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Author SHA1 Message Date
Robert Haas 0a157a4d44 Clarify language in incremental backup glossary entry.
These changes were intended to be included in commit
7b1dbf0a8d, but I goofed.
2024-01-18 10:09:38 -05:00
Robert Haas 7b1dbf0a8d More documentation updates for incremental backup.
Add new terms to glossary. Add a reference to walsummarizer
to monitoring.sgml.

Matthias van de Meent and Robert Haas

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAEze2WjhdVCqEe_qqEok3NA6DwUdOGSBjAxzmYdAqiaaH1uRcg@mail.gmail.com
2024-01-18 09:25:28 -05:00
Alvaro Herrera 27d04ed531
Rework text in replication slots documentation
This is cosmetic, so no backpatch.

Reviewed-by: Bharath Rupireddy <bharath.rupireddyforpostgres@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20230413111838.e7yxke2dtwrxw3qy@alvherre.pgsql
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/202401151537.ryhysqfncs6d@alvherre.pgsql
2024-01-18 11:30:53 +01:00
Alexander Korotkov 9e2d870119 Add new COPY option SAVE_ERROR_TO
Currently, when source data contains unexpected data regarding data type or
range, the entire COPY fails. However, in some cases, such data can be ignored
and just copying normal data is preferable.

This commit adds a new option SAVE_ERROR_TO, which specifies where to save the
error information. When this option is specified, COPY skips soft errors and
continues copying.

Currently, SAVE_ERROR_TO only supports "none". This indicates error information
is not saved and COPY just skips the unexpected data and continues running.

Later works are expected to add more choices, such as 'log' and 'table'.

Author: Damir Belyalov, Atsushi Torikoshi, Alex Shulgin, Jian He
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/87k31ftoe0.fsf_-_%40commandprompt.com
Reviewed-by: Pavel Stehule, Andres Freund, Tom Lane, Daniel Gustafsson,
Reviewed-by: Alena Rybakina, Andy Fan, Andrei Lepikhov, Masahiko Sawada
Reviewed-by: Vignesh C, Atsushi Torikoshi
2024-01-16 23:08:53 +02:00
Peter Eisentraut 6995863157 Support identity columns in partitioned tables
Previously, identity columns were disallowed on partitioned tables.
(The reason was mainly that no one had gotten around to working
through all the details to make it work.)  This makes it work now.

Some details on the behavior:

* A newly created partition inherits identity property

  The partitions of a partitioned table are integral part of the
  partitioned table.  A partition inherits identity columns from the
  partitioned table.  An identity column of a partition shares the
  identity space with the corresponding column of the partitioned
  table.  In other words, the same identity column across all
  partitions of a partitioned table share the same identity space.
  This is effected by sharing the same underlying sequence.

  When INSERTing directly into a partition, the sequence associated
  with the topmost partitioned table is used to calculate the value of
  the corresponding identity column.

  In regular inheritance, identity columns and their properties in a
  child table are independent of those in its parent tables.  A child
  table does not inherit identity columns or their properties
  automatically from the parent.  (This is unchanged.)

* Attached partition inherits identity column

  A table being attached as a partition inherits the identity property
  from the partitioned table.  This should be fine since we expect
  that the partition table's column has the same type as the
  partitioned table's corresponding column.  If the table being
  attached is a partitioned table, the identity properties are
  propagated down its partition hierarchy.

  An identity column in the partitioned table is also marked as NOT
  NULL.  The corresponding column in the partition needs to be marked
  as NOT NULL for the attach to succeed.

* Drop identity property when detaching partition

  A partition's identity column shares the identity space
  (i.e. underlying sequence) as the corresponding column of the
  partitioned table.  If a partition is detached it can longer share
  the identity space as before.  Hence the identity columns of the
  partition being detached loose their identity property.

  When identity of a column of a regular table is dropped it retains
  the NOT NULL constraint that came with the identity property.
  Similarly the columns of the partition being detached retain the NOT
  NULL constraints that came with identity property, even though the
  identity property itself is lost.

  The sequence associated with the identity property is linked to the
  partitioned table (and not the partition being detached).  That
  sequence is not dropped as part of detach operation.

* Partitions with their own identity columns are not allowed.

* The usual ALTER operations (add identity column, add identity
  property to existing column, alter properties of an indentity
  column, drop identity property) are supported for partitioned
  tables.  Changing a column only in a partitioned table or a
  partition is not allowed; the change needs to be applied to the
  whole partition hierarchy.

Author: Ashutosh Bapat <ashutosh.bapat.oss@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CAExHW5uOykuTC+C6R1yDSp=o8Q83jr8xJdZxgPkxfZ1Ue5RRGg@mail.gmail.com
2024-01-16 17:24:52 +01:00
Daniel Gustafsson 7bcf57a0ca Decorate WITH with literal markup tags
One instance of "WITH clause" was not using <literal> tags around
WITH, while others were, so add markup to the last one to ensure
consistency.  Backpatch to v15 where MERGE was added.

Reported-by: jian he <jian.universality@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CACJufxGJKY9ZCPV2WDM6xFsXq9C8r7r3vU6AkScN+p9k6CEpMw@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: v15
2024-01-16 13:51:15 +01:00
Peter Eisentraut a37bb7c139 doc: Add Identity Column section under Data Definition chapter
This seems to be missing since identity column support was added.  Add
the same.  This gives a place to document various pieces of
information in one place that are currently distributed over several
command reference pages or just not documented (e.g., inheritance
behavior).

Author: Ashutosh Bapat <ashutosh.bapat.oss@gmail.com>
Author: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CAExHW5uOykuTC+C6R1yDSp=o8Q83jr8xJdZxgPkxfZ1Ue5RRGg@mail.gmail.com
2024-01-16 09:42:40 +01:00
Peter Eisentraut 58b20e6d75 doc: Decorate PostgreSQL with productname tag
... in the section about Generated Columns.

Author: Ashutosh Bapat <ashutosh.bapat.oss@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CAExHW5uOykuTC+C6R1yDSp=o8Q83jr8xJdZxgPkxfZ1Ue5RRGg@mail.gmail.com
2024-01-16 08:56:00 +01:00
Michael Paquier 4794c2d317 libpq: Add PQsendPipelineSync()
This new function is equivalent to PQpipelineSync(), except that it does
not flush anything to the server except if the size threshold of the
output buffer is reached; the user must subsequently call PQflush()
instead.

Its purpose is to reduce the system call overhead of pipeline mode, by
giving to applications more control over the timing of the flushes when
manipulating commands in pipeline mode.

Author: Anton Kirilov
Reviewed-by: Jelte Fennema-Nio, Robert Haas, Álvaro Herrera, Denis
Laxalde, Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CACV6eE5arHFZEA717=iKEa_OewpVFfWJOmsOdGrqqsr8CJVfWQ@mail.gmail.com
2024-01-16 10:13:42 +09:00
Michael Paquier 83eb244e41 Fix a typo and some doc indentation related to libpq pipeline functions
Noticed while reviewing the area for a different patch.  This is
cosmetic, so no backpatch is done.
2024-01-16 09:17:51 +09:00
Robert Haas 237d01139b Fix typos.
Alexander Lakhin

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/212b0987-83e5-e2ae-c5e8-b8170fdaf3a0@gmail.com
2024-01-15 11:50:44 -05:00
Peter Eisentraut 556799660f doc: Update catalog documentation for attstattarget nullable
Fixup for 4f622503d6.
2024-01-14 07:46:01 +01:00
Peter Eisentraut 4f622503d6 Make attstattarget nullable
This changes the pg_attribute field attstattarget into a nullable
field in the variable-length part of the row.  If no value is set by
the user for attstattarget, it is now null instead of previously -1.
This saves space in pg_attribute and tuple descriptors for most
practical scenarios.  (ATTRIBUTE_FIXED_PART_SIZE is reduced from 108
to 104.)  Also, null is the semantically more correct value.

The ANALYZE code internally continues to represent the default
statistics target by -1, so that that code can avoid having to deal
with null values.  But that is now contained to the ANALYZE code.
Only the DDL code deals with attstattarget possibly null.

For system columns, the field is now always null.  The ANALYZE code
skips system columns anyway.

To set a column's statistics target to the default value, the new
command form ALTER TABLE ... SET STATISTICS DEFAULT can be used.  (SET
STATISTICS -1 still works.)

Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/4da8d211-d54d-44b9-9847-f2a9f1184c76@eisentraut.org
2024-01-13 18:14:53 +01:00
Jeff Davis 5c31669058 Re-validate connection string in libpqrcv_connect().
A superuser may create a subscription with password_required=true, but
which uses a connection string without a password.

Previously, if the owner of such a subscription was changed to a
non-superuser, the non-superuser was able to utilize a password from
another source (like a password file or the PGPASSWORD environment
variable), which should not have been allowed.

This commit adds a step to re-validate the connection string before
connecting.

Reported-by: Jeff Davis
Author: Vignesh C
Reviewed-by: Peter Smith, Robert Haas, Amit Kapila
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/e5892973ae2a80a1a3e0266806640dae3c428100.camel%40j-davis.com
Backpatch-through: 16
2024-01-12 13:41:36 -08:00
Robert Haas 882887e9b4 Fix typo.
Noriyoshi Shinoda

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/DM4PR84MB17347D9466419413698105D8EE6F2@DM4PR84MB1734.NAMPRD84.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM
2024-01-12 09:46:46 -05:00
Alvaro Herrera 6780b79d5c
Added literal tag for RETURNING
This is an old mistake (92e38182d7); backpatch all the way back.

Author: Atsushi Torikoshi <torikoshia@oss.nttdata.com>
Reviewed-by: Ashutosh Bapat <ashutosh.bapat.oss@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/c0aa00b60a16c0ea2a4c5123b013acb9@oss.nttdata.com
2024-01-12 12:44:20 +01:00
Robert Haas ee1bfd1683 Add new pg_walsummary tool.
This can dump the contents of the WAL summary files found in
pg_wal/summaries. Normally, this shouldn't really be something anyone
needs to do, but it may be needed for debugging problems with
incremental backup, or could possibly be useful to external tools.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+Tgmobvqqj-DW9F7uUzT-cQqs6wcVb-Xhs=w=hzJnXSE-kRGw@mail.gmail.com
2024-01-11 12:48:27 -05:00
Robert Haas d9ef650fca Add new function pg_get_wal_summarizer_state().
This makes it possible to access information about the progress
of WAL summarization from SQL. The previously-added functions
pg_available_wal_summaries() and pg_wal_summary_contents() only
examine on-disk state, but this function exposes information from
the server's shared memory.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+Tgmobvqqj-DW9F7uUzT-cQqs6wcVb-Xhs=w=hzJnXSE-kRGw@mail.gmail.com
2024-01-11 12:41:18 -05:00
Magnus Hagander ba2d2784f3 Fix omission in partitioning limitation documentation
UNIQUE and PRIMARY KEY constraints can be created on ONLY the
partitioned table.  We already had an example demonstrating that,
but forgot to mention it in the documentation of the limits of
partitioning.

Author: Laurenz Albe
Reviewed-By: shihao zhong, Shubham Khanna, Ashutosh Bapat
Backpatch-through: 12
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/167299368731.659.16130012959616771853@wrigleys.postgresql.org
2024-01-11 14:27:10 +01:00
John Naylor f7f694b214 Update documentation of default fdw_tuple_cost
Follow up to cac169d68

Umair Shahid

Reviewed by Richard Guo and Chris Travers

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CALVUYo9RECc5gwD%2B4SRM5Es%2Bbg9cpNfhd3_qUjf7kVTGyLpFJg%40mail.gmail.com
2024-01-11 08:58:18 +07:00
Bruce Momjian 5b2da240e0 doc: clarify who owns the initdb-created cluster, by default
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ZZoTBSdKeBG_HZ7A@momjian.us

Backpatch-through: 16
2024-01-10 11:20:15 -05:00
Robert Haas f896057e46 Document WAL summarization information functions.
Commit 174c480508 added two new
information functions but failed to document them anywhere.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+Tgmobvqqj-DW9F7uUzT-cQqs6wcVb-Xhs=w=hzJnXSE-kRGw@mail.gmail.com
2024-01-09 13:04:46 -05:00
Nathan Bossart d97ef756af Fix documentation for wal_summary_keep_time.
The documentation for this parameter lists its type as boolean, but
it is actually an integer.  Furthermore, there is no mention of how
the value is interpreted when specified without units.  This commit
fixes these oversights in commit 174c480508.

Co-authored-by: Hubert Depesz Lubaczewski
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ZZwkujFihO2uqKwp%40depesz.com
2024-01-09 11:35:10 -06:00
Joe Conway a7be2a6c26 Add new function, PQchangePassword(), to libpq
Essentially this moves the non-interactive part of psql's "\password"
command into an exported client function. The password is not sent to the
server in cleartext because it is "encrypted" (in the case of scram and md5
it is actually hashed, but we have called these encrypted passwords for a
long time now) on the client side. This is good because it ensures the
cleartext password is never known by the server, and therefore won't end up
in logs, pg_stat displays, etc.

In other words, it exists for the same reason as PQencryptPasswordConn(), but
is more convenient as it both builds and runs the "ALTER USER" command for
you. PQchangePassword() uses PQencryptPasswordConn() to do the password
encryption. PQencryptPasswordConn() is passed a NULL for the algorithm
argument, hence encryption is done according to the server's
password_encryption setting.

Also modify the psql client to use the new function. That provides a builtin
test case. Ultimately drivers built on top of libpq should expose this
function and its use should be generally encouraged over doing ALTER USER
directly for password changes.

Author: Joe Conway
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/flat/b75955f7-e8cc-4bbd-817f-ef536bacbe93%40joeconway.com
2024-01-09 09:16:48 -05:00
Tatsuo Ishii d596736a49 Doc: fix character_sets view.
The note regarding character encoding form in "The Information Schema"
said that LATIN1 character repertoires only use one encoding form
LATIN1. This is not correct because LATIN1 has another encoding form
ISO-2022-JP-2. To fix this, replace LATIN1 with LATIN2, which is not
supported by ISO-2022-JP-2, thus it can be said that LATIN2 only uses
one encoding form.

Back-patch to supported branches.

Author: Tatsuo Ishii
Reviewed-by: Daniel Gustafsson
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/flat/20240102.153925.1147403616414525145.t-ishii%40sranhm.sra.co.jp
2024-01-09 19:43:19 +09:00
Noah Misch d3c5f37dd5 Make dblink interruptible, via new libpqsrv APIs.
This replaces dblink's blocking libpq calls, allowing cancellation and
allowing DROP DATABASE (of a database not involved in the query).  Apart
from explicit dblink_cancel_query() calls, dblink still doesn't cancel
the remote side.  The replacement for the blocking calls consists of
new, general-purpose query execution wrappers in the libpqsrv facility.
Out-of-tree extensions should adopt these.  Use them in postgres_fdw,
replacing a local implementation from which the libpqsrv implementation
derives.  This is a bug fix for dblink.  Code inspection identified the
bug at least thirteen years ago, but user complaints have not appeared.
Hence, no back-patch for now.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20231122012945.74@rfd.leadboat.com
2024-01-08 11:39:56 -08:00
Tom Lane 5e8674dc83 In plpgsql, allow %TYPE and %ROWTYPE to be followed by array decoration.
This provides the useful ability to declare a variable that is an array
of the type of some other variable or some table column.

Quan Zongliang, Pavel Stehule

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ec4523e1-9e7e-f3ef-f9ce-bafd680ad6f6@yeah.net
2024-01-04 15:24:15 -05:00
Peter Eisentraut 5d06e99a3c ALTER TABLE command to change generation expression
This adds a new ALTER TABLE subcommand ALTER COLUMN ... SET EXPRESSION
that changes the generation expression of a generated column.

The syntax is not standard but was adapted from other SQL
implementations.

This command causes a table rewrite, using the usual ALTER TABLE
mechanisms.  The implementation is similar to and makes use of some of
the infrastructure of the SET DATA TYPE subcommand (for example,
rebuilding constraints and indexes afterwards).  The new command
requires a new pass in AlterTablePass, and the ADD COLUMN pass had to
be moved earlier so that combinations of ADD COLUMN and SET EXPRESSION
can work.

Author: Amul Sul <sulamul@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CAAJ_b94yyJeGA-5M951_Lr+KfZokOp-2kXicpmEhi5FXhBeTog@mail.gmail.com
2024-01-04 16:28:54 +01:00
Amit Kapila 007693f2a3 Track conflict_reason in pg_replication_slots.
This patch changes the existing 'conflicting' field to 'conflict_reason'
in pg_replication_slots. This new field indicates the reason for the
logical slot's conflict with recovery. It is always NULL for physical
slots, as well as for logical slots which are not invalidated. The
non-NULL values indicate that the slot is marked as invalidated. Possible
values are:

wal_removed = required WAL has been removed.
rows_removed = required rows have been removed.
wal_level_insufficient = the primary doesn't have a wal_level sufficient
to perform logical decoding.

The existing users of 'conflicting' column can get the same answer by
using 'conflict_reason' IS NOT NULL.

Author: Shveta Malik
Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila, Bertrand Drouvot, Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ZYOE8IguqTbp-seF@paquier.xyz
2024-01-04 08:26:25 +05:30
Bruce Momjian 29275b1d17 Update copyright for 2024
Reported-by: Michael Paquier

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ZZKTDPxBBMt3C0J9@paquier.xyz

Backpatch-through: 12
2024-01-03 20:49:05 -05:00
Michael Paquier 793ecff7df doc: fix typo "vertexes" -> "vertices"
The "vertexes" spelling is also valid, but we consistently use
"vertices" elsewhere.

Author: Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker
Reviewed-by: Shubham Khanna
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/87le9fmi01.fsf@wibble.ilmari.org
2024-01-04 08:47:34 +09:00
Peter Eisentraut 0958f8f6bf Revert "Reorganise jsonpath operators and methods"
This reverts commit 283a95da92.

The reordering of JsonPathItemType affects the binary on-disk
compatibility of the jsonpath type, so we must not change it.  Revert
for now and consider.
2024-01-03 21:02:49 +01:00
Tom Lane 76ba8a8b63 Doc: Python's control flow construct is try/except not try/catch.
Very ancient thinko, dating evidently to 22690719e.
Spotted by gweatherby.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/170423637139.1288848.11840082988774620003@wrigleys.postgresql.org
2024-01-03 12:22:00 -05:00
Peter Eisentraut 283a95da92 Reorganise jsonpath operators and methods
Various jsonpath operators and methods add various keywords, switch
cases, and documentation entries in some order.  However, they are not
consistent; reorder them for better maintainability or readability.

Author: Jeevan Chalke <jeevan.chalke@enterprisedb.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CAM2+6=XjTyqrrqHAOj80r0wVQxJSxc0iyib9bPC55uFO9VKatg@mail.gmail.com
2024-01-03 11:25:33 +01:00
Amit Kapila 9a17be1e24 Allow upgrades to preserve the full subscription's state.
This feature will allow us to replicate the changes on subscriber nodes
after the upgrade.

Previously, only the subscription metadata information was preserved.
Without the list of relations and their state, it's not possible to
re-enable the subscriptions without missing some records as the list of
relations can only be refreshed after enabling the subscription (and
therefore starting the apply worker).  Even if we added a way to refresh
the subscription while enabling a publication, we still wouldn't know
which relations are new on the publication side, and therefore should be
fully synced, and which shouldn't.

To preserve the subscription relations, this patch teaches pg_dump to
restore the content of pg_subscription_rel from the old cluster by using
binary_upgrade_add_sub_rel_state SQL function. This is supported only
in binary upgrade mode.

The subscription's replication origin is needed to ensure that we don't
replicate anything twice.

To preserve the replication origins, this patch teaches pg_dump to update
the replication origin along with creating a subscription by using
binary_upgrade_replorigin_advance SQL function to restore the
underlying replication origin remote LSN. This is supported only in
binary upgrade mode.

pg_upgrade will check that all the subscription relations are in 'i'
(init) or in 'r' (ready) state and will error out if that's not the case,
logging the reason for the failure. This helps to avoid the risk of any
dangling slot or origin after the upgrade.

Author: Vignesh C, Julien Rouhaud, Shlok Kyal
Reviewed-by: Peter Smith, Masahiko Sawada, Michael Paquier, Amit Kapila, Hayato Kuroda
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20230217075433.u5mjly4d5cr4hcfe@jrouhaud
2024-01-02 08:08:46 +05:30
Peter Eisentraut a740b213d4 Add GUC backtrace_on_internal_error
When enabled (default off), this logs a backtrace anytime elog() or an
equivalent ereport() for internal errors is called.

This is not well covered by the existing backtrace_functions, because
there are many equally-worded low-level errors in many functions.  And
if you find out where the error is, then you need to manually rewrite
the elog() to ereport() to attach the errbacktrace(), which is
annoying.  Having a backtrace automatically on every elog() call could
be very helpful during development for various kinds of common errors
from palloc, syscache, node support, etc.

Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/ba76c6bc-f03f-4285-bf16-47759cfcab9e@eisentraut.org
2023-12-30 11:43:57 +01:00
Peter Eisentraut c538592959 Make all Perl warnings fatal
There are a lot of Perl scripts in the tree, mostly code generation
and TAP tests.  Occasionally, these scripts produce warnings.  These
are probably always mistakes on the developer side (true positives).
Typical examples are warnings from genbki.pl or related when you make
a mess in the catalog files during development, or warnings from tests
when they massage a config file that looks different on different
hosts, or mistakes during merges (e.g., duplicate subroutine
definitions), or just mistakes that weren't noticed because there is a
lot of output in a verbose build.

This changes all warnings into fatal errors, by replacing

    use warnings;

by

    use warnings FATAL => 'all';

in all Perl files.

Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/06f899fd-1826-05ab-42d6-adeb1fd5e200%40eisentraut.org
2023-12-29 18:20:00 +01:00
Michael Paquier f246c48ac4 doc: Mention AttributeRelationId in FDW validator function description
The documentation has been missing one value in the list of catalog OIDs
that can be given to the validator function of a FDW, as of
AttributeRelationId, when changing the attribute options of a foreign
table.

Author: Ian Lawrence Barwick
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAB8KJ=i16t2yJU_Pq2Z+hnNGWFhagp_bJmzxHZu3ZkOjZm-+rQ@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 12
2023-12-28 20:09:12 +09:00
Tom Lane 6c361d323b Doc: specify aclitem syntax more clearly.
The previous wording here relied solely on an example to explain
aclitem output format.  Add an actual syntax synopsis and
explanation of the elements to make it clearer.

David Johnston and Tom Lane, per gripe from Eugen Konkov.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/170326116972.1876499.18357820037829248593@wrigleys.postgresql.org
2023-12-27 13:52:01 -05:00
Bruce Momjian f67a3d4268 doc: add ISO 8601 extended format example using to_char()
Reported-by: juha.mustonen@iki.fi

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170217160154.6101.52806@wrigleys.postgresql.org

Co-authored-by: Erik Wienhold

Backpatch-through: master
2023-12-26 15:31:50 -05:00
Amit Kapila 0eac3c798c Doc: Add missing pgoutput options.
We forgot to update the docs while adding new options in pgoutput.

Author: Emre Hasegeli
Reviewed-by: Peter Smith, Amit Kapila
Backpatch-through: 12
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAE2gYzwdwtUbs-tPSV-QBwgTubiyGD2ZGsSnAVsDfAGGLDrGOA%40mail.gmail.com
2023-12-26 10:31:50 +05:30
Alexander Korotkov 12915a58ee Enhance checkpointer restartpoint statistics
Bhis commit introduces enhancements to the pg_stat_checkpointer view by adding
three new columns: restartpoints_timed, restartpoints_req, and
restartpoints_done. These additions aim to improve the visibility and
monitoring of restartpoint processes on replicas.

Previously, it was challenging to differentiate between successful and failed
restartpoint requests. This limitation arises because restartpoints on replicas
are dependent on checkpoint records from the primary, and cannot occur more
frequently than these checkpoints.

The new columns allow for clear distinction and tracking of restartpoint
requests, their triggers, and successful completions.  This enhancement aids
database administrators and developers in better understanding and diagnosing
issues related to restartpoint behavior, particularly in scenarios where
restartpoint requests may fail.

System catalog is changed.  Catversion is bumped.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/99b2ccd1-a77a-962a-0837-191cdf56c2b9%40inbox.ru
Author: Anton A. Melnikov
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi, Alexander Korotkov
2023-12-25 01:12:36 +02:00
Tom Lane e2b73f4a4d Stop generating plain-text INSTALL instructions.
Up to now, our distribution tarballs have included a plain-text form
of the installation.sgml chapter.  The rationale for that was that a
recipient might not have either ready internet access or HTML-viewing
tools; a theory that seems downright quaint today.  Maintaining the
ability to generate this file is not without cost, because it puts
special requirements on installation.sgml that are often overlooked.
Moreover, we are moving in the direction of making our distribution
tarballs be pure git snapshots for traceability/reproducibility
reasons; including generated files doesn't fit into that plan.
Hence, let's just drop INSTALL and remove the infrastructure for
generating it.  The top-level README will now recommend visiting
our website to see the installation instructions.  As a useful
side-effect, we can get rid of README.git which has provoked
confusion.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20231220114927.faccqqprmuyrzdip@alap3.anarazel.de
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/e07408d9-e5f2-d9fd-5672-f53354e9305e@eisentraut.org
2023-12-22 13:32:15 -05:00
Robert Haas 49f2194ed5 Fix numerous typos in incremental backup commits.
Apparently, spell check would have been a really good idea.

Alexander Lakhin, with a few additions as per an off-list report
from Andres Freund.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/f08f7c60-1ad3-0b57-d580-54b11f07cddf@gmail.com
2023-12-21 15:36:17 -05:00
Daniel Gustafsson e6c56f2a9d doc: Fix typo in pg_combinebackup documentation
Commit dc2123400 accidentally misspelled "combination".
2023-12-20 23:07:44 +01:00
Robert Haas dc21234005 Add support for incremental backup.
To take an incremental backup, you use the new replication command
UPLOAD_MANIFEST to upload the manifest for the prior backup. This
prior backup could either be a full backup or another incremental
backup.  You then use BASE_BACKUP with the INCREMENTAL option to take
the backup.  pg_basebackup now has an --incremental=PATH_TO_MANIFEST
option to trigger this behavior.

An incremental backup is like a regular full backup except that
some relation files are replaced with files with names like
INCREMENTAL.${ORIGINAL_NAME}, and the backup_label file contains
additional lines identifying it as an incremental backup. The new
pg_combinebackup tool can be used to reconstruct a data directory
from a full backup and a series of incremental backups.

Patch by me.  Reviewed by Matthias van de Meent, Dilip Kumar, Jakub
Wartak, Peter Eisentraut, and Álvaro Herrera. Thanks especially to
Jakub for incredibly helpful and extensive testing.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmoYOYZfMCyOXFyC-P+-mdrZqm5pP2N7S-r0z3_402h9rsA@mail.gmail.com
2023-12-20 09:49:12 -05:00
Robert Haas 174c480508 Add a new WAL summarizer process.
When active, this process writes WAL summary files to
$PGDATA/pg_wal/summaries. Each summary file contains information for a
certain range of LSNs on a certain TLI. For each relation, it stores a
"limit block" which is 0 if a relation is created or destroyed within
a certain range of WAL records, or otherwise the shortest length to
which the relation was truncated during that range of WAL records, or
otherwise InvalidBlockNumber. In addition, it stores a list of blocks
which have been modified during that range of WAL records, but
excluding blocks which were removed by truncation after they were
modified and never subsequently modified again.

In other words, it tells us which blocks need to copied in case of an
incremental backup covering that range of WAL records. But this
doesn't yet add the capability to actually perform an incremental
backup; the next patch will do that.

A new parameter summarize_wal enables or disables this new background
process.  The background process also automatically deletes summary
files that are older than wal_summarize_keep_time, if that parameter
has a non-zero value and the summarizer is configured to run.

Patch by me, with some design help from Dilip Kumar and Andres Freund.
Reviewed by Matthias van de Meent, Dilip Kumar, Jakub Wartak, Peter
Eisentraut, and Álvaro Herrera.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmoYOYZfMCyOXFyC-P+-mdrZqm5pP2N7S-r0z3_402h9rsA@mail.gmail.com
2023-12-20 08:42:28 -05:00
Michael Paquier 00498b7185 Fix generation of distribution tarball
1301c80b21 has introduced in installation.sgml a link reference that
`make dist` was not able to understand.

Per buildfarm member guaibasaurus.
2023-12-20 15:07:55 +09:00
Michael Paquier 1301c80b21 Remove MSVC scripts
This commit removes all the scripts located in src/tools/msvc/ to build
PostgreSQL with Visual Studio on Windows, meson becoming the recommended
way to achieve that.  The scripts held some information that is still
relevant with meson, information kept and moved to better locations.
Comments that referred directly to the scripts are removed.

All the documentation still relevant that was in install-windows.sgml
has been moved to installation.sgml under a new subsection for Visual.
All the content specific to the scripts is removed.  Some adjustments
for the documentation are planned in a follow-up set of changes.

Author: Michael Paquier
Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut, Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ZQzp_VMJcerM1Cs_@paquier.xyz
2023-12-20 09:44:37 +09:00
Daniel Gustafsson e52e271b23 doc: Fix syntax in ALTER FOREIGN DATA WRAPPER example
The example for dropping an option was incorrectly quoting the
option key thus making it a value turning the command into an
unqualified ADD operation. The result of dropping became adding
a new key/value pair instead:

 d=# alter foreign data wrapper f options (drop 'b');
 ALTER FOREIGN DATA WRAPPER
 d=# select fdwoptions from pg_foreign_data_wrapper where fdwname='f';
  fdwoptions
 ------------
  {drop=b}
 (1 row)

This has been incorrect for a long time so backpatch to all
supported branches.

Author: Tim <tim.needham2@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/170292280173.1876505.5204623074024041738@wrigleys.postgresql.org
2023-12-19 14:13:50 +01:00