Peter Geoghegan [Tue, 26 Feb 2019 00:54:18 +0000 (16:54 -0800)]
Correct obsolete nbtree page deletion comment.
Commit efada2b8e92, which made the nbtree page deletion algorithm more
robust, removed _bt_getstackbuf() calls from _bt_pagedel(). It failed
to update a comment that referenced the earlier approach. Update the
comment to explain that the _bt_getstackbuf() page deletion call site
mirrors the only other remaining _bt_getstackbuf() call site, which is
reached during page splits.
Peter Eisentraut [Mon, 25 Feb 2019 07:38:59 +0000 (08:38 +0100)]
Remove unnecessary use of PROCEDURAL
Remove some unnecessary, legacy-looking use of the PROCEDURAL keyword
before LANGUAGE. We mostly don't use this anymore, so some of these
look a bit old.
There is still some use in pg_dump, which is harder to remove because
it's baked into the archive format, so I'm not touching that.
Michael Paquier [Mon, 25 Feb 2019 05:19:34 +0000 (14:19 +0900)]
Make release of 2PC identifier and locks consistent in COMMIT PREPARED
When preparing a transaction in two-phase commit, a dummy PGPROC entry
holding the GID used for the transaction is registered, which gets
released once COMMIT PREPARED is run. Prior releasing its shared memory
state, all the locks taken in the prepared transaction are released
using a dedicated set of callbacks (pgstat and multixact having similar
callbacks), which may cause the locks to be released before the GID is
set free.
Hence, there is a small window where lock conflicts could happen, for
example:
- Transaction A releases its locks, still holding its GID in shared
memory.
- Transaction B held a lock which conflicted with locks of transaction
A.
- Transaction B continues its processing, reusing the same GID as
transaction A.
- Transaction B fails because of a conflicting GID, already in use by
transaction A.
This commit changes the shared memory state release so as post-commit
callbacks and predicate lock cleanup happen consistently with the shared
memory state cleanup for the dummy PGPROC entry. The race window is
small and 2PC had this issue from the start, so no backpatch is done.
On top if that fixes discussed involved ABI breakages, which are not
welcome in stable branches.
Thomas Munro [Sun, 24 Feb 2019 21:54:12 +0000 (10:54 +1300)]
Fix inconsistent out-of-memory error reporting in dsa.c.
Commit 16be2fd1 introduced the flag DSA_ALLOC_NO_OOM to control whether
the DSA allocator would raise an error or return InvalidDsaPointer on
failure to allocate. One edge case was not handled correctly: if we
fail to allocate an internal "span" object for a large allocation, we
would always return InvalidDsaPointer regardless of the flag; a caller
not expecting that could then dereference a null pointer.
This is a plausible explanation for a one-off report of a segfault.
Remove a redundant pair of braces so that all three stanzas that handle
DSA_ALLOC_NO_OOM match in style, for visual consistency.
While fixing inconsistencies, if FreePageManagerGet() can't supply the
pages that our book-keeping says it should be able to supply, then we
should always report a FATAL error. Previously we treated that as a
regular allocation failure in one code path, but as a FATAL condition
in another.
Back-patch to 10, where dsa.c landed.
Author: Thomas Munro Reported-by: Jakub Glapa
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEepm=2oPqXxyWQ-1o60tpOLrwkw=VpgNXqqF1VN2EyO9zKGQw@mail.gmail.com
Tom Lane [Sun, 24 Feb 2019 17:51:50 +0000 (12:51 -0500)]
Fix ecpg bugs caused by missing semicolons in the backend grammar.
The Bison documentation clearly states that a semicolon is required
after every grammar rule, and our scripts that generate ecpg's
grammar from the backend's implicitly assumed this is true. But it
turns out that only ancient versions of Bison actually enforce that.
There have been a couple of rules without trailing semicolons in
gram.y for some time, and as a consequence, ecpg's grammar was faulty
and produced wrong output for the affected statements.
To fix, add the missing semis, and add some cross-checks to ecpg's
scripts so that they'll bleat if we mess this up again.
The cases that were broken were:
* "SET variable = DEFAULT" (but not "SET variable TO DEFAULT"),
as well as allied syntaxes such as ALTER SYSTEM SET ... DEFAULT.
These produced syntactically invalid output that the server
would reject.
* Multiple type names in DROP TYPE/DOMAIN commands. Only the
first type name would be listed in the emitted command.
Per report from Daisuke Higuchi. Back-patch to all supported versions.
Thomas Munro [Sun, 24 Feb 2019 10:48:52 +0000 (23:48 +1300)]
Tolerate EINVAL when calling fsync() on a directory.
Previously, we tolerated EBADF as a way for the operating system to
indicate that it doesn't support fsync() on a directory. Tolerate
EINVAL too, for older versions of Linux CIFS.
Bug #15636. Back-patch all the way.
Reported-by: John Klann
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/15636-d380890dafd78fc6@postgresql.org
Thomas Munro [Sun, 24 Feb 2019 00:38:15 +0000 (13:38 +1300)]
Tolerate ENOSYS failure from sync_file_range().
One unintended consequence of commit 9ccdd7f6 was that Windows WSL
users started getting a panic whenever we tried to initiate data
flushing with sync_file_range(), because WSL does not implement that
system call. Previously, they got a stream of periodic warnings,
which was also undesirable but at least ignorable.
Prevent the panic by handling ENOSYS specially and skipping the panic
promotion with data_sync_elevel(). Also suppress future attempts
after the first such failure so that the pre-existing problem of
noisy warnings is improved.
Back-patch to 9.6 (older branches were not affected in this way by 9ccdd7f6).
Author: Thomas Munro and James Sewell Tested-by: James Sewell Reported-by: Bruce Klein
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+mCpegfOUph2U4ZADtQT16dfbkjjYNJL1bSTWErsazaFjQW9A@mail.gmail.com
Michael Paquier [Fri, 22 Feb 2019 23:19:31 +0000 (08:19 +0900)]
Add TAP tests for 2PC post-commit callbacks of multixacts at recovery
The current set of TAP tests for two-phase transactions include some
coverage for post-commit callbacks of multixact, but it lacked tests for
testing the recovery of those callbacks. This commit adds some tests
with soft and hard restarts in this case, using transactions which
include DDLs.
Author: Michael Paquier Reviewed-by: Oleksii Kliukin
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20190221055431.GO15532@paquier.xyz
Tom Lane [Fri, 22 Feb 2019 17:23:00 +0000 (12:23 -0500)]
Fix plan created for inherited UPDATE/DELETE with all tables excluded.
In the case where inheritance_planner() finds that every table has
been excluded by constraints, it thought it could get away with
making a plan consisting of just a dummy Result node. While certainly
there's no updating or deleting to be done, this had two user-visible
problems: the plan did not report the correct set of output columns
when a RETURNING clause was present, and if there were any
statement-level triggers that should be fired, it didn't fire them.
Hence, rather than only generating the dummy Result, we need to
stick a valid ModifyTable node on top, which requires a tad more
effort here.
It's been broken this way for as long as inheritance_planner() has
known about deleting excluded subplans at all (cf commit 635d42e9c),
so back-patch to all supported branches.
Amit Langote and Tom Lane, per a report from Petr Fedorov.
Peter Eisentraut [Fri, 22 Feb 2019 08:01:19 +0000 (09:01 +0100)]
Add const qualifier
New code introduced in 050710b36964dee7e1b2bf6b5ef00041fd5d2787. The
lack of const is not currently a compiler warning, but it's nice to
have for consistency with surrounding code.
Tom Lane [Thu, 21 Feb 2019 23:55:29 +0000 (18:55 -0500)]
Fix mark-and-restore-skipping test case to not be a self-join.
There isn't any good reason for this test to be a self-join rather
than a join between separate tables, except that it saved a couple
of SQL commands for setup. A proposed patch to optimize away
self-joins breaks the test, so adjust it to avoid that happening.
Tom Lane [Thu, 21 Feb 2019 19:59:02 +0000 (14:59 -0500)]
Move estimate_hashagg_tablesize to selfuncs.c, and widen result to double.
It seems to make more sense for this to be in selfuncs.c, since it's
largely a statistical-estimation thing, and it's related to other
functions like estimate_hash_bucket_stats that are there.
While at it, change the result type from Size to double. Perhaps at one
point it was impossible for the result to overflow an integer, but
I've got no confidence in that proposition anymore. Nothing's actually
done with the result except to compare it to a work_mem-based limit,
so as long as we don't get an overflow on the way to that comparison,
things should be fine even with very large dNumGroups.
Code movement proposed by Antonin Houska, type change by me
Peter Eisentraut [Wed, 20 Feb 2019 10:38:44 +0000 (11:38 +0100)]
Hide other user's pg_stat_ssl rows
Change pg_stat_ssl so that an unprivileged user can only see their own
rows; other rows will be all null. This makes the behavior consistent
with pg_stat_activity, where information about where the connection
came from is also restricted.
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/63117976-d02c-c8e2-3aef-caa31a5ab8d3%402ndquadrant.com
Peter Eisentraut [Thu, 21 Feb 2019 17:34:19 +0000 (18:34 +0100)]
pg_regress: Don't use absolute paths for the diff
Don't expand inputfile and outputfile to absolute paths globally, just
where needed. In particular, pass them as is to the file name
arguments of the diff command, so that we don't see the full absolute
path in the diff header, which makes the diff unnecessarily verbose
and harder to read.
Robert Haas [Thu, 21 Feb 2019 16:38:54 +0000 (11:38 -0500)]
Move code for managing PartitionDescs into a new file, partdesc.c
This is similar in spirit to the existing partbounds.c file in the
same directory, except that there's a lot less code in the new file
created by this commit. Pending work in this area proposes to add a
bunch more code related to PartitionDescs, though, and this will give
us a good place to put it.
Robert Haas [Thu, 21 Feb 2019 16:24:40 +0000 (11:24 -0500)]
Delay lock acquisition for partitions until we route a tuple to them.
Instead of locking all partitions to which we might route a tuple at
executor startup, just lock them as we use them. In some cases such a
partition might get locked at executor startup anyway because it
appears in the query's range table for some other reason, but in other
cases this is a bit savings.
This changes the order in which partitions are locked in some cases,
which might conceivably create deadlock hazards that don't exist
today, but per discussion, it seems like such cases should be rare
enough that we can neglect them in favor of improving performance.
David Rowley, reviewed and tested by Tomas Vondra, Sho Kato, John
Naylor, Tom Lane, and me.
Peter Eisentraut [Thu, 21 Feb 2019 14:39:37 +0000 (15:39 +0100)]
Fix dbtoepub output file name
In previous releases, the input file of dbtoepub was postgres.xml, and
dbtoepub knows to derive the output file name postgres.epub from that
automatically. But now the intput file is postgres.sgml (since
postgres.sgml is itself an XML file and we no longer need the
intermediate postgres.xml file), but dbtoepub doesn't know how to deal
with the .sgml suffix, so the automatically derived output file name
becomes postgres.sgml.epub. Fix by adding an explicit -o option.
Tom Lane [Thu, 21 Feb 2019 01:53:08 +0000 (20:53 -0500)]
Speed up match_eclasses_to_foreign_key_col() when there are many ECs.
Check ec_relids before bothering to iterate through the EC members.
On a perhaps extreme, but still real-world, query in which
match_eclasses_to_foreign_key_col() accounts for the bulk of the
planner's runtime, this saves nearly 40% of the runtime. It's a bit
of a stopgap fix, but it's simple enough to be back-patched to 9.6
where this code came in; so let's do that.
Andrew Gierth [Wed, 20 Feb 2019 21:31:02 +0000 (21:31 +0000)]
Use an unsigned char for bool if we don't use the native bool.
On (rare) platforms where sizeof(bool) > 1, we need to use our own
bool, but imported c99 code (such as Ryu) may want to use bool values
as array subscripts, which elicits warnings if bool is defined as
char. Using unsigned char instead should work just as well for our
purposes, and avoid such warnings.
Tom Lane [Wed, 20 Feb 2019 19:39:11 +0000 (14:39 -0500)]
Improve planner's understanding of strictness of type coercions.
PG type coercions are generally strict, ie a NULL input must produce
a NULL output (or, in domain cases, possibly an error). The planner's
understanding of that was a bit incomplete though, so improve it:
* Teach contain_nonstrict_functions() that CoerceViaIO can always be
considered strict. Previously it believed that only if the underlying
I/O functions were marked strict, which is often but not always true.
* Teach clause_is_strict_for() that CoerceViaIO, ArrayCoerceExpr,
ConvertRowtypeExpr, CoerceToDomain can all be considered strict.
Previously it knew nothing about any of them.
The main user-visible impact of this is that IS NOT NULL predicates
can be proven to hold from expressions involving casts in more cases
than before, allowing partial indexes with such predicates to be used
without extra pushups. This reduces the surprise factor for users,
who may well be used to ordinary (function-call-based) casts being
known to be strict.
Per a gripe from Samuel Williams. This doesn't rise to the level of
a bug, IMO, so no back-patch.
Tom Lane [Wed, 20 Feb 2019 18:36:55 +0000 (13:36 -0500)]
Fix incorrect strictness test for ArrayCoerceExpr expressions.
The recursion in contain_nonstrict_functions_walker() was done wrong,
causing the strictness check to be bypassed for a parse node that
is the immediate input of an ArrayCoerceExpr node. This could allow,
for example, incorrect decisions about whether a strict SQL function
can be inlined.
I didn't add a regression test, because (a) the bug is so narrow
and (b) I couldn't think of a test case that wasn't dependent on a
large number of other behaviors, to the point where it would likely
soon rot to the point of not testing what it was intended to.
I broke this in commit c12d570fa, so back-patch to v11.
Amit Kapila [Wed, 20 Feb 2019 12:07:39 +0000 (17:37 +0530)]
Doc: Update the documentation for FSM behavior for small tables.
In commit b0eaa4c51b, we have avoided the creation of FSM for small tables.
So the functions that use FSM to compute the free space can return zero for
such tables. This was previously also possible for the cases where the
vacuum has not been triggered to update FSM.
This commit updates the comments in code and documentation to reflect this
behavior.
Author: John Naylor Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CACPNZCtba-3m1q3A8gxA_vxg=T7gQf7gMbpR4Ciy5LntY-j+0Q@mail.gmail.com
Dean Rasheed [Wed, 20 Feb 2019 08:30:21 +0000 (08:30 +0000)]
Fix DEFAULT-handling in multi-row VALUES lists for updatable views.
INSERT ... VALUES for a single VALUES row is implemented differently
from a multi-row VALUES list, which causes inconsistent behaviour in
the way that DEFAULT items are handled. In particular, when inserting
into an auto-updatable view on top of a table with a column default, a
DEFAULT item in a single VALUES row gets correctly replaced with the
table column's default, but for a multi-row VALUES list it is replaced
with NULL.
Fix this by allowing rewriteValuesRTE() to leave DEFAULT items in the
VALUES list untouched if the target relation is an auto-updatable view
and has no column default, deferring DEFAULT-expansion until the query
against the base relation is rewritten. For all other types of target
relation, including tables and trigger- and rule-updatable views, we
must continue to replace DEFAULT items with NULL in the absence of a
column default.
This is somewhat complicated by the fact that if an auto-updatable
view has DO ALSO rules attached, the VALUES lists for the product
queries need to be handled differently from the original query, since
the product queries need to act like rule-updatable views whereas the
original query has auto-updatable view semantics.
Back-patch to all supported versions.
Reported by Roger Curley (bug #15623). Patch by Amit Langote and me.
Michael Paquier [Wed, 20 Feb 2019 03:31:07 +0000 (12:31 +0900)]
Mark correctly initial slot snapshots with MVCC type when built
When building an initial slot snapshot, snapshots are marked with
historic MVCC snapshots as type with the marker field being set in
SnapBuildBuildSnapshot() but not overriden in SnapBuildInitialSnapshot().
Existing callers of SnapBuildBuildSnapshot() do not care about the type
of snapshot used, but extensions calling it actually may, as reported.
While on it, mark correctly the snapshot type when importing one. This
is cosmetic as the field is enforced to 0.
Andrew Dunstan [Mon, 18 Feb 2019 12:22:00 +0000 (07:22 -0500)]
Provide an extra-float-digits setting for pg_dump / pg_dumpall
Changes made by commit 02ddd49 mean that dumps made against pre version
12 instances are no longer comparable with those made against version 12
or later instances. This makes cross-version upgrade testing fail in the
buildfarm. Experimentation has shown that the error is cured if the
dumps are made when extra_float_digits is set to 0. Hence this patch
allows for it to be explicitly set rather than relying on pg_dump's
builtin default (3 in almost all cases). This feature might have other
uses, but should not normally be used.
Michael Meskes [Mon, 18 Feb 2019 09:20:31 +0000 (10:20 +0100)]
Add bytea datatype to ECPG.
So far ECPG programs had to treat binary data for bytea column as 'char' type.
But this meant converting from/to escaped format with PQunescapeBytea/
PQescapeBytea() and therefore forcing users to add unnecessary code and cost
for the conversion in runtime. By adding a dedicated datatype for bytea most of
this special handling is no longer needed.
Etsuro Fujita [Mon, 18 Feb 2019 07:13:46 +0000 (16:13 +0900)]
Save PathTargets for distinct/ordered relations in root->upper_targets[].
For the convenience of extensions, we previously only saved PathTargets
for grouped, window, and final relations in root->upper_targets[] in
grouping_planner(). To improve the convenience, save PathTargets for
distinct and ordered relations as well.
Author: Antonin Houska, with an additional change by me
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/10994.1549559088@localhost
Michael Paquier [Mon, 18 Feb 2019 05:23:30 +0000 (14:23 +0900)]
Fix some issues with TAP tests of pg_basebackup and pg_verify_checksums
ee9e145 has fixed the tests of pg_basebackup for checksums a first time,
still one seek() call missed the shot. Also, the data written in files
to emulate corruptions was not actually writing zeros as the quoting
style was incorrect.
Backpatch the portion for pg_basebackup to v11 where these tests have
been introduced. The tests of pg_verify_checksums are new as of v12.
Author: Michael Banck
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1550153276.796.35.camel@credativ.de
Backpatch-through: 11
Michael Paquier [Mon, 18 Feb 2019 00:52:02 +0000 (09:52 +0900)]
Avoid some unnecessary block reads in WAL reader
When reading a new page internally and depending on the way the WAL
reader facility gets used by plugins, the current implementation of the
WAL reader may finish by reading a block multiple times while it is not
actually necessary as the requested data length may be equal to what has
been already read. This can happen for any size, but is more likely to
happen at the end of a page. This can cause performance penalties in
plugins which rely on the block reads to be purely sequential, zlib not
liking backward reads for example. The new behavior also shaves some
cycles when doing recovery.
Author: Arthur Zakirov Reviewed-by: Andrey Lepikhov, Michael Paquier, Grigory Smolkin
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2ddf4a32-517e-d6f4-d992-4a63b6035bfd@postgrespro.ru
Thomas Munro [Sun, 17 Feb 2019 20:53:26 +0000 (09:53 +1300)]
Fix race in dsm_unpin_segment() when handles are reused.
Teach dsm_unpin_segment() to skip segments that are in the process
of being destroyed by another backend, when searching for a handle.
Such a segment cannot possibly be the one we are looking for, even
if its handle matches. Another slot might hold a recently created
segment that has the same handle value by coincidence, and we need
to keep searching for that one.
The bug caused rare "cannot unpin a segment that is not pinned"
errors on 10 and 11. Similar to commit 6c0fb941 for dsm_attach().
Back-patch to 10, where dsm_unpin_segment() landed.
Author: Thomas Munro Reported-by: Justin Pryzby Tested-by: Justin Pryzby (along with other recent DSA/DSM fixes)
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20190216023854.GF30291@telsasoft.com
Joe Conway [Sun, 17 Feb 2019 18:15:14 +0000 (13:15 -0500)]
Fix documentation for dblink_error_message() return value
The dblink documentation claims that an empty string is returned if there
has been no error, however OK is actually returned in that case. Also,
clarify that an async error may not be seen unless dblink_is_busy() or
dblink_get_result() have been called first.
Tom Lane [Sun, 17 Feb 2019 17:37:31 +0000 (12:37 -0500)]
Fix CREATE VIEW to allow zero-column views.
We should logically have allowed this case when we allowed zero-column
tables, but it was overlooked.
Although this might be thought a feature addition, it's really a bug
fix, because it was possible to create a zero-column view via
the convert-table-to-view code path, and then you'd have a situation
where dump/reload would fail. Hence, back-patch to all supported
branches.
Arrange the added test cases to provide coverage of the related
pg_dump code paths (since these views will be dumped and reloaded
during the pg_upgrade regression test). I also made them test
the case where pg_dump has to postpone the view rule into post-data,
which disturbingly had no regression coverage before.
Report and patch by Ashutosh Sharma (test case by me)
Joe Conway [Sun, 17 Feb 2019 14:21:13 +0000 (09:21 -0500)]
Mark pg_config() stable rather than immutable
pg_config() has been marked immutable since its inception. As part of a
larger discussion around the definition of immutable versus stable and
related implications for marking functions parallel safe raised by
Andres, the consensus was clearly that pg_config() is stable, since
it could possibly change output even for the same minor version with
a recompile or installation of a new binary. So mark it stable.
Theoretically this could/should be backpatched, but it was deemed to be not
worth the effort since in practice this is very unlikely to cause problems
in the real world.
Tatsuo Ishii [Sun, 17 Feb 2019 11:23:10 +0000 (20:23 +0900)]
Doc: remove ancient comment.
There's a very old comment in rules.sgml added back to 2003. It
expected to a feature coming back but it never happened. So now we can
safely remove the comment. Back-patched to all supported branches.
Noah Misch [Sat, 16 Feb 2019 23:28:27 +0000 (15:28 -0800)]
In imath.h, replace stdint.h usage with c.h equivalents.
As things stood, buildfarm member dory failed. MSVC versions lacking
stdint.h are unusable for building PostgreSQL, but pg_config.h.win32
doesn't know that. Even so, we support other systems lacking stdint.h,
including buildfarm member gaur. Per a suggestion from Tom Lane.
Andrew Gierth [Sat, 16 Feb 2019 22:11:04 +0000 (22:11 +0000)]
Remove float8-small-is-zero regression test variant.
Since this was also the variant used as an example in the docs, update
the docs to use float4-misrounded-input as an example instead, since
that is now the only remaining variant file.
Noah Misch [Sat, 16 Feb 2019 21:12:28 +0000 (13:12 -0800)]
Import changes from IMath versions (1.3, 1.29].
Upstream fixed bugs over the years, but none are confirmed to have
affected pgcrypto. We're better off naively tracking upstream than
reactively maintaining a twelve-year-old snapshot of upstream. Add a
header comment describing the synchronization procedure. Discard use of
INVERT_COMPARE_RESULT(); the domain of the comparisons in question is
{-1,0,1}, controlled entirely by code in imath.c.
Andrew Gierth reviewed the Makefile change. Tom Lane reviewed the
synchronization procedure description.
Tom Lane [Sat, 16 Feb 2019 21:11:12 +0000 (16:11 -0500)]
Allow user control of CTE materialization, and change the default behavior.
Historically we've always materialized the full output of a CTE query,
treating WITH as an optimization fence (so that, for example, restrictions
from the outer query cannot be pushed into it). This is appropriate when
the CTE query is INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE, or is recursive; but when the CTE
query is non-recursive and side-effect-free, there's no hazard of changing
the query results by pushing restrictions down.
Another argument for materialization is that it can avoid duplicate
computation of an expensive WITH query --- but that only applies if
the WITH query is called more than once in the outer query. Even then
it could still be a net loss, if each call has restrictions that
would allow just a small part of the WITH query to be computed.
Hence, let's change the behavior for WITH queries that are non-recursive
and side-effect-free. By default, we will inline them into the outer
query (removing the optimization fence) if they are called just once.
If they are called more than once, we will keep the old behavior by
default, but the user can override this and force inlining by specifying
NOT MATERIALIZED. Lastly, the user can force the old behavior by
specifying MATERIALIZED; this would mainly be useful when the query had
deliberately been employing WITH as an optimization fence to prevent a
poor choice of plan.
Michael Meskes [Sat, 16 Feb 2019 09:55:17 +0000 (10:55 +0100)]
Add DECLARE STATEMENT support to ECPG.
DECLARE STATEMENT is a statement that lets users declare an identifier
pointing at a connection. This identifier will be used in other embedded
dynamic SQL statement such as PREPARE, EXECUTE, DECLARE CURSOR and so on.
When connecting to a non-default connection, the AT clause can be used in
a DECLARE STATEMENT once and is no longer needed in every dynamic SQL
statement. This makes ECPG applications easier and more efficient. Moreover,
writing code without designating connection explicitly improves portability.
Tom Lane [Sat, 16 Feb 2019 04:22:27 +0000 (23:22 -0500)]
Make use of compiler builtins and/or assembly for CLZ, CTZ, POPCNT.
Test for the compiler builtins __builtin_clz, __builtin_ctz, and
__builtin_popcount, and make use of these in preference to
handwritten C code if they're available. Create src/port
infrastructure for "leftmost one", "rightmost one", and "popcount"
so as to centralize these decisions.
On x86_64, __builtin_popcount generally won't make use of the POPCNT
opcode because that's not universally supported yet. Provide code
that checks CPUID and then calls POPCNT via asm() if available.
This requires indirecting through a function pointer, which is
an annoying amount of overhead for a one-instruction operation,
but it's probably not worth working harder than this for our
current use-cases.
I'm not sure we've found all the existing places that could profit
from this new infrastructure; but we at least touched all the
ones that used copied-and-pasted versions of the bitmapset.c code,
and got rid of multiple copies of the associated constant arrays.
While at it, replace c-compiler.m4's one-per-builtin-function
macros with a single one that can handle all the cases we need
to worry about so far. Also, because I'm paranoid, make those
checks into AC_LINK checks rather than just AC_COMPILE; the
former coding failed to verify that libgcc has support for the
builtin, in cases where it's not inline code.
David Rowley, Thomas Munro, Alvaro Herrera, Tom Lane
Andrew Gierth [Sat, 16 Feb 2019 01:50:16 +0000 (01:50 +0000)]
Cygwin and Mingw floating-point fixes.
Deal with silent-underflow errors in float4 for cygwin and mingw by
using our strtof() wrapper; deal with misrounding errors by adding
them to the resultmap. Some slight reorganization of declarations was
done to avoid duplicating material between cygwin.h and win32_port.h.
While here, remove from the resultmap all references to
float8-small-is-zero; inspection of cygwin output suggests it's no
longer required there, and the freebsd/netbsd/openbsd entries should
no longer be necessary (these date back to c. 2000). This commit
doesn't remove the file itself nor the documentation references for
it; that will happen in a subsequent commit if all goes well.
Somebody will have to try harder before submitting this patch again.
I've spent entirely too much time on it already, and the #ifdef maze yet
to be written in order for it to build at all got on my nerves. The
amount of work needed to get a platform-specific performance improvement
that's barely above the noise level is not worth it.
Tom Lane [Fri, 15 Feb 2019 18:05:19 +0000 (13:05 -0500)]
Refactor index cost estimation functions in view of IndexClause changes.
Get rid of deconstruct_indexquals() in favor of just iterating over the
IndexClause list directly. The extra services that that function used to
provide, such as hiding clause commutation and associating the right index
column with each clause, are no longer useful given the new data structure.
I'd originally thought that it'd provide a useful amount of abstraction
by freeing callers from paying attention to the exact clause type of each
indexqual, but that hope proves to have been vain, because few callers can
ignore the semantic differences between different clause types. Indeed,
removing it results in a net code savings, and probably some cycles shaved
by not having to build an extra list-of-structs data structure.
Also, export a few formerly-static support functions, with the goal
of allowing extension AMs to write functionality equivalent to
genericcostestimate() without pointless code duplication.
Alvaro Herrera [Fri, 15 Feb 2019 16:07:02 +0000 (13:07 -0300)]
Fix compiler builtin usage in new pg_bitutils.c
Split out these new functions in three parts: one in a new file that
uses the compiler builtin and gets compiled with the -mpopcnt compiler
option if it exists; another one that uses the compiler builtin but not
the compiler option; and finally the fallback with open-coded
algorithms.
Split out the configure logic: in the original commit, it was selecting
to use the -mpopcnt compiler switch together with deciding whether to
use the compiler builtin, but those two things are really separate.
Split them out. Also, expose whether the builtin exists to
Makefile.global, so that src/port's Makefile can decide whether to
compile the hw-optimized file.
Remove CPUID test for CTZ/CLZ. Make pg_{right,left}most_ones use either
the compiler intrinsic or open-coded algo; trying to use the
HW-optimized version is a waste of time. Make them static inline
functions.
Peter Eisentraut [Fri, 15 Feb 2019 16:29:41 +0000 (17:29 +0100)]
doc: Update README.links
The guideline to "not use text with <ulink> so the URL appears in
printed output" is obsolete, since the URL appears as a footnote in
printed output in that case.
Michael Paquier [Fri, 15 Feb 2019 08:12:24 +0000 (17:12 +0900)]
Fix support for CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS AS EXECUTE
The grammar IF NOT EXISTS for CTAS is supported since 9.5 and documented
as such, however the case of using EXECUTE as query has never been
covered as EXECUTE CTAS statements and normal CTAS statements are parsed
separately.
Author: Andreas Karlsson
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2ddcc188-e37c-a0be-32bf-a56b07c3559e@proxel.se
Backpatch-through: 9.5
Thomas Munro [Thu, 14 Feb 2019 21:19:11 +0000 (10:19 +1300)]
Fix race in dsm_attach() when handles are reused.
DSM handle values can be reused as soon as the underlying shared memory
object has been destroyed. That means that for a brief moment we
might have two DSM slots with the same handle. While trying to attach,
if we encounter a slot with refcnt == 1, meaning that it is currently
being destroyed, we should continue our search in case the same handle
exists in another slot.
The race manifested as a rare "dsa_area could not attach to segment"
error, and was more likely in 10 and 11 due to the lack of distinct
seed for random() in parallel workers. It was made very unlikely in
in master by commit 197e4af9, and older releases don't usually create
new DSM segments in background workers so it was also unlikely there.
This fixes the root cause of bug report #15585, in which the error
could also sometimes result in a self-deadlock in the error path.
It's not yet clear if further changes are needed to avoid that failure
mode.
Back-patch to 9.4, where dsm.c arrived.
Author: Thomas Munro Reported-by: Justin Pryzby, Sergei Kornilov
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20190207014719.GJ29720@telsasoft.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/15585-324ff6a93a18da46@postgresql.org
Tom Lane [Fri, 15 Feb 2019 00:37:30 +0000 (19:37 -0500)]
Simplify the planner's new representation of indexable clauses a little.
In commit 1a8d5afb0, I thought it'd be a good idea to define
IndexClause.indexquals as NIL in the most common case where the given
clause (IndexClause.rinfo) is usable exactly as-is. It'd be more
consistent to define the indexquals in that case as being a one-element
list containing IndexClause.rinfo, but I thought saving the palloc
overhead for making such a list would be worthwhile.
In hindsight, that was a great example of "premature optimization is the
root of all evil": it's complicated everyplace that needs to deal with
the indexquals, requiring duplicative code to handle both the simple
case and the not-simple case. I'd initially found that tolerable but
it's getting less so as I mop up some areas that I'd not touched in 1a8d5afb0. In any case, two more pallocs during a planner run are
surely at the noise level (a conclusion confirmed by a bit of
microbenchmarking). So let's change this decision before it becomes
set in stone, and insist that IndexClause.indexquals always be a valid
list of the actual index quals for the clause.
Tom Lane [Thu, 14 Feb 2019 15:51:59 +0000 (10:51 -0500)]
Move pattern selectivity code from selfuncs.c to like_support.c.
While at it, refactor patternsel() a bit so that it can be used from
the LIKE/regex planner support functions as well. This makes the
planner able to deal equally well with either operator or function
syntax for these operations. I'm not excited about that as a feature
in itself, but it provides a nice model for extensions to follow if
they want such behavior for their operations.
This change localizes the use of pattern_fixed_prefix() and
make_greater_string() so that they no longer need be exported.
(We might get pushback from extensions about that, perhaps,
in which case I'd be inclined to re-export them in a new header
file like_support.h.)
This reduces the bulk of selfuncs.c a fair amount, removing ~1370
lines or about one-sixth of that file; it's still too big, but this
is progress.
Alvaro Herrera [Wed, 13 Feb 2019 23:09:48 +0000 (20:09 -0300)]
Fix portability issues in pg_bitutils
We were using uint64 function arguments as "long int" arguments to
compiler builtins, which fails on machines where long ints are 32 bits:
the upper half of the uint64 was being ignored. Fix by using the "ll"
builtin variants instead, which on those machines take 64 bit arguments.
Also, remove configure tests for __builtin_popcountl() (as well as
"long" variants for ctz and clz): the theory here is that any compiler
version will provide all widths or none, so one test suffices. Were
this theory to be wrong, we'd have to add tests for
__builtin_popcountll() and friends, which would be tedious.
Per failures in buildfarm member lapwing and ensuing discussion.
Andrew Gierth [Wed, 13 Feb 2019 20:38:54 +0000 (20:38 +0000)]
Remove a stray subnormal value from float tests.
We don't care to assume that input of subnormal float values works,
but a stray subnormal value from the upstream Ryu regression test had
been left in the test data by mistake. Remove it.
Andrew Gierth [Wed, 13 Feb 2019 19:35:50 +0000 (19:35 +0000)]
More float test and portability fixes.
Avoid assuming exact results in tstypes test; some platforms vary.
(per buildfarm members eulachon, danio, lapwing)
Avoid dubious usage (inherited from upstream) of bool parameters to
copy_special_str, to see if this fixes the mac/ppc failures (per
buildfarm members prariedog and locust). (Isolated test programs on a
ppc mac don't seem to show any other cause that would explain them.)
Alvaro Herrera [Wed, 13 Feb 2019 19:10:06 +0000 (16:10 -0300)]
Add basic support for using the POPCNT and SSE4.2s LZCNT opcodes
These opcodes have been around in the AMD world since 2007, and 2008 in
the case of intel. They're supported in GCC and Clang via some __builtin
macros. The opcodes may be unavailable during runtime, in which case we
fall back on a C-based implementation of the code. In order to get the
POPCNT instruction we must pass the -mpopcnt option to the compiler. We
do this only for the pg_bitutils.c file.
David Rowley (with fragments taken from a patch by Thomas Munro)
Andrew Gierth [Wed, 13 Feb 2019 15:20:33 +0000 (15:20 +0000)]
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.
Andrew Gierth [Wed, 13 Feb 2019 15:19:44 +0000 (15:19 +0000)]
Use strtof() and not strtod() for float4 input.
Using strtod() creates a double-rounding problem; the input decimal
value is first rounded to the nearest double; rounding that to the
nearest float may then give an incorrect result.
An example is that 7.038531e-26 when input via strtod and then rounded
to float4 gives 0xAE43FEp-107 instead of the correct 0xAE43FDp-107.
Values output by earlier PG versions with extra_float_digits=3 should
all be read in with the same values as previously. However, values
supplied by other software using shortest representations could be
mis-read.
On platforms that lack a strtof() entirely, we fall back to the old
incorrect rounding behavior. (As strtof() is required by C99, such
platforms are considered of primarily historical interest.) On VS2013,
some workarounds are used to get correct error handling.
The regression tests now test for the correct input values, so
platforms that lack strtof() will need resultmap entries. An entry for
HP-UX 10 is included (more may be needed).
Reviewed-By: Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/871s5emitx.fsf@news-spur.riddles.org.uk
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/87d0owlqpv.fsf@news-spur.riddles.org.uk
Thomas Munro [Wed, 13 Feb 2019 00:14:10 +0000 (13:14 +1300)]
Fix rare dsa_allocate() failures due to freepage.c corruption.
In a corner case, a btree page was allocated during a clean-up operation
that could cause the tracking of the largest contiguous span of free
space to get out of whack. That was supposed to be prevented by the use
of the "soft" flag to avoid allocating internal pages during incidental
clean-up work, but the flag was ignored in the case where the FPM was
promoted from singleton format to btree format. Repair.
Remove an obsolete comment in passing.
Back-patch to 10, where freepage.c arrived (as support for dsa.c).
Author: Robert Haas Diagnosed-by: Thomas Munro and Robert Haas Reported-by: Justin Pryzby, Rick Otten, Sand Stone, Arne Roland and others
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAMAYy4%2Bw3NTBM5JLWFi8twhWK4%3Dk_5L4nV5%2BbYDSPu8r4b97Zg%40mail.gmail.com
Tom Lane [Tue, 12 Feb 2019 23:38:32 +0000 (18:38 -0500)]
Clean up planner confusion between ncolumns and nkeycolumns.
We're only going to consider key columns when creating indexquals,
so there is no point in having the outer loops in indxpath.c iterate
further than nkeycolumns.
Doing so in match_pathkeys_to_index() is actually wrong, and would have
caused crashes by now, except that we have no index AMs supporting both
amcanorderbyop and amcaninclude.
It's also wrong in relation_has_unique_index_for(). The effect there is
to fail to prove uniqueness even when the index does prove it, if there
are extra columns.
Also future-proof examine_variable() for the day when extra columns can
be expressions, and fix what's either a thinko or just an oversight in
btcostestimate(): we should consider the number of key columns, not the
total, when deciding whether to derate correlation.
None of these things seemed important enough to risk changing in a
just-before-wrap patch, but since we're past the release wrap window,
time to fix 'em.
Alvaro Herrera [Tue, 12 Feb 2019 21:42:37 +0000 (18:42 -0300)]
Relax overly strict assertion
Ever since its birth, ReorderBufferBuildTupleCidHash() has contained an
assertion that a catalog tuple cannot change Cmax after acquiring one. But
that's wrong: if a subtransaction executes DDL that affects that catalog
tuple, and later aborts and another DDL affects the same tuple, it will
change Cmax. Relax the assertion to merely verify that the Cmax remains
valid and monotonically increasing, instead.
Alvaro Herrera [Tue, 12 Feb 2019 14:53:36 +0000 (11:53 -0300)]
Use Getopt::Long for catalog scripts
Replace hand-rolled option parsing with the Getopt module. This is
shorter and easier to read. In passing, make some cosmetic adjustments
for consistency.
Author: John Naylor Reviewed-by: David Fetter
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CACPNZCvRjepXh5b2N50njN+rO_2Nzcf=jhMkKX7=79XWUKJyKA@mail.gmail.com
Tom Lane [Tue, 12 Feb 2019 06:12:52 +0000 (01:12 -0500)]
Fix erroneous error reports in snapbuild.c.
It's pretty unhelpful to report the wrong file name in a complaint
about syscall failure, but SnapBuildSerialize managed to do that twice
in a span of 50 lines. Also fix half a dozen missing or poorly-chosen
errcode assignments; that's mostly cosmetic, but still wrong.
Noted while studying recent failures on buildfarm member nightjar.
I'm not sure whether those reports are actually giving the wrong
filename, because there are two places here with identically
spelled error messages. The other one is specifically coded not
to report ENOENT, but if it's this one, how could we be getting
ENOENT from open() with O_CREAT? Need to sit back and await results.
However, these ereports are clearly broken from birth, so back-patch.
Tom Lane [Tue, 12 Feb 2019 03:37:16 +0000 (22:37 -0500)]
Fix header inclusion issue.
partprune.h failed to compile by itself; needs to include partdefs.h.
I think I must've broken this in fa2cf164a, though I'd swear I ran
the appropriate tests when removing #includes. Anyway, it's very
sensible for this file to include partdefs.h, so let's just do that.
Michael Paquier [Tue, 12 Feb 2019 03:01:56 +0000 (12:01 +0900)]
Clarify docs about limitations of constraint exclusion with partitions
The current wording can confuse the reader about constraint exclusion
being available at query execution, but this only applies to partition
pruning.
Reported-by: Shouyu Luo
Author: David Rowley Reviewed-by: Chapman Flack, Amit Langote
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/15629-2ef8b22e61f8333f@postgresql.org
Tom Lane [Tue, 12 Feb 2019 02:26:08 +0000 (21:26 -0500)]
Allow extensions to generate lossy index conditions.
For a long time, indxpath.c has had the ability to extract derived (lossy)
index conditions from certain operators such as LIKE. For just as long,
it's been obvious that we really ought to make that capability available
to extensions. This commit finally accomplishes that, by adding another
API for planner support functions that lets them create derived index
conditions for their functions. As proof of concept, the hardwired
"special index operator" code formerly present in indxpath.c is pushed
out to planner support functions attached to LIKE and other relevant
operators.
A weak spot in this design is that an extension needs to know OIDs for
the operators, datatypes, and opfamilies involved in the transformation
it wants to make. The core-code prototypes use hard-wired OID references
but extensions don't have that option for their own operators etc. It's
usually possible to look up the required info, but that may be slow and
inconvenient. However, improving that situation is a separate task.
I want to do some additional refactorization around selfuncs.c, but
that also seems like a separate task.
Michael Paquier [Tue, 12 Feb 2019 01:07:56 +0000 (10:07 +0900)]
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
Tom Lane [Mon, 11 Feb 2019 19:41:13 +0000 (14:41 -0500)]
Redesign the partition dependency mechanism.
The original setup for dependencies of partitioned objects had
serious problems:
1. It did not verify that a drop cascading to a partition-child object
also cascaded to at least one of the object's partition parents. Now,
normally a child object would share all its dependencies with one or
another parent (e.g. a child index's opclass dependencies would be shared
with the parent index), so that this oversight is usually harmless.
But if some dependency failed to fit this pattern, the child could be
dropped while all its parents remain, creating a logically broken
situation. (It's easy to construct artificial cases that break it,
such as attaching an unrelated extension dependency to the child object
and then dropping the extension. I'm not sure if any less-artificial
cases exist.)
2. Management of partition dependencies during ATTACH/DETACH PARTITION
was complicated and buggy; for example, after detaching a partition
table it was possible to create cases where a formerly-child index
should be dropped and was not, because the correct set of dependencies
had not been reconstructed.
Less seriously, because multiple partition relationships were
represented identically in pg_depend, there was an order-of-traversal
dependency on which partition parent was cited in error messages.
We also had some pre-existing order-of-traversal hazards for error
messages related to internal and extension dependencies. This is
cosmetic to users but causes testing problems.
To fix #1, add a check at the end of the partition tree traversal
to ensure that at least one partition parent got deleted. To fix #2,
establish a new policy that partition dependencies are in addition to,
not instead of, a child object's usual dependencies; in this way
ATTACH/DETACH PARTITION need not cope with adding or removing the
usual dependencies.
To fix the cosmetic problem, distinguish between primary and secondary
partition dependency entries in pg_depend, by giving them different
deptypes. (They behave identically except for having different
priorities for being cited in error messages.) This means that the
former 'I' dependency type is replaced with new 'P' and 'S' types.
This also fixes a longstanding bug that after handling an internal
dependency by recursing to the owning object, findDependentObjects
did not verify that the current target was now scheduled for deletion,
and did not apply the current recursion level's objflags to it.
Perhaps that should be back-patched; but in the back branches it
would only matter if some concurrent transaction had removed the
internal-linkage pg_depend entry before the recursive call found it,
or the recursive call somehow failed to find it, both of which seem
unlikely.
Catversion bump because the contents of pg_depend change for
partitioning relationships.
Patch HEAD only. It's annoying that we're not fixing #2 in v11,
but there seems no practical way to do so given that the problem
is exactly a poor choice of what entries to put in pg_depend.
We can't really fix that while staying compatible with what's
in pg_depend in existing v11 installations.
Tom Lane [Mon, 11 Feb 2019 03:51:32 +0000 (22:51 -0500)]
Fix indexable-row-comparison logic to account for covering indexes.
indxpath.c needs a good deal more attention for covering indexes than
it's gotten. But so far as I can tell, the only really awful breakage
is in expand_indexqual_rowcompare (nee adjust_rowcompare_for_index),
which was only half fixed in c266ed31a. The other problems aren't
bad enough to take the risk of a just-before-wrap fix.
The problem here is that if the leading column of a row comparison
matches an index (allowing this code to be reached), and some later
column doesn't match the index, it'll nonetheless believe that that
column matches the first included index column. Typically that'll
lead to an error like "operator M is not a member of opfamily N" as
a result of fetching a garbage opfamily OID. But with enough bad
luck, maybe a broken plan would be generated.
Alvaro Herrera [Sun, 10 Feb 2019 13:00:11 +0000 (10:00 -0300)]
Fix trigger drop procedure
After commit 123cc697a8eb, we remove redundant FK action triggers during
partition ATTACH by merely deleting the catalog tuple, but that's wrong:
it should use performDeletion() instead. Repair, and make the comments
more explicit.
Tom Lane [Sun, 10 Feb 2019 02:02:06 +0000 (21:02 -0500)]
Solve cross-version-upgrade testing problem induced by 1fb57af92.
Renaming varchar_transform to varchar_support had a side effect
I hadn't foreseen: the core regression tests leave around a
transform object that relies on that function, so the name
change breaks cross-version upgrade tests, because the name
used in the older branches doesn't match.
Since the dependency on varchar_transform was chosen with the
aid of a dartboard anyway (it would surely not work as a
language transform support function), fix by just choosing
a different random builtin function with the right signature.
Also add some comments explaining why this isn't horribly unsafe.
I chose to make the same substitution in a couple of other
copied-and-pasted test cases, for consistency, though those
aren't directly contributing to the testing problem.
Per buildfarm. Back-patch, else it doesn't fix the problem.
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