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Simon Riggs 149f6f1576 TABLESAMPLE system_time(limit)
Contrib module implementing a tablesample method
that allows you to limit the sample by a hard time
limit.

Petr Jelinek

Reviewed by Michael Paquier, Amit Kapila and
Simon Riggs
2015-05-15 15:18:57 -04:00
Simon Riggs 9689290ff0 TABLESAMPLE system_rows(limit)
Contrib module implementing a tablesample method
that allows you to limit the sample by a hard row
limit.

Petr Jelinek

Reviewed by Michael Paquier, Amit Kapila and
Simon Riggs
2015-05-15 15:14:22 -04:00
Stephen Frost ac52bb0442 Add pg_audit, an auditing extension
This extension provides detailed logging classes, ability to control
logging at a per-object level, and includes fully-qualified object
names for logged statements (DML and DDL) in independent fields of the
log output.

Authors: Ian Barwick, Abhijit Menon-Sen, David Steele
Reviews by: Robert Haas, Tatsuo Ishii, Sawada Masahiko, Fujii Masao,
Simon Riggs

Discussion with: Josh Berkus, Jaime Casanova, Peter Eisentraut,
David Fetter, Yeb Havinga, Alvaro Herrera, Petr Jelinek, Tom Lane,
MauMau, Bruce Momjian, Jim Nasby, Michael Paquier,
Fabrízio de Royes Mello, Neil Tiffin
2015-05-14 10:36:16 -04:00
Andres Freund 5aa2350426 Introduce replication progress tracking infrastructure.
When implementing a replication solution ontop of logical decoding, two
related problems exist:
* How to safely keep track of replication progress
* How to change replication behavior, based on the origin of a row;
  e.g. to avoid loops in bi-directional replication setups

The solution to these problems, as implemented here, consist out of
three parts:

1) 'replication origins', which identify nodes in a replication setup.
2) 'replication progress tracking', which remembers, for each
   replication origin, how far replay has progressed in a efficient and
   crash safe manner.
3) The ability to filter out changes performed on the behest of a
   replication origin during logical decoding; this allows complex
   replication topologies. E.g. by filtering all replayed changes out.

Most of this could also be implemented in "userspace", e.g. by inserting
additional rows contain origin information, but that ends up being much
less efficient and more complicated.  We don't want to require various
replication solutions to reimplement logic for this independently. The
infrastructure is intended to be generic enough to be reusable.

This infrastructure also replaces the 'nodeid' infrastructure of commit
timestamps. It is intended to provide all the former capabilities,
except that there's only 2^16 different origins; but now they integrate
with logical decoding. Additionally more functionality is accessible via
SQL.  Since the commit timestamp infrastructure has also been introduced
in 9.5 (commit 73c986add) changing the API is not a problem.

For now the number of origins for which the replication progress can be
tracked simultaneously is determined by the max_replication_slots
GUC. That GUC is not a perfect match to configure this, but there
doesn't seem to be sufficient reason to introduce a separate new one.

Bumps both catversion and wal page magic.

Author: Andres Freund, with contributions from Petr Jelinek and Craig Ringer
Reviewed-By: Heikki Linnakangas, Petr Jelinek, Robert Haas, Steve Singer
Discussion: 20150216002155.GI15326@awork2.anarazel.de,
    20140923182422.GA15776@alap3.anarazel.de,
    20131114172632.GE7522@alap2.anarazel.de
2015-04-29 19:30:53 +02:00
Peter Eisentraut b0a738f428 Move pg_xlogdump from contrib/ to src/bin/
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>
2015-04-21 19:03:49 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 528c2e44ab Move pg_test_timing from contrib/ to src/bin/
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>
2015-04-20 21:30:12 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 00882d9e5c Move pg_test_fsync from contrib/ to src/bin/
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>
2015-04-19 22:20:49 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 9fa8b0ee90 Move pg_upgrade from contrib/ to src/bin/
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>
2015-04-14 19:26:38 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 81134af3ec Move pgbench from contrib/ to src/bin/
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>
2015-04-13 13:07:16 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 83aca89f7c Move pg_archivecleanup from contrib/ to src/bin/
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>
2015-04-11 23:29:18 -04:00
Robert Haas 82fe8b1119 Document the new custom scan APIs.
These APIs changed somewhat subsequent to the initial commit, and may
change further in the future, but let's document what we have today.

KaiGai Kohei and Robert Haas, reviewed by Tom Lane and Thom Brown
2015-03-13 07:55:39 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera 7516f52594 BRIN: Block Range Indexes
BRIN is a new index access method intended to accelerate scans of very
large tables, without the maintenance overhead of btrees or other
traditional indexes.  They work by maintaining "summary" data about
block ranges.  Bitmap index scans work by reading each summary tuple and
comparing them with the query quals; all pages in the range are returned
in a lossy TID bitmap if the quals are consistent with the values in the
summary tuple, otherwise not.  Normal index scans are not supported
because these indexes do not store TIDs.

As new tuples are added into the index, the summary information is
updated (if the block range in which the tuple is added is already
summarized) or not; in the latter case, a subsequent pass of VACUUM or
the brin_summarize_new_values() function will create the summary
information.

For data types with natural 1-D sort orders, the summary info consists
of the maximum and the minimum values of each indexed column within each
page range.  This type of operator class we call "Minmax", and we
supply a bunch of them for most data types with B-tree opclasses.
Since the BRIN code is generalized, other approaches are possible for
things such as arrays, geometric types, ranges, etc; even for things
such as enum types we could do something different than minmax with
better results.  In this commit I only include minmax.

Catalog version bumped due to new builtin catalog entries.

There's more that could be done here, but this is a good step forwards.

Loosely based on ideas from Simon Riggs; code mostly by Álvaro Herrera,
with contribution by Heikki Linnakangas.

Patch reviewed by: Amit Kapila, Heikki Linnakangas, Robert Haas.
Testing help from Jeff Janes, Erik Rijkers, Emanuel Calvo.

PS:
  The research leading to these results has received funding from the
  European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under
  grant agreement n° 318633.
2014-11-07 16:38:14 -03:00
Bruce Momjian 21223c24c2 Initial version of Postgres 9.4 release notes 2014-05-03 23:16:24 -04:00
Andrew Dunstan d9134d0a35 Introduce jsonb, a structured format for storing json.
The new format accepts exactly the same data as the json type. However, it is
stored in a format that does not require reparsing the orgiginal text in order
to process it, making it much more suitable for indexing and other operations.
Insignificant whitespace is discarded, and the order of object keys is not
preserved. Neither are duplicate object keys kept - the later value for a given
key is the only one stored.

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

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

Authors: Oleg Bartunov,  Teodor Sigaev, Peter Geoghegan and Andrew Dunstan.
Review: Andres Freund
2014-03-23 16:40:19 -04:00
Robert Haas 49c0864d7e Documentation for logical decoding.
Craig Ringer, Andres Freund, Christian Kruse, with edits by me.
2014-03-18 13:20:01 -04:00
Robert Haas b89e151054 Introduce logical decoding.
This feature, building on previous commits, allows the write-ahead log
stream to be decoded into a series of logical changes; that is,
inserts, updates, and deletes and the transactions which contain them.
It is capable of handling decoding even across changes to the schema
of the effected tables.  The output format is controlled by a
so-called "output plugin"; an example is included.  To make use of
this in a real replication system, the output plugin will need to be
modified to produce output in the format appropriate to that system,
and to perform filtering.

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

Andres Freund, with review and other contributions from many other
people, including Álvaro Herrera, Abhijit Menon-Sen, Peter Gheogegan,
Kevin Grittner, Robert Haas, Heikki Linnakangas, Fujii Masao, Abhijit
Menon-Sen, Michael Paquier, Simon Riggs, Craig Ringer, and Steve
Singer.
2014-03-03 16:32:18 -05:00
Robert Haas 16cad3e867 Documentation for test_shm_mq.
Commit 4db3744f1f added this contrib
module but neglected to document it.  Oops.
2014-01-14 15:58:15 -05:00
Robert Haas c32afe53c2 pg_prewarm, a contrib module for prewarming relationd data.
Patch by me.  Review by Álvaro Herrera, Amit Kapila, Jeff Janes,
Gurjeet Singh, and others.
2013-12-20 08:14:13 -05:00
Peter Eisentraut 90c7b7d16b doc: Enable book index in XSLT builds
The XSLT toolchain requires an empty <index> element where the index is
supposed to appear.  Add that with conditionals to hide it from the
DSSSL build.
2013-10-15 22:54:36 -04:00
Bruce Momjian e9a35c2082 Publish draft 9.3 release notes
No links added yet.
2013-04-20 16:29:58 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera 639ed4e84b Add pg_xlogdump contrib program
This program relies on rm_desc backend routines and the xlogreader
infrastructure to emit human-readable rendering of WAL records.

Author: Andres Freund, with many reworks by Álvaro
Reviewed (in a much earlier version) by Peter Eisentraut
2013-02-22 16:56:55 -03:00
Tom Lane d0d75c4022 Add postgres_fdw contrib module.
There's still a lot of room for improvement, but it basically works,
and we need this to be present before we can do anything much with the
writable-foreign-tables patch.  So let's commit it and get on with testing.

Shigeru Hanada, reviewed by KaiGai Kohei and Tom Lane
2013-02-21 05:27:16 -05:00
Alvaro Herrera da07a1e856 Background worker processes
Background workers are postmaster subprocesses that run arbitrary
user-specified code.  They can request shared memory access as well as
backend database connections; or they can just use plain libpq frontend
database connections.

Modules listed in shared_preload_libraries can register background
workers in their _PG_init() function; this is early enough that it's not
necessary to provide an extra GUC option, because the necessary extra
resources can be allocated early on.  Modules can install more than one
bgworker, if necessary.

Care is taken that these extra processes do not interfere with other
postmaster tasks: only one such process is started on each ServerLoop
iteration.  This means a large number of them could be waiting to be
started up and postmaster is still able to quickly service external
connection requests.  Also, shutdown sequence should not be impacted by
a worker process that's reasonably well behaved (i.e. promptly responds
to termination signals.)

The current implementation lets worker processes specify their start
time, i.e. at what point in the server startup process they are to be
started: right after postmaster start (in which case they mustn't ask
for shared memory access), when consistent state has been reached
(useful during recovery in a HOT standby server), or when recovery has
terminated (i.e. when normal backends are allowed).

In case of a bgworker crash, actions to take depend on registration
data: if shared memory was requested, then all other connections are
taken down (as well as other bgworkers), just like it were a regular
backend crashing.  The bgworker itself is restarted, too, within a
configurable timeframe (which can be configured to be never).

More features to add to this framework can be imagined without much
effort, and have been discussed, but this seems good enough as a useful
unit already.

An elementary sample module is supplied.

Author: Álvaro Herrera

This patch is loosely based on prior patches submitted by KaiGai Kohei,
and unsubmitted code by Simon Riggs.

Reviewed by: KaiGai Kohei, Markus Wanner, Andres Freund,
Heikki Linnakangas, Simon Riggs, Amit Kapila
2012-12-06 17:47:30 -03:00
Robert Haas 3855968f32 Syntax support and documentation for event triggers.
They don't actually do anything yet; that will get fixed in a
follow-on commit.  But this gets the basic infrastructure in place,
including CREATE/ALTER/DROP EVENT TRIGGER; support for COMMENT,
SECURITY LABEL, and ALTER EXTENSION .. ADD/DROP EVENT TRIGGER;
pg_dump and psql support; and documentation for the anticipated
initial feature set.

Dimitri Fontaine, with review and a bunch of additional hacking by me.
Thom Brown extensively reviewed earlier versions of this patch set,
but there's not a whole lot of that code left in this commit, as it
turns out.
2012-07-18 10:16:16 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 668f959dcb Publish draft version of Postgres 9.2 release notes. 2012-05-09 22:25:52 -04:00
Robert Haas cee523867d pg_test_timing utility, to measure clock monotonicity and timing cost.
Ants Aasma, Greg Smith
2012-03-27 16:14:00 -04:00
Robert Haas 6e3323d41d Triggered change notifications.
Kevin Grittner, reviewed (in earlier versions) by Álvaro Herrera
2012-01-19 23:15:15 -05:00
Tom Lane 8daeb5ddd6 Add SP-GiST (space-partitioned GiST) index access method.
SP-GiST is comparable to GiST in flexibility, but supports non-balanced
partitioned search structures rather than balanced trees.  As described at
PGCon 2011, this new indexing structure can beat GiST in both index build
time and query speed for search problems that it is well matched to.

There are a number of areas that could still use improvement, but at this
point the code seems committable.

Teodor Sigaev and Oleg Bartunov, with considerable revisions by Tom Lane
2011-12-17 16:42:30 -05:00
Tom Lane 851c83fc81 Return FALSE instead of throwing error for comparisons with empty ranges.
Change range_before, range_after, range_adjacent to return false rather
than throwing an error when one or both input ranges are empty.

The original definition is unnecessarily difficult to use, and also can
result in undesirable planner failures since the planner could try to
compare an empty range to something else while deriving statistical
estimates.  (This was, in fact, the cause of repeatable regression test
failures on buildfarm member jaguar, as well as intermittent failures
elsewhere.)

Also tweak rangetypes regression test to not drop all the objects it
creates, so that the final state of the regression database contains
some rangetype objects for pg_dump testing.
2011-11-14 15:15:53 -05:00
Heikki Linnakangas 4429f6a9e3 Support range data types.
Selectivity estimation functions are missing for some range type operators,
which is a TODO.

Jeff Davis
2011-11-03 13:42:15 +02:00
Alvaro Herrera fc3459d70c Uppercase <!ENTITY> and <!DOCTYPE> tags in SGML source
This improves compatibility with external toolchains, such as those used
by some documentation translation tools.

Gabriele Bartolini
2011-04-04 16:09:10 -04:00
Tom Lane 7c5d0ae707 Add contrib/file_fdw foreign-data wrapper for reading files via COPY.
This is both very useful in its own right, and an important test case
for the core FDW support.

This commit includes a small refactoring of copy.c to expose its option
checking code as a separately callable function.  The original patch
submission duplicated hundreds of lines of that code, which seemed pretty
unmaintainable.

Shigeru Hanada, reviewed by Itagaki Takahiro and Tom Lane
2011-02-20 14:06:59 -05:00
Tom Lane bb74240794 Implement an API to let foreign-data wrappers actually be functional.
This commit provides the core code and documentation needed.  A contrib
module test case will follow shortly.

Shigeru Hanada, Jan Urbanski, Heikki Linnakangas
2011-02-20 00:18:14 -05:00
Robert Haas ddfe26f644 Avoid maintaining three separate copies of the error codes list.
src/pl/plpgsql/src/plerrcodes.h, src/include/utils/errcodes.h, and a
big chunk of errcodes.sgml are now automatically generated from a single
file, src/backend/utils/errcodes.txt.

Jan Urbański, reviewed by Tom Lane.
2011-02-03 22:32:49 -05:00
Robert Haas 968bc6fac9 sepgsql, an SE-Linux integration for PostgreSQL
This is still pretty rough - among other things, the documentation
needs work, and the messages need a visit from the style police -
but this gets the basic framework in place.

KaiGai Kohei
2011-01-23 20:48:27 -05:00
Bruce Momjian 606a3d54fc Move test_fsync to /contrib. 2011-01-21 12:47:54 -05:00
Robert Haas fe7a32fc87 New contrib module, auth_delay.
KaiGai Kohei, with a few changes by me.
2010-11-27 07:22:25 -05:00
Peter Eisentraut fc946c39ae Remove useless whitespace at end of lines 2010-11-23 22:34:55 +02:00
Robert Haas 45768d10e3 Document the dummy_seclabel contrib module.
KaiGai Kohei, with editing and markup fixes by me.
2010-11-17 20:50:51 -05:00
Robert Haas 3186560f46 Replace doc references to install-win32 with install-windows.
Windows is not necessarily 32-bit, any more.

As suggested by Mike Toews.
2010-09-23 17:45:39 -04:00
Magnus Hagander 726f9ddcd1 Remove anonymous cvs instructions, and replace them with instructions
for git. Change other references from cvs to git as well.
2010-09-22 20:10:28 +02:00
Magnus Hagander 9f2e211386 Remove cvs keywords from all files. 2010-09-20 22:08:53 +02:00
Tom Lane c89a1198f9 9.1alpha1 release notes. 2010-09-02 17:30:06 +00:00
Simon Riggs 24bfbb5857 Docs for pg_archivecleanup 2010-06-14 17:25:24 +00:00
Bruce Momjian c2e9b2f288 Add pg_upgrade to /contrib; will be in 9.0 beta2.
Add documentation.

Supports migration from PG 8.3 and 8.4.
2010-05-12 02:19:11 +00:00
Heikki Linnakangas 3229db2d42 Move documentation of all recovery.conf option to a new chapter.
They used to be scattered between the "backup and restore" and "streaming
replication" chapters.
2010-02-22 11:47:30 +00:00
Tom Lane 50a90fac40 Stamp HEAD as 9.0devel, and update various places that were referring to 8.5
(hope I got 'em all).  Per discussion, this release will be 9.0 not 8.5.
2010-02-17 04:19:41 +00:00
Tom Lane c742b795dd Add a hook to CREATE/ALTER ROLE to allow an external module to check the
strength of database passwords, and create a sample implementation of
such a hook as a new contrib module "passwordcheck".

Laurenz Albe, reviewed by Takahiro Itagaki
2009-11-18 21:57:56 +00:00
Teodor Sigaev 92e05bc6a5 Unaccent dictionary. 2009-08-18 10:34:39 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 77dfb64df4 Add release notes for 8.5alpha1 2009-08-17 22:14:44 +00:00