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Peter Eisentraut 2eb4a831e5 Change TRUE/FALSE to true/false
The lower case spellings are C and C++ standard and are used in most
parts of the PostgreSQL sources.  The upper case spellings are only used
in some files/modules.  So standardize on the standard spellings.

The APIs for ICU, Perl, and Windows define their own TRUE and FALSE, so
those are left as is when using those APIs.

In code comments, we use the lower-case spelling for the C concepts and
keep the upper-case spelling for the SQL concepts.

Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>
2017-11-08 11:37:28 -05:00
Alvaro Herrera c6764eb3ae Revert bogus fixes of HOT-freezing bug
It turns out we misdiagnosed what the real problem was.  Revert the
previous changes, because they may have worse consequences going
forward.  A better fix is forthcoming.

The simplistic test case is kept, though disabled.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20171102112019.33wb7g5wp4zpjelu@alap3.anarazel.de
2017-11-02 15:51:41 +01:00
Tom Lane 37a795a60b Support domains over composite types.
This is the last major omission in our domains feature: you can now
make a domain over anything that's not a pseudotype.

The major complication from an implementation standpoint is that places
that might be creating tuples of a domain type now need to be prepared
to apply domain_check().  It seems better that unprepared code fail
with an error like "<type> is not composite" than that it silently fail
to apply domain constraints.  Therefore, relevant infrastructure like
get_func_result_type() and lookup_rowtype_tupdesc() has been adjusted
to treat domain-over-composite as a distinct case that unprepared code
won't recognize, rather than just transparently treating it the same
as plain composite.  This isn't a 100% solution to the possibility of
overlooked domain checks, but it catches most places.

In passing, improve typcache.c's support for domains (it can now cache
the identity of a domain's base type), and rewrite the argument handling
logic in jsonfuncs.c's populate_record[set]_worker to reduce duplicative
per-call lookups.

I believe this is code-complete so far as the core and contrib code go.
The PLs need varying amounts of work, which will be tackled in followup
patches.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/4206.1499798337@sss.pgh.pa.us
2017-10-26 13:47:45 -04:00
Andres Freund 4c119fbcd4 Improve performance of SendRowDescriptionMessage.
There's three categories of changes leading to better performance:
- Splitting the per-attribute part of SendRowDescriptionMessage into a
  v2 and a v3 version allows avoiding branches for every attribute.
- Preallocating the size of the buffer to be big enough for all
  attributes and then using pq_write* avoids unnecessary buffer
  size checks & resizing.
- Reusing a persistently allocated StringInfo for all
  SendRowDescriptionMessage() invocations avoids repeated allocations
  & reallocations.

Author: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170914063418.sckdzgjfrsbekae4@alap3.anarazel.de
2017-10-11 17:23:23 -07:00
Alvaro Herrera a5736bf754 Fix traversal of half-frozen update chains
When some tuple versions in an update chain are frozen due to them being
older than freeze_min_age, the xmax/xmin trail can become broken.  This
breaks HOT (and probably other things).  A subsequent VACUUM can break
things in more serious ways, such as leaving orphan heap-only tuples
whose root HOT redirect items were removed.  This can be seen because
index creation (or REINDEX) complain like
  ERROR:  XX000: failed to find parent tuple for heap-only tuple at (0,7) in table "t"

Because of relfrozenxid contraints, we cannot avoid the freezing of the
early tuples, so we must cope with the results: whenever we see an Xmin
of FrozenTransactionId, consider it a match for whatever the previous
Xmax value was.

This problem seems to have appeared in 9.3 with multixact changes,
though strictly speaking it seems unrelated.

Since 9.4 we have commit 37484ad2a "Change the way we mark tuples as
frozen", so the fix is simple: just compare the raw Xmin (still stored
in the tuple header, since freezing merely set an infomask bit) to the
Xmax.  But in 9.3 we rewrite the Xmin value to FrozenTransactionId, so
the original value is lost and we have nothing to compare the Xmax with.
To cope with that case we need to compare the Xmin with FrozenXid,
assume it's a match, and hope for the best.  Sadly, since you can
pg_upgrade a 9.3 instance containing half-frozen pages to newer
releases, we need to keep the old check in newer versions too, which
seems a bit brittle; I hope we can somehow get rid of that.

I didn't optimize the new function for performance.  The new coding is
probably a bit slower than before, since there is a function call rather
than a straight comparison, but I'd rather have it work correctly than
be fast but wrong.

This is a followup after 20b6552242 fixed a few related problems.
Apparently, in 9.6 and up there are more ways to get into trouble, but
in 9.3 - 9.5 I cannot reproduce a problem anymore with this patch, so
there must be a separate bug.

Reported-by: Peter Geoghegan
Diagnosed-by: Peter Geoghegan, Michael Paquier, Daniel Wood,
	Yi Wen Wong, Álvaro
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-Wznm4rCrhFAiwKPWTpEw2bXDtgROZK7jWWGucXeH3D1fmA@mail.gmail.com
2017-10-06 17:20:01 +02:00
Robert Haas 22c5e73562 Remove lsn from HashScanPosData.
This was intended as infrastructure for weakening VACUUM's locking
requirements, similar to what was done for btree indexes in commit
2ed5b87f96.  However, for hash indexes,
it seems that the improvements which are possible are actually
extremely marginal.  Furthermore, performing the LSN cross-check will
end up skipping cleanup far more often than is necessary; we only care
about page modifications due to a VACUUM, but the LSN check will fail
if ANY modification has occurred.  So, rather than pressing forward
with that "optimization", just rip the LSN field out.

Patch by me, reviewed by Ashutosh Sharma and Amit Kapila

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAA4eK1JxqqcuC5Un7YLQVhOYSZBS+t=3xqZuEkt5RyquyuxpwQ@mail.gmail.com
2017-09-26 09:16:45 -04:00
Robert Haas 6a2fa09c0c For wal_consistency_checking, mask page checksum as well as page LSN.
If the LSN is different, the checksum will be different, too.

Ashwin Agrawal, reviewed by Michael Paquier and Kuntal Ghosh

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CALfoeis5iqrAU-+JAN+ZzXkpPr7+-0OAGv7QUHwFn=-wDy4o4Q@mail.gmail.com
2017-09-22 14:28:22 -04:00
Robert Haas 7c75ef5715 hash: Implement page-at-a-time scan.
Commit 09cb5c0e7d added a similar
optimization to btree back in 2006, but nobody bothered to implement
the same thing for hash indexes, probably because they weren't
WAL-logged and had lots of other performance problems as well.  As
with the corresponding btree case, this eliminates the problem of
potentially needing to refind our position within the page, and cuts
down on pin/unpin traffic as well.

Ashutosh Sharma, reviewed by Alexander Korotkov, Jesper Pedersen,
Amit Kapila, and me.  Some final edits to comments and README by
me.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAE9k0Pm3KTx93K8_5j6VMzG4h5F+SyknxUwXrN-zqSZ9X8ZS3w@mail.gmail.com
2017-09-22 13:56:27 -04:00
Andres Freund fc49e24fa6 Make WAL segment size configurable at initdb time.
For performance reasons a larger segment size than the default 16MB
can be useful. A larger segment size has two main benefits: Firstly,
in setups using archiving, it makes it easier to write scripts that
can keep up with higher amounts of WAL, secondly, the WAL has to be
written and synced to disk less frequently.

But at the same time large segment size are disadvantageous for
smaller databases. So far the segment size had to be configured at
compile time, often making it unrealistic to choose one fitting to a
particularly load. Therefore change it to a initdb time setting.

This includes a breaking changes to the xlogreader.h API, which now
requires the current segment size to be configured.  For that and
similar reasons a number of binaries had to be taught how to recognize
the current segment size.

Author: Beena Emerson, editorialized by Andres Freund
Reviewed-By: Andres Freund, David Steele, Kuntal Ghosh, Michael
    Paquier, Peter Eisentraut, Robert Hass, Tushar Ahuja
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAOG9ApEAcQ--1ieKbhFzXSQPw_YLmepaa4hNdnY5+ZULpt81Mw@mail.gmail.com
2017-09-19 22:03:48 -07:00
Andres Freund ec9e05b3c3 Fix crash restart bug introduced in 8356753c21.
The bug was caused by not re-reading the control file during crash
recovery restarts, which lead to an attempt to pfree() shared memory
contents. The fix is to re-read the control file, which seems good
anyway.

It's unclear as of this moment, whether we want to keep the
refactoring introduced in the commit referenced above, or come up with
an alternative approach. But fixing the bug in the mean time seems
like a good idea regardless.

A followup commit will introduce regression test coverage for crash
restarts.

Reported-By: Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/14134.1505572349@sss.pgh.pa.us
2017-09-18 17:25:49 -07:00
Tom Lane eb5c404b17 Minor code-cleanliness improvements for btree.
Make the btree page-flags test macros (P_ISLEAF and friends) return clean
boolean values, rather than values that might not fit in a bool.  Use them
in a few places that were randomly referencing the flag bits directly.

In passing, change access/nbtree/'s only direct use of BUFFER_LOCK_SHARE to
BT_READ.  (Some think we should go the other way, but as long as we have
BT_READ/BT_WRITE, let's use them consistently.)

Masahiko Sawada, reviewed by Doug Doole

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAD21AoBmWPeN=WBB5Jvyz_Nt3rmW1ebUyAnk3ZbJP3RMXALJog@mail.gmail.com
2017-09-18 16:36:28 -04:00
Tom Lane fba3665556 Avoid duplicate typedef for SharedRecordTypmodRegistry.
This isn't our usual solution for such problems, and older compilers
(not terribly old, either) don't like it.

Per buildfarm and local testing.
2017-09-15 00:25:33 -04:00
Andres Freund cc5f81366c Add support for coordinating record typmods among parallel workers.
Tuples can have type RECORDOID and a typmod number that identifies a blessed
TupleDesc in a backend-private cache.  To support the sharing of such tuples
through shared memory and temporary files, provide a typmod registry in
shared memory.

To achieve that, introduce per-session DSM segments, created on demand when a
backend first runs a parallel query.  The per-session DSM segment has a
table-of-contents just like the per-query DSM segment, and initially the
contents are a shared record typmod registry and a DSA area to provide the
space it needs to grow.

State relating to the current session is accessed via a Session object
reached through global variable CurrentSession that may require significant
redesign further down the road as we figure out what else needs to be shared
or remodelled.

Author: Thomas Munro
Reviewed-By: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEepm=0ZtQ-SpsgCyzzYpsXS6e=kZWqk3g5Ygn3MDV7A8dabUA@mail.gmail.com
2017-09-14 19:59:21 -07:00
Andres Freund 8356753c21 Perform only one ReadControlFile() during startup.
Previously we read the control file in multiple places. But soon the
segment size will be configurable and stored in the control file, and
that needs to be available earlier than it currently is needed.

Instead of adding yet another place where it's read, refactor things
so there's a single processing of the control file during startup (in
EXEC_BACKEND that's every individual backend's startup).

Author: Andres Freund
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/20170913092828.aozd3gvvmw67gmyc@alap3.anarazel.de
2017-09-14 14:14:34 -07:00
Tom Lane 6eb52da394 Fix handling of savepoint commands within multi-statement Query strings.
Issuing a savepoint-related command in a Query message that contains
multiple SQL statements led to a FATAL exit with a complaint about
"unexpected state STARTED".  This is a shortcoming of commit 4f896dac1,
which attempted to prevent such misbehaviors in multi-statement strings;
its quick hack of marking the individual statements as "not top-level"
does the wrong thing in this case, and isn't a very accurate description
of the situation anyway.

To fix, let's introduce into xact.c an explicit model of what happens for
multi-statement Query strings.  This is an "implicit transaction block
in progress" state, which for many purposes works like the normal
TBLOCK_INPROGRESS state --- in particular, IsTransactionBlock returns true,
causing the desired result that PreventTransactionChain will throw error.
But in case of error abort it works like TBLOCK_STARTED, allowing the
transaction to be cancelled without need for an explicit ROLLBACK command.

Commit 4f896dac1 is reverted in toto, so that we go back to treating the
individual statements as "top level".  We could have left it as-is, but
this allows sharpening the error message for PreventTransactionChain
calls inside functions.

Except for getting a normal error instead of a FATAL exit for savepoint
commands, this patch should result in no user-visible behavioral change
(other than that one error message rewording).  There are some things
we might want to do in the line of changing the appearance or wording of
error and warning messages around this behavior, which would be much
simpler to do now that it's an explicitly modeled state.  But I haven't
done them here.

Although this fixes a long-standing bug, no backpatch.  The consequences
of the bug don't seem severe enough to justify the risk that this commit
itself creates some new issue.

Patch by me, but it owes something to previous investigation by
Takayuki Tsunakawa, who also reported the bug in the first place.
Also thanks to Michael Paquier for reviewing.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/0A3221C70F24FB45833433255569204D1F6BE40D@G01JPEXMBYT05
2017-09-07 09:49:55 -04:00
Robert Haas 81c5e46c49 Introduce 64-bit hash functions with a 64-bit seed.
This will be useful for hash partitioning, which needs a way to seed
the hash functions to avoid problems such as a hash index on a hash
partitioned table clumping all values into a small portion of the
bucket space; it's also useful for anything that wants a 64-bit hash
value rather than a 32-bit hash value.

Just in case somebody wants a 64-bit hash value that is compatible
with the existing 32-bit hash values, make the low 32-bits of the
64-bit hash value match the 32-bit hash value when the seed is 0.

Robert Haas and Amul Sul

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+Tgmoafx2yoJuhCQQOL5CocEi-w_uG4S2xT0EtgiJnPGcHW3g@mail.gmail.com
2017-08-31 22:21:21 -04:00
Tom Lane 41b0dd987d Separate reinitialization of shared parallel-scan state from ExecReScan.
Previously, the parallel executor logic did reinitialization of shared
state within the ExecReScan code for parallel-aware scan nodes.  This is
problematic, because it means that the ExecReScan call has to occur
synchronously (ie, during the parent Gather node's ReScan call).  That is
swimming very much against the tide so far as the ExecReScan machinery is
concerned; the fact that it works at all today depends on a lot of fragile
assumptions, such as that no plan node between Gather and a parallel-aware
scan node is parameterized.  Another objection is that because ExecReScan
might be called in workers as well as the leader, hacky extra tests are
needed in some places to prevent unwanted shared-state resets.

Hence, let's separate this code into two functions, a ReInitializeDSM
call and the ReScan call proper.  ReInitializeDSM is called only in
the leader and is guaranteed to run before we start new workers.
ReScan is returned to its traditional function of resetting only local
state, which means that ExecReScan's usual habits of delaying or
eliminating child rescan calls are safe again.

As with the preceding commit 7df2c1f8d, it doesn't seem to be necessary
to make these changes in 9.6, which is a good thing because the FDW and
CustomScan APIs are impacted.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAA4eK1JkByysFJNh9M349u_nNjqETuEnY_y1VUc_kJiU0bxtaQ@mail.gmail.com
2017-08-30 13:18:16 -04:00
Andres Freund 35ea75632a Refactor typcache.c's record typmod hash table.
Previously, tuple descriptors were stored in chains keyed by a fixed size
array of OIDs.  That meant there were effectively two levels of collision
chain -- one inside and one outside the hash table.  Instead, let dynahash.c
look after conflicts for us by supplying a proper hash and equal function
pair.

This is a nice cleanup on its own, but also simplifies followup
changes allowing blessed TupleDescs to be shared between backends
participating in parallel query.

Author: Thomas Munro
Reviewed-By: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEepm%3D34GVhOL%2BarUx56yx7OPk7%3DqpGsv3CpO54feqjAwQKm5g%40mail.gmail.com
2017-08-22 16:11:54 -07:00
Andres Freund c6293249dc Partially flatten struct tupleDesc so that it can be used in DSM.
TupleDesc's attributes were already stored in contiguous memory after the
struct.  Go one step further and get rid of the array of pointers to
attributes so that they can be stored in shared memory mapped at different
addresses in each backend.  This won't work for TupleDescs with contraints
and defaults, since those point to other objects, but for many purposes
only attributes are needed.

Author: Thomas Munro
Reviewed-By: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEepm=0ZtQ-SpsgCyzzYpsXS6e=kZWqk3g5Ygn3MDV7A8dabUA@mail.gmail.com
2017-08-20 11:19:12 -07:00
Andres Freund 2cd7084524 Change tupledesc->attrs[n] to TupleDescAttr(tupledesc, n).
This is a mechanical change in preparation for a later commit that
will change the layout of TupleDesc.  Introducing a macro to abstract
the details of where attributes are stored will allow us to change
that in separate step and revise it in future.

Author: Thomas Munro, editorialized by Andres Freund
Reviewed-By: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEepm=0ZtQ-SpsgCyzzYpsXS6e=kZWqk3g5Ygn3MDV7A8dabUA@mail.gmail.com
2017-08-20 11:19:07 -07:00
Heikki Linnakangas 3cda10f41b Use atomic ops to hand out pages to scan in parallel scan.
With a lot of CPUs, the spinlock that protects the current scan location
in a parallel scan can become a bottleneck. Use an atomic fetch-and-add
instruction instead.

David Rowley

Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAKJS1f9tgsPhqBcoPjv9_KUPZvTLCZ4jy%3DB%3DbhqgaKn7cYzm-w@mail.gmail.com
2017-08-16 16:18:41 +03:00
Heikki Linnakangas 0c504a80cf Remove dedicated B-tree root-split record types.
Since commit 40dae7ec53, which changed the way b-tree page splitting
works, there has been no difference in the handling of root, and non-root
split WAL records. We don't need to distinguish them anymore

If you're worried about the loss of debugging information, note that
usually a root split record will normally be followed by a WAL record to
create the new root page. The root page will also have the BTP_ROOT flag
set on the page itself, and there is a pointer to it from the metapage.

Author: Aleksander Alekseev
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20170406122116.GA11081@e733.localdomain
2017-08-16 12:24:40 +03:00
Robert Haas 620b49a16d hash: Increase the number of possible overflow bitmaps by 8x.
Per a report from AP, it's not that hard to exhaust the supply of
bitmap pages if you create a table with a hash index and then insert a
few billion rows - and then you start getting errors when you try to
insert additional rows.  In the particular case reported by AP,
there's another fix that we can make to improve recycling of overflow
pages, which is another way to avoid the error, but there may be other
cases where this problem happens and that fix won't help.  So let's
buy ourselves as much headroom as we can without rearchitecting
anything.

The comments claim that the old limit was 64GB, but it was really
only 32GB, because we didn't use all the bits in the page for bitmap
bits - only the largest power of 2 that could fit after deducting
space for the page header and so forth.  Thus, we have 4kB per page
for bitmap bits, not 8kB.  The new limit is thus actually 8 times the
old *real* limit but only 4 times the old *purported* limit.

Since this breaks on-disk compatibility, bump HASH_VERSION.  We've
already done this earlier in this release cycle, so this doesn't cause
any incremental inconvenience for people using pg_upgrade from
releases prior to v10.  However, users who use pg_upgrade to reach
10beta3 or later from 10beta2 or earlier will need to REINDEX any hash
indexes again.

Amit Kapila and Robert Haas

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/20170704105728.mwb72jebfmok2nm2@zip.com.au
2017-08-04 16:30:32 -04:00
Tatsuo Ishii e662ef0f2e Fix comment.
XLByteToSeg and XLByteToPrevSeg calculate only a segment number.  The
definition of these macros were modified by commit
dfda6ebaec but the comment remain
unchanged.

Patch by Yugo Nagata. Back patched to 9.3 and beyond.
2017-08-01 08:00:11 +09:00
Peter Eisentraut 1acc04e404 Remove outdated comment
Author: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@enterprisedb.com>
2017-06-30 14:43:05 -04:00
Tom Lane 382ceffdf7 Phase 3 of pgindent updates.
Don't move parenthesized lines to the left, even if that means they
flow past the right margin.

By default, BSD indent lines up statement continuation lines that are
within parentheses so that they start just to the right of the preceding
left parenthesis.  However, traditionally, if that resulted in the
continuation line extending to the right of the desired right margin,
then indent would push it left just far enough to not overrun the margin,
if it could do so without making the continuation line start to the left of
the current statement indent.  That makes for a weird mix of indentations
unless one has been completely rigid about never violating the 80-column
limit.

This behavior has been pretty universally panned by Postgres developers.
Hence, disable it with indent's new -lpl switch, so that parenthesized
lines are always lined up with the preceding left paren.

This patch is much less interesting than the first round of indent
changes, but also bulkier, so I thought it best to separate the effects.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/E1dAmxK-0006EE-1r@gemulon.postgresql.org
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/30527.1495162840@sss.pgh.pa.us
2017-06-21 15:35:54 -04:00
Tom Lane c7b8998ebb Phase 2 of pgindent updates.
Change pg_bsd_indent to follow upstream rules for placement of comments
to the right of code, and remove pgindent hack that caused comments
following #endif to not obey the general rule.

Commit e3860ffa4d wasn't actually using
the published version of pg_bsd_indent, but a hacked-up version that
tried to minimize the amount of movement of comments to the right of
code.  The situation of interest is where such a comment has to be
moved to the right of its default placement at column 33 because there's
code there.  BSD indent has always moved right in units of tab stops
in such cases --- but in the previous incarnation, indent was working
in 8-space tab stops, while now it knows we use 4-space tabs.  So the
net result is that in about half the cases, such comments are placed
one tab stop left of before.  This is better all around: it leaves
more room on the line for comment text, and it means that in such
cases the comment uniformly starts at the next 4-space tab stop after
the code, rather than sometimes one and sometimes two tabs after.

Also, ensure that comments following #endif are indented the same
as comments following other preprocessor commands such as #else.
That inconsistency turns out to have been self-inflicted damage
from a poorly-thought-through post-indent "fixup" in pgindent.

This patch is much less interesting than the first round of indent
changes, but also bulkier, so I thought it best to separate the effects.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/E1dAmxK-0006EE-1r@gemulon.postgresql.org
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/30527.1495162840@sss.pgh.pa.us
2017-06-21 15:19:25 -04:00
Tom Lane e3860ffa4d Initial pgindent run with pg_bsd_indent version 2.0.
The new indent version includes numerous fixes thanks to Piotr Stefaniak.
The main changes visible in this commit are:

* Nicer formatting of function-pointer declarations.
* No longer unexpectedly removes spaces in expressions using casts,
  sizeof, or offsetof.
* No longer wants to add a space in "struct structname *varname", as
  well as some similar cases for const- or volatile-qualified pointers.
* Declarations using PG_USED_FOR_ASSERTS_ONLY are formatted more nicely.
* Fixes bug where comments following declarations were sometimes placed
  with no space separating them from the code.
* Fixes some odd decisions for comments following case labels.
* Fixes some cases where comments following code were indented to less
  than the expected column 33.

On the less good side, it now tends to put more whitespace around typedef
names that are not listed in typedefs.list.  This might encourage us to
put more effort into typedef name collection; it's not really a bug in
indent itself.

There are more changes coming after this round, having to do with comment
indentation and alignment of lines appearing within parentheses.  I wanted
to limit the size of the diffs to something that could be reviewed without
one's eyes completely glazing over, so it seemed better to split up the
changes as much as practical.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/E1dAmxK-0006EE-1r@gemulon.postgresql.org
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/30527.1495162840@sss.pgh.pa.us
2017-06-21 14:39:04 -04:00
Bruce Momjian a6fd7b7a5f Post-PG 10 beta1 pgindent run
perltidy run not included.
2017-05-17 16:31:56 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut d496a65790 Standardize "WAL location" terminology
Other previously used terms were "WAL position" or "log position".
2017-05-12 13:51:27 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut c1a7f64b4a Replace "transaction log" with "write-ahead log"
This makes documentation and error messages match the renaming of "xlog"
to "wal" in APIs and file naming.
2017-05-12 11:52:43 -04:00
Simon Riggs 49e9281549 Rework handling of subtransactions in 2PC recovery
The bug fixed by 0874d4f3e1
caused us to question and rework the handling of
subtransactions in 2PC during and at end of recovery.
Patch adds checks and tests to ensure no further bugs.

This effectively removes the temporary measure put in place
by 546c13e11b.

Author: Simon Riggs
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane, Michael Paquier
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CANP8+j+vvXmruL_i2buvdhMeVv5TQu0Hm2+C5N+kdVwHJuor8w@mail.gmail.com
2017-04-27 14:41:22 +02:00
Tom Lane bfba563bc5 Fix erroneous cross-reference in comment.
Seems to have been introduced in commit c219d9b0a.  I think there indeed
was a "tupbasics.h" in some early drafts of that refactoring, but it
didn't survive into the committed version.

Amit Kapila
2017-04-15 14:22:26 -04:00
Tom Lane 32470825d3 Avoid passing function pointers across process boundaries.
We'd already recognized that we can't pass function pointers across process
boundaries for functions in loadable modules, since a shared library could
get loaded at different addresses in different processes.  But actually the
practice doesn't work for functions in the core backend either, if we're
using EXEC_BACKEND.  This is the cause of recent failures on buildfarm
member culicidae.  Switch to passing a string function name in all cases.

Something like this needs to be back-patched into 9.6, but let's see
if the buildfarm likes it first.

Petr Jelinek, with a bunch of basically-cosmetic adjustments by me

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/548f9c1d-eafa-e3fa-9da8-f0cc2f654e60@2ndquadrant.com
2017-04-14 23:50:16 -04:00
Tom Lane 2040bb4a0b Clean up manipulations of hash indexes' hasho_flag field.
Standardize on testing a hash index page's type by doing
	(opaque->hasho_flag & LH_PAGE_TYPE) == LH_xxx_PAGE
Various places were taking shortcuts like
	opaque->hasho_flag & LH_BUCKET_PAGE
which while not actually wrong, is still bad practice because
it encourages use of
	opaque->hasho_flag & LH_UNUSED_PAGE
which *is* wrong (LH_UNUSED_PAGE == 0, so the above is constant false).
hash_xlog.c's hash_mask() contained such an incorrect test.

This also ensures that we mask out the additional flag bits that
hasho_flag has accreted since 9.6.  pgstattuple's pgstat_hash_page(),
for one, was failing to do that and was thus actively broken.

Also fix assorted comments that hadn't been updated to reflect the
extended usage of hasho_flag, and fix some macros that were testing
just "(hasho_flag & bit)" to use the less dangerous, project-approved
form "((hasho_flag & bit) != 0)".

Coverity found the bug in hash_mask(); I noted the one in
pgstat_hash_page() through code reading.
2017-04-14 17:04:25 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera 8bf74967da Reduce the number of pallocs() in BRIN
Instead of allocating memory in brin_deform_tuple and brin_copy_tuple
over and over during a scan, allow reuse of previously allocated memory.
This is said to make for a measurable performance improvement.

Author: Jinyu Zhang, Álvaro Herrera
Reviewed by: Tomas Vondra
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/495deb78.4186.1500dacaa63.Coremail.beijing_pg@163.com
2017-04-07 19:08:43 -03:00
Alvaro Herrera 817cb10013 Fix new BRIN desummarize WAL record
The WAL-writing piece was forgetting to set the pages-per-range value.
Also, fix the declared type of struct member heapBlk, which I mistakenly
set as OffsetNumber rather than BlockNumber.

Problem was introduced by commit c655899ba9 (April 1st).  Any system
that tries to replay the new WAL record written before this fix is
likely to die on replay and require pg_resetwal.

Reported by Tom Lane.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20191.1491524824@sss.pgh.pa.us
2017-04-07 17:11:56 -03:00
Alvaro Herrera 7e534adcdc Fix BRIN cost estimation
The original code was overly optimistic about the cost of scanning a
BRIN index, leading to BRIN indexes being selected when they'd be a
worse choice than some other index.  This complete rewrite should be
more accurate.

Author: David Rowley, based on an earlier patch by Emre Hasegeli
Reviewed-by: Emre Hasegeli
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAKJS1f9n-Wapop5Xz1dtGdpdqmzeGqQK4sV2MK-zZugfC14Xtw@mail.gmail.com
2017-04-06 17:51:53 -03:00
Peter Eisentraut e6c9a5a9bc Fix mixup of bool and ternary value
Not currently a problem, but could be with stricter bool behavior under
stdbool or C++.

Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
2017-04-06 13:09:42 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 193f5f9e91 pageinspect: Add bt_page_items function with bytea argument
Author: Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@2ndquadrant.com>
Reviewed-by: Ashutosh Sharma <ashu.coek88@gmail.com>
2017-04-04 23:52:55 -04:00
Simon Riggs 9a3215026b Make min_wal_size/max_wal_size use MB internally
Previously they were defined using multiples of XLogSegSize.
Remove GUC_UNIT_XSEGS. Introduce GUC_UNIT_MB

Extracted from patch series on XLogSegSize infrastructure.

Beena Emerson
2017-04-04 18:00:01 -04:00
Simon Riggs 728bd991c3 Speedup 2PC recovery by skipping two phase state files in normal path
2PC state info held in shmem at PREPARE, then cleaned at COMMIT PREPARED/ABORT PREPARED,
avoiding writing/fsyncing any state information to disk in the normal path, greatly enhancing replay speed.
Prepared transactions that live past one checkpoint redo horizon will be written to disk as now.
Similar conceptually to 978b2f65aa and building upon
the infrastructure created by that commit.

Authors, in equal measure: Stas Kelvich, Nikhil Sontakke and Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAMGcDxf8Bn9ZPBBJZba9wiyQq-Qk5uqq=VjoMnRnW5s+fKST3w@mail.gmail.com
2017-04-04 15:56:56 -04:00
Robert Haas ea69a0dead Expand hash indexes more gradually.
Since hash indexes typically have very few overflow pages, adding a
new splitpoint essentially doubles the on-disk size of the index,
which can lead to large and abrupt increases in disk usage (and
perhaps long delays on occasion).  To mitigate this problem to some
degree, divide larger splitpoints into four equal phases.  This means
that, for example, instead of growing from 4GB to 8GB all at once, a
hash index will now grow from 4GB to 5GB to 6GB to 7GB to 8GB, which
is perhaps still not as smooth as we'd like but certainly an
improvement.

This changes the on-disk format of the metapage, so bump HASH_VERSION
from 2 to 3.  This will force a REINDEX of all existing hash indexes,
but that's probably a good idea anyway.  First, hash indexes from
pre-10 versions of PostgreSQL could easily be corrupted, and we don't
want to confuse corruption carried over from an older release with any
corruption caused despite the new write-ahead logging in v10.  Second,
it will let us remove some backward-compatibility code added by commit
293e24e507.

Mithun Cy, reviewed by Amit Kapila, Jesper Pedersen and me.  Regression
test outputs updated by me.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAD__OuhG6F1gQLCgMQNnMNgoCvOLQZz9zKYJQNYvYmmJoM42gA@mail.gmail.com
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmoYty0jCf-pa+m+vYUJ716+AxM7nv_syvyanyf5O-L_i2A@mail.gmail.com
2017-04-03 23:46:33 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera c655899ba9 BRIN de-summarization
When the BRIN summary tuple for a page range becomes too "wide" for the
values actually stored in the table (because the tuples that were
present originally are no longer present due to updates or deletes), it
can be useful to remove the outdated summary tuple, so that a future
summarization can install a tighter summary.

This commit introduces a SQL-callable interface to do so.

Author: Álvaro Herrera
Reviewed-by: Eiji Seki
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170228045643.n2ri74ara4fhhfxf@alvherre.pgsql
2017-04-01 16:10:04 -03:00
Alvaro Herrera 7526e10224 BRIN auto-summarization
Previously, only VACUUM would cause a page range to get initially
summarized by BRIN indexes, which for some use cases takes too much time
since the inserts occur.  To avoid the delay, have brininsert request a
summarization run for the previous range as soon as the first tuple is
inserted into the first page of the next range.  Autovacuum is in charge
of processing these requests, after doing all the regular vacuuming/
analyzing work on tables.

This doesn't impose any new tasks on autovacuum, because autovacuum was
already in charge of doing summarizations.  The only actual effect is to
change the timing, i.e. that it occurs earlier.  For this reason, we
don't go any great lengths to record these requests very robustly; if
they are lost because of a server crash or restart, they will happen at
a later time anyway.

Most of the new code here is in autovacuum, which can now be told about
"work items" to process.  This can be used for other things such as GIN
pending list cleaning, perhaps visibility map bit setting, both of which
are currently invoked during vacuum, but do not really depend on vacuum
taking place.

The requests are at the page range level, a granularity for which we did
not have SQL-level access; we only had index-level summarization
requests via brin_summarize_new_values().  It seems reasonable to add
SQL-level access to range-level summarization too, so add a function
brin_summarize_range() to do that.

Authors: Álvaro Herrera, based on sketch from Simon Riggs.
Reviewed-by: Thomas Munro.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170301045823.vneqdqkmsd4as4ds@alvherre.pgsql
2017-04-01 14:00:53 -03:00
Robert Haas 2113ac4cbb Don't use bgw_main even to specify in-core bgworker entrypoints.
On EXEC_BACKEND builds, this can fail if ASLR is in use.

Backpatch to 9.5.  On master, completely remove the bgw_main field
completely, since there is no situation in which it is safe for an
EXEC_BACKEND build.  On 9.6 and 9.5, leave the field intact to avoid
breaking things for third-party code that doesn't care about working
under EXEC_BACKEND.  Prior to 9.5, there are no in-core bgworker
entrypoints.

Petr Jelinek, reviewed by me.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/09d8ad33-4287-a09b-a77f-77f8761adb5e@2ndquadrant.com
2017-03-31 20:43:32 -04:00
Robert Haas c94e6942ce Don't allocate storage for partitioned tables.
Also, don't allow setting reloptions on them, since that would have no
effect given the lack of storage.  The patch does this by introducing
a new reloption kind for which there are currently no reloptions -- we
might have some in the future -- so it adjusts parseRelOptions to
handle that case correctly.

Bumped catversion.  System catalogs that contained reloptions for
partitioned tables are no longer valid; plus, there are now fewer
physical files on disk, which is not technically a catalog change but
still a good reason to re-initdb.

Amit Langote, reviewed by Maksim Milyutin and Kyotaro Horiguchi and
revised a bit by me.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/20170331.173326.212311140.horiguchi.kyotaro@lab.ntt.co.jp
2017-03-31 16:28:51 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera ce96ce60ca Remove direct uses of ItemPointer.{ip_blkid,ip_posid}
There are no functional changes here; this simply encapsulates knowledge
of the ItemPointerData struct so that a future patch can change things
without more breakage.

All direct users of ip_blkid and ip_posid are changed to use existing
macros ItemPointerGetBlockNumber and ItemPointerGetOffsetNumber
respectively.  For callers where that's inappropriate (because they
Assert that the itempointer is is valid-looking), add
ItemPointerGetBlockNumberNoCheck and ItemPointerGetOffsetNumberNoCheck,
which lack the assertion but are otherwise identical.

Author: Pavan Deolasee
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CABOikdNnFon4cJiL=h1mZH3bgUeU+sWHuU4Yr8AB=j3A2p1GiA@mail.gmail.com
2017-03-28 19:02:23 -03:00
Robert Haas c4c51541e2 Still more code review for single-page hash vacuuming.
Most seriously, fix use of incorrect block ID, per a report from
Jeff Janes that it causes a crash and a diagnosis from Amit Kapila.

Improve consistency between the hash and btree versions of this
code by adding back a PANIC that btree has, and by registering
data in the xlog record in the same way, per complaints from
Jeff Janes and Amit Kapila.

Tidy up some minor cosmetic points, per complaints from Amit
Kapila.

Patch by Ashutosh Sharma, reviewed by Amit Kapila, and tested by
Jeff Janes.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAMkU=1w-9Qe=Ff1o6bSaXpNO9wqpo7_9GL8_CVhw4BoVVHasqg@mail.gmail.com
2017-03-27 12:51:10 -04:00
Tom Lane 2f0903ea19 Improve performance of ExecEvalWholeRowVar.
In commit b8d7f053c, we needed to fix ExecEvalWholeRowVar to not change
the state of the slot it's copying.  The initial quick hack at that
required two rounds of tuple construction, which is not very nice.
To fix, add another primitive to tuptoaster.c that does precisely what
we need.  (I initially tried to do this by refactoring one of the
existing functions into two pieces; but it looked like that might hurt
performance for the existing case, and the amount of code that could
be shared is not very large, so I gave up on that.)

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/26088.1490315792@sss.pgh.pa.us
2017-03-26 19:14:57 -04:00
Teodor Sigaev 78874531ba Fix backup canceling
Assert-enabled build crashes but without asserts it works by wrong way:
it may not reset forcing full page write and preventing from starting
exclusive backup with the same name as cancelled.
Patch replaces pair of booleans
nonexclusive_backup_running/exclusive_backup_running to single enum to
correctly describe backup state.

Backpatch to 9.6 where bug was introduced

Reported-by: David Steele
Authors: Michael Paquier, David Steele
Reviewed-by: Anastasia Lubennikova

https://commitfest.postgresql.org/13/1068/
2017-03-24 13:53:40 +03:00
Robert Haas ea42cc18c3 Track the oldest XID that can be safely looked up in CLOG.
This provides infrastructure for looking up arbitrary, user-supplied
XIDs without a risk of scary-looking failures from within the clog
module.  Normally, the oldest XID that can be safely looked up in CLOG
is the same as the oldest XID that can reused without causing
wraparound, and the latter is already tracked.  However, while
truncation is in progress, the values are different, so we must
keep track of them separately.

Craig Ringer, reviewed by Simon Riggs and by me.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAMsr+YHQiWNEi0daCTboS40T+V5s_+dst3PYv_8v2wNVH+Xx4g@mail.gmail.com
2017-03-23 14:26:31 -04:00
Teodor Sigaev 218f51584d Reduce page locking in GIN vacuum
GIN vacuum during cleaning posting tree can lock this whole tree for a long
time with by holding LockBufferForCleanup() on root. Patch changes it with
two ways: first, cleanup lock will be taken only if there is an empty page
(which should be deleted) and, second, it tries to lock only subtree, not the
whole posting tree.

Author: Andrey Borodin with minor editorization by me
Reviewed-by: Jeff Davis, me

https://commitfest.postgresql.org/13/896/
2017-03-23 19:38:47 +03:00
Simon Riggs 9b013dc238 Improve performance of replay of AccessExclusiveLocks
A hot standby replica keeps a list of Access Exclusive locks for a top
level transaction. These locks are released when the top level transaction
ends. Searching of this list is O(N^2), and each transaction had to pay the
price of searching this list for locks, even if it didn't take any AE
locks itself.

This patch optimizes this case by having the master server track which
transactions took AE locks, and passes that along to the standby server in
the commit/abort record. This allows the standby to only try to release
locks for transactions which actually took any, avoiding the majority of
the performance issue.

Refactor MyXactAccessedTempRel into MyXactFlags to allow minimal additional
cruft with this.

Analysis and initial patch by David Rowley
Author: David Rowley and Simon Riggs
2017-03-22 13:09:36 +00:00
Simon Riggs 1148e22a82 Teach xlogreader to follow timeline switches
Uses page-based mechanism to ensure we’re using the correct timeline.

Tests are included to exercise the functionality using a cold disk-level copy
of the master that's started up as a replica with slots intact, but the
intended use of the functionality is with later features.

Craig Ringer, reviewed by Simon Riggs and Andres Freund
2017-03-22 07:05:12 +00:00
Robert Haas 953477ca35 Fixes for single-page hash index vacuum.
Clear LH_PAGE_HAS_DEAD_TUPLES during replay, similar to what gets done
for btree.  Update hashdesc.c for xl_hash_vacuum_one_page.

Oversights in commit 6977b8b7f4 spotted
by Amit Kapila.  Patch by Ashutosh Sharma.

Bump WAL version.  The original patch to make hash indexes write-ahead
logged probably should have done this, and the single page vacuuming
patch probably should have done it again, but better late than never.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAA4eK1Kd=mJ9xreovcsh0qMiAj-QqCphHVQ_Lfau1DR9oVjASQ@mail.gmail.com
2017-03-20 15:49:09 -04:00
Robert Haas 88e66d193f Rename "pg_clog" directory to "pg_xact".
Names containing the letters "log" sometimes confuse users into
believing that only non-critical data is present.  It is hoped
this renaming will discourage ill-considered removals of transaction
status data.

Michael Paquier

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+Tgmoa9xFQyjRZupbdEFuwUerFTvC6HjZq1ud6GYragGDFFgA@mail.gmail.com
2017-03-17 09:48:38 -04:00
Robert Haas 6977b8b7f4 Port single-page btree vacuum logic to hash indexes.
This is advantageous for hash indexes for the same reasons it's good
for btrees: it accelerates space recycling, reducing bloat.

Ashutosh Sharma, reviewed by Amit Kapila and by me.  A bit of
additional hacking by me.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAE9k0PkRSyzx8dOnokEpUi2A-RFZK72WN0h9DEMv_ut9q6bPRw@mail.gmail.com
2017-03-15 22:18:56 -04:00
Robert Haas bb4a39637a hash: Support WAL consistency checking.
Kuntal Ghosh, reviewed by Amit Kapila and Ashutosh Sharma, with
a few tweaks by me.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAGz5QCJLERUn_zoO0eDv6_Y_d0o4tNTMPeR7ivTLBg4rUrJdwg@mail.gmail.com
2017-03-14 14:58:56 -04:00
Robert Haas c11453ce0a hash: Add write-ahead logging support.
The warning about hash indexes not being write-ahead logged and their
use being discouraged has been removed.  "snapshot too old" is now
supported for tables with hash indexes.  Most importantly, barring
bugs, hash indexes will now be crash-safe and usable on standbys.

This commit doesn't yet add WAL consistency checking for hash
indexes, as we now have for other index types; a separate patch has
been submitted to cure that lack.

Amit Kapila, reviewed and slightly modified by me.  The larger patch
series of which this is a part has been reviewed and tested by Álvaro
Herrera, Ashutosh Sharma, Mark Kirkwood, Jeff Janes, and Jesper
Pedersen.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAA4eK1JOBX=YU33631Qh-XivYXtPSALh514+jR8XeD7v+K3r_Q@mail.gmail.com
2017-03-14 13:27:02 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut a47b38c9ee Spelling fixes
From: Josh Soref <jsoref@gmail.com>
2017-03-14 12:58:39 -04:00
Tom Lane 5ed6fff6b7 Make logging about multixact wraparound protection less chatty.
The original messaging design, introduced in commit 068cfadf9, seems too
chatty now that some time has elapsed since the bug fix; most installations
will be in good shape and don't really need a reminder about this on every
postmaster start.

Hence, arrange to suppress the "wraparound protections are now enabled"
message during startup (specifically, during the TrimMultiXact() call).
The message will still appear if protection becomes effective at some
later point.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17211.1489189214@sss.pgh.pa.us
2017-03-14 12:47:53 -04:00
Robert Haas 390811750d Revert "Use group updates when setting transaction status in clog."
This reverts commit ccce90b398.  This
optimization is unsafe, at least, of rollbacks and rollbacks to
savepoints, but I'm concerned there may be other problematic cases as
well.  Therefore, I've decided to revert this pending further
investigation.
2017-03-10 14:49:56 -05:00
Robert Haas ccce90b398 Use group updates when setting transaction status in clog.
Commit 0e141c0fbb introduced a mechanism
to reduce contention on ProcArrayLock by having a single process clear
XIDs in the procArray on behalf of multiple processes, reducing the
need to hand the lock around.  Use a similar mechanism to reduce
contention on CLogControlLock.  Testing shows that this very
significantly reduces the amount of time waiting for CLogControlLock
on high-concurrency pgbench tests run on a large multi-socket
machines; whether that translates into a TPS improvement depends on
how much of that contention is simply shifted to some other lock,
particularly WALWriteLock.

Amit Kapila, with some cosmetic changes by me.  Extensively reviewed,
tested, and benchmarked over a period of about 15 months by Simon
Riggs, Robert Haas, Andres Freund, Jesper Pedersen, and especially by
Tomas Vondra and Dilip Kumar.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAA4eK1L_snxM_JcrzEstNq9P66++F4kKFce=1r5+D1vzPofdtg@mail.gmail.com
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAA4eK1LyR2A+m=RBSZ6rcPEwJ=rVi1ADPSndXHZdjn56yqO6Vg@mail.gmail.com
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/91d57161-d3ea-0cc2-6066-80713e4f90d7@2ndquadrant.com
2017-03-09 17:49:01 -05:00
Robert Haas f35742ccb7 Support parallel bitmap heap scans.
The index is scanned by a single process, but then all cooperating
processes can iterate jointly over the resulting set of heap blocks.
In the future, we might also want to support using a parallel bitmap
index scan to set up for a parallel bitmap heap scan, but that's a
job for another day.

Dilip Kumar, with some corrections and cosmetic changes by me.  The
larger patch set of which this is a part has been reviewed and tested
by (at least) Andres Freund, Amit Khandekar, Tushar Ahuja, Rafia
Sabih, Haribabu Kommi, Thomas Munro, and me.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAFiTN-uc4=0WxRGfCzs-xfkMYcSEWUC-Fon6thkJGjkh9i=13A@mail.gmail.com
2017-03-08 12:05:43 -05:00
Robert Haas d9528604cc Remove inclusion of postgres.h from a few header files.
Thomas Munro, per project policy articuled by Andres Freund and
Tom Lane.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAEepm=2zCoeq3QxVwhS5DFeUh=yU6z81pbWMgfOB8OzyiBwxzw@mail.gmail.com
2017-03-08 08:18:12 -05:00
Robert Haas 38305398cd hash: Refactor hash index creation.
The primary goal here is to move all of the related page modifications
to a single section of code, in preparation for adding write-ahead
logging.  In passing, rename _hash_metapinit to _hash_init, since it
initializes more than just the metapage.

Amit Kapila.  The larger patch series of which this is a part has been
reviewed and tested by Álvaro Herrera, Ashutosh Sharma, Mark Kirkwood,
Jeff Janes, and Jesper Pedersen.
2017-03-07 17:03:51 -05:00
Heikki Linnakangas 818fd4a67d Support SCRAM-SHA-256 authentication (RFC 5802 and 7677).
This introduces a new generic SASL authentication method, similar to the
GSS and SSPI methods. The server first tells the client which SASL
authentication mechanism to use, and then the mechanism-specific SASL
messages are exchanged in AuthenticationSASLcontinue and PasswordMessage
messages. Only SCRAM-SHA-256 is supported at the moment, but this allows
adding more SASL mechanisms in the future, without changing the overall
protocol.

Support for channel binding, aka SCRAM-SHA-256-PLUS is left for later.

The SASLPrep algorithm, for pre-processing the password, is not yet
implemented. That could cause trouble, if you use a password with
non-ASCII characters, and a client library that does implement SASLprep.
That will hopefully be added later.

Authorization identities, as specified in the SCRAM-SHA-256 specification,
are ignored. SET SESSION AUTHORIZATION provides more or less the same
functionality, anyway.

If a user doesn't exist, perform a "mock" authentication, by constructing
an authentic-looking challenge on the fly. The challenge is derived from
a new system-wide random value, "mock authentication nonce", which is
created at initdb, and stored in the control file. We go through these
motions, in order to not give away the information on whether the user
exists, to unauthenticated users.

Bumps PG_CONTROL_VERSION, because of the new field in control file.

Patch by Michael Paquier and Heikki Linnakangas, reviewed at different
stages by Robert Haas, Stephen Frost, David Steele, Aleksander Alekseev,
and many others.

Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAB7nPqRbR3GmFYdedCAhzukfKrgBLTLtMvENOmPrVWREsZkF8g%40mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAB7nPqSMXU35g%3DW9X74HVeQp0uvgJxvYOuA4A-A3M%2B0wfEBv-w%40mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/55192AFE.6080106@iki.fi
2017-03-07 14:25:40 +02:00
Tom Lane 9b88f27cb4 Allow index AMs to return either HeapTuple or IndexTuple format during IOS.
Previously, only IndexTuple format was supported for the output data of
an index-only scan.  This is fine for btree, which is just returning a
verbatim index tuple anyway.  It's not so fine for SP-GiST, which can
return reconstructed data that's much larger than a page.

To fix, extend the index AM API so that index-only scan data can be
returned in either HeapTuple or IndexTuple format.  There's other ways
we could have done it, but this way avoids an API break for index AMs
that aren't concerned with the issue, and it costs little except a couple
more fields in IndexScanDescs.

I changed both GiST and SP-GiST to use the HeapTuple method.  I'm not
very clear on whether GiST can reconstruct data that's too large for an
IndexTuple, but that seems possible, and it's not much of a code change to
fix.

Per a complaint from Vik Fearing.  Reviewed by Jason Li.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/49527f79-530d-0bfe-3dad-d183596afa92@2ndquadrant.fr
2017-02-27 17:20:34 -05:00
Robert Haas 30df93f698 hash: Refactor overflow page allocation.
As with commit b0f18cb77f, the goal
here is to move all of the related page modifications to a single
section of code, in preparation for adding write-ahead logging.

Amit Kapila, with slight changes by me.  The larger patch series
of which this is a part has been reviewed and tested by Álvaro
Herrera, Ashutosh Sharma, Mark Kirkwood, Jeff Janes, and Jesper
Pedersen, all of whom should also have been credited in the
previous commit message.
2017-02-27 22:59:55 +05:30
Robert Haas b0f18cb77f hash: Refactor bucket squeeze code.
In preparation for adding write-ahead logging to hash indexes,
refactor _hash_freeovflpage and _hash_squeezebucket so that all
related page modifications happen in a single section of code.  The
previous coding assumed that it would be fine to move tuples one at a
time, and also that the various operations involved in freeing an
overflow page didn't necessarily all need to be done together, all
of which is true if you don't care about write-ahead logging.

Amit Kapila, with slight changes by me.
2017-02-27 22:34:21 +05:30
Robert Haas 5262f7a4fc Add optimizer and executor support for parallel index scans.
In combination with 569174f1be, which
taught the btree AM how to perform parallel index scans, this allows
parallel index scan plans on btree indexes.  This infrastructure
should be general enough to support parallel index scans for other
index AMs as well, if someone updates them to support parallel
scans.

Amit Kapila, reviewed and tested by Anastasia Lubennikova, Tushar
Ahuja, and Haribabu Kommi, and me.
2017-02-15 13:53:24 -05:00
Robert Haas 569174f1be btree: Support parallel index scans.
This isn't exposed to the optimizer or the executor yet; we'll add
support for those things in a separate patch.  But this puts the
basic mechanism in place: several processes can attach to a parallel
btree index scan, and each one will get a subset of the tuples that
would have been produced by a non-parallel scan.  Each index page
becomes the responsibility of a single worker, which then returns
all of the TIDs on that page.

Rahila Syed, Amit Kapila, Robert Haas, reviewed and tested by
Anastasia Lubennikova, Tushar Ahuja, and Haribabu Kommi.
2017-02-15 07:41:14 -05:00
Robert Haas 8da9a22636 Split index xlog headers from other private index headers.
The xlog-specific headers need to be included in both frontend code -
specifically, pg_waldump - and the backend, but the remainder of the
private headers for each index are only needed by the backend.  By
splitting the xlog stuff out into separate headers, pg_waldump pulls
in fewer backend headers, which is a good thing.

Patch by me, reviewed by Michael Paquier and Andres Freund, per a
complaint from Dilip Kumar.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmoZ=F=GkxV0YEv-A8tb+AEGy_Qa7GSiJ8deBKFATnzfEug@mail.gmail.com
2017-02-14 15:37:59 -05:00
Robert Haas fb47544d0c Minor fixes for WAL consistency checking.
Michael Paquier, reviewed and slightly revised by me.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAB7nPqRzCQb=vdfHvMtP0HMLBHU6z1aGdo4GJsUP-HP8jx+Pkw@mail.gmail.com
2017-02-14 12:41:01 -05:00
Robert Haas 85c11324ca Rename user-facing tools with "xlog" in the name to say "wal".
This means pg_receivexlog because pg_receivewal, pg_resetxlog
becomes pg_resetwal, and pg_xlogdump becomes pg_waldump.
2017-02-09 16:23:46 -05:00
Tom Lane 86d911ec0f Allow index AMs to cache data across aminsert calls within a SQL command.
It's always been possible for index AMs to cache data across successive
amgettuple calls within a single SQL command: the IndexScanDesc.opaque
field is meant for precisely that.  However, no comparable facility
exists for amortizing setup work across successive aminsert calls.
This patch adds such a feature and teaches GIN, GIST, and BRIN to use it
to amortize catalog lookups they'd previously been doing on every call.
(The other standard index AMs keep everything they need in the relcache,
so there's little to improve there.)

For GIN, the overall improvement in a statement that inserts many rows
can be as much as 10%, though it seems a bit less for the other two.
In addition, this makes a really significant difference in runtime
for CLOBBER_CACHE_ALWAYS tests, since in those builds the repeated
catalog lookups are vastly more expensive.

The reason this has been hard up to now is that the aminsert function is
not passed any useful place to cache per-statement data.  What I chose to
do is to add suitable fields to struct IndexInfo and pass that to aminsert.
That's not widening the index AM API very much because IndexInfo is already
within the ken of ambuild; in fact, by passing the same info to aminsert
as to ambuild, this is really removing an inconsistency in the AM API.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/27568.1486508680@sss.pgh.pa.us
2017-02-09 11:52:12 -05:00
Robert Haas a507b86900 Add WAL consistency checking facility.
When the new GUC wal_consistency_checking is set to a non-empty value,
it triggers recording of additional full-page images, which are
compared on the standby against the results of applying the WAL record
(without regard to those full-page images).  Allowable differences
such as hints are masked out, and the resulting pages are compared;
any difference results in a FATAL error on the standby.

Kuntal Ghosh, based on earlier patches by Michael Paquier and Heikki
Linnakangas.  Extensively reviewed and revised by Michael Paquier and
by me, with additional reviews and comments from Amit Kapila, Álvaro
Herrera, Simon Riggs, and Peter Eisentraut.
2017-02-08 15:45:30 -05:00
Robert Haas 293e24e507 Cache hash index's metapage in rel->rd_amcache.
This avoids a very significant amount of buffer manager traffic and
contention when scanning hash indexes, because it's no longer
necessary to lock and pin the metapage for every scan.  We do need
some way of figuring out when the cache is too stale to use any more,
so that when we lock the primary bucket page to which the cached
metapage points us, we can tell whether a split has occurred since we
cached the metapage data.  To do that, we use the hash_prevblkno field
in the primary bucket page, which would otherwise always be set to
InvalidBuffer.

This patch contains code so that it will continue working (although
less efficiently) with hash indexes built before this change, but
perhaps we should consider bumping the hash version and ripping out
the compatibility code.  That decision can be made later, though.

Mithun Cy, reviewed by Jesper Pedersen, Amit Kapila, and by me.
Before committing, I made a number of cosmetic changes to the last
posted version of the patch, adjusted _hash_getcachedmetap to be more
careful about order of operation, and made some necessary updates to
the pageinspect documentation and regression tests.
2017-02-07 12:35:45 -05:00
Heikki Linnakangas 181bdb90ba Fix typos in comments.
Backpatch to all supported versions, where applicable, to make backpatching
of future fixes go more smoothly.

Josh Soref

Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CACZqfqCf+5qRztLPgmmosr-B0Ye4srWzzw_mo4c_8_B_mtjmJQ@mail.gmail.com
2017-02-06 11:33:58 +02:00
Robert Haas 08bf6e5295 pageinspect: Support hash indexes.
Patch by Jesper Pedersen and Ashutosh Sharma, with some error handling
improvements by me.  Tests from Peter Eisentraut.  Reviewed by Álvaro
Herrera, Michael Paquier, Jesper Pedersen, Jeff Janes, Peter
Eisentraut, Amit Kapila, Mithun Cy, and me.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/e2ac6c58-b93f-9dd9-f4e6-d6d30add7fdf@redhat.com
2017-02-02 14:19:32 -05:00
Robert Haas d1ecd53947 Add a SHOW command to the replication command language.
This is useful infrastructure for an upcoming proposed patch to
allow the WAL segment size to be changed at initdb time; tools like
pg_basebackup need the ability to interrogate the server setting.
But it also doesn't seem like a bad thing to have independently of
that; it may find other uses in the future.

Robert Haas and Beena Emerson.  (The original patch here was by
Beena, but I rewrote it to such a degree that most of the code
being committed here is mine.)

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmobNo4qz06wHEmy9DszAre3dYx-WNhHSCbU9SAwf+9Ft6g@mail.gmail.com
2017-01-24 17:04:12 -05:00
Robert Haas a84069d935 Add a new DestReceiver for printing tuples without catalog access.
If you create a DestReciver of type DestRemote and try to use it from
a replication connection that is not bound to a specific daabase, or
any other hypothetical type of backend that is not bound to a specific
database, it will fail because it doesn't have a pg_proc catalog to
look up properties of the types being printed.  In general, that's
an unavoidable problem, but we can hardwire the properties of a few
builtin types in order to support utility commands.  This new
DestReceiver of type DestRemoteSimple does just that.

Patch by me, reviewed by Michael Paquier.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmobNo4qz06wHEmy9DszAre3dYx-WNhHSCbU9SAwf+9Ft6g@mail.gmail.com
2017-01-24 16:53:56 -05:00
Robert Haas 7b4ac19982 Extend index AM API for parallel index scans.
This patch doesn't actually make any index AM parallel-aware, but it
provides the necessary functions at the AM layer to do so.

Rahila Syed, Amit Kapila, Robert Haas
2017-01-24 16:42:58 -05:00
Robert Haas b1ecb9b3fc Fix interaction of partitioned tables with BulkInsertState.
When copying into a partitioned table, the target heap may change from
one tuple to next.  We must ask ReadBufferBI() to get a new buffer
every time such change occurs.  To do that, use new function
ReleaseBulkInsertStatePin().  This fixes the bug that tuples ended up
being inserted into the wrong partition, which occurred exactly
because the wrong buffer was used.

Amit Langote, per a suggestion from Robert Haas.  Some cosmetic
adjustments by me.

Reports by 高增琦 (Gao Zengqi), Venkata B Nagothi, and
Ragnar Ouchterlony.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAFmBtr32FDOqofo8yG-4mjzL1HnYHxXK5S9OGFJ%3D%3DcJpgEW4vA%40mail.gmail.com
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAEyp7J9WiX0L3DoiNcRrY-9iyw%3DqP%2Bj%3DDLsAnNFF1xT2J1ggfQ%40mail.gmail.com
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/16d73804-c9cd-14c5-463e-5caad563ff77%40agama.tv
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmoaiZpDVUUN8LZ4jv1qFE_QyR+H9ec+79f5vNczYarg5Zg@mail.gmail.com
2017-01-24 08:50:16 -05:00
Alvaro Herrera 8eace46d34 Fix race condition in reading commit timestamps
If a user requests the commit timestamp for a transaction old enough
that its data is concurrently being truncated away by vacuum at just the
right time, they would receive an ugly internal file-not-found error
message from slru.c rather than the expected NULL return value.

In a primary server, the window for the race is very small: the lookup
has to occur exactly between the two calls by vacuum, and there's not a
lot that happens between them (mostly just a multixact truncate).  In a
standby server, however, the window is larger because the truncation is
executed as soon as the WAL record for it is replayed, but the advance
of the oldest-Xid is not executed until the next checkpoint record.

To fix in the primary, simply reverse the order of operations in
vac_truncate_clog.  To fix in the standby, augment the WAL truncation
record so that the standby is aware of the new oldest-XID value and can
apply the update immediately.  WAL version bumped because of this.

No backpatch, because of the low importance of the bug and its rarity.

Author: Craig Ringer
Reviewed-By: Petr Jelínek, Peter Eisentraut
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAMsr+YFhVtRQT1VAwC+WGbbxZZRzNou=N9Ed-FrCqkwQ8H8oJQ@mail.gmail.com
2017-01-19 18:24:17 -03:00
Alvaro Herrera 594e61a1de Change some test macros to return true booleans
These macros work fine when they are used directly in an "if" test or
similar, but as soon as the return values are assigned to boolean
variables (or passed as boolean arguments to some function), they become
bugs, hopefully caught by compiler warnings.  To avoid future problems,
fix the definitions so that they return actual booleans.

To further minimize the risk that somebody uses them in back-patched
fixes that only work correctly in branches starting from the current
master and not in old ones, back-patch the change to supported branches
as appropriate.

See also commit af4472bcb8, and the long
discussion (and larger patch) in the thread mentioned in its commit
message.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18672.1483022414@sss.pgh.pa.us
2017-01-18 18:06:13 -03:00
Peter Eisentraut 352a24a1f9 Generate fmgr prototypes automatically
Gen_fmgrtab.pl creates a new file fmgrprotos.h, which contains
prototypes for all functions registered in pg_proc.h.  This avoids
having to manually maintain these prototypes across a random variety of
header files.  It also automatically enforces a correct function
signature, and since there are warnings about missing prototypes, it
will detect functions that are defined but not registered in
pg_proc.h (or otherwise used).

Reviewed-by: Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>
2017-01-17 14:06:07 -05:00
Alvaro Herrera 3957b58b88 Fix ALTER TABLE / SET TYPE for irregular inheritance
If inherited tables don't have exactly the same schema, the USING clause
in an ALTER TABLE / SET DATA TYPE misbehaves when applied to the
children tables since commit 9550e8348b.  Starting with that commit,
the attribute numbers in the USING expression are fixed during parse
analysis.  This can lead to bogus errors being reported during
execution, such as:
   ERROR:  attribute 2 has wrong type
   DETAIL:  Table has type smallint, but query expects integer.

Since it wouldn't do to revert to the original coding, we now apply a
transformation to map the attribute numbers to the correct ones for each
child.

Reported by Justin Pryzby
Analysis by Tom Lane; patch by me.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170102225618.GA10071@telsasoft.com
2017-01-09 19:26:58 -03:00
Bruce Momjian 1d25779284 Update copyright via script for 2017 2017-01-03 13:48:53 -05:00
Robert Haas 7819ba1ef6 Remove _hash_chgbufaccess().
This is basically for the same reasons I got rid of _hash_wrtbuf()
in commit 25216c98938495fd741bf585dcbef45b3a9ffd40: it's not
convenient to have a function which encapsulates MarkBufferDirty(),
especially as we move towards having hash indexes be WAL-logged.

Patch by me, reviewed (but not entirely endorsed) by Amit Kapila.
2016-12-23 07:14:37 -05:00
Andres Freund 6ef2eba3f5 Skip checkpoints, archiving on idle systems.
Some background activity (like checkpoints, archive timeout, standby
snapshots) is not supposed to happen on an idle system. Unfortunately
so far it was not easy to determine when a system is idle, which
defeated some of the attempts to avoid redundant activity on an idle
system.

To make that easier, allow to make individual WAL insertions as not
being "important". By checking whether any important activity happened
since the last time an activity was performed, it now is easy to check
whether some action needs to be repeated.

Use the new facility for checkpoints, archive timeout and standby
snapshots.

The lack of a facility causes some issues in older releases, but in my
opinion the consequences (superflous checkpoints / archived segments)
aren't grave enough to warrant backpatching.

Author: Michael Paquier, editorialized by Andres Freund
Reviewed-By: Andres Freund, David Steele, Amit Kapila, Kyotaro HORIGUCHI
Bug: #13685
Discussion:
    https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20151016203031.3019.72930@wrigleys.postgresql.org
    https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAB7nPqQcPqxEM3S735Bd2RzApNqSNJVietAC=6kfkYv_45dKwA@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch: -
2016-12-22 11:31:50 -08:00
Robert Haas dd728826c5 Fix locking problem in _hash_squeezebucket() / _hash_freeovflpage().
A bucket squeeze operation needs to lock each page of the bucket
before releasing the prior page, but the previous coding fumbled the
locking when freeing an overflow page during a bucket squeeze
operation.  Commit 6d46f4783e
introduced this bug.

Amit Kapila, with help from Kuntal Ghosh and Dilip Kumar, after
an initial trouble report by Jeff Janes.  Reviewed by me.  I also
fixed a problem with a comment.
2016-12-19 12:31:50 -05:00
Robert Haas 3761fe3c20 Simplify LWLock tranche machinery by removing array_base/array_stride.
array_base and array_stride were added so that we could identify the
offset of an LWLock within a tranche, but this facility is only very
marginally used apart from the main tranche.  So, give every lock in
the main tranche its own tranche ID and get rid of array_base,
array_stride, and all that's attached.  For debugging facilities
(Trace_lwlocks and LWLOCK_STATS) print the pointer address of the
LWLock using %p instead of the offset.  This is arguably more useful,
and certainly a lot cheaper.  Drop the offset-within-tranche from
the information reported to dtrace and from one can't-happen message
inside lwlock.c.

The main user-visible impact of this change is that pg_stat_activity
will now report all waits for LWLocks as "LWLock" rather than
reporting some as "LWLockTranche" and others as "LWLockNamed".

The main motivation for this change is that the need to specify an
array_base and an array_stride is awkward for parallel query.  There
is only a very limited supply of tranche IDs so we can't just keep
allocating new ones, and if we try to use the same tranche IDs every
time then we run into trouble when multiple parallel contexts are
use simultaneously.  So if we didn't get rid of this mechanism we'd
have to make it even more complicated.  By simplifying it in this
way, we instead reduce the size of the generated code for lwlock.c
by about 5%.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmoYsFn6NUW1x0AZtupJGUAs1UDY4dJtCN47_Q6D0sP80PA@mail.gmail.com
2016-12-16 11:29:23 -05:00
Robert Haas 25216c9893 Remove _hash_wrtbuf() in favor of calling MarkBufferDirty().
The whole concept of _hash_wrtbuf() is that we need to know at the
time we're releasing the buffer lock (and pin) whether we dirtied the
buffer, but this is easy to get wrong.  This patch actually fixes one
non-obvious bug of that form: hashbucketcleanup forgot to signal
_hash_squeezebucket, which gets the primary bucket page already
locked, as to whether it had already dirtied the page.  Calling
MarkBufferDirty() at the places where we dirty the buffer is more
intuitive and lets us simplify the code in various places as well.

On top of all that, the ultimate goal here is to make hash indexes
WAL-logged, and as the comments to _hash_wrtbuf() note, it should
go away when that happens.  Making it go away a little earlier than
that seems like a good preparatory step.

Report by Jeff Janes.  Diagnosis by Amit Kapila, Kuntal Ghosh,
and Dilip Kumar.  Patch by me, after studying an alternative patch
submitted by Amit Kapila.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAA4eK1Kf6tOY0oVz_SEdngiNFkeXrA3xUSDPPORQvsWVPdKqnA@mail.gmail.com
2016-12-16 09:37:28 -05:00
Robert Haas 6d46f4783e Improve hash index bucket split behavior.
Previously, the right to split a bucket was represented by a
heavyweight lock on the page number of the primary bucket page.
Unfortunately, this meant that every scan needed to take a heavyweight
lock on that bucket also, which was bad for concurrency.  Instead, use
a cleanup lock on the primary bucket page to indicate the right to
begin a split, so that scans only need to retain a pin on that page,
which is they would have to acquire anyway, and which is also much
cheaper.

In addition to reducing the locking cost, this also avoids locking out
scans and inserts for the entire lifetime of the split: while the new
bucket is being populated with copies of the appropriate tuples from
the old bucket, scans and inserts can happen in parallel.  There are
minor concurrency improvements for vacuum operations as well, though
the situation there is still far from ideal.

This patch also removes the unworldly assumption that a split will
never be interrupted.  With the new code, a split is done in a series
of small steps and the system can pick up where it left off if it is
interrupted prior to completion.  While this patch does not itself add
write-ahead logging for hash indexes, it is clearly a necessary first
step, since one of the things that could interrupt a split is the
removal of electrical power from the machine performing it.

Amit Kapila.  I wrote the original design on which this patch is
based, and did a good bit of work on the comments and README through
multiple rounds of review, but all of the code is Amit's.  Also
reviewed by Jesper Pedersen, Jeff Janes, and others.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAA4eK1LfzcZYxLoXS874Ad0+S-ZM60U9bwcyiUZx9mHZ-KCWhw@mail.gmail.com
2016-11-30 15:39:21 -05:00
Tom Lane 9257f07872 Replace uses of SPI_modifytuple that intend to allocate in current context.
Invent a new function heap_modify_tuple_by_cols() that is functionally
equivalent to SPI_modifytuple except that it always allocates its result
by simple palloc.  I chose however to make the API details a bit more
like heap_modify_tuple: pass a tupdesc rather than a Relation, and use
bool convention for the isnull array.

Use this function in place of SPI_modifytuple at all call sites where the
intended behavior is to allocate in current context.  (There actually are
only two call sites left that depend on the old behavior, which makes me
wonder if we should just drop this function rather than keep it.)

This new function is easier to use than heap_modify_tuple() for purposes
of replacing a single column (or, really, any fixed number of columns).
There are a number of places where it would simplify the code to change
over, but I resisted that temptation for the moment ... everywhere except
in plpgsql's exec_assign_value(); changing that might offer some small
performance benefit, so I did it.

This is on the way to removing SPI_push/SPI_pop, but it seems like
good code cleanup in its own right.

Discussion: <9633.1478552022@sss.pgh.pa.us>
2016-11-08 15:36:44 -05:00
Tom Lane 86d19d27ce Remove duplicate macro definition.
Seems to be a copy-and-pasteo.  Odd that we heard no reports of
compiler warnings about it.

Thomas Munro
2016-11-05 11:51:46 -04:00
Robert Haas f82ec32ac3 Rename "pg_xlog" directory to "pg_wal".
"xlog" is not a particularly clear abbreviation for "write-ahead log",
and it sometimes confuses users into believe that the contents of the
"pg_xlog" directory are not critical data, leading to unpleasant
consequences.  So, rename the directory to "pg_wal".

This patch modifies pg_upgrade and pg_basebackup to understand both
the old and new directory layouts; the former is necessary given the
purpose of the tool, while the latter merely avoids an unnecessary
backward-compatibility break.

We may wish to consider renaming other programs, switches, and
functions which still use the old "xlog" naming to also refer to
"wal".  However, that's still under discussion, so let's do just this
much for now.

Discussion: CAB7nPqTeC-8+zux8_-4ZD46V7YPwooeFxgndfsq5Rg8ibLVm1A@mail.gmail.com

Michael Paquier
2016-10-20 11:32:18 -04:00
Tom Lane 5c80642aa8 Remove unnecessary int2vector-specific hash function and equality operator.
These functions were originally added in commit d8cedf67a to support
use of int2vector columns as catcache lookup keys.  However, there are
no catcaches that use such columns.  (Indeed I now think it must always
have been dead code: a catcache with such a key column would need an
underlying unique index on the column, but we've never had an int2vector
btree opclass.)

Getting rid of the int2vector-specific operator and function does not
lose any functionality, because operations on int2vectors will now fall
back to the generic anyarray support.  This avoids a wart that a btree
index on an int2vector column (made using anyarray_ops) would fail to
match equality searches, because int2vectoreq wasn't a member of the
opclass.  We don't really care much about that, since int2vector is not
meant as a type for users to use, but it's silly to have extra code and
less functionality.

If we ever do want a catcache to be indexed by an int2vector column,
we'd need to put back full btree and hash opclasses for int2vector,
comparable to the support for oidvector.  (The anyarray code can't be
used at such a low level, because it needs to do catcache lookups.)
But we'll deal with that if/when the need arises.

Also worth noting is that removal of the hash int2vector_ops opclass will
break any user-created hash indexes on int2vector columns.  While hash
anyarray_ops would serve the same purpose, it would probably not compute
the same hash values and thus wouldn't be on-disk-compatible.  Given that
int2vector isn't a user-facing type and we're planning other incompatible
changes in hash indexes for v10 anyway, this doesn't seem like something
to worry about, but it's probably worth mentioning here.

Amit Langote

Discussion: <d9bb74f8-b194-7307-9ebd-90645d377e45@lab.ntt.co.jp>
2016-10-12 14:54:08 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 440c8d1bbc Fix some typos in comment 2016-09-26 12:00:00 -04:00
Heikki Linnakangas 45310221a9 Fix outdated comments, GIST search queue is not an RBTree anymore.
The GiST search queue is implemented as a pairing heap rather than as
Red-Black Tree, since 9.5 (commit e7032610). I neglected these comments
in that commit.
2016-09-20 11:38:25 +03:00
Robert Haas 445a38aba2 Have heapam.h include lockdefs.h rather than lock.h.
lockdefs.h was only split from lock.h relatively recently, and
represents a minimal subset of the old lock.h.  heapam.h only needs
that smaller subset, so adjust it to include only that.  This requires
some corresponding adjustments elsewhere.

Peter Geoghegan
2016-09-13 09:21:35 -04:00
Simon Riggs 35250b6ad7 New recovery target recovery_target_lsn
Michael Paquier
2016-09-03 17:48:01 +01:00
Heikki Linnakangas 9f85784cae Support multiple iterators in the Red-Black Tree implementation.
While we don't need multiple iterators at the moment, the interface is
nicer and less dangerous this way.

Aleksander Alekseev, with some changes by me.
2016-09-02 08:39:39 +03:00
Alvaro Herrera 8e1e3f958f Split hash.h → hash_xlog.h
Since the hash AM is going to be revamped to have WAL, this is a good
opportunity to clean up the include file a little bit to avoid including
a lot of extra stuff in the future.

Author: Amit Kapila
2016-08-29 18:55:49 -03:00
Tom Lane d2ddee63b4 Improve SP-GiST opclass API to better support unlabeled nodes.
Previously, the spgSplitTuple action could only create a new upper tuple
containing a single labeled node.  This made it useless for opclasses
that prefer to work with fixed sets of nodes (labeled or otherwise),
which meant that restrictive prefixes could not be used with such
node definitions.  Change the output field set for the choose() method
to allow it to specify any valid node set for the new upper tuple,
and to specify which of these nodes to place the modified lower tuple in.

In addition to its primary use for fixed node sets, this feature could
allow existing opclasses that use variable node sets to skip a separate
spgAddNode action when splitting a tuple, by setting up the node needed
for the incoming value as part of the spgSplitTuple action.  However, care
would have to be taken to add the extra node only when it would not make
the tuple bigger than before.  (spgAddNode can enlarge the tuple,
spgSplitTuple can't.)

This is a prerequisite for an upcoming SP-GiST inet opclass, but is
being committed separately to increase the visibility of the API change.

In passing, improve the documentation about the traverse-values feature
that was added by commit ccd6eb49a.

Emre Hasegeli, with cosmetic adjustments and documentation rework by me

Discussion: <CAE2gYzxtth9qatW_OAqdOjykS0bxq7AYHLuyAQLPgT7H9ZU0Cw@mail.gmail.com>
2016-08-23 12:10:34 -04:00
Andres Freund 07ef035129 Fix deletion of speculatively inserted TOAST on conflict
INSERT ..  ON CONFLICT runs a pre-check of the possible conflicting
constraints before performing the actual speculative insertion.  In case
the inserted tuple included TOASTed columns the ON CONFLICT condition
would be handled correctly in case the conflict was caught by the
pre-check, but if two transactions entered the speculative insertion
phase at the same time, one would have to re-try, and the code for
aborting a speculative insertion did not handle deleting the
speculatively inserted TOAST datums correctly.

TOAST deletion would fail with "ERROR: attempted to delete invisible
tuple" as we attempted to remove the TOAST tuples using
simple_heap_delete which reasoned that the given tuples should not be
visible to the command that wrote them.

This commit updates the heap_abort_speculative() function which aborts
the conflicting tuple to use itself, via toast_delete, for deleting
associated TOAST datums.  Like before, the inserted toast rows are not
marked as being speculative.

This commit also adds a isolationtester spec test, exercising the
relevant code path. Unfortunately 9.5 cannot handle two waiting
sessions, and thus cannot execute this test.

Reported-By: Viren Negi, Oskari Saarenmaa
Author: Oskari Saarenmaa, edited a bit by me
Bug: #14150
Discussion: <20160519123338.12513.20271@wrigleys.postgresql.org>
Backpatch: 9.5, where ON CONFLICT was introduced
2016-08-17 17:03:36 -07:00
Tom Lane ed0097e4f9 Add SQL-accessible functions for inspecting index AM properties.
Per discussion, we should provide such functions to replace the lost
ability to discover AM properties by inspecting pg_am (cf commit
65c5fcd35).  The added functionality is also meant to displace any code
that was looking directly at pg_index.indoption, since we'd rather not
believe that the bit meanings in that field are part of any client API
contract.

As future-proofing, define the SQL API to not assume that properties that
are currently AM-wide or index-wide will remain so unless they logically
must be; instead, expose them only when inquiring about a specific index
or even specific index column.  Also provide the ability for an index
AM to override the behavior.

In passing, document pg_am.amtype, overlooked in commit 473b93287.

Andrew Gierth, with kibitzing by me and others

Discussion: <87mvl5on7n.fsf@news-spur.riddles.org.uk>
2016-08-13 18:31:14 -04:00
Tom Lane a5fe473ad7 Minor cleanup for access/transam/parallel.c.
ParallelMessagePending *must* be marked volatile, because it's set
by a signal handler.  On the other hand, it's pointless for
HandleParallelMessageInterrupt to save/restore errno; that must be,
and is, done at the outer level of the SIGUSR1 signal handler.

Calling CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS() inside HandleParallelMessages, which itself
is called from CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS(), seems both useless and hazardous.
The comment claiming that this is needed to handle the error queue going
away is certainly misguided, in any case.

Improve a couple of error message texts, and use
ERRCODE_OBJECT_NOT_IN_PREREQUISITE_STATE to report loss of parallel worker
connection, since that's what's used in e.g. tqueue.c.  (Maybe it would be
worth inventing a dedicated ERRCODE for this type of failure?  But I do not
think ERRCODE_INTERNAL_ERROR is appropriate.)

Minor stylistic cleanups.
2016-08-01 16:12:01 -04:00
Andres Freund eca0f1db14 Clear all-frozen visibilitymap status when locking tuples.
Since a892234 & fd31cd265 the visibilitymap's freeze bit is used to
avoid vacuuming the whole relation in anti-wraparound vacuums. Doing so
correctly relies on not adding xids to the heap without also unsetting
the visibilitymap flag.  Tuple locking related code has not done so.

To allow selectively resetting all-frozen - to avoid pessimizing
heap_lock_tuple - allow to selectively reset the all-frozen with
visibilitymap_clear(). To avoid having to use
visibilitymap_get_status (e.g. via VM_ALL_FROZEN) inside a critical
section, have visibilitymap_clear() return whether any bits have been
reset.

There's a remaining issue (denoted by XXX): After the PageIsAllVisible()
check in heap_lock_tuple() and heap_lock_updated_tuple_rec() the page
status could theoretically change. Practically that currently seems
impossible, because updaters will hold a page level pin already.  Due to
the next beta coming up, it seems better to get the required WAL magic
bump done before resolving this issue.

The added flags field fields to xl_heap_lock and xl_heap_lock_updated
require bumping the WAL magic. Since there's already been a catversion
bump since the last beta, that's not an issue.

Reviewed-By: Robert Haas, Amit Kapila and Andres Freund
Author: Masahiko Sawada, heavily revised by Andres Freund
Discussion: CAEepm=3fWAbWryVW9swHyLTY4sXVf0xbLvXqOwUoDiNCx9mBjQ@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch: -
2016-07-18 02:01:13 -07:00
Alvaro Herrera b78364df18 Remove unused arguments in two GiST subroutines
These arguments became unused in commit 2c03216d83.  Noticed while
skimming code for unrelated development.

This is cosmetic, so no backpatch.
2016-06-28 16:01:13 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera e3ad3ffa68 Fix handling of multixacts predating pg_upgrade
After pg_upgrade, it is possible that some tuples' Xmax have multixacts
corresponding to the old installation; such multixacts cannot have
running members anymore.  In many code sites we already know not to read
them and clobber them silently, but at least when VACUUM tries to freeze
a multixact or determine whether one needs freezing, there's an attempt
to resolve it to its member transactions by calling GetMultiXactIdMembers,
and if the multixact value is "in the future" with regards to the
current valid multixact range, an error like this is raised:
    ERROR:  MultiXactId 123 has not been created yet -- apparent wraparound
and vacuuming fails.  Per discussion with Andrew Gierth, it is completely
bogus to try to resolve multixacts coming from before a pg_upgrade,
regardless of where they stand with regards to the current valid
multixact range.

It's possible to get from under this problem by doing SELECT FOR UPDATE
of the problem tuples, but if tables are large, this is slow and
tedious, so a more thorough solution is desirable.

To fix, we realize that multixacts in xmax created in 9.2 and previous
have a specific bit pattern that is never used in 9.3 and later (we
already knew this, per comments and infomask tests sprinkled in various
places, but we weren't leveraging this knowledge appropriately).
Whenever the infomask of the tuple matches that bit pattern, we just
ignore the multixact completely as if Xmax wasn't set; or, in the case
of tuple freezing, we act as if an unwanted value is set and clobber it
without decoding.  This guarantees that no errors will be raised, and
that the values will be progressively removed until all tables are
clean.  Most callers of GetMultiXactIdMembers are patched to recognize
directly that the value is a removable "empty" multixact and avoid
calling GetMultiXactIdMembers altogether.

To avoid changing the signature of GetMultiXactIdMembers() in back
branches, we keep the "allow_old" boolean flag but rename it to
"from_pgupgrade"; if the flag is true, we always return an empty set
instead of looking up the multixact.  (I suppose we could remove the
argument in the master branch, but I chose not to do so in this commit).

This was broken all along, but the error-facing message appeared first
because of commit 8e9a16ab8f and was partially fixed in a25c2b7c4d.
This fix, backpatched all the way back to 9.3, goes approximately in the
same direction as a25c2b7c4d but should cover all cases.

Bug analysis by Andrew Gierth and Álvaro Herrera.

A number of public reports match this bug:
  https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20140330040029.GY4582@tamriel.snowman.net
  https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/538F3D70.6080902@publicrelay.com
  https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/556439CF.7070109@pscs.co.uk
  https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/SG2PR06MB0760098A111C88E31BD4D96FB3540@SG2PR06MB0760.apcprd06.prod.outlook.com
  https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20160615203829.5798.4594@wrigleys.postgresql.org
2016-06-24 18:29:28 -04:00
Tom Lane 8cf739de85 Fix building of large (bigger than shared_buffers) hash indexes.
When the index is predicted to need more than NBuffers buckets,
CREATE INDEX attempts to sort the index entries by hash key before
insertion, so as to reduce thrashing.  This code path got broken by
commit 9f03ca9151, which overlooked that _hash_form_tuple() is not
just an alias for index_form_tuple().  The index got built anyway, but
with garbage data, so that searches for pre-existing tuples always
failed.  Fix by refactoring to separate construction of the indexable
data from calling index_form_tuple().

Per bug #14210 from Daniel Newman.  Back-patch to 9.5 where the
bug was introduced.

Report: <20160623162507.17237.39471@wrigleys.postgresql.org>
2016-06-24 16:57:36 -04:00
Robert Haas 71d05a2c7b pg_visibility: Add pg_truncate_visibility_map function.
This requires some core changes as well so that we can properly
WAL-log the truncation.  Specifically, it changes the format of the
XLOG_SMGR_TRUNCATE WAL record, so bump XLOG_PAGE_MAGIC.

Patch by me, reviewed but not fully endorsed by Andres Freund.
2016-06-17 17:37:30 -04:00
Robert Haas 38e9f90a22 Fix lazy_scan_heap so that it won't mark pages all-frozen too soon.
Commit a892234f83 added a new bit per
page to the visibility map fork indicating whether the page is
all-frozen, but incorrectly assumed that if lazy_scan_heap chose to
freeze a tuple then that tuple would not need to later be frozen
again. This turns out to be false, because xmin and xmax (and
conceivably xvac, if dealing with tuples from very old releases) could
be frozen at separate times.

Thanks to Andres Freund for help in uncovering and tracking down this
issue.
2016-06-15 14:30:06 -04:00
Robert Haas 4bc424b968 pgindent run for 9.6 2016-06-09 18:02:36 -04:00
Robert Haas c6dbf1fe79 Stop the executor if no more tuples can be sent from worker to leader.
If a Gather node has read as many tuples as it needs (for example, due
to Limit) it may detach the queue connecting it to the worker before
reading all of the worker's tuples.  Rather than let the worker
continue to generate and send all of the results, have it stop after
sending the next tuple.

More could be done here to stop the worker even quicker, but this is
about as well as we can hope to do for 9.6.

This is in response to a problem report from Andreas Seltenreich.
Commit 44339b892a should be actually be
sufficient to fix that example even without this change, but it seems
better to do this, too, since we might otherwise waste quite a large
amount of effort in one or more workers.

Discussion: CAA4eK1KOKGqmz9bGu+Z42qhRwMbm4R5rfnqsLCNqFs9j14jzEA@mail.gmail.com

Amit Kapila
2016-06-06 14:52:58 -04:00
Robert Haas fdfaccfa79 Cosmetic improvements to freeze map code.
Per post-commit review comments from Andres Freund, improve variable
names, comments, and in one place, slightly improve the code structure.

Masahiko Sawada
2016-06-03 08:43:41 -04:00
Kevin Grittner 4edb7bd2fd C comment improvement & typo fix.
Thomas Munro
2016-06-02 12:52:41 -05:00
Tom Lane f5e7b2f910 Mark wal_level as PGDLLIMPORT.
Per buildfarm, this is needed to allow extensions to use XLogIsNeeded()
in Windows builds.
2016-05-24 22:48:47 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera c1543a81a7 Revert timeline following in replication slots
This reverts commits f07d18b6e9, 82c83b3372, 3a3b309041, and
24c5f1a103.

This feature has shown enough immaturity that it was deemed better to
rip it out before rushing some more fixes at the last minute.  There are
discussions on larger changes in this area for the next release.
2016-05-04 17:32:22 -03:00
Teodor Sigaev f8467f7da8 Prevent to use magic constants
Use macroses for definition amstrategies/amsupport fields instead of
hardcoded values.

Author: Nikolay Shaplov with addition for contrib/bloom
2016-04-28 16:39:25 +03:00
Teodor Sigaev e2c79e14d9 Prevent multiple cleanup process for pending list in GIN.
Previously, ginInsertCleanup could exit early if it detects that someone else
is cleaning up the pending list, without waiting for that someone else to
finish the job. But in this case vacuum could miss tuples to be deleted.

Cleanup process now locks metapage with a help of heavyweight
LockPage(ExclusiveLock), and it guarantees that there is no another cleanup
process at the same time. Lock is taken differently depending on caller of
cleanup process: any vacuums and gin_clean_pending_list() will be blocked
until lock becomes available, ordinary insert uses conditional lock to
prevent indefinite waiting on lock.

Insert into pending list doesn't use this lock, so insertion isn't blocked.

Also, patch adds stopping of cleanup process when at-start-cleanup-tail is
reached in order to prevent infinite cleanup in case of massive insertion. But
it will stop only for automatic maintenance tasks like autovacuum.

Patch introduces choice of limit of memory to use: autovacuum_work_mem,
maintenance_work_mem or work_mem depending on call path.

Patch for previous releases should be reworked due to changes between 9.6 and
previous ones in this area.

Discover and diagnostics by Jeff Janes and Tomas Vondra

Patch by me with some ideas of Jeff Janes
2016-04-28 16:21:42 +03:00
Tom Lane bde361fef5 Fix memory leak and other bugs in ginPlaceToPage() & subroutines.
Commit 36a35c550a turned the interface between ginPlaceToPage and
its subroutines in gindatapage.c and ginentrypage.c into a royal mess:
page-update critical sections were started in one place and finished in
another place not even in the same file, and the very same subroutine
might return having started a critical section or not.  Subsequent patches
band-aided over some of the problems with this design by making things
even messier.

One user-visible resulting problem is memory leaks caused by the need for
the subroutines to allocate storage that would survive until ginPlaceToPage
calls XLogInsert (as reported by Julien Rouhaud).  This would not typically
be noticeable during retail index updates.  It could be visible in a GIN
index build, in the form of memory consumption swelling to several times
the commanded maintenance_work_mem.

Another rather nasty problem is that in the internal-page-splitting code
path, we would clear the child page's GIN_INCOMPLETE_SPLIT flag well before
entering the critical section that it's supposed to be cleared in; a
failure in between would leave the index in a corrupt state.  There were
also assorted coding-rule violations with little immediate consequence but
possible long-term hazards, such as beginning an XLogInsert sequence before
entering a critical section, or calling elog(DEBUG) inside a critical
section.

To fix, redefine the API between ginPlaceToPage() and its subroutines
by splitting the subroutines into two parts.  The "beginPlaceToPage"
subroutine does what can be done outside a critical section, including
full computation of the result pages into temporary storage when we're
going to split the target page.  The "execPlaceToPage" subroutine is called
within a critical section established by ginPlaceToPage(), and it handles
the actual page update in the non-split code path.  The critical section,
as well as the XLOG insertion call sequence, are both now always started
and finished in ginPlaceToPage().  Also, make ginPlaceToPage() create and
work in a short-lived memory context to eliminate the leakage problem.
(Since a short-lived memory context had been getting created in the most
common code path in the subroutines, this shouldn't cause any noticeable
performance penalty; we're just moving the overhead up one call level.)

In passing, fix a bunch of comments that had gone unmaintained throughout
all this klugery.

Report: <571276DD.5050303@dalibo.com>
2016-04-20 14:25:15 -04:00
Andres Freund 533cd2303a Remove trailing commas in enums.
These aren't valid C89. Found thanks to gcc's -Wc90-c99-compat. These
exist in differing places in most supported branches.
2016-04-14 19:25:16 -07:00
Andres Freund be65eddd80 Add required database and origin filtering for logical messages.
Logical messages, added in 3fe3511d05, during decoding failed to filter
messages emitted in other databases and messages emitted "under" a
replication origin the output plugin isn't interested in.

Add tests to verify that both types of filtering actually work. While
touching message.sql remove hunk obsoleted by d25379e.

Bump XLOG_PAGE_MAGIC because xl_logical_message changed and because
3fe3511d05 had omitted doing so. 3fe3511d05 additionally didn't bump
catversion, but 7a542700d has done so since.

Author: Petr Jelinek
Reported-By: Andres Freund
Discussion: 20160406142513.wotqy3ba3kanr423@alap3.anarazel.de
2016-04-13 17:38:54 -07:00
Tom Lane 5713f03973 Improve API of GenericXLogRegister().
Rename this function to GenericXLogRegisterBuffer() to make it clearer
what it does, and leave room for other sorts of "register" actions in
future.  Also, replace its "bool isNew" argument with an integer flags
argument, so as to allow adding more flags in future without an API
break.

Alexander Korotkov, adjusted slightly by me
2016-04-12 11:42:06 -04:00
Tom Lane 08e785436f Get rid of GenericXLogUnregister().
This routine is unsafe as implemented, because it invalidates the page
image pointers returned by previous GenericXLogRegister() calls.

Rather than complicate the API or the implementation to avoid that,
let's just get rid of it; the use-case for having it seems much
too thin to justify a lot of work here.

While at it, do some wordsmithing on the SGML docs for generic WAL.
2016-04-09 16:39:30 -04:00
Kevin Grittner 848ef42bb8 Add the "snapshot too old" feature
This feature is controlled by a new old_snapshot_threshold GUC.  A
value of -1 disables the feature, and that is the default.  The
value of 0 is just intended for testing.  Above that it is the
number of minutes a snapshot can reach before pruning and vacuum
are allowed to remove dead tuples which the snapshot would
otherwise protect.  The xmin associated with a transaction ID does
still protect dead tuples.  A connection which is using an "old"
snapshot does not get an error unless it accesses a page modified
recently enough that it might not be able to produce accurate
results.

This is similar to the Oracle feature, and we use the same SQLSTATE
and error message for compatibility.
2016-04-08 14:36:30 -05:00
Teodor Sigaev 8b99edefca Revert CREATE INDEX ... INCLUDING ...
It's not ready yet, revert two commits
690c543550 - unstable test output
386e3d7609 - patch itself
2016-04-08 21:52:13 +03:00
Teodor Sigaev 386e3d7609 CREATE INDEX ... INCLUDING (column[, ...])
Now indexes (but only B-tree for now) can contain "extra" column(s) which
doesn't participate in index structure, they are just stored in leaf
tuples. It allows to use index only scan by using single index instead
of two or more indexes.

Author: Anastasia Lubennikova with minor editorializing by me
Reviewers: David Rowley, Peter Geoghegan, Jeff Janes
2016-04-08 19:45:59 +03:00
Simon Riggs 3fe3511d05 Generic Messages for Logical Decoding
API and mechanism to allow generic messages to be inserted into WAL that are
intended to be read by logical decoding plugins. This commit adds an optional
new callback to the logical decoding API.

Messages are either text or bytea. Messages can be transactional, or not, and
are identified by a prefix to allow multiple concurrent decoding plugins.

(Not to be confused with Generic WAL records, which are intended to allow crash
recovery of extensible objects.)

Author: Petr Jelinek and Andres Freund
Reviewers: Artur Zakirov, Tomas Vondra, Simon Riggs
Discussion: 5685F999.6010202@2ndquadrant.com
2016-04-06 10:05:41 +01:00
Magnus Hagander 7117685461 Implement backup API functions for non-exclusive backups
Previously non-exclusive backups had to be done using the replication protocol
and pg_basebackup. With this commit it's now possible to make them using
pg_start_backup/pg_stop_backup as well, as long as the backup program can
maintain a persistent connection to the database.

Doing this, backup_label and tablespace_map are returned as results from
pg_stop_backup() instead of being written to the data directory. This makes
the server safe from a crash during an ongoing backup, which can be a problem
with exclusive backups.

The old syntax of the functions remain and work exactly as before, but since the
new syntax is safer this should eventually be deprecated and removed.

Only reference documentation is included. The main section on backup still needs
to be rewritten to cover this, but since that is already scheduled for a separate
large rewrite, it's not included in this patch.

Reviewed by David Steele and Amit Kapila
2016-04-05 20:03:49 +02:00
Teodor Sigaev 65578341af Add Generic WAL interface
This interface is designed to give an access to WAL for extensions which
could implement new access method, for example. Previously it was
impossible because restoring from custom WAL would need to access system
catalog to find a redo custom function. This patch suggests generic way
to describe changes on page with standart layout.

Bump XLOG_PAGE_MAGIC because of new record type.

Author: Alexander Korotkov with a help of Petr Jelinek, Markus Nullmeier and
	minor editorization by my
Reviewers: Petr Jelinek, Alvaro Herrera, Teodor Sigaev, Jim Nasby,
	Michael Paquier
2016-04-01 12:21:48 +03:00
Alvaro Herrera 24c5f1a103 Enable logical slots to follow timeline switches
When decoding from a logical slot, it's necessary for xlog reading to be
able to read xlog from historical (i.e. not current) timelines;
otherwise, decoding fails after failover, because the archives are in
the historical timeline.  This is required to make "failover logical
slots" possible; it currently has no other use, although theoretically
it could be used by an extension that creates a slot on a standby and
continues to replay from the slot when the standby is promoted.

This commit includes a module in src/test/modules with functions to
manipulate the slots (which is not otherwise possible in SQL code) in
order to enable testing, and a new test in src/test/recovery to ensure
that the behavior is as expected.

Author: Craig Ringer
Reviewed-By: Oleksii Kliukin, Andres Freund, Petr Jelínek
2016-03-30 20:07:05 -03:00
Alvaro Herrera 3b02ea4f07 XLogReader general code cleanup
Some minor tweaks and comment additions, for cleanliness sake and to
avoid having the upcoming timeline-following patch be polluted with
unrelated cleanup.

Extracted from a larger patch by Craig Ringer, reviewed by Andres
Freund, with some additions by myself.
2016-03-30 18:56:13 -03:00
Teodor Sigaev ccd6eb49a4 Introduce traversalValue for SP-GiST scan
During scan sometimes it would be very helpful to know some information about
parent node or all 	ancestor nodes. Right now reconstructedValue could be used
but it's not a right usage of it (range opclass uses that).

traversalValue is arbitrary piece of memory in separate MemoryContext while
reconstructedVale should have the same type as indexed column.

Subsequent patches for range opclass and quad4d tree will use it.

Author: Alexander Lebedev, Teodor Sigaev
2016-03-30 18:29:28 +03:00
Robert Haas 314cbfc5da Add new replication mode synchronous_commit = 'remote_apply'.
In this mode, the master waits for the transaction to be applied on
the remote side, not just written to disk.  That means that you can
count on a transaction started on the standby to see all commits
previously acknowledged by the master.

To make this work, the standby sends a reply after replaying each
commit record generated with synchronous_commit >= 'remote_apply'.
This introduces a small inefficiency: the extra replies will be sent
even by standbys that aren't the current synchronous standby.  But
previously-existing synchronous_commit levels make no attempt at all
to optimize which replies are sent based on what the primary cares
about, so this is no worse, and at least avoids any extra replies for
people not using the feature at all.

Thomas Munro, reviewed by Michael Paquier and by me.  Some additional
tweaks by me.
2016-03-29 21:29:49 -04:00
Andres Freund 1a7a43672b Don't use !! but != 0/NULL to force boolean evaluation.
I introduced several uses of !! to force bit arithmetic to be boolean,
but per discussion the project prefers != 0/NULL.

Discussion: CA+TgmoZP5KakLGP6B4vUjgMBUW0woq_dJYi0paOz-My0Hwt_vQ@mail.gmail.com
2016-03-27 18:10:19 +02:00
Andres Freund af4472bcb8 Change various Gin*Is* macros to return 0/1.
Returning the direct result of bit arithmetic, in a macro intended to be
used in a boolean manner, can be problematic if the return value is
stored in a variable of type 'bool'. If bool is implemented using C99's
_Bool, that can lead to comparison failures if the variable is then
compared again with the expression (see ginStepRight() for an example
that fails), as _Bool forces the result to be 0/1. That happens in some
configurations of newer MSVC compilers.  It's also problematic when
storing the result of such an expression in a narrower type.

Several gin macros have been declared in that style since gin's initial
commit in 8a3631f8d8.

There's a lot more macros like this, but this is the only one causing
regression test failures; and I don't want to commit and backpatch a
larger patch with lots of conflicts just before the next set of minor
releases.

Discussion: 20150811154237.GD17575@awork2.anarazel.de
Backpatch: All supported branches
2016-03-27 17:46:48 +02:00
Peter Eisentraut b555ed8102 Merge wal_level "archive" and "hot_standby" into new name "replica"
The distinction between "archive" and "hot_standby" existed only because
at the time "hot_standby" was added, there was some uncertainty about
stability.  This is now a long time ago.  We would like to move forward
with simplifying the replication configuration, but this distinction is
in the way, because a primary server cannot tell (without asking a
standby or predicting the future) which one of these would be the
appropriate level.

Pick a new name for the combined setting to make it clearer that it
covers all (non-logical) backup and replication uses.  The old values
are still accepted but are converted internally.

Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: David Steele <david@pgmasters.net>
2016-03-18 23:56:03 +01:00
Simon Riggs c7111d11b1 Revert buggy optimization of index scans
606c0123d6 attempted to reduce cost of index scans using > and <
strategies, though got that completely wrong in a few complex cases.

Revert whole patch until we find a safe optimization.
2016-03-03 09:53:43 +00:00
Robert Haas a892234f83 Change the format of the VM fork to add a second bit per page.
The new bit indicates whether every tuple on the page is already frozen.
It is cleared only when the all-visible bit is cleared, and it can be
set only when we vacuum a page and find that every tuple on that page is
both visible to every transaction and in no need of any future
vacuuming.

A future commit will use this new bit to optimize away full-table scans
that would otherwise be triggered by XID wraparound considerations.  A
page which is merely all-visible must still be scanned in that case, but
a page which is all-frozen need not be.  This commit does not attempt
that optimization, although that optimization is the goal here.  It
seems better to get the basic infrastructure in place first.

Per discussion, it's very desirable for pg_upgrade to automatically
migrate existing VM forks from the old format to the new format.  That,
too, will be handled in a follow-on patch.

Masahiko Sawada, reviewed by Kyotaro Horiguchi, Fujii Masao, Amit
Kapila, Simon Riggs, Andres Freund, and others, and substantially
revised by me.
2016-03-01 21:49:41 -05:00
Robert Haas 7191ce8bea Make all built-in lwlock tranche IDs fixed.
This makes the values more stable, which seems like a good thing for
anybody who needs to look at at them.

Alexander Korotkov and Amit Kapila
2016-02-02 06:45:55 -05:00
Fujii Masao 7f46eaf035 Add gin_clean_pending_list function to clean up GIN pending list
This function cleans up the pending list of the GIN index by
moving entries in it to the main GIN data structure in bulk.
It returns the number of pages cleaned up from the pending list.

This function is useful, for example, when the pending list
needs to be cleaned up *quickly* to improve the performance of
the search using GIN index. VACUUM can do the same thing, too,
but it may take days to run on a large table.

Jeff Janes,
reviewed by Julien Rouhaud, Jaime Casanova, Alvaro Herrera and me.

Discussion: CAMkU=1x8zFkpfnozXyt40zmR3Ub_kHu58LtRmwHUKRgQss7=iQ@mail.gmail.com
2016-01-28 12:57:52 +09:00
Tom Lane be44ed27b8 Improve index AMs' opclass validation procedures.
The amvalidate functions added in commit 65c5fcd353 were on the
crude side.  Improve them in a few ways:

* Perform signature checking for operators and support functions.

* Apply more thorough checks for missing operators and functions,
where possible.

* Instead of reporting problems as ERRORs, report most problems as INFO
messages and make the amvalidate function return FALSE.  This allows
more than one problem to be discovered per run.

* Report object names rather than OIDs, and work a bit harder on making
the messages understandable.

Also, remove a few more opr_sanity regression test queries that are
now superseded by the amvalidate checks.
2016-01-21 19:47:15 -05:00
Fujii Masao 38710a374e Remove unused argument from ginInsertCleanup()
It's an oversight in commit dc943ad.
2016-01-22 01:22:56 +09:00
Simon Riggs 978b2f65aa Speedup 2PC by skipping two phase state files in normal path
2PC state info is written only to WAL at PREPARE, then read back from WAL at
COMMIT PREPARED/ABORT PREPARED. Prepared transactions that live past one bufmgr
checkpoint cycle will be written to disk in the same form as previously. Crash
recovery path is not altered. Measured performance gains of 50-100% for short
2PC transactions by completely avoiding writing files and fsyncing. Other
optimizations still available, further patches in related areas expected.

Stas Kelvich and heavily edited by Simon Riggs

Based upon earlier ideas and patches by Michael Paquier and Heikki Linnakangas,
a concrete example of how Postgres-XC has fed back ideas into PostgreSQL.

Reviewed by Michael Paquier, Jeff Janes and Andres Freund
Performance testing by Jesper Pedersen
2016-01-20 18:40:44 -08:00
Simon Riggs 422a55a687 Refactor to create generic WAL page read callback
Previously we didn’t have a generic WAL page read callback function,
surprisingly. Logical decoding has logical_read_local_xlog_page(), which was
actually generic, so move that to xlogfunc.c and rename to
read_local_xlog_page().
Maintain logical_read_local_xlog_page() so existing callers still work.

As requested by Michael Paquier, Alvaro Herrera and Andres Freund
2016-01-20 17:18:58 -08:00
Tom Lane 65c5fcd353 Restructure index access method API to hide most of it at the C level.
This patch reduces pg_am to just two columns, a name and a handler
function.  All the data formerly obtained from pg_am is now provided
in a C struct returned by the handler function.  This is similar to
the designs we've adopted for FDWs and tablesample methods.  There
are multiple advantages.  For one, the index AM's support functions
are now simple C functions, making them faster to call and much less
error-prone, since the C compiler can now check function signatures.
For another, this will make it far more practical to define index access
methods in installable extensions.

A disadvantage is that SQL-level code can no longer see attributes
of index AMs; in particular, some of the crosschecks in the opr_sanity
regression test are no longer possible from SQL.  We've addressed that
by adding a facility for the index AM to perform such checks instead.
(Much more could be done in that line, but for now we're content if the
amvalidate functions more or less replace what opr_sanity used to do.)
We might also want to expose some sort of reporting functionality, but
this patch doesn't do that.

Alexander Korotkov, reviewed by Petr Jelínek, and rather heavily
editorialized on by me.
2016-01-17 19:36:59 -05:00
Tom Lane 8d290c8ec6 Re-pgindent a few files.
In preparation for landing index AM interface changes.
2016-01-17 19:13:18 -05:00
Simon Riggs e63bb4549a Add new user fn pg_current_xlog_flush_location()
Tomas Vondra, reviewed by Michael Paquier and Amit Kapila
Minor edits by me
2016-01-12 07:54:52 +00:00
Simon Riggs 687f2cd7a0 Avoid pin scan for replay of XLOG_BTREE_VACUUM
Replay of XLOG_BTREE_VACUUM during Hot Standby was previously thought to require
complex interlocking that matched the requirements on the master. This required
an O(N) operation that became a significant problem with large indexes, causing
replication delays of seconds or in some cases minutes while the
XLOG_BTREE_VACUUM was replayed.

This commit skips the “pin scan” that was previously required, by observing in
detail when and how it is safe to do so, with full documentation. The pin scan
is skipped only in replay; the VACUUM code path on master is not touched here.

The current commit still performs the pin scan for toast indexes, though this
can also be avoided if we recheck scans on toast indexes. Later patch will
address this.

No tests included. Manual tests using an additional patch to view WAL records
and their timing have shown the change in WAL records and their handling has
successfully reduced replication delay.
2016-01-09 10:10:08 +00:00
Bruce Momjian ee94300446 Update copyright for 2016
Backpatch certain files through 9.1
2016-01-02 13:33:40 -05:00
Joe Conway 241448b23a Rename (new|old)estCommitTs to (new|old)estCommitTsXid
The variables newestCommitTs and oldestCommitTs sound as if they are
timestamps, but in fact they are the transaction Ids that correspond
to the newest and oldest timestamps rather than the actual timestamps.
Rename these variables to reflect that they are actually xids: to wit
newestCommitTsXid and oldestCommitTsXid respectively. Also modify
related code in a similar fashion, particularly the user facing output
emitted by pg_controldata and pg_resetxlog.

Complaint and patch by me, review by Tom Lane and Alvaro Herrera.
Backpatch to 9.5 where these variables were first introduced.
2015-12-28 12:34:11 -08:00
Alvaro Herrera 69e7235c93 Fix commit timestamp initialization
This module needs explicit initialization in order to replay WAL records
in recovery, but we had broken this recently following changes to make
other (stranger) scenarios work correctly.  To fix, rework the
initialization sequence so that it always takes place before WAL replay
commences for both master and standby.

I could have gone for a more localized fix that just added a "startup"
call for the master server, but it seemed better to restructure the
existing callers as well so that the whole thing made more sense.  As a
drawback, there is more control logic in xlog.c now than previously, but
doing otherwise meant passing down the ControlFile flag, which seemed
uglier as a whole.

This also meant adding a check to not re-execute ActivateCommitTs if it
had already been called.

Reported by Fujii Masao.

Backpatch to 9.5.
2015-12-11 14:30:43 -03:00
Alvaro Herrera 820ddb2c2f Further tweak commit_timestamp behavior
As pointed out by Fujii Masao, we weren't quite there on a standby
behaving sanely: first because we were failing to acquire the correct
state in the case where no XLOG_PARAMETER_CHANGE message was sent
(because a checkpoint had already happened after the setting was changed
in the master, and then the standby was restarted); and second because
promoting the standby with the feature enabled failed to activate it if
the master had the feature disabled.

This patch fixes both those misbehaviors hopefully without
re-introducing any old problems.

Also change the hint emitted in a standby together with the error
message about the feature being disabled, to make it point out that the
place to chance the setting is the master.  Otherwise, if the setting is
already enabled in the standby, it is very confusing to have it say that
the setting must be enabled ...

Authors: Álvaro Herrera, Petr Jelínek.
Backpatch to 9.5.
2015-12-03 19:22:31 -03:00
Robert Haas fe702a7b3f Move each SLRU's lwlocks to a separate tranche.
This makes it significantly easier to identify these lwlocks in
LWLOCK_STATS or Trace_lwlocks output.  It's also arguably better
from a modularity standpoint, since lwlock.c no longer needs to
know anything about the LWLock needs of the higher-level SLRU
facility.

Ildus Kurbangaliev, reviewd by Álvaro Herrera and by me.
2015-11-12 14:59:09 -05:00
Robert Haas 3a1f8611f2 Update parallel executor support to reuse the same DSM.
Commit b0b0d84b3d purported to make it
possible to relaunch workers using the same parallel context, but it had
an unpleasant race condition: we might reinitialize after the workers
have sent their last control message but before they have dettached the
DSM, leaving to crashes.  Repair by introducing a new ParallelContext
operation, ReinitializeParallelDSM.

Adjust execParallel.c to use this new support, so that we can rescan a
Gather node by relaunching workers but without needing to recreate the
DSM.

Amit Kapila, with some adjustments by me.  Extracted from latest parallel
sequential scan patch.
2015-10-30 10:44:54 +01:00
Alvaro Herrera 531d21b75f Cleanup commit timestamp module activaction, again
Further tweak commit_ts.c so that on a standby the state is completely
consistent with what that in the master, rather than behaving
differently in the cases that the settings differ.  Now in standby and
master the module should always be active or inactive in lockstep.

Author: Petr Jelínek, with some further tweaks by Álvaro Herrera.

Backpatch to 9.5, where commit timestamps were introduced.

Discussion: http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/5622BF9D.2010409@2ndquadrant.com
2015-10-27 15:06:50 -03:00
Robert Haas ee7ca559fc Add a C API for parallel heap scans.
Using this API, one backend can set up a ParallelHeapScanDesc to
which multiple backends can then attach.  Each tuple in the relation
will be returned to exactly one of the scanning backends.  Only
forward scans are supported, and rescans must be carefully
coordinated.

This is not exposed to the planner or executor yet.

The original version of this code was written by me.  Amit Kapila
reviewed it, tested it, and improved it, including adding support for
synchronized scans, per review comments from Jeff Davis.  Extensive
testing of this and related patches was performed by Haribabu Kommi.
Final cleanup of this patch by me.
2015-10-16 17:33:18 -04:00
Robert Haas b0b0d84b3d Allow a parallel context to relaunch workers.
This may allow some callers to avoid the overhead involved in tearing
down a parallel context and then setting up a new one, which means
releasing the DSM and then allocating and populating a new one.  I
suspect we'll want to revise the Gather node to make use of this new
capability, but even if not it may be useful elsewhere and requires
very little additional code.
2015-10-16 17:18:05 -04:00
Robert Haas 82b37765c7 Fix a problem with parallel workers being unable to restore role.
check_role() tries to verify that the user has permission to become the
requested role, but this is inappropriate in a parallel worker, which
needs to exactly recreate the master's authorization settings.  So skip
the check in that case.

This fixes a bug in commit 924bcf4f16.
2015-10-16 11:37:19 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera f12e814b88 Fix commit_ts for standby
Module initialization was still not completely correct after commit
6b61955135, per crash report from Takashi Ohnishi.  To fix, instead of
trying to monkey around with the value of the GUC setting directly, add
a separate boolean flag that enables the feature on a standby, but only
for the startup (recovery) process, when it sees that its master server
has the feature enabled.
Discussion: http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/ca44c6c7f9314868bdc521aea4f77cbf@MP-MSGSS-MBX004.msg.nttdata.co.jp

Also change the deactivation routine to delete all segment files rather
than leaving the last one around.  (This doesn't need separate
WAL-logging, because on recovery we execute the same deactivation
routine anyway.)

In passing, clean up the code structure somewhat, particularly so that
xlog.c doesn't know so much about when to activate/deactivate the
feature.

Thanks to Fujii Masao for testing and Petr Jelínek for off-list discussion.

Back-patch to 9.5, where commit_ts was introduced.
2015-10-01 15:06:55 -03:00
Alvaro Herrera 6b61955135 Code review for transaction commit timestamps
There are three main changes here:

1. No longer cause a start failure in a standby if the feature is
disabled in postgresql.conf but enabled in the master.  This reverts one
part of commit 4f3924d9cd43; what we keep is the ability of the standby
to activate/deactivate the module (which includes creating and removing
segments as appropriate) during replay of such actions in the master.

2. Replay WAL records affecting commitTS even if the feature is
disabled.  This means the standby will always have the same state as the
master after replay.

3. Have COMMIT PREPARE record the transaction commit time as well.  We
were previously only applying it in the normal transaction commit path.

Author: Petr Jelínek
Discussion: http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAHGQGwHereDzzzmfxEBYcVQu3oZv6vZcgu1TPeERWbDc+gQ06g@mail.gmail.com
Discussion: http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAHGQGwFuzfO4JscM9LCAmCDCxp_MfLvN4QdB+xWsS-FijbjTYQ@mail.gmail.com

Additionally, I cleaned up nearby code related to replication origins,
which I found a bit hard to follow, and fixed a couple of typos.

Backpatch to 9.5, where this code was introduced.

Per bug reports from Fujii Masao and subsequent discussion.
2015-09-29 14:40:56 -03:00
Andres Freund aa29c1ccd9 Remove legacy multixact truncation support.
In 9.5 and master there is no need to support legacy truncation. This is
just committed separately to make it easier to backpatch the WAL logged
multixact truncation to 9.3 and 9.4 if we later decide to do so.

I bumped master's magic from 0xD086 to 0xD088 and 9.5's from 0xD085 to
0xD087 to avoid 9.5 reusing a value that has been in use on master while
keeping the numbers increasing between major versions.

Discussion: 20150621192409.GA4797@alap3.anarazel.de
Backpatch: 9.5
2015-09-26 19:04:25 +02:00
Andres Freund 4f627f8973 Rework the way multixact truncations work.
The fact that multixact truncations are not WAL logged has caused a fair
share of problems. Amongst others it requires to do computations during
recovery while the database is not in a consistent state, delaying
truncations till checkpoints, and handling members being truncated, but
offset not.

We tried to put bandaids on lots of these issues over the last years,
but it seems time to change course. Thus this patch introduces WAL
logging for multixact truncations.

This allows:
1) to perform the truncation directly during VACUUM, instead of delaying it
   to the checkpoint.
2) to avoid looking at the offsets SLRU for truncation during recovery,
   we can just use the master's values.
3) simplify a fair amount of logic to keep in memory limits straight,
   this has gotten much easier

During the course of fixing this a bunch of additional bugs had to be
fixed:
1) Data was not purged from memory the member's SLRU before deleting
   segments. This happened to be hard or impossible to hit due to the
   interlock between checkpoints and truncation.
2) find_multixact_start() relied on SimpleLruDoesPhysicalPageExist - but
   that doesn't work for offsets that haven't yet been flushed to
   disk. Add code to flush the SLRUs to fix. Not pretty, but it feels
   slightly safer to only make decisions based on actual on-disk state.
3) find_multixact_start() could be called concurrently with a truncation
   and thus fail. Via SetOffsetVacuumLimit() that could lead to a round
   of emergency vacuuming. The problem remains in
   pg_get_multixact_members(), but that's quite harmless.

For now this is going to only get applied to 9.5+, leaving the issues in
the older branches in place. It is quite possible that we need to
backpatch at a later point though.

For the case this gets backpatched we need to handle that an updated
standby may be replaying WAL from a not-yet upgraded primary. We have to
recognize that situation and use "old style" truncation (i.e. looking at
the SLRUs) during WAL replay. In contrast to before, this now happens in
the startup process, when replaying a checkpoint record, instead of the
checkpointer. Doing truncation in the restartpoint is incorrect, they
can happen much later than the original checkpoint, thereby leading to
wraparound.  To avoid "multixact_redo: unknown op code 48" errors
standbys would have to be upgraded before primaries.

A later patch will bump the WAL page magic, and remove the legacy
truncation codepaths. Legacy truncation support is just included to make
a possible future backpatch easier.

Discussion: 20150621192409.GA4797@alap3.anarazel.de
Reviewed-By: Robert Haas, Alvaro Herrera, Thomas Munro
Backpatch: 9.5 for now
2015-09-26 19:04:25 +02:00
Teodor Sigaev dc943ad952 Allow autoanalyze to add pages deleted from pending list to FSM
Commit e956808328 introduces adding pages
to FSM for ordinary insert, but autoanalyze was able just cleanup
pending list without adding to FSM.

Also fix double call of IndexFreeSpaceMapVacuum() during ginvacuumcleanup()

Report from Fujii Masao
Patch by me
Review by Jeff Janes
2015-09-23 15:33:51 +03:00
Teodor Sigaev 22f519c92a Fix bug introduced by microvacuum for GiST
Commit 013ebc0a7b introduces microvacuum for
GiST, deletetion of tuple marked LP_DEAD uses IndexPageMultiDelete while
recovery code uses IndexPageTupleDelete in loop. This causes a difference
in offset numbers of tuples to delete. Patch introduces usage of
IndexPageMultiDelete in GiST except gistplacetopage() where only one tuple is
deleted at once. That also slightly improve performance, because
IndexPageMultiDelete is more effective.

Patch changes WAL format, so bump wal page magic.

Bug report from Jeff Janes
Diagnostic and patch by Anastasia Lubennikova and me
2015-09-17 14:22:37 +03:00
Fujii Masao 05ec71eea2 Fix comment regarding the meaning of infinity for timeline history entry
Michael Paquier
2015-09-15 23:38:01 +09:00
Teodor Sigaev 013ebc0a7b Microvacuum for GIST
Mark index tuple as dead if it's pointed by kill_prior_tuple during
ordinary (search) scan and remove it during insert process if there is no
enough space for new tuple to insert. This improves select performance
because index will not return tuple marked as dead and improves insert
performance because it reduces number of page split.

Anastasia Lubennikova <a.lubennikova@postgrespro.ru> with
 minor editorialization by me
2015-09-09 18:43:37 +03:00
Fujii Masao 96f6a0cb41 Remove files signaling a standby promotion request at postmaster startup
This commit makes postmaster forcibly remove the files signaling
a standby promotion request. Otherwise, the existence of those files
can trigger a promotion too early, whether a user wants that or not.

This removal of files is usually unnecessary because they can exist
only during a few moments during a standby promotion. However
there is a race condition: if pg_ctl promote is executed and creates
the files during a promotion, the files can stay around even after
the server is brought up to new master. Then, if new standby starts
by using the backup taken from that master, the files can exist
at the server startup and should be removed in order to avoid
an unexpected promotion.

Back-patch to 9.1 where promote signal file was introduced.

Problem reported by Feike Steenbergen.
Original patch by Michael Paquier, modified by me.

Discussion: 20150528100705.4686.91426@wrigleys.postgresql.org
2015-09-09 22:51:44 +09:00
Teodor Sigaev 30bb26b5e0 Allow usage of huge maintenance_work_mem for GIN build.
Currently, in-memory posting list during GIN build process is limited 1GB
because of using repalloc. The patch replaces call of repalloc to repalloc_huge.
It increases limit of posting list from 180 millions
(1GB / sizeof(ItemPointerData)) to 4 billions limited by maxcount/count fields
in GinEntryAccumulator and subsequent calls. Check added.

Also, fix accounting of allocatedMemory during build to prevent integer
overflow with maintenance_work_mem > 4GB.

Robert Abraham <robert.abraham86@googlemail.com> with additions by me
2015-09-02 20:08:58 +03:00
Simon Riggs 47167b7907 Reduce lock levels for ALTER TABLE SET autovacuum storage options
Reduce lock levels down to ShareUpdateExclusiveLock for all autovacuum-related
relation options when setting them using ALTER TABLE.

Add infrastructure to allow varying lock levels for relation options in later
patches. Setting multiple options together uses the highest lock level required
for any option. Works for both main and toast tables.

Fabrízio Mello, reviewed by Michael Paquier, mild edit and additional regression
tests from myself
2015-08-14 14:19:28 +01:00
Alvaro Herrera ccc4c07499 Close some holes in BRIN page assignment
In some corner cases, it is possible for the BRIN index relation to be
extended by brin_getinsertbuffer but the new page not be used
immediately for anything by its callers; when this happens, the page is
initialized and the FSM is updated (by brin_getinsertbuffer) with the
info about that page, but these actions are not WAL-logged.  A later
index insert/update can use the page, but since the page is already
initialized, the initialization itself is not WAL-logged then either.
Replay of this sequence of events causes recovery to fail altogether.

There is a related corner case within brin_getinsertbuffer itself, in
which we extend the relation to put a new index tuple there, but later
find out that we cannot do so, and do not return the buffer; the page
obtained from extension is not even initialized.  The resulting page is
lost forever.

To fix, shuffle the code so that initialization is not the
responsibility of brin_getinsertbuffer anymore, in normal cases;
instead, the initialization is done by its callers (brin_doinsert and
brin_doupdate) once they're certain that the page is going to be used.
When either those functions determine that the new page cannot be used,
before bailing out they initialize the page as an empty regular page,
enter it in FSM and WAL-log all this.  This way, the page is usable for
future index insertions, and WAL replay doesn't find trying to insert
tuples in pages whose initialization didn't make it to the WAL.  The
same strategy is used in brin_getinsertbuffer when it cannot return the
new page.

Additionally, add a new step to vacuuming so that all pages of the index
are scanned; whenever an uninitialized page is found, it is initialized
as empty and WAL-logged.  This closes the hole that the relation is
extended but the system crashes before anything is WAL-logged about it.
We also take this opportunity to update the FSM, in case it has gotten
out of date.

Thanks to Heikki Linnakangas for finding the problem that kicked some
additional analysis of BRIN page assignment code.

Backpatch to 9.5, where BRIN was introduced.

Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20150723204810.GY5596@postgresql.org
2015-08-12 14:20:38 -03:00
Andres Freund 4eda0a6470 Don't include low level locking code from frontend code.
Some frontend code like e.g. pg_xlogdump or pg_resetxlog, has to use
backend headers. Unfortunately until now that code includes most of the
locking code. It's generally not nice to expose such low level details,
but de6fd1c898 made that a hard problem. We fall back to defining
'inline' away if the compiler doesn't support it - that can cause linker
errors like on buildfarm animal pademelon if a inline function
references backend only code.

To fix that problem separate definitions from lock.h that are required
from frontend code into lockdefs.h and use it in the relevant
places. I've only removed the minimal amount of necessary definitions
for now - it might turn out that we want more for other reasons.

To avoid such details being exposed again put some checks against being
included from frontend code into atomics.h, lock.h, lwlock.h and
s_lock.h. It's otherwise fairly easy to indirectly include these
headers.

Discussion: 20150806070902.GE12214@awork2.anarazel.de
2015-08-07 15:10:56 +02:00
Alvaro Herrera 2834855cb9 Fix BRIN to use SnapshotAny during summarization
For correctness of summarization results, it is critical that the
snapshot used during the summarization scan is able to see all tuples
that are live to all transactions -- including tuples inserted or
deleted by in-progress transactions.  Otherwise, it would be possible
for a transaction to insert a tuple, then idle for a long time while a
concurrent transaction executes summarization of the range: this would
result in the inserted value not being considered in the summary.
Previously we were trying to use a MVCC snapshot in conjunction with
adding a "placeholder" tuple in the index: the snapshot would see all
committed tuples, and the placeholder tuple would catch insertions by
any new inserters.  The hole is that prior insertions by transactions
that are still in progress by the time the MVCC snapshot was taken were
ignored.

Kevin Grittner reported this as a bogus error message during vacuum with
default transaction isolation mode set to repeatable read (because the
error report mentioned a function name not being invoked during), but
the problem is larger than that.

To fix, tweak IndexBuildHeapRangeScan to have a new mode that behaves
the way we need using SnapshotAny visibility rules.  This change
simplifies the BRIN code a bit, mainly by removing large comments that
were mistaken.  Instead, rely on the SnapshotAny semantics to provide
what it needs.  (The business about a placeholder tuple needs to remain:
that covers the case that a transaction inserts a a tuple in a page that
summarization already scanned.)

Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20150731175700.GX2441@postgresql.org

In passing, remove a couple of unused declarations from brin.h and
reword a comment to be proper English.  This part submitted by Kevin
Grittner.

Backpatch to 9.5, where BRIN was introduced.
2015-08-05 16:20:50 -03:00
Andres Freund de6fd1c898 Rely on inline functions even if that causes warnings in older compilers.
So far we have worked around the fact that some very old compilers do
not support 'inline' functions by only using inline functions
conditionally (or not at all). Since such compilers are very rare by
now, we have decided to rely on inline functions from 9.6 onwards.

To avoid breaking these old compilers inline is defined away when not
supported. That'll cause "function x defined but not used" type of
warnings, but since nobody develops on such compilers anymore that's
ok.

This change in policy will allow us to more easily employ inline
functions.

I chose to remove code previously conditional on PG_USE_INLINE as it
seemed confusing to have code dependent on a define that's always
defined.

Blacklisting of compilers, like in c53f73879f, now has to be done
differently. A platform template can define PG_FORCE_DISABLE_INLINE to
force inline to be defined empty.

Discussion: 20150701161447.GB30708@awork2.anarazel.de
2015-08-05 18:19:52 +02:00
Heikki Linnakangas 5533a272dd Don't assume that 'char' is signed.
On some platforms, notably ARM and PowerPC, 'char' is unsigned by
default. This fixes an assertion failure at WAL replay on such platforms.

Reported by Noah Misch. Backpatch to 9.5, where this was broken.
2015-07-27 21:51:25 +03:00
Heikki Linnakangas 023430abf7 Fix handling of all-zero pages in SP-GiST vacuum.
SP-GiST initialized an all-zeros page at vacuum, but that was not
WAL-logged, which is not safe. You might get a torn page write, when it gets
flushed to disk, and end-up with a half-initialized index page. To fix,
leave it in the all-zeros state, and add it to the FSM. It will be
initialized when reused. Also don't set the page-deleted flag when recycling
an empty page. That was also not WAL-logged, and a torn write of that would
cause the page to have an invalid checksum.

Backpatch to 9.2, where SP-GiST indexes were added.
2015-07-27 12:28:21 +03:00
Tom Lane dd7a8f66ed Redesign tablesample method API, and do extensive code review.
The original implementation of TABLESAMPLE modeled the tablesample method
API on index access methods, which wasn't a good choice because, without
specialized DDL commands, there's no way to build an extension that can
implement a TSM.  (Raw inserts into system catalogs are not an acceptable
thing to do, because we can't undo them during DROP EXTENSION, nor will
pg_upgrade behave sanely.)  Instead adopt an API more like procedural
language handlers or foreign data wrappers, wherein the only SQL-level
support object needed is a single handler function identified by having
a special return type.  This lets us get rid of the supporting catalog
altogether, so that no custom DDL support is needed for the feature.

Adjust the API so that it can support non-constant tablesample arguments
(the original coding assumed we could evaluate the argument expressions at
ExecInitSampleScan time, which is undesirable even if it weren't outright
unsafe), and discourage sampling methods from looking at invisible tuples.
Make sure that the BERNOULLI and SYSTEM methods are genuinely repeatable
within and across queries, as required by the SQL standard, and deal more
honestly with methods that can't support that requirement.

Make a full code-review pass over the tablesample additions, and fix
assorted bugs, omissions, infelicities, and cosmetic issues (such as
failure to put the added code stanzas in a consistent ordering).
Improve EXPLAIN's output of tablesample plans, too.

Back-patch to 9.5 so that we don't have to support the original API
in production.
2015-07-25 14:39:00 -04:00
Tom Lane 434873806a Fix some oversights in BRIN patch.
Remove HeapScanDescData.rs_initblock, which wasn't being used for anything
in the final version of the patch.

Fix IndexBuildHeapScan so that it supports syncscan again; the patch
broke synchronous scanning for index builds by forcing rs_startblk
to zero even when the caller did not care about that and had asked
for syncscan.

Add some commentary and usage defenses to heap_setscanlimits().

Fix heapam so that asking for rs_numblocks == 0 does what you would
reasonably expect.  As coded it amounted to requesting a whole-table
scan, because those "--x <= 0" tests on an unsigned variable would
behave surprisingly.
2015-07-21 13:38:24 -04:00
Heikki Linnakangas 7261172430 Remove obsolete heap_formtuple/modifytuple/deformtuple functions.
These variants used the old-style 'n'/' ' NULL indicators. The new-style
functions have been available since version 8.1. That should be long enough
that if there is still any old external code using these functions, they
can just switch to the new functions without worrying about backwards
compatibility

Peter Geoghegan
2015-07-02 21:21:23 +03:00
Fujii Masao fb174687f7 Make use of xlog_internal.h's macros in WAL-related utilities.
Commit 179cdd09 added macros to check if a filename is a WAL segment
or other such file. However there were still some instances of the
strlen + strspn combination to check for that in WAL-related utilities
like pg_archivecleanup. Those checks can be replaced with the macros.

This patch makes use of the macros in those utilities and
which would make the code a bit easier to read.

Back-patch to 9.5.

Michael Paquier
2015-07-02 10:35:38 +09:00
Fujii Masao b5fe62038f Make postmaster restart archiver soon after it dies, even during recovery.
After the archiver dies, postmaster tries to start a new one immediately.
But previously this could happen only while server was running normally
even though archiving was enabled always (i.e., archive_mode was set to
always). So the archiver running during recovery could not restart soon
after it died. This is an oversight in commit ffd3774.

This commit changes reaper(), postmaster's signal handler to cleanup
after a child process dies, so that it tries to a new archiver even during
recovery if necessary.

Patch by me. Review by Alvaro Herrera.
2015-06-12 23:11:51 +09:00
Bruce Momjian 807b9e0dff pgindent run for 9.5 2015-05-23 21:35:49 -04:00
Tom Lane 821b821a24 Still more fixes for lossy-GiST-distance-functions patch.
Fix confusion in documentation, substantial memory leakage if float8 or
float4 are pass-by-reference, and assorted comments that were obsoleted
by commit 98edd617f3.
2015-05-23 15:22:25 -04:00
Heikki Linnakangas 7cbee7c0a1 At promotion, don't leave behind a partial segment on the old timeline.
With commit de768844, a copy of the partial segment was archived with the
.partial suffix, but the original file was still left in pg_xlog, so it
didn't actually solve the problems with archiving the partial segment that
it was supposed to solve. With this patch, the partial segment is renamed
rather than copied, so we only archive it with the .partial suffix.

Also be more robust in detecting if the last segment is already being
archived. Previously I used XLogArchiveIsBusy() for that, but that's not
quite right. With archive_mode='always', there might be a .ready file for
it, and we don't want to rename it to .partial in that case.

The old segment is needed until we're fully committed to the new timeline,
i.e. until we've written the end-of-recovery WAL record and updated the
min recovery point and timeline in the control file. So move the renaming
later in the startup sequence, after all that's been done.
2015-05-22 11:04:33 +03:00
Tom Lane c5dd8ead40 More fixes for lossy-GiST-distance-functions patch.
Paul Ramsey reported that commit 35fcb1b3d0
induced a core dump on commuted ORDER BY expressions, because it was
assuming that the indexorderby expression could be found verbatim in the
relevant equivalence class, but it wasn't there.  We really don't need
anything that complicated anyway; for the data types likely to be used for
index ORDER BY operators in the foreseeable future, the exprType() of the
ORDER BY expression will serve fine.  (The case where we'd have to work
harder is where the ORDER BY expression's result is only binary-compatible
with the declared input type of the ordering operator; long before worrying
about that, one would need to get rid of GiST's hard-wired assumption that
said datatype is float8.)

Aside from fixing that crash and adding a regression test for the case,
I did some desultory code review:

nodeIndexscan.c was likewise overthinking how hard it ought to work to
identify the datatype of the ORDER BY expressions.

Add comments explaining how come nodeIndexscan.c can get away with
simplifying assumptions about NULLS LAST ordering and no backward scan.

Revert no-longer-needed changes of find_ec_member_for_tle(); while the
new definition was no worse than the old, it wasn't better either, and
it might cause back-patching pain.

Revert entirely bogus additions to genam.h.
2015-05-21 19:47:48 -04:00
Heikki Linnakangas 4fc72cc7bb Collection of typo fixes.
Use "a" and "an" correctly, mostly in comments. Two error messages were
also fixed (they were just elogs, so no translation work required). Two
function comments in pg_proc.h were also fixed. Etsuro Fujita reported one
of these, but I found a lot more with grep.

Also fix a few other typos spotted while grepping for the a/an typos.
For example, "consists out of ..." -> "consists of ...". Plus a "though"/
"through" mixup reported by Euler Taveira.

Many of these typos were in old code, which would be nice to backpatch to
make future backpatching easier. But much of the code was new, and I didn't
feel like crafting separate patches for each branch. So no backpatching.
2015-05-20 16:56:22 +03:00
Alvaro Herrera b0b7be6133 Add BRIN infrastructure for "inclusion" opclasses
This lets BRIN be used with R-Tree-like indexing strategies.

Also provided are operator classes for range types, box and inet/cidr.
The infrastructure provided here should be sufficient to create operator
classes for similar datatypes; for instance, opclasses for PostGIS
geometries should be doable, though we didn't try to implement one.

(A box/point opclass was also submitted, but we ripped it out before
commit because the handling of floating point comparisons in existing
code is inconsistent and would generate corrupt indexes.)

Author: Emre Hasegeli.  Cosmetic changes by me
Review: Andreas Karlsson
2015-05-15 18:05:22 -03:00
Alvaro Herrera 26df7066cc Move strategy numbers to include/access/stratnum.h
For upcoming BRIN opclasses, it's convenient to have strategy numbers
defined in a single place.  Since there's nothing appropriate, create
it.  The StrategyNumber typedef now lives there, as well as existing
strategy numbers for B-trees (from skey.h) and R-tree-and-friends (from
gist.h).  skey.h is forced to include stratnum.h because of the
StrategyNumber typedef, but gist.h is not; extensions that currently
rely on gist.h for rtree strategy numbers might need to add a new

A few .c files can stop including skey.h and/or gist.h, which is a nice
side benefit.

Per discussion:
https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20150514232132.GZ2523@alvh.no-ip.org

Authored by Emre Hasegeli and Álvaro.

(It's not clear to me why bootscanner.l has any #include lines at all.)
2015-05-15 17:03:16 -03:00
Simon Riggs f6d208d6e5 TABLESAMPLE, SQL Standard and extensible
Add a TABLESAMPLE clause to SELECT statements that allows
user to specify random BERNOULLI sampling or block level
SYSTEM sampling. Implementation allows for extensible
sampling functions to be written, using a standard API.
Basic version follows SQLStandard exactly. Usable
concrete use cases for the sampling API follow in later
commits.

Petr Jelinek

Reviewed by Michael Paquier and Simon Riggs
2015-05-15 14:37:10 -04:00
Heikki Linnakangas ffd37740ee Add archive_mode='always' option.
In 'always' mode, the standby independently archives all files it receives
from the primary.

Original patch by Fujii Masao, docs and review by me.
2015-05-15 18:55:24 +03:00
Heikki Linnakangas 98edd617f3 Fix datatype confusion with the new lossy GiST distance functions.
We can only support a lossy distance function when the distance function's
datatype is comparable with the original ordering operator's datatype.
The distance function always returns a float8, so we are limited to float8,
and float4 (by a hard-coded cast of the float8 to float4).

In light of this limitation, it seems like a good idea to have a separate
'recheck' flag for the ORDER BY expressions, so that if you have a non-lossy
distance function, it still works with lossy quals. There are cases like
that with the build-in or contrib opclasses, but it's plausible.

There was a hidden assumption that the ORDER BY values returned by GiST
match the original ordering operator's return type, but there are plenty
of examples where that's not true, e.g. in btree_gist and pg_trgm. As long
as the distance function is not lossy, we can tolerate that and just not
return the distance to the executor (or rather, always return NULL). The
executor doesn't need the distances if there are no lossy results.

There was another little bug: the recheck variable was not initialized
before calling the distance function. That revealed the bigger issue,
as the executor tried to reorder tuples that didn't need reordering, and
that failed because of the datatype mismatch.
2015-05-15 18:09:31 +03:00
Heikki Linnakangas 35fcb1b3d0 Allow GiST distance function to return merely a lower-bound.
The distance function can now set *recheck = false, like index quals. The
executor will then re-check the ORDER BY expressions, and use a queue to
reorder the results on the fly.

This makes it possible to do kNN-searches on polygons and circles, which
don't store the exact value in the index, but just a bounding box.

Alexander Korotkov and me
2015-05-15 14:26:51 +03:00
Andrew Dunstan 72d422a522 Map basebackup tablespaces using a tablespace_map file
Windows can't reliably restore symbolic links from a tar format, so
instead during backup start we create a tablespace_map file, which is
used by the restoring postgres to create the correct links in pg_tblspc.
The backup protocol also now has an option to request this file to be
included in the backup stream, and this is used by pg_basebackup when
operating in tar mode.

This is done on all platforms, not just Windows.

This means that pg_basebackup will not not work in tar mode against 9.4
and older servers, as this protocol option isn't implemented there.

Amit Kapila, reviewed by Dilip Kumar, with a little editing from me.
2015-05-12 09:29:10 -04:00
Heikki Linnakangas de7688442f At promotion, archive last segment from old timeline with .partial suffix.
Previously, we would archive the possible-incomplete WAL segment with its
normal filename, but that causes trouble if the server owning that timeline
is still running, and tries to archive the same segment later. It's not nice
for the standby to trip up the master's archival like that. And it's pretty
confusing, anyway, to have an incomplete segment in the archive that's
indistinguishable from a normal, complete segment.

To avoid such confusion, add a .partial suffix to the file. Or to be more
precise, make a copy of the old segment under the .partial suffix, and
archive that instead of the original file. pg_receivexlog also uses the
.partial suffix for the same purpose, to tell apart incompletely streamed
files from complete ones.

There is no automatic mechanism to use the .partial files at recovery, so
they will go unused, unless the administrator manually copies to them to
the pg_xlog directory (and removes the .partial suffix). Recovery won't
normally need the WAL - when recovering to the new timeline, it will find
the same WAL on the first segment on the new timeline instead - but it
nevertheless feels better to archive the file with the .partial suffix, for
debugging purposes if nothing else.
2015-05-08 21:59:01 +03:00
Heikki Linnakangas 179cdd0981 Add macros to check if a filename is a WAL segment or other such file.
We had many instances of the strlen + strspn combination to check for that.
This makes the code a bit easier to read.
2015-05-08 21:58:57 +03:00