postgresql/src/test
Peter Geoghegan 0b018fabaa Set relfrozenxid to oldest extant XID seen by VACUUM.
When VACUUM set relfrozenxid before now, it set it to whatever value was
used to determine which tuples to freeze -- the FreezeLimit cutoff.
This approach was very naive.  The relfrozenxid invariant only requires
that new relfrozenxid values be <= the oldest extant XID remaining in
the table (at the point that the VACUUM operation ends), which in
general might be much more recent than FreezeLimit.

VACUUM now carefully tracks the oldest remaining XID/MultiXactId as it
goes (the oldest remaining values _after_ lazy_scan_prune processing).
The final values are set as the table's new relfrozenxid and new
relminmxid in pg_class at the end of each VACUUM.  The oldest XID might
come from a tuple's xmin, xmax, or xvac fields.  It might even come from
one of the table's remaining MultiXacts.

Final relfrozenxid values must still be >= FreezeLimit in an aggressive
VACUUM (FreezeLimit still acts as a lower bound on the final value that
aggressive VACUUM can set relfrozenxid to).  Since standard VACUUMs
still make no guarantees about advancing relfrozenxid, they might as
well set relfrozenxid to a value from well before FreezeLimit when the
opportunity presents itself.  In general standard VACUUMs may now set
relfrozenxid to any value > the original relfrozenxid and <= OldestXmin.

Credit for the general idea of using the oldest extant XID to set
pg_class.relfrozenxid at the end of VACUUM goes to Andres Freund.

Author: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
Reviewed-By: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reviewed-By: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-WzkymFbz6D_vL+jmqSn_5q1wsFvFrE+37yLgL_Rkfd6Gzg@mail.gmail.com
2022-04-03 09:57:21 -07:00
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authentication Replace Test::More plans with done_testing 2022-02-11 20:54:44 +01:00
examples Update copyright for 2022 2022-01-07 19:04:57 -05:00
icu Fix global ICU collations for ICU < 54 2022-03-20 10:21:45 +01:00
isolation Set relfrozenxid to oldest extant XID seen by VACUUM. 2022-04-03 09:57:21 -07:00
kerberos Replace Test::More plans with done_testing 2022-02-11 20:54:44 +01:00
ldap Remove more unused module imports from TAP tests 2022-03-27 22:26:40 +02:00
locale pycodestyle (PEP 8) cleanup in Python scripts 2022-03-09 10:54:20 +01:00
mb Fix MB regression tests for WAL-logging of hash indexes. 2017-03-15 07:25:36 -04:00
modules Use has_privs_for_roles for predefined role checks 2022-03-28 15:10:04 -04:00
perl Remove use of perl parent module in Cluster.pm 2022-03-31 14:10:47 -04:00
recovery Revert "Fix replay of create database records on standby" 2022-03-29 15:36:21 +02:00
regress Fix overflow hazards in interval input and output conversions. 2022-04-02 16:12:29 -04:00
ssl libpq: Allow IP address SANs in server certificates 2022-04-01 15:51:23 +02:00
subscription Raise a WARNING for missing publications. 2022-03-31 08:25:50 +05:30
Makefile Add option to use ICU as global locale provider 2022-03-17 11:13:16 +01:00
README Remove the option to build thread_test.c outside configure. 2020-10-21 12:08:48 -04:00

PostgreSQL tests
================

This directory contains a variety of test infrastructure as well as some of the
tests in PostgreSQL. Not all tests are here -- in particular, there are more in
individual contrib/ modules and in src/bin.

Not all these tests get run by "make check". Check src/test/Makefile to see
which tests get run automatically.

authentication/
  Tests for authentication (but see also below)

examples/
  Demonstration programs for libpq that double as regression tests via
  "make check"

isolation/
  Tests for concurrent behavior at the SQL level

kerberos/
  Tests for Kerberos/GSSAPI authentication and encryption

ldap/
  Tests for LDAP-based authentication

locale/
  Sanity checks for locale data, encodings, etc

mb/
  Tests for multibyte encoding (UTF-8) support

modules/
  Extensions used only or mainly for test purposes, generally not suitable
  for installing in production databases

perl/
  Infrastructure for Perl-based TAP tests

recovery/
  Test suite for recovery and replication

regress/
  PostgreSQL's main regression test suite, pg_regress

ssl/
  Tests to exercise and verify SSL certificate handling

subscription/
  Tests for logical replication