bd9@oss.nttdata.com
2020-11-26 16:17:10 +09:00
Tom Lane 85b4ba7342 Doc: minor improvements for section 11.2 "Index Types".
Break the per-index-type discussions into <sect2>'s so as to make
them more visually separate and easier to find.  Improve the markup,
and make a couple of small wording adjustments.

This also fixes one stray reference to the now-deprecated point
operators <^ and >^.

Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker, reviewed by David Johnston and Jürgen Purtz

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/877dukhvzg.fsf@wibble.ilmari.org
2020-11-25 14:04:28 -05:00
Peter Eisentraut 2fbd786c34 doc: Fix typos
Author: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20201121194105.GO24784@telsasoft.com
2020-11-25 09:49:00 +01:00
Peter Eisentraut c9f0624bc2 Add support for abstract Unix-domain sockets
This is a variant of the normal Unix-domain sockets that don't use the
file system but a separate "abstract" namespace.  At the user
interface, such sockets are represented by names starting with "@".
Supported on Linux and Windows right now.

Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/6dee8574-b0ad-fc49-9c8c-2edc796f0033@2ndquadrant.com
2020-11-25 08:33:57 +01:00
Fujii Masao e522024bd8 doc: Get rid of unnecessary space character from some index items.
Previously some index items have " ," (i.e., space + comma) in the docs
as follows. Since the space character before the comma is unnecessary,
this commit gets rid of that for the sake of consistency with other
index items.

   parallel_leader_participation configuration parameter , Other Planner Options

Author: Fujii Masao
Reviewed-by: Euler Taveira
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/e87b4ddf-1498-2850-bf55-519df3928fd4@oss.nttdata.com
2020-11-24 17:00:16 +09:00
Tom Lane 0cc9932788 Rename the "point is strictly above/below point" comparison operators.
Historically these were called >^ and <^, but that is inconsistent
with the similar box, polygon, and circle operators, which are named
|>> and <<| respectively.  Worse, the >^ and <^ names are used for
*not* strict above/below tests for the box type.

Hence, invent new operators following the more common naming.  The
old operators remain available for now, and are still accepted by
the relevant index opclasses too.  But there's a deprecation notice,
so maybe we can get rid of them someday.

Emre Hasegeli, reviewed by Pavel Borisov

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/24348.1587444160@sss.pgh.pa.us
2020-11-23 11:38:37 -05:00
Michael Paquier 878f3a19c6 Remove INSERT privilege check at table creation of CTAS and matview
As per discussion with Peter Eisentraunt, the SQL standard specifies
that any tuple insertion done as part of CREATE TABLE AS happens without
any extra ACL check, so it makes little sense to keep a check for INSERT
privileges when using WITH DATA.  Materialized views are not part of the
standard, but similarly, this check can be confusing as this refers to
an access check on a table created within the same command as the one
that would insert data into this table.

This commit removes the INSERT privilege check for WITH DATA, the
default, that 846005e removed partially, but only for WITH NO DATA.

Author: Bharath Rupireddy
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/d049c272-9a47-d783-46b0-46665b011598@enterprisedb.com
2020-11-21 19:45:30 +09:00
Peter Eisentraut a47834db0f doc: Improve tableoid description
Mention that it's useful for determining table names for partitioned
tables as well as for those in inheritance hierarchies.

Author: Ian Lawrence Barwick <barwick@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Ashutosh Bapat <ashutosh.bapat.oss@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CAB8KJ=gFmBXP=P9htziOj+WM5PDAK4qc7iGQta+8kUh306kQnw@mail.gmail.com
2020-11-21 08:26:20 +01:00
Thomas Munro ca051d8b10 Add collation versions for FreeBSD.
On FreeBSD 13, use querylocale() to read the current version of libc
collations.  Similar to commits 352f6f2d for Windows and d5ac14f9 for
GNU/Linux.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEepm%3D0uEQCpfq_%2BLYFBdArCe4Ot98t1aR4eYiYTe%3DyavQygiQ%40mail.gmail.com
2020-11-20 21:49:57 +13:00
Tom Lane 926fa801ac Remove undocumented IS [NOT] OF syntax.
This feature was added a long time ago, in 7c1e67bd5 and eb121ba2c,
but never documented in any user-facing way.  (Documentation added
in 6126d3e70 was commented out almost immediately, in 8272fc3f7.)
That's because, while this syntax is defined by SQL:99, our
implementation is only vaguely related to the standard's semantics.
The standard appears to intend a run-time not parse-time test, and
it definitely intends that the test should understand subtype
relationships.

No one has stepped up to fix that in the intervening years, but
people keep coming across the code and asking why it's not documented.
Let's just get rid of it: if anyone ever wants to make it work per
spec, they can easily recover whatever parts of this code are still
of value from our git history.

If there's anyone out there who's actually using this despite its
undocumented status, they can switch to using pg_typeof() instead,
eg. "pg_typeof(something) = 'mytype'::regtype".  That gives
essentially the same semantics as what our IS OF code did.
(We didn't have that function last time this was discussed, or
we would have ripped out IS OF then.)

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAKFQuwZ2pTc-DSkOiTfjauqLYkNREeNZvWmeg12Q-_69D+sYZA@mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/BAY20-F23E9F2B4DAB3E4E88D3623F99B0@phx.gbl
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3E7CF81D.1000203@joeconway.com
2020-11-19 17:39:39 -05:00
Peter Eisentraut 01e658fa74 Hash support for row types
Add hash functions for the record type as well as a hash operator
family and operator class for the record type.  This enables all the
hash functionality for the record type such as hash-based plans for
UNION/INTERSECT/EXCEPT DISTINCT, recursive queries using UNION
DISTINCT, hash joins, and hash partitioning.

Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/38eccd35-4e2d-6767-1b3c-dada1eac3124%402ndquadrant.com
2020-11-19 09:32:47 +01:00
Heikki Linnakangas dfab7f2f94 docs: Clarify that signal functions have no feedback.
Bug #16652 complains that pg_reload_conf() returned true, even though
the configuration file contained errors. That's the way pg_reload_conf()
works, by design, but the documentation wasn't very clear on it. Clarify
that a 'true' return value only means that the signal was sent
successfully. Also add links to the system views that can be used to
check the configuration files for errors.

David G. Johnston, with some rewording by me.

Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAKFQuwax6GxhUQEes0D045UtXG-fBraM39_6UMd5JyR5K1HWCQ%40mail.gmail.com
2020-11-18 10:28:50 +02:00
Bruce Momjian 62b50ad698 doc: update bgwriter description
This clarifies exactly what the bgwriter does, which should help with
tuning.

Reported-by: Chris Wilson

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/160399562040.7809.7335281028960123489@wrigleys.postgresql.org

Backpatch-through: 9.5
2020-11-16 13:13:43 -05:00
Bruce Momjian 8ad06bcbe1 doc: clarify how to find pg_type_d.h in the install tree
Followup to patch 152ed04799.

Reported-by: Alvaro Herrera

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20201112202900.GA28098@alvherre.pgsql

Backpatch-through: 9.5
2020-11-16 12:36:17 -05:00
Bruce Momjian 481f9dc3dc doc: improve wording of the need for analyze of exp. indexes
This is a followup commit on 3370207986.

Reported-by: Justin Pryzby

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20201112211143.GL30691@telsasoft.com

Backpatch-through: 9.5
2020-11-16 10:26:17 -05:00
Alvaro Herrera bcbd771332
Fix typo
Introduced in 90fdc259866e; backpatch to 12.

Author: Erik Rijkers <er@xs4all.nl>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/e92b3fba98a0c0f7afc0a2a37e765954@xs4all.nl
2020-11-16 10:54:11 -03:00
Alexander Korotkov 7adb8feb0f Reword 'simple comparison' => 'inequality' in pgtrgm.sgml
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAMkU%3D1zxfA8_MGBW6sJMj54p8nPoe4bMb5LoG-rMYZVPq4j08Q%40mail.gmail.com
Author: Jeff Janes
2020-11-16 09:09:07 +03:00
Michael Paquier 846005e4f3 Relax INSERT privilege requirement for CTAS and matviews WITH NO DATA
When specified, WITH NO DATA does not insert any data into the relation
created, so skip checking for the insert permissions.  With WITH DATA or
WITH NO DATA, it is always required for the user to have CREATE
privileges on the schema targeted for the relation.

Note that plain CREATE TABLE AS or CREATE MATERIALIZED VIEW queries have
begun to work accidentally without INSERT privilege checks as of
874fe3ae, while using EXECUTE or EXPLAIN ANALYZE would fail with the ACL
check, so this makes the behavior for all the command flavors consistent
with each other.  This is arguably a bug fix, but there have been no
complaints about the current behavior either so stable branches are not
changed.

While on it, document properly the privileges requirements for each
commands with more tests for all the scenarios possible, and avoid a
useless bulk-insert allocation when using WITH NO DATA.

Author: Bharath Rupireddy
Reviewed-by: Anastasia Lubennikova, Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CALj2ACWc3N8j0_9nMPz9wcAUnVcdKHzFdDZJ3hVFNEbqtcyG9w@mail.gmail.com
2020-11-16 11:52:40 +09:00
Tom Lane 29d29d652f Fix fuzzy thinking about amcanmulticol versus amcaninclude.
These flags should be independent: in particular an index AM should
be able to say that it supports include columns without necessarily
supporting multiple key columns.  The included-columns patch got
this wrong, possibly aided by the fact that it didn't bother to
update the documentation.

While here, clarify some text about amcanreturn, which was a little
vague about what should happen when amcanreturn reports that only
some of the index columns are returnable.

Noted while reviewing the SP-GiST included-columns patch, which
quite incorrectly (and unsafely) changed SP-GiST to claim
amcanmulticol = true as a workaround for this bug.

Backpatch to v11 where included columns were introduced.
2020-11-15 16:10:58 -05:00
Alexander Korotkov b7edb5d96e Add missing 'the' to pgtrgm.sgml
Author: Erik Rijkers
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/159fba265fe7c37334640fdc0444cc4b%40xs4all.nl
2020-11-15 14:01:22 +03:00
Alexander Korotkov 935f666650 Handle equality operator in contrib/pg_trgm
Obviously, in order to equality operator be satisfiable, target string must
contain all the trigrams of the search string.  On this base, we implement
equality operator in GiST/GIN indexes with recheck.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAOBaU_YWwtT7tdggtROacjdOdeYHCz-tmSwuC-j-TOG-g97J0w%40mail.gmail.com
Author: Julien Rouhaud
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane, Alexander Korotkov, Georgios Kokolatos, Erik Rijkers
2020-11-15 08:52:35 +03:00
Tom Lane 92bf7e2d02 Provide the OR REPLACE option for CREATE TRIGGER.
This is mostly straightforward.  However, we disallow replacing
constraint triggers or changing the is-constraint property; perhaps
that can be added later, but the complexity versus benefit tradeoff
doesn't look very good.

Also, no special thought is taken here for whether replacing an
existing trigger should result in changes to queued-but-not-fired
trigger actions.  We just document that if you're surprised by the
results, too bad, don't do that.  (Note that any such pending trigger
activity would have to be within the current session.)

Takamichi Osumi, reviewed at various times by Surafel Temesgen,
Peter Smith, and myself

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/0DDF369B45A1B44B8A687ED43F06557C010BC362@G01JPEXMBYT03
2020-11-14 17:05:34 -05:00
Tom Lane dbca94510c Doc: improve partitioning discussion in ddl.sgml.
This started with the intent to explain that range upper bounds
are exclusive, which previously you could only find out by reading
the CREATE TABLE man page.  But I soon found that section 5.11
really could stand a fair amount of editorial attention.  It's
apparently been revised several times without much concern for
overall flow, nor careful copy-editing.

Back-patch to v11, which is as far as the patch goes easily.

Per gripe from Edson Richter.  Thanks to David Johnston for review.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/DM6PR13MB3988736CF8F5DC5720440231CFE60@DM6PR13MB3988.namprd13.prod.outlook.com
2020-11-14 13:09:53 -05:00
Tom Lane ec0294fb2c Support negative indexes in split_part().
This provides a handy way to get, say, the last field of the string.
Use of a negative index in this way has precedent in the nearby
left() and right() functions.

The implementation scans the string twice when N < -1, but it seems
likely that N = -1 will be the huge majority of actual use cases,
so I'm not really excited about adding complexity to avoid that.

Nikhil Benesch, reviewed by Jacob Champion; cosmetic tweakage by me

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/cbb7f861-6162-3a51-9823-97bc3aa0b638@gmail.com
2020-11-13 13:49:48 -05:00
Bruce Momjian 152ed04799 doc: clarify where to find pg_type_d.h (PG 11+) and pg_type.h
These files are in compiled directories and install directories.

Reported-by: e.indrupskaya@postgrespro.ru

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/160379609706.24746.7506163279454026608@wrigleys.postgresql.org

Backpatch-through: 9.5
2020-11-12 15:13:02 -05:00
Bruce Momjian 3370207986 docs: mention that expression indexes need analyze
Expression indexes can't benefit from pre-computed statistics on
columns.

Reported-by: Nikolay Samokhvalov

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CANNMO++5rw9RDA=p40iMVbMNPaW6O=S0AFzTU=KpYHRpCd1voA@mail.gmail.com

Author: Nikolay Samokhvalov, modified

Backpatch-through: 9.5
2020-11-12 15:00:44 -05:00