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Bruce Momjian de71541460 doc: Improve pg_upgrade rsync examples to use clusterdir
Commit 9521ce4a7a from Sep 13, 2017 and
backpatched through 9.5 used rsync examples with datadir.  The reporter
has pointed out, and testing has verified, that clusterdir must be used,
so update the docs accordingly.

Reported-by: Don Seiler

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAHJZqBD0u9dCERpYzK6BkRv=663AmH==DFJpVC=M4Xg_rq2=CQ@mail.gmail.com

Backpatch-through: 9.5
2018-01-31 16:43:40 -05:00
Robert Haas d40d97d6c7 pgcrypto's encrypt() supports AES-128, AES-192, and AES-256
Previously, only 128 was mentioned, but the others are also supported.

Thomas Munro, reviewed by Michael Paquier and extended a bit by me.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAEepm=1XbBHXYJKofGjnM2Qfz-ZBVqhGU4AqvtgR+Hegy4fdKg@mail.gmail.com
2018-01-31 16:33:11 -05:00
Bruce Momjian e5dede9097 doc: mention datadir locations are actually config locations
Technically, pg_upgrade's --old-datadir and --new-datadir are
configuration directories, not necessarily data directories.  This is
reflected in the 'postgres' manual page, so do the same for pg_upgrade.

Reported-by: Yves Goergen

Bug: 14898

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20171110220912.31513.13322@wrigleys.postgresql.org

Backpatch-through: 10
2018-01-31 16:25:21 -05:00
Peter Eisentraut 38d485fdaa Fix up references to scram-sha-256
pg_hba_file_rules erroneously reported this as scram-sha256.  Fix that.

To avoid future errors and confusion, also adjust documentation links
and internal symbols to have a separator between "sha" and "256".

Reported-by: Christophe Courtois <christophe.courtois@dalibo.com>
Author: Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>
2018-01-30 16:50:30 -05:00
Peter Eisentraut 1e1e599d66 doc: Clarify pg_upgrade documentation
Clarify that the restriction against reg* types only applies to table
columns using these types, not to the type appearing in any other way,
for example as a function argument.
2018-01-29 14:26:17 -05:00
Magnus Hagander ba8c2dfffd Add missing semicolons in documentation examples
Author: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
2018-01-27 13:13:52 +01:00
Tom Lane fb8697b31a Avoid unnecessary use of pg_strcasecmp for already-downcased identifiers.
We have a lot of code in which option names, which from the user's
viewpoint are logically keywords, are passed through the grammar as plain
identifiers, and then matched to string literals during command execution.
This approach avoids making words into lexer keywords unnecessarily.  Some
places matched these strings using plain strcmp, some using pg_strcasecmp.
But the latter should be unnecessary since identifiers would have been
downcased on their way through the parser.  Aside from any efficiency
concerns (probably not a big factor), the lack of consistency in this area
creates a hazard of subtle bugs due to different places coming to different
conclusions about whether two option names are the same or different.
Hence, standardize on using strcmp() to match any option names that are
expected to have been fed through the parser.

This does create a user-visible behavioral change, which is that while
formerly all of these would work:
	alter table foo set (fillfactor = 50);
	alter table foo set (FillFactor = 50);
	alter table foo set ("fillfactor" = 50);
	alter table foo set ("FillFactor" = 50);
now the last case will fail because that double-quoted identifier is
different from the others.  However, none of our documentation says that
you can use a quoted identifier in such contexts at all, and we should
discourage doing so since it would break if we ever decide to parse such
constructs as true lexer keywords rather than poor man's substitutes.
So this shouldn't create a significant compatibility issue for users.

Daniel Gustafsson, reviewed by Michael Paquier, small changes by me

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/29405B24-564E-476B-98C0-677A29805B84@yesql.se
2018-01-26 18:25:14 -05:00
Tom Lane 4971d2a322 Remove the obsolete WITH clause of CREATE FUNCTION.
This clause was superseded by SQL-standard syntax back in 7.3.
We've kept it around for backwards-compatibility purposes ever since;
but 15 years seems like long enough for that, especially seeing that
there are undocumented weirdnesses in how it interacts with the
SQL-standard syntax for specifying the same options.

Michael Paquier, per an observation by Daniel Gustafsson;
some small cosmetic adjustments to nearby code by me.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180115022748.GB1724@paquier.xyz
2018-01-26 12:25:44 -05:00
Tom Lane 1368e92e16 Support --no-comments in pg_dump, pg_dumpall, pg_restore.
We have switches already to suppress other subsidiary object properties,
such as ACLs, security labels, ownership, and tablespaces, so just on
the grounds of symmetry we should allow suppressing comments as well.
Also, commit 0d4e6ed30 added a positive reason to have this feature,
i.e. to allow obtaining the old behavior of selective pg_restore should
anyone desire that.

Recent commits have removed the cases where pg_dump emitted comments on
built-in objects that the restoring user might not have privileges to
comment on, so the original primary motivation for this feature is gone,
but it still seems at least somewhat useful in its own right.

Robins Tharakan, reviewed by Fabrízio Mello

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEP4nAx22Z4ch74oJGzr5RyyjcyUSbpiFLyeYXX8pehfou92ug@mail.gmail.com
2018-01-25 15:27:24 -05:00
Tom Lane 0d4e6ed308 Clean up some aspects of pg_dump/pg_restore item-selection logic.
Ensure that CREATE DATABASE and related commands are issued when, and
only when, --create is specified.  Previously there were scenarios
where using selective-dump switches would prevent --create from having
any effect.  For example, it would fail to do anything in pg_restore
if the archive file had been made by a selective dump, because there
would be no TOC entry for the database.

Since we don't issue \connect either if we don't issue CREATE DATABASE,
this could result in unexpectedly restoring objects into the wrong
database.

Also fix pg_restore's selective restore logic so that when an object is
selected to be restored, we also restore its ACL, comment, and security
label if any.  Previously there was no way to get the latter properties
except through tedious mucking about with a -L file.  If, for some
reason, you don't want these properties, you can match the old behavior
by adding --no-acl etc.

While at it, try to make _tocEntryRequired() a little better organized
and better documented.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/32668.1516848577@sss.pgh.pa.us
2018-01-25 14:26:15 -05:00
Peter Eisentraut 2a5ecb56d2 Update documentation to mention huge pages on other OSes
Previously, the docs implied that only Linux and Windows could use huge
pages.  That's not quite true: it's just that we only know how to
request them explicitly on those OSes.  Be more explicit about what
huge_pages really does and mention that some OSes may use huge pages
automatically.

Author: Thomas Munro and Catalin Iacob
Reviewed-By: Justin Pryzby, Peter Eisentraut
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEepm=3qzR-hfjepymohuC4XO5phxoSoipOjm6BEhnJHjNR+jg@mail.gmail.com
2018-01-25 11:15:03 -05:00
Bruce Momjian d6ab720360 doc: properly indent CREATE TRIGGER paragraph
This was done to match the surrounding indentation.  Text added in PG
10.

Backpatch-through: 10
2018-01-24 15:13:04 -05:00
Bruce Momjian 5b2a8cf96f doc: clarify use of RegisterDynamicBackgroundWorker
Document likely use of RegisterDynamicBackgroundWorker by another
background worker.

Reported-by: Chapman Flack

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAB7nPqTdi=J9HH8PPPiEOohebdd+xkgbbhdY7=VbGnZ3CkZXxA@mail.gmail.com

Author: Chapman Flack
2018-01-24 13:20:37 -05:00
Bruce Momjian e0a0deca38 doc: mention psql -l uses the 'postgres' database by default
Reported-by: Mark Wood

Bug: 14912

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20171116171735.1474.30450@wrigleys.postgresql.org

Author: David G. Johnston

Backpatch-through: 10
2018-01-23 18:22:56 -05:00
Tom Lane c9707d9413 Documentation fix: pg_ctl no longer makes connection attempts.
Overlooked in commit f13ea95f9.  Noted by Nick Barnes.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180123093723.7407.3386@wrigleys.postgresql.org
2018-01-23 12:42:03 -05:00
Bruce Momjian a541dbb6fa doc: simplify intermediate certificate mention in libpq docs
Backpatch-through: 9.3
2018-01-23 10:18:21 -05:00
Peter Eisentraut 7404e77cc1 Split out documentation of SSL parameters into their own section
Split the "Authentication and Security" section into two separate
sections "Authentication" and "SSL".  The latter part has gotten much
longer over time, and doesn't primarily have to do with authentication.

Also, the row_security parameter was inconsistently categorized, so
clean that up while we're here.
2018-01-23 07:11:38 -05:00
Tom Lane b3f8401205 Move handling of database properties from pg_dumpall into pg_dump.
This patch rearranges the division of labor between pg_dump and pg_dumpall
so that pg_dump itself handles all properties attached to a single
database.  Notably, a database's ACL (GRANT/REVOKE status) and local GUC
settings established by ALTER DATABASE SET and ALTER ROLE IN DATABASE SET
can be dumped and restored by pg_dump.  This is a long-requested
improvement.

"pg_dumpall -g" will now produce only role- and tablespace-related output,
nothing about individual databases.  The total output of a regular
pg_dumpall run remains the same.

pg_dump (or pg_restore) will restore database-level properties only when
creating the target database with --create.  This applies not only to
ACLs and GUCs but to the other database properties it already handled,
that is database comments and security labels.  This is more consistent
and useful, but does represent an incompatibility in the behavior seen
without --create.

(This change makes the proposed patch to have pg_dump use "COMMENT ON
DATABASE CURRENT_DATABASE" unnecessary, since there is no case where
the command is issued that we won't know the true name of the database.
We might still want that patch as a feature in its own right, but pg_dump
no longer needs it.)

pg_dumpall with --clean will now drop and recreate the "postgres" and
"template1" databases in the target cluster, allowing their locale and
encoding settings to be changed if necessary, and providing a cleaner
way to set nondefault tablespaces for them than we had before.  This
means that such a script must now always be started in the "postgres"
database; the order of drops and reconnects will not work otherwise.
Without --clean, the script will not adjust any database-level properties
of those two databases (including their comments, ACLs, and security
labels, which it formerly would try to set).

Another minor incompatibility is that the CREATE DATABASE commands in a
pg_dumpall script will now always specify locale and encoding settings.
Formerly those would be omitted if they matched the cluster's default.
While that behavior had some usefulness in some migration scenarios,
it also posed a significant hazard of unwanted locale/encoding changes.
To migrate to another locale/encoding, it's now necessary to use pg_dump
without --create to restore into a database with the desired settings.

Commit 4bd371f6f's hack to emit "SET default_transaction_read_only = off"
is gone: we now dodge that problem by the expedient of not issuing ALTER
DATABASE SET commands until after reconnecting to the target database.
Therefore, such settings won't apply during the restore session.

In passing, improve some shaky grammar in the docs, and add a note pointing
out that pg_dumpall's output can't be expected to load without any errors.
(Someday we might want to fix that, but this is not that patch.)

Haribabu Kommi, reviewed at various times by Andreas Karlsson,
Vaishnavi Prabakaran, and Robert Haas; further hacking by me.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAJrrPGcUurV0eWTeXODwsOYFN=Ekq36t1s0YnFYUNzsmRfdAyA@mail.gmail.com
2018-01-22 14:09:09 -05:00
Peter Eisentraut 8561e4840c Transaction control in PL procedures
In each of the supplied procedural languages (PL/pgSQL, PL/Perl,
PL/Python, PL/Tcl), add language-specific commit and rollback
functions/commands to control transactions in procedures in that
language.  Add similar underlying functions to SPI.  Some additional
cleanup so that transaction commit or abort doesn't blow away data
structures still used by the procedure call.  Add execution context
tracking to CALL and DO statements so that transaction control commands
can only be issued in top-level procedure and block calls, not function
calls or other procedure or block calls.

- SPI

Add a new function SPI_connect_ext() that is like SPI_connect() but
allows passing option flags.  The only option flag right now is
SPI_OPT_NONATOMIC.  A nonatomic SPI connection can execute transaction
control commands, otherwise it's not allowed.  This is meant to be
passed down from CALL and DO statements which themselves know in which
context they are called.  A nonatomic SPI connection uses different
memory management.  A normal SPI connection allocates its memory in
TopTransactionContext.  For nonatomic connections we use PortalContext
instead.  As the comment in SPI_connect_ext() (previously SPI_connect())
indicates, one could potentially use PortalContext in all cases, but it
seems safest to leave the existing uses alone, because this stuff is
complicated enough already.

SPI also gets new functions SPI_start_transaction(), SPI_commit(), and
SPI_rollback(), which can be used by PLs to implement their transaction
control logic.

- portalmem.c

Some adjustments were made in the code that cleans up portals at
transaction abort.  The portal code could already handle a command
*committing* a transaction and continuing (e.g., VACUUM), but it was not
quite prepared for a command *aborting* a transaction and continuing.

In AtAbort_Portals(), remove the code that marks an active portal as
failed.  As the comment there already predicted, this doesn't work if
the running command wants to keep running after transaction abort.  And
it's actually not necessary, because pquery.c is careful to run all
portal code in a PG_TRY block and explicitly runs MarkPortalFailed() if
there is an exception.  So the code in AtAbort_Portals() is never used
anyway.

In AtAbort_Portals() and AtCleanup_Portals(), we need to be careful not
to clean up active portals too much.  This mirrors similar code in
PreCommit_Portals().

- PL/Perl

Gets new functions spi_commit() and spi_rollback()

- PL/pgSQL

Gets new commands COMMIT and ROLLBACK.

Update the PL/SQL porting example in the documentation to reflect that
transactions are now possible in procedures.

- PL/Python

Gets new functions plpy.commit and plpy.rollback.

- PL/Tcl

Gets new commands commit and rollback.

Reviewed-by: Andrew Dunstan <andrew.dunstan@2ndquadrant.com>
2018-01-22 08:43:06 -05:00
Magnus Hagander b9ff79b8f1 Fix docs typo
Spotted by Thomas Munro
2018-01-22 10:18:09 +01:00
Magnus Hagander 1cc4f536ef Support huge pages on Windows
Add support for huge pages (called large pages on Windows) to the
Windows build.

This (probably) breaks compatibility with Windows versions prior to
Windows 2003 or Windows Vista.

Authors: Takayuki Tsunakawa and Thomas Munro
Reviewed by: Magnus Hagander, Amit Kapila
2018-01-21 15:40:46 +01:00
Magnus Hagander 5c15a54e85 Fix wording of "hostaddrs"
The field is still called "hostaddr", so make sure references use
"hostaddr values" instead.

Author: Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>
2018-01-21 13:41:52 +01:00
Bruce Momjian 815f84aa16 doc: update intermediate certificate instructions
Document how to properly create root and intermediate certificates using
v3_ca extensions and where to place intermediate certificates so they
are properly transferred to the remote side with the leaf certificate to
link to the remote root certificate.  This corrects docs that used to
say that intermediate certificates must be stored with the root
certificate.

Also add instructions on how to create root, intermediate, and leaf
certificates.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180116002238.GC12724@momjian.us

Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier

Backpatch-through: 9.3
2018-01-20 21:47:02 -05:00
Robert Haas 2f17844104 Allow UPDATE to move rows between partitions.
When an UPDATE causes a row to no longer match the partition
constraint, try to move it to a different partition where it does
match the partition constraint.  In essence, the UPDATE is split into
a DELETE from the old partition and an INSERT into the new one.  This
can lead to surprising behavior in concurrency scenarios because
EvalPlanQual rechecks won't work as they normally did; the known
problems are documented.  (There is a pending patch to improve the
situation further, but it needs more review.)

Amit Khandekar, reviewed and tested by Amit Langote, David Rowley,
Rajkumar Raghuwanshi, Dilip Kumar, Amul Sul, Thomas Munro, Álvaro
Herrera, Amit Kapila, and me.  A few final revisions by me.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAJ3gD9do9o2ccQ7j7+tSgiE1REY65XRiMb=yJO3u3QhyP8EEPQ@mail.gmail.com
2018-01-19 15:33:06 -05:00
Alvaro Herrera 8b08f7d482 Local partitioned indexes
When CREATE INDEX is run on a partitioned table, create catalog entries
for an index on the partitioned table (which is just a placeholder since
the table proper has no data of its own), and recurse to create actual
indexes on the existing partitions; create them in future partitions
also.

As a convenience gadget, if the new index definition matches some
existing index in partitions, these are picked up and used instead of
creating new ones.  Whichever way these indexes come about, they become
attached to the index on the parent table and are dropped alongside it,
and cannot be dropped on isolation unless they are detached first.

To support pg_dump'ing these indexes, add commands
    CREATE INDEX ON ONLY <table>
(which creates the index on the parent partitioned table, without
recursing) and
    ALTER INDEX ATTACH PARTITION
(which is used after the indexes have been created individually on each
partition, to attach them to the parent index).  These reconstruct prior
database state exactly.

Reviewed-by: (in alphabetical order) Peter Eisentraut, Robert Haas, Amit
	Langote, Jesper Pedersen, Simon Riggs, David Rowley
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20171113170646.gzweigyrgg6pwsg4@alvherre.pgsql
2018-01-19 11:49:22 -03:00
Peter Eisentraut a063d842f8 doc: Expand documentation of session_replication_role 2018-01-18 09:34:51 -05:00
Simon Riggs 9c7d06d606 Ability to advance replication slots
Ability to advance both physical and logical replication slots using a
new user function pg_replication_slot_advance().

For logical advance that means records are consumed as fast as possible
and changes are not given to output plugin for sending. Makes 2nd phase
(after we reached SNAPBUILD_FULL_SNAPSHOT) of replication slot creation
faster, especially when there are big transactions as the reorder buffer
does not have to deal with data changes and does not have to spill to
disk.

Author: Petr Jelinek
Reviewed-by: Simon Riggs
2018-01-17 11:38:34 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 255f14183a docs: replace dblink() mention with foreign data mention
Reported-by: steven.winfield@cantabcapital.com

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20171031105039.17183.850@wrigleys.postgresql.org
2018-01-12 16:53:33 -05:00
Bruce Momjian ca454b9bd3 doc: add JSON acronym
Reported-by: torsten.grust@gmail.com

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20171024201849.1488.71071@wrigleys.postgresql.org
2018-01-11 11:21:33 -05:00
Teodor Sigaev f50c80dbb1 llow negative coordinate for ~> (cube, int) operator
~> (cube, int) operator was especially designed for knn-gist search.
However, knn-gist supports only ascending ordering of results. Nevertheless
it would be useful to support descending ordering by ~> (cube, int) operator.
We provide workaround for that: negative coordinate give us inversed value
of corresponding cube bound. Therefore, knn search using negative coordinate
gives us an effect of descending ordering by cube bound.

Author: Alexander Korotkov
Reviewed by: Tomas Vondra, Andrey Borodin
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/a9657f6a-b497-36ff-e56-482a2c7e3292@2ndquadrant.com
2018-01-11 14:49:36 +03:00
Teodor Sigaev 563a053bdd Fix behavior of ~> (cube, int) operator
~> (cube, int) operator was especially designed for knn-gist search.
However, it appears that knn-gist search can't work correctly with current
behavior of this operator when dataset contains cubes of variable
dimensionality. In this case, the same value of second operator argument
can point to different dimension depending on dimensionality of particular cube.
Such behavior is incompatible with gist indexing of cubes, and knn-gist doesn't
work correctly for it.

This patch changes behavior of ~> (cube, int) operator by introducing dimension
numbering where value of second argument unambiguously identifies number of
dimension. With new behavior, this operator can be correctly supported by
knn-gist. Relevant changes to cube operator class are also included.

Backpatch to v9.6 where operator was introduced.

Since behavior of ~> (cube, int) operator is changed, depending entities
must be refreshed after upgrade. Such as, expression indexes using this
operator must be reindexed, materialized views must be rebuilt, stored
procedures and client code must be revised to correctly use new behavior.
That should be mentioned in release notes.

Noticed by: Tomas Vondra
Author: Alexander Korotkov
Reviewed by: Tomas Vondra, Andrey Borodin
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/a9657f6a-b497-36ff-e56-482a2c7e3292@2ndquadrant.com
2018-01-11 14:41:14 +03:00
Tom Lane 3c1e9fd232 Fix sample INSTR() functions in the plpgsql documentation.
These functions are stated to be Oracle-compatible, but they weren't.
Yugo Nagata noticed that while our code returns zero for a zero or
negative fourth parameter (occur_index), Oracle throws an error.
Further testing by me showed that there was also a discrepancy in the
interpretation of a negative third parameter (beg_index): Oracle thinks
that a negative beg_index indicates the last place where the target
substring can *begin*, whereas our code thinks it is the last place
where the target can *end*.

Adjust the sample code to behave like Oracle in both these respects.
Also change it to be a CDATA[] section, simplifying copying-and-pasting
out of the documentation source file.  And fix minor problems in the
introductory comment, which wasn't very complete or accurate.

Back-patch to all supported branches.  Although this patch only touches
documentation, we should probably call it out as a bug fix in the next
minor release notes, since users who have adopted the functions will
likely want to update their versions.

Yugo Nagata and Tom Lane

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20171229191705.c0b43a8c.nagata@sraoss.co.jp
2018-01-10 17:13:47 -05:00
Andrew Dunstan 11b623dd0a Implement TZH and TZM timestamp format patterns
These are compatible with Oracle and required for the datetime template
language for jsonpath in an upcoming patch.

Nikita Glukhov and Andrew Dunstan, reviewed by Pavel Stehule.
2018-01-09 14:25:05 -05:00
Teodor Sigaev bc7fa0c15c Improve scripting language in pgbench
Added:
 - variable now might contain integer, double, boolean and null values
 - functions ln, exp
 - logical AND/OR/NOT
 - bitwise AND/OR/NOT/XOR
 - bit right/left shift
 - comparison operators
 - IS [NOT] (NULL|TRUE|FALSE)
 - conditional choice (in form of when/case/then)

New operations and functions allow to implement more complicated test scenario.

Author: Fabien Coelho with minor editorization by me
Reviewed-By: Pavel Stehule, Jeevan Ladhe, me
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/alpine.DEB.2.10.1604030742390.31618@sto
2018-01-09 18:02:04 +03:00
Peter Eisentraut d3fb72ea6d Implement channel binding tls-server-end-point for SCRAM
This adds a second standard channel binding type for SCRAM.  It is
mainly intended for third-party clients that cannot implement
tls-unique, for example JDBC.

Author: Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>
2018-01-04 15:29:50 -05:00
Peter Eisentraut 35c0754fad Allow ldaps when using ldap authentication
While ldaptls=1 provides an RFC 4513 conforming way to do LDAP
authentication with TLS encryption, there was an earlier de facto
standard way to do LDAP over SSL called LDAPS.  Even though it's not
enshrined in a standard, it's still widely used and sometimes required
by organizations' network policies.  There seems to be no reason not to
support it when available in the client library.  Therefore, add support
when using OpenLDAP 2.4+ or Windows.  It can be configured with
ldapscheme=ldaps or ldapurl=ldaps://...

Add tests for both ways of requesting LDAPS and a test for the
pre-existing ldaptls=1.  Modify the 001_auth.pl test for "diagnostic
messages", which was previously relying on the server rejecting
ldaptls=1.

Author: Thomas Munro
Reviewed-By: Peter Eisentraut
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEepm=1s+pA-LZUjQ-9GQz0Z4rX_eK=DFXAF1nBQ+ROPimuOYQ@mail.gmail.com
2018-01-03 10:11:26 -05:00
Bruce Momjian 9d4649ca49 Update copyright for 2018
Backpatch-through: certain files through 9.3
2018-01-02 23:30:12 -05:00
Simon Riggs 2958a672b1 Extend near-wraparound hints to include replication slots
Author: Feike Steenbergen
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier
2017-12-29 14:01:25 +00:00
Robert Haas 7a727c180a Add pow(), aka power(), function to pgbench.
Raúl Marín Rodríguez, reviewed by Fabien Coelho and Michael Paquier,
with a minor fix by me.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAM6_UM4XiA14y9HnDqu9kAAOtwMhHZxW--q_ZACZW9Hsrsf-tg@mail.gmail.com
2017-12-27 10:45:45 -08:00
Teodor Sigaev ff963b393c Add polygon opclass for SP-GiST
Polygon opclass uses compress method feature of SP-GiST added earlier. For now
it's a single operator class which uses this feature. SP-GiST actually indexes
a bounding boxes of input polygons, so part of supported operations are lossy.
Opclass uses most methods of corresponding opclass over boxes of SP-GiST and
treats bounding boxes as point in 4D-space.

Bump catalog version.

Authors: Nikita Glukhov, Alexander Korotkov with minor editorization by me
Reviewed-By: all authors + Darafei Praliaskouski
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/54907069.1030506@sigaev.ru
2017-12-25 18:59:38 +03:00
Teodor Sigaev 854823fa33 Add optional compression method to SP-GiST
Patch allows to have different types of column and value stored in leaf tuples
of SP-GiST. The main application of feature is to transform complex column type
to simple indexed type or for truncating too long value, transformation could
be lossy.  Simple example: polygons are converted to their bounding boxes,
this opclass follows.

Authors: me, Heikki Linnakangas, Alexander Korotkov, Nikita Glukhov
Reviewed-By: all authors + Darafei Praliaskouski
Discussions:
https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/5447B3FF.2080406@sigaev.ru
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2017-12-22 13:33:16 +03:00
Andres Freund 1804284042 Add parallel-aware hash joins.
Introduce parallel-aware hash joins that appear in EXPLAIN plans as Parallel
Hash Join with Parallel Hash.  While hash joins could already appear in
parallel queries, they were previously always parallel-oblivious and had a
partial subplan only on the outer side, meaning that the work of the inner
subplan was duplicated in every worker.

After this commit, the planner will consider using a partial subplan on the
inner side too, using the Parallel Hash node to divide the work over the
available CPU cores and combine its results in shared memory.  If the join
needs to be split into multiple batches in order to respect work_mem, then
workers process different batches as much as possible and then work together
on the remaining batches.

The advantages of a parallel-aware hash join over a parallel-oblivious hash
join used in a parallel query are that it:

 * avoids wasting memory on duplicated hash tables
 * avoids wasting disk space on duplicated batch files
 * divides the work of building the hash table over the CPUs

One disadvantage is that there is some communication between the participating
CPUs which might outweigh the benefits of parallelism in the case of small
hash tables.  This is avoided by the planner's existing reluctance to supply
partial plans for small scans, but it may be necessary to estimate
synchronization costs in future if that situation changes.  Another is that
outer batch 0 must be written to disk if multiple batches are required.

A potential future advantage of parallel-aware hash joins is that right and
full outer joins could be supported, since there is a single set of matched
bits for each hashtable, but that is not yet implemented.

A new GUC enable_parallel_hash is defined to control the feature, defaulting
to on.

Author: Thomas Munro
Reviewed-By: Andres Freund, Robert Haas
Tested-By: Rafia Sabih, Prabhat Sahu
Discussion:
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    https://postgr.es/m/CAEepm=37HKyJ4U6XOLi=JgfSHM3o6B-GaeO-6hkOmneTDkH+Uw@mail.gmail.com
2017-12-21 00:43:41 -08:00
Peter Eisentraut 4bbf110d2f Add libpq connection parameter "scram_channel_binding"
This parameter can be used to enforce the channel binding type used
during a SCRAM authentication.  This can be useful to check code paths
where an invalid channel binding type is used by a client and will be
even more useful to allow testing other channel binding types when they
are added.

The default value is tls-unique, which is what RFC 5802 specifies.
Clients can optionally specify an empty value, which has as effect to
not use channel binding and use SCRAM-SHA-256 as chosen SASL mechanism.

More tests for SCRAM and channel binding are added to the SSL test
suite.

Author: Author: Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>
2017-12-19 10:12:36 -05:00
Peter Eisentraut 53cba77b53 doc: Fix figures in example description
oversight in 244c8b466a

Reported-by: Blaz Merela <blaz@merela.org>
2017-12-18 16:00:35 -05:00
Teodor Sigaev 1fcd0adeb3 Add approximated Zipfian-distributed random generator to pgbench.
Generator helps to make close to real-world tests.

Author: Alik Khilazhev
Reviewed-By: Fabien COELHO
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/BF3B6F54-68C3-417A-BFAB-FB4D66F2B410@postgrespro.ru
2017-12-14 14:30:22 +03:00
Peter Eisentraut 51cff91c90 doc: Flex is not a GNU package
Remove the designation that Flex is a GNU package.  Even though Bison is
a GNU package, leave out the designation to not make the sentence
unnecessarily complicated.

Author: Pavan Maddamsetti <pavan.maddamsetti@gmail.com>
2017-12-05 21:04:38 -05:00
Tom Lane 7404704a0c Fix broken markup. 2017-12-05 18:53:32 -05:00
Robert Haas ab72716778 Support Parallel Append plan nodes.
When we create an Append node, we can spread out the workers over the
subplans instead of piling on to each subplan one at a time, which
should typically be a bit more efficient, both because the startup
cost of any plan executed entirely by one worker is paid only once and
also because of reduced contention.  We can also construct Append
plans using a mix of partial and non-partial subplans, which may allow
for parallelism in places that otherwise couldn't support it.
Unfortunately, this patch doesn't handle the important case of
parallelizing UNION ALL by running each branch in a separate worker;
the executor infrastructure is added here, but more planner work is
needed.

Amit Khandekar, Robert Haas, Amul Sul, reviewed and tested by
Ashutosh Bapat, Amit Langote, Rafia Sabih, Amit Kapila, and
Rajkumar Raghuwanshi.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAJ3gD9dy0K_E8r727heqXoBmWZ83HwLFwdcaSSmBQ1+S+vRuUQ@mail.gmail.com
2017-12-05 17:28:39 -05:00
Peter Eisentraut 8097d189cc doc: Update memory requirements for FOP
Reported-by: Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org>
2017-12-05 15:41:56 -05:00
Peter Eisentraut 28f8896af0 doc: Turn on generate.consistent.ids parameter
This ensures that automatically generated HTML anchors don't change in
every build.
2017-12-05 09:00:26 -05:00