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Peter Eisentraut 1c53f612bc Escape < and & in SGML
This is not required in SGML, but will be in XML, so this is a step to
prepare for the conversion to XML.  (It is still not required to escape
>, but we did it here in some cases for symmetry.)

Add a command-line option to osx/onsgmls calls to warn about unescaped
occurrences in the future.

Author: Alexander Law <exclusion@gmail.com>
Author: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>
2017-09-06 11:22:43 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 0b554e4e63 doc: Clarify pg_inherits description
Reported-by: mjustin.lists@gmail.com
2017-09-05 21:47:12 -04:00
Tom Lane 49ca462eb1 Add \gdesc psql command.
This command acts somewhat like \g, but instead of executing the query
buffer, it merely prints a description of the columns that the query
result would have.  (Of course, this still requires parsing the query;
if parse analysis fails, you get an error anyway.)  We accomplish this
using an unnamed prepared statement, which should be invisible to psql
users.

Pavel Stehule, reviewed by Fabien Coelho

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAFj8pRBhYVvO34FU=EKb=nAF5t3b++krKt1FneCmR0kuF5m-QA@mail.gmail.com
2017-09-05 18:17:47 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 17273d059c Remove unnecessary parentheses in return statements
The parenthesized style has only been used in a few modules.  Change
that to use the style that is predominant across the whole tree.

Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Ryan Murphy <ryanfmurphy@gmail.com>
2017-09-05 14:52:55 -04:00
Tom Lane 5e8304fdce In psql, use PSQL_PAGER in preference to PAGER, if it's set.
This allows the user's environment to set up a psql-specific choice
of pager, in much the same way that we provide PSQL_EDITOR to allow
a psql-specific override of the more widely known EDITOR variable.

Pavel Stehule, reviewed by Thomas Munro

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAFj8pRD3RRk9S1eRbnGm_T6brc3Ss5mohraNzTSJquzx+pmtKA@mail.gmail.com
2017-09-05 12:02:13 -04:00
Tom Lane 9ae9d8c154 Add psql variables showing server version and psql version.
We already had a psql variable VERSION that shows the verbose form of
psql's own version.  Add VERSION_NAME to show the short form (e.g.,
"11devel") and VERSION_NUM to show the numeric form (e.g., 110000).
Also add SERVER_VERSION_NAME and SERVER_VERSION_NUM to show the short and
numeric forms of the server's version.  (We'd probably add SERVER_VERSION
with the verbose string if it were readily available; but adding another
network round trip to get it seems too expensive.)

The numeric forms, in particular, are expected to be useful for scripting
purposes, now that psql can do conditional tests.

Fabien Coelho, reviewed by Pavel Stehule

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/alpine.DEB.2.20.1704020917220.4632@lancre
2017-09-05 10:51:36 -04:00
Tom Lane 9d36a38660 Adjust pgbench to allow non-ASCII characters in variable names.
This puts it in sync with psql's notion of what is a valid variable name.
Like psql, we document that "non-Latin letters" are allowed, but actually
any non-ASCII character is accepted.

Fabien Coelho

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170405.094548.1184280384967203518.t-ishii@sraoss.co.jp
2017-09-04 13:45:20 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut afc58affb6 doc: Fix typos and other minor issues
Author: Alexander Lakhin <exclusion@gmail.com>
2017-09-01 23:34:12 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut a057220353 doc: Remove mentions of server-side CRL and CA file names
Commit a445cb92ef removed the default file
names for server-side CRL and CA files, but left them in the docs with a
small note.  This removes the note and the previous default names to
clarify, as well as changes mentions of the file names to make it
clearer that they are configurable.

Author: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>
2017-09-01 14:18:45 -04:00
Robert Haas 84be67181a pg_dumpall: Add a -E flag to set the encoding, like pg_dump has.
Michael Paquier, reviewed by Fabien Coelho

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAB7nPqQcYWmrm2n-dVaMUhYPKFU_DxQwPuUGuC4ZF+8B=dS5xQ@mail.gmail.com
2017-09-01 12:24:20 -04:00
Simon Riggs 2f5ada2710 Provisional list of Major Features 2017-09-01 17:20:18 +01:00
Robert Haas baaf272ac9 Use group updates when setting transaction status in clog.
Commit 0e141c0fbb introduced a mechanism
to reduce contention on ProcArrayLock by having a single process clear
XIDs in the procArray on behalf of multiple processes, reducing the
need to hand the lock around.  A previous attempt to introduce a similar
mechanism for CLogControlLock in ccce90b398
crashed and burned, but the design problem which resulted in those
failures is believed to have been corrected in this version.

Amit Kapila, with some cosmetic changes by me.  See the previous commit
message for additional credits.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAA4eK1KudxzgWhuywY_X=yeSAhJMT4DwCjroV5Ay60xaeB2Eew@mail.gmail.com
2017-09-01 11:45:40 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera be7161566d Add a WAIT option to DROP_REPLICATION_SLOT
Commit 9915de6c1c changed the default behavior of
DROP_REPLICATION_SLOT so that it would wait until any session holding
the slot active would release it, instead of raising an error.  But
users are already depending on the original behavior, so revert to it by
default and add a WAIT option to invoke the new behavior.

Per complaint from Simone Gotti, in
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEvsy6Wgdf90O6pUvg2wSVXL2omH5OPC-38OD4Zzgk-FXavj3Q@mail.gmail.com
2017-09-01 13:44:14 +02:00
Simon Riggs abe85ef1d0 Add note about diskspace usage of pg_commit_ts
Author: Thomas Munro
2017-09-01 07:57:05 +01:00
Robert Haas 81c5e46c49 Introduce 64-bit hash functions with a 64-bit seed.
This will be useful for hash partitioning, which needs a way to seed
the hash functions to avoid problems such as a hash index on a hash
partitioned table clumping all values into a small portion of the
bucket space; it's also useful for anything that wants a 64-bit hash
value rather than a 32-bit hash value.

Just in case somebody wants a 64-bit hash value that is compatible
with the existing 32-bit hash values, make the low 32-bits of the
64-bit hash value match the 32-bit hash value when the seed is 0.

Robert Haas and Amul Sul

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+Tgmoafx2yoJuhCQQOL5CocEi-w_uG4S2xT0EtgiJnPGcHW3g@mail.gmail.com
2017-08-31 22:21:21 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut b5c75feca7 Remove to pre-8.2 coding convention for PG_MODULE_MAGIC
PG_MODULE_MAGIC has been around since 8.2, with 8.1 long since in EOL,
so remove the mention of #ifdef guards for compiling against pre-8.2
sources from the documentation.

Author: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
2017-08-30 22:40:24 -04:00
Tom Lane 41b0dd987d Separate reinitialization of shared parallel-scan state from ExecReScan.
Previously, the parallel executor logic did reinitialization of shared
state within the ExecReScan code for parallel-aware scan nodes.  This is
problematic, because it means that the ExecReScan call has to occur
synchronously (ie, during the parent Gather node's ReScan call).  That is
swimming very much against the tide so far as the ExecReScan machinery is
concerned; the fact that it works at all today depends on a lot of fragile
assumptions, such as that no plan node between Gather and a parallel-aware
scan node is parameterized.  Another objection is that because ExecReScan
might be called in workers as well as the leader, hacky extra tests are
needed in some places to prevent unwanted shared-state resets.

Hence, let's separate this code into two functions, a ReInitializeDSM
call and the ReScan call proper.  ReInitializeDSM is called only in
the leader and is guaranteed to run before we start new workers.
ReScan is returned to its traditional function of resetting only local
state, which means that ExecReScan's usual habits of delaying or
eliminating child rescan calls are safe again.

As with the preceding commit 7df2c1f8d, it doesn't seem to be necessary
to make these changes in 9.6, which is a good thing because the FDW and
CustomScan APIs are impacted.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAA4eK1JkByysFJNh9M349u_nNjqETuEnY_y1VUc_kJiU0bxtaQ@mail.gmail.com
2017-08-30 13:18:16 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 00f6d5c2c3 doc: Avoid sidebar element
The formatting of the sidebar element didn't carry over to the new tool
chain.  Instead of inventing a whole new way of dealing with it, just
convert the one use to a "note".
2017-08-29 19:33:24 -04:00
Tom Lane 6cbee65eee Doc: document libpq's restriction to INT_MAX rows in a PGresult.
As long as PQntuples, PQgetvalue, etc, use "int" for row numbers, we're
pretty much stuck with this limitation.  The documentation formerly stated
that the result of PQntuples "might overflow on 32-bit operating systems",
which is just nonsense: that's not where the overflow would happen, and
if you did reach an overflow it would not be on a 32-bit machine, because
you'd have OOM'd long since.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+FnnTxyLWyjY1goewmJNxC==HQCCF4fKkoCTa9qR36oRAHDPw@mail.gmail.com
2017-08-29 15:38:05 -04:00
Tom Lane ce5dcf54b9 Improve docs about numeric formatting patterns (to_char/to_number).
The explanation about "0" versus "9" format characters was confusing
and arguably wrong; the discussion of sign handling wasn't very good
either.  Notably, while it's accurate to say that "FM" strips leading
zeroes in date/time values, what it really does with numeric values
is to strip *trailing* zeroes, and then only if you wrote "9" rather
than "0".  Per gripes from Erwin Brandstetter.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAGHENJ7jgRbTn6nf48xNZ=FHgL2WQ4X8mYsUAU57f-vq8PubEw@mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAGHENJ45ymd=GOCu1vwV9u7GmCR80_5tW0fP9C_gJKbruGMHvQ@mail.gmail.com
2017-08-29 09:34:21 -04:00
Tom Lane dc4f356b44 Doc: adjust release-note credit for parallel pg_restore fix.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAFcNs+pJ6_Ud-zg3vY_Y0mzfESdM34Humt8avKrAKq_H+v18Cg@mail.gmail.com
2017-08-28 11:40:47 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 46596f8d6b Clarify documentation
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/20170618071607.GA16418%40nol.local
2017-08-27 21:29:54 -04:00
Tom Lane f97c55c708 Release notes for 9.6.5, 9.5.9, 9.4.14, 9.3.19, 9.2.23. 2017-08-27 17:35:04 -04:00
Tom Lane 6a5366e69a Doc: update v10 release notes through today. 2017-08-26 16:50:19 -04:00
Tom Lane f1b10496a5 First-draft release notes for 9.6.5.
As usual, the release notes for other branches will be made by cutting
these down, but put them up for community review first.  Note the first
entry is only for 9.4.
2017-08-26 15:19:32 -04:00
Robert Haas 449338cc64 Improve low-level backup documentation.
Our documentation hasn't really caught up with the fact that
non-exclusive backups can now be taken using pg_start_backup and
pg_stop_backup even on standbys.  Update, also correcting some
errors introduced by 52f8a59dd9.
Updates to the 9.6 documentation are needed as well, but that
will need a separate patch as some things are different on that
version.

David Steele, reviewed by Robert Haas and Michael Paquier

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/d4d951b9-89c0-6bc1-b6ff-d0b2dd5a8966@pgmasters.net
2017-08-25 15:20:27 -04:00
Michael Meskes d22e9d5305 Implement DO CONTINUE action for ECPG WHENEVER statement.
Author: Vinayak Pokale
Reviewed-By: Masahiko Sawada
2017-08-25 15:17:29 +02:00
Peter Eisentraut 85f4d6393d Tweak some SCRAM error messages and code comments
Clarify/correct some error messages, fix up some code comments that
confused SASL and SCRAM, and other minor fixes.  No changes in
functionality.
2017-08-23 12:29:38 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut b5664cfd4c doc: Mention identity column feature in section on serial
Reported-by: Basil Bourque <basil.bourque@pobox.com>
2017-08-22 19:55:21 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 2bfd1b1ee5 Don't install ICU collation keyword variants
Users can still create them themselves.  Instead, document Unicode TR 35
collation options for ICU, so users can create all this themselves.

Reviewed-by: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
2017-08-21 19:21:07 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 51e225da30 Expand set of predefined ICU locales
Install language+region combinations even if they are not distinct from
the language's base locale.  This gives better long-term stability of
the set of predefined locales and makes the predefined locales less
implementation-dependent and more practical for users.

Reviewed-by: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
2017-08-21 19:21:07 -04:00
Robert Haas 79ccd7cbd5 pg_prewarm: Add automatic prewarm feature.
Periodically while the server is running, and at shutdown, write out a
list of blocks in shared buffers.  When the server reaches consistency
-- unfortunatey, we can't do it before that point without breaking
things -- reload those blocks into any still-unused shared buffers.

Mithun Cy and Robert Haas, reviewed and tested by Beena Emerson,
Amit Kapila, Jim Nasby, and Rafia Sabih.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAD__OugubOs1Vy7kgF6xTjmEqTR4CrGAv8w+ZbaY_+MZeitukw@mail.gmail.com
2017-08-21 14:17:39 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut d542859350 doc: Update RFC URLs
Consistently use the IETF HTML links instead of a random mix of
different sites and formats.  Correct one RFC number and fix one broken
link.
2017-08-17 11:47:40 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut bfe089e372 doc: Fix table column count
Author: Erik Rijkers <er@xs4all.nl>
2017-08-17 10:37:12 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut cf851519d4 pg_dump: Support using synchronized snapshots on standbys
This became possible by commit
6c2003f8a1.  This just makes pg_dump aware
of it and updates the documentation.

Author: Petr Jelinek <petr.jelinek@2ndquadrant.com>
2017-08-16 19:46:50 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 4395f7daf3 doc: Update URL of DocBook XSL stylesheets
Author: Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com>
2017-08-16 14:44:26 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 346d5bf1ca doc: Add logical replication to comparison matrix
Author: Steve Singer <steve@ssinger.info>
2017-08-16 13:59:40 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 9b5140fb50 Correct representation of foreign tables in information schema
tables.table_type is supposed to be 'FOREIGN' rather than 'FOREIGN
TABLE' according to the SQL standard.
2017-08-16 11:03:33 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 0a2d43d988 doc: Document pg_receivewal exit behavior and status 2017-08-15 20:26:58 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 34a23a3426 doc: Add missing logical replication protocol message
Author: Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com>
2017-08-15 15:36:18 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 270fec9f0b doc: Improve PDF bookmarks
Also create PDF bookmarks/ToC entries for subsections of reference
pages.  This was a regression from the previous jadetex-based build.

Reported-by: Erik Rijkers <er@xs4all.nl>
2017-08-15 14:37:44 -04:00
Robert Haas 23d7680d04 pg_dump: Add a --load-via-partition-root option.
Rushabh Lathia, reviewed and somewhat revised by me.  Testing by
Rajkumar Raghuwanshi.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAGPqQf0C1he087bz9xRBOGZBuESYz9X=Fp8Ca_g+TfHgAff75g@mail.gmail.com
2017-08-14 22:54:41 -04:00
Tom Lane 9f14dc393b Stamp HEAD as 11devel.
Note that we no longer require any manual adjustments to shared-library
minor version numbers, cf commit a3bce17ef.  So this should be everything.
2017-08-14 18:08:30 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 79e5de690e doc: Fix logical replication protocol doc detail
Author: Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Kyle Conroy <kyle@kyleconroy.com>
Bug: #14775
2017-08-14 13:42:03 -04:00
Noah Misch e88928c50d Fix vertical spanning in table "wait_event Description".
Michael Paquier

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAB7nPqQr3KEQvXeuUNYcm7tDK2Fb9oLUQ8DU0+y0RZEoN_1_gg@mail.gmail.com
2017-08-12 18:19:49 -07:00
Peter Eisentraut ee844bb426 doc: Add example for inet vs cidr difference
Reported-by: kes-kes@yandex.ru
2017-08-11 16:40:56 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut fa65c8c73c doc: Update description of rolreplication column
Since PostgreSQL 9.6, rolreplication no longer determines whether a role
can run pg_start_backup() and pg_stop_backup(), so remove that.

Add that this attribute determines whether a role can create and drop
replication slots.

Reported-by: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>
2017-08-11 16:14:55 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 22701a7ec6 doc: Small wording improvement
Author: Jeff Janes <jeff.janes@gmail.com>
2017-08-11 15:52:39 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut a1ef920e27 Remove uses of "slave" in replication contexts
This affects mostly code comments, some documentation, and tests.
Official APIs already used "standby".
2017-08-10 22:55:41 -04:00
Robert Haas c1ef4e5cdb Make some more improvements to parallel query documentation.
Many places that mentioned only Gather should also mention Gather
Merge, or should be phrased in a more neutral way.  Be more clear
about the fact that max_parallel_workers_per_gather affects the number
of workers the planner may want to use.  Fix a typo.  Explain how
Gather Merge works.  Adjust wording around parallel scans to be a bit
more clear.  Adjust wording around parallel-restricted operations for
the fact that uncorrelated subplans are no longer restricted.

Patch by me, reviewed by Erik Rijkers

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmoZsTjgVGn=ei5ht-1qGFKy_m1VgB3d8+Rg304hz91N5ww@mail.gmail.com
2017-08-10 13:22:31 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 13f03a001e doc: Add missing pieces to logical replication protocol doc
Reported-by: Kyle Conroy <kyle@kyleconroy.com>
2017-08-08 19:22:23 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera b2c95a3798 Fix replication origin-related race conditions
Similar to what was fixed in commit 9915de6c1c for replication slots,
but this time it's related to replication origins: DROP SUBSCRIPTION
attempts to drop the replication origin, but that fails if the
replication worker process hasn't yet marked it unused.  This causes
failures in the buildfarm:
ERROR:  could not drop replication origin with OID 1, in use by PID 34069

Like the aforementioned commit, fix by having the process running DROP
SUBSCRIPTION sleep until the worker marks the the replication origin
struct as free.  This uses a condition variable on each replication
origin shmem state struct, so that the session trying to drop can sleep
and expect to be awakened by the process keeping the origin open.

Also fix a SGML markup in the previous commit.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170808001433.rozlseaf4m2wkw3n@alvherre.pgsql
2017-08-08 16:07:46 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera 030273b7ea Fix inadequacies in recently added wait events
In commit 9915de6c1c, we introduced a new wait point for replication
slots and incorrectly labelled it as wait event PG_WAIT_LOCK.  That's
wrong, so invent an appropriate new wait event instead, and document it
properly.

While at it, fix numerous other problems in the vicinity:
- two different walreceiver wait events were being mixed up in a single
  wait event (which wasn't documented either); split it out so that they
  can be distinguished, and document the new events properly.

- ParallelBitmapPopulate was documented but didn't exist.

- ParallelBitmapScan was not documented (I think this should be called
  "ParallelBitmapScanInit" instead.)

- Logical replication wait events weren't documented

- various symbols had been added in dartboard order in various places.
  Put them in alphabetical order instead, as was originally intended.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170808181131.mu4fjepuh5m75cyq@alvherre.pgsql
2017-08-08 15:37:44 -04:00
Noah Misch b4a2eea030 Disclaim xmltable() support for non-UTF8 databases.
The xmltable() implementation mirrors xpath(), including its lack of
character encoding awareness.
2017-08-07 17:16:21 -07:00
Tom Lane 8d6442377d Stamp 10beta3. 2017-08-07 17:08:19 -04:00
Tom Lane a8b37ebe40 Last-minute updates for release notes.
Security: CVE-2017-7546, CVE-2017-7547, CVE-2017-7548
2017-08-07 11:46:56 -04:00
Noah Misch e568e1eee4 Again match pg_user_mappings to information_schema.user_mapping_options.
Commit 3eefc51053 claimed to make
pg_user_mappings enforce the qualifications user_mapping_options had
been enforcing, but its removal of a longstanding restriction left them
distinct when the current user is the subject of a mapping yet has no
server privileges.  user_mapping_options emits no rows for such a
mapping, but pg_user_mappings includes full umoptions.  Change
pg_user_mappings to show null for umoptions.  Back-patch to 9.2, like
the above commit.

Reviewed by Tom Lane.  Reported by Jeff Janes.

Security: CVE-2017-7547
2017-08-07 07:09:28 -07:00
Heikki Linnakangas bf6b9e9444 Don't allow logging in with empty password.
Some authentication methods allowed it, others did not. In the client-side,
libpq does not even try to authenticate with an empty password, which makes
using empty passwords hazardous: an administrator might think that an
account with an empty password cannot be used to log in, because psql
doesn't allow it, and not realize that a different client would in fact
allow it. To clear that confusion and to be be consistent, disallow empty
passwords in all authentication methods.

All the authentication methods that used plaintext authentication over the
wire, except for BSD authentication, already checked that the password
received from the user was not empty. To avoid forgetting it in the future
again, move the check to the recv_password_packet function. That only
forbids using an empty password with plaintext authentication, however.
MD5 and SCRAM need a different fix:

* In stable branches, check that the MD5 hash stored for the user does not
not correspond to an empty string. This adds some overhead to MD5
authentication, because the server needs to compute an extra MD5 hash, but
it is not noticeable in practice.

* In HEAD, modify CREATE and ALTER ROLE to clear the password if an empty
string, or a password hash that corresponds to an empty string, is
specified. The user-visible behavior is the same as in the stable branches,
the user cannot log in, but it seems better to stop the empty password from
entering the system in the first place. Secondly, it is fairly expensive to
check that a SCRAM hash doesn't correspond to an empty string, because
computing a SCRAM hash is much more expensive than an MD5 hash by design,
so better avoid doing that on every authentication.

We could clear the password on CREATE/ALTER ROLE also in stable branches,
but we would still need to check at authentication time, because even if we
prevent empty passwords from being stored in pg_authid, there might be
existing ones there already.

Reported by Jeroen van der Ham, Ben de Graaff and Jelte Fennema.

Security: CVE-2017-7546
2017-08-07 17:03:42 +03:00
Tom Lane b35006eccc Release notes for 9.6.4, 9.5.8, 9.4.13, 9.3.18, 9.2.22. 2017-08-06 17:57:03 -04:00
Tom Lane dd2358a704 Doc: update v10 release notes through today. 2017-08-05 15:55:23 -04:00
Robert Haas 52f8a59dd9 Make pg_stop_backup's wait_for_archive flag work on standbys.
Previously, it had no effect.  Now, if archive_mode=always, it will
work, and if not, you'll get a warning.

Masahiko Sawada, Michael Paquier, and Robert Haas.  The patch as
submitted also changed the behavior so that we would write and remove
history files on standbys, but that seems like material for a separate
patch to me.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAD21AoC2Xw6M=ZJyejq_9d_iDkReC_=rpvQRw5QsyzKQdfYpkw@mail.gmail.com
2017-08-05 10:49:26 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut eccead9ed4 Add support for ICU 4.2
Supporting ICU 4.2 seems useful because it ships with CentOS 6.

Versions before ICU 4.6 don't support pkg-config, so document an
installation method without using pkg-config.

In ICU 4.2, ucol_getKeywordsForLocale() sometimes returns values that
will not be accepted by uloc_toLanguageTag().  Skip loading keyword
variants in that version.

Reported-by: Victor Wagner <vitus@wagner.pp.ru>
2017-08-05 09:32:42 -04:00
Tom Lane 03378c4da5 First-draft release notes for 9.6.4.
As usual, the release notes for other branches will be made by cutting
these down, but put them up for community review first.
2017-08-04 18:37:22 -04:00
Robert Haas 620b49a16d hash: Increase the number of possible overflow bitmaps by 8x.
Per a report from AP, it's not that hard to exhaust the supply of
bitmap pages if you create a table with a hash index and then insert a
few billion rows - and then you start getting errors when you try to
insert additional rows.  In the particular case reported by AP,
there's another fix that we can make to improve recycling of overflow
pages, which is another way to avoid the error, but there may be other
cases where this problem happens and that fix won't help.  So let's
buy ourselves as much headroom as we can without rearchitecting
anything.

The comments claim that the old limit was 64GB, but it was really
only 32GB, because we didn't use all the bits in the page for bitmap
bits - only the largest power of 2 that could fit after deducting
space for the page header and so forth.  Thus, we have 4kB per page
for bitmap bits, not 8kB.  The new limit is thus actually 8 times the
old *real* limit but only 4 times the old *purported* limit.

Since this breaks on-disk compatibility, bump HASH_VERSION.  We've
already done this earlier in this release cycle, so this doesn't cause
any incremental inconvenience for people using pg_upgrade from
releases prior to v10.  However, users who use pg_upgrade to reach
10beta3 or later from 10beta2 or earlier will need to REINDEX any hash
indexes again.

Amit Kapila and Robert Haas

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/20170704105728.mwb72jebfmok2nm2@zip.com.au
2017-08-04 16:30:32 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut b374481221 Further unify ROLE and USER command grammar rules
ALTER USER ... SET did not support all the syntax variants of ALTER ROLE
...  SET.  Fix that, and to avoid further deviations of this kind, unify
many the grammar rules for ROLE/USER/GROUP commands.

Reported-by: Pavel Golub <pavel@microolap.com>
2017-08-03 20:34:45 -04:00
Tom Lane 80215156f9 Add pgtcl back to the list of externally-maintained client interfaces.
FlightAware is still maintaining this, and indeed is seemingly being
more active with it than the pgtclng fork is.  List both, for the
time being anyway.

In the back branches, also back-port commit e20f679f6 and other
recent updates to the client-interfaces list.  I think these are
probably of current interest to users of back branches.  I did
not touch the list of externally maintained PLs in the back
branches, though.  Those are much more likely to be server version
sensitive, and I don't know which of these PLs work all the way back.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170730162612.1449.58796@wrigleys.postgresql.org
2017-08-02 16:55:03 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut c1bb787046 doc: Fix typo
Author: Fabien COELHO <coelho@cri.ensmp.fr>
2017-08-01 14:37:26 -04:00
Heikki Linnakangas 4427b515e6 Doc: add v10 release notes entries for the DH parameter changes. 2017-07-31 22:47:07 +03:00
Heikki Linnakangas c0a15e07cd Always use 2048 bit DH parameters for OpenSSL ephemeral DH ciphers.
1024 bits is considered weak these days, but OpenSSL always passes 1024 as
the key length to the tmp_dh callback. All the code to handle other key
lengths is, in fact, dead.

To remedy those issues:

* Only include hard-coded 2048-bit parameters.
* Set the parameters directly with SSL_CTX_set_tmp_dh(), without the
  callback
* The name of the file containing the DH parameters is now a GUC. This
  replaces the old hardcoded "dh1024.pem" filename. (The files for other
  key lengths, dh512.pem, dh2048.pem, etc. were never actually used.)

This is not a new problem, but it doesn't seem worth the risk and churn to
backport. If you care enough about the strength of the DH parameters on
old versions, you can create custom DH parameters, with as many bits as you
wish, and put them in the "dh1024.pem" file.

Per report by Nicolas Guini and Damian Quiroga. Reviewed by Michael Paquier.

Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAMxBoUyjOOautVozN6ofzym828aNrDjuCcOTcCquxjwS-L2hGQ@mail.gmail.com
2017-07-31 22:36:09 +03:00
Tom Lane dea6ba939f Doc: specify that the minimum supported version of Perl is 5.8.3.
Previously the docs just said "5.8 or later".  Experimentation shows
that while you can build on Unix from a git checkout with 5.8.0,
compiling recent PL/Perl requires at least 5.8.1, and you won't be
able to run the TAP tests with less than 5.8.3 because that's when
they added "prove".  (I do not have any information on just what the
MSVC build scripts require.)

Since all these versions are quite ancient, let's not split hairs
in the docs, but just say that 5.8.3 is the minimum requirement.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16894.1501392088@sss.pgh.pa.us
2017-07-31 13:42:48 -04:00
Robert Haas 7086be6e36 When WCOs are present, disable direct foreign table modification.
If the user modifies a view that has CHECK OPTIONs and this gets
translated into a modification to an underlying relation which happens
to be a foreign table, the check options should be enforced.  In the
normal code path, that was happening properly, but it was not working
properly for "direct" modification because the whole operation gets
pushed to the remote side in that case and we never have an option to
enforce the constraint against individual tuples.  Fix by disabling
direct modification when there is a need to enforce CHECK OPTIONs.

Etsuro Fujita, reviewed by Kyotaro Horiguchi and by me.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/f8a48f54-6f02-9c8a-5250-9791603171ee@lab.ntt.co.jp
2017-07-24 15:57:24 -04:00
Tom Lane e22efaabf1 Doc: update versioning information in libpq.sgml.
The descriptions of PQserverVersion and PQlibVersion hadn't been updated
for the new two-part version-numbering approach.  Fix that.

In passing, remove some trailing whitespace elsewhere in the file.
2017-07-21 17:50:57 -04:00
Dean Rasheed d363d42bb9 Use MINVALUE/MAXVALUE instead of UNBOUNDED for range partition bounds.
Previously, UNBOUNDED meant no lower bound when used in the FROM list,
and no upper bound when used in the TO list, which was OK for
single-column range partitioning, but problematic with multiple
columns. For example, an upper bound of (10.0, UNBOUNDED) would not be
collocated with a lower bound of (10.0, UNBOUNDED), thus making it
difficult or impossible to define contiguous multi-column range
partitions in some cases.

Fix this by using MINVALUE and MAXVALUE instead of UNBOUNDED to
represent a partition column that is unbounded below or above
respectively. This syntax removes any ambiguity, and ensures that if
one partition's lower bound equals another partition's upper bound,
then the partitions are contiguous.

Also drop the constraint prohibiting finite values after an unbounded
column, and just document the fact that any values after MINVALUE or
MAXVALUE are ignored. Previously it was necessary to repeat UNBOUNDED
multiple times, which was needlessly verbose.

Note: Forces a post-PG 10 beta2 initdb.

Report by Amul Sul, original patch by Amit Langote with some
additional hacking by me.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAAJ_b947mowpLdxL3jo3YLKngRjrq9+Ej4ymduQTfYR+8=YAYQ@mail.gmail.com
2017-07-21 09:20:47 +01:00
Tom Lane 866f4a7c21 In v10 release notes, call out sequence changes as a compatibility item.
The previous description didn't make it clear that this change
potentially breaks applications, partly because the entry wasn't even
in the compatibility-hazard section.  Move and clarify.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/603f3f0a-f89d-ae8b-1da9-a92fac16086d@enterprisedb.com
2017-07-20 15:28:42 -04:00
Tom Lane ed3dc224e5 Doc: clarify description of degenerate NATURAL joins.
Claiming that NATURAL JOIN is equivalent to CROSS JOIN when there are
no common column names is only strictly correct if it's an inner join;
you can't say e.g. CROSS LEFT JOIN.  Better to explain it as meaning
JOIN ON TRUE, instead.  Per a suggestion from David Johnston.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAKFQuwb+mYszQhDS9f_dqRrk1=Pe-S6D=XMkAXcDf4ykKPmgKQ@mail.gmail.com
2017-07-20 12:41:26 -04:00
Tom Lane 5752dcd45b Doc: add missing note about permissions needed to change log_lock_waits.
log_lock_waits is PGC_SUSET, but config.sgml lacked the standard
boilerplate sentence noting that.

Report: https://postgr.es/m/20170719100838.19352.16320@wrigleys.postgresql.org
2017-07-19 12:58:36 -04:00
Tom Lane fb9bd4b046 Doc: fix thinko in v10 release notes.
s/log_destination/log_directory/, per Jov in bug #14749.

Report: https://postgr.es/m/20170718082444.9229.99690@wrigleys.postgresql.org
2017-07-18 10:17:15 -04:00
Tom Lane 533463307b Doc: explain dollar quoting in the intro part of the pl/pgsql chapter.
We're throwing people into the guts of the syntax with not much context;
let's back up one step and point out that this goes inside a literal in
a CREATE FUNCTION command.  Per suggestion from Kurt Kartaltepe.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CACawnnyWAmH+au8nfZhLiFfWKjXy4d0kY+eZWfcxPRnjVfaa_Q@mail.gmail.com
2017-07-17 16:43:06 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera 2036f71b75 Fix typo in v10 release notes
The new functions return a list of files in the corresponding directory,
not the name of the directory itself.

Pointed out by Gianni Ciolli.
2017-07-13 18:14:01 -04:00
Tom Lane 42171e2cd2 Stamp 10beta2. 2017-07-10 16:26:20 -04:00
Heikki Linnakangas d137a6dc23 Fix missing tag in the docs.
Masahiko Sawada

Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAD21AoBCwcTNMdrVWq8T0hoOs2mWSYq9PRJ_fr6SH8HdO+m=0g@mail.gmail.com
2017-07-10 15:36:02 +03:00
Heikki Linnakangas 7b02ba62e9 Allow multiple hostaddrs to go with multiple hostnames.
Also fix two other issues, while we're at it:

* In error message on connection failure, if multiple network addresses
were given as the host option, as in "host=127.0.0.1,127.0.0.2", the
error message printed the address twice.

* If there were many more ports than hostnames, the error message would
always claim that there was one port too many, even if there was more than
one. For example, if you gave 2 hostnames and 5 ports, the error message
claimed that you gave 2 hostnames and 3 ports.

Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/10badbc6-4d5a-a769-623a-f7ada43e14dd@iki.fi
2017-07-10 12:28:57 +03:00
Tom Lane 260ba8525a Doc: remove claim that PROVE_FLAGS defaults to '--verbose'.
Commit e9c81b601 changed this, but missed updating the documentation.
The adjacent claim that we use TAP tests only in src/bin seems pretty
obsolete as well.  Minor other copy-editing.
2017-07-10 00:44:05 -04:00
Tom Lane 3834abe90c Doc: clarify wording about tool requirements in sourcerepo.sgml.
Original wording had confusingly vague antecedent for "they", so replace
that with a more repetitive but clearer formulation.  In passing, make the
link to the installation requirements section more specific.  Per gripe
from Martin Mai, though this is not the fix he initially proposed.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAN_NWRu-cWuNaiXUjV3m4H-riWURuPW=j21bSaLADs6rjjzXgQ@mail.gmail.com
2017-07-10 00:08:19 -04:00
Tom Lane 749eceff4a Doc: desultory copy-editing for v10 release notes.
Improve many item descriptions, improve markup, relocate some items
that seemed to be in the wrong section.
2017-07-09 20:11:21 -04:00
Tom Lane fad7873c8c Doc: update v10 release notes through today. 2017-07-09 15:27:21 -04:00
Tom Lane 485c515d01 Doc: fix backwards description of visibility map's all-frozen data.
Thinko in commit a892234f8.

Vik Fearing

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/b6aaa23d-e26f-6404-a30d-e89431492d5d@2ndquadrant.com
2017-07-09 12:51:15 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 1bac5f552a pg_ctl: Make failure to complete operation a nonzero exit
If an operation being waited for does not complete within the timeout,
then exit with a nonzero exit status.  This was previously handled
inconsistently.
2017-07-05 13:37:08 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 5191e357cf psql documentation fixes
Update the documentation for \pset to mention
columns|linestyle|pager_min_lines.  Add various mentions of \pset
command equivalences that were previously inconsistent.

Author: Дилян Палаузов <dpa-postgres@aegee.org>
2017-07-04 21:10:08 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 012d83f57a Document how logical replication deals with statement triggers
Reported-by: Константин Евтеев <konst583@gmail.com>
Bug: #14699
2017-07-03 23:37:53 -04:00
Magnus Hagander 42794d6749 Don't mention SSL methods that aren't reachable in docs
Author: Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>
2017-07-03 16:16:35 +01:00
Peter Eisentraut 2dca03439f doc: Document that logical replication supports synchronous replication
Update the documentation a bit to include that logical replication as
well as other and third-party replication clients can participate in
synchronous replication.
2017-07-02 00:10:57 -04:00
Andrew Gierth 501ed02cf6 Fix transition tables for partition/inheritance.
We disallow row-level triggers with transition tables on child tables.
Transition tables for triggers on the parent table contain only those
columns present in the parent.  (We can't mix tuple formats in a
single transition table.)

Patch by Thomas Munro

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BTgmoZzTBBAsEUh4MazAN7ga%3D8SsMC-Knp-6cetts9yNZUCcg%40mail.gmail.com
2017-06-28 18:55:03 +01:00
Tom Lane 99255d73c0 Second try at fixing tcp_keepalives_idle option on Solaris.
Buildfarm evidence shows that TCP_KEEPALIVE_THRESHOLD doesn't exist
after all on Solaris < 11.  This means we need to take positive action to
prevent the TCP_KEEPALIVE code path from being taken on that platform.
I've chosen to limit it with "&& defined(__darwin__)", since it's unclear
that anyone else would follow Apple's precedent of spelling the symbol
that way.

Also, follow a suggestion from Michael Paquier of eliminating code
duplication by defining a couple of intermediate symbols for the
socket option.

In passing, make some effort to reduce the number of translatable messages
by replacing "setsockopt(foo) failed" with "setsockopt(%s) failed", etc,
throughout the affected files.  And update relevant documentation so
that it doesn't claim to provide an exhaustive list of the possible
socket option names.

Like the previous commit (f0256c774), back-patch to all supported branches.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170627163757.25161.528@wrigleys.postgresql.org
2017-06-28 12:30:16 -04:00
Magnus Hagander 59cd3987af Consistently use () for function calls in release notes 2017-06-26 15:35:06 +02:00
Tom Lane de0c60b7d3 Doc: minor improvements for collation-related man pages. 2017-06-25 12:27:04 -04:00
Tom Lane ddb5fdc068 Further hacking on ICU collation creation and usage.
pg_import_system_collations() refused to create any ICU collations if
the current database's encoding didn't support ICU.  This is wrongheaded:
initdb must initialize pg_collation in an encoding-independent way
since it might be used in other databases with different encodings.
The reason for the restriction seems to be that get_icu_locale_comment()
used icu_from_uchar() to convert the UChar-format display name, and that
unsurprisingly doesn't know what to do in unsupported encodings.
But by the same token that the initial catalog contents must be
encoding-independent, we can't allow non-ASCII characters in the comment
strings.  So we don't really need icu_from_uchar() here: just check for
Unicode codes outside the ASCII range, and if there are none, the format
conversion is trivial.  If there are some, we can simply not install the
comment.  (In my testing, this affects only Norwegian Bokmål, which has
given us trouble before.)

For paranoia's sake, also check for non-ASCII characters in ICU locale
names, and skip such locales, as we do for libc locales.  I don't
currently have a reason to believe that this will ever reject anything,
but then again the libc maintainers should have known better too.

With just the import changes, ICU collations can be found in pg_collation
in databases with unsupported encodings.  This resulted in more or less
clean failures at runtime, but that's not how things act for unsupported
encodings with libc collations.  Make it work the same as our traditional
behavior for libc collations by having collation lookup take into account
whether is_encoding_supported_by_icu().

Adjust documentation to match.  Also, expand Table 23.1 to show which
encodings are supported by ICU.

catversion bump because of likely change in pg_collation/pg_description
initial contents in ICU-enabled builds.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20c74bc3-d6ca-243d-1bbc-12f17fa4fe9a@gmail.com
2017-06-24 13:54:23 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 08859bb5c2 Fix replication with replica identity full
The comparison with the target rows on the subscriber side was done with
datumIsEqual(), which can have false negatives.  For instance, it didn't
work reliably for text columns.  So use the equality operator provided
by the type cache instead.

Also add more user documentation about replica identity requirements.

Reported-by: Tatsuo Ishii <ishii@sraoss.co.jp>
2017-06-23 15:40:17 -04:00
Tom Lane 0b13b2a771 Rethink behavior of pg_import_system_collations().
Marco Atzeri reported that initdb would fail if "locale -a" reported
the same locale name more than once.  All previous versions of Postgres
implicitly de-duplicated the results of "locale -a", but the rewrite
to move the collation import logic into C had lost that property.
It had also lost the property that locale names matching built-in
collation names were silently ignored.

The simplest way to fix this is to make initdb run the function in
if-not-exists mode, which means that there's no real use-case for
non if-not-exists mode; we might as well just drop the boolean argument
and simplify the function's definition to be "add any collations not
already known".  This change also gets rid of some odd corner cases
caused by the fact that aliases were added in if-not-exists mode even
if the function argument said otherwise.

While at it, adjust the behavior so that pg_import_system_collations()
doesn't spew "collation foo already exists, skipping" messages during a
re-run; that's completely unhelpful, especially since there are often
hundreds of them.  And make it return a count of the number of collations
it did add, which seems like it might be helpful.

Also, re-integrate the previous coding's property that it would make a
deterministic selection of which alias to use if there were conflicting
possibilities.  This would only come into play if "locale -a" reports
multiple equivalent locale names, say "de_DE.utf8" and "de_DE.UTF-8",
but that hardly seems out of the question.

In passing, fix incorrect behavior in pg_import_system_collations()'s
ICU code path: it neglected CommandCounterIncrement, which would result
in failures if ICU returns duplicate names, and it would try to create
comments even if a new collation hadn't been created.

Also, reorder operations in initdb so that the 'ucs_basic' collation
is created before calling pg_import_system_collations() not after.
This prevents a failure if "locale -a" were to report a locale named
that.  There's no reason to think that that ever happens in the wild,
but the old coding would have survived it, so let's be equally robust.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20c74bc3-d6ca-243d-1bbc-12f17fa4fe9a@gmail.com
2017-06-23 14:19:58 -04:00
Simon Riggs a79122b061 Minor corrections to high availability docs
Startup process is displayed in pg_stat_activity, noted by Yugo Nagata.
Transactions can be resolved at end of recovery.

Author: Yugo Nagata, with addition by me
2017-06-23 18:16:00 +01:00
Tom Lane ba63dbd9ed Upgrade documentation connected with shared_preload_libraries et al.
Noplace in the documentation actually defined what these variables
contain.  Define them as lists of arguments for LOAD, and improve
that command's documentation a bit.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAB-oJtxHVDc3H+Km3CjB9mY1VDzuyaVH_ZYSz7iXcRqCtb93Ew@mail.gmail.com
2017-06-20 13:40:06 -04:00
Tom Lane d14c85ed1a Fix materialized-view documentation oversights.
When materialized views were added, psql's \d commands were made to
treat them as a separate object category ... but not everyplace in the
documentation or comments got the memo.

Noted by David Johnston.  Back-patch to 9.3 where matviews came in.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAKFQuwb27M3VXRhHErjCpkWwN9eKThbqWb1=trtoXi9_ejqPXQ@mail.gmail.com
2017-06-19 18:32:38 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 1c25ef6363 doc: Improve logical replication security setup info
Reported-by: Jeff Janes <jeff.janes@gmail.com>
2017-06-19 17:30:52 -04:00
Tatsuo Ishii b4166a8df9 Improve PostgreSQL 10.0 release note regarding pg_current_logfile().
Author: Yugo Nagata
2017-06-19 09:10:18 +09:00
Peter Eisentraut bbaf9e8f84 Documentation spell checking and markup improvements 2017-06-18 14:02:12 -04:00
Magnus Hagander 81a4dcf2f2 Fix copy/paste error in docs
Author: Julien Rouhaud <julien.rouhaud@dalibo.com>
2017-06-18 19:41:46 +02:00
Peter Eisentraut f6da23f526 doc: Fix typo
Author: Julien Rouhaud <julien.rouhaud@dalibo.com>
2017-06-17 19:03:12 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 806dccee23 doc: Fix typo
Author: Julien Rouhaud <julien.rouhaud@dalibo.com>
2017-06-17 10:21:41 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 57fb1d677d doc: Add note that COPY commands are published as INSERTs 2017-06-16 21:04:34 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 3ef97e725e doc: Add section about logical replication restrictions 2017-06-16 09:55:55 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 07fb943335 doc: remove mention of Windows junction points by pg_upgrade
pg_upgrade never used Windows junction points but instead always used
Windows hard links.

Reported-by: Adrian Klaver

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/6a638c60-90bb-4921-8ee4-5fdad68f8b09@aklaver.com

Backpatch-through: 9.3, where the mention first appeared
2017-06-15 13:25:45 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 0f33a719fd docs: Fix pg_upgrade standby server upgrade docs
It was unsafe to instruct users to start/stop the server after
pg_upgrade was run but before the standby servers were rsync'ed.  The
new instructions avoid this.

RELEASE NOTES:  This fix should be mentioned in the minor release notes.

Reported-by: Dmitriy Sarafannikov and Sergey Burladyan

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/87wp8o506b.fsf@seb.koffice.internal

Backpatch-through: 9.5, where standby server upgrade instructions first appeared
2017-06-15 12:30:02 -04:00
Tatsuo Ishii e800656d9a Fix typo in PostgreSQL 10.0 release note.
Patch by Yugo Nagata.
2017-06-15 11:24:47 +09:00
Tatsuo Ishii 6108348c09 Fix document bug regarding read only transactions.
It was explained that read only transactions (not in standby) allow to
update sequences. This had been wrong since the commit:
05d8a561ff

Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20170614.110826.425627939780392324.t-ishii%40sraoss.co.jp
2017-06-15 10:01:39 +09:00
Andres Freund 6c2003f8a1 Don't force-assign transaction id when exporting a snapshot.
Previously we required every exported transaction to have an xid
assigned. That was used to check that the exporting transaction is
still running, which in turn is needed to guarantee that that
necessary rows haven't been removed in between exporting and importing
the snapshot.

The exported xid caused unnecessary problems with logical decoding,
because slot creation has to wait for all concurrent xid to finish,
which in turn serializes concurrent slot creation.   It also
prohibited snapshots to be exported on hot-standby replicas.

Instead export the virtual transactionid, which avoids the unnecessary
serialization and the inability to export snapshots on standbys. This
changes the file name of the exported snapshot, but since we never
documented what that one means, that seems ok.

Author: Petr Jelinek, slightly editorialized by me
Reviewed-By: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/f598b4b8-8cd7-0d54-0939-adda763d8c34@2ndquadrant.com
2017-06-14 11:57:21 -07:00
Peter Eisentraut f0cfff9da2 doc: Whitespace fixes in man pages 2017-06-14 13:56:04 -04:00
Tom Lane a12c09ad86 Improve release note text about set-returning-function changes.
Paul Ramsey griped about this awhile ago, but I'd been holding fire
on changing it until we settled what to do about the CASE/COALESCE
issue.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CACowWR0AMyUt5fwtvuDqWyYNdp-hQJj9XqSxJR6YM9sKWov=_w@mail.gmail.com
2017-06-14 11:44:43 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 0d9bdbcaae Put documentation of options and commands in more alphabetical order 2017-06-14 11:10:17 -04:00
Tom Lane 0436f6bde8 Disallow set-returning functions inside CASE or COALESCE.
When we reimplemented SRFs in commit 69f4b9c85, our initial choice was
to allow the behavior to vary from historical practice in cases where a
SRF call appeared within a conditional-execution construct (currently,
only CASE or COALESCE).  But that was controversial to begin with, and
subsequent discussion has resulted in a consensus that it's better to
throw an error instead of executing the query differently from before,
so long as we can provide a reasonably clear error message and a way to
rewrite the query.

Hence, add a parser mechanism to allow detection of such cases during
parse analysis.  The mechanism just requires storing, in the ParseState,
a pointer to the set-returning FuncExpr or OpExpr most recently emitted
by parse analysis.  Then the parsing functions for CASE and COALESCE can
detect the presence of a SRF in their arguments by noting whether this
pointer changes while analyzing their arguments.  Furthermore, if it does,
it provides a suitable error cursor location for the complaint.  (This
means that if there's more than one SRF in the arguments, the error will
point at the last one to be analyzed not the first.  While connoisseurs of
parsing behavior might find that odd, it's unlikely the average user would
ever notice.)

While at it, we can also provide more specific error messages than before
about some pre-existing restrictions, such as no-SRFs-within-aggregates.
Also, reject at parse time cases where a NULLIF or IS DISTINCT FROM
construct would need to return a set.  We've never supported that, but the
restriction is depended on in more subtle ways now, so it seems wise to
detect it at the start.

Also, provide some documentation about how to rewrite a SRF-within-CASE
query using a custom wrapper SRF.

It turns out that the information_schema.user_mapping_options view
contained an instance of exactly the behavior we're now forbidding; but
rewriting it makes it more clear and safer too.

initdb forced because of user_mapping_options change.

Patch by me, with error message suggestions from Alvaro Herrera and
Andres Freund, pursuant to a complaint from Regina Obe.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/000001d2d5de$d8d66170$8a832450$@pcorp.us
2017-06-13 23:46:39 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 39da0f709d doc: Update example version numbers in pg_upgrade documentation
The exact numbers don't matter, since they are examples, but it was
looking quite dated.

For the target version, we now automatically substitute the current
major version.  The updated example source version should be good for a
couple of years.
2017-06-13 16:10:11 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 506b565831 doc: Fix typo
Author: Julien Rouhaud <julien.rouhaud@dalibo.com>
2017-06-13 11:28:52 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 2440c442d1 doc: Update external PL list
Add PL/Lua, PL/v8.

Remove stale/unmaintained PL/PHP, PL/Py, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme.

Reported-by: Adam Sah <asah@midgard.net>
2017-06-12 22:34:04 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 5d8beac8be doc: Update information_schema documentation for identity columns
This was apparently forgotten in the original patch.
2017-06-12 16:20:12 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut bf6e4c3c82 Trim trailing whitespace 2017-06-12 09:51:18 -04:00
Tatsuo Ishii eab86897bd Fix ALTER TABLE doc examples.
Patch by Yugo Nagata <nagata@sraoss.co.jp>.  Confirmed by Amit
Langote, who is the original author of the document part.
2017-06-12 14:49:25 +09:00
Peter Eisentraut e20f679f66 doc: Add Node.js and Go drivers to client interfaces
Also, fix client interface JDBC language name to Java.

Author: Sehrope Sarkuni <sehrope@jackdb.com>
2017-06-09 20:34:27 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 0332993c4e doc: Improve types in example
Reported-by: Nikolaus Thiel <klt@fsfe.org>
2017-06-09 19:49:18 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 0933fcee98 doc: Document that subscriptions to same server might hang 2017-06-09 17:14:06 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 5c4109f2c8 Update key words table for version 10 2017-06-08 17:19:50 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 7ff9812f9a Put new command-line options in alphabetical order 2017-06-08 12:12:31 -04:00
Tom Lane 0198c277a2 Docs: improve CREATE TABLE ref page's discussion of partition bounds.
Clarify in the syntax synopsis that partition bound values must be
exactly numeric literals or string literals; previously it
said "bound_literal" which was defined nowhere.

Replace confusing --- and, I think, incorrect in detail --- definition
of how range bounds work with a reference to row-wise comparison plus
a concrete example (which I stole from Robert Haas).

Minor copy-editing in the same area.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/30475.1496005465@sss.pgh.pa.us
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/28106.1496041449@sss.pgh.pa.us
2017-06-07 17:23:38 -04:00
Robert Haas 79c4fa0f62 Fix some cases of "the the" split across two lines.
Kevin Grittner observed that 2186b608b3
introduced a new occurence of this by copying existing text, and I
found a few more cases using grep.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CADAecHWfG-K+YvocHCkrXV-ycm+eUOaaUVfYZNOnwf0pSmuQCw@mail.gmail.com
2017-06-06 12:24:44 -04:00
Robert Haas 2186b608b3 Clean up partcollation handling for OID 0.
Consistent with what we do for indexes, we shouldn't try to record
dependencies on collation OID 0 or the default collation OID (which
is pinned).  Also, the fact that indcollation and partcollation can
contain zero OIDs when the data type is not collatable should be
documented.

Amit Langote, per a complaint from me.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+Tgmoba5mtPgM3NKfG06vv8na5gGbVOj0h4zvivXQwLw8wXXQ@mail.gmail.com
2017-06-06 11:07:20 -04:00
Michael Meskes 0f33ee0e3b Fix docs to not claim ECPG's SET CONNECTION is not thread-aware.
Changed by: Tsunakawa, Takayuki <tsunakawa.takay@jp.fujitsu.com>
2017-06-06 12:20:31 +02:00
Andres Freund c6c3334364 Prevent possibility of panics during shutdown checkpoint.
When the checkpointer writes the shutdown checkpoint, it checks
afterwards whether any WAL has been written since it started and
throws a PANIC if so.  At that point, only walsenders are still
active, so one might think this could not happen, but walsenders can
also generate WAL, for instance in BASE_BACKUP and logical decoding
related commands (e.g. via hint bits).  So they can trigger this panic
if such a command is run while the shutdown checkpoint is being
written.

To fix this, divide the walsender shutdown into two phases.  First,
checkpointer, itself triggered by postmaster, sends a
PROCSIG_WALSND_INIT_STOPPING signal to all walsenders.  If the backend
is idle or runs an SQL query this causes the backend to shutdown, if
logical replication is in progress all existing WAL records are
processed followed by a shutdown.  Otherwise this causes the walsender
to switch to the "stopping" state. In this state, the walsender will
reject any further replication commands. The checkpointer begins the
shutdown checkpoint once all walsenders are confirmed as
stopping. When the shutdown checkpoint finishes, the postmaster sends
us SIGUSR2. This instructs walsender to send any outstanding WAL,
including the shutdown checkpoint record, wait for it to be replicated
to the standby, and then exit.

Author: Andres Freund, based on an earlier patch by Michael Paquier
Reported-By: Fujii Masao, Andres Freund
Reviewed-By: Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170602002912.tqlwn4gymzlxpvs2@alap3.anarazel.de
Backpatch: 9.4, where logical decoding was introduced
2017-06-05 19:18:15 -07:00
Andres Freund 703f148e98 Revert "Prevent panic during shutdown checkpoint"
This reverts commit 086221cf6b, which
was made to master only.

The approach implemented in the above commit has some issues.  While
those could easily be fixed incrementally, doing so would make
backpatching considerably harder, so instead first revert this patch.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170602002912.tqlwn4gymzlxpvs2@alap3.anarazel.de
2017-06-05 19:18:15 -07:00
Peter Eisentraut 9907b55ceb Fix ALTER SUBSCRIPTION grammar ambiguity
There was a grammar ambiguity between SET PUBLICATION name REFRESH and
SET PUBLICATION SKIP REFRESH, because SKIP is not a reserved word.  To
resolve that, fold the refresh choice into the WITH options.  Refreshing
is the default now.

Reported-by: tushar <tushar.ahuja@enterprisedb.com>
2017-06-05 21:43:25 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut de492c17f0 doc: Add note that DROP SUBSCRIPTION drops replication slot
Add some information about what to do when this fails.
2017-06-02 15:16:57 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera f112f175a4 Fix typo
Reported by: Tim Goodaire
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170601182230.1487.26008@wrigleys.postgresql.org
2017-06-01 17:48:39 -04:00
Andres Freund 3d79013b97 Make ALTER SEQUENCE, including RESTART, fully transactional.
Previously the changes to the "data" part of the sequence, i.e. the
one containing the current value, were not transactional, whereas the
definition, including minimum and maximum value were.  That leads to
odd behaviour if a schema change is rolled back, with the potential
that out-of-bound sequence values can be returned.

To avoid the issue create a new relfilenode fork whenever ALTER
SEQUENCE is executed, similar to how TRUNCATE ... RESTART IDENTITY
already is already handled.

This commit also makes ALTER SEQUENCE RESTART transactional, as it
seems to be too confusing to have some forms of ALTER SEQUENCE behave
transactionally, some forms not.  This way setval() and nextval() are
not transactional, but DDL is, which seems to make sense.

This commit also rolls back parts of the changes made in 3d092fe540
and f8dc1985f as they're now not needed anymore.

Author: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170522154227.nvafbsm62sjpbxvd@alap3.anarazel.de
Backpatch: Bug is in master/v10 only
2017-06-01 14:19:33 -07:00
Tom Lane e9a3c047a5 Always use -fPIC, not -fpic, when building shared libraries with gcc.
On some platforms, -fpic fails for sufficiently large shared libraries.
We've mostly not hit that boundary yet, but there are some extensions
such as Citus and pglogical where it's becoming a problem.  A bit of
research suggests that the penalty for -fPIC is small, in the
single-digit-percentage range --- and there's none at all on popular
platforms such as x86_64.  So let's just default to -fPIC everywhere
and provide one less thing for extension developers to worry about.

Per complaint from Christoph Berg.  Back-patch to all supported branches.
(I did not bother to touch the recently-removed Makefiles for sco and
unixware in the back branches, though.  We'd have no way to test that
it doesn't break anything on those platforms.)

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170529155850.qojdfrwkkqnjb3ap@msg.df7cb.de
2017-06-01 13:32:55 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 3e6d2fabcc doc: Add another migration item to release notes 2017-05-31 13:39:28 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 185364b161 doc: Fix ALTER PUBLICATION details
Some of the text was made nonsensical by commit
e950024066.  Fix that and make some other
minor changes.

Reported-by: Jeff Janes <jeff.janes@gmail.com>
2017-05-30 11:48:39 -04:00
Tom Lane f3db7f164a Prevent running pg_resetwal/pg_resetxlog against wrong-version data dirs.
pg_resetwal (formerly pg_resetxlog) doesn't insist on finding a matching
version number in pg_control, and that seems like an important thing to
preserve since recovering from corrupt pg_control is a prime reason to
need to run it.  However, that means you can try to run it against a
data directory of a different major version, which is at best useless
and at worst disastrous.  So as to provide some protection against that
type of pilot error, inspect PG_VERSION at startup and refuse to do
anything if it doesn't match.  PG_VERSION is read-only after initdb,
so it's unlikely to get corrupted, and even if it were corrupted it would
be easy to fix by hand.

This hazard has been there all along, so back-patch to all supported
branches.

Michael Paquier, with some kibitzing by me

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/f4b8eb91-b934-8a0d-b3cc-68f06e2279d1@enterprisedb.com
2017-05-29 17:08:16 -04:00
Heikki Linnakangas 6fd65f6b87 Fix reference to RFC specifying SCRAM.
Noted by Peter Eisentraut
2017-05-29 09:31:33 +03:00
Tom Lane 54bb322ec7 Format v10 release notes' commit references more like previous releases.
Left-justify these comments, remove committer names, remove SGML markup
that was randomly added to some of them.  Aside from being more consistent
with previous practice, this keeps the lines shorter than 80 characters,
improving readability in standard terminal windows.
2017-05-28 16:42:22 -04:00
Tom Lane 1c8b88ab9b Improve v10 release notes' discussion of money operator changes.
Mention the rounding behavioral change for money/int8.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170519164653.29941.19098@wrigleys.postgresql.org
2017-05-28 15:49:44 -04:00
Magnus Hagander 9c34a05b7d Remove docs mention of PGREALM variable
This variable was only used with Kerberos v4. That support was removed
in 2005, but we forgot to remove the documentation.

Noted by Shinichi Matsuda
2017-05-26 10:58:15 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera eb67e2e35a extended stats: Clarify behavior of omitting stat type clause
Pointed out by Jeff Janes
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAMkU=1zGhK-nW10RAXhokcT3MM=YBg=j5LkG9RMDwmu3i0H0Og@mail.gmail.com
2017-05-25 13:22:25 -04:00
Tom Lane d761fe2182 Fix precision and rounding issues in money multiplication and division.
The cash_div_intX functions applied rint() to the result of the division.
That's not merely useless (because the result is already an integer) but
it causes precision loss for values larger than 2^52 or so, because of
the forced conversion to float8.

On the other hand, the cash_mul_fltX functions neglected to apply rint() to
their multiplication results, thus possibly causing off-by-one outputs.

Per C standard, arithmetic between any integral value and a float value is
performed in float format.  Thus, cash_mul_flt4 and cash_div_flt4 produced
answers good to only about six digits, even when the float value is exact.
We can improve matters noticeably by widening the float inputs to double.
(It's tempting to consider using "long double" arithmetic if available,
but that's probably too much of a stretch for a back-patched fix.)

Also, document that cash_div_intX operators truncate rather than round.

Per bug #14663 from Richard Pistole.  Back-patch to all supported branches.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/22403.1495223615@sss.pgh.pa.us
2017-05-21 13:05:16 -04:00
Tom Lane 7f77cbd996 Change documentation references to PG website to use https: not http:
This is more secure, and saves a redirect since we no longer accept
plain HTTP connections on the website.

References in code comments should probably be updated too, but
that doesn't seem to need back-patching, whereas this does.

Also, in the 9.2 branch, remove suggestion that you can get the
source code via FTP, since that service will be shut down soon.

Daniel Gustafsson, with a few additional changes by me

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/9A2C89A7-0BB8-41A8-B288-8B7BD09D7D44@yesql.se
2017-05-20 21:50:47 -04:00
Robert Haas 5f374fe7a8 libpq: Try next host if one of them times out.
If one host in a multi-host connection string times out, move on to
the next specified host instead of giving up entirely.

Takayuki Tsunakawa, reviewed by Michael Paquier.  I added
a minor adjustment to the documentation.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/0A3221C70F24FB45833433255569204D1F6F42F5@G01JPEXMBYT05
2017-05-19 16:19:51 -04:00
Robert Haas aa41bc794c Capitalize SHOW when testing whether target_session_attrs=read-write.
This makes it also work for replication connections.

Report and patch by Daisuke Higuchi.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/1803D792815FC24D871C00D17AE95905B1A34A@g01jpexmbkw24
2017-05-19 15:48:10 -04:00
Bruce Momjian f6d5d22ea9 doc: remove duplicate PG 10 release notes entry
Reported-by: Daniel Gustafsson
2017-05-19 12:16:53 -04:00
Bruce Momjian f45d86d762 doc: fix PG 10 release notes with proper attribution and commit
Fix for hot_standby=on change.

Reported-by: Huong Dangminh

Author: Huong Dangminh
2017-05-19 12:10:10 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut f4205c4c1f doc: Fix ALTER SUBSCRIPTION option syntax synopsis
Author: Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com>
2017-05-18 21:39:06 -04:00
Robert Haas 3ec76ff1f2 Don't explicitly mark range partitioning columns NOT NULL.
This seemed like a good idea originally because there's no way to mark
a range partition as accepting NULL, but that now seems more like a
current limitation than something we want to lock down for all time.
For example, there's a proposal to add the notion of a default
partition which accepts all rows not otherwise routed, which directly
conflicts with the idea that a range-partitioned table should never
allow nulls anywhere.  So let's change this while we still can, by
putting the NOT NULL test into the partition constraint instead of
changing the column properties.

Amit Langote and Robert Haas, reviewed by Amit Kapila

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/8e2dd63d-c6fb-bb74-3c2b-ed6d63629c9d@lab.ntt.co.jp
2017-05-18 13:49:31 -04:00
Robert Haas 8e709a612f doc: Remove unnecessary RETURN statements from example.
Paul Jungwirth, reviewed by Ashutosh Bapat.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/e24a6a6d-5670-739b-00f3-41a226a80f25@illuminatedcomputing.com
2017-05-16 11:36:47 -04:00
Tom Lane 6accefd466 Update CREATE SUBSCRIPTION docs for recent syntax change.
Masahiko Sawada
2017-05-15 22:06:27 -04:00
Tom Lane 5ad367a35b Stamp 10beta1. 2017-05-15 17:20:59 -04:00
Tom Lane 1aedcf9818 git-ignore intermediate files from new docs toolchain.
Building PDFs with the new toolchain creates *.fo temporary files.
2017-05-15 15:48:40 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 4b99d32b2b doc: Remove unused file
sql.sgml has not been part of the documentation since forever, so it's
pointless to keep it around.
2017-05-15 12:09:19 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut f8dc1985fd Fix ALTER SEQUENCE locking
In 1753b1b027, the pg_sequence system
catalog was introduced.  This made sequence metadata changes
transactional, while the actual sequence values are still behaving
nontransactionally.  This requires some refinement in how ALTER
SEQUENCE, which operates on both, locks the sequence and the catalog.

The main problems were:

- Concurrent ALTER SEQUENCE causes "tuple concurrently updated" error,
  caused by updates to pg_sequence catalog.

- Sequence WAL writes and catalog updates are not protected by same
  lock, which could lead to inconsistent recovery order.

- nextval() disregarding uncommitted ALTER SEQUENCE changes.

To fix, nextval() and friends now lock the sequence using
RowExclusiveLock instead of AccessShareLock.  ALTER SEQUENCE locks the
sequence using ShareRowExclusiveLock.  This means that nextval() and
ALTER SEQUENCE block each other, and ALTER SEQUENCE on the same sequence
blocks itself.  (This was already the case previously for the OWNER TO,
RENAME, and SET SCHEMA variants.)  Also, rearrange some code so that the
entire AlterSequence is protected by the lock on the sequence.

As an exception, use reduced locking for ALTER SEQUENCE ... RESTART.
Since that is basically a setval(), it does not require the full locking
of other ALTER SEQUENCE actions.  So check whether we are only running a
RESTART and run with less locking if so.

Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Jason Petersen <jason@citusdata.com>
Reported-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
2017-05-15 10:19:57 -04:00
Bruce Momjian de7cca982c doc: update the "current as of" date in the PG 10 release notes 2017-05-14 23:15:50 -04:00
Bruce Momjian b91e5b4684 doc: update PG 10 release notes for recent changes 2017-05-14 22:45:18 -04:00
Tom Lane 93ece9cc88 Edit SGML documentation related to extended statistics.
Use the "statistics object" terminology uniformly here too.  Assorted
copy-editing.  Put new catalogs.sgml sections into alphabetical order.
2017-05-14 19:15:52 -04:00
Tom Lane f04c9a6146 Standardize terminology for pg_statistic_ext entries.
Consistently refer to such an entry as a "statistics object", not just
"statistics" or "extended statistics".  Previously we had a mismash of
terms, accompanied by utter confusion as to whether the term was
singular or plural.  That's not only grating (at least to the ear of
a native English speaker) but could be outright misleading, eg in error
messages that seemed to be referring to multiple objects where only one
could be meant.

This commit fixes the code and a lot of comments (though I may have
missed a few).  I also renamed two new SQL functions,
pg_get_statisticsextdef -> pg_get_statisticsobjdef
pg_statistic_ext_is_visible -> pg_statistics_obj_is_visible
to conform better with this terminology.

I have not touched the SGML docs other than fixing those function
names; the docs certainly need work but it seems like a separable task.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/22676.1494557205@sss.pgh.pa.us
2017-05-14 10:55:01 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera d99d58cdc8 Complete tab completion for DROP STATISTICS
Tab-completing DROP STATISTICS would only work if you started writing
the schema name containing the statistics object, because the visibility
clause was missing.  To add it, we need to add SQL-callable support for
testing visibility of a statistics object, like all other object types
already have.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/22676.1494557205@sss.pgh.pa.us
2017-05-13 01:05:48 -03:00
Bruce Momjian 9ed74fd463 doc: update markup for release note "release date" block
This has to be backpatched to all supported releases so release markup
added to HEAD and copied to back branches matches the existing markup.

Reported-by: Peter Eisentraut

Discussion: 2b8a2552-fffa-f7c8-97c5-14db47a87731@2ndquadrant.com

Author: initial patch and sample markup by Peter Eisentraut

Backpatch-through: 9.2
2017-05-12 18:32:04 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera bc085205c8 Change CREATE STATISTICS syntax
Previously, we had the WITH clause in the middle of the command, where
you'd specify both generic options as well as statistic types.  Few
people liked this, so this commit changes it to remove the WITH keyword
from that clause and makes it accept statistic types only.  (We
currently don't have any generic options, but if we invent in the
future, we will gain a new WITH clause, probably at the end of the
command).

Also, the column list is now specified without parens, which makes the
whole command look more similar to a SELECT command.  This change will
let us expand the command to supporting expressions (not just columns
names) as well as multiple tables and their join conditions.

Tom added lots of code comments and fixed some parts of the CREATE
STATISTICS reference page, too; more changes in this area are
forthcoming.  He also fixed a potential problem in the alter_generic
regression test, reducing verbosity on a cascaded drop to avoid
dependency on message ordering, as we do in other tests.

Tom also closed a security bug: we documented that table ownership was
required in order to create a statistics object on it, but didn't
actually implement it.

Implement tab-completion for statistics objects.  This can stand some
more improvement.

Authors: Alvaro Herrera, with lots of cleanup by Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170420212426.ltvgyhnefvhixm6i@alvherre.pgsql
2017-05-12 14:59:35 -03:00
Peter Eisentraut 46052d9ef3 Replace another "transaction log" with "write-ahead log"
Reported-by: Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker <ilmari@ilmari.org>
2017-05-12 13:53:24 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut d496a65790 Standardize "WAL location" terminology
Other previously used terms were "WAL position" or "log position".
2017-05-12 13:51:27 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut c1a7f64b4a Replace "transaction log" with "write-ahead log"
This makes documentation and error messages match the renaming of "xlog"
to "wal" in APIs and file naming.
2017-05-12 11:52:43 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 96e1cb4c0f pg_dump: Add --no-publications option
Author: Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>
2017-05-12 09:15:40 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut b807f59828 Rework the options syntax for logical replication commands
For CREATE/ALTER PUBLICATION/SUBSCRIPTION, use similar option style as
other statements that use a WITH clause for options.

Author: Petr Jelinek <petr.jelinek@2ndquadrant.com>
2017-05-12 08:57:49 -04:00
Tom Lane efa2c18f4e Doc fix: scale(numeric) returns integer, not numeric.
Thinko in commit abb173392, which introduced this function.

Report: https://postgr.es/m/20170511215234.1795.54347@wrigleys.postgresql.org
2017-05-11 18:09:22 -04:00
Tom Lane d10c626de4 Rename WAL-related functions and views to use "lsn" not "location".
Per discussion, "location" is a rather vague term that could refer to
multiple concepts.  "LSN" is an unambiguous term for WAL locations and
should be preferred.  Some function names, view column names, and function
output argument names used "lsn" already, but others used "location",
as well as yet other terms such as "wal_position".  Since we've already
renamed a lot of things in this area from "xlog" to "wal" for v10,
we may as well incur a bit more compatibility pain and make these names
all consistent.

David Rowley, minor additional docs hacking by me

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAKJS1f8O0njDKe8ePFQ-LK5-EjwThsDws6ohJ-+c6nWK+oUxtg@mail.gmail.com
2017-05-11 11:49:59 -04:00
Robert Haas 03bf59676e Fix typo.
Thomas Munro

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAEepm=3vV1YKxDfLMqq-nYM2fN+STMYLwPKFCoah4M0gxqqNNg@mail.gmail.com
2017-05-09 23:57:52 -04:00
Robert Haas e17628145a Document trigger-firing behavior for inheritance/partitioning.
Amit Langote, reviewed Thomas Munro and by me.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+Tgmoadpcs3=mMgdyqVX7L7L_PwO_Dn5j-98a6Tj7ByBuimUQ@mail.gmail.com
2017-05-09 23:49:20 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 26aa1cf376 pg_dump: Add --no-subscriptions option
Author: Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Petr Jelinek <petr.jelinek@2ndquadrant.com>
2017-05-09 10:58:06 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut ab178bb2f4 doc: Add info about replication slot management
Add some more information about managing replication slots associated
with logical replication subscriptions.
2017-05-09 10:25:26 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 013c1178fd Remove the NODROP SLOT option from DROP SUBSCRIPTION
It turned out this approach had problems, because a DROP command should
not have any options other than CASCADE and RESTRICT.  Instead, always
attempt to drop the slot if there is one configured, but also add an
ALTER SUBSCRIPTION action to set the slot to NONE.

Author: Petr Jelinek <petr.jelinek@2ndquadrant.com>
Reported-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/29431.1493730652@sss.pgh.pa.us
2017-05-09 10:20:42 -04:00
Tom Lane c89d2d0204 Last-minute updates for release notes.
Security: CVE-2017-7484, CVE-2017-7485, CVE-2017-7486
2017-05-08 12:57:27 -04:00
Noah Misch 3eefc51053 Match pg_user_mappings limits to information_schema.user_mapping_options.
Both views replace the umoptions field with NULL when the user does not
meet qualifications to see it.  They used different qualifications, and
pg_user_mappings documented qualifications did not match its implemented
qualifications.  Make its documentation and implementation match those
of user_mapping_options.  One might argue for stronger qualifications,
but these have long, documented tenure.  pg_user_mappings has always
exhibited this problem, so back-patch to 9.2 (all supported versions).

Michael Paquier and Feike Steenbergen.  Reviewed by Jeff Janes.
Reported by Andrew Wheelwright.

Security: CVE-2017-7486
2017-05-08 07:24:24 -07:00
Noah Misch 0170b10dff Restore PGREQUIRESSL recognition in libpq.
Commit 65c3bf19fd moved handling of the,
already then, deprecated requiressl parameter into conninfo_storeval().
The default PGREQUIRESSL environment variable was however lost in the
change resulting in a potentially silent accept of a non-SSL connection
even when set.  Its documentation remained.  Restore its implementation.
Also amend the documentation to mark PGREQUIRESSL as deprecated for
those not following the link to requiressl.  Back-patch to 9.3, where
commit 65c3bf1 first appeared.

Behavior has been more complex when the user provides both deprecated
and non-deprecated settings.  Before commit 65c3bf1, libpq operated
according to the first of these found:

  requiressl=1
  PGREQUIRESSL=1
  sslmode=*
  PGSSLMODE=*

(Note requiressl=0 didn't override sslmode=*; it would only suppress
PGREQUIRESSL=1 or a previous requiressl=1.  PGREQUIRESSL=0 had no effect
whatsoever.)  Starting with commit 65c3bf1, libpq ignored PGREQUIRESSL,
and order of precedence changed to this:

  last of requiressl=* or sslmode=*
  PGSSLMODE=*

Starting now, adopt the following order of precedence:

  last of requiressl=* or sslmode=*
  PGSSLMODE=*
  PGREQUIRESSL=1

This retains the 65c3bf1 behavior for connection strings that contain
both requiressl=* and sslmode=*.  It retains the 65c3bf1 change that
either connection string option overrides both environment variables.
For the first time, PGSSLMODE has precedence over PGREQUIRESSL; this
avoids reducing security of "PGREQUIRESSL=1 PGSSLMODE=verify-full"
configurations originating under v9.3 and later.

Daniel Gustafsson

Security: CVE-2017-7485
2017-05-08 07:24:24 -07:00
Bruce Momjian 74cadeaa2f doc: add Simon Riggs to VACUUM VERBOSE PG 10 release note item
Reported-by: Masahiko Sawada
2017-05-08 09:50:16 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut e2d4ef8de8 Add security checks to selectivity estimation functions
Some selectivity estimation functions run user-supplied operators over
data obtained from pg_statistic without security checks, which allows
those operators to leak pg_statistic data without having privileges on
the underlying tables.  Fix by checking that one of the following is
satisfied: (1) the user has table or column privileges on the table
underlying the pg_statistic data, or (2) the function implementing the
user-supplied operator is leak-proof.  If neither is satisfied, planning
will proceed as if there are no statistics available.

At least one of these is satisfied in most cases in practice.  The only
situations that are negatively impacted are user-defined or
not-leak-proof operators on a security-barrier view.

Reported-by: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Author: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

Security: CVE-2017-7484
2017-05-08 09:26:32 -04:00
Heikki Linnakangas eb61136dc7 Remove support for password_encryption='off' / 'plain'.
Storing passwords in plaintext hasn't been a good idea for a very long
time, if ever. Now seems like a good time to finally forbid it, since we're
messing with this in PostgreSQL 10 anyway.

Remove the CREATE/ALTER USER UNENCRYPTED PASSSWORD 'foo' syntax, since
storing passwords unencrypted is no longer supported. ENCRYPTED PASSWORD
'foo' is still accepted, but ENCRYPTED is now just a noise-word, it does
the same as just PASSWORD 'foo'.

Likewise, remove the --unencrypted option from createuser, but accept
--encrypted as a no-op for backward compatibility. AFAICS, --encrypted was
a no-op even before this patch, because createuser encrypted the password
before sending it to the server even if --encrypted was not specified. It
added the ENCRYPTED keyword to the SQL command, but since the password was
already in encrypted form, it didn't make any difference. The documentation
was not clear on whether that was intended or not, but it's moot now.

Also, while password_encryption='on' is still accepted as an alias for
'md5', it is now marked as hidden, so that it is not listed as an accepted
value in error hints, for example. That's not directly related to removing
'plain', but it seems better this way.

Reviewed by Michael Paquier

Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/16e9b768-fd78-0b12-cfc1-7b6b7f238fde@iki.fi
2017-05-08 11:26:07 +03:00
Tom Lane 27dae036a5 Release notes for 9.6.3, 9.5.7, 9.4.12, 9.3.17, 9.2.21. 2017-05-07 16:56:02 -04:00
Tom Lane 86713deecd Third pass on 9.6.3 release notes.
Add updates for recent commits.

In passing, credit Etsuro Fujita for his work on the postgres_fdw
query cancel feature in 9.6; I seem to have missed that in the
original drafting of the 9.6 notes.
2017-05-07 14:43:04 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 628462bda9 doc PG 10: adjustments to BRIN, WAL, JSON, XML items, syntax
Reported-by: Alvaro Herrera
2017-05-06 23:32:03 -04:00
Tom Lane 334b82cd56 Second pass on 9.6.3 release notes.
Improve description of logical decoding snapshot issues, per suggestion
from Petr Jelinek.  Mention possible need to re-sync logical replicas
as a post-upgrade task.  Minor copy-editing for some other items.
2017-05-06 16:28:20 -04:00
Tom Lane a9c6d70435 Document current_role.
This system function has been there a very long time, but somehow escaped
being listed in func.sgml.

Fabien Coelho and Tom Lane

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/alpine.DEB.2.20.1705061027580.3896@lancre
2017-05-06 14:19:47 -04:00
Tom Lane 54dbd4dc78 First-draft release notes for 9.6.3.
As usual, the release notes for other branches will be made by cutting
these down, but put them up for community review first.  Note there
are some entries that really only apply to pre-9.6 branches.
2017-05-05 19:33:34 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 086221cf6b Prevent panic during shutdown checkpoint
When the checkpointer writes the shutdown checkpoint, it checks
afterwards whether any WAL has been written since it started and throws
a PANIC if so.  At that point, only walsenders are still active, so one
might think this could not happen, but walsenders can also generate WAL,
for instance in BASE_BACKUP and certain variants of
CREATE_REPLICATION_SLOT.  So they can trigger this panic if such a
command is run while the shutdown checkpoint is being written.

To fix this, divide the walsender shutdown into two phases.  First, the
postmaster sends a SIGUSR2 signal to all walsenders.  The walsenders
then put themselves into the "stopping" state.  In this state, they
reject any new commands.  (For simplicity, we reject all new commands,
so that in the future we do not have to track meticulously which
commands might generate WAL.)  The checkpointer waits for all walsenders
to reach this state before proceeding with the shutdown checkpoint.
After the shutdown checkpoint is done, the postmaster sends
SIGINT (previously unused) to the walsenders.  This triggers the
existing shutdown behavior of sending out the shutdown checkpoint record
and then terminating.

Author: Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>
2017-05-05 10:31:42 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 5469e44ffc doc: update PG 10 release notes
Mention vacuum verbose includes oldest xmin, BRIN index usage
estimation, and multi-column statistics.

Reported-by: Masahiko Sawada, Alvaro Herrera
2017-05-04 20:33:06 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 4f45beba7a doc: PG 10 release note updates for psql, GiST, and markup
Reported-by: Andrew Borodin, Fabien COELHO, Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsaker
2017-05-04 19:33:41 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera c22b59edd2 Credit Claudio as main author of feature 2017-05-04 17:50:54 -03:00
Heikki Linnakangas 20bf7b2b0a Fix PQencryptPasswordConn to work with older server versions.
password_encryption was a boolean before version 10, so cope with "on" and
"off".

Also, change the behavior with "plain", to treat it the same as "md5".
We're discussing removing the password_encryption='plain' option from the
server altogether, which will make this the only reasonable choice, but
even if we kept it, it seems best to never send the password in cleartext.
2017-05-04 12:28:25 +03:00
Heikki Linnakangas 8f8b9be51f Add PQencryptPasswordConn function to libpq, use it in psql and createuser.
The new function supports creating SCRAM verifiers, in addition to md5
hashes. The algorithm is chosen based on password_encryption, by default.

This fixes the issue reported by Jeff Janes, that there was previously
no way to create a SCRAM verifier with "\password".

Michael Paquier and me

Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAMkU%3D1wfBgFPbfAMYZQE78p%3DVhZX7nN86aWkp0QcCp%3D%2BKxZ%3Dbg%40mail.gmail.com
2017-05-03 11:19:07 +03:00
Alvaro Herrera 93bbeec6a2 extstats: change output functions to emit valid JSON
Manipulating extended statistics is more convenient as JSON than the
current ad-hoc format, so let's change before it's too late.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170420193828.k3fliiock5hdnehn@alvherre.pgsql
2017-05-02 18:49:32 -03:00
Peter Eisentraut e950024066 doc: Improve order in ALTER PUBLICATION/SUBSCRIPTION ref pages
Move the OWNER and RENAME clauses to the end, so the interesting
functionality is listed first.  This is more typical on nearby reference
pages, whereas the previous order was the order in which the clauses
were added.
2017-05-02 15:31:25 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 460c89f46c doc: Add missing markup 2017-05-02 14:33:19 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut a35ac7c4e3 doc: Update ALTER SEQUENCE claims about changes being nontransactional
Clarify that all changes except RESTART are transactional (since
1753b1b027).

Reported-by: Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>
2017-05-02 10:34:49 -04:00
Magnus Hagander 34fc616738 Change hot_standby default value to 'on'
This goes together with the changes made to enable replication on the
sending side by default (wal_level, max_wal_senders etc) by making the
receiving stadby node also enable it by default.

Huong Dangminh
2017-05-02 11:12:30 +02:00
Robert Haas e180c8aa8c Fire per-statement triggers on partitioned tables.
Even though no actual tuples are ever inserted into a partitioned
table (the actual tuples are in the partitions, not the partitioned
table itself), we still need to have a ResultRelInfo for the
partitioned table, or per-statement triggers won't get fired.

Amit Langote, per a report from Rajkumar Raghuwanshi.  Reviewed by me.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAKcux6%3DwYospCRY2J4XEFuVy0L41S%3Dfic7rmkbsU-GXhhSbmBg%40mail.gmail.com
2017-05-01 08:23:01 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut bc920bee29 doc: Fix typo in 9.6 release notes
Author: Huong Dangminh <huo-dangminh@ys.jp.nec.com>
2017-04-28 15:32:33 -04:00
Stephen Frost b9a3ef55b2 Remove unnecessairly duplicated gram.y productions
Declarative partitioning duplicated the TypedTableElement productions,
evidently to remove the need to specify WITH OPTIONS when creating
partitions.  Instead, simply make WITH OPTIONS optional in the
TypedTableElement production and remove all of the duplicate
PartitionElement-related productions.  This change simplifies the
syntax and makes WITH OPTIONS optional when adding defaults, constraints
or storage parameters to columns when creating either typed tables or
partitions.

Also update pg_dump to no longer include WITH OPTIONS, since it's not
necessary, and update the documentation to reflect that WITH OPTIONS is
now optional.
2017-04-27 20:14:39 -04:00
Bruce Momjian a311d2a04f doc: PG10 release note typo fix
Reported-by: daniel.westermann
2017-04-27 10:21:44 -04:00
Bruce Momjian f8ab08ad0e doc PG10rel: adjust hash index commits and add parallel subquery
Reported-by: Amit Kapila
2017-04-27 10:17:16 -04:00
Bruce Momjian fda4fec578 doc PG10: add commit for transition table item 2017-04-26 15:50:59 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut e315346d83 doc: ALTER SUBSCRIPTION documentation fixes
WITH is optional for REFRESH PUBLICATION.  Also, remove a spurious
bracket and fix a punctuation.

Author: Euler Taveira <euler@timbira.com.br>
2017-04-26 12:07:22 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 309191f66a doc PG10: add Rafia Sabih to parallel index scan item
Reported-by: Amit Kapila
2017-04-26 06:33:25 -04:00
Stephen Frost 9139aa1942 Allow ALTER TABLE ONLY on partitioned tables
There is no need to forbid ALTER TABLE ONLY on partitioned tables,
when no partitions exist yet.  This can be handy for users who are
building up their partitioned table independently and will create actual
partitions later.

In addition, this is how pg_dump likes to operate in certain instances.

Author: Amit Langote, with some error message word-smithing by me
2017-04-25 16:57:43 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 5f2b48d1dd doc PG10: update EXPLAIN SUMMARY item
Reported-by: Tels
2017-04-25 15:30:53 -04:00
Bruce Momjian ef0ba572b6 doc: update PG 10 item about referencing many relations
Reported-by: Tom Lane
2017-04-25 13:47:51 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 3d7741194a doc: add PG 10 doc item about VACUUM truncation, 7e26e02ee
Reported-by: Andres Freund
2017-04-25 13:45:47 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 3640cf5e1c doc PG10: add commit 090010f2e and adjust EXPLAIN SUMMARY item
Reported-by: Tels, Andres Freund
2017-04-25 13:29:26 -04:00
Bruce Momjian bf368fbee2 doc: properly indent SGML tags in PG 10 release notes 2017-04-25 12:54:45 -04:00
Bruce Momjian cdd5bcad5e doc: PG 10 release notes updates
Reported-by: Michael Paquier, Felix Gerzaguet
2017-04-25 11:17:14 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 64f0f7cfc7 doc: PG 10 release note updates
Reported-by: David Rowley, Amit Langote, Ashutosh Bapat
2017-04-25 11:04:43 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 45e3d8ae2b doc: move hash info to new section and split out growth item
Reported-by: Amit Kapila
2017-04-25 09:44:50 -04:00
Bruce Momjian cef5dbbf2b doc: move hash performance item into index section
The requirement to rebuild pg_upgrade-ed hash indexes was kept in the
incompatibilities section.

Reported-by: Amit Kapila
2017-04-24 23:29:14 -04:00
Bruce Momjian b007b1af20 doc: add Rafia Sabih to PG 10 release note item
Reported-by: Amit Kapila
2017-04-24 23:08:25 -04:00
Bruce Momjian d103e6718b doc: fix PG 10 release note doc markup 2017-04-24 22:53:16 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 419a055454 doc: merge PG 10 release SysV item
Reported-by: Takayuki Tsunakawa
2017-04-24 22:51:28 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 6e033c6a96 doc: PG 10 fixes
Reported-by: Takayuki Tsunakawa
2017-04-24 22:48:25 -04:00
Bruce Momjian bba375eb9d doc: several minor PG 10 doc adjustments 2017-04-24 22:45:06 -04:00
Bruce Momjian a0d932b39d doc: fix attribution of sequence item, order incompatibilities
Reported-by: Andreas Karlsson
2017-04-24 21:53:37 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 1d8573ed55 doc: first draft of Postgres 10 release notes 2017-04-24 21:26:33 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 66fade8a04 doc: update release doc markup instructions 2017-04-24 19:04:28 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut f58b664393 doc: Update link
The reference "That is the topic of the next section." has been
incorrect since the materialized views documentation got inserted
between the section "rules-views" and "rules-update".

Author: Zertrin <postgres_wiki@zertrin.org>
2017-04-21 19:42:01 -04:00
Heikki Linnakangas 68e61ee72e Change the on-disk format of SCRAM verifiers to conform to RFC 5803.
It doesn't make any immediate difference to PostgreSQL, but might as well
follow the standard, since one exists. (I looked at RFC 5803 earlier, but
didn't fully understand it back then.)

The new format uses Base64 instead of hex to encode StoredKey and
ServerKey, which makes the verifiers slightly smaller. Using the same
encoding for the salt and the keys also means that you only need one
encoder/decoder instead of two. Although we have code in the backend to
do both, we are talking about teaching libpq how to create SCRAM verifiers
for PQencodePassword(), and libpq doesn't currently have any code for hex
encoding.

Bump catversion, because this renders any existing SCRAM verifiers in
pg_authid invalid.

Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/351ba574-85ea-d9b8-9689-8c928dd0955d@iki.fi
2017-04-21 22:51:57 +03:00
Peter Eisentraut c29a752c68 doc: Fix typo 2017-04-21 15:33:25 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera 919f6d746e Improve multivariate statistics documentation
Extended statistics commit 7b504eb282 did not include appropriate
documentation next to where we document regular planner statistics (I
ripped what was submitted before commit and then forgot to put it back),
and while later commit 2686ee1b7c added some material, it structurally
depended on what I had ripped out, so the end result wasn't proper.

Fix those problems by shuffling what was added by 2686ee1b7c and
including some additional material, so that now chapter 14 "Performance
Tips" now describes the types of multivariate statistics we currently
have, and chapter 68 "How the Planner Uses Statistics" shows some
examples.  The new text should be more in line with previous material,
in (hopefully) the appropriate depth.

While at it, fix a small bug in pg_statistic_ext docs: one column was
listed in the wrong spot.
2017-04-20 15:43:33 -03:00
Tom Lane 8bcb31ad5a Sync pg_ctl documentation and usage message with reality.
Commit 05cd12ed5 ("pg_ctl: Change default to wait for all actions")
was a tad sloppy about updating the documentation to match.  The
documentation was also sorely in need of a copy-editing pass, having
been adjusted at different times by different people who took little
care to maintain consistency of style.
2017-04-20 14:41:55 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 594b526bcf Modify message when partitioned table is added to publication
Give a more specific error message than "xyz is not a table".

Also document in CREATE PUBLICATION which kinds of relations are not
supported.

based on patch by Amit Langote <Langote_Amit_f8@lab.ntt.co.jp>
2017-04-20 14:18:33 -04:00
Heikki Linnakangas e68432a0e1 Fix typo in docs on SASL authentication.
Word "sends" was missing.

Jaime Casanova
2017-04-19 21:43:16 +03:00
Tom Lane 539f67012e Doc: improve markup in self-signed certificate example. 2017-04-18 14:21:57 -04:00
Fujii Masao a790ed9f69 Improve documentation and comment for quorum-based sync replication.
Author: Masahiko Sawada, heavily modified by me
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAHGQGwEKOw=SmPLxJzkBsH6wwDBgOnVz46QjHbtsiZ-d-2RGUg@mail.gmail.com
2017-04-19 02:58:28 +09:00
Andrew Dunstan 2b67c9d207 Simplify docs on creating a self-signed SSL certificate
Discussion: <https://postgr.es/m/72335afb-969b-af84-3fcb-1739e3ed09a6@2ndQuadrant.com>
2017-04-18 08:50:15 -04:00
Heikki Linnakangas c727f120ff Rename "scram" to "scram-sha-256" in pg_hba.conf and password_encryption.
Per discussion, plain "scram" is confusing because we actually implement
SCRAM-SHA-256 rather than the original SCRAM that uses SHA-1 as the hash
algorithm. If we add support for SCRAM-SHA-512 or some other mechanism in
the SCRAM family in the future, that would become even more confusing.

Most of the internal files and functions still use just "scram" as a
shorthand for SCRMA-SHA-256, but I did change PASSWORD_TYPE_SCRAM to
PASSWORD_TYPE_SCRAM_SHA_256, as that could potentially be used by 3rd
party extensions that hook into the password-check hook.

Michael Paquier did this in an earlier version of the SCRAM patch set
already, but I didn't include that in the version that was committed.

Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/fde71ff1-5858-90c8-99a9-1c2427e7bafb@iki.fi
2017-04-18 14:50:50 +03:00
Heikki Linnakangas b2188575c5 Fix example on creating a trigger with a transition table.
Yugo Nagata

Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20170417180921.3047f3b0.nagata@sraoss.co.jp
2017-04-18 11:51:06 +03:00
Peter Eisentraut 8efd1e08f0 doc: Clarify logical replication details
Document more explicitly that the target table can have more columns
than the source table.

Reported-by: Euler Taveira <euler@timbira.com.br>
2017-04-17 23:32:54 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera ee6922112e Rename columns in new pg_statistic_ext catalog
The new catalog reused a column prefix "sta" from pg_statistic, but this
is undesirable, so change the catalog to use prefix "stx" instead.
Also, rename the column that lists enabled statistic kinds as "stxkind"
rather than "enabled".

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAKJS1f_2t5jhSN7huYRFH3w3rrHfG2QU7hiUHsu-Vdjd1rYT3w@mail.gmail.com
2017-04-17 18:34:29 -03:00
Alvaro Herrera 8c5cdb7f4f Tighten up relation kind checks for extended statistics
We were accepting creation of extended statistics only for regular
tables, but they can usefully be created for foreign tables, partitioned
tables, and materialized views, too.  Allow those cases.

While at it, make sure all the rejected cases throw a consistent error
message, and add regression tests for the whole thing.

Author: David Rowley, Álvaro Herrera
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAKJS1f-BmGo410bh5RSPZUvOO0LhmHL2NYmdrC_Jm8pk_FfyCA@mail.gmail.com
2017-04-17 17:55:55 -03:00
Peter Eisentraut 1fe33252a0 Document that ONLY can be specified in publication commands
Author: Amit Langote <Langote_Amit_f8@lab.ntt.co.jp>
2017-04-17 09:51:52 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 5a617ab3e6 doc: Fix typo 2017-04-14 19:36:57 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 6e5f9a6dc0 Fix typo in comment 2017-04-14 14:07:44 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 887227a1cc Add option to modify sync commit per subscription
This also changes default behaviour of subscription workers to
synchronous_commit = off.

Author: Petr Jelinek <petr.jelinek@2ndquadrant.com>
2017-04-14 13:58:46 -04:00