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Michael Paquier f1f10a1ba9 Add declaration-level assertions for compile-time checks
Those new assertions can be used at file scope, outside of any function
for compilation checks.  This commit provides implementations for C and
C++, and fallback implementations.

Author: Peter Smith
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund, Kyotaro Horiguchi, Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker,
Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/201DD0641B056142AC8C6645EC1B5F62014B8E8030@SYD1217
2020-02-03 14:48:42 +09:00
Alvaro Herrera 4e89c79a52 Remove excess parens in ereport() calls
Cosmetic cleanup, not worth backpatching.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200129200401.GA6303@alvherre.pgsql
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane, Michael Paquier
2020-01-30 13:32:04 -03:00
Tom Lane 3ec20c7091 Fix EXPLAIN (SETTINGS) to follow policy about when to print empty fields.
In non-TEXT output formats, the "Settings" field should appear when
requested, even if it would be empty.

Also, get rid of the premature optimization of counting all the
GUC_EXPLAIN variables at startup.  Since there was no provision for
adjusting that count later, all it'd take would be some extension marking
a parameter as GUC_EXPLAIN to risk an assertion failure or memory stomp.
We could make get_explain_guc_options() count those variables on-the-fly,
or dynamically resize its array ... but TBH I do not think that making a
transient array of pointers a bit smaller is worth any extra complication,
especially when you consider all the other transient space EXPLAIN eats.
So just allocate that array at the max possible size.

In HEAD, also add some regression test coverage for this feature.

Because of the memory-stomp hazard, back-patch to v12 where this
feature was added.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/19416.1580069629@sss.pgh.pa.us
2020-01-26 16:32:19 -05:00
Fujii Masao 41c184bc64 Add GUC ignore_invalid_pages.
Detection of WAL records having references to invalid pages
during recovery causes PostgreSQL to raise a PANIC-level error,
aborting the recovery. Setting ignore_invalid_pages to on causes
the system to ignore those WAL records (but still report a warning),
and continue recovery. This behavior may cause crashes, data loss,
propagate or hide corruption, or other serious problems.
However, it may allow you to get past the PANIC-level error,
to finish the recovery, and to cause the server to start up.

Author: Fujii Masao
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAHGQGwHCK6f77yeZD4MHOnN+PaTf6XiJfEB+Ce7SksSHjeAWtg@mail.gmail.com
2020-01-22 11:56:34 +09:00
Michael Paquier 41aadeeb12 Add GUC checks for ssl_min_protocol_version and ssl_max_protocol_version
Mixing incorrect bounds set in the SSL context leads to confusing error
messages generated by OpenSSL which are hard to act on.  New checks are
added within the GUC machinery to improve the user experience as they
apply to any SSL implementation, not only OpenSSL, and doing the checks
beforehand avoids the creation of a SSL during a reload (or startup)
which we know will never be used anyway.

Backpatch down to 12, as those parameters have been introduced by
e73e67c.

Author: Michael Paquier
Reviewed-by: Daniel Gustafsson
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200114035420.GE1515@paquier.xyz
Backpatch-through: 12
2020-01-18 12:32:43 +09:00
Peter Eisentraut 3297308278 walreceiver uses a temporary replication slot by default
If no permanent replication slot is configured using
primary_slot_name, the walreceiver now creates and uses a temporary
replication slot.  A new setting wal_receiver_create_temp_slot can be
used to disable this behavior, for example, if the remote instance is
out of replication slots.

Reviewed-by: Masahiko Sawada <masahiko.sawada@2ndquadrant.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CA%2Bfd4k4dM0iEPLxyVyme2RAFsn8SUgrNtBJOu81YqTY4V%2BnqZA%40mail.gmail.com
2020-01-14 14:40:41 +01:00
Robert Haas 8147278589 Increase the maximum value of track_activity_query_size.
This one-line change provoked a lot of discussion, but ultimately
the consensus seems to be that allowing a larger value might be
useful to somebody, and probably won't hurt anyone who chooses
not to take advantage of the higher maximum limit.

Vyacheslav Makarov, reviewed by many people.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/7b5ecc5a9991045e2f13c84e3047541d@postgrespro.ru
2020-01-07 12:14:19 -05:00
Bruce Momjian 7559d8ebfa Update copyrights for 2020
Backpatch-through: update all files in master, backpatch legal files through 9.4
2020-01-01 12:21:45 -05:00
Alvaro Herrera c4dcd9144b Avoid splitting C string literals with \-newline
Using \ is unnecessary and ugly, so remove that.  While at it, stitch
the literals back into a single line: we've long discouraged splitting
error message literals even when they go past the 80 chars line limit,
to improve greppability.

Leave contrib/tablefunc alone.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20191223195156.GA12271@alvherre.pgsql
2019-12-24 12:44:12 -03:00
Alvaro Herrera ba79cb5dc8 Emit parameter values during query bind/execute errors
This makes such log entries more useful, since the cause of the error
can be dependent on the parameter values.

Author: Alexey Bashtanov, Álvaro Herrera
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/0146a67b-a22a-0519-9082-bc29756b93a2@imap.cc
Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut, Andres Freund, Tom Lane
2019-12-11 18:03:35 -03:00
Peter Eisentraut b1abfec825 Update minimum SSL version
Change default of ssl_min_protocol_version to TLSv1.2 (from TLSv1,
which means 1.0).  Older versions are still supported, just not by
default.

TLS 1.0 is widely deprecated, and TLS 1.1 only slightly less so.  All
OpenSSL versions that support TLS 1.1 also support TLS 1.2, so there
would be very little reason to, say, set the default to TLS 1.1
instead on grounds of better compatibility.

The test suite overrides this new setting, so it can still run with
older OpenSSL versions.

Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/b327f8df-da98-054d-0cc5-b76a857cfed9%402ndquadrant.com
2019-12-04 22:07:43 +01:00
Peter Eisentraut c4a7a392ec Make allow_system_table_mods settable at run time
Make allow_system_table_mods settable at run time by superusers.  It
was previously postmaster start only.

We don't want to make system catalog DDL wide-open, but there are
occasionally useful things to do like setting reloptions or statistics
on a busy system table, and blocking those doesn't help anyone.  Also,
this enables the possibility of writing a test suite for this setting.

Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/8b00ea5e-28a7-88ba-e848-21528b632354%402ndquadrant.com
2019-11-29 10:22:13 +01:00
Amit Kapila cec2edfa78 Add logical_decoding_work_mem to limit ReorderBuffer memory usage.
Instead of deciding to serialize a transaction merely based on the
number of changes in that xact (toplevel or subxact), this makes
the decisions based on amount of memory consumed by the changes.

The memory limit is defined by a new logical_decoding_work_mem GUC,
so for example we can do this

    SET logical_decoding_work_mem = '128kB'

to reduce the memory usage of walsenders or set the higher value to
reduce disk writes. The minimum value is 64kB.

When adding a change to a transaction, we account for the size in
two places. Firstly, in the ReorderBuffer, which is then used to
decide if we reached the total memory limit. And secondly in the
transaction the change belongs to, so that we can pick the largest
transaction to evict (and serialize to disk).

We still use max_changes_in_memory when loading changes serialized
to disk. The trouble is we can't use the memory limit directly as
there might be multiple subxact serialized, we need to read all of
them but we don't know how many are there (and which subxact to
read first).

We do not serialize the ReorderBufferTXN entries, so if there is a
transaction with many subxacts, most memory may be in this type of
objects. Those records are not included in the memory accounting.

We also do not account for INTERNAL_TUPLECID changes, which are
kept in a separate list and not evicted from memory. Transactions
with many CTID changes may consume significant amounts of memory,
but we can't really do much about that.

The current eviction algorithm is very simple - the transaction is
picked merely by size, while it might be useful to also consider age
(LSN) of the changes for example. With the new Generational memory
allocator, evicting the oldest changes would make it more likely
the memory gets actually pfreed.

The logical_decoding_work_mem can be set in postgresql.conf, in which
case it serves as the default for all publishers on that instance.

Author: Tomas Vondra, with changes by Dilip Kumar and Amit Kapila
Reviewed-by: Dilip Kumar and Amit Kapila
Tested-By: Vignesh C
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/688b0b7f-2f6c-d827-c27b-216a8e3ea700@2ndquadrant.com
2019-11-19 07:32:36 +05:30
Amit Kapila 14aec03502 Make the order of the header file includes consistent in backend modules.
Similar to commits 7e735035f2 and dddf4cdc33, this commit makes the order
of header file inclusion consistent for backend modules.

In the passing, removed a couple of duplicate inclusions.

Author: Vignesh C
Reviewed-by: Kuntal Ghosh and Amit Kapila
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CALDaNm2Sznv8RR6Ex-iJO6xAdsxgWhCoETkaYX=+9DW3q0QCfA@mail.gmail.com
2019-11-12 08:30:16 +05:30
Alvaro Herrera 71a8a4f6e3 Add backtrace support for error reporting
Add some support for automatically showing backtraces in certain error
situations in the server.  Backtraces are shown on assertion failure;
also, a new setting backtrace_functions can be set to a list of C
function names, and all ereport()s and elog()s from the mentioned
functions will have backtraces generated.  Finally, the function
errbacktrace() can be manually added to an ereport() call to generate a
backtrace for that call.

Authors: Peter Eisentraut, Álvaro Herrera
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m//5f48cb47-bf1e-05b6-7aae-3bf2cd01586d@2ndquadrant.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAMsr+YGL+yfWE=JvbUbnpWtrRZNey7hJ07+zT4bYJdVp4Szdrg@mail.gmail.com
2019-11-08 15:44:20 -03:00
Tomas Vondra 6e3e6cc0e8 Allow sampling of statements depending on duration
This allows logging a sample of statements, without incurring excessive
log traffic (which may impact performance).  This can be useful when
analyzing workloads with lots of short queries.

The sampling is configured using two new GUC parameters:

 * log_min_duration_sample - minimum required statement duration

 * log_statement_sample_rate - sample rate (0.0 - 1.0)

Only statements with duration exceeding log_min_duration_sample are
considered for sampling. To enable sampling, both those GUCs have to
be set correctly.

The existing log_min_duration_statement GUC has a higher priority, i.e.
statements with duration exceeding log_min_duration_statement will be
always logged, irrespectedly of how the sampling is configured. This
means only configurations

  log_min_duration_sample < log_min_duration_statement

do actually sample the statements, instead of logging everything.

Author: Adrien Nayrat
Reviewed-by: David Rowley, Vik Fearing, Tomas Vondra
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/bbe0a1a8-a8f7-3be2-155a-888e661cc06c@anayrat.info
2019-11-06 19:11:07 +01:00
Thomas Munro 3c8c55dd54 When restoring GUCs in parallel workers, show an error context.
Otherwise it can be hard to see where an error is coming from, when
the parallel worker sets all the GUCs that it received from the
leader.  Bug #15726.  Back-patch to 9.5, where RestoreGUCState()
appeared.

Reported-by: Tiago Anastacio
Reviewed-by: Daniel Gustafsson, Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/15726-6d67e4fa14f027b3%40postgresql.org
2019-10-17 13:47:01 +13:00
Peter Eisentraut 887248e97e Message style fixes 2019-09-23 13:38:39 +02:00
Tom Lane f1bf619acd Fix ALTER SYSTEM to cope with duplicate entries in postgresql.auto.conf.
ALTER SYSTEM itself normally won't make duplicate entries (although
up till this patch, it was possible to confuse it by writing case
variants of a GUC's name).  However, if some external tool has appended
entries to the file, that could result in duplicate entries for a single
GUC name.  In such a situation, ALTER SYSTEM did exactly the wrong thing,
because it replaced or removed only the first matching entry, leaving
the later one(s) still there and hence still determining the active value.

This patch fixes that by making ALTER SYSTEM sweep through the file and
remove all matching entries, then (if not ALTER SYSTEM RESET) append the
new setting to the end.  This means entries will be in order of last
setting rather than first setting, but that shouldn't hurt anything.

Also, make the comparisons case-insensitive so that the right things
happen if you do, say, ALTER SYSTEM SET "TimeZone" = 'whatever'.

This has been broken since ALTER SYSTEM was invented, so back-patch
to all supported branches.

Ian Barwick, with minor mods by me

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/aed6cc9f-98f3-2693-ac81-52bb0052307e@2ndquadrant.com
2019-08-14 15:09:42 -04:00
Tomas Vondra 75506195da Revert "Add log_statement_sample_rate parameter"
This reverts commit 88bdbd3f74.

As committed, statement sampling used the existing duration threshold
(log_min_duration_statement) when decide which statements to sample.
The issue is that even the longest statements are subject to sampling,
and so may not end up logged. An improvement was proposed, introducing
a second duration threshold, but it would not be backwards compatible.
So we've decided to revert this feature - the separate threshold should
be part of the feature itself.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAFj8pRDS8tQ3Wviw9%3DAvODyUciPSrGeMhJi_WPE%2BEB8%2B4gLL-Q%40mail.gmail.com
2019-08-04 23:38:27 +02:00
Bruce Momjian ba09342518 Adjust ssl_ciphers to be specific to OpenSSL
Syntax is OpenSSL-specific, so only use it for OpenSSL.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/8232E273-7B25-47F4-B0E7-3D4264106F82@yesql.se

Author: Daniel Gustafsson

Backpatch-through: head
2019-07-08 19:39:48 -04:00
Tom Lane 9e1c9f9594 pgindent run prior to branching v12.
pgperltidy and reformat-dat-files too, though the latter didn't
find anything to change.
2019-07-01 12:37:52 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 21f428ebde Don't call data type input functions in GUC check hooks
Instead of calling pg_lsn_in() in check_recovery_target_lsn and
timestamptz_in() in check_recovery_target_time, reorganize the
respective code so that we don't raise any errors in the check hooks.
The previous code tried to use PG_TRY/PG_CATCH to handle errors in a
way that is not safe, so now the code contains no ereport() calls and
can operate safely within the GUC error handling system.

Moreover, since the interpretation of the recovery_target_time string
may depend on the time zone, we cannot do the final processing of that
string until all the GUC processing is done.  Instead,
check_recovery_target_time() now does some parsing for syntax
checking, but the actual conversion to a timestamptz value is done
later in the recovery code that uses it.

Reported-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/20190611061115.njjwkagvxp4qujhp%40alap3.anarazel.de
2019-06-30 10:27:43 +02:00
Amit Kapila 9679345f3c Fix typos.
Reported-by: Alexander Lakhin
Author: Alexander Lakhin
Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila and Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/7208de98-add8-8537-91c0-f8b089e2928c@gmail.com
2019-05-26 18:28:18 +05:30
Tom Lane 8255c7a5ee Phase 2 pgindent run for v12.
Switch to 2.1 version of pg_bsd_indent.  This formats
multiline function declarations "correctly", that is with
additional lines of parameter declarations indented to match
where the first line's left parenthesis is.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEepm=0P3FeTXRcU5B2W3jv3PgRVZ-kGUXLGfd42FFhUROO3ug@mail.gmail.com
2019-05-22 13:04:48 -04:00
Tom Lane be76af171c Initial pgindent run for v12.
This is still using the 2.0 version of pg_bsd_indent.
I thought it would be good to commit this separately,
so as to document the differences between 2.0 and 2.1 behavior.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16296.1558103386@sss.pgh.pa.us
2019-05-22 12:55:34 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera 9f8b717a80 Message style fixes 2019-04-30 10:33:37 -04:00
Michael Paquier 249d649996 Add support TCP user timeout in libpq and the backend server
Similarly to the set of parameters for keepalive, a connection parameter
for libpq is added as well as a backend GUC, called tcp_user_timeout.

Increasing the TCP user timeout is useful to allow a connection to
survive extended periods without end-to-end connection, and decreasing
it allows application to fail faster.  By default, the parameter is 0,
which makes the connection use the system default, and follows a logic
close to the keepalive parameters in its handling.  When connecting
through a Unix-socket domain, the parameters have no effect.

Author: Ryohei Nagaura
Reviewed-by: Fabien Coelho, Robert Haas, Kyotaro Horiguchi, Kirk
Jamison, Mikalai Keida, Takayuki Tsunakawa, Andrei Yahorau
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/EDA4195584F5064680D8130B1CA91C45367328@G01JPEXMBYT04
2019-04-06 15:23:37 +09:00
Tomas Vondra ea569d64ac Add SETTINGS option to EXPLAIN, to print modified settings.
Query planning is affected by a number of configuration options, and it
may be crucial to know which of those options were set to non-default
values.  With this patch you can say EXPLAIN (SETTINGS ON) to include
that information in the query plan.  Only options affecting planning,
with values different from the built-in default are printed.

This patch also adds auto_explain.log_settings option, providing the
same capability in auto_explain module.

Author: Tomas Vondra
Reviewed-by: Rafia Sabih, John Naylor
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/e1791b4c-df9c-be02-edc5-7c8874944be0@2ndquadrant.com
2019-04-04 00:04:31 +02:00
Alvaro Herrera d1f04b96b9 Tweak docs for log_statement_sample_rate
Author: Justin Pryzby, partly after a suggestion from Masahiko Sawada
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20190328135918.GA27808@telsasoft.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAD21AoB9+y8N4+Fan-ne-_7J5yTybPttxeVKfwUocKp4zT1vNQ@mail.gmail.com
2019-04-03 18:56:56 -03:00
Alvaro Herrera 799e220346 Log all statements from a sample of transactions
This is useful to obtain a view of the different transaction types in an
application, regardless of the durations of the statements each runs.

Author: Adrien Nayrat
Reviewed-by: Masahiko Sawada, Hayato Kuroda, Andres Freund
2019-04-03 18:43:59 -03:00
Thomas Munro 475861b261 Add wal_recycle and wal_init_zero GUCs.
On at least ZFS, it can be beneficial to create new WAL files every
time and not to bother zero-filling them.  Since it's not clear which
other filesystems might benefit from one or both of those things,
add individual GUCs to control those two behaviors independently and
make only very general statements in the docs.

Author: Jerry Jelinek, with some adjustments by Thomas Munro
Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera, Andres Freund, Tomas Vondra, Robert Haas and others
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CACPQ5Fo00QR7LNAcd1ZjgoBi4y97%2BK760YABs0vQHH5dLdkkMA%40mail.gmail.com
2019-04-02 14:37:14 +13:00
Peter Eisentraut 893d6f8a1f Avoid casting away a const 2019-03-16 10:13:03 +01:00
Tom Lane 1a83a80a2f Allow fractional input values for integer GUCs, and improve rounding logic.
Historically guc.c has just refused examples like set work_mem = '30.1GB',
but it seems more useful for it to take that and round off the value to
some reasonable approximation of what the user said.  Just rounding to
the parameter's native unit would work, but it would lead to rather
silly-looking settings, such as 31562138kB for this example.  Instead
let's round to the nearest multiple of the next smaller unit (if any),
producing 30822MB.

Also, do the units conversion math in floating point and round to integer
(if needed) only at the end.  This produces saner results for inputs that
aren't exact multiples of the parameter's native unit, and removes another
difference in the behavior for integer vs. float parameters.

In passing, document the ability to use hex or octal input where it
ought to be documented.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1798.1552165479@sss.pgh.pa.us
2019-03-11 19:13:55 -04:00
Tom Lane d9c5e9629b Give up on testing guc.c's behavior for "infinity" inputs.
Further buildfarm testing shows that on the machines that are failing
ac75959cd's test case, what we're actually getting from strtod("-infinity")
is a syntax error (endptr == value) not ERANGE at all.  This test case
is not worth carrying two sets of expected output for, so just remove it,
and revert commit b212245f9's misguided attempt to work around the platform
dependency.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/E1h33xk-0001Og-Gs@gemulon.postgresql.org
2019-03-11 17:53:09 -04:00
Tom Lane b212245f96 In guc.c, ignore ERANGE errors from strtod().
Instead, just proceed with the infinity or zero result that it should
return for overflow/underflow.  This avoids a platform dependency,
in that various versions of strtod are inconsistent about whether they
signal ERANGE for a value that's specified as infinity.

It's possible this won't be enough to remove the buildfarm failures
we're seeing from ac75959cd, in which case I'll take out the infinity
test case that commit added.  But first let's see if we can fix it.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/E1h33xk-0001Og-Gs@gemulon.postgresql.org
2019-03-11 11:25:26 -04:00
Tom Lane cbccac371c Reduce the default value of autovacuum_vacuum_cost_delay to 2ms.
This is a better way to implement the desired change of increasing
autovacuum's default resource consumption.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/28720.1552101086@sss.pgh.pa.us
2019-03-10 15:16:21 -04:00
Tom Lane 52985e4fea Revert "Increase the default vacuum_cost_limit from 200 to 2000"
This reverts commit bd09503e63.

Per discussion, it seems like what we should do instead is to
reduce the default value of autovacuum_vacuum_cost_delay by the
same factor.  That's functionally equivalent as long as the
platform can accurately service the smaller delay request, which
should be true on anything released in the last 10 years or more.
And smaller, more-closely-spaced delays are better in terms of
providing a steady I/O load.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/28720.1552101086@sss.pgh.pa.us
2019-03-10 15:05:25 -04:00
Tom Lane caf626b2cd Convert [autovacuum_]vacuum_cost_delay into floating-point GUCs.
This change makes it possible to specify sub-millisecond delays,
which work well on most modern platforms, though that was not true
when the cost-delay feature was designed.

To support this without breaking existing configuration entries,
improve guc.c to allow floating-point GUCs to have units.  Also,
allow "us" (microseconds) as an input/output unit for time-unit GUCs.
(It's not allowed as a base unit, at least not yet.)

Likewise change the autovacuum_vacuum_cost_delay reloption to be
floating-point; this forces a catversion bump because the layout of
StdRdOptions changes.

This patch doesn't in itself change the default values or allowed
ranges for these parameters, and it should not affect the behavior
for any already-allowed setting for them.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1798.1552165479@sss.pgh.pa.us
2019-03-10 15:01:39 -04:00
Tom Lane 28a65fc360 Include GUC's unit, if it has one, in out-of-range error messages.
This should reduce confusion in cases where we've applied a units
conversion, so that the number being reported (and the quoted range
limits) are in some other units than what the user gave in the
setting we're rejecting.

Some of the changes here assume that float GUCs can have units,
which isn't true just yet, but will be shortly.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3811.1552169665@sss.pgh.pa.us
2019-03-10 13:18:17 -04:00
Tom Lane ac75959cdc Disallow NaN as a value for floating-point GUCs.
None of the code that uses GUC values is really prepared for them to
hold NaN, but parse_real() didn't have any defense against accepting
such a value.  Treat it the same as a syntax error.

I haven't attempted to analyze the exact consequences of setting any
of the float GUCs to NaN, but since they're quite unlikely to be good,
this seems like a back-patchable bug fix.

Note: we don't need an explicit test for +-Infinity because those will
be rejected by existing range checks.  I added a regression test for
that in HEAD, but not older branches because the spelling of the value
in the error message will be platform-dependent in branches where we
don't always use port/snprintf.c.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1798.1552165479@sss.pgh.pa.us
2019-03-10 12:59:16 -04:00
Andres Freund 8586bf7ed8 tableam: introduce table AM infrastructure.
This introduces the concept of table access methods, i.e. CREATE
  ACCESS METHOD ... TYPE TABLE and
  CREATE TABLE ... USING (storage-engine).
No table access functionality is delegated to table AMs as of this
commit, that'll be done in following commits.

Subsequent commits will incrementally abstract table access
functionality to be routed through table access methods. That change
is too large to be reviewed & committed at once, so it'll be done
incrementally.

Docs will be updated at the end, as adding them incrementally would
likely make them less coherent, and definitely is a lot more work,
without a lot of benefit.

Table access methods are specified similar to index access methods,
i.e. pg_am.amhandler returns, as INTERNAL, a pointer to a struct with
callbacks. In contrast to index AMs that struct needs to live as long
as a backend, typically that's achieved by just returning a pointer to
a constant struct.

Psql's \d+ now displays a table's access method. That can be disabled
with HIDE_TABLEAM=true, which is mainly useful so regression tests can
be run against different AMs.  It's quite possible that this behaviour
still needs to be fine tuned.

For now it's not allowed to set a table AM for a partitioned table, as
we've not resolved how partitions would inherit that. Disallowing
allows us to introduce, if we decide that's the way forward, such a
behaviour without a compatibility break.

Catversion bumped, to add the heap table AM and references to it.

Author: Haribabu Kommi, Andres Freund, Alvaro Herrera, Dimitri Golgov and others
Discussion:
    https://postgr.es/m/20180703070645.wchpu5muyto5n647@alap3.anarazel.de
    https://postgr.es/m/20160812231527.GA690404@alvherre.pgsql
    https://postgr.es/m/20190107235616.6lur25ph22u5u5av@alap3.anarazel.de
    https://postgr.es/m/20190304234700.w5tmhducs5wxgzls@alap3.anarazel.de
2019-03-06 09:54:38 -08:00
Andrew Dunstan bd09503e63 Increase the default vacuum_cost_limit from 200 to 2000
The original 200 default value was set back in f425b605f4 when the cost
delay settings were first added.  Hardware has improved quite a bit since
then and we've also made improvements such as sorting buffers during
checkpoints (9cd00c457e) which should result in less random writes.

This low default value was reportedly causing problems with badly
configured servers and in the absence of a native method to remove
excessive bloat from tables without incurring an AccessExclusiveLock, this
often made cleaning up the damage caused by badly configured auto-vacuums
difficult.

It seems more likely that someone will notice that auto-vacuum is running
too quickly than too slowly, so let's go all out and multiple the default
value for the setting by 10.  With the default vacuum_cost_page_dirty and
autovacuum_vacuum_cost_delay (assuming a page size of 8192 bytes), this
allows autovacuum a theoretical maximum dirty write rate of around 39MB/s
instead of just 3.9MB/s.

Author: David Rowley

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAKJS1f_YbXC2qTMPyCbmsPiKvZYwpuQNQMohiRXLj1r=8_rYvw@mail.gmail.com
2019-03-06 09:10:12 -05:00
Andrew Gierth 02ddd49932 Change floating-point output format for improved performance.
Previously, floating-point output was done by rounding to a specific
decimal precision; by default, to 6 or 15 decimal digits (losing
information) or as requested using extra_float_digits. Drivers that
wanted exact float values, and applications like pg_dump that must
preserve values exactly, set extra_float_digits=3 (or sometimes 2 for
historical reasons, though this isn't enough for float4).

Unfortunately, decimal rounded output is slow enough to become a
noticable bottleneck when dealing with large result sets or COPY of
large tables when many floating-point values are involved.

Floating-point output can be done much faster when the output is not
rounded to a specific decimal length, but rather is chosen as the
shortest decimal representation that is closer to the original float
value than to any other value representable in the same precision. The
recently published Ryu algorithm by Ulf Adams is both relatively
simple and remarkably fast.

Accordingly, change float4out/float8out to output shortest decimal
representations if extra_float_digits is greater than 0, and make that
the new default. Applications that need rounded output can set
extra_float_digits back to 0 or below, and take the resulting
performance hit.

We make one concession to portability for systems with buggy
floating-point input: we do not output decimal values that fall
exactly halfway between adjacent representable binary values (which
would rely on the reader doing round-to-nearest-even correctly). This
is known to be a problem at least for VS2013 on Windows.

Our version of the Ryu code originates from
https://github.com/ulfjack/ryu/ at commit c9c3fb1979, but with the
following (significant) modifications:

 - Output format is changed to use fixed-point notation for small
   exponents, as printf would, and also to use lowercase 'e', a
   minimum of 2 exponent digits, and a mandatory sign on the exponent,
   to keep the formatting as close as possible to previous output.

 - The output of exact midpoint values is disabled as noted above.

 - The integer fast-path code is changed somewhat (since we have
   fixed-point output and the upstream did not).

 - Our project style has been largely applied to the code with the
   exception of C99 declaration-after-statement, which has been
   retained as an exception to our present policy.

 - Most of upstream's debugging and conditionals are removed, and we
   use our own configure tests to determine things like uint128
   availability.

Changing the float output format obviously affects a number of
regression tests. This patch uses an explicit setting of
extra_float_digits=0 for test output that is not expected to be
exactly reproducible (e.g. due to numerical instability or differing
algorithms for transcendental functions).

Conversions from floats to numeric are unchanged by this patch. These
may appear in index expressions and it is not yet clear whether any
change should be made, so that can be left for another day.

This patch assumes that the only supported floating point format is
now IEEE format, and the documentation is updated to reflect that.

Code by me, adapting the work of Ulf Adams and other contributors.

References:
https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3192369

Reviewed-by: Tom Lane, Andres Freund, Donald Dong
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/87r2el1bx6.fsf@news-spur.riddles.org.uk
2019-02-13 15:20:33 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 37d9916020 More unconstify use
Replace casts whose only purpose is to cast away const with the
unconstify() macro.

Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/53a28052-f9f3-1808-fed9-460fd43035ab%402ndquadrant.com
2019-02-13 11:50:16 +01:00
Michael Paquier ea92368cd1 Move max_wal_senders out of max_connections for connection slot handling
Since its introduction, max_wal_senders is counted as part of
max_connections when it comes to define how many connection slots can be
used for replication connections with a WAL sender context.  This can
lead to confusion for some users, as it could be possible to block a
base backup or replication from happening because other backend sessions
are already taken for other purposes by an application, and
superuser-only connection slots are not a correct solution to handle
that case.

This commit makes max_wal_senders independent of max_connections for its
handling of PGPROC entries in ProcGlobal, meaning that connection slots
for WAL senders are handled using their own free queue, like autovacuum
workers and bgworkers.

One compatibility issue that this change creates is that a standby now
requires to have a value of max_wal_senders at least equal to its
primary.  So, if a standby created enforces the value of
max_wal_senders to be lower than that, then this could break failovers.
Normally this should not be an issue though, as any settings of a
standby are inherited from its primary as postgresql.conf gets normally
copied as part of a base backup, so parameters would be consistent.

Author: Alexander Kukushkin
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi, Petr Jelínek, Masahiko Sawada, Oleksii
Kliukin
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAFh8B=nBzHQeYAu0b8fjK-AF1X4+_p6GRtwG+cCgs6Vci2uRuQ@mail.gmail.com
2019-02-12 10:07:56 +09:00
Peter Eisentraut 13b89f96d0 Allow some recovery parameters to be changed with reload
Change

archive_cleanup_command
promote_trigger_file
recovery_end_command
recovery_min_apply_delay

from PGC_POSTMASTER to PGC_SIGHUP.  This did not require any further
changes.

Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/ca28011a-cfaa-565c-d622-c1907c33ecf7%402ndquadrant.com
2019-02-07 08:34:48 +01:00
Thomas Munro f1bebef60e Add shared_memory_type GUC.
Since 9.3 we have used anonymous shared mmap for our main shared memory
region, except in EXEC_BACKEND builds.  Provide a GUC so that users
can opt for System V shared memory once again, like in 9.2 and earlier.

A later patch proposes to add huge/large page support for AIX, which
requires System V shared memory and provided the motivation to revive
this possibility.  It may also be useful on some BSDs.

Author: Andres Freund (revived and documented by Thomas Munro)
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/HE1PR0202MB28126DB4E0B6621CC6A1A91286D90%40HE1PR0202MB2812.eurprd02.prod.outlook.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2AE143D2-87D3-4AD1-AC78-CE2258230C05%40FreeBSD.org
2019-02-03 12:47:26 +01:00
Tom Lane f09346a9c6 Refactor planner's header files.
Create a new header optimizer/optimizer.h, which exposes just the
planner functions that can be used "at arm's length", without need
to access Paths or the other planner-internal data structures defined
in nodes/relation.h.  This is intended to provide the whole planner
API seen by most of the rest of the system; although FDWs still need
to use additional stuff, and more thought is also needed about just
what selfuncs.c should rely on.

The main point of doing this now is to limit the amount of new
#include baggage that will be needed by "planner support functions",
which I expect to introduce later, and which will be in relevant
datatype modules rather than anywhere near the planner.

This commit just moves relevant declarations into optimizer.h from
other header files (a couple of which go away because everything
got moved), and adjusts #include lists to match.  There's further
cleanup that could be done if we want to decide that some stuff
being exposed by optimizer.h doesn't belong in the planner at all,
but I'll leave that for another day.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/11460.1548706639@sss.pgh.pa.us
2019-01-29 15:48:51 -05:00
Andres Freund de66987adb Re-add default_with_oids GUC to avoid breaking old dump files.
After 578b229718 / the removal of WITH OIDS support, older dump files
containing
    SET default_with_oids = false;
either report unnecessary errors (as the subsequent tables have no
oids) or even fail to restore entirely (when using transaction mode).
To avoid that, re-add the GUC, but don't allow setting it to true.

Per complaint from Tom Lane.

Author: Amit Khandekar, editorialized by me
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAJ3gD9dZyxrtL0rJfoNoOj6v7fJSDaXBngi9wy5XU8m-ioXhAA@mail.gmail.com
2019-01-14 15:30:24 -08:00