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Tom Lane 362ba3e932 Doc: improve tutorial section about grouped aggregates.
Commit fede15417 introduced FILTER by jamming it into the existing
example introducing HAVING, which seems pedagogically poor to me;
and it added no information about what the keyword actually does.
Not to mention that the claimed output didn't match the sample
data being used in this running example.

Revert that and instead make an independent example using FILTER.
To help drive home the point that it's a per-aggregate filter,
we need to use two aggregates not just one; for consistency
expand all the examples in this segment to do that.

Also adjust the example using WHERE ... LIKE so that it'd produce
nonempty output with this sample data, and show that output.

Back-patch, as the previous patch was.  (Sadly, v10 is now out
of scope.)

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/166794307526.652.9073408178177444190@wrigleys.postgresql.org
2022-11-08 18:25:03 -05:00
Tom Lane b7f9c762a8 Last-minute updates for release notes. 2022-11-07 13:02:24 -05:00
Tom Lane ca3f0d44ac Release notes for 15.1, 14.6, 13.9, 12.13, 11.18, 10.23. 2022-11-06 11:07:28 -05:00
Tom Lane bc62182f0a First-draft release notes for 15.1.
As usual, the release notes for other branches will be made by cutting
these down, but put them up for community review first.

Also as usual for a .1 release, there are some entries here that
are not really relevant for v15 because they already appeared in 15.0.
Those'll be removed later.
2022-11-04 12:46:02 -04:00
Tom Lane 387e059f8e docs: Improve pg_settings_get_flags docs.
In the docs, the GUC flags that pg_settings_get_flags() reported were
listed using <simplelist>. But the list was treated as separate lines
in the existing function table and didn't look good. For better view,
this commit separates the list from the table entry for
pg_settings_get_flags() and adds the table for it at the bottom of
the existing function table.

Author: Fujii Masao
Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera, Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/f093edf9-6e5a-b119-ee50-6a2c97c79ee8@oss.nttdata.com

Back-patch of f2d0c7f18 into v15.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20221103123320.GQ16921@telsasoft.com
2022-11-03 19:53:35 -04:00
Michael Paquier 468a9f37fb doc: Fix some descriptions related to pg_ident_file_mappings
pg_ident_file_mappings.line_number was described as a line number in
pg_ident.conf for a "rule" number, but this should refer to a "map".
The same inconsistent term was used in the main paragraph describing the
view.

Extracted from a patch by the same author.  Issue introduced by
a2c8499 where this view has been added.

Author: Julien Rouhaud
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20221026031948.cbrnzgy5e7glsq2d@jrouhaud
Backpatch-through: 15
2022-11-02 11:56:28 +09:00
Peter Eisentraut d2354b6eec Remove incorrect name from release notes
This name was incorrect in the underlying commit message.  (The
correct name is already listed.)

Reported-by: Mark Wong
2022-11-01 14:17:36 +01:00
Michael Paquier f975df7203 doc: Fix type of cursor_position in jsonlog table
This entry was listed as a "string", but it is a "number.  The other
fields are correctly described, on a second look.

Reported-by: Nuko Yokohama
Author: Tatsuo Ishii
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAF3Gu1awoVoDP5d0_eN=cR=QkGVwH+OtFvwJkkc5cB_ZMWjyeA@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 15
2022-10-25 09:29:54 +09:00
David Rowley 536a3b8703 Doc: fix outdated wording about parallel seq scans
56788d215 adjusted the parallel seq scan code so that instead of handing
out a single block at a time to parallel workers, it now hands out ranges
of blocks.

Here we update the documentation which still claimed that workers received
just 1 block at a time.

Reported-by: Zhang Mingli
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17c99615-2c3b-4e4e-9d0b-424a66a7bccd@Spark
Backpatch-through: 14, where 56788d215 was added.
2022-10-21 09:29:56 +13:00
Michael Paquier 5d2a47a292 Rework shutdown callback of archiver modules
As currently designed, with a callback registered in a ERROR_CLEANUP
block, the shutdown callback would get called twice when updating
archive_library on SIGHUP, which is something that we want to avoid to
ease the life of extension writers.

Anyway, an ERROR in the archiver process is treated as a FATAL, stopping
it immediately, hence there is no need for a ERROR_CLEANUP block.
Instead of that, the shutdown callback is not called upon
before_shmem_exit(), giving to the modules the opportunity to do any
cleanup actions before the server shuts down its subsystems.

While on it, this commit adds some testing coverage for the shutdown
callback.  Neither shell_archive nor basic_archive have been using it,
and one is added to shell_archive, whose trigger is checked in a TAP
test through a shutdown sequence.

Author: Nathan Bossart, Bharath Rupireddy
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi, Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20221015221328.GB1821022@nathanxps13
Backpatch-through: 15
2022-10-19 14:07:01 +09:00
Bruce Momjian ef325ee04d doc: move the mention of aggregate JSON functions up in section
It was previously easily overlooked at the end of several tables.

Reported-by: Alex Denman

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/166335888474.659.16897487975376230364@wrigleys.postgresql.org

Backpatch-through: 10
2022-10-17 15:21:29 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 189db21e2a doc: warn pg_stat_reset() can cause vacuum/analyze problems
The fix is to run ANALYZE.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/YzRr+ys98UzVQJvK@momjian.us,
   https://postgr.es/m/flat/CAKJS1f8DTbCHf9gedU0He6ARsd58E6qOhEHM1caomqj_r9MOiQ%40mail.gmail.com,
   https://postgr.es/m/CAKJS1f80o98hcfSk8j%3DfdN09S7Sjz%2BvuzhEwbyQqvHJb_sZw0g%40mail.gmail.com

Backpatch-through: 10
2022-10-17 15:07:03 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera f7eec7fe38
Fix typo in CREATE PUBLICATION reference page
While at it, simplify wording a bit.

Author: Takamichi Osumi <osumi.takamichi@fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Smith <smithpb2250@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/TYCPR01MB8373F93F5D094A2BE648990DED259@TYCPR01MB8373.jpnprd01.prod.outlook.com
2022-10-13 13:36:14 +02:00
Michael Paquier 91416f45f8 doc: Fix description of replication command CREATE_REPLICATION_SLOT
The output plugin name is a mandatory option when creating a logical
slot, but the grammar documented was not described as such.  While on
it, fix two comments in repl_gram.y to show that TEMPORARY is an
optional grammar choice.

Author: Ayaki Tachikake
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/OSAPR01MB2852607B2329FFA27834105AF1229@OSAPR01MB2852.jpnprd01.prod.outlook.com
Backpatch-through: 15
2022-10-13 08:53:44 +09:00
Tom Lane 42d203ccfa Doc: improve recommended systemd unit file.
Add
    After=network-online.target
    Wants=network-online.target
to the suggested unit file for starting a Postgres server.
This delays startup until the network interfaces have been
configured; without that, any attempt to bind to a specific
IP address will fail.

If listen_addresses is set to "localhost" or "*", it might be
possible to get away with the less restrictive "network.target",
but I don't think we need to get into such detail here.

Per suggestion from Pablo Federico.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/166552157407.591805.10036014441784710940@wrigleys.postgresql.org
2022-10-12 10:51:25 -04:00
Tom Lane 2a7ce2e2ce Doc: update release date for v15.
Drat, forgot this ...
2022-10-10 16:57:37 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 48c81b57e9 Update list of acknowledgments in release notes
current through c3b5992b91
2022-10-10 08:15:29 +02:00
Bruce Momjian be5cf46081 relnotes: fix author names
Reported-by: Elena Indrupskaya

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/0af43b49-1646-93d0-ccf1-bb3c635c8c6f@postgrespro.ru

Author: Elena Indrupskaya

Backpatch-through: 15 only
2022-10-05 16:17:30 -04:00
Bruce Momjian d2d67949f5 doc: clarify description for log_startup_progress_interval
Reported-by: Elena Indrupskaya

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/0af43b49-1646-93d0-ccf1-bb3c635c8c6f@postgrespro.ru

Author: Elena Indrupskaya

Backpatch-through: 15
2022-10-05 15:53:40 -04:00
Tom Lane b1c73e1cf1 Doc: update v15 release notes. 2022-10-03 11:06:33 -04:00
Tom Lane 443df6e2db Revert "Optimize order of GROUP BY keys".
This reverts commit db0d67db24 and
several follow-on fixes.  The idea of making a cost-based choice
of the order of the sorting columns is not fundamentally unsound,
but it requires cost information and data statistics that we don't
really have.  For example, relying on procost to distinguish the
relative costs of different sort comparators is pretty pointless
so long as most such comparator functions are labeled with cost 1.0.
Moreover, estimating the number of comparisons done by Quicksort
requires more than just an estimate of the number of distinct values
in the input: you also need some idea of the sizes of the larger
groups, if you want an estimate that's good to better than a factor of
three or so.  That's data that's often unknown or not very reliable.
Worse, to arrive at estimates of the number of calls made to the
lower-order-column comparison functions, the code needs to make
estimates of the numbers of distinct values of multiple columns,
which are necessarily even less trustworthy than per-column stats.
Even if all the inputs are perfectly reliable, the cost algorithm
as-implemented cannot offer useful information about how to order
sorting columns beyond the point at which the average group size
is estimated to drop to 1.

Close inspection of the code added by db0d67db2 shows that there
are also multiple small bugs.  These could have been fixed, but
there's not much point if we don't trust the estimates to be
accurate in-principle.

Finally, the changes in cost_sort's behavior made for very large
changes (often a factor of 2 or so) in the cost estimates for all
sorting operations, not only those for multi-column GROUP BY.
That naturally changes plan choices in many situations, and there's
precious little evidence to show that the changes are for the better.
Given the above doubts about whether the new estimates are really
trustworthy, it's hard to summon much confidence that these changes
are better on the average.

Since we're hard up against the release deadline for v15, let's
revert these changes for now.  We can always try again later.

Note: in v15, I left T_PathKeyInfo in place in nodes.h even though
it's unreferenced.  Removing it would be an ABI break, and it seems
a bit late in the release cycle for that.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/TYAPR01MB586665EB5FB2C3807E893941F5579@TYAPR01MB5866.jpnprd01.prod.outlook.com
2022-10-03 10:56:16 -04:00
Michael Paquier 64b431d15c doc: Fix some grammar and typos
This fixes some areas related to logical replication and custom RMGRs.

Author: Ekaterina Kiryanova
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/fa4773f1-1396-384a-bcd7-85b5e013f399@postgrespro.ru
Backpatch-through: 15
2022-10-01 15:28:11 +09:00
Daniel Gustafsson a613474411 doc: Fix PQsslAttribute docs for compression
The compression parameter to PQsslAttribute has never returned the
compression method used, it has always returned "on" or "off since
it was added in commit 91fa7b4719. Backpatch through v10.

Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/B9EC60EC-F665-47E8-A221-398C76E382C9@yesql.se
Backpatch-through: v10
2022-09-30 12:03:48 +02:00
Tom Lane cae4688ce8 Fix bogus behavior of PQsslAttribute(conn, "library").
Commit ebc8b7d44 intended to change the behavior of
PQsslAttribute(NULL, "library"), but accidentally also changed
what happens with a non-NULL conn pointer.  Undo that so that
only the intended behavior change happens.  Clarify some
associated documentation.

Per bug #17625 from Heath Lord.  Back-patch to v15.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17625-fc47c78b7d71b534@postgresql.org
2022-09-29 17:28:09 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 517fab6a40 doc: clarify internal behavior of RECURSIVE CTE queries
Reported-by: Tom Lane

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3976627.1662651004@sss.pgh.pa.us

Backpatch-through: 10
2022-09-28 13:14:38 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 9bb5412885 revert "warn of SECURITY DEFINER schemas for non-sql_body funcs"
doc revert of commit 1703726488.  Change was applied to irrelevant
branches, and was not detailed enough to be helpful in relevant
branches.

Reported-by: Peter Eisentraut, Noah Misch

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2dc9de4-24fc-3222-87d3-0def8057d7d8@enterprisedb.com

Backpatch-through: 10
2022-09-28 13:05:20 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera 72abf03b64
Fix pg_stat_statements for MERGE
We weren't jumbling the merge action list, so wildly different commands
would be considered to use the same query ID.  Add that, mention it in
the docs, and some test lines.

Backpatch to 15.

Author: Tatsu <bt22nakamorit@oss.nttdata.com>
Reviewed-by: Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/d87e391694db75a038abc3b2597828e8@oss.nttdata.com
2022-09-27 10:44:42 +02:00
David Rowley bb76510a07 Doc: last minute adjustment to the release notes
The change made in 9d9c02ccd also affects the dense_rank() function.
Mention this in the release notes.

Author: Jonathan S. Katz
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/5c6d3f50-e9b5-f62d-d58a-7b22eb91d8b8@postgresql.org
2022-09-27 10:57:07 +13:00
Tom Lane 780add2c32 Doc: more tweaking of v15 release notes.
Per suggestions from Justin Pryzby.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220925215009.GC21938@telsasoft.com
2022-09-26 14:32:51 -04:00
Tom Lane 796aa20a11 Doc: further adjust notes about pg_upgrade_output.d.
I'd misunderstood how it worked in 5f1048881.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220925215009.GC21938@telsasoft.com
2022-09-26 14:19:21 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 5483649cd6 Update list of acknowledgments in release notes
current through 15113bfb46
2022-09-26 12:57:12 +02:00
Amit Kapila 15113bfb46 Doc: Remove the use of a duplicate word.
This has been removed in HEAD by commit a234177906, so doing just backpatch
to 15 where it was introduced in commit 860ea46ba7.

Author: Zhang Mingli
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/OS0PR01MB57162559C01FE2848C12E8F7944D9@OS0PR01MB5716.jpnprd01.prod.outlook.com
2022-09-26 09:26:47 +05:30
Peter Eisentraut 8d985560fc Improve terminology
Use "prepared transaction" instead of "two-phrase transaction".  This
is in line with c5d67881d3.
2022-09-23 21:16:08 -04:00
Tom Lane 2b14b5b5d9 Doc: make an editorial pass over the v15 release notes.
Rearrange, reword, clarify, fix markup, etc etc.

Also include commit bd8ac900d.
2022-09-23 18:22:33 -04:00
Tom Lane cea5aa988e Doc: minor cleanups.
Improve a couple of things I noticed while working on v15
release notes.
2022-09-23 18:20:14 -04:00
Tom Lane e956325c8b Doc: update v15 release notes through today.
Account for commits since 2022-06-11.
2022-09-23 13:59:55 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera bd8ac900df
Remove PQsendQuery support in pipeline mode
The extended query protocol implementation I added in commit
acb7e4eb6b has bugs when used in pipeline mode.  Rather than spend
more time trying to fix it, remove that code and make the function rely
on simple query protocol only, meaning it can no longer be used in
pipeline mode.

Users can easily change their applications to use PQsendQueryParams
instead.  We leave PQsendQuery in place for Postgres 14, just in case
somebody is using it and has not hit the mentioned bugs; but we should
recommend that it not be used.

Backpatch to 15.

Per bug report from Gabriele Varrazzo.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+mi_8ZGSQNmW6-mk_iSR4JZB_LJ4ww3suOF+1vGNs3MrLsv4g@mail.gmail.com
2022-09-23 18:21:22 +02:00
Tom Lane a2ab0ad88c Doc: add list of major features to the v15 release notes.
Jonathan Katz (word-smithed a bit by me)

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a6661e2c-72e0-b4bd-9301-9225bdddda4c@postgresql.org
2022-09-23 11:24:12 -04:00
Amit Kapila b7256753ec Allow publications with schema and table of the same schema.
We previously thought that allowing such cases can confuse users when they
specify DROP TABLES IN SCHEMA but that doesn't seem to be the case based
on discussion. This helps to uplift the restriction during
ALTER TABLE ... SET SCHEMA which used to ensure that we couldn't end up
with a publication having both a schema and the same schema's table.

To allow this, we need to forbid having any schema on a publication if
column lists on a table are specified (and vice versa). This is because
otherwise we still need a restriction during ALTER TABLE ... SET SCHEMA to
forbid cases where it could lead to a publication having both a schema and
the same schema's table with column list.

Based on suggestions by Peter Eisentraut.

Author: Hou Zhijie and Vignesh C
Reviewed-By: Peter Smith, Amit Kapila
Backpatch-through: 15, where it was introduced
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2729c9e2-9aac-8cda-f2f4-34f2bcc18f4e@enterprisedb.com
2022-09-23 08:08:24 +05:30
Alvaro Herrera f256236fb1
Remove ALL keyword from TABLES IN SCHEMA for publication
This may be a bit too subtle, but removing that word from there makes
this clause no longer a perfect parallel of the GRANT variant "ALL
TABLES IN SCHEMA": indeed, for publications what we record is the schema
itself, not the tables therein, which means that any tables added to the
schema in the future are also published.  This is completely different
to what GRANT does, which is affect only the tables that exist when the
command is executed.

There isn't resounding support for this change, but there are a few
positive votes and no opposition.  Because the time to 15 RC1 is very
short, let's get this out now.

Backpatch to 15.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2729c9e2-9aac-8cda-f2f4-34f2bcc18f4e
2022-09-22 19:02:25 +02:00
Peter Eisentraut 5f56933ea5 Restore archive_command documentation
Commit 5ef1eefd76, which added
archive_library, purged most mentions of archive_command from the
documentation.  This is inappropriate, since archive_command is still
a feature in use and users will want to see information about it.

This restores all the removed mentions and rephrases things so that
archive_command and archive_library are presented as alternatives of
each other.

Reviewed-by: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/9366d634-a917-85a9-4991-b2a4859edaf9@enterprisedb.com
2022-09-22 07:32:23 -04:00
Michael Paquier ade925e169 Use min/max bounds defined by Zstd for compression level
The bounds hardcoded in compression.c since ffd5365 (minimum at 1 and
maximum at 22) do not match the reality of what zstd is able to
handle, these values being available via ZSTD_maxCLevel() and
ZSTD_minCLevel() at run-time.  The maximum of 22 is actually correct
in recent versions, but the minimum was not as the library can go down
to -131720 by design.  This commit changes the code to use the run-time
values in the code instead of some hardcoded ones.

Zstd seems to assume that these bounds could change in the future, and
Postgres will be able to adapt automatically to such changes thanks to
what's being done in this commit.

Reported-by: Justin Prysby
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220922033716.GL31833@telsasoft.com
Backpatch-through: 15
2022-09-22 20:03:30 +09:00
Fujii Masao 4230279f35 docs: Fix snapshot name in SET TRANSACTION docs.
Commit 6c2003f8a1 changed the snapshot names mentioned in
SET TRANSACTION docs, however, there was one place that
the commit missed updating the name.

Back-patch to all supported versions.

Author: Japin Li
Reviewed-by: Fujii Masao
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/MEYP282MB1669BD4280044501165F8B07B64F9@MEYP282MB1669.AUSP282.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM
2022-09-22 12:55:18 +09:00
Michael Paquier 05af876267 doc: Fix parameter name for pg_create_logical_replication_slot()
The parameter controlling if two-phase transactions can be decoded was
named "two_phase" in the documentation while its procedure defines
"twophase".

Author: Florin Irion
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/5eeabd10-1aff-ea61-f92d-9fa0d9a7e207@gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 14
2022-09-20 19:28:43 +09:00
Peter Eisentraut cacf12e92f Add missing serial commas 2022-09-19 06:38:53 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut c946425176 Message wording improvements 2022-09-16 16:37:53 +02:00
Peter Eisentraut 148f66d59e Don't allow creation of database with ICU locale with unsupported encoding
Check in CREATE DATABASE and initdb that the selected encoding is
supported by ICU.  Before, they would pass but users would later get
an error from the server when they tried to use the database.

Also document that initdb sets the encoding to UTF8 by default if the
ICU locale provider is chosen.

Author: Marina Polyakova <m.polyakova@postgrespro.ru>
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/6dd6db0984d86a51b7255ba79f111971@postgrespro.ru
2022-09-16 09:41:25 +02:00
Alvaro Herrera bfa58a679a
Copy-edit docs for logical replication column lists
There was a excessive structure, leading to somewhat disorganized
presentation of the information. Remove a few tags and reorder
paragraphs to make the text flow more easily.  Also, reword some of it
to be more concise.

The bit about column list combination is not modified, other than to
remove an uninteresting (and IMO confusing and wrong) paragraph; I
intend to deal with it differently afterwards.

Backpatch to 15.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220913121138.yn7ekkfysxzhkm2u@alvherre.pgsql
2022-09-15 18:04:00 +02:00
Peter Eisentraut 12a5214df4 Small wording improvements 2022-09-14 22:32:12 +02:00
Michael Paquier 53332eacaf Simplify handling of compression level with compression specifications
PG_COMPRESSION_OPTION_LEVEL is removed from the compression
specification logic, and instead the compression level is always
assigned with each library's default if nothing is directly given.  This
centralizes the checks on the compression methods supported by a given
build, and always assigns a default compression level when parsing a
compression specification.  This results in complaining at an earlier
stage than previously if a build supports a compression method or not,
aka when parsing a specification in the backend or the frontend, and not
when processing it.  zstd, lz4 and zlib are able to handle in their
respective routines setting up the compression level the case of a
default value, hence the backend or frontend code (pg_receivewal or
pg_basebackup) has now no need to know what the default compression
level should be if nothing is specified: the logic is now done so as the
specification parsing assigns it.  It can also be enforced by passing
down a "level" set to the default value, that the backend will accept
(the replication protocol is for example able to handle a command like
BASE_BACKUP (COMPRESSION_DETAIL 'gzip:level=-1')).

This code simplification fixes an issue with pg_basebackup --gzip
introduced by ffd5365, where the tarball of the streamed WAL segments
would be created as of pg_wal.tar.gz with uncompressed contents, while
the intention is to compress the segments with gzip at a default level.
The origin of the confusion comes from the handling of the default
compression level of gzip (-1 or Z_DEFAULT_COMPRESSION) and the value of
0 was getting assigned, which is what walmethods.c would consider
as equivalent to no compression when streaming WAL segments with its tar
methods.  Assigning always the compression level removes the confusion
of some code paths considering a value of 0 set in a specification as
either no compression or a default compression level.

Note that 010_pg_basebackup.pl has to be adjusted to skip a few tests
where the shape of the compression detail string for client and
server-side compression was checked using gzip.  This is a result of the
code simplification, as gzip specifications cannot be used if a build
does not support it.

Reported-by: Tom Lane
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1400032.1662217889@sss.pgh.pa.us
Backpatch-through: 15
2022-09-14 12:17:03 +09:00