Andrew Dunstan [Wed, 28 Mar 2018 00:13:52 +0000 (10:43 +1030)]
Fast ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMN with a non-NULL default
Currently adding a column to a table with a non-NULL default results in
a rewrite of the table. For large tables this can be both expensive and
disruptive. This patch removes the need for the rewrite as long as the
default value is not volatile. The default expression is evaluated at
the time of the ALTER TABLE and the result stored in a new column
(attmissingval) in pg_attribute, and a new column (atthasmissing) is set
to true. Any existing row when fetched will be supplied with the
attmissingval. New rows will have the supplied value or the default and
so will never need the attmissingval.
Any time the table is rewritten all the atthasmissing and attmissingval
settings for the attributes are cleared, as they are no longer needed.
The most visible code change from this is in heap_attisnull, which
acquires a third TupleDesc argument, allowing it to detect a missing
value if there is one. In many cases where it is known that there will
not be any (e.g. catalog relations) NULL can be passed for this
argument.
Andrew Dunstan, heavily modified from an original patch from Serge
Rielau.
Reviewed by Tom Lane, Andres Freund, Tomas Vondra and David Rowley.
Tom Lane [Tue, 27 Mar 2018 22:15:39 +0000 (18:15 -0400)]
Update pgindent's typedefs blacklist, and make it easier to adjust.
It seems that all buildfarm members are now using the <stdbool.h> code
path, so that none of them report "bool" as a typedef. We still need it
to be treated that way, so adjust pgindent to force that whether or not
it's in the given list.
Also, the recent introduction of LLVM infrastructure has caused the
appearance of some typedef names that we definitely *don't* want
treated as typedefs, such as "string" and "abs". Extend the existing
blacklist to include these. (Additions based on comparing v10's
typedefs list to what the buildfarm is currently emitting.)
Rearrange the code so that the lists of whitelisted/blacklisted
names are a bit easier to find and modify.
Tom Lane [Tue, 27 Mar 2018 20:46:47 +0000 (16:46 -0400)]
Allow memory contexts to have both fixed and variable ident strings.
Originally, we treated memory context names as potentially variable in
all cases, and therefore always copied them into the context header.
Commit 9fa6f00b1 rethought this a little bit and invented a distinction
between fixed and variable names, skipping the copy step for the former.
But we can make things both simpler and more useful by instead allowing
there to be two parts to a context's identification, a fixed "name" and
an optional, variable "ident". The name supplied in the context create
call is now required to be a compile-time-constant string in all cases,
as it is never copied but just pointed to. The "ident" string, if
wanted, is supplied later. This is needed because typically we want
the ident to be stored inside the context so that it's cleaned up
automatically on context deletion; that means it has to be copied into
the context before we can set the pointer.
The cost of this approach is basically just an additional pointer field
in struct MemoryContextData, which isn't much overhead, and is bought
back entirely in the AllocSet case by not needing a headerSize field
anymore, since we no longer have to cope with variable header length.
In addition, we can simplify the internal interfaces for memory context
creation still further, saving a few cycles there. And it's no longer
true that a custom identifier disqualifies a context from participating
in aset.c's freelist scheme, so possibly there's some win on that end.
All the places that were using non-compile-time-constant context names
are adjusted to put the variable info into the "ident" instead. This
allows more effective identification of those contexts in many cases;
for example, subsidary contexts of relcache entries are now identified
by both type (e.g. "index info") and relname, where before you got only
one or the other. Contexts associated with PL function cache entries
are now identified more fully and uniformly, too.
I also arranged for plancache contexts to use the query source string
as their identifier. This is basically free for CachedPlanSources, as
they contained a copy of that string already. We pay an extra pstrdup
to do it for CachedPlans. That could perhaps be avoided, but it would
make things more fragile (since the CachedPlanSource is sometimes
destroyed first). I suspect future improvements in error reporting will
require CachedPlans to have a copy of that string anyway, so it's not
clear that it's worth moving mountains to avoid it now.
This also changes the APIs for context statistics routines so that the
context-specific routines no longer assume that output goes straight
to stderr, nor do they know all details of the output format. This
is useful immediately to reduce code duplication, and it also allows
for external code to do something with stats output that's different
from printing to stderr.
The reason for pushing this now rather than waiting for v12 is that
it rethinks some of the API changes made by commit 9fa6f00b1. Seems
better for extension authors to endure just one round of API changes
not two.
Simon Riggs [Tue, 27 Mar 2018 18:57:02 +0000 (19:57 +0100)]
Allow HOT updates for some expression indexes
If the value of an index expression is unchanged after UPDATE,
allow HOT updates where previously we disallowed them, giving
a significant performance boost in those cases.
Particularly useful for indexes such as JSON->>field where the
JSON value changes but the indexed value does not.
Submitted as "surjective indexes" patch, now enabled by use
of new "recheck_on_update" parameter.
Author: Konstantin Knizhnik
Reviewer: Simon Riggs, with much wordsmithing and some cleanup
Peter Eisentraut [Tue, 27 Mar 2018 16:31:34 +0000 (12:31 -0400)]
libpq: PQhost to return active connected host or hostaddr
Previously, PQhost didn't return the connected host details when the
connection type was CHT_HOST_ADDRESS (i.e., via hostaddr). Instead, it
returned the complete host connection parameter (which could contain
multiple hosts) or the default host details, which was confusing and
arguably incorrect.
Change this to return the actually connected host or hostaddr
irrespective of the connection type. When hostaddr but no host was
specified, hostaddr is now returned. Never return the original host
connection parameter, and document that PQhost cannot be relied on
before the connection is established.
PQport is similarly changed to always return the active connection port
and never the original connection parameter.
Author: Hari Babu <kommi.haribabu@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz> Reviewed-by: Kyotaro HORIGUCHI <horiguchi.kyotaro@lab.ntt.co.jp> Reviewed-by: David G. Johnston <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>
Teodor Sigaev [Tue, 27 Mar 2018 12:43:19 +0000 (15:43 +0300)]
Add predicate locking for GiST
Add page-level predicate locking, due to gist's code organization, patch seems
close to trivial: add check before page changing, add predicate lock before page
scanning. Although choosing right place to check is not simple: it should not
be called during index build, it should support insertion of new downlink and so
on.
Author: Shubham Barai with editorization by me and Alexander Korotkov
Reviewed by: Alexander Korotkov, Andrey Borodin, me
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CALxAEPtdcANpw5ePU3LvnTP8HCENFw6wygupQAyNBgD-sG3h0g@mail.gmail.com
Andres Freund [Mon, 26 Mar 2018 21:59:37 +0000 (14:59 -0700)]
Make new regression indpendent of max_parallel_workers_per_gather.
The tests in e2f1eb0ee30d1 ("Implement partition-wise
grouping/aggregation.") weren't independent of the server's
max_parallel_workers_per_gather setting. I (Andres) find it useful to
locally run with that disabled, and the aforementioned patch broke
this.
Andres Freund [Mon, 26 Mar 2018 19:57:19 +0000 (12:57 -0700)]
JIT tuple deforming in LLVM JIT provider.
Performing JIT compilation for deforming gains performance benefits
over unJITed deforming from compile-time knowledge of the tuple
descriptor. Fixed column widths, NOT NULLness, etc can be taken
advantage of.
Right now the JITed deforming is only used when deforming tuples as
part of expression evaluation (and obviously only if the descriptor is
known). It's likely to be beneficial in other cases, too.
By default tuple deforming is JITed whenever an expression is JIT
compiled. There's a separate boolean GUC controlling it, but that's
expected to be primarily useful for development and benchmarking.
Docs will follow in a later commit containing docs for the whole JIT
feature.
Author: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170901064131.tazjxwus3k2w3ybh@alap3.anarazel.de
Teodor Sigaev [Mon, 26 Mar 2018 15:26:27 +0000 (18:26 +0300)]
Set random seed for pgbench.
Setting random could increase reproducibility of test in some cases. Patch
suggests three providers for seed: time (default), strong random
generator (if available) and unsigned constant. Seed could be set from
command line or enviroment variable.
Alvaro Herrera [Mon, 26 Mar 2018 15:00:25 +0000 (12:00 -0300)]
Fix thinko in comment
The listed numbers disagreed with the ones being used in the symbols;
but instead of just fixing the numbers in the comment, use the symbolic
name instead, which seems clearer.
This has been wrong all along, so apply back to 9.5 where BRIN was
introduced.
Reported-by: Tomas Vondra
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/5ff514f2-8b1e-6366-b11c-8e2ed442562d@2ndquadrant.com
Alvaro Herrera [Mon, 26 Mar 2018 13:43:54 +0000 (10:43 -0300)]
Handle INSERT .. ON CONFLICT with partitioned tables
Commit eb7ed3f30634 enabled unique constraints on partitioned tables,
but one thing that was not working properly is INSERT/ON CONFLICT.
This commit introduces a new node keeps state related to the ON CONFLICT
clause per partition, and fills it when that partition is about to be
used for tuple routing.
Andrew Dunstan [Mon, 26 Mar 2018 12:09:24 +0000 (22:39 +1030)]
Optimize btree insertions for common case of increasing values
Remember the last page of an index insert if it's the rightmost leaf
page. If the next entry belongs on and can fit in the remembered page,
insert the new entry there as long as we can get a lock on the page.
Otherwise, fall back on the more expensive method of searching for
the right place to insert the entry.
This provides a performance improvement for the common case where an
index entry is for monotonically increasing or nearly monotonically
increasing value such as an identity field or a current timestamp.
Pavan Deolasee
Reviewed by Claudio Freire, Simon Riggs and Peter Geoghegan
Tom Lane [Sun, 25 Mar 2018 20:15:15 +0000 (16:15 -0400)]
Doc: add example of type resolution in nested UNIONs.
Section 10.5 didn't say explicitly that multiple UNIONs are resolved
pairwise. Since the resolution algorithm is described as taking any
number of inputs, readers might well think that a query like
"select x union select y union select z" would be resolved by
considering x, y, and z in one resolution step. But that's not what
happens (and I think that behavior is per SQL spec). Add an example
clarifying this point.
Tom Lane [Sun, 25 Mar 2018 19:15:32 +0000 (15:15 -0400)]
Fix unsafe extraction of the OID part of a relation filename.
Commit 8694cc96b did this randomly differently from other callers of
parse_filename_for_nontemp_relation(). Perhaps unsurprisingly,
the randomly different way is wrong; it fails to ensure the
extracted string is null-terminated. Per buildfarm member skink.
Tom Lane [Sun, 25 Mar 2018 18:54:16 +0000 (14:54 -0400)]
Remove useless if-test.
Coverity complained that this check is pointless, and it's right.
There is no case where we'd call ExecutorStart with a null plannedstmt,
and if we did, it'd have crashed before here. Thinko in commit cc415a56d.
Tom Lane [Sun, 25 Mar 2018 04:09:26 +0000 (00:09 -0400)]
Stabilize regression test result.
If random() returns a result sufficiently close to zero, float8out
switches to scientific notation, breaking this test case's expectation
that the output should look like '0.xxxxxxxxx'. Casting to numeric
should fix that. Per buildfarm member pogona.
Peter Eisentraut [Sun, 25 Mar 2018 01:14:20 +0000 (21:14 -0400)]
Add long options to pg_resetwal and pg_controldata
We were running out of good single-letter options for some upcoming
pg_resetwal functionality, so add long options to create more
possibilities. Add to pg_controldata as well for symmetry.
based on patch by Bossart, Nathan <bossartn@amazon.com>
Peter Eisentraut [Sat, 24 Mar 2018 19:38:57 +0000 (15:38 -0400)]
Improve pg_resetwal documentation
Clarify that the -l option takes a file name, not an "address", and that
that might be different from the LSN if nondefault WAL segment sizes are
used.
Noah Misch [Sat, 24 Mar 2018 03:31:03 +0000 (20:31 -0700)]
Don't qualify type pg_catalog.text in extend-extensions-example.
Extension scripts begin execution with pg_catalog at the front of the
search path, so type names reliably refer to pg_catalog. Remove these
superfluous qualifications. Earlier <programlisting> of this <sect1>
already omitted them. Back-patch to 9.3 (all supported versions).
Peter Eisentraut [Fri, 23 Mar 2018 20:31:49 +0000 (16:31 -0400)]
Further fix interaction of Perl and stdbool.h
In the case that PostgreSQL uses stdbool.h but Perl doesn't, we need to
prevent Perl from defining bool, to prevent compiler warnings about
redefinition.
Tom Lane [Fri, 23 Mar 2018 17:45:37 +0000 (13:45 -0400)]
Fix make rules that generate multiple output files.
For years, our makefiles have correctly observed that "there is no correct
way to write a rule that generates two files". However, what we did is to
provide empty rules that "generate" the secondary output files from the
primary one, and that's not right either. Depending on the details of
the creating process, the primary file might end up timestamped later than
one or more secondary files, causing subsequent make runs to consider the
secondary file(s) out of date. That's harmless in a plain build, since
make will just re-execute the empty rule and nothing happens. But it's
fatal in a VPATH build, since make will expect the secondary file to be
rebuilt in the build directory. This would manifest as "file not found"
failures during VPATH builds from tarballs, if we were ever unlucky enough
to ship a tarball with apparently out-of-date secondary files. (It's not
clear whether that has ever actually happened, but it definitely could.)
To ensure that secondary output files have timestamps >= their primary's,
change our makefile convention to be that we provide a "touch $@" action
not an empty rule. Also, make sure that this rule actually gets invoked
during a distprep run, else the hazard remains.
It's been like this a long time, so back-patch to all supported branches.
In HEAD, I skipped the changes in src/backend/catalog/Makefile, because
those rules are due to get replaced soon in the bootstrap data format
patch, and there seems no need to create a merge issue for that patch.
If for some reason we fail to land that patch in v11, we'll need to
back-fill the changes in that one makefile from v10.
Teodor Sigaev [Fri, 23 Mar 2018 16:14:12 +0000 (19:14 +0300)]
Exclude unlogged tables from base backups
Exclude unlogged tables from base backup entirely except init fork which marks
created unlogged table. The next question is do not backup temp table but
it's a story for separate patch.
Author: David Steele
Review by: Adam Brightwell, Masahiko Sawada
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/04791bab-cb04-ba43-e9c0-664a4c1ffb2c@pgmasters.net
Peter Eisentraut [Fri, 23 Mar 2018 14:31:10 +0000 (10:31 -0400)]
Fix interaction of Perl and stdbool.h
Revert the PL/Perl-specific change in 9a95a77d9d5d3003d2d67121f2731b6e5fc37336. We must not prevent Perl from
using stdbool.h when it has been built to do so, even if it uses an
incompatible size. Otherwise, we would be imposing our bool on Perl,
which will lead to crashes because of the size mismatch.
Instead, we undef bool after including the Perl headers, as we did
previously, but now only if we are not using stdbool.h ourselves.
Record that choice in c.h as USE_STDBOOL. This will also make it easier
to apply that coding pattern elsewhere if necessary.
Peter Eisentraut [Fri, 23 Mar 2018 14:10:49 +0000 (10:10 -0400)]
pg_resetwal: Prevent division-by-zero errors
Handle the case where the pg_control file specifies a WAL segment size
of 0 bytes. This would previously have led to a division by zero error.
Change this to assume the whole file is corrupt and go to guess
everything.
Alvaro Herrera [Fri, 23 Mar 2018 13:48:22 +0000 (10:48 -0300)]
Allow FOR EACH ROW triggers on partitioned tables
Previously, FOR EACH ROW triggers were not allowed in partitioned
tables. Now we allow AFTER triggers on them, and on trigger creation we
cascade to create an identical trigger in each partition. We also clone
the triggers to each partition that is created or attached later.
This means that deferred unique keys are allowed on partitioned tables,
too.
Author: Álvaro Herrera Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut, Simon Riggs, Amit Langote, Robert Haas,
Thomas Munro
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20171229225319.ajltgss2ojkfd3kp@alvherre.pgsql
Andres Freund [Fri, 23 Mar 2018 05:15:51 +0000 (22:15 -0700)]
Adapt expression JIT to stdbool.h introduction.
The LLVM JIT provider uses clang to synchronize types between normal C
code and runtime generated code. Clang represents stdbool.h style
booleans in return values & parameters differently from booleans
stored in variables.
Thus the expression compilation code from 2a0faed9d needs to be
adapted to 9a95a77d9. Instead of hardcoding i8 as the type for
booleans (which already was wrong on some edge case platforms!), use
postgres' notion of a boolean as used for storage and for parameters.
Peter Eisentraut [Fri, 23 Mar 2018 01:59:28 +0000 (21:59 -0400)]
Remove stdbool workaround in sepgsql
Since we now use stdbool.h in c.h, this workaround breaks the build and
is no longer necessary, so remove it. (Technically, there could be
platforms with a 4-byte bool in stdbool.h, in which case we would not
include stdbool.h in c.h, and so the old problem that caused this
workaround would reappear. But this combination is not known to happen
on the range of platforms where sepgsql can be built.)
Peter Eisentraut [Fri, 23 Mar 2018 00:42:25 +0000 (20:42 -0400)]
Use stdbool.h if suitable
Using the standard bool type provided by C allows some recent compilers
and debuggers to give better diagnostics. Also, some extension code and
third-party headers are increasingly pulling in stdbool.h, so it's
probably saner if everyone uses the same definition.
But PostgreSQL code is not prepared to handle bool of a size other than
1, so we keep our own old definition if we encounter a stdbool.h with a
bool of a different size. (Among current build farm members, this only
applies to old macOS versions on PowerPC.)
To check that the used bool is of the right size, add a static
assertions about size of GinTernaryValue vs bool. This is currently the
only place that assumes that bool and char are of the same size.
Andres Freund [Tue, 20 Mar 2018 09:20:46 +0000 (02:20 -0700)]
Add expression compilation support to LLVM JIT provider.
In addition to the interpretation of expressions (which back
evaluation of WHERE clauses, target list projection, aggregates
transition values etc) support compiling expressions to native code,
using the infrastructure added in earlier commits.
To avoid duplicating a lot of code, only support emitting code for
cases that are likely to be performance critical. For expression steps
that aren't deemed that, use the existing interpreter.
The generated code isn't great - some architectural changes are
required to address that. But this already yields a significant
speedup for some analytics queries, particularly with WHERE clauses
filtering a lot, or computing multiple aggregates.
Author: Andres Freund Tested-By: Thomas Munro
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170901064131.tazjxwus3k2w3ybh@alap3.anarazel.de
Disable JITing for VALUES() nodes.
VALUES() nodes are only ever executed once. This is primarily helpful
for debugging, when forcing JITing even for cheap queries.
Author: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170901064131.tazjxwus3k2w3ybh@alap3.anarazel.de
Andres Freund [Wed, 24 Jan 2018 07:20:02 +0000 (23:20 -0800)]
Add FIELDNO_* macro designating offset into structs required for JIT.
For any interesting JIT target, fields inside structs need to be
accessed. b96d550e contains infrastructure for syncing the definition
of types between postgres C code and runtime code generation with
LLVM. But that doesn't sync the number or names of fields inside
structs, just the types (including padding etc).
One option would be to hardcode the offset numbers in the JIT code,
but that'd be hard to keep in sync. Instead add macros indicating the
field offset to the fields that need to be accessed. Not pretty, but
manageable.
Author: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170901064131.tazjxwus3k2w3ybh@alap3.anarazel.de
Tom Lane [Thu, 22 Mar 2018 21:33:10 +0000 (17:33 -0400)]
Improve style guideline compliance of assorted error-report messages.
Per the project style guide, details and hints should have leading
capitalization and end with a period. On the other hand, errcontext should
not be capitalized and should not end with a period. To support well
formatted error contexts in dblink, extend dblink_res_error() to take a
format+arguments rather than a hardcoded string.
Robert Haas [Thu, 22 Mar 2018 20:09:28 +0000 (16:09 -0400)]
Consider Parallel Append of partial paths for UNION [ALL].
Without this patch, we can implement a UNION or UNION ALL as an
Append where Gather appears beneath one or more of the Append
branches, but this lets us put the Gather node on top, with
a partial path for each relation underneath.
There is considerably more work that could be done to improve
planning in this area, but that will probably need to wait
for a future release.
Patch by me, reviewed and tested by Ashutosh Bapat and Rajkumar
Raghuwanshi.
Tom Lane [Thu, 22 Mar 2018 19:47:29 +0000 (15:47 -0400)]
Sync up our various ways of estimating pg_class.reltuples.
VACUUM thought that reltuples represents the total number of tuples in
the relation, while ANALYZE counted only live tuples. This can cause
"flapping" in the value when background vacuums and analyzes happen
separately. The planner's use of reltuples essentially assumes that
it's the count of live (visible) tuples, so let's standardize on having
it mean live tuples.
Another issue is that the definition of "live tuple" isn't totally clear;
what should be done with INSERT_IN_PROGRESS or DELETE_IN_PROGRESS tuples?
ANALYZE's choices in this regard are made on the assumption that if the
originating transaction commits at all, it will happen after ANALYZE
finishes, so we should ignore the effects of the in-progress transaction
--- unless it is our own transaction, and then we should count it.
Let's propagate this definition into VACUUM, too.
Likewise propagate this definition into CREATE INDEX, and into
contrib/pgstattuple's pgstattuple_approx() function.
Tomas Vondra, reviewed by Haribabu Kommi, some corrections by me
Andres Freund [Thu, 22 Mar 2018 18:45:07 +0000 (11:45 -0700)]
Basic planner and executor integration for JIT.
This adds simple cost based plan time decision about whether JIT
should be performed. jit_above_cost, jit_optimize_above_cost are
compared with the total cost of a plan, and if the cost is above them
JIT is performed / optimization is performed respectively.
For that PlannedStmt and EState have a jitFlags (es_jit_flags) field
that stores information about what JIT operations should be performed.
EState now also has a new es_jit field, which can store a
JitContext. When there are no errors the context is released in
standard_ExecutorEnd().
It is likely that the default values for jit_[optimize_]above_cost
will need to be adapted further, but in my test these values seem to
work reasonably.
Author: Andres Freund, with feedback by Peter Eisentraut
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170901064131.tazjxwus3k2w3ybh@alap3.anarazel.de
Andres Freund [Thu, 22 Mar 2018 18:05:22 +0000 (11:05 -0700)]
Support for optimizing and emitting code in LLVM JIT provider.
This commit introduces the ability to actually generate code using
LLVM. In particular, this adds:
- Ability to emit code both in heavily optimized and largely
unoptimized fashion
- Batching facility to allow functions to be defined in small
increments, but optimized and emitted in executable form in larger
batches (for performance and memory efficiency)
- Type and function declaration synchronization between runtime
generated code and normal postgres code. This is critical to be able
to access struct fields etc.
- Developer oriented jit_dump_bitcode GUC, for inspecting / debugging
the generated code.
- per JitContext statistics of number of functions, time spent
generating code, optimizing, and emitting it. This will later be
employed for EXPLAIN support.
This commit doesn't yet contain any code actually generating
functions. That'll follow in later commits.
Documentation for GUCs added, and for JIT in general, will be added in
later commits.
Author: Andres Freund, with contributions by Pierre Ducroquet Testing-By: Thomas Munro, Peter Eisentraut
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170901064131.tazjxwus3k2w3ybh@alap3.anarazel.de
Tom Lane [Thu, 22 Mar 2018 17:23:47 +0000 (13:23 -0400)]
Fix tuple counting in SP-GiST index build.
Count the number of tuples in the index honestly, instead of assuming
that it's the same as the number of tuples in the heap. (It might be
different if the index is partial.)
Tom Lane [Thu, 22 Mar 2018 17:13:58 +0000 (13:13 -0400)]
Fix errors in contrib/bloom index build.
Count the number of tuples in the index honestly, instead of assuming
that it's the same as the number of tuples in the heap. (It might be
different if the index is partial.)
Fix counting of tuples in current index page, too. This error would
have led to failing to write out the final page of the index if it
contained exactly one tuple, so that the last tuple of the relation
would not get indexed.
Robert Haas [Thu, 22 Mar 2018 16:49:48 +0000 (12:49 -0400)]
Implement partition-wise grouping/aggregation.
If the partition keys of input relation are part of the GROUP BY
clause, all the rows belonging to a given group come from a single
partition. This allows aggregation/grouping over a partitioned
relation to be broken down * into aggregation/grouping on each
partition. This should be no worse, and often better, than the normal
approach.
If the GROUP BY clause does not contain all the partition keys, we can
still perform partial aggregation for each partition and then finalize
aggregation after appending the partial results. This is less certain
to be a win, but it's still useful.
Jeevan Chalke, Ashutosh Bapat, Robert Haas. The larger patch series
of which this patch is a part was also reviewed and tested by Antonin
Houska, Rajkumar Raghuwanshi, David Rowley, Dilip Kumar, Konstantin
Knizhnik, Pascal Legrand, and Rafia Sabih.
Teodor Sigaev [Thu, 22 Mar 2018 14:42:03 +0000 (17:42 +0300)]
Add \if support to pgbench
Patch adds \if to pgbench as it done for psql. Implementation shares condition
stack code with psql, so, this code is moved to fe_utils directory.
Author: Fabien COELHO with minor editorization by me
Review by: Vik Fearing, Fedor Sigaev
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/alpine.DEB.2.20.1711252200190.28523@lancre
Dean Rasheed [Thu, 22 Mar 2018 09:37:36 +0000 (09:37 +0000)]
Improve ANALYZE's strategy for finding MCVs.
Previously, a value was included in the MCV list if its frequency was
25% larger than the estimated average frequency of all nonnull values
in the table. For uniform distributions, that can lead to values
being included in the MCV list and significantly overestimated on the
basis of relatively few (sometimes just 2) instances being seen in the
sample. For non-uniform distributions, it can lead to too few values
being included in the MCV list, since the overall average frequency
may be dominated by a small number of very common values, while the
remaining values may still have a large spread of frequencies, causing
both substantial overestimation and underestimation of the remaining
values. Furthermore, increasing the statistics target may have little
effect because the overall average frequency will remain relatively
unchanged.
Instead, populate the MCV list with the largest set of common values
that are statistically significantly more common than the average
frequency of the remaining values. This takes into account the
variance of the sample counts, which depends on the counts themselves
and on the proportion of the table that was sampled. As a result, it
constrains the relative standard error of estimates based on the
frequencies of values in the list, reducing the chances of too many
values being included. At the same time, it allows more values to be
included, since the MCVs need only be more common than the remaining
non-MCVs, rather than the overall average. Thus it tends to produce
fewer MCVs than the previous code for uniform distributions, and more
for non-uniform distributions, reducing estimation errors in both
cases. In addition, the algorithm responds better to increasing the
statistics target, allowing more values to be included in the MCV list
when more of the table is sampled.
Jeff Janes, substantially modified by me. Reviewed by John Naylor and
Tomas Vondra.
Andres Freund [Thu, 22 Mar 2018 02:28:28 +0000 (19:28 -0700)]
Basic JIT provider and error handling infrastructure.
This commit introduces:
1) JIT provider abstraction, which allows JIT functionality to be
implemented in separate shared libraries. That's desirable because
it allows to install JIT support as a separate package, and because
it allows experimentation with different forms of JITing.
2) JITContexts which can be, using functions introduced in follow up
commits, used to emit JITed functions, and have them be cleaned up
on error.
3) The outline of a LLVM JIT provider, which will be fleshed out in
subsequent commits.
Documentation for GUCs added, and for JIT in general, will be added in
later commits.
Author: Andres Freund, with architectural input from Jeff Davis
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170901064131.tazjxwus3k2w3ybh@alap3.anarazel.de
Tom Lane [Thu, 22 Mar 2018 00:11:07 +0000 (20:11 -0400)]
Prevent extensions from creating custom GUCs that are GUC_LIST_QUOTE.
Pending some solution for the problems noted in commit 742869946,
disallow dynamic creation of GUC_LIST_QUOTE variables.
If there are any extensions out there using this feature, they'd not
be happy for us to start enforcing this rule in minor releases, so
this is a HEAD-only change. The previous commit didn't make things
any worse than they already were for such cases.
Tom Lane [Thu, 22 Mar 2018 00:03:28 +0000 (20:03 -0400)]
Fix mishandling of quoted-list GUC values in pg_dump and ruleutils.c.
Code that prints out the contents of setconfig or proconfig arrays in
SQL format needs to handle GUC_LIST_QUOTE variables differently from
other ones, because for those variables, flatten_set_variable_args()
already applied a layer of quoting. The value can therefore safely
be printed as-is, and indeed must be, or flatten_set_variable_args()
will muck it up completely on reload. For all other GUC variables,
it's necessary and sufficient to quote the value as a SQL literal.
We'd recognized the need for this long ago, but mis-analyzed the
need slightly, thinking that all GUC_LIST_INPUT variables needed
the special treatment. That's actually wrong, since a valid value
of a LIST variable might include characters that need quoting,
although no existing variables accept such values.
More to the point, we hadn't made any particular effort to keep the
various places that deal with this up-to-date with the set of variables
that actually need special treatment, meaning that we'd do the wrong
thing with, for example, temp_tablespaces values. This affects dumping
of SET clauses attached to functions, as well as ALTER DATABASE/ROLE SET
commands.
In ruleutils.c we can fix it reasonably honestly by exporting a guc.c
function that allows discovering the flags for a given GUC variable.
But pg_dump doesn't have easy access to that, so continue the old method
of having a hard-wired list of affected variable names. At least we can
fix it to have just one list not two, and update the list to match
current reality.
A remaining problem with this is that it only works for built-in
GUC variables. pg_dump's list obvious knows nothing of third-party
extensions, and even the "ask guc.c" method isn't bulletproof since
the relevant extension might not be loaded. There's no obvious
solution to that, so for now, we'll just have to discourage extension
authors from inventing custom GUCs that need GUC_LIST_QUOTE.
This has been busted for a long time, so back-patch to all supported
branches.
Michael Paquier and Tom Lane, reviewed by Kyotaro Horiguchi and
Pavel Stehule
Tom Lane [Wed, 21 Mar 2018 22:30:46 +0000 (18:30 -0400)]
Improve predtest.c's handling of cases with NULL-constant inputs.
Currently, if operator_predicate_proof() is given an operator clause like
"something op NULL", it just throws up its hands and reports it can't prove
anything. But we can often do better than that, if the operator is strict,
because then we know that the clause returns NULL overall. Depending on
whether we're trying to prove or refute something, and whether we need
weak or strong semantics for NULL, this may be enough to prove the
implication, especially when we rely on the standard rule that "false
implies anything". In particular, this lets us do something useful with
questions like "does X IN (1,3,5,NULL) imply X <= 5?" The null entry
in the IN list can effectively be ignored for this purpose, but the
proof rules were not previously smart enough to deduce that.
This patch is by me, but it owes something to previous work by
Amit Langote to try to solve problems of the form mentioned.
Thanks also to Emre Hasegeli and Ashutosh Bapat for review.
Tom Lane [Wed, 21 Mar 2018 18:57:12 +0000 (14:57 -0400)]
Change oddly-chosen OID allocation.
I noticed while fooling with John Naylor's bootstrap-data patch that we had
one high-numbered manually assigned OID, 8888, which evidently came from a
submission that the committer didn't bother to bring into line with usual
OID allocation practices before committing. That's a bad idea, because it
creates a hazard for other patches that may be temporarily using high OID
numbers. Change it to something more in line with what we usually do.
This evidently dates to commit abb173392. It's too late to change it
in released branches, but we can fix it in HEAD.
Peter Eisentraut [Wed, 21 Mar 2018 16:14:53 +0000 (12:14 -0400)]
pg_controldata: Prevent division-by-zero errors
If the control file is corrupted and specifies the WAL segment size
to be 0 bytes, calculating the latest checkpoint's REDO WAL file
will fail with a division-by-zero error. Show it as "???" instead.
Also reword the warning message a bit and send it to stdout, like the
other pre-existing warning messages.
Add some tests for dealing with a corrupted pg_control file.
Author: Nathan Bossart <bossartn@amazon.com>, tests by me
Alvaro Herrera [Wed, 21 Mar 2018 15:03:35 +0000 (12:03 -0300)]
Fix relcache handling of the 'default' partition
My commit 4dba331cb3dc that moved around CommandCounterIncrement calls
in partitioning DDL code unearthed a problem with the relcache handling
for the 'default' partition: the construction of a correct relcache
entry for the partitioned table was at the mercy of lack of CCI calls in
non-trivial amounts of code. This was prone to creating problems later
on, as the code develops. This was visible as a test failure in a
compile with RELCACHE_FORCE_RELASE (buildfarm member prion).
The problem is that after the mentioned commit it was possible to create
a relcache entry that had incomplete information regarding the default
partition because I introduced a CCI between adding the catalog entries
for the default partition (StorePartitionBound) and the update of
pg_partitioned_table entry for its parent partitioned table
(update_default_partition_oid). It seems the best fix is to move the
latter so that it occurs inside the former; the purposeful lack of
intervening CCI should be more obvious, and harder to break.
I also remove a check in RelationBuildPartitionDesc that returns NULL if
the key is not set. I couldn't find any place that needs this hack
anymore; probably it was required because of bugs that have since been
fixed.
Fix a few typos I noticed while reviewing the code involved.
Teodor Sigaev [Wed, 21 Mar 2018 15:01:23 +0000 (18:01 +0300)]
Add general purpose hasing functions to pgbench.
Hashing function is useful for simulating real-world workload in test like
WEB workload, as an example - YCSB benchmarks.
Author: Ildar Musin with minor editorization by me
Reviewed by: Fabien Coelho, me
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/0e8bd39e-dfcd-2879-f88f-272799ad7ef2@postgrespro.ru
Peter Eisentraut [Wed, 21 Mar 2018 13:13:24 +0000 (09:13 -0400)]
Handle heap rewrites even better in logical decoding
Logical decoding should not publish anything about tables created as
part of a heap rewrite during DDL. Those tables don't exist externally,
so consumers of logical decoding cannot do anything sensible with that
information. In ab28feae2bd3d4629bd73ae3548e671c57d785f0, we worked
around this for built-in logical replication, but that was hack.
This is a more proper fix: We mark such transient heaps using the new
field pg_class.relwrite, linking to the original relation OID. By
default, we ignore them in logical decoding before they get to the
output plugin. Optionally, a plugin can register their interest in
getting such changes, if they handle DDL specially, in which case the
new field will help them get information about the actual table.
Teodor Sigaev [Wed, 21 Mar 2018 11:57:42 +0000 (14:57 +0300)]
Add strict_word_similarity to pg_trgm module
strict_word_similarity is similar to existing word_similarity function but
it takes into account word boundaries to compute similarity.
Author: Alexander Korotkov
Review by: David Steele, Liudmila Mantrova, me
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CY4PR17MB13207ED8310F847CF117EED0D85A0@CY4PR17MB1320.namprd17.prod.outlook.com
Andrew Gierth [Wed, 21 Mar 2018 10:42:04 +0000 (10:42 +0000)]
Repair crash with unsortable grouping sets.
If there were multiple grouping sets, none of them empty, all of which
were unsortable, then an oversight in consider_groupingsets_paths led
to a null pointer dereference. Fix, and add a regression test for this
case.
Per report from Dang Minh Huong, though I didn't use their patch.
Backpatch to 10.x where hashed grouping sets were added.
Teodor Sigaev [Wed, 21 Mar 2018 11:35:56 +0000 (14:35 +0300)]
Rework word_similarity documentation, make it close to actual algorithm.
word_similarity before claimed as returning similarity of closest word in
string, but, actually it returns similarity of substring. Also fix mistyped
comments.
Author: Alexander Korotkov
Review by: David Steele, Liudmila Mantrova
Discussionis:
https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CY4PR17MB13207ED8310F847CF117EED0D85A0@CY4PR17MB1320.namprd17.prod.outlook.com
https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/f43b242d-000c-f4c8-cb8b-d37e9752cd93%40postgrespro.ru
Andres Freund [Tue, 20 Mar 2018 22:41:15 +0000 (15:41 -0700)]
Add C++ support to configure.
This is an optional dependency. It'll be used for the upcoming LLVM
based just in time compilation support, which needs to wrap a few LLVM
C++ APIs so they're accessible from C..
For now test for C++ compilers unconditionally, without failing if not
present, to ensure wide buildfarm coverage. If we're bothered by the
additional test times (which are quite short) or verbosity, we can
later make the tests conditional on --with-llvm.
Author: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170901064131.tazjxwus3k2w3ybh@alap3.anarazel.de
Peter Eisentraut [Tue, 20 Mar 2018 20:44:52 +0000 (16:44 -0400)]
Attempt to fix build with unusual OpenSSL versions
Since e3bdb2d92600ed45bd46aaf48309a436a9628218, libpq failed to build on
some platforms because they did not have SSL_clear_options(). Although
mainline OpenSSL introduced SSL_clear_options() after
SSL_OP_NO_COMPRESSION, so the code should have built fine, at least an
old NetBSD version (build farm "coypu" NetBSD 5.1 gcc 4.1.3 PR-20080704
powerpc) has SSL_OP_NO_COMPRESSION but no SSL_clear_options().
So add a configure check for SSL_clear_options(). If we don't find it,
skip the call. That means on such a platform one cannot *enable* SSL
compression if the built-in default is off, but that seems an unlikely
combination anyway and not very interesting in practice.
Andres Freund [Tue, 20 Mar 2018 19:58:08 +0000 (12:58 -0700)]
Add PGAC_PROG_VARCC_VARFLAGS_OPT autoconf macro.
The new macro allows to test flags for different compilers and to
store them in different CFLAG like variables. The existing
PGAC_PROG_CC_CFLAGS_OPT and PGAC_PROG_CC_VAR_OPT are changed to be
just wrappers around the new function.
This'll be used by the upcoming LLVM support, to separately detect
capabilities used by clang, when generating bitcode.
Author: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170901064131.tazjxwus3k2w3ybh@alap3.anarazel.de
Tom Lane [Tue, 20 Mar 2018 19:16:16 +0000 (15:16 -0400)]
Make configure check for a couple more Perl modules for --enable-tap-tests.
Red Hat's notion of a basic Perl installation doesn't include Test::More
or Time::HiRes, and reportedly some Debian installs also omit Time::HiRes.
Check for those during configure to spare the user the pain of digging
through check-world output to find out what went wrong. While we're at it,
we should also check the version of Test::More, since TestLib.pm requires
at least 0.87.
In principle this could be back-patched, but it's probably not necessary.
Robert Haas [Tue, 20 Mar 2018 15:33:44 +0000 (11:33 -0400)]
Don't pass the grouping target around unnecessarily.
Since commit 4f15e5d09de276fb77326be5567dd9796008ca2e made grouped_rel
set reltarget, a variety of other functions can just get it from
grouped_rel instead of having to pass it around explicitly. Simplify
accordingly.
Robert Haas [Tue, 20 Mar 2018 15:31:06 +0000 (11:31 -0400)]
Determine grouping strategies in create_grouping_paths.
Partition-wise aggregate will call create_ordinary_grouping_paths
multiple times and we don't want to redo this work every time; have
the caller do it instead and pass the details down.
Robert Haas [Tue, 20 Mar 2018 15:18:04 +0000 (11:18 -0400)]
Defer creation of partially-grouped relation until it's needed.
This avoids unnecessarily creating a RelOptInfo for which we have no
actual need. This idea is from Ashutosh Bapat, who wrote a very
different patch to accomplish a similar goal. It will be more
important if and when we get partition-wise aggregate, since then
there could be many partially grouped relations all of which could
potentially be unnecessary. In passing, this sets the grouping
relation's reltarget, which wasn't done previously but makes things
simpler for this refactoring.
Along the way, adjust things so that add_paths_to_partial_grouping_rel,
now renamed create_partial_grouping_paths, does not perform the Gather
or Gather Merge steps to generate non-partial paths from partial
paths; have the caller do it instead. This is again for the
convenience of partition-wise aggregate, which wants to inject
additional partial paths are created and before we decide which ones
to Gather/Gather Merge. This might seem like a separate change, but
it's actually pretty closely entangled; I couldn't really see much
value in separating it and having to change some things twice.
Alvaro Herrera [Tue, 20 Mar 2018 14:19:41 +0000 (11:19 -0300)]
Fix CommandCounterIncrement in partition-related DDL
It makes sense to do the CCIs in the places that do catalog updates,
rather than before the places that error out because the former ones
fail to do it. In particular, it looks like StorePartitionBound() and
IndexSetParentIndex() ought to make their own CCIs.
Per review comments from Peter Eisentraut for row-level triggers on
partitioned tables.
Tom Lane [Tue, 20 Mar 2018 03:59:17 +0000 (23:59 -0400)]
Prevent query-lifespan memory leakage of SP-GiST traversal values.
The original coding of the SP-GiST scan traversalValue feature (commit ccd6eb49a) arranged for traversal values to be stored in the query's main
executor context. That's fine if there's only one index scan per query,
but if there are many, we have a memory leak as successive scans create
new traversal values. Fix it by creating a separate memory context for
traversal values, which we can reset during spgrescan(). Back-patch
to 9.6 where this code was introduced.
In principle, adding the traversalCxt field to SpGistScanOpaqueData
creates an ABI break in the back branches. But I (tgl) have little
sympathy for extensions including spgist_private.h, so I'm not very
worried about that. Alternatively we could stick the new field at the
end of the struct in back branches, but that has its own downsides.
Tom Lane [Mon, 19 Mar 2018 22:49:53 +0000 (18:49 -0400)]
Fix some corner-case issues in REFRESH MATERIALIZED VIEW CONCURRENTLY.
refresh_by_match_merge() has some issues in the way it builds a SQL
query to construct the "diff" table:
1. It doesn't require the selected unique index(es) to be indimmediate.
2. It doesn't pay attention to the particular equality semantics enforced
by a given index, but just assumes that they must be those of the column
datatype's default btree opclass.
3. It doesn't check that the indexes are btrees.
4. It's insufficiently careful to ensure that the parser will pick the
intended operator when parsing the query. (This would have been a
security bug before CVE-2018-1058.)
5. It's not careful about indexes on system columns.
The way to fix #4 is to make use of the existing code in ri_triggers.c
for generating an arbitrary binary operator clause. I chose to move
that to ruleutils.c, since that seems a more reasonable place to be
exporting such functionality from than ri_triggers.c.
While #1, #3, and #5 are just latent given existing feature restrictions,
and #2 doesn't arise in the core system for lack of alternate opclasses
with different equality behaviors, #4 seems like an issue worth
back-patching. That's the bulk of the change anyway, so just back-patch
the whole thing to 9.4 where this code was introduced.
Andrew Dunstan [Mon, 19 Mar 2018 21:55:36 +0000 (08:25 +1030)]
Don't use an Msys virtual path to create a tablespace
The new unlogged_reinit recovery tests create a new tablespace using
TestLib.pm's tempdir. However, on msys that function returns a virtual
path that isn't understood by Postgres. Here we add a new function to
TestLib.pm to turn such a path into a real path on the underlying file
system, and use it in the new test to create the tablespace. The new
function is essentially a NOOP everywhere but msys.
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