postgresql/contrib
Noah Misch e4b0a02ef8 Skip WAL for new relfilenodes, under wal_level=minimal.
Until now, only selected bulk operations (e.g. COPY) did this.  If a
given relfilenode received both a WAL-skipping COPY and a WAL-logged
operation (e.g. INSERT), recovery could lose tuples from the COPY.  See
src/backend/access/transam/README section "Skipping WAL for New
RelFileNode" for the new coding rules.  Maintainers of table access
methods should examine that section.

To maintain data durability, just before commit, we choose between an
fsync of the relfilenode and copying its contents to WAL.  A new GUC,
wal_skip_threshold, guides that choice.  If this change slows a workload
that creates small, permanent relfilenodes under wal_level=minimal, try
adjusting wal_skip_threshold.  Users setting a timeout on COMMIT may
need to adjust that timeout, and log_min_duration_statement analysis
will reflect time consumption moving to COMMIT from commands like COPY.

Internally, this requires a reliable determination of whether
RollbackAndReleaseCurrentSubTransaction() would unlink a relation's
current relfilenode.  Introduce rd_firstRelfilenodeSubid.  Amend the
specification of rd_createSubid such that the field is zero when a new
rel has an old rd_node.  Make relcache.c retain entries for certain
dropped relations until end of transaction.

Back-patch to 9.5 (all supported versions).  This introduces a new WAL
record type, XLOG_GIST_ASSIGN_LSN, without bumping XLOG_PAGE_MAGIC.  As
always, update standby systems before master systems.  This changes
sizeof(RelationData) and sizeof(IndexStmt), breaking binary
compatibility for affected extensions.  (The most recent commit to
affect the same class of extensions was
089e4d405d0f3b94c74a2c6a54357a84a681754b.)

Kyotaro Horiguchi, reviewed (in earlier, similar versions) by Robert
Haas.  Heikki Linnakangas and Michael Paquier implemented earlier
designs that materially clarified the problem.  Reviewed, in earlier
designs, by Andrew Dunstan, Andres Freund, Alvaro Herrera, Tom Lane,
Fujii Masao, and Simon Riggs.  Reported by Martijn van Oosterhout.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20150702220524.GA9392@svana.org
2020-03-21 09:38:30 -07:00
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adminpack Add missing errcode() in a few ereport calls. 2020-03-18 09:33:01 +05:30
amcheck amcheck: Skip unlogged relations during recovery. 2019-08-12 15:21:30 -07:00
auth_delay Update copyright for 2019 2019-01-02 12:44:25 -05:00
auto_explain Fix contrib/auto_explain to not cause problems in parallel workers. 2019-06-03 18:06:04 -04:00
bloom Fix failure with lock mode used for custom relation options 2019-09-25 10:08:26 +09:00
btree_gin Provide separate header file for built-in float types 2018-07-29 03:30:48 +02:00
btree_gist Phase 2 pgindent run for v12. 2019-05-22 13:04:48 -04:00
citext Fix typos in various places 2019-06-03 13:44:03 +09:00
cube Initial pgindent run for v12. 2019-05-22 12:55:34 -04:00
dblink Phase 2 pgindent run for v12. 2019-05-22 13:04:48 -04:00
dict_int Ensure maxlen is at leat 1 in dict_int 2019-12-03 18:40:48 +01:00
dict_xsyn Update copyright for 2019 2019-01-02 12:44:25 -05:00
earthdistance Fix earthdistance test suite function name typo. 2018-07-29 12:02:07 -07:00
file_fdw Phase 2 pgindent run for v12. 2019-05-22 13:04:48 -04:00
fuzzystrmatch Update copyright for 2019 2019-01-02 12:44:25 -05:00
hstore Move hash_any prototype from access/hash.h to utils/hashutils.h 2019-03-11 13:17:50 -03:00
hstore_plperl Clean up PL/Perl's handling of the _() macro. 2019-06-02 12:23:39 -04:00
hstore_plpython Avoid Python memory leaks in hstore_plpython and jsonb_plpython. 2019-04-06 17:54:29 -04:00
intagg Schema-qualify some references to regprocedure. 2016-06-10 10:41:58 -04:00
intarray Fix intarray's GiST opclasses to not fail for empty arrays with <@. 2019-08-06 18:04:51 -04:00
isn Update copyright for 2019 2019-01-02 12:44:25 -05:00
jsonb_plperl Fix handling of "undef" in contrib/jsonb_plperl. 2019-08-04 14:05:35 -04:00
jsonb_plpython In jsonb_plpython.c, suppress warning message from gcc 10. 2020-01-30 18:26:13 -05:00
lo lo: Add test suite 2017-09-14 22:22:59 -04:00
ltree Phase 2 pgindent run for v12. 2019-05-22 13:04:48 -04:00
ltree_plpython Fix out-of-tree build for transform modules. 2018-09-16 18:46:45 +01:00
oid2name Replace @postgresql.org with @lists.postgresql.org for mailinglists 2019-01-19 19:06:35 +01:00
pageinspect Paper over bt_metap() oldest_xact bug in backbranches. 2020-03-11 14:15:02 -07:00
passwordcheck Fix handling of previous password hooks in passwordcheck 2019-08-01 09:37:48 +09:00
pg_buffercache Remove WITH OIDS support, change oid catalog column visibility. 2018-11-20 16:00:17 -08:00
pg_freespacemap Replace heapam.h includes with {table, relation}.h where applicable. 2019-01-21 10:51:37 -08:00
pg_prewarm Fix more typos and inconsistencies in the tree 2019-06-17 16:13:16 +09:00
pg_standby Replace @postgresql.org with @lists.postgresql.org for mailinglists 2019-01-19 19:06:35 +01:00
pg_stat_statements Replace an occurrence of slave with standby 2019-06-19 14:38:23 +02:00
pg_trgm Fix many typos and inconsistencies 2019-07-01 10:00:23 +09:00
pg_visibility Skip WAL for new relfilenodes, under wal_level=minimal. 2020-03-21 09:38:30 -07:00
pgcrypto Fix many typos and inconsistencies 2019-07-01 10:00:23 +09:00
pgrowlocks Avoid holding a directory FD open across assorted SRF calls. 2020-03-16 21:05:53 -04:00
pgstattuple Phase 2 pgindent run for v12. 2019-05-22 13:04:48 -04:00
postgres_fdw In postgres_fdw, don't try to ship MULTIEXPR updates to remote server. 2020-01-26 14:31:08 -05:00
seg Change floating-point output format for improved performance. 2019-02-13 15:20:33 +00:00
sepgsql Update test output of sepgsql for ALTER TABLE COLUMN DROP 2019-10-14 08:58:47 +09:00
spi Fix more strcmp() calls using boolean-like comparisons for result checks 2019-04-12 10:16:49 +09:00
sslinfo Phase 3 of pgindent updates. 2017-06-21 15:35:54 -04:00
start-scripts Remove contrib/start-scripts/osx/. 2017-11-17 12:53:20 -05:00
tablefunc Disallow null category in crosstab_hash 2019-12-23 13:33:34 -05:00
tcn Update copyright for 2019 2019-01-02 12:44:25 -05:00
test_decoding Stop demanding that top xact must be seen before subxact in decoding. 2020-02-19 08:27:15 +05:30
tsm_system_rows Phase 2 pgindent run for v12. 2019-05-22 13:04:48 -04:00
tsm_system_time Phase 2 pgindent run for v12. 2019-05-22 13:04:48 -04:00
unaccent Add combining characters to unaccent.rules. 2019-02-01 15:23:01 +01:00
uuid-ossp Update copyright for 2019 2019-01-02 12:44:25 -05:00
vacuumlo Fix copy-pasto in freeing memory on error in vacuumlo. 2019-06-07 12:42:27 +03:00
xml2 Phase 2 pgindent run for v12. 2019-05-22 13:04:48 -04:00
contrib-global.mk Respect TEMP_CONFIG when pg_regress_check and friends are called 2016-02-27 12:28:21 -05:00
Makefile Transforms for jsonb to PL/Perl 2018-04-03 09:47:18 -04:00
README Rename 'gmake' to 'make' in docs and recommended commands 2014-02-12 17:29:19 -05:00

The PostgreSQL contrib tree
---------------------------

This subtree contains porting tools, analysis utilities, and plug-in
features that are not part of the core PostgreSQL system, mainly
because they address a limited audience or are too experimental to be
part of the main source tree.  This does not preclude their
usefulness.

User documentation for each module appears in the main SGML
documentation.

When building from the source distribution, these modules are not
built automatically, unless you build the "world" target.  You can
also build and install them all by running "make all" and "make
install" in this directory; or to build and install just one selected
module, do the same in that module's subdirectory.

Some directories supply new user-defined functions, operators, or
types.  To make use of one of these modules, after you have installed
the code you need to register the new SQL objects in the database
system by executing a CREATE EXTENSION command.  In a fresh database,
you can simply do

    CREATE EXTENSION module_name;

See the PostgreSQL documentation for more information about this
procedure.