Tom Lane [Fri, 22 Aug 2014 17:17:58 +0000 (13:17 -0400)]
Fix corner-case behaviors in JSON/JSONB field extraction operators.
Cause the path extraction operators to return their lefthand input,
not NULL, if the path array has no elements. This seems more consistent
since the case ought to correspond to applying the simple extraction
operator (->) zero times.
Cause other corner cases in field/element/path extraction to return NULL
rather than failing. This behavior is arguably more useful than throwing
an error, since it allows an expression index using these operators to be
built even when not all values in the column are suitable for the
extraction being indexed. Moreover, we already had multiple
inconsistencies between the path extraction operators and the simple
extraction operators, as well as inconsistencies between the JSON and
JSONB code paths. Adopt a uniform rule of returning NULL rather than
throwing an error when the JSON input does not have a structure that
permits the request to be satisfied.
Back-patch to 9.4. Update the release notes to list this as a behavior
change since 9.3.
Change the way pg_basebackup's tablespace mapping is implemented.
Previously, we would first create the symlinks the way they are in the
original system, and at the end replace them with the mapped symlinks.
That never really made much sense, so now we create the symlink pointing
to the correct location to begin with, so that there's no need to fix
them at the end.
The old coding didn't work correctly on Windows, because Windows junction
points look more like directories than files, and ought to be removed with
rmdir rather than unlink. Also, it incorrectly used "%d" rather than "%u"
to print an Oid, but that's gone now.
Report and patch by Amit Kapila, with minor changes by me. Reviewed by
MauMau. Backpatch to 9.4, where the --tablespace feature was added.
Stephen Frost [Thu, 21 Aug 2014 23:06:17 +0000 (19:06 -0400)]
Rework 'MOVE ALL' to 'ALTER .. ALL IN TABLESPACE'
As 'ALTER TABLESPACE .. MOVE ALL' really didn't change the tablespace
but instead changed objects inside tablespaces, it made sense to
rework the syntax and supporting functions to operate under the
'ALTER (TABLE|INDEX|MATERIALIZED VIEW)' syntax and to be in
tablecmds.c.
Pointed out by Alvaro, who also suggested the new syntax.
Andres Freund [Thu, 21 Aug 2014 22:28:37 +0000 (00:28 +0200)]
Add pinning_backends column to the pg_buffercache extension.
The new column shows how many backends have a buffer pinned. That can
be useful during development or to diagnose production issues
e.g. caused by vacuum waiting for cleanup locks.
To handle upgrades transparently - the extension might be used in
views - deal with callers expecting the old number of columns.
Tom Lane [Wed, 20 Aug 2014 23:05:05 +0000 (19:05 -0400)]
More regression test cases for json/jsonb extraction operators.
Cover some cases I omitted before, such as null and empty-string
elements in the path array. This exposes another inconsistency:
json_extract_path complains about empty path elements but
jsonb_extract_path does not.
Tom Lane [Wed, 20 Aug 2014 20:48:35 +0000 (16:48 -0400)]
Fix core dump in jsonb #> operator, and add regression test cases.
jsonb's #> operator segfaulted (dereferencing a null pointer) if the RHS
was a zero-length array, as reported in bug #11207 from Justin Van Winkle.
json's #> operator returns NULL in such cases, so for the moment let's
make jsonb act likewise.
Also add a bunch of regression test queries memorializing the -> and #>
operators' behavior for this and other corner cases.
There is a good argument for changing some of these behaviors, as they
are not very consistent with each other, and throwing an error isn't
necessarily a desirable behavior for operators that are likely to be
used in indexes. However, everybody can agree that a core dump is the
Wrong Thing, and we need test cases even if we decide to change their
expected output later.
Use comma+space as the separator in the default search_path.
While the space is optional, it seems nicer to be consistent with what
you get if you do "SET search_path=...". SET always normalizes the
separator to be comma+space.
The commit changed the code so that it causes an errors when
IDENTIFY_SYSTEM returns three columns. But which prevents us
from using the replication-related utilities against the server
with older version. This is not what we want. For that
compatibility, we allow the utilities to receive three columns
as the result of IDENTIFY_SYSTEM eventhough it actually returns
four columns in 9.4 or later.
Fujii Masao [Tue, 19 Aug 2014 08:26:07 +0000 (17:26 +0900)]
Fix bug in checking of IDENTIFY_SYSTEM result.
5a991ef8692ed0d170b44958a81a6bd70e90585 added new column into
the result of IDENTIFY_SYSTEM command. But it was not reflected into
several codes checking that result. Specifically though the number of
columns in the result was increased to 4, it was still compared with 3
in some replication codes.
Back-patch to 9.4 where the number of columns in IDENTIFY_SYSTEM
result was increased.
Noah Misch [Tue, 19 Aug 2014 03:00:38 +0000 (23:00 -0400)]
Install libpq DLL with $(INSTALL_SHLIB).
Programs need execute permission on a DLL file to load it. MSYS
"install" ignores the mode argument, and our Cygwin build statically
links libpq into programs. That explains the lack of buildfarm trouble.
Back-patch to 9.0 (all supported versions).
Noah Misch [Tue, 19 Aug 2014 02:59:31 +0000 (22:59 -0400)]
Replace a few strncmp() calls with strlcpy().
strncmp() is a specialized API unsuited for routine copying into
fixed-size buffers. On a system where the length of a single filename
can exceed MAXPGPATH, the pg_archivecleanup change prevents a simple
crash in the subsequent strlen(). Few filesystems support names that
long, and calling pg_archivecleanup with untrusted input is still not a
credible use case. Therefore, no back-patch.
Noah Misch [Tue, 19 Aug 2014 02:58:57 +0000 (22:58 -0400)]
Make pg_service.conf sample LDIF more portable.
The aboriginal sample placed connection parameters in
groupOfUniqueNames/uniqueMember. OpenLDAP, at least as early as version
2.4.23, rejects uniqueMember entries that do not conform to the syntax
for a distinguished name. Use device/description, which is free-form.
Back-patch to 9.4 for web site visibility.
Noah Misch [Tue, 19 Aug 2014 02:58:25 +0000 (22:58 -0400)]
Document new trigger-related forms of ALTER FOREIGN TABLE.
Oversight in commit 7cbe57c34dec4860243e6d0f81738cfbb6e5d069.
Back-patch to 9.4, where that commit first appeared. In passing,
release-note the FDW API postcondition change from the same commit.
Move the functions within the file so that public interface functions come
first, followed by internal functions. Previously, be_tls_write was first,
then internal stuff, and finally the rest of the public interface, which
clearly didn't make much sense.
Tom Lane [Mon, 18 Aug 2014 05:17:49 +0000 (01:17 -0400)]
Fix obsolete mention of non-int64 support in CREATE SEQUENCE documentation.
The old text explained what happened if we didn't have working int64
arithmetic. Since that case has been explicitly rejected by configure
since 8.4.3, documenting it in the 9.x branches can only produce confusion.
Tom Lane [Mon, 18 Aug 2014 02:57:15 +0000 (22:57 -0400)]
Use ISO 8601 format for dates converted to JSON, too.
Commit f30015b6d794c15d52abbb3df3a65081fbefb1ed made this happen for
timestamp and timestamptz, but it seems pretty inconsistent to not
do it for simple dates as well.
Fujii Masao [Mon, 18 Aug 2014 02:18:53 +0000 (11:18 +0900)]
Add missing index terms for replication commands in the document.
Previously only CREATE_REPLICATION_SLOT was exposed as an index term.
That's odd and there is no reason not to add index terms for other
replication commands.
Tom Lane [Mon, 18 Aug 2014 02:26:44 +0000 (22:26 -0400)]
Make an editorial pass over the 9.4 release notes.
Update the notes to include commits through today, and do a lot of
wordsmithing and markup adjustment. Notably, don't use <link> where <xref>
will do; since we got rid of the text-format HISTORY file, there is no
longer a reason to avoid <xref>.
Tom Lane [Sun, 17 Aug 2014 19:59:03 +0000 (15:59 -0400)]
Improve DISCARD documentation.
The new DISCARD SEQUENCES option was inadequately described, and hadn't
been mentioned at all in the initial Description paragraph. Rather than
rectifying the latter the hard way, it seemed better to rewrite the
description as a summary, instead of having it basically duplicate
statements made under Parameters. Be more consistent about the ordering
of the options, too.
Peter Eisentraut [Sun, 17 Aug 2014 13:10:28 +0000 (09:10 -0400)]
doc: Work around stylesheet bug for man build
The upstream stylesheets for man output insert a *roff comment for an
occurrence of an indexterm, for reasons that have apparently been lost
in history. This, however, is done incorrectly and causes some
formatting problems. This hasn't been an issue until now, but the
reorganization of indexterm elements inside variablelists has triggered
this issue.
The upstream fix (http://sourceforge.net/p/docbook/bugs/1340/) is to
drop indexterms altogether in man output, and so we'll do the same here.
Tom Lane [Sat, 16 Aug 2014 17:48:39 +0000 (13:48 -0400)]
Fix bogus return macros in range_overright_internal().
PG_RETURN_BOOL() should only be used in functions following the V1 SQL
function API. This coding accidentally fails to fail since letting the
compiler coerce the Datum representation of bool back to plain bool
does give the right answer; but that doesn't make it a good idea.
Back-patch to older branches just to avoid unnecessary code divergence.
Tom Lane [Sat, 16 Aug 2014 17:22:52 +0000 (13:22 -0400)]
Add opr_sanity queries to inspect commutator/negator links more closely.
Make lists of the names of all operators that are claimed to be commutator
pairs or negator pairs. This is analogous to the existing queries that
make lists of all operator names appearing in particular opclass strategy
slots. Unexpected additions to these lists are likely to be mistakes; had
we had these queries in place before, bug #11178 might've been prevented.
Tom Lane [Sat, 16 Aug 2014 16:53:54 +0000 (12:53 -0400)]
Fix bogus commutator/negator links for JSONB containment operators.
<@ and @> are each other's commutators, but they were incorrectly marked
as being each other's negators instead. (This was actually questioned
in a comment in the original commit, but nobody followed through :-(.)
Per bug #11178 from Christian Pronovost.
In passing, fix some JSONB operator descriptions that were randomly
different from the phrasing of every other similar description.
Peter Eisentraut [Fri, 15 Aug 2014 04:01:14 +0000 (00:01 -0400)]
Set shared library path for in-tree TAP tests
When the TAP tests are run in-tree (make check), set the shared library
path using the appropriate environment variable, using a logic similar
to pg_regress, so that the right libraries are used.
Tom Lane [Thu, 14 Aug 2014 20:05:46 +0000 (16:05 -0400)]
Update SysV parameter configuration documentation for FreeBSD.
FreeBSD hasn't made any use of kern.ipc.semmap since 1.1, and newer
releases reject attempts to set it altogether; so stop recommending
that it be adjusted. Per bug #11161.
Back-patch to all supported branches. Before 9.3, also incorporate
commit 7a42dff47, which touches the same text and for some reason
was not back-patched at the time.
Fujii Masao [Thu, 14 Aug 2014 04:57:52 +0000 (13:57 +0900)]
Fix help message in pg_ctl.
Previously the help message described that -m is an option for
"stop", "restart" and "promote" commands in pg_ctl. But actually
that's not an option for "promote". So this commit fixes that
incorrect description in the help message.
Back-patch to 9.3 where the incorrect description was added.
Tom Lane [Wed, 13 Aug 2014 15:35:51 +0000 (11:35 -0400)]
Prevent memory leaks in parseRelOptions().
parseRelOptions() tended to leak memory in the caller's context. Most
of the time this doesn't really matter since the caller's context is
at most query-lifespan, and the function won't be invoked very many times.
However, when testing with CLOBBER_CACHE_RECURSIVELY, the same relcache
entry can get rebuilt a *lot* of times in one query, leading to significant
intraquery memory bloat if it has any reloptions. Noted while
investigating a related report from Tomas Vondra.
In passing, get rid of some Asserts that are redundant with the one
done by deconstruct_array().
As with other patches to avoid leaks in CLOBBER_CACHE testing, it doesn't
really seem worth back-patching this.
Tom Lane [Wed, 13 Aug 2014 15:27:28 +0000 (11:27 -0400)]
Prevent memory leaks in RelationGetIndexList, RelationGetIndexAttrBitmap.
When replacing rd_indexlist, rd_indexattr, etc, we neglected to pfree any
old value of these fields. Under ordinary circumstances, the old value
would always be NULL, so this seemed reasonable enough. However, in cases
where we're rebuilding a system catalog's relcache entry and another cache
flush occurs on that same catalog meanwhile, it's possible for the field to
not be NULL when we return to the outer level, because we already refilled
it while recovering from the inner flush. This leads to a fairly small
session-lifespan leak in CacheMemoryContext. In real-world usage the leak
would be too small to notice; but in testing with CLOBBER_CACHE_RECURSIVELY
the leakage can add up to the point of causing OOM failures, as reported by
Tomas Vondra.
The issue has been there a long time, but it only seems worth fixing in
HEAD, like the previous fix in this area (commit 078b2ed291c758e7).
Fujii Masao [Wed, 13 Aug 2014 01:42:16 +0000 (10:42 +0900)]
Expose -S option in pg_receivexlog.
This option is equivalent to --slot option which pg_receivexlog has
already supported, which specifies the replication slot to use for
WAL streaming. pg_recvlogical has already supported both options,
and this commit makes pg_receivexlog consistent with pg_recvlogical
regarding the slot option.
Back-patch to 9.4 where the slot option was added.
Andres Freund [Tue, 12 Aug 2014 09:04:50 +0000 (11:04 +0200)]
Be less aggressive in asking for feedback of logical walsender clients.
When doing logical decoding using START_LOGICAL_REPLICATION in a
walsender process the walsender sometimes was sending out keepalive
messages too frequently. Asking for feedback every time.
WalSndWaitForWal() sends out keepalive messages when it's waiting for
new WAL to be generated locally when it sees that the remote side
hasn't yet flushed WAL up to the local position. That generally is
good but causes problems if the remote side only writes but doesn't
flush changes yet. So check for both remote write and flush position.
Additionally we've asked for feedback to the keepalive message which
isn't warranted when waiting for WAL in contrast to preventing
timeouts because of wal_sender_timeout.
Tatsuo Ishii [Tue, 12 Aug 2014 08:27:08 +0000 (17:27 +0900)]
Enhance pgbench's option checking.
Now benchmarking options such as -c cannot be used if initializing
option (-i) is specified. Also initializing options such as -F cannot
be used if initializing option is not specified.
Fujii Masao [Tue, 12 Aug 2014 07:50:09 +0000 (16:50 +0900)]
Change first call of ProcessConfigFile so as to process only data_directory.
When both postgresql.conf and postgresql.auto.conf have their own entry of
the same parameter, PostgreSQL uses the entry in postgresql.auto.conf because
it appears last in the configuration scan. IOW, the other entries which appear
earlier are ignored. But, previously, ProcessConfigFile() detected the invalid
settings of even those unused entries and emitted the error messages
complaining about them, at postmaster startup. Complaining about the entries
to ignore is basically useless.
This problem happened because ProcessConfigFile() was called twice at
postmaster startup and the first call read only postgresql.conf. That is, the
first call could check the entry which might be ignored eventually by
the second call which read both postgresql.conf and postgresql.auto.conf.
To work around the problem, this commit changes ProcessConfigFile so that
its first call processes only data_directory and the second one does all the
entries. It's OK to process data_directory in the first call because it's
ensured that data_directory doesn't exist in postgresql.auto.conf.
Back-patch to 9.4 where postgresql.auto.conf was added.
Fujii Masao [Tue, 12 Aug 2014 02:57:39 +0000 (11:57 +0900)]
Add tab-completion for \unset and valid setting values of psql variables.
This commit also changes tab-completion for \set so that it displays
all the special variables like COMP_KEYWORD_CASE. Previously it displayed
only variables having the set values. Which was not user-friendly for
those who want to set the unset variables.
This commit also changes tab-completion for :variable so that only the
variables having the set values are displayed. Previously even unset
variables were displayed.
Fujii Masao [Mon, 11 Aug 2014 13:52:16 +0000 (22:52 +0900)]
Fix documentation oversights about pageinspect and initialization fork.
The initialization fork was added in 9.1, but has not been taken into
consideration in documents of get_raw_page function in pageinspect and
storage layout. This commit fixes those oversights.
get_raw_page can read not only a table but also an index, etc. So it
should be documented that the function can read any relation. This commit
also fixes the document of pageinspect that way.
Break out OpenSSL-specific code to separate files.
This refactoring is in preparation for adding support for other SSL
implementations, with no user-visible effects. There are now two #defines,
USE_OPENSSL which is defined when building with OpenSSL, and USE_SSL which
is defined when building with any SSL implementation. Currently, OpenSSL is
the only implementation so the two #defines go together, but USE_SSL is
supposed to be used for implementation-independent code.
The libpq SSL code is changed to use a custom BIO, which does all the raw
I/O, like we've been doing in the backend for a long time. That makes it
possible to use MSG_NOSIGNAL to block SIGPIPE when using SSL, which avoids
a couple of syscall for each send(). Probably doesn't make much performance
difference in practice - the SSL encryption is expensive enough to mask the
effect - but it was a natural result of this refactoring.
Based on a patch by Martijn van Oosterhout from 2006. Briefly reviewed by
Alvaro Herrera, Andreas Karlsson, Jeff Janes.
Tom Lane [Sun, 10 Aug 2014 20:13:13 +0000 (16:13 -0400)]
Clarify type resolution behavior for domain types.
The user documentation was vague and not entirely accurate about how
we treat domain inputs for ambiguous operators/functions. Clarify
that, and add an example and some commentary. Per a recent question
from Adam Mackler.
It's acted like this ever since we added domains, so back-patch
to all supported branches.
Tom Lane [Sat, 9 Aug 2014 21:31:13 +0000 (17:31 -0400)]
Clean up handling of unknown-type inputs in json_build_object and friends.
There's actually no need for any special case for unknown-type literals,
since we only need to push the value through its output function and
unknownout() works fine. The code that was here was completely bizarre
anyway, and would fail outright in cases that should work, not to mention
suffering from some copy-and-paste bugs.
Tom Lane [Sat, 9 Aug 2014 20:35:29 +0000 (16:35 -0400)]
Further cleanup of JSON-specific error messages.
Fix an obvious typo in json_build_object()'s complaint about invalid
number of arguments, and make the errhint a bit more sensible too.
Per discussion about how to word the improved hint, change the few places
in the documentation that refer to JSON object field names as "names" to
say "keys" instead, since that's what we've said in the vast majority of
places in the docs. Arguably "name" is more correct, since that's the
terminology used in RFC 7159; but we're stuck with "key" in view of the
naming of json_object_keys() so let's at least be self-consistent.
I adjusted a few code comments to match this as well, and failed to
resist the temptation to clean up some odd whitespace choices in the
same area, as well as a useless duplicate PG_ARGISNULL() check. There's
still quite a bit of code that uses the phrase "field name" in non-user-
visible ways, so I left those usages alone.
Tom Lane [Sat, 9 Aug 2014 17:46:34 +0000 (13:46 -0400)]
Reject duplicate column names in foreign key referenced-columns lists.
Such cases are disallowed by the SQL spec, and even if we wanted to allow
them, the semantics seem ambiguous: how should the FK columns be matched up
with the columns of a unique index? (The matching could be significant in
the presence of opclasses with different notions of equality, so this issue
isn't just academic.) However, our code did not previously reject such
cases, but instead would either fail to match to any unique index, or
generate a bizarre opclass-lookup error because of sloppy thinking in the
index-matching code.
Fujii Masao [Fri, 8 Aug 2014 07:50:54 +0000 (16:50 +0900)]
Add -F option to pg_receivexlog, for specifying fsync interval.
This allows us to specify the maximum time to issue fsync to ensure
the received WAL file is safely flushed to disk. Without this,
pg_receivexlog always flushes WAL file only when it's closed and
which can cause WAL data to be lost at the event of a crash.
Bruce Momjian [Thu, 7 Aug 2014 18:56:13 +0000 (14:56 -0400)]
pg_upgrade: prevent oid conflicts with new-cluster TOAST tables
Previously, TOAST tables only required in the new cluster could cause
oid conflicts if they were auto-numbered and a later conflicting oid had
to be assigned.
Based on the old comment, it took me a while to figure out what the
problem was. The importnat detail is that SSL_read() can return WANT_READ
even though some raw data was received from the socket.
Robert Haas [Wed, 6 Aug 2014 20:06:06 +0000 (16:06 -0400)]
Don't require sort support functions to provide a comparator.
This could be useful for datatypes like text, where we might want
to optimize for some collations but not others. However, this patch
doesn't introduce any new sortsupport functions that work this way;
it merely revises the code so that future patches may do so.
Fujii Masao [Wed, 6 Aug 2014 11:58:13 +0000 (20:58 +0900)]
Refactor pg_receivexlog main loop code, for readability, take 2.
Previously the source codes for processing the received data and handling
the end of stream were included in pg_receivexlog main loop. This commit
splits out them as separate functions. This is useful for improving the
readability of main loop code and making the future pg_receivexlog-related
patch simpler.
Fujii Masao [Wed, 6 Aug 2014 05:49:43 +0000 (14:49 +0900)]
Change ParseConfigFp() so that it doesn't process unused entry of each parameter.
When more than one setting entries of same parameter exist in the
configuration file, PostgreSQL uses only entry appearing last in
configuration file scan. Since the other entries are not used,
ParseConfigFp() doesn't need to process them, but previously it did
that. This problematic behavior caused the configuration file scan
to detect invalid settings of unused entries (e.g., existence of
multiple entries of PGC_POSTMASTER parameter) and log the messages
complaining about them.
This commit changes the configuration file scan so that it processes
only last entry of each parameter.
Note that when multiple entries of same parameter exist both in
postgresql.conf and postgresql.auto.conf, unused entries in
postgresql.conf are still processed only at postmaster startup.
The problem has existed since old version, but a user is more likely
to encounter it since 9.4 where ALTER SYSTEM command was introduced.
So back-patch to 9.4.
Amit Kapila, slightly modified by me. Per report from Christoph Berg.
Bruce Momjian [Mon, 4 Aug 2014 15:45:45 +0000 (11:45 -0400)]
pg_upgrade: remove reference to autovacuum_multixact_freeze_max_age
autovacuum_multixact_freeze_max_age was added as a pg_ctl start
parameter in 9.3.X to prevent autovacuum from running. However, only
some 9.3.X releases have autovacuum_multixact_freeze_max_age as it was
added in a minor PG 9.3 release. It also isn't needed because -b turns
off autovacuum in 9.1+.
Without this fix, trying to upgrade from an early 9.3 release to 9.4
would fail.
Fujii Masao [Sat, 2 Aug 2014 05:57:21 +0000 (14:57 +0900)]
Fix bug in pg_receivexlog --verbose.
In 9.2, pg_receivexlog with verbose option has emitted the messages
at the end of each WAL file. But the commit 0b63291 suppressed such
messages by mistake. This commit fixes the bug so that pg_receivexlog
--verbose outputs such messages again.
Move log_newpage and log_newpage_buffer to xlog.c.
log_newpage is used by many indexams, in addition to heap, but for
historical reasons it's always been part of the heapam rmgr. Starting with
9.3, we have another WAL record type for logging an image of a page,
XLOG_FPI. Simplify things by moving log_newpage and log_newpage_buffer to
xlog.c, and switch to using the XLOG_FPI record type.
Bump the WAL version number because the code to replay the old HEAP_NEWPAGE
records is removed.
Tom Lane [Wed, 30 Jul 2014 18:41:35 +0000 (14:41 -0400)]
Avoid wholesale autovacuuming when autovacuum is nominally off.
When autovacuum is nominally off, we will still launch autovac workers
to vacuum tables that are at risk of XID wraparound. But after we'd done
that, an autovac worker would proceed to autovacuum every table in the
targeted database, if they meet the usual thresholds for autovacuuming.
This is at best pretty unexpected; at worst it delays response to the
wraparound threat. Fix it so that if autovacuum is nominally off, we
*only* do forced vacuums and not any other work.
Per gripe from Andrey Zhidenkov. This has been like this all along,
so back-patch to all supported branches.
Robert Haas [Wed, 30 Jul 2014 15:25:58 +0000 (11:25 -0400)]
Fix mishandling of background worker PGPROCs in EXEC_BACKEND builds.
InitProcess() relies on IsBackgroundWorker to decide whether the PGPROC
for a new backend should be taken from ProcGlobal's freeProcs or from
bgworkerFreeProcs. In EXEC_BACKEND builds, InitProcess() is called
sooner than in non-EXEC_BACKEND builds, and IsBackgroundWorker wasn't
getting initialized soon enough.
Peter Eisentraut [Wed, 30 Jul 2014 03:47:16 +0000 (23:47 -0400)]
doc: Clean up some recently added PL/pgSQL documentation
- Capitalize titles consistently.
- Fix some grammar.
- Group "Obtaining Information About an Error" under "Trapping Errors",
but make "Obtaining the Call Stack Context Information" its own
section, since it's not about errors.
Avoid uselessly looking up old LOCK_ONLY multixacts
Commit 0ac5ad5134f2 removed an optimization in multixact.c that skipped
fetching members of MultiXactId that were older than our
OldestVisibleMXactId value. The reason this was removed is that it is
possible for multixacts that contain updates to be older than that
value. However, if the caller is certain that the multi does not
contain an update (because the infomask bits say so), it can pass this
info down to GetMultiXactIdMembers, enabling it to use the old
optimization.
Pointed out by Andres Freund in 20131121200517.GM7240@alap2.anarazel.de
Testing for abortedness of a multixact member that's being frozen is
unnecessary: we only need to know whether the transaction is still in
progress or committed to determine whether it must be kept or not. This
let us simplify the code a bit and avoid a useless TransactionIdDidAbort
test.
Treat 2PC commit/abort the same as regular xacts in recovery.
There were several oversights in recovery code where COMMIT/ABORT PREPARED
records were ignored:
* pg_last_xact_replay_timestamp() (wasn't updated for 2PC commits)
* recovery_min_apply_delay (2PC commits were applied immediately)
* recovery_target_xid (recovery would not stop if the XID used 2PC)
The first of those was reported by Sergiy Zuban in bug #11032, analyzed by
Tom Lane and Andres Freund. The bug was always there, but was masked before
commit d19bd29f07aef9e508ff047d128a4046cc8bc1e2, because COMMIT PREPARED
always created an extra regular transaction that was WAL-logged.
Backpatch to all supported versions (older versions didn't have all the
features and therefore didn't have all of the above bugs).
Reword the sentence for pg_logical_slot_peek_changes function.
Previously the duplicated paragraphs were used next to each other
in the document to demonstrate that the changes in the stream
were not consumed by pg_logical_slot_peek_changes function.
But some users misunderstood that the duplication of the same
paragraph was just typo. So this commit rewords the sentence in
the latter paragraph for less confusing.
Peter Eisentraut [Sun, 27 Jul 2014 03:19:02 +0000 (23:19 -0400)]
doc: Fix up ALTER TABLESPACE reference page
The documentation of ALTER TABLESPACE ... MOVE was added without any
markup, not even paragraph breaks. Fix that, and clarify the text in a
few places.
Tom Lane [Fri, 25 Jul 2014 23:48:42 +0000 (19:48 -0400)]
Fix a performance problem in pg_dump's dump order selection logic.
findDependencyLoops() was not bright about cases where there are multiple
dependency paths between the same two dumpable objects. In most scenarios
this did not hurt us too badly; but since the introduction of section
boundary pseudo-objects in commit a1ef01fe163b304760088e3e30eb22036910a495,
it was possible for this code to take unreasonable amounts of time (tens
of seconds on a database with a couple thousand objects), as reported in
bug #11033 from Joe Van Dyk. Joe's particular problem scenario involved
"pg_dump -a" mode with long chains of foreign key constraints, but I think
that similar problems could arise with other situations as long as there
were enough objects. To fix, add a flag array that lets us notice when we
arrive at the same object again while searching from a given start object.
This simple change seems to be enough to eliminate the performance problem.
Back-patch to 9.1, like the patch that introduced section boundary objects.
Handle WAIT_IO_COMPLETION return from WaitForMultipleObjectsEx().
This return code is possible wherever we pass bAlertable = TRUE; it
arises when Windows caused the current thread to run an "I/O completion
routine" or an "asynchronous procedure call". PostgreSQL does not
provoke either of those Windows facilities, hence this bug remaining
largely unnoticed, but other local code might do so. Due to a shortage
of complaints, no back-patch for now.
Per report from Shiv Shivaraju Gowda, this bug can cause
PGSemaphoreLock() to PANIC. The bug can also cause select() to report
timeout expiration too early, which might confuse pgstat_init() and
CheckRADIUSAuth().
Robert Haas [Thu, 24 Jul 2014 13:19:50 +0000 (09:19 -0400)]
Prevent shm_mq_send from reading uninitialized memory.
shm_mq_send_bytes didn't invariably initialize *bytes_written before
returning, which would cause shm_mq_send to read from uninitialized
memory and add the value it found there to mqh->mqh_partial_bytes.
This could cause the next attempt to send a message via the queue to
fail an assertion (if the queue was detached) or copy data from a
garbage pointer value into the queue (if non-blocking mode was in use).
Robert Haas [Thu, 24 Jul 2014 13:04:59 +0000 (09:04 -0400)]
Fix checkpointer crash in EXEC_BACKEND builds.
Nothing in the checkpointer calls InitXLOGAccess(), so WALInsertLocks
never got initialized there. Without EXEC_BACKEND, it works anyway
because the correct value is inherited from the postmaster, but
with EXEC_BACKEND we've got a problem. The problem appears to have
been introduced by commit 68a2e52bbaf98f136a96b3a0d734ca52ca440a95.
To fix, move the relevant initialization steps from InitXLOGAccess()
to XLOGShmemInit(), making this more parallel to what we do
elsewhere.
Andres Freund [Thu, 24 Jul 2014 12:32:34 +0000 (14:32 +0200)]
Properly remove ephemeral replication slots after a crash restart.
Ephemeral slots - slots that shouldn't survive database restarts -
weren't properly cleaned up after a immediate/crash restart. They were
ignored in the sense that they weren't restored into memory and thus
didn't cause unwanted resource retention; but they prevented a new
slot with the same name from being created.
Now ephemeral slots are fully removed during startup.
Backpatch to 9.4 where replication slots where added.
Robert Haas [Thu, 24 Jul 2014 12:06:54 +0000 (08:06 -0400)]
docs: Improve documentation of \pset without arguments.
The syntax summary previously failed to clarify that the first
argument is also optional. The textual description did mention it,
but all the way at the bottom. It fits better with the command
overview, so move it there, and fix the summary also.
Fix bug where pg_receivexlog goes into busy loop if -s option is set to 0.
The problem is that pg_receivexlog calls select(2) with timeout=0 and
goes into busy loop when --status-interval option is set to 0. This bug
was introduced by the commit, 74cbe966fe2d76de1d607d933c98c144dab58769.