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Bruce Momjian
6f566f0e9b doc: PG 14 relnote, move system view items to the proper sect.
Backpatch-through: 14 only
2021-07-08 13:08:09 -04:00
Bruce Momjian
049d3617a3 doc: improve PG 14 relnote item about adding btree pages to FSM
Wording confirmed by Peter Geoghegan.

Backpatch-through: 14 only
2021-07-08 12:27:55 -04:00
Fujii Masao
e48f2afee6 doc: Fix description about pg_stat_statements.track_planning.
This commit fixes wrong wording like "a fewer kinds"
in the description about track_planning option.

Back-patch to v13 where pg_stat_statements.track_planning was added.

Author: Justin Pryzby
Reviewed-by: Julien Rouhaud, Fujii Masao
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210418233615.GB7256@telsasoft.com
2021-07-07 21:55:14 +09:00
Fujii Masao
4173477b38 postgres_fdw: Tighten up allowed values for batch_size, fetch_size options.
Previously the values such as '100$%$#$#', '9,223,372,' were accepted and
treated as valid integers for postgres_fdw options batch_size and fetch_size.
Whereas this is not the case with fdw_startup_cost and fdw_tuple_cost options
for which an error is thrown. This was because endptr was not used
while converting strings to integers using strtol.

This commit changes the logic so that it uses parse_int function
instead of strtol as it serves the purpose by returning false in case
if it is unable to convert the string to integer. Note that
this function also rounds off the values such as '100.456' to 100 and
'100.567' or '100.678' to 101.

While on this, use parse_real for fdw_startup_cost and fdw_tuple_cost options.

Since parse_int and parse_real are being used for reloptions and GUCs,
it is more appropriate to use in postgres_fdw rather than using strtol
and strtod directly.

Back-patch to v14.

Author: Bharath Rupireddy
Reviewed-by: Ashutosh Bapat, Tom Lane, Kyotaro Horiguchi, Fujii Masao
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CALj2ACVMO6wY5Pc4oe1OCgUOAtdjHuFsBDw8R5uoYR86eWFQDA@mail.gmail.com
2021-07-07 11:14:16 +09:00
Tom Lane
94911ec28f Doc: add info about timestamps with fractional-minute UTC offsets.
Our code has supported fractional-minute UTC offsets for ages, but
there was no mention of the possibility in the main docs, and only
a very indirect reference in Appendix B.  Improve that.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/162543102827.697.5755498651217979813@wrigleys.postgresql.org
2021-07-06 10:34:51 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut
1479c5afdc doc: Fix quoting markup 2021-07-05 08:26:30 +02:00
Amit Kapila
f3690fbdea Doc: Hash Indexes.
A new chapter for Hash Indexes, designed to help users understand how
they work and when to use them.

Backpatch-through 10 where we have made hash indexes durable.

Author: Simon Riggs
Reviewed-By: Justin Pryzby, Amit Kapila
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CANbhV-HRjNPYgHo--P1ewBrFJ-GpZPb9_25P7=Wgu7s7hy_sLQ@mail.gmail.com
2021-07-05 09:38:17 +05:30
Michael Paquier
95e2f925f1 doc: Mention requirement to --enable-tap-tests on section for TAP tests
Author: Greg Sabino Mullane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAKAnmmJYH2FBn_+Vwd2FD5SaKn8hjhAXOCHpZc6n4wXaUaW_SA@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 9.6
2021-07-04 20:59:10 +09:00
David Rowley
b88e5fe60e Doc: mention that VACUUM can't utilize over 1GB of RAM
Document that setting maintenance_work_mem to values over 1GB has no
effect on VACUUM.

Reported-by: Martín Marqués
Author: Laurenz Albe
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CABeG9LsZ2ozUMcqtqWu_-GiFKB17ih3p8wBHXcpfnHqhCnsc7A%40mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 9.6, oldest supported release
2021-07-04 22:29:16 +12:00
Bruce Momjian
e033e260b9 doc: adjust "cities" example to be consistent with other SQL
Reported-by: tom@crystae.net

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/162345756191.14472.9754568432103008703@wrigleys.postgresql.org

Backpatch-through: 9.6
2021-07-02 20:42:46 -04:00
Bruce Momjian
d540929556 docs: clarify new aggressive vacuum mode for multi-xacts
Reported-by: eric.mutta@gmail.com

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/162395467510.686.11947486273299446208@wrigleys.postgresql.org

Backpatch-through: 14
2021-07-02 18:00:30 -04:00
Bruce Momjian
56d467a07d doc: PG 14 relnotes, mention CONCURRENTLY improvements
Add items for vacuum not having to wait for CONCURRENTLY, and
CONCURRENTLY not having to wait for other CONCURRENTLY operations.

Reported-by: Simon Riggs

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CANbhV-EMM4nf7Ys-Yae_kY25dXT_3eiOXke2+yw44jgy+4jNsA@mail.gmail.com

Backpatch-through: 14 only
2021-07-02 14:46:31 -04:00
Bruce Momjian
a3a681f859 doc: update PG 14 release notes
Mostly addition of <literal> tags

Reported-by: Justin Pryzby

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210629022547.GF21248@telsasoft.com

Backpatch-through: 14 only
2021-07-01 20:33:32 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut
fb72a7b8c3 doc: Remove inappropriate <acronym> tags 2021-07-01 22:41:55 +02:00
Andrew Dunstan
1da2ea0ccc
add missing tag from commit b8c4261e5e 2021-07-01 15:47:47 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut
46bbe5d777 doc: Clean up title case use 2021-07-01 21:27:39 +02:00
Andrew Dunstan
100e9ae53f
Add new make targets world-bin and install-world-bin
These are the same as world and install-world respectively, but without
building or installing the documentation. There are many reasons for
wanting to be able to do this, including speed, lack of documentation
building tools, and wanting to build other formats of the documentation.
Plans for simplifying the buildfarm client code include using these
targets.

Backpatch to all live branches.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/6a421136-d462-b043-a8eb-e75b2861f3df@dunslane.net
2021-07-01 15:15:09 -04:00
Tom Lane
d047708017 Add --clobber-cache option to initdb, for CCA testing.
Commit 4656e3d66 replaced the "#define CLOBBER_CACHE_ALWAYS"
testing mechanism with a GUC, which has been a great help for
doing cache-clobber testing in more efficient ways; but there
is a gap in the implementation.  The only way to do cache-clobber
testing during an initdb run is to use the old method with #define,
because one can't set the GUC from outside.  Improve this by
adding a switch to initdb for the purpose.

(Perhaps someday we should let initdb pass through arbitrary
"-c NAME=VALUE" switches.  Quoting difficulties dissuaded me
from attempting that right now, though.)

Back-patch to v14 where 4656e3d66 came in.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1582507.1624227029@sss.pgh.pa.us
2021-07-01 13:33:05 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera
69cf1d5429
Add PQsendFlushRequest to libpq
This new libpq function allows the application to send an 'H' message,
which instructs the server to flush its outgoing buffer.

This hasn't been needed so far because the Sync message already requests
a buffer; and I failed to realize that this was needed in pipeline mode
because PQpipelineSync also causes the buffer to be flushed.  However,
sometimes it is useful to request a flush without establishing a
synchronization point.

Backpatch to 14, where pipeline mode was introduced in libpq.

Reported-by: Boris Kolpackov <boris@codesynthesis.com>
Author: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/202106252350.t76x73nt643j@alvherre.pgsql
2021-06-29 14:37:39 -04:00
Bruce Momjian
caa0f07d2d doc: Improve PG14 release notes
Mostly markup improvements.

Reported-by: Justin Pryzby

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210625230456.GP29179@telsasoft.com

Backpatch-through: 14 only
2021-06-28 20:58:47 -04:00
Thomas Munro
34a8b64b4e Change recovery_init_sync_method to PGC_SIGHUP.
The setting has no effect except during startup.  It's still nice to be
able to change it dynamically, which is expected to be pretty useful to
an admin following crash recovery when restarting the cluster is not so
appealing.

Per discussions following commits 2941138e6 and 61752afb2.

Author: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
Reviewed-by: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@oss.nttdata.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210529192321.GM2082%40telsasoft.com
2021-06-28 15:30:39 +12:00
Tom Lane
dcffc9ba8a Doc: update v14 release notes for revert of commit c0cb87fbb. 2021-06-26 15:45:16 -04:00
Tom Lane
8a80562d73 Doc: remove commit f560209c6 from v14 release notes.
Now that this has been back-patched, it's no longer a new feature
for v14.
2021-06-25 11:18:15 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut
3af10943ce Put option listing back into alphabetical order 2021-06-25 11:40:06 +02:00
Peter Eisentraut
e59d428f34 Fixes in ALTER SUBSCRIPTION DROP PUBLICATION code
ALTER SUBSCRIPTION DROP PUBLICATION does not actually support
copy_data option, so remove it from tab completion.

Also, reword the error message that is thrown when all the
publications from a subscription are specified to be dropped.

Also, made few doc and cosmetic adjustments.

Author: Vignesh C <vignesh21@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Bharath Rupireddy <bharath.rupireddy@enterprisedb.com>
Reviewed-by: Japin Li <japinli@hotmail.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CALDaNm21RwsDzs4xj14ApteAF7auyyomHNnp+NEL-sH8m-jMvQ@mail.gmail.com
2021-06-25 09:57:02 +02:00
Peter Eisentraut
63e6d05bf3 doc: Change reloption data type spelling for consistency
Use "floating point" rather than "float4", like everywhere else in
this context.

Author: Shinya11.Kato@nttdata.com
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/TYAPR01MB28965989AF84B57FC351B97BC40F9@TYAPR01MB2896.jpnprd01.prod.outlook.com
2021-06-25 08:11:10 +02:00
Amit Kapila
847c62ee76 Doc: Fix minor formatting issue in logicaldecoding.sgml.
Author: Guillaume Lelarge
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAECtzeXf3_oZoU6mgFCOy5+pDZ5n4XtH0Da4a5n_KacraVWiHQ@mail.gmail.com
2021-06-25 08:22:44 +05:30
Michael Paquier
15ff5401d1 doc: Add acronyms for MITM and SNI
This adds MITM and SNI as acronyms, as the documentation already had
them marked up with <acronym>.

While on it, make sure to spell man-in-the-middle with dashes
consistently, and add acronyms for those new terms where appropriate.

Author: Daniel Gustafsson
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CE12DD5C-4BB3-4166-BC9A-39779568734C@yesql.se
2021-06-25 11:29:03 +09:00
Michael Paquier
797b0fc0b0 doc: Move remove_temp_files_after_crash to section for developer options
The main goal of this option is to allow inspecting temporary files for
debugging purposes, so moving the parameter there is natural.

Oversight in cd91de0.

Reported-by: Justin Pryzby
Author: Euler Taveira
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210612004347.GP16435@telsasoft.com
2021-06-25 08:40:16 +09:00
Amit Kapila
f08722cf83 Doc: Update logical replication message formats.
Commits 9de77b5453 and ac4645c015 missed to update the logical replication
message formats section in the docs.

Author: Brar Piening
Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/cc70956c-e578-e54f-49e6-b5d68c89576f@gmx.de
2021-06-24 11:51:58 +05:30
Amit Kapila
c66fb78ebb Doc: Update caveats in synchronous logical replication.
Reported-by: Simon Riggs
Author: Takamichi Osumi
Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila
Backpatch-through: 9.6
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20210222222847.tpnb6eg3yiykzpky@alap3.anarazel.de
2021-06-24 09:13:46 +05:30
Tom Lane
2031e1668e Doc: fix confusion about LEAKPROOF in syntax summaries.
The syntax summaries for CREATE FUNCTION and allied commands
made it look like LEAKPROOF is an alternative to
IMMUTABLE/STABLE/VOLATILE, when of course it is an orthogonal
option.  Improve that.

Per gripe from aazamrafeeque0.  Thanks to David Johnston for
suggestions.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/162444349581.694.5818572718530259025@wrigleys.postgresql.org
2021-06-23 14:27:13 -04:00
Noah Misch
047a259e35 Finish rename of PQtraceSetFlags() to PQsetTraceFlags().
Jie Zhang

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/TYWPR01MB767844835390EDD8DB276D75F90A9@TYWPR01MB7678.jpnprd01.prod.outlook.com
2021-06-21 02:48:11 -07:00
Bruce Momjian
69a58bfe4a doc: adjust PG 14 relnotes to be current 2021-06-21 01:09:32 -04:00
Bruce Momjian
90855908b7 doc: add mention of +4GB windows file handling in PG14 relnotes
Reported-by: Masahiko Sawada

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAD21AoCTHyouoGv-xt1qNjjvPbGMErLi0AJncByTvr66Nq7j8g@mail.gmail.com
2021-06-20 23:53:00 -04:00
Peter Geoghegan
3499df0dee Support disabling index bypassing by VACUUM.
Generalize the INDEX_CLEANUP VACUUM parameter (and the corresponding
reloption): make it into a ternary style boolean parameter.  It now
exposes a third option, "auto".  The "auto" option (which is now the
default) enables the "bypass index vacuuming" optimization added by
commit 1e55e7d1.

"VACUUM (INDEX_CLEANUP TRUE)" is redefined to once again make VACUUM
simply do any required index vacuuming, regardless of how few dead
tuples are encountered during the first scan of the target heap relation
(unless there are exactly zero).  This gives users a way of opting out
of the "bypass index vacuuming" optimization, if for whatever reason
that proves necessary.  It is also expected to be used by PostgreSQL
developers as a testing option from time to time.

"VACUUM (INDEX_CLEANUP FALSE)" does the same thing as it always has: it
forcibly disables both index vacuuming and index cleanup.  It's not
expected to be used much in PostgreSQL 14.  The failsafe mechanism added
by commit 1e55e7d1 addresses the same problem in a simpler way.
INDEX_CLEANUP can now be thought of as a testing and compatibility
option.

Author: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
Reviewed-By: Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-WznrBoCST4_Gxh_G9hA8NzGUbeBGnOUC8FcXcrhqsv6OHQ@mail.gmail.com
2021-06-18 20:04:07 -07:00
Michael Paquier
f80979f659 doc: Apply markup <productname> to OpenSSL more consistently
Author: Daniel Gustafsson
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CE12DD5C-4BB3-4166-BC9A-39779568734C@yesql.se
2021-06-18 14:22:31 +09:00
Amit Kapila
3cb828dbe2 Document a few caveats in synchronous logical replication.
In a synchronous logical setup, locking [user] catalog tables can cause
deadlock. This is because logical decoding of transactions can lock
catalog tables to access them so exclusively locking those in transactions
can lead to deadlock. To avoid this users must refrain from having
exclusive locks on catalog tables.

Author: Takamichi Osumi
Reviewed-by: Vignesh C, Amit Kapila
Backpatch-through: 9.6
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20210222222847.tpnb6eg3yiykzpky%40alap3.anarazel.de
2021-06-17 09:56:05 +05:30
Alexander Korotkov
817bb0a7d1 Revert 29854ee8d1 due to buildfarm failures
Reported-by: Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAPpHfdvcnw3x7jdV3r52p4%3D5S4WUxBCzcQKB3JukQHoicv1LSQ%40mail.gmail.com
2021-06-15 21:44:40 +03:00
Alexander Korotkov
ad2da246c6 Add missing type name "multirange" in docs chapter title
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAFj8pRDioOxiJgmgw9TqQqZ3CxnJC4P5B2Oospf2eMgAjJuewA%40mail.gmail.com
Author: Pavel Stehule, Alexander Korotkov
Reviewed-by: Justin Pryzby, Tom Lane
2021-06-15 16:06:32 +03:00
Alexander Korotkov
29854ee8d1 Support for unnest(multirange) and cast multirange as an array of ranges
It has been spotted that multiranges lack of ability to decompose them into
individual ranges.  Subscription and proper expanded object representation
require substantial work, and it's too late for v14.  This commit
provides the implementation of unnest(multirange) and cast multirange as
an array of ranges, which is quite trivial.

unnest(multirange) is defined as a polymorphic procedure.  The catalog
description of the cast underlying procedure is duplicated for each multirange
type because we don't have anyrangearray polymorphic type to use here.

Catversion is bumped.

Reported-by: Jonathan S. Katz
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/flat/60258efe-bd7e-4886-82e1-196e0cac5433%40postgresql.org
Author: Alexander Korotkov
Reviewed-by: Justin Pryzby, Jonathan S. Katz, Zhihong Yu
2021-06-15 15:59:20 +03:00
Noah Misch
5f1df62a45 Remove pg_wait_for_backend_termination().
It was unable to wait on a backend that had already left the procarray.
Users tolerant of that limitation can poll pg_stat_activity.  Other
users can employ the "timeout" argument of pg_terminate_backend().

Reviewed by Bharath Rupireddy.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210605013236.GA208701@rfd.leadboat.com
2021-06-14 17:29:37 -07:00
Noah Misch
0aac73e6a2 Copy-edit text for the pg_terminate_backend() "timeout" parameter.
Revert the pg_description entry to its v13 form, since those messages
usually remain shorter and don't discuss individual parameters.  No
catversion bump, since pg_description content does not impair backend
compatibility or application compatibility.

Justin Pryzby

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210612182743.GY16435@telsasoft.com
2021-06-14 17:29:37 -07:00
Bruce Momjian
86b222b090 doc: PG 14 relnotes fixes
Items related to logical replication attribution and BRIN indexes

Reported-by: Tomas Vondra, John Naylor

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/0db66294-a668-2caa-2b5e-a8db60b30662@enterprisedb.com, CAFBsxsH21KnteYdk33F1oZu2O726NSD6_XBq51Tn0jytsA1AnA@mail.gmail.com
2021-06-14 16:14:04 -04:00
Bruce Momjian
a2559d4093 doc: PG 14 relnote updates
Reported-by: Justin Pryzby

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210612034551.GU16435@telsasoft.com
2021-06-14 16:03:18 -04:00
Bruce Momjian
25dfb5a831 doc: add PG 14 relnote item about array function references
User-defined objects that reference some built-in array functions will
need to be recreated in PG 14.

Reported-by: Justin Pryzby

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210608225618.GR16435@telsasoft.com
2021-06-14 12:49:05 -04:00
Michael Paquier
dbab0c07e5 Remove forced toast recompression in VACUUM FULL/CLUSTER
The extra checks added by the recompression of toast data introduced in
bbe0a81 is proving to have a performance impact on VACUUM or CLUSTER
even if no recompression is done.  This is more noticeable with more
toastable columns that contain non-NULL values.

Improvements could be done to make those extra checks less expensive,
but that's not material for 14 at this stage, and we are not sure either
if the code path of VACUUM FULL/CLUSTER is adapted for this job.

Per discussion with several people, including Andres Freund, Robert
Haas, Álvaro Herrera, Tom Lane and myself.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210527003144.xxqppojoiwurc2iz@alap3.anarazel.de
2021-06-14 09:25:50 +09:00
Bruce Momjian
d120e66fac doc: remove extra right angle bracket in PG 14 relnotes
Reported-by: Justin Pryzby
2021-06-11 21:01:52 -04:00
Bruce Momjian
0725913982 docs: fix incorrect indenting in PG 14 relnotes 2021-06-11 19:51:35 -04:00
Noah Misch
d0e750c0ac Rename PQtraceSetFlags() to PQsetTraceFlags().
We have a dozen PQset*() functions.  PQresultSetInstanceData() and this
were the libpq setter functions having a different word order.  Adopt
the majority word order.

Reviewed by Alvaro Herrera and Robert Haas, though this choice of name
was not unanimous.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210605060555.GA216695@rfd.leadboat.com
2021-06-10 21:56:13 -07:00
David Rowley
04539e73fa Use the correct article for abbreviations
We've accumulated quite a mix of instances of "an SQL" and "a SQL" in the
documents.  It would be good to be a bit more consistent with these.

The most recent version of the SQL standard I looked at seems to prefer
"an SQL".  That seems like a good lead to follow, so here we change all
instances of "a SQL" to become "an SQL".  Most instances correctly use
"an SQL" already, so it also makes sense to use the dominant variation in
order to minimise churn.

Additionally, there were some other abbreviations that needed to be
adjusted. FSM, SSPI, SRF and a few others.  Also fix some pronounceable,
abbreviations to use "a" instead of "an".  For example, "a SASL" instead
of "an SASL".

Here I've only adjusted the documents and error messages.  Many others
still exist in source code comments.  Translator hint comments seem to be
the biggest culprit.  It currently does not seem worth the churn to change
these.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAApHDvpML27UqFXnrYO1MJddsKVMQoiZisPvsAGhKE_tsKXquw%40mail.gmail.com
2021-06-11 13:38:04 +12:00
Tom Lane
e56bce5d43 Reconsider the handling of procedure OUT parameters.
Commit 2453ea142 redefined pg_proc.proargtypes to include the types of
OUT parameters, for procedures only.  While that had some advantages
for implementing the SQL-spec behavior of DROP PROCEDURE, it was pretty
disastrous from a number of other perspectives.  Notably, since the
primary key of pg_proc is name + proargtypes, this made it possible to
have multiple procedures with identical names + input arguments and
differing output argument types.  That would make it impossible to call
any one of the procedures by writing just NULL (or "?", or any other
data-type-free notation) for the output argument(s).  The change also
seems likely to cause grave confusion for client applications that
examine pg_proc and expect the traditional definition of proargtypes.

Hence, revert the definition of proargtypes to what it was, and
undo a number of complications that had been added to support that.

To support the SQL-spec behavior of DROP PROCEDURE, when there are
no argmode markers in the command's parameter list, we perform the
lookup both ways (that is, matching against both proargtypes and
proallargtypes), succeeding if we get just one unique match.
In principle this could result in ambiguous-function failures
that would not happen when using only one of the two rules.
However, overloading of procedure names is thought to be a pretty
rare usage, so this shouldn't cause many problems in practice.
Postgres-specific code such as pg_dump can defend against any
possibility of such failures by being careful to specify argmodes
for all procedure arguments.

This also fixes a few other bugs in the area of CALL statements
with named parameters, and improves the documentation a little.

catversion bump forced because the representation of procedures
with OUT arguments changes.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3742981.1621533210@sss.pgh.pa.us
2021-06-10 17:11:36 -04:00
Tom Lane
ba2c6d6cec Avoid misbehavior when persisting a non-stable cursor.
PersistHoldablePortal has long assumed that it should store the
entire output of the query-to-be-persisted, which requires rewinding
and re-reading the output.  This is problematic if the query is not
stable: we might get different row contents, or even a different
number of rows, which'd confuse the cursor state mightily.

In the case where the cursor is NO SCROLL, this is very easy to
solve: just store the remaining query output, without any rewinding,
and tweak the portal's cursor state to match.  Aside from removing
the semantic problem, this could be significantly more efficient
than storing the whole output.

If the cursor is scrollable, there's not much we can do, but it
was already the case that scrolling a volatile query's result was
pretty unsafe.  We can just document more clearly that getting
correct results from that is not guaranteed.

There are already prohibitions in place on using SCROLL with
FOR UPDATE/SHARE, which is one way for a SELECT query to have
non-stable results.  We could imagine prohibiting SCROLL when
the query contains volatile functions, but that would be
expensive to enforce.  Moreover, it could break applications
that work just fine, if they have functions that are in fact
stable but the user neglected to mark them so.  So settle for
documenting the hazard.

While this problem has existed in some guise for a long time,
it got a lot worse in v11, which introduced the possibility
of persisting plpgsql cursors (perhaps implicit ones) even
when they violate the rules for what can be marked WITH HOLD.
Hence, I've chosen to back-patch to v11 but not further.

Per bug #17050 from Алексей Булгаков.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17050-f77aa827dc85247c@postgresql.org
2021-06-08 17:50:29 -04:00
Bruce Momjian
444302ed56 doc: update release note item about the v2 wire protocol
Protocol v2 was last used in PG 7.3, not 7.2.

Reported-by: Tatsuo Ishii

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210608.091329.906837606658882674.t-ishii@sraoss.co.jp
2021-06-08 16:47:14 -04:00
Tomas Vondra
cb92703384 Adjust batch size in postgres_fdw to not use too many parameters
The FE/BE protocol identifies parameters with an Int16 index, which
limits the maximum number of parameters per query to 65535. With
batching added to postges_fdw this limit is much easier to hit, as
the whole batch is essentially a single query, making this error much
easier to hit.

The failures are a bit unpredictable, because it also depends on the
number of columns in the query. So instead of just failing, this patch
tweaks the batch_size to not exceed the maximum number of parameters.

Reported-by: Hou Zhijie <houzj.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Bharath Rupireddy <bharath.rupireddyforpostgres@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/OS0PR01MB571603973C0AC2874AD6BF2594299%40OS0PR01MB5716.jpnprd01.prod.outlook.com
2021-06-08 20:28:31 +02:00
Etsuro Fujita
eab8195368 Doc: Further update documentation for asynchronous execution.
Add a note about asynchronous execution by postgres_fdw when applied to
Append nodes that contain synchronous subplan(s) as well.  Follow-up for
commit 27e1f1456.

Andrey Lepikhov and Etsuro Fujita

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/58fa2aa5-07f5-80b5-59a1-fec8a349fee7%40postgrespro.ru
2021-06-08 13:45:00 +09:00
Peter Eisentraut
5c25fd650a doc: Simplify COMMENT and SECURITY LABEL documentation
Just say that objects that reside in schemas can be schema-qualified.
Don't list all possible such objects.  The existing lists weren't
complete anyway.

Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/b2ec2234-67fe-d861-5cea-f526cd18c086%40enterprisedb.com
2021-06-05 09:08:40 +02:00
Peter Eisentraut
01ddd2f7e4 doc: Make terminology in glossary consistent
Use "reside in" rather than "belong to" for objects in a schema.
Previous use was a mix of the two.

Author: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/202106021932.idmbjjaqk7ke@alvherre.pgsql
2021-06-05 09:01:29 +02:00
David Rowley
8f3c06c5d5 Doc: Fix some spelling mistakes
Author: Daniel Gustafsson
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/7838B8EE-CFD6-48D7-AE2D-520D69FD84BD@yesql.se
2021-06-04 23:39:40 +12:00
Tom Lane
e4539386de Doc: fix bogus intarray index example.
The siglen parameter is provided by gist__intbig_ops not
gist__int_ops.

Simon Norris

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/11BF2AA9-17AE-432A-AFE1-584FB9FB079D@hillcrestgeo.ca
2021-06-03 21:07:20 -04:00
Michael Paquier
1e809db86b doc: Add description for PGSSLCRLDIR
This was missing in the section dedicated to the supported environment
variables of libpq.  Oversight in f5465fa.

Reviewed-by: Daniel Gustafsson, Kyotaro Horiguchi
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/YLhI0mLoRkY3u4Wj@paquier.xyz
2021-06-04 09:46:15 +09:00
Michael Paquier
77e9d1b488 doc: Fix link reference for PGSSLMAXPROTOCOLVERSION
The link was pointing to the minimum protocol version.  Incorrect as of
ff8ca5f.

Author: Daniel Gustafsson
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/F893F184-C645-4C21-A2BA-583441B7288F@yesql.se
Backpatch-through: 13
2021-06-04 09:33:14 +09:00
Peter Eisentraut
cb3cffe694 doc: Group options in pg_amcheck reference page
The previous arrangement was just one big list, and the internal order
was not all consistent either.  Now arrange the options by group and
sort them, the way it's already done in the --help output and one
other reference pages.  Also fix some ordering in the --help output.
2021-06-03 06:55:04 +02:00
Tom Lane
ba356a397d Doc: improve libpq service-file docs, avoid overspecifying pathnames.
Clarify libpq.sgml's description of service file locations and
semantics.  Avoid use of backtick'ed pg_config calls to describe
paths; that doesn't work on Windows, and even on Unix it's an
idiom that not all readers may be instantly familiar with.

Don't overspecify the locations of include files, instead writing
only as much as you'd use in #include directives.  The previous text
in these places was incorrect for some installations, depending on
where "postgresql" is in the install path.

Our convention for referencing the user's home directory seems
to be "~", so change the one place that spelled it "$HOME".

install-windows.sgml follows the platform convention of spelling
file paths with "\", so change the one place that used "/".

Haiying Tang and Tom Lane

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/162149020918.26174.7150424047314144297@wrigleys.postgresql.org
2021-05-29 14:27:37 -04:00
Tom Lane
a4390abecf Reduce the range of OIDs reserved for genbki.pl.
Commit ab596105b increased FirstBootstrapObjectId from 12000 to 13000,
but we've had some push-back about that.  It's worrisome to reduce the
daylight between there and FirstNormalObjectId, because the number of
OIDs consumed during initdb for collation objects is hard to predict.

We can improve the situation by abandoning the assumption that these
OIDs must be globally unique.  It should be sufficient for them to be
unique per-catalog.  (Any code that's unhappy about that is broken
anyway, since no more than per-catalog uniqueness can be guaranteed
once the OID counter wraps around.)  With that change, the largest OID
assigned during genbki.pl (starting from a base of 10000) is a bit
under 11000.  This allows reverting FirstBootstrapObjectId to 12000
with reasonable confidence that that will be sufficient for many years
to come.

We are not, at this time, abandoning the expectation that
hand-assigned OIDs (below 10000) are globally unique.  Someday that'll
likely be necessary, but the need seems years away still.

This is late for v14, but it seems worth doing it now so that
downstream software doesn't have to deal with the consequences of
a change in FirstBootstrapObjectId.  In any case, we already
bought into forcing an initdb for beta2, so another catversion
bump won't hurt.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1665197.1622065382@sss.pgh.pa.us
2021-05-27 15:55:08 -04:00
Tom Lane
e6241d8e03 Rethink definition of pg_attribute.attcompression.
Redefine '\0' (InvalidCompressionMethod) as meaning "if we need to
compress, use the current setting of default_toast_compression".
This allows '\0' to be a suitable default choice regardless of
datatype, greatly simplifying code paths that initialize tupledescs
and the like.  It seems like a more user-friendly approach as well,
because now the default compression choice doesn't migrate into table
definitions, meaning that changing default_toast_compression is
usually sufficient to flip an installation's behavior; one needn't
tediously issue per-column ALTER SET COMPRESSION commands.

Along the way, fix a few minor bugs and documentation issues
with the per-column-compression feature.  Adopt more robust
APIs for SetIndexStorageProperties and GetAttributeCompression.

Bump catversion because typical contents of attcompression will now
be different.  We could get away without doing that, but it seems
better to ensure v14 installations all agree on this.  (We already
forced initdb for beta2, anyway.)

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/626613.1621787110@sss.pgh.pa.us
2021-05-27 13:24:27 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut
6abc8c2596 Add NO_INSTALL option to pgxs
Apply in libpq_pipeline test makefile, so that the test file is not
installed into tmp_install.

Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/cb9d16a6-760f-cd44-28d6-b091d5fb6ca7%40enterprisedb.com
2021-05-27 13:58:29 +02:00
Michael Paquier
2941138e60 doc: Fix description of some GUCs in docs and postgresql.conf.sample
The following parameters have been imprecise, or incorrect, about their
description (PGC_POSTMASTER or PGC_SIGHUP):
- autovacuum_work_mem (docs, as of 9.6~)
- huge_page_size (docs, as of 14~)
- max_logical_replication_workers (docs, as of 10~)
- max_sync_workers_per_subscription (docs, as of 10~)
- min_dynamic_shared_memory (docs, as of 14~)
- recovery_init_sync_method (postgresql.conf.sample, as of 14~)
- remove_temp_files_after_crash (docs, as of 14~)
- restart_after_crash (docs, as of 9.6~)
- ssl_min_protocol_version (docs, as of 12~)
- ssl_max_protocol_version (docs, as of 12~)

This commit adjusts the description of all these parameters to be more
consistent with the practice used for the others.

Revewed-by: Justin Pryzby
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/YK2ltuLpe+FbRXzA@paquier.xyz
Backpatch-through: 9.6
2021-05-27 14:57:28 +09:00
Amit Kapila
0c6b92d9c6 Doc: Update logical decoding stats information.
Add the information of pg_stat_replication_slots view along with other
system catalogs related to logical decoding.

Author: Vignesh C
Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210319185247.ldebgpdaxsowiflw@alap3.anarazel.de
2021-05-25 10:51:45 +05:30
Amit Kapila
0734b0e983 Improve docs and error messages for parallel vacuum.
The error messages, docs, and one of the options were using
'parallel degree' to indicate parallelism used by vacuum command. We
normally use 'parallel workers' at other places so change it for parallel
vacuum accordingly.

Author: Bharath Rupireddy
Reviewed-by: Dilip Kumar, Amit Kapila
Backpatch-through: 13
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CALj2ACWz=PYrrFXVsEKb9J1aiX4raA+UBe02hdRp_zqDkrWUiw@mail.gmail.com
2021-05-25 09:26:53 +05:30
Tom Lane
713a431c78 Doc: move some catalogs.sgml entries to the right place.
pg_statistic_ext_data.stxdexpr was listed under the wrong catalog,
as was pg_stats_ext.exprs.  Also there was a bogus entry for
pg_statistic_ext_data.stxexprs.  Apparently a merge failure in
commit a4d75c86b.

Guillaume Lelarge and Tom Lane

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAECtzeUHw+w64eUFVeV_2FJviAw6oZ0wNLkmU843ZH4hAQfiWg@mail.gmail.com
2021-05-24 18:03:47 -04:00
Tom Lane
f5024d8d7b Re-order pg_attribute columns to eliminate some padding space.
Now that attcompression is just a char, there's a lot of wasted
padding space after it.  Move it into the group of char-wide
columns to save a net of 4 bytes per pg_attribute entry.  While
we're at it, swap the order of attstorage and attalign to make for
a more logical grouping of these columns.

Also re-order actions in related code to match the new field ordering.

This patch also fixes one outright bug: equalTupleDescs() failed to
compare attcompression.  That could, for example, cause relcache
reload to fail to adopt a new value following a change.

Michael Paquier and Tom Lane, per a gripe from Andres Freund.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210517204803.iyk5wwvwgtjcmc5w@alap3.anarazel.de
2021-05-23 12:12:09 -04:00
Bruce Momjian
8f73ed6b65 doc: word-wrap and indent PG 14 relnotes 2021-05-22 22:25:13 -04:00
Bruce Momjian
7ce7d07e1c doc: PG 14 relnotes, adjust pg_{read|write}_all_data entry
Reported-by: Stephen Frost

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210522232945.GO20766@tamriel.snowman.net
2021-05-22 20:17:58 -04:00
Bruce Momjian
8dcae7f0a3 Update PG 14 relnotes for vacuum_cost_page_miss
Reported-by: Peter Geoghegan

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-WzmgSnDX9WVoxRZxuKeCy2MzLO9Dmo4+go0RzNW0VBdhmw@mail.gmail.com
2021-05-22 19:24:23 -04:00
Bruce Momjian
0cdaa05b40 doc: complete adding XML markup to PG 14 relnotes 2021-05-21 20:51:53 -04:00
Bruce Momjian
55370f8db9 doc: more XML markup for PG 14 release notes 2021-05-21 16:16:56 -04:00
Tom Lane
84f5c2908d Restore the portal-level snapshot after procedure COMMIT/ROLLBACK.
COMMIT/ROLLBACK necessarily destroys all snapshots within the session.
The original implementation of intra-procedure transactions just
cavalierly did that, ignoring the fact that this left us executing in
a rather different environment than normal.  In particular, it turns
out that handling of toasted datums depends rather critically on there
being an outer ActiveSnapshot: otherwise, when SPI or the core
executor pop whatever snapshot they used and return, it's unsafe to
dereference any toasted datums that may appear in the query result.
It's possible to demonstrate "no known snapshots" and "missing chunk
number N for toast value" errors as a result of this oversight.

Historically this outer snapshot has been held by the Portal code,
and that seems like a good plan to preserve.  So add infrastructure
to pquery.c to allow re-establishing the Portal-owned snapshot if it's
not there anymore, and add enough bookkeeping support that we can tell
whether it is or not.

We can't, however, just re-establish the Portal snapshot as part of
COMMIT/ROLLBACK.  As in normal transaction start, acquiring the first
snapshot should wait until after SET and LOCK commands.  Hence, teach
spi.c about doing this at the right time.  (Note that this patch
doesn't fix the problem for any PLs that try to run intra-procedure
transactions without using SPI to execute SQL commands.)

This makes SPI's no_snapshots parameter rather a misnomer, so in HEAD,
rename that to allow_nonatomic.

replication/logical/worker.c also needs some fixes, because it wasn't
careful to hold a snapshot open around AFTER trigger execution.
That code doesn't use a Portal, which I suspect someday we're gonna
have to fix.  But for now, just rearrange the order of operations.
This includes back-patching the recent addition of finish_estate()
to centralize the cleanup logic there.

This also back-patches commit 2ecfeda3e into v13, to improve the
test coverage for worker.c (it was that test that exposed that
worker.c's snapshot management is wrong).

Per bug #15990 from Andreas Wicht.  Back-patch to v11 where
intra-procedure COMMIT was added.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/15990-eee2ac466b11293d@postgresql.org
2021-05-21 14:03:59 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut
124966c1a3 Put some psql documentation pieces back into alphabetical order 2021-05-21 17:10:09 +02:00
Bruce Momjian
4f586fe244 doc: change PG 14 relnotes as suggested by Justin Pryzby 2021-05-20 15:50:54 -04:00
Bruce Momjian
4f7d1c3096 doc: revert 1e7d53bd01 so libpq chapter number is accessable
Fix PG 14 relnotes to use <link> instead of <xref>.  This was discussed
in commit message 59fa7eb603.
2021-05-19 11:22:21 -04:00
Bruce Momjian
1e7d53bd01 doc: add xreflabel for libpq chapter, needed for PG 14 relnotes 2021-05-19 11:01:28 -04:00
Bruce Momjian
6a5bde7d4f doc: partial completion of XML markup for PG 14 release notes 2021-05-18 23:21:55 -04:00
Michael Paquier
694da1983e Add --no-toast-compression to pg_dumpall
This is an oversight from bbe0a81d, where the equivalent option exists
in pg_dump.  This is useful to be able to reset the compression methods
cluster-wide when restoring the data based on default_toast_compression.

Reviewed-by: Daniel Gustafsson, Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/YKHC+qCJvzCRVCpY@paquier.xyz
2021-05-19 09:38:48 +09:00
Bruce Momjian
2e7c178370 doc: add PG 14 rel item about vacuum_cleanup_index_scale_factor 2021-05-18 15:17:44 -04:00
Magnus Hagander
cff8436f19 Remove obsolete reference to winflex download
We used to distribute a binary version of flex for windows on our
download site, but it hasn't been working for many years. The "old
documentation" referenced was also for versions that have been EOL for
many years. So, remove it.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CABUevEwXLJpVpab62f7AFXNWQ5=U0kvErCLq4VEsikidLyzSQg@mail.gmail.com
2021-05-17 21:56:42 +02:00
Bruce Momjian
fe2fb9ebca doc: PG 14 relnotes adjustments from Fujii Masao 2021-05-17 14:05:05 -04:00
Magnus Hagander
f9e6d00df0 Fix wording in description of pg_stat_statements.toplevel
Incorrect wording got applied in 7531fcb1fc.

Reported-By: Fujii Masao
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/e5512912-eac9-b163-df2b-e2601ce06d27@oss.nttdata.com
2021-05-17 10:59:54 +02:00
Etsuro Fujita
15fcd33e06 Doc: Update documentation for asynchronous execution.
Add a note of caution on the performance of asynchronous execution by
postgres_fdw.  Follow-up for commit 27e1f1456.

Stephen Frost, a little bit expanded by me.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210506171224.GV20766%40tamriel.snowman.net
2021-05-17 17:30:00 +09:00
Bruce Momjian
07af57dbad doc: update PG 14 relnotes from feedback by Tom, Alvaro, Julien 2021-05-16 23:34:50 -04:00
Bruce Momjian
f39b21e6a2 doc: remove XML comments around compute_query_id PG14 rel text 2021-05-15 17:30:45 -04:00
Bruce Momjian
6cb5346cb1 doc: update PG 14 release notes for compute_query_id change
Also remove ALTER TYPE ...SUBSCRIPT, and update for all current commits.
2021-05-15 17:26:26 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera
cafde58b33
Allow compute_query_id to be set to 'auto' and make it default
Allowing only on/off meant that all either all existing configuration
guides would become obsolete if we disabled it by default, or that we
would have to accept a performance loss in the default config if we
enabled it by default.  By allowing 'auto' as a middle ground, the
performance cost is only paid by those who enable pg_stat_statements and
similar modules.

I only edited the release notes to comment-out a paragraph that is now
factually wrong; further edits are probably needed to describe the
related change in more detail.

Author: Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210513002623.eugftm4nk2lvvks3@nol
2021-05-15 14:13:09 -04:00
Tom Lane
c3c35a733c Prevent infinite insertion loops in spgdoinsert().
Formerly we just relied on operator classes that assert longValuesOK
to eventually shorten the leaf value enough to fit on an index page.
That fails since the introduction of INCLUDE-column support (commit
09c1c6ab4), because the INCLUDE columns might alone take up more
than a page, meaning no amount of leaf-datum compaction will get
the job done.  At least with spgtextproc.c, that leads to an infinite
loop, since spgtextproc.c won't throw an error for not being able
to shorten the leaf datum anymore.

To fix without breaking cases that would otherwise work, add logic
to spgdoinsert() to verify that the leaf tuple size is decreasing
after each "choose" step.  Some opclasses might not decrease the
size on every single cycle, and in any case, alignment roundoff
of the tuple size could obscure small gains.  Therefore, allow
up to 10 cycles without additional savings before throwing an
error.  (Perhaps this number will need adjustment, but it seems
quite generous right now.)

As long as we've developed this logic, let's back-patch it.
The back branches don't have INCLUDE columns to worry about, but
this seems like a good defense against possible bugs in operator
classes.  We already know that an infinite loop here is pretty
unpleasant, so having a defense seems to outweigh the risk of
breaking things.  (Note that spgtextproc.c is actually the only
known opclass with longValuesOK support, so that this is all moot
for known non-core opclasses anyway.)

Per report from Dilip Kumar.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAFiTN-uxP_soPhVG840tRMQTBmtA_f_Y8N51G7DKYYqDh7XN-A@mail.gmail.com
2021-05-14 15:07:34 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera
1b5617eb84
Describe (auto-)analyze behavior for partitioned tables
This explains the new behavior introduced by 0827e8af70 as well as
preexisting.

Author: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
Author: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210423180152.GA17270@telsasoft.com
2021-05-14 13:10:52 -04:00
Bruce Momjian
5eb1b27d20 doc: update PG 14 release notes with recent feedback
Reported-by: Justin Pryzby

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210514020141.GQ27406@telsasoft.com
2021-05-14 13:01:12 -04:00
Bruce Momjian
521d08a21a doc: PG 14 release notes, reorder items by significance 2021-05-13 21:16:42 -04:00
Bruce Momjian
b2d0c7c967 doc: PG 14 release notes, adjust updates/deletes on partitions 2021-05-13 11:45:43 -04:00
Alexander Korotkov
9b7286c2b3 Improve documentation example for jsonpath like_regex operator
Make sample like_regex match string values of the root object instead of the
whole document.  The corrected example seems to represent a more relevant
use case.

Backpatch to 12, when jsonpath was introduced.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/13440f8b-4c1f-5875-c8e3-f3f65606af2f%40xs4all.nl
Author: Erik Rijkers
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier, Alexander Korotkov
Backpatch-through: 12
2021-05-13 16:10:21 +03:00
Bruce Momjian
b35f827b68 doc: update PG 14 release notes based on current feedback 2021-05-12 23:34:45 -04:00
Tom Lane
1f9b0e6938 Doc: update bki.sgml's statements about OID ranges.
Commit ab596105b neglected to make the docs match the code.
2021-05-12 17:41:07 -04:00
Etsuro Fujita
a363bc6da9 Fix EXPLAIN ANALYZE for async-capable nodes.
EXPLAIN ANALYZE for an async-capable ForeignScan node associated with
postgres_fdw is done just by using instrumentation for ExecProcNode()
called from the node's callbacks, causing the following problems:

1) If the remote table to scan is empty, the node is incorrectly
   considered as "never executed" by the command even if the node is
   executed, as ExecProcNode() isn't called from the node's callbacks at
   all in that case.
2) The command fails to collect timings for things other than
   ExecProcNode() done in the node, such as creating a cursor for the
   node's remote query.

To fix these problems, add instrumentation for async-capable nodes, and
modify postgres_fdw accordingly.

My oversight in commit 27e1f1456.

While at it, update a comment for the AsyncRequest struct in execnodes.h
and the documentation for the ForeignAsyncRequest API in fdwhandler.sgml
to match the code in ExecAsyncAppendResponse() in nodeAppend.c, and fix
typos in comments in nodeAppend.c.

Per report from Andrey Lepikhov, though I didn't use his patch.

Reviewed-by: Andrey Lepikhov
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2eb662bb-105d-fc20-7412-2f027cc3ca72%40postgrespro.ru
2021-05-12 14:00:00 +09:00
Bruce Momjian
5b2d09beaf doc: update PG 14 release notes based on feedback 2021-05-11 17:40:52 -04:00
Bruce Momjian
ff51679220 doc: update PG 14 release notes based on feedback so far 2021-05-10 23:56:47 -04:00
David Rowley
1692d0c3a3 Doc: Remove outdated note about run-time partition pruning
The note is no longer true as of 86dc90056, so remove it.

Author: Amit Langote
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+HiwqFxQn7Hz1wT+wYgnf_9SK0c4BwOOwFFT8jcSZwJrd8HEA@mail.gmail.com
2021-05-11 15:55:33 +12:00
Michael Paquier
9ca40dcd4d Add support for LZ4 build in MSVC scripts
Since its introduction in bbe0a81, compression of table data supports
LZ4, but nothing had been done within the MSVC scripts to allow users to
build the code with this library.

This commit closes the gap by extending the MSVC scripts to be able to
build optionally with LZ4.  Getting libraries that can be used for
compilation and execution is possible as LZ4 can be compiled down to
MSVC 2010 using its source tarball.  MinGW may require extra efforts to
be able to work, and I have been able to test this only with MSVC, still
this is better than nothing to give users a way to test the feature on
Windows.

Author: Dilip Kumar
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/YJPdNeF68XpwDDki@paquier.xyz
2021-05-11 10:43:05 +09:00
Bruce Momjian
dc02608610 doc: first draft of the PG 14 release notes 2021-05-10 01:58:59 -04:00
Michael Paquier
45aa88fe1d Fix generation of ./INSTALL for the distribution tarball
"make dist", in charge of creating a distribution tarball, failed when
attempting to generate ./INSTALL as a new reference added to
guc-default-toast-compression on the documentation for the installation
details was not getting translated properly to plain text.  Like all the
other link references on this page, this adds a new entry to
standalone-profile.xsl to allow the generation of ./INSTALL to finish
properly.

Oversight in 02a93e7, per buildfarm member guaibasaurus.
2021-05-10 14:34:07 +09:00
Thomas Munro
c2dc19342e Revert recovery prefetching feature.
This set of commits has some bugs with known fixes, but at this late
stage in the release cycle it seems best to revert and resubmit next
time, along with some new automated test coverage for this whole area.

Commits reverted:

dc88460c: Doc: Review for "Optionally prefetch referenced data in recovery."
1d257577: Optionally prefetch referenced data in recovery.
f003d9f8: Add circular WAL decoding buffer.
323cbe7c: Remove read_page callback from XLogReader.

Remove the new GUC group WAL_RECOVERY recently added by a55a9847, as the
corresponding section of config.sgml is now reverted.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAOuzzgrn7iKnFRsB4MHp3UisEQAGgZMbk_ViTN4HV4-Ksq8zCg%40mail.gmail.com
2021-05-10 16:06:09 +12:00
Michael Paquier
02a93e7ef9 doc: Fix some gaps with the documentation related to LZ4
The upstream project is officially named "LZ4", and the documentation
was confused with the option value that can be used with DDLs supporting
this option, and the project name.

Documentation related to the configure option --with-lz4 was missing, so
add something for that.

Author: Dilip Kumar, Michael Paquier
Reviewed-by: Justin Pryzby
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/YJaOZQDXBVySq+Cc@paquier.xyz
2021-05-10 09:32:56 +09:00
Tom Lane
f9b809e7fb Doc: copy-editing for debug_invalidate_system_caches_always description.
I came to fix "useful only useful", but the more I looked at the text
the more things I thought could be improved.
2021-05-08 11:33:13 -04:00
Tomas Vondra
44f90ad092 Mention statistics objects in maintenance.sgml
The docs mentioned expression indexes as a way to improve selectivity
estimates for functions, but we have a second option to improve that by
creating extended statistics. So mention that too.

Reported-by: Justin Pryzby
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210505210947.GA27406%40telsasoft.com
2021-05-07 14:40:41 +02:00
Thomas Munro
b65431ca5e Doc: Update notes about libc collation versions.
The per-index collation version tracking feature was reverted, but we
still have the ability to ask Windows (352f6f2d) and FreeBSD
(ca051d8b) for collation versions to store in pg_collation.collversion.
So, from the reverted patch, take a few words of documentation about
libc on all three supported OSes to replace the pre-existing note that
mentioned only glibc.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKGLhj5t1fcjqAu8iD9B3ixJtsTNqyCCD4V0aTO9kAKAjjA%40mail.gmail.com
2021-05-07 21:58:02 +12:00
Thomas Munro
ec48314708 Revert per-index collation version tracking feature.
Design problems were discovered in the handling of composite types and
record types that would cause some relevant versions not to be recorded.
Misgivings were also expressed about the use of the pg_depend catalog
for this purpose.  We're out of time for this release so we'll revert
and try again.

Commits reverted:

1bf946bd: Doc: Document known problem with Windows collation versions.
cf002008: Remove no-longer-relevant test case.
ef387bed: Fix bogus collation-version-recording logic.
0fb0a050: Hide internal error for pg_collation_actual_version(<bad OID>).
ff942057: Suppress "warning: variable 'collcollate' set but not used".
d50e3b1f: Fix assertion in collation version lookup.
f24b1569: Rethink extraction of collation dependencies.
257836a7: Track collation versions for indexes.
cd6f479e: Add pg_depend.refobjversion.
7d1297df: Remove pg_collation.collversion.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKGLhj5t1fcjqAu8iD9B3ixJtsTNqyCCD4V0aTO9kAKAjjA%40mail.gmail.com
2021-05-07 21:10:11 +12:00
Alvaro Herrera
469116389e
Document lock level used by ALTER TABLE VALIDATE CONSTRAINT
Backpatch all the way back to 9.6.

Author: Simon Riggs <simon.riggs@enterprisedb.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CANbhV-EwxvdhHuOLdfG2ciYrHOHXV=mm6=fD5aMhqcH09Li3Tg@mail.gmail.com
2021-05-06 17:17:57 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera
db6e1aeb95
Improve documentation on DETACH PARTITION lock levels
This was forgotten in 71f4c8c6f7.

Reported-by: Pavel Luzanov <p.luzanov@postgrespro.ru>
Author: Amit Langote <amitlangote09@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/0688e7c3-8bc8-a3e4-9d8e-3bcbbf3e1f4d@postgrespro.ru
2021-05-06 16:42:30 -04:00
Tom Lane
c38cadc090 Doc: trivial wording adjustment.
Improve self-referential foreign key example, per suggestion
from David Johnston.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAKFQuwZTke7+HUn4YUGqu2+gAPi4Cy18TXMrg_Z5nADkxfPNMw@mail.gmail.com
2021-05-06 09:59:11 -04:00
Robert Haas
448b02c005 Additional doc fixes for configurable TOAST compression.
The grammar changes in commit bbe0a81db6
allow SET COMPRESSION to be used with ALTER MATERIALIZED VIEW as
well as with ALTER TABLE, so update those docs to say that it works.

Also, update the documentation for the pg_column_compression()
to explain that it will return NULL when there's no relevant value.

Patch by me, per concerns from Michael Paquier.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+Tgmob9h5u4iNL9KM0drZgkY-JL4oCVW0dWrMqtLPQ1zHkquA@mail.gmail.com
2021-05-06 08:27:20 -04:00
Robert Haas
2d0f662402 docs: Clarify how ALTER TABLE .. SET COMPRESSION works.
Justin Pryzby, per a complaint from Michael Paquier. Reviewed by
Dilip Kumar and by me.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/20210429040132.GF27406@telsasoft.com
2021-05-06 08:22:45 -04:00
Amit Kapila
592f00f8de Update replication statistics after every stream/spill.
Currently, replication slot statistics are updated at prepare, commit, and
rollback. Now, if the transaction is interrupted the stats might not get
updated. Fixed this by updating replication statistics after every
stream/spill.

In passing update the docs to change the description of some of the slot
stats.

Author: Vignesh C, Sawada Masahiko
Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210319185247.ldebgpdaxsowiflw@alap3.anarazel.de
2021-05-06 11:21:26 +05:30
Tom Lane
f33a178a34 Doc: improve and centralize the documentation for OID alias types.
Previously, a lot of information about type regclass existed only
in the discussion of the sequence functions.  Maybe that made sense
in the beginning, because I think originally those were the only
functions taking regclass.  But it doesn't make sense anymore.
Move that material to the "Object Identifier Types" section in
datatype.sgml, generalize it to talk about the other reg* types
as well, and add more examples.

Per bug #16991 from Federico Caselli.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16991-bcaeaafa17e0a723@postgresql.org
2021-05-05 11:26:48 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut
c98a6d7887 doc: Fix typos 2021-05-04 15:45:13 +02:00
Alexander Korotkov
ae9492a61b Remove mention of the version number from pg_trgm docs
We don't usually mention the version number in similar situations.  So, neither
mention it here.

Reported-by: Bruce Momjian
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210503234914.GO6180%40momjian.us
2021-05-04 03:59:21 +03:00
Peter Eisentraut
5df6aeab42 doc: Add index entry for "multirange type"
Before now, looking up "multirange" in the index only led to the
multirange() function.  To make this more useful, also add an entry
pointing to the range types section.
2021-05-03 20:14:03 +02:00
Tom Lane
e6f9539dc3 Doc: add an example of a self-referential foreign key to ddl.sgml.
While we've always allowed such cases, the documentation didn't
say you could do it.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/161969805833.690.13680986983883602407@wrigleys.postgresql.org
2021-04-30 15:37:56 -04:00
Tom Lane
386e64ea5a Doc: update libpq's documentation for PQfn().
Mention specifically that you can't call aggregates, window functions,
or procedures this way (the inability to call SRFs was already
mentioned).

Also, the claim that PQfn doesn't support NULL arguments or results
has been a lie since we invented protocol 3.0.  Not sure why this
text was never updated for that, but do it now.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2039442.1615317309@sss.pgh.pa.us
2021-04-30 15:10:06 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera
94b9cb7225
Improve documentation for default_tablespace on partitioned tables
Backpatch to 12, where 87259588d0 introduced the current behavior.

Per note from Justin Pryzby.

Co-authored-by: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210416143135.GI3315@telsasoft.com
2021-04-29 11:31:24 -04:00
Michael Paquier
2977f244bc doc: Fix description of target_session_attrs=prefer-standby
If no standbys can be found in the set of connection points provided,
the fallback behavior is "any", and not "all" that does not exist.

Author: Greg Nancarrow
Reviewed-by: Laurenz Albe
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAJcOf-fDaCv8qCpWH7k5Yh6zFxZeUwZowu4sCWQ2zFx4CdkHpA@mail.gmail.com
2021-04-29 11:44:24 +09:00
Alvaro Herrera
d6b8d29419
Allow a partdesc-omitting-partitions to be cached
Makes partition descriptor acquisition faster during the transient
period in which a partition is in the process of being detached.

This also adds the restriction that only one partition can be in
pending-detach state for a partitioned table.

While at it, return find_inheritance_children() API to what it was
before 71f4c8c6f7, and create a separate
find_inheritance_children_extended() that returns detailed info about
detached partitions.

(This incidentally fixes a bug in 8aba932251 whereby a memory context
holding a transient partdesc is reparented to a NULL PortalContext,
leading to permanent leak of that memory.  The fix is to no longer rely
on reparenting contexts to PortalContext.   Reported by Amit Langote.)

Per gripe from Amit Langote
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+HiwqFgpP1LxJZOBYGt9rpvTjXXkg5qG2+Xch2Z1Q7KrqZR1A@mail.gmail.com
2021-04-28 15:44:35 -04:00
Tom Lane
c93f8f3b8d Doc: fix discussion of how to get real Julian Dates.
Somehow I'd convinced myself that rotating to UTC-12 was the way
to do this, but upon further review, it's definitely UTC+12.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1197050.1619123213@sss.pgh.pa.us
2021-04-28 10:03:28 -04:00
Fujii Masao
0c8f40863a doc: Review for "Allow TRUNCATE command to truncate foreign tables".
Typos, corrections and language improvements in the docs.

Author: Justin Pryzby, Fujii Masao
Reviewed-by: Bharath Rupireddy, Justin Pryzby, Fujii Masao
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210411041658.GB14564@telsasoft.com
2021-04-27 18:39:30 +09:00
Fujii Masao
8e9ea08bae Don't pass "ONLY" options specified in TRUNCATE to foreign data wrapper.
Commit 8ff1c94649 allowed TRUNCATE command to truncate foreign tables.
Previously the information about "ONLY" options specified in TRUNCATE
command were passed to the foreign data wrapper. Then postgres_fdw
constructed the TRUNCATE command to issue the remote server and
included "ONLY" options in it based on the passed information.

On the other hand, "ONLY" options specified in SELECT, UPDATE or DELETE
have no effect when accessing or modifying the remote table, i.e.,
are not passed to the foreign data wrapper. So it's inconsistent to
make only TRUNCATE command pass the "ONLY" options to the foreign data
wrapper. Therefore this commit changes the TRUNCATE command so that
it doesn't pass the "ONLY" options to the foreign data wrapper,
for the consistency with other statements. Also this commit changes
postgres_fdw so that it always doesn't include "ONLY" options in
the TRUNCATE command that it constructs.

Author: Fujii Masao
Reviewed-by: Bharath Rupireddy, Kyotaro Horiguchi, Justin Pryzby, Zhihong Yu
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/551ed8c1-f531-818b-664a-2cecdab99cd8@oss.nttdata.com
2021-04-27 14:41:27 +09:00
Tom Lane
79a5928ebc Doc: document EXTRACT(JULIAN ...), improve Julian Date explanation.
For some reason, the "julian" option for extract()/date_part() has
never gotten listed in the manual.  Also, while Appendix B mentioned
in passing that we don't conform to the usual astronomical definition
that a Julian date starts at noon UTC, it was kind of vague about what
we do instead.  Clarify that, and add an example showing how to get
the astronomical definition if you want it.

It's been like this for ages, so back-patch to all supported branches.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1197050.1619123213@sss.pgh.pa.us
2021-04-26 11:50:35 -04:00
Andrew Dunstan
b859d94c63 Provide pg_amcheck with an --install-missing option
This will install amcheck in the database if not present. The default
schema is for the extension is pg_catalog, but this can be overridden by
providing a value for the option.

Mark Dilger, slightly editorialized by me.

(rather divergent)
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/bdc0f7c2-09e3-ee57-8471-569dfb509234@dunslane.net
2021-04-24 10:13:07 -04:00
Michael Paquier
0d0049c58b Doc: Remove extraneous whitespaces with some tags
Author: Justin Pryzby
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210423184338.GL7256@telsasoft.com
2021-04-24 10:44:13 +09:00
Magnus Hagander
7531fcb1fc Mention that toplevel is part of pg_stat_statements key.
While at it, also document that toplevel is always true if
pg_stat_statements.track is set to top.

Author: Julien Rouhaud
Reported-By: Fujii Masao
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a878d5ea-64a7-485e-5d2f-177618ebc52d@oss.nttdata.com
2021-04-23 11:45:28 +02:00
Peter Eisentraut
9bd563aa9f doc: Fix typos
Author: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
2021-04-23 09:28:44 +02:00
Fujii Masao
eaec48b3c5 doc: Fix obsolete description about pg_basebackup.
Previously it was documented that if using "-X none" option there was
no guarantee that all required WAL files were archived at the end of
pg_basebackup when taking a backup from the standby. But this limitation
was removed by commit 52f8a59dd9. Now, even when taking a backup
from the standby, pg_basebackup can wait for all required WAL files
to be archived. Therefore this commit removes such obsolete
description from the docs.

Also this commit adds new description about the limitation when
taking a backup from the standby, into the docs. The limitation is that
pg_basebackup cannot force the standbfy to switch to a new WAL file
at the end of backup, which may cause pg_basebackup to wait a long
time for the last required WAL file to be switched and archived,
especially when write activity on the primary is low.

Back-patch to v10 where the issue was introduced.

Reported-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi
Author: Kyotaro Horiguchi, Fujii Masao
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi, Fujii Masao
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210420.133235.1342729068750553399.horikyota.ntt@gmail.com
2021-04-23 15:45:46 +09:00
Peter Eisentraut
197d33ccbe Fix some trailing whitespace in documentation files 2021-04-22 22:47:57 +02:00
Bruce Momjian
84f15ccd4c doc: mention <link> can be inside of <command>, but not <xref>
This was discussed in commit 9081bddbd.

Reported-by: Peter Eisentraut

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/flat/87o8pco34z.fsf@wibble.ilmari.org
2021-04-22 16:01:17 -04:00
Tom Lane
82b13dbc4d Doc: document the tie-breaking behavior of the round() function.
Back-patch to v13; the table layout in older branches is unfriendly
to adding such details.

Laurenz Albe

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/161881920775.685.12293798764864559341@wrigleys.postgresql.org
2021-04-22 14:47:26 -04:00
Michael Paquier
1599e7b375 doc: Move parallel_leader_participation to its correct category
parallel_leader_participation got introduced in e5253fd, where it was
listed under RESOURCES_ASYNCHRONOUS in guc.c, but the documentation
did not reflect that and listed it with the other planner-related
options.  This commit fixes this inconsistency as the parameter is
intended to be an asynchronous one.

While on it, reorganize a bit the section dedicated to asynchronous
parameters, backend_flush_after being moved first to do better in terms
of alphabetical order of the options listed.

Reported-by: Yanliang Lei
Author: Bharath Rupireddy
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16972-42d4b0c15aa1d5f5@postgresql.org
2021-04-22 09:47:43 +09:00
Peter Eisentraut
544b28088f doc: Improve hyphenation consistency 2021-04-21 08:14:43 +02:00
Michael Paquier
64087eb5de doc: List compute_query_id in required config for pg_stat_statements
Not enabling compute_query_id would disable pg_stat_statements even if
the module is listed in shared_preload_libraries, so add it to the
minimum configuration set as listed in its documentation.

Author: Greg Nancarrow
Reviewed-by: Julien Rouhaud, Bharath Rupireddy
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAJcOf-fXyb2QiDbwftD813UF70w-+BsK-03bFp1GrijXU9GQYQ@mail.gmail.com
2021-04-21 12:02:41 +09:00
Bruce Momjian
db01f797dd Fix interaction of log_line_prefix's query_id and log_statement
log_statement is issued before query_id can be computed, so properly
clear the value, and document the interaction.

Reported-by: Fujii Masao, Michael Paquier

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/YHPkU8hFi4no4NSw@paquier.xyz

Author: Julien Rouhaud
2021-04-20 12:57:59 -04:00
Bruce Momjian
9660834dd8 adjust query id feature to use pg_stat_activity.query_id
Previously, it was pg_stat_activity.queryid to match the
pg_stat_statements queryid column.  This is an adjustment to patch
4f0b0966c8.  This also adjusts some of the internal function calls to
match.  Catversion bumped.

Reported-by: Álvaro Herrera, Julien Rouhaud

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210408032704.GA7498@alvherre.pgsql
2021-04-20 12:22:26 -04:00
Amit Kapila
c64dcc7fee Fix test case added by commit f5fc2f5b23.
In the new test after resetting the stats, we were not waiting for the
stats message to be delivered. Also, we need to decode the results for
the new test, otherwise, it will show the old stats.

In passing,
a. Change docs added by commit f5fc2f5b23 as per suggestion by
Justin Pryzby.
b. Bump the PGSTAT_FILE_FORMAT_ID as commit f5fc2f5b23 changes the file
format of stats.

Reported-by: Tom Lane based on buildfarm reports
Author: Vignesh C, Justin Pryzby
Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210319185247.ldebgpdaxsowiflw@alap3.anarazel.de
2021-04-19 09:02:47 +05:30
Michael Paquier
7ef8b52cf0 Fix typos and grammar in comments and docs
Author: Justin Pryzby
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210416070310.GG3315@telsasoft.com
2021-04-19 11:32:30 +09:00
Peter Eisentraut
f7c09706c1 doc: Fix up spacing around verbatim DocBook elements 2021-04-17 14:14:26 +02:00
Michael Paquier
254a2164e5 doc: Fix typo in example query of SQL/JSON
Author: Erik Rijkers
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1219476687.20432.1617452918468@webmailclassic.xs4all.nl
Backpatch-through: 12
2021-04-16 16:56:12 +09:00