Andrew Dunstan [Thu, 10 Jan 2019 20:53:45 +0000 (15:53 -0500)]
Fix missing values when doing ALTER TABLE ALTER COLUMN TYPE
This was an oversight in commit 16828d5c. If the table is going to be
rewritten, we simply clear all the missing values from all the table's
attributes, since there will no longer be any rows with the attributes
missing. Otherwise, we repackage the missing value in an array
constructed with the new type specifications.
Backpatch to release 11.
This fixes bug #15446, reported by Dmitry Molotkov
Tom Lane [Thu, 10 Jan 2019 19:20:28 +0000 (14:20 -0500)]
Add .gitignore entry for a derived file created by "make distprep".
I chanced to notice that "make distprep" leaves a state of the
tree that git complains about. It's been like this for awhile,
but given the lack of complaints it probably doesn't need
back-patching.
Tom Lane [Thu, 10 Jan 2019 19:07:01 +0000 (14:07 -0500)]
Fix C++ compile failures in headers.
Avoid using "typeid" as a parameter name in header files, since that
is a C++ keyword. These cases were introduced recently, in 04fe805a1
and 586b98fdf.
Since I'm an incurable neatnik, also rename these parameters in the
underlying function definitions. That's not really necessary per
project rules, but I don't like function declarations that don't
quite agree with the underlying definitions.
Alvaro Herrera [Thu, 10 Jan 2019 17:54:31 +0000 (14:54 -0300)]
Move inheritance expansion code into its own file
This commit moves expand_inherited_tables and underlings from
optimizer/prep/prepunionc.c to optimizer/utils/inherit.c.
Also, all of the AppendRelInfo-based expression manipulation routines
are moved to optimizer/utils/appendinfo.c.
No functional code changes. One exception is the introduction of
make_append_rel_info, but that's still just moving around code.
Also, stop including <limits.h> in prepunion.c, which no longer needs
it since 3fc6e2d7f5b6. I (Álvaro) noticed this because Amit was copying
that to inherit.c, which likewise doesn't need it.
Author: Amit Langote
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3be67028-a00a-502c-199a-da00eec8fb6e@lab.ntt.co.jp
Alvaro Herrera [Thu, 10 Jan 2019 16:42:20 +0000 (13:42 -0300)]
pgbench: add \cset and \gset commands
These commands allow assignment of values produced by queries to pgbench
variables, where they can be used by further commands. \gset terminates
a command sequence (just like a bare semicolon); \cset separates
multiple queries in a compound command, like an escaped semicolon (\;).
A prefix can be provided to the \-command and is prepended to the name
of each output column to produce the final variable name.
This feature allows pgbench scripts to react meaningfully to the actual
database contents, allowing more powerful benchmarks to be written.
Authors: Fabien Coelho, Álvaro Herrera Reviewed-by: Amit Langote <Langote_Amit_f8@lab.ntt.co.jp> Reviewed-by: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> Reviewed-by: Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> Reviewed-by: Tatsuo Ishii <ishii@sraoss.co.jp> Reviewed-by: Rafia Sabih <rafia.sabih@enterprisedb.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/alpine.DEB.2.20.1607091005330.3412@sto
Michael Paquier [Thu, 10 Jan 2019 05:10:21 +0000 (14:10 +0900)]
Update unaccent rules with release 34 of CLDR for Latin-ASCII.xml
This has required an update of the python script generating the rules,
as its format has changed in release 29. This release has also added
new punctuation and symbols, and a new set of rules has been generated
to include them. The way to find newest versions of Latin-ASCII gets
also more clearly documented.
Author: Hugh Ranalli, Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/15548-cef1b3f8de190d4f@postgresql.org
Tom Lane [Thu, 10 Jan 2019 00:47:38 +0000 (19:47 -0500)]
Use perfect hashing, instead of binary search, for keyword lookup.
We've been speculating for a long time that hash-based keyword lookup
ought to be faster than binary search, but up to now we hadn't found
a suitable tool for generating the hash function. Joerg Sonnenberger
provided the inspiration, and sample code, to show us that rolling our
own generator wasn't a ridiculous idea. Hence, do that.
The method used here requires a lookup table of approximately 4 bytes
per keyword, but that's less than what we saved in the predecessor commit afb0d0712, so it's not a big problem. The time savings is indeed
significant: preliminary testing suggests that the total time for raw
parsing (flex + bison phases) drops by ~20%.
Patch by me, but it owes its existence to Joerg Sonnenberger;
thanks also to John Naylor for review.
Tom Lane [Wed, 9 Jan 2019 20:22:43 +0000 (15:22 -0500)]
Reduce the size of the fmgr_builtin_oid_index[] array.
This index array was originally defined to have 10000 entries (ranging
up to FirstGenbkiObjectId), but we really only need entries up to the
last existing builtin function OID, currently 6121. That saves close
to 8K of never-accessed space in the server executable, at the small
price of one more fetch in fmgr_isbuiltin().
We could reduce the array size still further by renumbering a few of
the highest-numbered builtin functions; but there's a small risk of
breaking clients that have chosen to hardwire those function OIDs,
so it's not clear if it'd be worth the trouble. (We should, however,
discourage future patches from choosing function OIDs above 6K as long
as there's still lots of space below that.)
Tom Lane [Wed, 9 Jan 2019 16:35:14 +0000 (11:35 -0500)]
Update docs & tests to reflect that unassigned OLD/NEW are now NULL.
For a long time, plpgsql has allowed trigger functions to parse
references to OLD and NEW even if the current trigger event type didn't
assign a value to one or the other variable; but actually executing such
a reference would fail. The v11 changes to use "expanded records" for
DTYPE_REC variables changed the behavior so that the unassigned variable
now reads as a null composite value. While this behavioral change was
more or less unintentional, it seems that leaving it like this is better
than adding code and complexity to be bug-compatible with the old way.
The change doesn't break any code that worked before, and it eliminates
a gotcha that often required extra code to work around.
Hence, update the docs to say that these variables are "null" not
"unassigned" when not relevant to the event type. And add a regression
test covering the behavior, so that we'll notice if we ever break it
again.
Tom Lane [Tue, 8 Jan 2019 17:03:53 +0000 (12:03 -0500)]
Doc: update our docs about kernel IPC parameters on *BSD.
runtime.sgml said that you couldn't change SysV IPC parameters on OpenBSD
except by rebuilding the kernel. That's definitely wrong in OpenBSD 6.x,
and excavation in their man pages says it changed in OpenBSD 3.3.
Update NetBSD and OpenBSD sections to recommend adjustment of the SEMMNI
and SEMMNS settings, which are painfully small by default on those
platforms. (The discussion thread contemplated recommending that
people select POSIX semaphores instead, but the performance consequences
of that aren't really clear, so I'll refrain.)
Remove pointless discussion of SEMMNU and SEMMAP from the FreeBSD
section. Minor other wordsmithing.
Peter Eisentraut [Sat, 29 Dec 2018 12:21:57 +0000 (13:21 +0100)]
initdb: Use atexit()
Replace exit_nicely() calls with standard exit() and register the
cleanup actions using atexit(). The coding pattern used here mirrors
existing use in pg_basebackup.c.
Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/ec4135ba-84e9-28bf-b584-0e78d47448d5@2ndquadrant.com/
Tom Lane [Sun, 6 Jan 2019 22:02:57 +0000 (17:02 -0500)]
Replace the data structure used for keyword lookup.
Previously, ScanKeywordLookup was passed an array of string pointers.
This had some performance deficiencies: the strings themselves might
be scattered all over the place depending on the compiler (and some
quick checking shows that at least with gcc-on-Linux, they indeed
weren't reliably close together). That led to very cache-unfriendly
behavior as the binary search touched strings in many different pages.
Also, depending on the platform, the string pointers might need to
be adjusted at program start, so that they couldn't be simple constant
data. And the ScanKeyword struct had been designed with an eye to
32-bit machines originally; on 64-bit it requires 16 bytes per
keyword, making it even more cache-unfriendly.
Redesign so that the keyword strings themselves are allocated
consecutively (as part of one big char-string constant), thereby
eliminating the touch-lots-of-unrelated-pages syndrome. And get
rid of the ScanKeyword array in favor of three separate arrays:
uint16 offsets into the keyword array, uint16 token codes, and
uint8 keyword categories. That reduces the overhead per keyword
to 5 bytes instead of 16 (even less in programs that only need
one of the token codes and categories); moreover, the binary search
only touches the offsets array, further reducing its cache footprint.
This also lets us put the token codes somewhere else than the
keyword strings are, which avoids some unpleasant build dependencies.
While we're at it, wrap the data used by ScanKeywordLookup into
a struct that can be treated as an opaque type by most callers.
That doesn't change things much right now, but it will make it
less painful to switch to a hash-based lookup method, as is being
discussed in the mailing list thread.
Most of the change here is associated with adding a generator
script that can build the new data structure from the same
list-of-PG_KEYWORD header representation we used before.
The PG_KEYWORD lists that plpgsql and ecpg used to embed in
their scanner .c files have to be moved into headers, and the
Makefiles have to be taught to invoke the generator script.
This work is also necessary if we're to consider hash-based lookup,
since the generator script is what would be responsible for
constructing a hash table.
Aside from saving a few kilobytes in each program that includes
the keyword table, this seems to speed up raw parsing (flex+bison)
by a few percent. So it's worth doing even as it stands, though
we think we can gain even more with a follow-on patch to switch
to hash-based lookup.
Tom Lane [Sat, 5 Jan 2019 00:12:22 +0000 (19:12 -0500)]
Fix program build rule in src/bin/scripts/Makefile.
Commit 69ae9dcb4 added a globally-visible "%: %.o" rule, but we failed
to notice that src/bin/scripts/Makefile already had such a rule.
Apparently, the later occurrence of the same rule wins in nearly all
versions of gmake ... but not in the one used by buildfarm member jacana.
jacana is evidently using the global rule, which says to link "$<",
ie just the first dependency. But the scripts makefile needs to
link "$^", ie all the dependencies listed for the target.
There is, fortunately, no good reason not to use "$^" in the global
version of the rule, so we can just do that and get rid of the local
version.
Alvaro Herrera [Fri, 4 Jan 2019 17:51:17 +0000 (14:51 -0300)]
Don't create relfilenode for relations without storage
Some relation kinds had relfilenode set to some non-zero value, but
apparently the actual files did not really exist because creation was
prevented elsewhere. Get rid of the phony pg_class.relfilenode values.
Catversion bumped, but only because the sanity_test check will fail if
run in a system initdb'd with the previous version.
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro HORIGUCHI, Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20181206215552.fm2ypuxq6nhpwjuc@alvherre.pgsql
Tom Lane [Fri, 4 Jan 2019 17:16:19 +0000 (12:16 -0500)]
Support plpgsql variable names that conflict with unreserved SQL keywords.
A variable name matching a statement-introducing keyword, such as
"comment" or "update", caused parse failures if one tried to write
a statement using that keyword. Commit bb1b8f69 already addressed
this scenario for the case of variable names matching unreserved
plpgsql keywords, but we didn't think about unreserved core-grammar
keywords. The same heuristic (viz, it can't be a variable name
unless the next token is assignment or '[') should work fine for
that case too, and as a bonus the code gets shorter and less
duplicative.
Per bug #15555 from Feike Steenbergen. Since this hasn't been
complained of before, and is easily worked around anyway,
I won't risk a back-patch.
Tom Lane [Fri, 4 Jan 2019 00:47:53 +0000 (19:47 -0500)]
Move the built-in conversions into the initial catalog data.
Instead of running a SQL script to create the standard conversion
functions and pg_conversion entries, put those entries into the
initial data in postgres.bki.
This shaves a few percent off the runtime of initdb, and also allows
accurate comments to be attached to the conversion functions; the
previous script labeled them with machine-generated comments that
were not quite right for multi-purpose conversion functions.
Also, we can get rid of the duplicative Makefile and MSVC perl
implementations of the generation code for that SQL script.
A functional change is that these pg_proc and pg_conversion entries
are now "pinned" by initdb. Leaving them unpinned was perhaps a
good thing back while the conversions feature was under development,
but there seems no valid reason for it now.
Also, the conversion functions are now marked as immutable, where
before they were volatile by virtue of lacking any explicit
specification. That seems like it was just an oversight.
To avoid using magic constants in pg_conversion.dat, extend
genbki.pl to allow encoding names to be converted, much as it
does for language, access method, etc names.
Tom Lane [Thu, 3 Jan 2019 23:38:49 +0000 (18:38 -0500)]
Use symbolic references for pg_language OIDs in the bootstrap data.
This patch teaches genbki.pl to replace pg_language names by OIDs
in much the same way as it already does for pg_am names etc, and
converts pg_proc.dat to use such symbolic references in the prolang
column.
Aside from getting rid of a few more magic numbers in the initial
catalog data, this means that Gen_fmgrtab.pl no longer needs to read
pg_language.dat, since it doesn't have to know the OID of the "internal"
language; now it's just looking for the string "internal".
No need for a catversion bump, since the contents of postgres.bki
don't actually change at all.
Tom Lane [Thu, 3 Jan 2019 22:00:08 +0000 (17:00 -0500)]
Improve ANALYZE's handling of concurrent-update scenarios.
This patch changes the rule for whether or not a tuple seen by ANALYZE
should be included in its sample.
When we last touched this logic, in commit 51e1445f1, we weren't
thinking very hard about tuples being UPDATEd by a long-running
concurrent transaction. In such a case, we might see the pre-image as
either LIVE or DELETE_IN_PROGRESS depending on timing; and we might see
the post-image not at all, or as INSERT_IN_PROGRESS. Since the existing
code will not sample either DELETE_IN_PROGRESS or INSERT_IN_PROGRESS
tuples, this leads to concurrently-updated rows being omitted from the
sample entirely. That's not very helpful, and it's especially the wrong
thing if the concurrent transaction ends up rolling back.
The right thing seems to be to sample DELETE_IN_PROGRESS rows just as if
they were live. This makes the "sample it" and "count it" decisions the
same, which seems good for consistency. It's clearly the right thing
if the concurrent transaction ends up rolling back; in effect, we are
sampling as though IN_PROGRESS transactions haven't happened yet.
Also, this combination of choices ensures maximum robustness against
the different combinations of whether and in which state we might see the
pre- and post-images of an update.
It's slightly annoying that we end up recording immediately-out-of-date
stats in the case where the transaction does commit, but on the other
hand the stats are fine for columns that didn't change in the update.
And the alternative of sampling INSERT_IN_PROGRESS rows instead seems
like a bad idea, because then the sampling would be inconsistent with
the way rows are counted for the stats report.
Per report from Mark Chambers; thanks to Jeff Janes for diagnosing
what was happening. Back-patch to all supported versions.
Tom Lane [Wed, 2 Jan 2019 21:33:48 +0000 (16:33 -0500)]
Don't believe MinMaxExpr is leakproof without checking.
MinMaxExpr invokes the btree comparison function for its input datatype,
so it's only leakproof if that function is. Many such functions are
indeed leakproof, but others are not, and we should not just assume that
they are. Hence, adjust contain_leaked_vars to verify the leakproofness
of the referenced function explicitly.
I didn't add a regression test because it would need to depend on
some particular comparison function being leaky, and that's a moving
target, per discussion.
This has been wrong all along, so back-patch to supported branches.
Tom Lane [Wed, 2 Jan 2019 18:57:42 +0000 (13:57 -0500)]
Ensure link commands list *.o files before LDFLAGS.
It's important for link commands to list *.o input files before -l
switches for libraries, as library code may not get pulled into the link
unless referenced by an earlier command-line entry. This is certainly
necessary for static libraries (.a style). Apparently on some platforms
it is also necessary for shared libraries, as reported by Donald Dong.
We often put -l switches for within-tree libraries into LDFLAGS, meaning
that link commands that list *.o files after LDFLAGS are hazardous.
Most of our link commands got this right, but a few did not. In
particular, places that relied on gmake's default implicit link rule
failed, because that puts LDFLAGS first. Fix that by overriding the
built-in rule with our own. The implicit link rules in
src/makefiles/Makefile.* for single-.o-file shared libraries mostly
got this wrong too, so fix them. I also changed the link rules for the
backend and a couple of other places for consistency, even though they
are not (currently) at risk because they aren't adding any -l switches
to LDFLAGS.
Arguably, the real problem here is that we're abusing LDFLAGS by
putting -l switches in it and we should stop doing that. But changing
that would be quite invasive, so I'm not eager to do so.
Perhaps this is a candidate for back-patching, but so far it seems
that problems can only be exhibited in test code we don't normally
build, and at least some of the problems are new in HEAD anyway.
So I'll refrain for now.
Michael Paquier [Tue, 1 Jan 2019 11:05:51 +0000 (20:05 +0900)]
Remove configure switch --disable-strong-random
This removes a portion of infrastructure introduced by fe0a0b5 to allow
compilation of Postgres in environments where no strong random source is
available, meaning that there is no linking to OpenSSL and no
/dev/urandom (Windows having its own CryptoAPI). No systems shipped
this century lack /dev/urandom, and the buildfarm is actually not
testing this switch at all, so just remove it. This simplifies
particularly some backend code which included a fallback implementation
using shared memory, and removes a set of alternate regression output
files from pgcrypto.
Author: Michael Paquier Reviewed-by: Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20181230063219.GG608@paquier.xyz
Michael Paquier [Tue, 1 Jan 2019 01:39:19 +0000 (10:39 +0900)]
Fix generation of padding message before encrypting Elgamal in pgcrypto
fe0a0b5, which has added a stronger random source in Postgres, has
introduced a thinko when creating a padding message which gets encrypted
for Elgamal. The padding message cannot have zeros, which are replaced
by random bytes. However if pg_strong_random() failed, the message
would finish by being considered in correct shape for encryption with
zeros.
Author: Tom Lane Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20186.1546188423@sss.pgh.pa.us
Backpatch-through: 10
Michael Paquier [Mon, 31 Dec 2018 23:53:02 +0000 (08:53 +0900)]
Improve comments and logs in do_pg_stop/start_backup
The function name pg_stop_backup() has been included for ages in some
log messages when stopping the backup, which is confusing for base
backups taken with the replication protocol because this function is
never called. Some other comments and messages in this area are
improved while on it.
The new wording is based on input and suggestions from several people,
all listed below.
Author: Michael Paquier Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut, Álvaro Herrera, Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20181221040510.GA12599@paquier.xyz
Noah Misch [Mon, 31 Dec 2018 21:54:38 +0000 (13:54 -0800)]
Process EXTRA_INSTALL serially, during the first temp-install.
This closes a race condition in "make -j check-world"; the symptom was
EEXIST errors. Back-patch to v10, before which parallel check-world had
worse problems.
Detect it the way pg_ctl's wait_for_postmaster() does. When pg_regress
spawned a postmaster that failed startup, we were detecting that only
with "pg_regress: postmaster did not respond within 60 seconds".
Back-patch to 9.4 (all supported versions).
Tom Lane [Mon, 31 Dec 2018 21:38:11 +0000 (16:38 -0500)]
Update leakproofness markings on some btree comparison functions.
Mark pg_lsn and oidvector comparison functions as leakproof. Per
discussion, these clearly are leakproof so we might as well mark them so.
On the other hand, remove leakproof markings from name comparison
functions other than equal/not-equal. Now that these depend on
varstr_cmp, they can't be considered leakproof if text comparison isn't.
(This was my error in commit 586b98fdf.)
While at it, add some opr_sanity queries to catch cases where related
functions do not have the same volatility and leakproof markings.
This would clearly be bogus for commutator or negator pairs. In the
domain of btree comparison functions, we do have some exceptions,
because text equality is leakproof but inequality comparisons are not.
That's odd on first glance but is reasonable (for now anyway) given
the much greater complexity of the inequality code paths.
Alvaro Herrera [Mon, 31 Dec 2018 17:40:33 +0000 (14:40 -0300)]
Remove some useless code
In commit 8b08f7d4820f I added member relationId to IndexStmt struct.
I'm now not sure why; DefineIndex doesn't need it, since the relation
OID is passed as a separate argument anyway. Remove it.
Also remove a redundant assignment to the relationId argument (it wasn't
redundant when added by commit e093dcdd285, but should have been removed
in commit 5f173040e3), and use relationId instead of stmt->relation when
locking the relation in the second phase of CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY,
which is not only confusing but it means we resolve the name twice for
no reason.
While rearranging code in tidpath.c, I overlooked the fact that we ought
to check restriction_is_securely_promotable when trying to use a join
clause as a TID qual. Since tideq itself is leakproof, this wouldn't
really allow any interesting leak AFAICT, but it still seems like we
had better check it.
For consistency with the corresponding logic in indxpath.c, also
check rinfo->pseudoconstant. I'm not sure right now that it's
possible for that to be set in a join clause, but if it were,
a match couldn't be made anyway.
Tom Lane [Sun, 30 Dec 2018 20:40:04 +0000 (15:40 -0500)]
Add a hash opclass for type "tid".
Up to now we've not worried much about joins where the join key is a
relation's CTID column, reasoning that storing a table's CTIDs in some
other table would be pretty useless. However, there are use-cases for
this sort of query involving self-joins, so that argument doesn't really
hold water.
With larger relations, a merge or hash join is desirable. We had a btree
opclass for type "tid", allowing merge joins on CTID, but no hash opclass
so that hash joins weren't possible. Add the missing infrastructure.
This also potentially enables hash aggregation on "tid", though the
use-cases for that aren't too clear.
Tom Lane [Sun, 30 Dec 2018 20:24:28 +0000 (15:24 -0500)]
Support parameterized TidPaths.
Up to now we've not worried much about joins where the join key is a
relation's CTID column, reasoning that storing a table's CTIDs in some
other table would be pretty useless. However, there are use-cases for
this sort of query involving self-joins, so that argument doesn't really
hold water.
This patch allows generating plans for joins on CTID that use a nestloop
with inner TidScan, similar to what we might do with an index on the join
column. This is the most efficient way to join when the outer side of
the nestloop is expected to yield relatively few rows.
This change requires upgrading tidpath.c and the generated TidPaths
to work with RestrictInfos instead of bare qual clauses, but that's
long-postponed technical debt anyway.
Tom Lane [Sun, 30 Dec 2018 18:42:04 +0000 (13:42 -0500)]
Teach eval_const_expressions to constant-fold LEAST/GREATEST expressions.
Doing this requires an assumption that the invoked btree comparison
function is immutable. We could check that explicitly, but in other
places such as contain_mutable_functions we just assume that it's true,
so we may as well do likewise here. (If the comparison function's
behavior isn't immutable, the sort order in indexes built with it would
be unstable, so it seems certainly wrong for it not to be so.)
Michael Paquier [Sun, 30 Dec 2018 05:35:15 +0000 (14:35 +0900)]
Trigger stmt_beg and stmt_end for top-level statement blocks of PL/pgSQL
PL/pgSQL provides a set of callbacks which can be used for extra
instrumentation of functions written in this language called at function
setup, begin and end, as well as statement begin and end. When calling
a routine, a trigger, or an event trigger, statement callbacks are not
getting called for the top-level statement block leading to an
inconsistent handling compared to the other statements. This
inconsistency can potentially complicate extensions doing
instrumentation work on top of PL/pgSQL, so this commit makes sure that
all statement blocks, including the top-level one, go through the
correct corresponding callbacks.
Author: Pavel Stehule Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAFj8pRArEANsaUjo5in9_iQt0vKf9ecwDAmsdN_EBwL13ps12A@mail.gmail.com
Tom Lane [Sat, 29 Dec 2018 22:56:06 +0000 (17:56 -0500)]
Use pg_strong_random() to select each server process's random seed.
Previously we just set the seed based on process ID and start timestamp.
Both those values are directly available within the session, and can
be found out or guessed by other users too, making the session's series
of random(3) values fairly predictable. Up to now, our backend-internal
uses of random(3) haven't seemed security-critical, but commit 88bdbd3f7
added one that potentially is: when using log_statement_sample_rate, a
user might be able to predict which of his SQL statements will get logged.
To improve this situation, upgrade the per-process seed initialization
method to use pg_strong_random() if available, greatly reducing the
predictability of the initial seed value. This adds a few tens of
microseconds to process start time, but since backend startup time is
at least a couple of milliseconds, that seems an acceptable price.
This means that pg_strong_random() needs to be able to run without
reliance on any backend infrastructure, since it will be invoked
before any of that is up. It was safe for that already, but adjust
comments and #include commands to make it clearer.
Tom Lane [Sat, 29 Dec 2018 22:33:27 +0000 (17:33 -0500)]
Use a separate random seed for SQL random()/setseed() functions.
Previously, the SQL random() function depended on libc's random(3),
and setseed() invoked srandom(3). This results in interference between
these functions and backend-internal uses of random(3). We'd never paid
too much mind to that, but in the wake of commit 88bdbd3f7 which added
log_statement_sample_rate, the interference arguably has a security
consequence: if log_statement_sample_rate is active then an unprivileged
user could probably control which if any of his SQL commands get logged,
by issuing setseed() at the right times. That seems bad.
To fix this reliably, we need random() and setseed() to use their own
private random state variable. Standard random(3) isn't amenable to such
usage, so let's switch to pg_erand48(). It's hard to say whether that's
more or less "random" than any particular platform's version of random(3),
but it does have a wider seed value and a longer period than are required
by POSIX, so we can hope that this isn't a big downgrade. Also, we should
now have uniform behavior of random() across platforms, which is worth
something.
While at it, upgrade the per-process seed initialization method to use
pg_strong_random() if available, greatly reducing the predictability
of the initial seed value. (I'll separately do something similar for
the internal uses of random().)
In addition to forestalling the possible security problem, this has a
benefit in the other direction, which is that we can now document
setseed() as guaranteeing a reproducible sequence of random() values.
Previously, because of the possibility of internal calls of random(3),
we could not promise any such thing.
Michael Paquier [Fri, 28 Dec 2018 23:24:11 +0000 (08:24 +0900)]
Improve description of DEFAULT_XLOG_SEG_SIZE in pg_config.h
This was incorrectly referring to --walsegsize, and its description is
rewritten in a clearer way.
Author: Ian Barwick, Tom Lane Reviewed-by: Álvaro Herrera, Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/08534fc6-119a-c498-254e-d5acc4e6bf85@2ndquadrant.com
Tom Lane [Fri, 28 Dec 2018 20:06:48 +0000 (15:06 -0500)]
Marginal performance hacking in erand48.c.
Get rid of the multiplier and addend variables in favor of hard-wired
constants. Do the multiply-and-add using uint64 arithmetic, rather
than manually combining several narrower multiplications and additions.
Make _dorand48 return the full-width new random value, and have its
callers use that directly (after suitable masking) rather than
reconstructing what they need from the unsigned short[] representation.
On my machine, this is good for a nearly factor-of-2 speedup of
pg_erand48(), probably mostly from needing just one call of ldexp()
rather than three. The wins for the other functions are smaller
but measurable. While none of the existing call sites are really
performance-critical, a cycle saved is a cycle earned; and besides
the machine code is smaller this way (at least on x86_64).
Patch by me, but the original idea to optimize this by switching
to int64 arithmetic is from Fabien Coelho.
Tom Lane [Fri, 28 Dec 2018 19:08:24 +0000 (14:08 -0500)]
Fix latent problem with pg_jrand48().
POSIX specifies that jrand48() returns a signed 32-bit value (in the
range [-2^31, 2^31)), but our code was returning an unsigned 32-bit
value (in the range [0, 2^32)). This doesn't actually matter to any
existing call site, because they all cast the "long" result to int32
or uint32; but it will doubtless bite somebody in the future.
To fix, cast the arithmetic result to int32 explicitly before the
compiler widens it to long (if widening is needed).
While at it, upgrade this file's far-short-of-project-style comments.
Had there been some peer pressure to document pg_jrand48() properly,
maybe this thinko wouldn't have gotten committed to begin with.
Backpatch to v10 where pg_jrand48() was added, just in case somebody
back-patches a fix that uses it and depends on the standard behavior.
Michael Paquier [Fri, 28 Dec 2018 01:19:14 +0000 (10:19 +0900)]
Clarify referential actions in docs of CREATE/ALTER TABLE
The documentation of ON DELETE and ON UPDATE uses the term "action",
which is also used on the ALTER TABLE page for other purposes. This
commit renames the term to "referential_action", which is more
consistent with the SQL specification. The new term is now used on the
documentation of both CREATE TABLE and ALTER TABLE for consistency.
Reduce length of GIN predicate locking isolation test suite
Isolation test suite of GIN predicate locking was criticized for being too slow,
especially under Valgrind. This commit is intended to accelerate it. Tests are
simplified in the following ways.
1) Amount of data is reduced. We're now close to the minimal amount of data,
which produces at least one posting tree and at least two pages of entry
tree.
2) Three isolation tests are merged into one.
3) Only one tuple is queried from posting tree. So, locking of index is the
same, but tuple locks are not propagated to relation lock. Also, it is
faster.
4) Test cases itself are simplified. Now each test case run just one INSERT
and one SELECT involving GIN, which either conflict or not.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20181204000740.ok2q53nvkftwu43a%40alap3.anarazel.de Reported-by: Andres Freund Tested-by: Andrew Dunstan
Author: Alexander Korotkov
Backpatch-through: 11
Peter Eisentraut [Thu, 27 Dec 2018 09:07:46 +0000 (10:07 +0100)]
Remove obsolete IndexIs* macros
Remove IndexIsValid(), IndexIsReady(), IndexIsLive() in favor of
accessing the index structure directly. These macros haven't been
used consistently, and the original reason of maintaining source
compatibility with PostgreSQL 9.2 is gone.
Remove entry tree root conflict checking from GIN predicate locking
According to README we acquire predicate locks on entry tree leafs and posting
tree roots. However, when ginFindLeafPage() is going to lock leaf in exclusive
mode, then it checks root for conflicts regardless whether it's a entry or
posting tree. Assuming that we never place predicate lock on entry tree root
(excluding corner case when root is leaf), this check is redundant. This
commit removes this check. Now, root conflict checking is controlled by
separate argument of ginFindLeafPage().
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAPpHfdv7rrDyy%3DMgsaK-L9kk0AH7az0B-mdC3w3p0FSb9uoyEg%40mail.gmail.com
Author: Alexander Korotkov
Backpatch-through: 11
Michael Paquier [Thu, 27 Dec 2018 01:16:19 +0000 (10:16 +0900)]
Ignore inherited temp relations from other sessions when truncating
Inheritance trees can include temporary tables if the parent is
permanent, which makes possible the presence of multiple temporary
children from different sessions. Trying to issue a TRUNCATE on the
parent in this scenario causes a failure, so similarly to any other
queries just ignore such cases, which makes TRUNCATE work
transparently.
This makes truncation behave similarly to any other DML query working on
the parent table with queries which need to be work on the children. A
set of isolation tests is added to cover basic cases.
Reported-by: Zhou Digoal
Author: Amit Langote, Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/15565-ce67a48d0244436a@postgresql.org
Backpatch-through: 9.4
Tom Lane [Wed, 26 Dec 2018 21:08:17 +0000 (16:08 -0500)]
Fix failure to check for open() or fsync() failures.
While it seems OK to not be concerned about fsync() failure for a
pre-existing signal file, it's not OK to not even check for open()
failure. This at least causes complaints from static analyzers,
and I think on some platforms passing -1 to fsync() or close() might
trigger assertion-type failures. Also add (void) casts to make clear
that we're ignoring fsync's result intentionally.
Oversights in commit 2dedf4d9a, noted by Coverity.
Tom Lane [Wed, 26 Dec 2018 20:30:10 +0000 (15:30 -0500)]
Fix portability failure introduced in commits d2b0b60e7 et al.
I made a frontend fprintf() format use %m, forgetting that that's only
safe in HEAD not the back branches; prior to 96bf88d52 and d6c55de1f,
it would work on glibc platforms but not elsewhere. Revert to using
%s ... strerror(errno) as the code did before.
We could have left HEAD as-is, but for code consistency across branches,
I chose to apply this patch there too.
Michael Paquier [Tue, 25 Dec 2018 05:20:46 +0000 (14:20 +0900)]
Improve tab completion of ALTER INDEX/TABLE with SET STATISTICS in psql
This fixes two issues with the completion of ALTER TABLE and ALTER INDEX
after SET STATISTICS is typed, trying to suggest schema objects while
the grammar only allows integers.
The tab completion of ALTER INDEX is made smarter by handling properly
more patterns. COLUMN is an optional keyword, but as no column numbers
can be suggested yet as possible input simply adjust the completion so
as no incorrect queries are generated.
Author: Michael Paquier Reviewed-by: Tatsuro Yamada
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20181219092255.GC680@paquier.xyz
Michael Paquier [Mon, 24 Dec 2018 11:24:16 +0000 (20:24 +0900)]
Prioritize history files when archiving
At the end of recovery for the post-promotion process, a new history
file is created followed by the last partial segment of the previous
timeline. Based on the timing, the archiver would first try to archive
the last partial segment and then the history file. This can delay the
detection of a new timeline taken, particularly depending on the time it
takes to transfer the last partial segment as it delays the moment the
history file of the new timeline gets archived. This can cause promoted
standbys to use the same timeline as one already taken depending on the
circumstances if multiple instances look at archives at the same
location.
This commit changes the order of archiving so as history files are
archived in priority over other file types, which reduces the likelihood
of the same timeline being taken (still not reducing the window to
zero), and it makes the archiver behave more consistently with the
startup process doing its post-promotion business.
Author: David Steele Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier, Kyotaro Horiguchi
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/929068cf-69e1-bba2-9dc0-e05986aed471@pgmasters.net
Backpatch-through: 9.5
Michael Paquier [Sun, 23 Dec 2018 07:42:22 +0000 (16:42 +0900)]
Disable WAL-skipping optimization for COPY on views and foreign tables
COPY can skip writing WAL when loading data on a table which has been
created in the same transaction as the one loading the data, however
this cannot work on views or foreign table as this would result in
trying to flush relation files which do not exist. So disable the
optimization so as commands are able to work the same way with any
configuration of wal_level.
Tests are added to cover the different cases, which need to have
wal_level set to minimal to allow the problem to show up, and that is
not the default configuration.
Reported-by: Luis M. Carril, Etsuro Fujita
Author: Amit Langote, Michael Paquier Reviewed-by: Etsuro Fujita
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/15552-c64aa14c5c22f63c@postgresql.org
Backpatch-through: 10, where support for COPY on views has been added,
while v11 has added support for COPY on foreign tables.
Peter Eisentraut [Sat, 22 Dec 2018 05:53:37 +0000 (06:53 +0100)]
Add WRITE_*_ARRAY macros
Add WRITE_ATTRNUMBER_ARRAY, WRITE_OID_ARRAY, WRITE_INT_ARRAY,
WRITE_BOOL_ARRAY macros to outfuncs.c, mirroring the existing
READ_*_ARRAY macros in readfuncs.c.
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/8f2ebc67-e75f-9478-f5a5-bbbf090b1f8d%402ndquadrant.com
Check for conflicting queries during replay of gistvacuumpage()
013ebc0a7b implements so-called GiST microvacuum. That is gistgettuple() marks
index tuples as dead when kill_prior_tuple is set. Later, when new tuple
insertion claims page space, those dead index tuples are physically deleted
from page. When this deletion is replayed on standby, it might conflict with
read-only queries. But 013ebc0a7b doesn't handle this. That may lead to
disappearance of some tuples from read-only snapshots on standby.
This commit implements resolving of conflicts between replay of GiST microvacuum
and standby queries. On the master we implement new WAL record type
XLOG_GIST_DELETE, which comprises necessary information. On stable releases
we've to be tricky to keep WAL compatibility. Information required for conflict
processing is just appended to data of XLOG_GIST_PAGE_UPDATE record. So,
PostgreSQL version, which doesn't know about conflict processing, will just
ignore that.
Reported-by: Andres Freund Diagnosed-by: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20181212224524.scafnlyjindmrbe6%40alap3.anarazel.de
Author: Alexander Korotkov
Backpatch-through: 9.6
Tom Lane [Thu, 20 Dec 2018 21:21:51 +0000 (16:21 -0500)]
Base information_schema.sql_identifier domain on name, not varchar.
The SQL spec says that sql_identifier is a domain over varchar,
but it also says that that domain is supposed to represent the set
of valid identifiers for the implementation, in particular applying
a length limit matching the implementation's identifier length limit.
We were declaring sql_identifier as just "character varying", thus
duplicating what the spec says about base type, but entirely failing
at the rest of it.
Instead, let's declare sql_identifier as a domain over type "name".
(We can drop the COLLATE "C" added by commit 6b0faf723, since that's
now implicit in "name".) With the recent improvements to name's
comparison support, there's not a lot of functional difference between
name and varchar. So although in principle this is a spec deviation,
it's a pretty minor one. And correctly enforcing PG's name length limit
is a good thing; on balance this seems closer to the intent of the spec
than what we had.
But that's all just language-lawyering. The *real* reason to do this is
that it makes sql_identifier columns exposed by information_schema views
be just direct representations of the underlying "name" catalog columns,
eliminating a semantic mismatch that was disastrous for performance of
typical queries on the information_schema. In combination with the
recent change to allow dropping no-op CoerceToDomain nodes, this allows
(for example) queries such as
select ... from information_schema.tables where table_name = 'foo';
to produce an indexscan rather than a seqscan on pg_class.
Tom Lane [Thu, 20 Dec 2018 20:58:58 +0000 (15:58 -0500)]
Avoid producing over-length specific_name outputs in information_schema.
information_schema output columns that are declared as being type
sql_identifier are supposed to conform to the implementation's rules
for valid identifiers, in particular the identifier length limit.
Several places potentially violated this limit by concatenating a
function's name and OID. (The OID is added to ensure name uniqueness
within a schema, since the spec doesn't expect function name overloading.)
Simply truncating the concatenation result to fit in "name" won't do,
since losing part of the OID might wind up giving non-unique results.
Instead, let's truncate the function name as necessary.
The most practical way to do that is to do it in a C function; the
information_schema.sql script doesn't have easy access to the value
of NAMEDATALEN, nor does it have an easy way to truncate on the basis
of resulting byte-length rather than number of characters.
(There are still a couple of places that cast concatenation results to
sql_identifier, but as far as I can see they are guaranteed not to produce
over-length strings, at least with the normal value of NAMEDATALEN.)
Alvaro Herrera [Thu, 20 Dec 2018 19:42:13 +0000 (16:42 -0300)]
Fix lock level used for partition when detaching it
For probably bogus reasons, we acquire only AccessShareLock on the
partition when we try to detach it from its parent partitioned table.
This can cause ugly things to happen if another transaction is doing
any sort of DDL to the partition concurrently.
Upgrade that lock to ShareUpdateExclusiveLock, which per discussion
seems to be the minimum needed.
Tom Lane [Thu, 20 Dec 2018 18:55:11 +0000 (13:55 -0500)]
Doc: fix ancient mistake in search_path documentation.
"$user" in a search_path string is replaced by CURRENT_USER not
SESSION_USER. (It actually was SESSION_USER in the initial implementation,
but we changed it shortly later, and evidently forgot to fix the docs to
match.)
Tom Lane [Thu, 20 Dec 2018 17:19:07 +0000 (12:19 -0500)]
Make bitmapset.c use 64-bit bitmap words on 64-bit machines.
Using the full width of the CPU's native word size shouldn't cost
anything in typical cases. When working with large bitmapsets,
this halves the number of operations needed for many common BMS
operations. On the right sort of test case, a measurable improvement
is obtained.
Alvaro Herrera [Thu, 20 Dec 2018 13:58:22 +0000 (10:58 -0300)]
DETACH PARTITION: hold locks on indexes until end of transaction
When a partition is detached from its parent, we acquire locks on all
attached indexes to also detach them ... but we release those locks
immediately. This is a violation of the policy of keeping locks on user
objects to the end of the transaction. Bug introduced in 8b08f7d4820f.
It's unclear that there are any ill effects possible, but it's clearly
wrong nonetheless. It's likely that bad behavior *is* possible, but
mostly because the relation that the index is for is only locked with
AccessShareLock, which is an older bug that shall be fixed separately.
While touching that line of code, close the index opened with
index_open() using index_close() instead of relation_close().
No difference in practice, but let's be consistent.
Michael Paquier [Thu, 20 Dec 2018 05:24:42 +0000 (14:24 +0900)]
Add more tab completion for CREATE TABLE in psql
The following completion patterns are added:
- CREATE TABLE <name> with '(', OF or PARTITION OF.
- CREATE TABLE <name> OF with list of composite types.
- CREATE TABLE name (...) with PARTITION OF, WITH, TABLESPACE, ON
COMMIT (depending on the presence of a temporary table).
- CREATE TABLE ON COMMIT with actions (only for temporary tables).
Author: Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/d8j1s77kdbb.fsf@dalvik.ping.uio.no
Greg Stark [Wed, 19 Dec 2018 23:28:35 +0000 (18:28 -0500)]
Fix ADD IF NOT EXISTS used in conjunction with ALTER TABLE ONLY
The flag for IF NOT EXISTS was only being passed down in the normal
recursing case. It's been this way since originally added in 9.6 in
commit 2cd40adb85 so backpatch back to 9.6.
Tom Lane [Wed, 19 Dec 2018 22:46:07 +0000 (17:46 -0500)]
Add text-vs-name cross-type operators, and unify name_ops with text_ops.
Now that name comparison has effectively the same behavior as text
comparison, we might as well merge the name_ops opfamily into text_ops,
allowing cross-type comparisons to be processed without forcing a
datatype coercion first. We need do little more than add cross-type
operators to make the opfamily complete, and fix one or two places
in the planner that assumed text_ops was a single-datatype opfamily.
I chose to unify hash name_ops into hash text_ops as well, since the
types have compatible hashing semantics. This allows marking the
new cross-type equality operators as oprcanhash.
(Note: this doesn't remove the name_ops opclasses, so there's no
breakage of index definitions. Those opclasses are just reparented
into the text_ops opfamily.)
Tom Lane [Wed, 19 Dec 2018 22:35:12 +0000 (17:35 -0500)]
Make type "name" collation-aware.
The "name" comparison operators now all support collations, making them
functionally equivalent to "text" comparisons, except for the different
physical representation of the datatype. They do, in fact, mostly share
the varstr_cmp and varstr_sortsupport infrastructure, which has been
slightly enlarged to handle the case.
To avoid changes in the default behavior of the datatype, set name's
typcollation to C_COLLATION_OID not DEFAULT_COLLATION_OID, so that
by default comparisons to a name value will continue to use strcmp
semantics. (This would have been the case for system catalog columns
anyway, because of commit 6b0faf723, but doing this makes it true for
user-created name columns as well. In particular, this avoids
locale-dependent changes in our regression test results.)
In consequence, tweak a couple of places that made assumptions about
collatable base types always having typcollation DEFAULT_COLLATION_OID.
I have not, however, attempted to relax the restriction that user-
defined collatable types must have that. Hence, "name" doesn't
behave quite like a user-defined type; it acts more like a domain
with COLLATE "C". (Conceivably, if we ever get rid of the need for
catalog name columns to be fixed-length, "name" could actually become
such a domain over text. But that'd be a pretty massive undertaking,
and I'm not volunteering.)
Tom Lane [Wed, 19 Dec 2018 16:41:36 +0000 (11:41 -0500)]
Small improvements for allocation logic in ginHeapTupleFastCollect().
Avoid repetitive calls to repalloc() when the required size of the
collector array grows more than 2x in one call. Also ensure that the
array size is a power of 2 (since palloc will probably consume a power
of 2 anyway) and doesn't start out very small (which'd likely just lead
to extra repallocs).
Peter Geoghegan [Wed, 19 Dec 2018 05:40:38 +0000 (21:40 -0800)]
Remove obsolete nbtree duplicate entries comment.
Remove a comment from the Berkeley days claiming that nbtree must
disambiguate duplicate keys within _bt_moveright(). There is no special
care taken around duplicates within _bt_moveright(), at least since
commit 9e85183bfc3 removed inscrutable _bt_moveright() code to handle
pages full of duplicates.
Peter Geoghegan [Wed, 19 Dec 2018 00:59:50 +0000 (16:59 -0800)]
Correct obsolete nbtree recovery comments.
Commit 40dae7ec537, which made the handling of interrupted nbtree page
splits more robust, removed an nbtree-specific end-of-recovery cleanup
step. This meant that it was no longer possible to complete an
interrupted page split during recovery. However, a reference to
recovery as a reason for using a NULL stack while inserting into a
parent page was missed. Remove the reference.
Remove a similar obsolete reference to recovery that was introduced much
more recently, as part of the btree fastpath optimization enhancement
that made it into Postgres 11 (commit 2b272734, and follow-up commits).
Backpatch: 11-, where the fastpath optimization was introduced.
Tom Lane [Tue, 18 Dec 2018 17:48:15 +0000 (12:48 -0500)]
Make collation-aware system catalog columns use "C" collation.
Up to now we allowed text columns in system catalogs to use collation
"default", but that isn't really safe because it might mean something
different in template0 than it means in a database cloned from template0.
In particular, this could mean that cloned pg_statistic entries for such
columns weren't entirely valid, possibly leading to bogus planner
estimates, though (probably) not any outright failures.
In the wake of commit 5e0928005, a better solution is available: if we
label such columns with "C" collation, then their pg_statistic entries
will also use that collation and hence will be valid independently of
the database collation.
This also provides a cleaner solution for indexes on such columns than
the hack added by commit 0b28ea79c: the indexes will naturally inherit
"C" collation and don't have to be forced to use text_pattern_ops.
Also, with the planned improvement of type "name" to be collation-aware,
this policy will apply cleanly to both text and name columns.
Because of the pg_statistic angle, we should also apply this policy
to the tables in information_schema. This patch does that by adjusting
information_schema's textual domain types to specify "C" collation.
That has the user-visible effect that order-sensitive comparisons to
textual information_schema view columns will now use "C" collation
by default. The SQL standard says that the collation of those view
columns is implementation-defined, so I think this is legal per spec.
At some point this might allow for translation of such comparisons
into indexable conditions on the underlying "name" columns, although
additional work will be needed before that can happen.
Tom Lane [Tue, 18 Dec 2018 16:19:38 +0000 (11:19 -0500)]
Fix ancient thinko in mergejoin cost estimation.
"rescanratio" was computed as 1 + rescanned-tuples / total-inner-tuples,
which is sensible if it's to be multiplied by total-inner-tuples or a cost
value corresponding to scanning all the inner tuples. But in reality it
was (mostly) multiplied by inner_rows or a related cost, numbers that take
into account the possibility of stopping short of scanning the whole inner
relation thanks to a limited key range in the outer relation. This'd
still make sense if we could expect that stopping short would result in a
proportional decrease in the number of tuples that have to be rescanned.
It does not, however. The argument that establishes the validity of our
estimate for that number is independent of whether we scan all of the inner
relation or stop short, and experimentation also shows that stopping short
doesn't reduce the number of rescanned tuples. So the correct calculation
is 1 + rescanned-tuples / inner_rows, and we should be sure to multiply
that by inner_rows or a corresponding cost value.
Most of the time this doesn't make much difference, but if we have
both a high rescan rate (due to lots of duplicate values) and an outer
key range much smaller than the inner key range, then the error can
be significant, leading to a large underestimate of the cost associated
with rescanning.
Per report from Vijaykumar Jain. This thinko appears to go all the way
back to the introduction of the rescan estimation logic in commit 70fba7043, so back-patch to all supported branches.
Michael Paquier [Tue, 18 Dec 2018 07:37:51 +0000 (16:37 +0900)]
Include partitioned indexes to system view pg_indexes
pg_tables already includes partitioned tables, so for consistency
pg_indexes should show partitioned indexes.
Author: Suraj Kharage Reviewed-by: Amit Langote, Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAF1DzPVrYo4XNTEnc=PqVp6aLJc7LFYpYR4rX=_5pV=wJ2KdZg@mail.gmail.com
Michael Paquier [Tue, 18 Dec 2018 00:28:16 +0000 (09:28 +0900)]
Include ALTER INDEX SET STATISTICS in pg_dump
The new grammar pattern of ALTER INDEX SET STATISTICS able to use column
numbers on top of the existing column names introduced by commit 5b6d13e
forgot to add support for the feature in pg_dump, so defining statistics
on index columns was missing from the dumps, potentially causing silent
planning problems with a subsequent restore.
pg_dump ought to not use column names in what it generates as these are
automatically generated by the server and could conflict with real
relation attributes with matching patterns. "expr" and "exprN", N
incremented automatically after the creation of the first one, are used
as default attribute names for index expressions, and that could easily
match what is defined in other relations, causing the dumps to fail if
some of those attributes are renamed at some point. So to avoid any
problems, the new grammar with column numbers gets used.
Reported-by: Ronan Dunklau
Author: Michael Paquier Reviewed-by: Tom Lane, Adrien Nayrat, Amul Sul
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAARsnT3UQ4V=yDNW468w8RqHfYiY9mpn2r_c5UkBJ97NAApUEw@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 11, where the new syntax has been introduced.
Tom Lane [Mon, 17 Dec 2018 18:50:07 +0000 (13:50 -0500)]
Drop support for getting signal descriptions from sys_siglist[].
It appears that all platforms that have sys_siglist[] also have
strsignal(), making that fallback case in pg_strsignal() dead code.
Getting rid of it allows dropping a configure test, which seems worth
more than providing textual signal descriptions on whatever platforms
might still hypothetically have use for the fallback case.
Alvaro Herrera [Mon, 17 Dec 2018 18:37:40 +0000 (15:37 -0300)]
Fix tablespace handling for partitioned tables
When partitioned tables were introduced, we failed to realize that by
copying the tablespace handling for other relation kinds with no
physical storage we were causing the secondary effect that their
partitions would not automatically inherit the tablespace setting. This
is surprising and unhelpful, so change it to adopt the behavior
introduced in pg11 (commit 33e6c34c3267) for partitioned indexes: the
parent relation remembers the tablespace specification, which is then
used for any new partitions that don't declare one.
Because this commit changes behavior of the TABLESPACE clause for
partitioned tables (it's no longer a no-op), it is not backpatched.
Author: David Rowley, Álvaro Herrera Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAKJS1f9SxVzqDrGD1teosFd6jBMM0UEaa14_8mRvcWE19Tu0hA@mail.gmail.com
Amit Kapila [Mon, 17 Dec 2018 08:37:27 +0000 (14:07 +0530)]
Remove extra semicolons.
Reported-by: David Rowley
Author: David Rowley Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila
Backpatch-through: 10
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAKJS1f8EneeYyzzvdjahVZ6gbAHFkHbSFB5m_C0Y6TUJs9Dgdg@mail.gmail.com
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