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Fujii Masao 67e0adfb3f Report NULL as total backup size if it's not estimated.
Previously 0 was reported in pg_stat_progress_basebackup.total_backup
if the total backup size was not estimated. Per discussion, our consensus
is that NULL is better choise as the value in total_backup in that case.
So this commit makes pg_stat_progress_basebackup view report NULL
in total_backup column if the estimation is disabled.

Bump catversion.

Author: Fujii Masao
Reviewed-by: Amit Langote, Magnus Hagander, Alvaro Herrera
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CABUevExnhOD89zBDuPvfAAh243RzNpwCPEWNLtMYpKHMB8gbAQ@mail.gmail.com
2020-03-24 10:43:41 +09:00
Tom Lane 980a70b976 Fix our getopt_long's behavior for a command line argument of just "-".
src/port/getopt_long.c failed on such an argument, always seeing it
as an unrecognized switch.  This is unhelpful; better is to treat such
an item as a non-switch argument.  That behavior is what we find in
GNU's getopt_long(); it's what src/port/getopt.c does; and it is
required by POSIX for getopt(), which getopt_long() ought to be
generally a superset of.  Moreover, it's expected by ecpg, which
intends an argument of "-" to mean "read from stdin".  So fix it.

Also add some documentation about ecpg's behavior in this area, since
that was miserably underdocumented.  I had to reverse-engineer it
from the code.

Per bug #16304 from James Gray.  Back-patch to all supported branches,
since this has been broken forever.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16304-c662b00a1322db7f@postgresql.org
2020-03-23 11:58:00 -04:00
Michael Paquier c81bd3b9a5 Doc: Fix type of some storage parameters in CREATE TABLE page
autovacuum_vacuum_scale_factor and autovacuum_analyze_scale_factor have
been documented as "float4", but "floating type" is used in this case
for GUCs and relation options in the documentation.

Author: Atsushi Torikoshi
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CACZ0uYFf_p9BpbjLccx3CA=eM1Hk2Te=ULY4iptGLUhL-JxCPA@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 9.5
2020-03-23 13:38:03 +09:00
Fujii Masao fab13dc50b Make pg_basebackup ask the server to estimate the total backup size, by default.
This commit changes pg_basebackup so that it specifies PROGRESS option in
BASE_BACKUP replication command whether --progress is specified or not.
This causes the server to estimate the total backup size and report it in
pg_stat_progress_basebackup.backup_total, by default. This is reasonable
default because the time required for the estimation would not be so large
in most cases.

Also this commit adds new option --no-estimate-size to pg_basebackup.
This option prevents the server from the estimation, and so is useful to
avoid such estimation time if it's too long.

Author: Fujii Masao
Reviewed-by: Magnus Hagander, Amit Langote
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CABUevEyDPPSjP7KRvfTXPdqOdY5aWNkqsB5aAXs3bco5ZwtGHg@mail.gmail.com
2020-03-19 17:09:00 +09:00
Alvaro Herrera 487e9861d0
Enable BEFORE row-level triggers for partitioned tables
... with the limitation that the tuple must remain in the same
partition.

Reviewed-by: Ashutosh Bapat
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200227165158.GA2071@alvherre.pgsql
2020-03-18 18:58:05 -03:00
Peter Eisentraut a2b1faa0f2 Implement type regcollation
This will be helpful for a following commit and it's also just
generally useful, like the other reg* types.

Author: Julien Rouhaud
Reviewed-by: Thomas Munro and Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEepm%3D0uEQCpfq_%2BLYFBdArCe4Ot98t1aR4eYiYTe%3DyavQygiQ%40mail.gmail.com
2020-03-18 21:21:00 +01:00
Peter Eisentraut 8408e3a557 doc: Update documentation about reg* types
Add missing index entries, add missing information on pg_upgrade man
page, order things alphabetical instead of (apparently) in the order
they were implemented, reduce repetitiveness a bit.
2020-03-18 14:54:29 +01:00
Fujii Masao 1558413432 Update the description of type of check_option reloption in docs.
Commit 773df883e8 changed the type of check_option reloption
from string to enum. But it forgot to update the description of
the type in the documentation.

Author: Atsushi Torikoshi
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CACZ0uYFvHF4n6yxF390YZgr4Q0Z0c2w0ihu=DLb8ipNOnNcqzQ@mail.gmail.com
2020-03-18 18:28:22 +09:00
Peter Geoghegan dbbb55385c Doc: Correct deduplicate_items varlistentry id.
Use a varlistentry id for the deduplicate_items storage parameter that
is derived from the name of the parameter itself.

This oversight happened because the storage parameter was renamed
relatively late during the development of the patch that became commit
0d861bbb.
2020-03-17 15:53:05 -07:00
Fujii Masao 28e0a103a8 Add the type information for index storage parameters to the documentation.
Author: Atsushi Torikoshi
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CACZ0uYFQebs4WT5eu3dK4qm_2PurZuvB++8nDvSBG0ebRWmbdg@mail.gmail.com
2020-03-17 16:06:59 +09:00
Thomas Munro fc34b0d9de Introduce a maintenance_io_concurrency setting.
Introduce a GUC and a tablespace option to control I/O prefetching, much
like effective_io_concurrency, but for work that is done on behalf of
many client sessions.

Use the new setting in heapam.c instead of the hard-coded formula
effective_io_concurrency + 10 introduced by commit 558a9165e0.  Go with
a default value of 10 for now, because it's a round number pretty close
to the value used for that existing case.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKGJUw08dPs_3EUcdO6M90GnjofPYrWp4YSLaBkgYwS-AqA%40mail.gmail.com
2020-03-16 17:14:26 +13:00
Peter Eisentraut 340de72780 doc: Remove unused title ids
FOP issues warnings about them.  These aren't even used, so just
remove them.  For the ones that are actually used, we'll come up with
a different solution.

Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/e29b580e-79ab-a371-5ea4-6946e4d3af0b%402ndQuadrant.com
2020-03-13 15:45:37 +01:00
Peter Eisentraut 17b9e7f9fe Support adding partitioned tables to publication
When a partitioned table is added to a publication, changes of all of
its partitions (current or future) are published via that publication.

This change only affects which tables a publication considers as its
members.  The receiving side still sees the data coming from the
individual leaf partitions.  So existing restrictions that partition
hierarchies can only be replicated one-to-one are not changed by this.

Author: Amit Langote <amitlangote09@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Rafia Sabih <rafia.pghackers@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CA+HiwqH=Y85vRK3mOdjEkqFK+E=ST=eQiHdpj43L=_eJMOOznQ@mail.gmail.com
2020-03-10 09:09:32 +01:00
Michael Paquier 5aaa584f81 Doc: fix some description of environment variables with frontend tools
This addresses a couple of issues in the documentation:
- Description of PG_COLOR was missing for some tools (pg_archivecleanup
and pg_test_fsync), while the other descriptions had grammar mistakes.
- pgbench supports more environment variables: PGUSER, PGHOST and
PGPORT.
- vacuumlo, oid2name and pgbench support coloring (HEAD only)

Author: Michael Paquier
Reviewed-by: Fabien Coelho, Daniel Gustafsson, Juan José Santamaría
Flecha
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200304075418.GJ2593@paquier.xyz
Backpatch-through: 12
2020-03-09 10:53:22 +09:00
Alexander Korotkov b0b5e20cd8 Show opclass and opfamily related information in psql
This commit provides psql commands for listing operator classes, operator
families and its contents in psql.  New commands will be useful for exploring
capabilities of both builtin opclasses/opfamilies as well as
opclasses/opfamilies defined in extensions.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1529675324.14193.5.camel%40postgrespro.ru
Author: Sergey Cherkashin, Nikita Glukhov, Alexander Korotkov
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier, Alvaro Herrera, Arthur Zakirov
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi, Andres Freund
2020-03-08 13:33:16 +03:00
Peter Eisentraut 7e39b968f1 doc: Remove unused ids
Some reference pages contained id attributes on refname elements.
These were apparently copied around from ancient times, but they don't
serve a purpose.  FOP issues minor warnings about them.  So it's
easiest to just remove them.
2020-03-07 14:04:09 +01:00
Tom Lane fe30e7ebfa Allow ALTER TYPE to change some properties of a base type.
Specifically, this patch allows ALTER TYPE to:
* Change the default TOAST strategy for a toastable base type;
* Promote a non-toastable type to toastable;
* Add/remove binary I/O functions for a type;
* Add/remove typmod I/O functions for a type;
* Add/remove a custom ANALYZE statistics functions for a type.

The first of these can be done by the type's owner; all the others
require superuser privilege since misuse could cause problems.

The main motivation for this patch is to allow extensions to
upgrade the feature sets of their data types, so the set of
alterable properties is biased towards that use-case.  However
it's also true that changing some other properties would be
a lot harder, as they get baked into physical storage and/or
stored expressions that depend on the type.

Along the way, refactor GenerateTypeDependencies() to make it easier
to call, refactor DefineType's volatility checks so they can be shared
by AlterType, and teach typcache.c that it might have to reload data
from the type's pg_type row, a scenario it never handled before.
Also rearrange alter_type.sgml a bit for clarity (put the
composite-type operations together).

Tomas Vondra and Tom Lane

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200228004440.b23ein4qvmxnlpht@development
2020-03-06 12:19:29 -05:00
Tom Lane bb03010b9f Remove the "opaque" pseudo-type and associated compatibility hacks.
A long time ago, it was necessary to declare datatype I/O functions,
triggers, and language handler support functions in a very type-unsafe
way involving a single pseudo-type "opaque".  We got rid of those
conventions in 7.3, but there was still support in various places to
automatically convert such functions to the modern declaration style,
to be able to transparently re-load dumps from pre-7.3 servers.
It seems unnecessary to continue to support that anymore, so take out
the hacks; whereupon the "opaque" pseudo-type itself is no longer
needed and can be dropped.

This is part of a group of patches removing various server-side kluges
for transparently upgrading pre-8.0 dump files.  Since we've had few
complaints about dropping pg_dump's support for dumping from pre-8.0
servers (commit 64f3524e2), it seems okay to now remove these kluges.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/4110.1583255415@sss.pgh.pa.us
2020-03-05 15:48:56 -05:00
Fujii Masao e65497df8f Report progress of streaming base backup.
This commit adds pg_stat_progress_basebackup view that reports
the progress while an application like pg_basebackup is taking
a base backup. This uses the progress reporting infrastructure
added by c16dc1aca5, adding support for streaming base backup.

Bump catversion.

Author: Fujii Masao
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi, Amit Langote, Sergei Kornilov
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/9ed8b801-8215-1f3d-62d7-65bff53f6e94@oss.nttdata.com
2020-03-03 12:03:43 +09:00
Peter Geoghegan e537aed61d Doc: Fix deduplicate_items index term.
Reported-By: Fujii Masao
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18f07ae8-7d89-537c-b0a9-54100a1b46da@oss.nttdata.com
2020-02-27 09:32:34 -08:00
Peter Geoghegan 0d861bbb70 Add deduplication to nbtree.
Deduplication reduces the storage overhead of duplicates in indexes that
use the standard nbtree index access method.  The deduplication process
is applied lazily, after the point where opportunistic deletion of
LP_DEAD-marked index tuples occurs.  Deduplication is only applied at
the point where a leaf page split would otherwise be required.  New
posting list tuples are formed by merging together existing duplicate
tuples.  The physical representation of the items on an nbtree leaf page
is made more space efficient by deduplication, but the logical contents
of the page are not changed.  Even unique indexes make use of
deduplication as a way of controlling bloat from duplicates whose TIDs
point to different versions of the same logical table row.

The lazy approach taken by nbtree has significant advantages over a GIN
style eager approach.  Most individual inserts of index tuples have
exactly the same overhead as before.  The extra overhead of
deduplication is amortized across insertions, just like the overhead of
page splits.  The key space of indexes works in the same way as it has
since commit dd299df8 (the commit that made heap TID a tiebreaker
column).

Testing has shown that nbtree deduplication can generally make indexes
with about 10 or 15 tuples for each distinct key value about 2.5X - 4X
smaller, even with single column integer indexes (e.g., an index on a
referencing column that accompanies a foreign key).  The final size of
single column nbtree indexes comes close to the final size of a similar
contrib/btree_gin index, at least in cases where GIN's posting list
compression isn't very effective.  This can significantly improve
transaction throughput, and significantly reduce the cost of vacuuming
indexes.

A new index storage parameter (deduplicate_items) controls the use of
deduplication.  The default setting is 'on', so all new B-Tree indexes
automatically use deduplication where possible.  This decision will be
reviewed at the end of the Postgres 13 beta period.

There is a regression of approximately 2% of transaction throughput with
synthetic workloads that consist of append-only inserts into a table
with several non-unique indexes, where all indexes have few or no
repeated values.  The underlying issue is that cycles are wasted on
unsuccessful attempts at deduplicating items in non-unique indexes.
There doesn't seem to be a way around it short of disabling
deduplication entirely.  Note that deduplication of items in unique
indexes is fairly well targeted in general, which avoids the problem
there (we can use a special heuristic to trigger deduplication passes in
unique indexes, since we're specifically targeting "version bloat").

Bump XLOG_PAGE_MAGIC because xl_btree_vacuum changed.

No bump in BTREE_VERSION, since the representation of posting list
tuples works in a way that's backwards compatible with version 4 indexes
(i.e. indexes built on PostgreSQL 12).  However, users must still
REINDEX a pg_upgrade'd index to use deduplication, regardless of the
Postgres version they've upgraded from.  This is the only way to set the
new nbtree metapage flag indicating that deduplication is generally
safe.

Author: Anastasia Lubennikova, Peter Geoghegan
Reviewed-By: Peter Geoghegan, Heikki Linnakangas
Discussion:
    https://postgr.es/m/55E4051B.7020209@postgrespro.ru
    https://postgr.es/m/4ab6e2db-bcee-f4cf-0916-3a06e6ccbb55@postgrespro.ru
2020-02-26 13:05:30 -08:00
Peter Geoghegan 612a1ab767 Add equalimage B-Tree support functions.
Invent the concept of a B-Tree equalimage ("equality implies image
equality") support function, registered as support function 4.  This
indicates whether it is safe (or not safe) to apply optimizations that
assume that any two datums considered equal by an operator class's order
method must be interchangeable without any loss of semantic information.
This is static information about an operator class and a collation.

Register an equalimage routine for almost all of the existing B-Tree
opclasses.  We only need two trivial routines for all of the opclasses
that are included with the core distribution.  There is one routine for
opclasses that index non-collatable types (which returns 'true'
unconditionally), plus another routine for collatable types (which
returns 'true' when the collation is a deterministic collation).

This patch is infrastructure for an upcoming patch that adds B-Tree
deduplication.

Author: Peter Geoghegan, Anastasia Lubennikova
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-Wzn3Ee49Gmxb7V1VJ3-AC8fWn-Fr8pfWQebHe8rYRxt5OQ@mail.gmail.com
2020-02-26 11:28:25 -08:00
Tom Lane 70a7732007 Remove support for upgrading extensions from "unpackaged" state.
Andres Freund pointed out that allowing non-superusers to run
"CREATE EXTENSION ... FROM unpackaged" has security risks, since
the unpackaged-to-1.0 scripts don't try to verify that the existing
objects they're modifying are what they expect.  Just attaching such
objects to an extension doesn't seem too dangerous, but some of them
do more than that.

We could have resolved this, perhaps, by still requiring superuser
privilege to use the FROM option.  However, it's fair to ask just what
we're accomplishing by continuing to lug the unpackaged-to-1.0 scripts
forward.  None of them have received any real testing since 9.1 days,
so they may not even work anymore (even assuming that one could still
load the previous "loose" object definitions into a v13 database).
And an installation that's trying to go from pre-9.1 to v13 or later
in one jump is going to have worse compatibility problems than whether
there's a trivial way to convert their contrib modules into extension
style.

Hence, let's just drop both those scripts and the core-code support
for "CREATE EXTENSION ... FROM".

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200213233015.r6rnubcvl4egdh5r@alap3.anarazel.de
2020-02-19 16:59:14 -05:00
Tom Lane dce988145f Doc: fix old oversights in GRANT/REVOKE documentation.
The GRANTED BY clause in GRANT/REVOKE ROLE has been there since 2005
but was never documented.  I'm not sure now whether that was just an
oversight or was intentional (given the limited capability of the
option).  But seeing that pg_dumpall does emit code that uses this
option, it seems like not documenting it at all is a bad idea.

Also, when we upgraded the syntax to allow CURRENT_USER/SESSION_USER
as the privilege recipient, the role form of GRANT was incorrectly
not modified to show that, and REVOKE's docs weren't touched at all.

Although I'm not that excited about GRANTED BY, the other oversight
seems serious enough to justify a back-patch.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3070.1581526786@sss.pgh.pa.us
2020-02-12 14:13:13 -05:00
Michael Paquier dcdbb5a5db Add %x to default PROMPT1 and PROMPT2 in psql
%d can be used to track if the current connection is in a transaction
block or not, and adding it by default to the prompt has the advantage
to not need a modification of .psqlrc, something not possible depending
on the environment.

This discussion has happened across various sources, and there was a
strong consensus in favor of this change.

Author: Vik Fearing
Reviewed-by: Fabien Coelho
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/09502c40-cfe1-bb29-10f9-4b3fa7b2bbb2@2ndquadrant.com
2020-02-12 13:31:14 +09:00
Peter Eisentraut e49d5ebbae Document the pg_upgrade -j/--jobs option as taking an argument 2020-02-11 23:50:04 +01:00
Amit Kapila 77a00b809a doc: Spell checking
Reported-by: Justin Pryzby
Author: Justin Pryzby
Backpatch-through: 9.6
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200206021432.GA24549@telsasoft.com
2020-02-10 08:34:43 +05:30
Alvaro Herrera 9710d3d4a8 Fix TRUNCATE .. CASCADE on partitions
When running TRUNCATE CASCADE on a child of a partitioned table
referenced by another partitioned table, the truncate was not applied to
partitions of the referencing table; this could leave rows violating the
constraint in the referencing partitioned table.  Repair by walking the
pg_constraint chain all the way up to the topmost referencing table.

Note: any partitioned tables containing FKs that reference other
partitioned tables should be checked for possible violating rows, if
TRUNCATE has occurred in partitions of the referenced table.

Reported-by: Christophe Courtois
Author: Jehan-Guillaume de Rorthais
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200204183906.115f693e@firost
2020-02-07 17:09:36 -03:00
Alvaro Herrera 75cdf24ec3 ALTER SUBSCRIPTION / REFRESH docs: explain copy_data
The docs are ambiguous as to which tables would be copied over when the
copy_data parameter is true in ALTER SUBSCRIPTION ... REFRESH PUBLICATION.
Make it clear that it only applies to tables which are new in the
publication.

Author: David Christensen (reword by Álvaro Herrera)
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/95339420-7F09-4F8C-ACC0-8F1CFAAD9CD7@endpoint.com
2020-02-05 15:05:14 -03:00
Tom Lane 50fc694e43 Invent "trusted" extensions, and remove the pg_pltemplate catalog.
This patch creates a new extension property, "trusted".  An extension
that's marked that way in its control file can be installed by a
non-superuser who has the CREATE privilege on the current database,
even if the extension contains objects that normally would have to be
created by a superuser.  The objects within the extension will (by
default) be owned by the bootstrap superuser, but the extension itself
will be owned by the calling user.  This allows replicating the old
behavior around trusted procedural languages, without all the
special-case logic in CREATE LANGUAGE.  We have, however, chosen to
loosen the rules slightly: formerly, only a database owner could take
advantage of the special case that allowed installation of a trusted
language, but now anyone who has CREATE privilege can do so.

Having done that, we can delete the pg_pltemplate catalog, moving the
knowledge it contained into the extension script files for the various
PLs.  This ends up being no change at all for the in-core PLs, but it is
a large step forward for external PLs: they can now have the same ease
of installation as core PLs do.  The old "trusted PL" behavior was only
available to PLs that had entries in pg_pltemplate, but now any
extension can be marked trusted if appropriate.

This also removes one of the stumbling blocks for our Python 2 -> 3
migration, since the association of "plpythonu" with Python 2 is no
longer hard-wired into pg_pltemplate's initial contents.  Exactly where
we go from here on that front remains to be settled, but one problem
is fixed.

Patch by me, reviewed by Peter Eisentraut, Stephen Frost, and others.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/5889.1566415762@sss.pgh.pa.us
2020-01-29 18:42:43 -05:00
Amit Kapila 47bc9ced0d Add --parallel option to vacuumdb command.
Commit 40d964ec99 allowed vacuum command to leverage multiple CPUs by
invoking parallel workers to process indexes.  This commit provides a
'--parallel' option to specify the parallel degree used by vacuum command.

Author: Masahiko Sawada, with few modifications by me
Reviewed-by: Mahendra Singh and Amit Kapila
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAD21AoDTPMgzSkV4E3SFo1CH_x50bf5PqZFQf4jmqjk-C03BWg@mail.gmail.com
2020-01-29 11:08:50 +05:30
Peter Eisentraut a7a848844d Fix typo 2020-01-24 12:18:07 +01:00
Michael Paquier 6de7bcb76f Doc: Fix list of storage parameters available for ALTER TABLE
Only the parameter parallel_workers can be used directly with ALTER
TABLE.

Issue introduced in 6f3a13f, so backpatch down to 10.

Author: Justin Pryzby
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200106025623.GA12066@telsasoft.com
Backpatch-through: 10
2020-01-24 09:55:21 +09:00
Michael Paquier a904abe2e2 Fix concurrent indexing operations with temporary tables
Attempting to use CREATE INDEX, DROP INDEX or REINDEX with CONCURRENTLY
on a temporary relation with ON COMMIT actions triggered unexpected
errors because those operations use multiple transactions internally to
complete their work.  Here is for example one confusing error when using
ON COMMIT DELETE ROWS:
ERROR:  index "foo" already contains data

Issues related to temporary relations and concurrent indexing are fixed
in this commit by enforcing the non-concurrent path to be taken for
temporary relations even if using CONCURRENTLY, transparently to the
user.  Using a non-concurrent path does not matter in practice as locks
cannot be taken on a temporary relation by a session different than the
one owning the relation, and the non-concurrent operation is more
effective.

The problem exists with REINDEX since v12 with the introduction of
CONCURRENTLY, and with CREATE/DROP INDEX since CONCURRENTLY exists for
those commands.  In all supported versions, this caused only confusing
error messages to be generated.  Note that with REINDEX, it was also
possible to issue a REINDEX CONCURRENTLY for a temporary relation owned
by a different session, leading to a server crash.

The idea to enforce transparently the non-concurrent code path for
temporary relations comes originally from Andres Freund.

Reported-by: Manuel Rigger
Author: Michael Paquier, Heikki Linnakangas
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund, Álvaro Herrera, Heikki Linnakangas
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+u7OA6gP7YAeCguyseusYcc=uR8+ypjCcgDDCTzjQ+k6S9ksQ@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 9.4
2020-01-22 09:49:18 +09:00
Tom Lane 9b9c5f279e Clarify behavior of adding and altering a column in same ALTER command.
The behavior of something like

ALTER TABLE transactions
  ADD COLUMN status varchar(30) DEFAULT 'old',
  ALTER COLUMN status SET default 'current';

is to fill existing table rows with 'old', not 'current'.  That's
intentional and desirable for a couple of reasons:

* It makes the behavior the same whether you merge the sub-commands
into one ALTER command or give them separately;

* If we applied the new default while filling the table, there would
be no way to get the existing behavior in one SQL command.

The same reasoning applies in cases that add a column and then
manipulate its GENERATED/IDENTITY status in a second sub-command,
since the generation expression is really just a kind of default.
However, that wasn't very obvious (at least not to me; earlier in
the referenced discussion thread I'd thought it was a bug to be
fixed).  And it certainly wasn't documented.

Hence, add documentation, code comments, and a test case to clarify
that this behavior is all intentional.

In passing, adjust ATExecAddColumn's defaults-related relkind check
so that it matches up exactly with ATRewriteTables, instead of being
effectively (though not literally) the negated inverse condition.
The reasoning can be explained a lot more concisely that way, too
(not to mention that the comment now matches the code, which it
did not before).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/10365.1558909428@sss.pgh.pa.us
2020-01-21 16:17:21 -05:00
Amit Kapila 40d964ec99 Allow vacuum command to process indexes in parallel.
This feature allows the vacuum to leverage multiple CPUs in order to
process indexes.  This enables us to perform index vacuuming and index
cleanup with background workers.  This adds a PARALLEL option to VACUUM
command where the user can specify the number of workers that can be used
to perform the command which is limited by the number of indexes on a
table.  Specifying zero as a number of workers will disable parallelism.
This option can't be used with the FULL option.

Each index is processed by at most one vacuum process.  Therefore parallel
vacuum can be used when the table has at least two indexes.

The parallel degree is either specified by the user or determined based on
the number of indexes that the table has, and further limited by
max_parallel_maintenance_workers.  The index can participate in parallel
vacuum iff it's size is greater than min_parallel_index_scan_size.

Author: Masahiko Sawada and Amit Kapila
Reviewed-by: Dilip Kumar, Amit Kapila, Robert Haas, Tomas Vondra,
Mahendra Singh and Sergei Kornilov
Tested-by: Mahendra Singh and Prabhat Sahu
Discussion:
https://postgr.es/m/CAD21AoDTPMgzSkV4E3SFo1CH_x50bf5PqZFQf4jmqjk-C03BWg@mail.gmail.com
https://postgr.es/m/CAA4eK1J-VoR9gzS5E75pcD-OH0mEyCdp8RihcwKrcuw7J-Q0+w@mail.gmail.com
2020-01-20 07:57:49 +05:30
Peter Eisentraut f595117e24 ALTER TABLE ... ALTER COLUMN ... DROP EXPRESSION
Add an ALTER TABLE subcommand for dropping the generated property from
a column, per SQL standard.

Reviewed-by: Sergei Kornilov <sk@zsrv.org>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/2f7f1d9c-946e-0453-d841-4f38eb9d69b6%402ndquadrant.com
2020-01-14 13:36:03 +01:00
Michael Paquier 00b047fa67 doc: Fix naming of SELinux
Reported-by: Tham Nguyen
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/157851402876.29175.12977878383183540468@wrigleys.postgresql.org
Backpatch-through: 9.4
2020-01-10 09:36:55 +09:00
Fujii Masao 1ab029d528 Add note about how each partition's default value is treated, into the doc.
Column defaults may be specified separately for each partition.
But INSERT via a partitioned table ignores those partition's default values.
The former is documented, but the latter restriction not.
This commit adds the note about that restriction into the document.

Author: Fujii Masao
Reviewed-by: Amit Langote
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAHGQGwEs-59omrfGF7hOHz9iMME3RbKy5ny+iftDx3LHTEn9sA@mail.gmail.com
2019-12-26 15:07:43 +09:00
Bruce Momjian 4cab43ec80 docs: clarify handling of column lists in COPY TO/FROM
Previously it was unclear how COPY FROM handled cases where not all
columns were specified, or if the order didn't match.

Reported-by: pavlo.golub@gmail.com

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/157487729344.7213.14245726713444755296@wrigleys.postgresql.org

Backpatch-through: 9.4
2019-12-21 12:44:38 -05:00
Michael Paquier 52dcfda487 Doc: Improve readability of options for REINDEX
That's more consistent with the style we have been using with for
example EXPLAIN, VACUUM or ANALYZE (this one had only one option in
v11).  Based on a suggestion from Pavel Stehule.

Author: Josef Šimánek
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAFj8pRCrUS+eMFvssVPGZN-VDEMP3XN+1Dop0=CmeBq2D+dqOg@mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAFp7QwpeMPEtAR5AYpsG623ooMWX03wMjq5cpZn=X+6OCkfwJw@mail.gmail.com
2019-12-18 11:07:36 +09:00
Tom Lane d3aa114ac4 Doc: improve discussion of race conditions involved in LISTEN.
The user docs didn't really explain how to use LISTEN safely,
so clarify that.  Also clean up some fuzzy-headed explanations
in comments.  No code changes.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3ac7f397-4d5f-be8e-f354-440020675694@gmail.com
2019-11-24 18:03:39 -05:00
Thomas Munro 1974853d89 doc: Fix whitespace in syntax.
Back-patch to 10.

Author: Andreas Karlsson
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/043acae2-a369-b7fa-be48-1933aa2e82d1%40proxel.se
2019-11-25 09:23:10 +13:00
Tom Lane d1c866e57f Make psql redisplay the query buffer after \e.
Up to now, whatever you'd edited was put back into the query buffer
but not redisplayed, which is less than user-friendly.  But we can
improve that just by printing the text along with a prompt, if we
enforce that the editing result ends with a newline (which it
typically would anyway).  You then continue typing more lines if
you want, or you can type ";" or do \g or \r or another \e.

This is intentionally divorced from readline's processing,
for simplicity and so that it works the same with or without
readline enabled.  We discussed possibly integrating things
more closely with readline; but that seems difficult, uncertainly
portable across different readline and libedit versions, and
of limited real benefit anyway.  Let's try the simple way and
see if it's good enough.

Patch by me, thanks to Fabien Coelho and Laurenz Albe for review

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/13192.1572318028@sss.pgh.pa.us
2019-11-22 17:07:54 -05:00
Fujii Masao 30840c92ac Allow ALTER VIEW command to rename the column in the view.
ALTER TABLE RENAME COLUMN command always can be used to rename the column
in the view, but it's reasonable to add that syntax to ALTER VIEW too.

Author: Fujii Masao
Reviewed-by: Ibrar Ahmed, Yu Kimura
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAHGQGwHoQMD3b-MqTLcp1MgdhCpOKU7QNRwjFooT4_d+ti5v6g@mail.gmail.com
2019-11-21 19:55:13 +09:00
Amit Kapila 80e05a088e Add the support for '-f' option in dropdb utility.
Specifying '-f' will add the 'force' option to the DROP DATABASE command
sent to the server.  This will try to terminate all existing connections
to the target database before dropping it.

Author: Pavel Stehule
Reviewed-by: Vignesh C and Amit Kapila
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAP_rwwmLJJbn70vLOZFpxGw3XD7nLB_7+NKz46H5EOO2k5H7OQ@mail.gmail.com
2019-11-20 08:25:07 +05:30
Tom Lane 5b805886ca Doc: clarify use of RECURSIVE in WITH.
Apparently some people misinterpreted the syntax as being that
RECURSIVE is a prefix of individual WITH queries.  It's a modifier
for the WITH clause as a whole, so state that more clearly.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ca53c6ce-a0c6-b14a-a8e3-162f0b2cc119@a-kretschmer.de
2019-11-19 14:43:37 -05:00
Tom Lane 787b3fd33f Doc: clarify behavior of ALTER DEFAULT PRIVILEGES ... IN SCHEMA.
The existing text stated that "Default privileges that are specified
per-schema are added to whatever the global default privileges are for
the particular object type".  However, that bare-bones observation is
not quite clear enough, as demonstrated by the complaint in bug #16124.
Flesh it out by stating explicitly that you can't revoke built-in
default privileges this way, and by providing an example to drive
the point home.

Back-patch to all supported branches, since it's been like this
from the beginning.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16124-423d8ee4358421bc@postgresql.org
2019-11-19 14:21:41 -05:00
Thomas Munro 7f338369ca Allow invisible PROMPT2 in psql.
Keep track of the visible width of PROMPT1, and provide %w as a way
for PROMPT2 to generate the same number of spaces.

Author: Thomas Munro, with ideas from others
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane (earlier version)
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKG%2BzGd7RigjWbxwhzGW59gUpf76ydQECeGdEdodH6nd__A%40mail.gmail.com
2019-11-19 15:56:21 +13:00
Alvaro Herrera 6ae4d27187 Remove the word "virgins" for documentation
Apparently, it's no longer welcome.  Therefore replace it with "pristine",
and add some explanatory text while at it.

Reported by Brian Williams
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/157313712259.14261.16141263269989647311@wrigleys.postgresql.org
2019-11-14 17:33:26 -03:00