Michael Paquier [Mon, 25 Jun 2018 02:19:05 +0000 (11:19 +0900)]
Address set of issues with errno handling
System calls mixed up in error code paths are causing two issues which
several code paths have not correctly handled:
1) For write() calls, sometimes the system may return less bytes than
what has been written without errno being set. Some paths were careful
enough to consider that case, and assumed that errno should be set to
ENOSPC, other calls missed that.
2) errno generated by a system call is overwritten by other system calls
which may succeed once an error code path is taken, causing what is
reported to the user to be incorrect.
This patch uses the brute-force approach of correcting all those code
paths. Some refactoring could happen in the future, but this is let as
future work, which is not targeted for back-branches anyway.
Author: Michael Paquier Reviewed-by: Ashutosh Sharma
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180622061535.GD5215@paquier.xyz
Alvaro Herrera [Fri, 22 Jun 2018 19:12:53 +0000 (15:12 -0400)]
When index recurses to a partition, map columns numbers
Two out of three code paths were mapping column numbers correctly if a
partition had different column numbers than parent table, but the most
commonly used one (recursing in CREATE INDEX to a new index on a
partition) failed to map attribute numbers in expressions. Oddly
enough, attnums in WHERE clauses are already handled correctly
everywhere.
Reported-by: Amit Langote
Author: Amit Langote
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/dce1fda4-e0f0-94c9-6abb-f5956a98c057@lab.ntt.co.jp Reviewed-by: Álvaro Herrera
Robert Haas [Fri, 22 Jun 2018 13:14:34 +0000 (09:14 -0400)]
Avoid generating bogus paths with partitionwise aggregate.
Previously, if some or all partitions had no partially aggregated path,
we would still try to generate a partially aggregated path for the
parent, leading to assertion failures or wrong answers.
Report by Rajkumar Raghuwanshi. Patch by Jeevan Chalke, reviewed
by Ashutosh Bapat. A few changes by me.
Andrew Dunstan [Fri, 22 Jun 2018 12:42:36 +0000 (08:42 -0400)]
Allow for pg_upgrade of attributes with missing values
Commit 16828d5c02 neglected to do this, so upgraded databases would
silently get null instead of the specified default in rows without the
attribute defined.
A new binary upgrade function is provided to perform this and pg_dump is
adjusted to output a call to the function if required in binary upgrade
mode.
Also included is code to drop missing attribute values for dropped
columns. That way if the type is later dropped the missing value won't
have a dangling reference to the type.
Finally the regression tests are adjusted to ensure that there is a row
with a missing value so that this code is exercised in upgrade testing.
Catalog version unfortunately bumped.
Regression test changes from Tom Lane.
Remainder from me, reviewed by Tom Lane, Andres Freund, Alvaro Herrera
Fixes for vacuum_cleanup_index_scale_factor GUC option
vacuum_cleanup_index_scale_factor was located in autovacuum group of
GUCs. However, it affects not only autovacuum, but also manually run
VACUUM. It appears that "client connection defaults" group of GUCs
is more appropriate for vacuum_cleanup_index_scale_factor, because
vacuum_*_age options are already located there.
Also, vacuum_cleanup_index_scale_factor was missed in
postgresql.conf.sample. So, add it there with appropriate comment.
Author: Masahiko Sawada with minor editorization by me
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAD21AoArsoXMLKudXSKN679FRzs6oubEchM53bHwn8Tp%3D2boNg%40mail.gmail.com
Amit Kapila [Fri, 22 Jun 2018 03:13:36 +0000 (08:43 +0530)]
Improve coding pattern in Parallel Append code.
The create_append_path code didn't consider that list_concat will
modify it's first argument leading to inconsistent traversal of
resulting list. In practice, it won't lead to any user-visible bug
but changing it for making the code behave consistently.
Reported-by: Tom Lane
Author: Tom Lane Reviewed-by: Amit Khandekar and Amit Kapila
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/32365.1528994120@sss.pgh.pa.us
Alvaro Herrera [Thu, 21 Jun 2018 21:01:10 +0000 (17:01 -0400)]
Disclaim support for default namespace in XMLTABLE
Pavel Stehule's original patch had support for default namespace, but I
ripped it out before commit -- hence the docs were correct when written,
and I broke them by omission :-(. Remove the offending phrase.
Author: Daniel Gustafsson
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1550C5E5-FC70-4493-A226-AA137D831E8D@yesql.se
Tom Lane [Thu, 21 Jun 2018 20:18:33 +0000 (16:18 -0400)]
Fix partial aggregation for variance(int4) and related aggregates.
A typo in numeric_poly_combine caused bogus results for queries using
it, but of course would only manifest if parallel aggregation is
performed. Reported by Rajkumar Raghuwanshi.
David Rowley did the diagnosis and the fix; I editorialized rather
heavily on his regression test additions.
Back-patch to v10 where the breakage was introduced (by 9cca11c91).
Alvaro Herrera [Thu, 21 Jun 2018 19:56:11 +0000 (15:56 -0400)]
Set correct context for XPath evaluation
According to the SQL standard, the context of XMLTABLE's XPath
row_expression is the document node of the XML input document, not the
root node. This becomes visible when a relative path rather than
absolute is used as row expression. Absolute paths is what was used in
original tests and docs (and the most common form used in examples
throughout the interwebs), which explains why this wasn't noticed
before.
Other functions such as xpath() and xpath_exists() also have this
problem. While not specified by the SQL standard, it would be pretty
odd to leave those functions to behave differently than XMLTABLE, so
change them too. However, this is a backwards-incompatible change.
No backpatch, out of fear of breaking code depending on the original
broken behavior.
Author: Markus Winand Reported-By: Markus Winand Reviewed-by: Álvaro Herrera
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/0684A598-002C-42A2-AE12-F024A324EAE4@winand.at
Tom Lane [Thu, 21 Jun 2018 14:58:42 +0000 (10:58 -0400)]
Fix mishandling of sortgroupref labels while splitting SRF targetlists.
split_pathtarget_at_srfs() neglected to worry about sortgroupref labels
in the intermediate PathTargets it constructs. I think we'd supposed
that their labeling didn't matter, but it does at least for the case that
GroupAggregate/GatherMerge nodes appear immediately under the ProjectSet
step(s). This results in "ERROR: ORDER/GROUP BY expression not found in
targetlist" during create_plan(), as reported by Rajkumar Raghuwanshi.
To fix, make this logic track the sortgroupref labeling of expressions,
not just their contents. This also restores the pre-v10 behavior that
separate GROUP BY expressions will be kept distinct even if they are
textually equal().
PostgreSQL 11 introduces compress method for SP-GiST opclasses. That
was mistakenly interpreted as compression support for SP-GiST while
actually that allows lossy representation of leaf keys.
Author: Alexander Korotkov, based on proposal by Darafei Praliaskouski
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAC8Q8tKbYmNdiyWr7hE4GfMY4fbqHKkFziKgrUuWHH6HJQs3og%40mail.gmail.com
Alvaro Herrera [Wed, 20 Jun 2018 16:58:12 +0000 (12:58 -0400)]
Accept TEXT and CDATA nodes in XMLTABLE's column_expression.
Column expressions that match TEXT or CDATA nodes must return the
contents of the nodes themselves, not the content of non-existing
children (i.e. the empty string).
Author: Markus Winand Reported-by: Markus Winand Reviewed-by: Álvaro Herrera
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/0684A598-002C-42A2-AE12-F024A324EAE4@winand.at
Amit Kapila [Wed, 20 Jun 2018 02:21:42 +0000 (07:51 +0530)]
Don't consider parallel append for parallel unsafe paths.
Commit ab72716778 allowed Parallel Append paths to be generated for a
relation that is not parallel safe. Prevent that from happening.
Initial analysis by Tom Lane.
Reported-by: Rajkumar Raghuwanshi
Author: Amit Kapila and Rajkumar Raghuwanshi Reviewed-by: Amit Khandekar and Robert Haas
Discussion:https://postgr.es/m/CAKcux6=tPJ6nJ08r__nU_pmLQiC0xY15Fn0HvG1Cprsjdd9s_Q@mail.gmail.com
Michael Paquier [Wed, 20 Jun 2018 01:42:25 +0000 (10:42 +0900)]
Clarify use of temporary tables within partition trees
Since their introduction, partition trees have been a bit lossy
regarding temporary relations. Inheritance trees respect the following
patterns:
1) a child relation can be temporary if the parent is permanent.
2) a child relation can be temporary if the parent is temporary.
3) a child relation cannot be permanent if the parent is temporary.
4) The use of temporary relations also imply that when both parent and
child need to be from the same sessions.
Partitions share many similar patterns with inheritance, however the
handling of the partition bounds make the situation a bit tricky for
case 1) as the partition code bases a lot of its lookup code upon
PartitionDesc which does not really look after relpersistence. This
causes for example a temporary partition created by session A to be
visible by another session B, preventing this session B to create an
extra partition which overlaps with the temporary one created by A with
a non-intuitive error message. There could be use-cases where mixing
permanent partitioned tables with temporary partitions make sense, but
that would be a new feature. Partitions respect 2), 3) and 4) already.
It is a bit depressing to see those error checks happening in
MergeAttributes() whose purpose is different, but that's left as future
refactoring work.
Back-patch down to 10, which is where partitioning has been introduced,
except that default partitions do not apply there. Documentation also
includes limitations related to the use of temporary tables with
partition trees.
Reported-by: David Rowley
Author: Amit Langote, Michael Paquier Reviewed-by: Ashutosh Bapat, Amit Langote, Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAKJS1f94Ojk0og9GMkRHGt8wHTW=ijq5KzJKuoBoqWLwSVwGmw@mail.gmail.com
Tom Lane [Tue, 19 Jun 2018 23:30:50 +0000 (19:30 -0400)]
Clarify the README files for the various separate TAP-based test suites.
Explain the difference between "make check" and "make installcheck".
Mention the need for --enable-tap-tests (only some of these did so
before). Standardize their wording about how to run the tests.
Michael Paquier [Tue, 19 Jun 2018 00:00:33 +0000 (09:00 +0900)]
Track new configure flags introduced for version 11 in pg_config.h.win32
The following set of flags mainly matter when building Postgres code
with MSVC and those have been forgotten with latest developments:
- HAVE_LDAP_INITIALIZE, added by 35c0754f, and marked as disabled.
ldap_initialize() is a non-standard extension that provides a way to use
"ldaps" with OpenLDAP, but it is not supported on Windows, and instead
the non-standard ldap_sslinit() is used if WIN32 is defined. Per input
from Thomas Munro.
- HAVE_X509_GET_SIGNATURE_NID, added by 054e8c6c, which is used by
SCRAM's channel binding tls-server-end-point. Having this flag disabled
would cause this channel binding type to be unsupported for Windows
builds.
- HAVE_SSL_CLEAR_OPTIONS, added recently as of a364dfa4 to disable SSL
compression.
- HAVE_ASN1_STRING_GET0_DATA, added by 5c6df67, which is used to track
a new compatibility with OpenSSL 1.1.0. This was missing from
pg_config.win32.h and is not enabled by default. HAVE_BIO_GET_DATA,
HAVE_OPENSSL_INIT_SSL and HAVE_BIO_METH_NEW gain the same treatment.
The second and third flags are enabled with this commit, which raises
the bar of OpenSSL support to 1.0.2 on Windows as a minimum. As this
is the LTS (long-time support) version of OpenSSL community and knowing
that all recent installers referred by OpenSSL upstream don't have
anymore 1.0.1 or older, we could live with that requirement. In order
to allow the code to compile with OpenSSL 1.1.0, all the flags mentioned
above need to be enabled in pg_config.h.win32.
Author: Michael Paquier Reviewed-by: Andrew Dunstan
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180529211559.GF6632@paquier.xyz
Tom Lane [Mon, 18 Jun 2018 19:55:06 +0000 (15:55 -0400)]
Fix contrib/hstore_plperl to look through scalar refs.
Bring this transform function into sync with the policy established
by commit 3a382983d.
Also, fix it to make sure that what it drills down to is indeed a
hash, and not some other kind of Perl SV. Previously, the test
cases added here provoked crashes.
Because of the crash hazard, back-patch to 9.5 where this module
was introduced.
Tom Lane [Mon, 18 Jun 2018 19:31:57 +0000 (15:31 -0400)]
Allow plperl_sv_to_datum to look through scalar refs.
There seems little reason for the policy of throwing error if we
find a ref to something other than a hash or array. Recursively
look through the ref, instead. This makes the behavior in non-transform
cases comparable to what was already instantiated for jsonb_plperl.
Note that because we invoke any available transform function before
considering the ref case, it's up to each transform function whether
it wants to play along with this behavior or do something different.
Because the previous behavior was just to throw a useless error,
this seems unlikely to create any compatibility issues. Still, given
the lack of field complaints so far, seems best not to back-patch.
Tom Lane [Mon, 18 Jun 2018 18:53:21 +0000 (14:53 -0400)]
Avoid platform-dependent output from Data::Dumper.
Per buildfarm, the output from Data::Dumper for an IEEE infinity
is platform-dependent (e.g. "inf" vs "Inf"). Just skip that one
test case in the plperlu test; testing it on the plperl side is
coverage enough. Fixes issue in commit 1731e3741.
Tom Lane [Mon, 18 Jun 2018 18:31:42 +0000 (14:31 -0400)]
Fix excessive enreferencing in jsonb-to-plperl transform.
We want, say, 2 to be transformed as 2, not \\2 which is what the
original coding produced. Perl's standard seems to be to add an RV
wrapper only for hash and array SVs, so do it like that.
This was missed originally because the test cases only checked what came
out of a round trip back to SQL, and the strip-all-dereferences loop at
the top of SV_to_JsonbValue hides the extra refs from view. As a better
test, print the Perl value with Data::Dumper, like the hstore_plperlu
tests do. While we can't do that in the plperl test, only plperlu,
that should be good enough because this code is the same for both PLs.
But also add a simplistic test for extra REFs, which we can do in both.
That strip-all-dereferences behavior is now a bit dubious; it's unlike
what happens for other Perl-to-SQL conversions. However, the best
thing to do seems to be to leave it alone and make the other conversions
act similarly. That will be done separately.
Tom Lane [Mon, 18 Jun 2018 15:57:33 +0000 (11:57 -0400)]
Remove obsolete prohibition on function name matching a column name.
ProcedureCreate formerly threw an error if the function to be created
has one argument of composite type and the function name matches some
column of the composite type. This was a (very non-bulletproof) defense
against creating situations where f(x) and x.f are ambiguous. But we
don't really need such a defense in the wake of commit b97a3465d, which
allows us to deal with such situations fairly cleanly. This behavior
also created a dump-and-reload hazard, since a function might be
rejected if a conflicting column name had been added to the input
composite type later. Hence, let's just drop the check.
Tom Lane [Mon, 18 Jun 2018 15:39:33 +0000 (11:39 -0400)]
Consider syntactic form when disambiguating function vs column reference.
Postgres has traditionally considered the syntactic forms f(x) and x.f
to be equivalent, allowing tricks such as writing a function and then
using it as though it were a computed-on-demand column. However, our
behavior when both interpretations are feasible left something to be
desired: we always chose the column interpretation. This could lead
to very surprising results, as in a recent bug report from Neil Conway.
It also created a dump-and-reload hazard, since what was a function
call in a dumped view could get interpreted as a column reference
at reload, if a matching column name had been added to the underlying
table since the view was created.
What seems better, in ambiguous situations, is to prefer the choice
matching the syntactic form of the reference. This seems much less
astonishing in general, and it fixes the dump/reload hazard.
Although this could be called a bug fix, there have been few complaints
and there's some small risk of breaking applications that depend on the
old behavior, so no back-patch. It does seem reasonable to slip it
into v11, though.
Thomas Munro [Mon, 18 Jun 2018 06:33:53 +0000 (18:33 +1200)]
Add PGTYPESchar_free() to avoid cross-module problems on Windows.
On Windows, it is sometimes important for corresponding malloc() and
free() calls to be made from the same DLL, since some build options can
result in multiple allocators being active at the same time. For that
reason we already provided PQfreemem(). This commit adds a similar
function for freeing string results allocated by the pgtypes library.
Michael Paquier [Mon, 18 Jun 2018 01:43:27 +0000 (10:43 +0900)]
Prevent hard failures of standbys caused by recycled WAL segments
When a standby's WAL receiver stops reading WAL from a WAL stream, it
writes data to the current WAL segment without having priorily zero'ed
the page currently written to, which can cause the WAL reader to read
junk data from a past recycled segment and then it would try to get a
record from it. While sanity checks in place provide most of the
protection needed, in some rare circumstances, with chances increasing
when a record header crosses a page boundary, then the startup process
could fail violently on an allocation failure, as follows:
FATAL: invalid memory alloc request size XXX
This is confusing for the user and also unhelpful as this requires in
the worst case a manual restart of the instance, impacting potentially
the availability of the cluster, and this also makes WAL data look like
it is in a corrupted state.
The chances of seeing failures are higher if the connection between the
standby and its root node is unstable, causing WAL pages to be written
in the middle. A couple of approaches have been discussed, like
zero-ing new WAL pages within the WAL receiver itself but this has the
disadvantage of impacting performance of any existing instances as this
breaks the sequential writes done by the WAL receiver. This commit
deals with the problem with a more simple approach, which has no
performance impact without reducing the detection of the problem: if a
record is found with a length higher than 1GB for backends, then do not
try any allocation and report a soft failure which will force the
standby to retry reading WAL. It could be possible that the allocation
call passes and that an unnecessary amount of memory is allocated,
however follow-up checks on records would just fail, making this
allocation short-lived anyway.
This patch owes a great deal to Tsunakawa Takayuki for reporting the
failure first, and then discussing a couple of potential approaches to
the problem.
Backpatch down to 9.5, which is where palloc_extended has been
introduced.
Tom Lane [Sun, 17 Jun 2018 20:15:11 +0000 (16:15 -0400)]
Suppress -Wshift-negative-value warnings.
Clean up four places that result in compiler warnings when using recent
gcc with this warning class enabled (as seen on buildfarm members
calliphoridae, skink, and others). In all these places, this is purely
cosmetic, because the shift distance could not be large enough to risk
a change of sign, so there's no chance of implementation-dependent
behavior. Still, it's easy enough to avoid the warning by casting the
shifted value to unsigned, so let's do that.
Peter Geoghegan [Sat, 16 Jun 2018 22:28:50 +0000 (15:28 -0700)]
Remove INCLUDE attributes section from docs.
Discussing covering indexes in a chapter that is mostly about the
behavior of B-Tree operator classes is unnecessary. The CREATE INDEX
documentation's handling of covering indexes seems sufficient.
Tom Lane [Sat, 16 Jun 2018 19:34:07 +0000 (15:34 -0400)]
Use -Wno-format-truncation and -Wno-stringop-truncation, if available.
gcc 8 has started emitting some warnings that are largely useless for
our purposes, particularly since they complain about code following
the project-standard coding convention that path names are assumed
to be shorter than MAXPGPATH. Even if we make the effort to remove
that assumption in some future release, the changes wouldn't get
back-patched. Hence, just suppress these warnings, on compilers that
have these switches.
Tom Lane [Sat, 16 Jun 2018 18:58:11 +0000 (14:58 -0400)]
Avoid unnecessary use of strncpy in a couple of places in ecpg.
Use of strncpy with a length limit based on the source, rather than
the destination, is non-idiomatic and draws warnings from gcc 8.
Replace with memcpy, which does exactly the same thing in these cases,
but with less chance for confusion.
Tom Lane [Sat, 16 Jun 2018 18:45:47 +0000 (14:45 -0400)]
Use snprintf not sprintf in pg_waldump's timestamptz_to_str.
This could only cause an issue if strftime returned a ridiculously
long timezone name, which seems unlikely; and it wouldn't qualify
as a security problem even then, since pg_waldump (nee pg_xlogdump)
is a debug tool not part of the server. But gcc 8 has started issuing
warnings about it, so let's use snprintf and be safe.
Tom Lane [Sat, 16 Jun 2018 18:10:17 +0000 (14:10 -0400)]
Fix some minor error-checking oversights in ParseFuncOrColumn().
Recent additions to ParseFuncOrColumn to make it reject non-procedure
functions in CALL were neither adequate nor documented. Reorganize
the code to ensure uniform results for all the cases that should be
rejected. Also, use ERRCODE_WRONG_OBJECT_TYPE for this case as well
as the converse case of a procedure in a non-CALL context. The
original coding used ERRCODE_UNDEFINED_FUNCTION which seems wrong,
and is certainly inconsistent with the adjacent wrong-kind-of-routine
errors.
This reorganization also causes the checks for aggregate decoration with
a non-aggregate function to be made in the FUNCDETAIL_COERCION case;
that they were not is a long-standing oversight.
Simon Riggs [Sat, 16 Jun 2018 13:03:29 +0000 (14:03 +0100)]
Remove AELs from subxids correctly on standby
Issues relate only to subtransactions that hold AccessExclusiveLocks
when replayed on standby.
Prior to PG10, aborting subtransactions that held an
AccessExclusiveLock failed to release the lock until top level commit or
abort. 49bff5300d527 fixed that.
However, 49bff5300d527 also introduced a similar bug where subtransaction
commit would fail to release an AccessExclusiveLock, leaving the lock to
be removed sometimes early and sometimes late. This commit fixes
that bug also. Backpatch to PG10 needed.
Tested by observation. Note need for multi-node isolationtester to improve
test coverage for this and other HS cases.
Alvaro Herrera [Fri, 15 Jun 2018 19:00:41 +0000 (15:00 -0400)]
Fix off-by-one bug in XactLogCommitRecord
Commit 1eb6d6527aae introduced zeroed alignment bytes in the GID field
of commit/abort WAL records. Fixup commit cf5a1890592b later changed
that representation into a regular cstring with a single terminating
zero byte, but it also introduced an off-by-one mistake. Fix that.
PyObject returned from PySequence_GetItem() is not released. Similar code in PLyMapping_ToJsonbValue() is correct, because according to Python documentation
PyList_GetItem() and PyTuple_GetItem() return a borrowed reference while
PySequence_GetItem() returns new reference. contrib/jsonb_plpython is new
in PostgreSQL 11, no backpatch is needed.
Alvaro Herrera [Thu, 14 Jun 2018 16:51:32 +0000 (12:51 -0400)]
Fail BRIN control functions during recovery explicitly
They already fail anyway, but prior to this patch they raise an ugly
error message about a lock that cannot be acquired. This just improves
the message.
Author: Masahiko Sawada Reported-by: Masahiko Sawada
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAD21AoBZau4g4_NUf3BKNd=CdYK+xaPdtJCzvOC1TxGdTiJx_Q@mail.gmail.com Reviewed-by: Kuntal Ghosh, Alexander Korotkov, Simon Riggs, Michaël Paquier, Álvaro Herrera
Tom Lane [Wed, 13 Jun 2018 20:10:30 +0000 (16:10 -0400)]
Code review for match_clause_to_partition_key().
Fix inconsistent decisions about NOMATCH vs UNSUPPORTED result codes.
If we're going to cater for partkeys that have the same expression and
different collations, surely we should also support partkeys with the
same expression and different opclasses.
Clean up shaky handling of commuted opclauses, eg checking the wrong
operator to see what its negator is. This wouldn't cause any actual
bugs given a sane opclass definition, but it doesn't seem helpful to
expend more code to be less correct.
Improve handling of null elements in ScalarArrayOp arrays: in the
"op ALL" case, we can conclude they result in an unsatisfiable clause.
Tom Lane [Wed, 13 Jun 2018 16:03:19 +0000 (12:03 -0400)]
Fix up run-time partition pruning's use of relcache's partition data.
The previous coding saved pointers into the partitioned table's relcache
entry, but then closed the relcache entry, causing those pointers to
nominally become dangling. Actual trouble would be seen in the field
only if a relcache flush occurred mid-query, but that's hardly out of
the question.
While we could fix this by copying all the data in question at query
start, it seems better to just hold the relcache entry open for the
whole query.
While at it, improve the handling of support-function lookups: do that
once per query not once per pruning test. There's still something to be
desired here, in that we fail to exploit the possibility of caching data
across queries in the fn_extra fields of the relcache's FmgrInfo structs,
which could happen if we just used those structs in-place rather than
copying them. However, combining that with the possibility of per-query
lookups of cross-type comparison functions seems to require changes in the
APIs of a lot of the pruning support functions, so it's too invasive to
consider as part of this patch. A win would ensue only for complex
partition key data types (e.g. arrays), so it may not be worth the
trouble.
Documentation of word_similarity() and strict_word_similarity() functions
contains some vague wordings which could confuse users. This patch makes
those wordings more clear. word_similarity() was introduced in PostgreSQL 9.6,
and corresponding part of documentation needs to be backpatched.
Author: Bruce Momjian, Alexander Korotkov
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180526165648.GB12510%40momjian.us
Backpatch: 9.6, where word_similarity() was introduced
Andrew Dunstan [Tue, 12 Jun 2018 18:54:43 +0000 (14:54 -0400)]
Exclude files in .git from list of perl files
The .git directory might contain perl files, as hooks, for example.
Since we have no control over these they should be excluded from things
like our perlcritic checks.
Andres Freund [Tue, 12 Jun 2018 18:13:21 +0000 (11:13 -0700)]
Fix bugs in vacuum of shared rels, by keeping their relcache entries current.
When vacuum processes a relation it uses the corresponding relcache
entry's relfrozenxid / relminmxid as a cutoff for when to remove
tuples etc. Unfortunately for nailed relations (i.e. critical system
catalogs) bugs could frequently lead to the corresponding relcache
entry being stale.
This set of bugs could cause actual data corruption as vacuum would
potentially not remove the correct row versions, potentially reviving
them at a later point. After 699bf7d05c some corruptions in this vein
were prevented, but the additional error checks could also trigger
spuriously. Examples of such errors are:
ERROR: found xmin ... from before relfrozenxid ...
and
ERROR: found multixact ... from before relminmxid ...
To be caused by this bug the errors have to occur on system catalog
tables.
The two bugs are:
1) Invalidations for nailed relations were ignored, based on the
theory that the relcache entry for such tables doesn't
change. Which is largely true, except for fields like relfrozenxid
etc. This means that changes to relations vacuumed in other
sessions weren't picked up by already existing sessions. Luckily
autovacuum doesn't have particularly longrunning sessions.
2) For shared *and* nailed relations, the shared relcache init file
was never invalidated while running. That means that for such
tables (e.g. pg_authid, pg_database) it's not just already existing
sessions that are affected, but even new connections are as well.
That explains why the reports usually were about pg_authid et. al.
To fix 1), revalidate the rd_rel portion of a relcache entry when
invalid. This implies a bit of extra complexity to deal with
bootstrapping, but it's not too bad. The fix for 2) is simpler,
simply always remove both the shared and local init files.
Tom Lane [Mon, 11 Jun 2018 23:17:50 +0000 (19:17 -0400)]
Fix access to just-closed relcache entry.
It might be impossible for this to cause a problem in non-debug builds,
since there'd be no opportunity for the relcache entry to get recycled
before the fetch. It blows up nicely with -DRELCACHE_FORCE_RELEASE plus
valgrind, though.
Evidently introduced by careless refactoring in commit f0e44751d.
Back-patch accordingly.
Michael Paquier [Mon, 11 Jun 2018 21:52:34 +0000 (06:52 +0900)]
Fix oversight from 9e149c8 with spin-lock handling
Calling an external function while a pin-lock is held is a bad idea as
those are designed to be short-lived. The stress of a first commit into
a large git history may contribute to that.
Reported-by: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180611164952.vmxdpdpirdtkdsz6@alap3.anarazel.de
We don't need two passes if we scan child partitions before parents,
as that way the children's present_parts are up to date before they're
needed. I (tgl) think there's actually a bug being fixed here, for the
case of an intermediate partitioned table with no direct leaf children,
but haven't attempted to construct a test case to prove it.
Alvaro Herrera [Mon, 11 Jun 2018 20:53:33 +0000 (16:53 -0400)]
Don't needlessly check the partition contraint twice
Starting with commit f0e44751d717, ExecConstraints was in charge of
running the partition constraint; commit 19c47e7c8202 modified that so
that caller could request to skip that checking depending on some
conditions, but that commit and 15ce775faa42 together introduced a small
bug there which caused ExecInsert to request skipping the constraint
check but have this not be honored -- in effect doing the check twice.
This could have been fixed in a very small patch, but on further
analysis of the involved function and its callsites, it turns out to be
simpler to give the responsibility of checking the partition constraint
fully to the caller, and return ExecConstraints to its original
(pre-partitioning) shape where it only checked tuple descriptor-related
constraints. Each caller must do partition constraint checking on its
own schedule, which is more convenient after commit 2f178441044 anyway.
Reported-by: David Rowley
Author: David Rowley, Álvaro Herrera Reviewed-by: Amit Langote, Amit Khandekar, Simon Riggs
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAKJS1f8w8+awsxgea8wt7_UX8qzOQ=Tm1LD+U1fHqBAkXxkW2w@mail.gmail.com
Andrew Dunstan [Mon, 11 Jun 2018 18:47:20 +0000 (14:47 -0400)]
Add a script to detect perl compile time errors and warnings
Also add a function that centralizes the logic for locating all our perl
files and use it in pgperlcritic and pgperltidy as well as the new
pgperlcheck.
Tom Lane [Mon, 11 Jun 2018 16:08:09 +0000 (12:08 -0400)]
Fix run-time partition pruning code to handle NULL values properly.
The previous coding just ignored pruning constraints that compare a
partition key to a null-valued expression. This is silly, since really
what we can do there is conclude that all partitions are rejected: the
pruning operator is known strict so the comparison must always fail.
This also fixes the logic to not ignore constisnull for a Const comparison
value. That's probably an unreachable case, since the planner would
normally have simplified away a strict operator with a constant-null input.
But this code has no business assuming that.
Michael Paquier [Mon, 11 Jun 2018 00:26:13 +0000 (09:26 +0900)]
Fix a couple of bugs with replication slot advancing feature
A review of the code has showed up a couple of issues fixed by this
commit:
- Physical slots have been using the confirmed LSN position as a start
comparison point which is always 0/0, instead use the restart LSN
position (logical slots need to use the confirmed LSN position, which
was correct).
- The actual slot update was incorrect for both physical and logical
slots. Physical slots need to use their restart_lsn as base comparison
point (confirmed_flush was used because of previous point), and logical
slots need to begin reading WAL from restart_lsn (confirmed_flush was
used as well), while confirmed_flush is compiled depending on the
decoding context and record read, and is the LSN position returned back
to the caller.
- Never return 0/0 if a slot cannot be advanced. This way, if a slot is
advanced while the activity is idle, then the same position is returned
to the caller over and over without raising an error. Instead return
the LSN the slot has been advanced to. With repetitive calls, the same
position is returned hence caller can directly monitor the difference in
progress in bytes by doing simply LSN difference calculations, which
should be monotonic.
Note that as the slot is owned by the backend advancing it, then the
read of those fields is fine lock-less, while updates need to happen
while the slot mutex is held, so fix that on the way as well. Other
locks for in-memory data of replication slots have been already fixed
previously.
Some of those issues have been pointed out by Petr and Simon during the
patch, while I noticed some of them after looking at the code. This
also visibly takes of a recently-discovered bug causing assertion
failures which can be triggered by a two-step slot forwarding which
first advanced the slot to a WAL page boundary and secondly advanced it
to the latest position, say 'FF/FFFFFFF' to make sure that the newest
LSN is used as forward point. It would have been nice to drop a test
for that, but the set of operators working on pg_lsn limits it, so this
is left for a future exercise.
Author: Michael Paquier Reviewed-by: Petr Jelinek, Simon Riggs
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CANP8+jLyS=X-CAk59BJnsxKQfjwrmKicHQykyn52Qj-Q=9GLCw@mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/2840048a-1184-417a-9da8-3299d207a1d7%40postgrespro.ru
Tom Lane [Sun, 10 Jun 2018 22:24:34 +0000 (18:24 -0400)]
Assorted cosmetic cleanup of run-time-partition-pruning code.
Use "subplan" rather than "subnode" to refer to the child plans of
a partitioning Append; this seems a bit more specific and hence
clearer. Improve assorted comments. No non-cosmetic changes.
Tom Lane [Sun, 10 Jun 2018 20:30:14 +0000 (16:30 -0400)]
Relocate partition pruning structs to a saner place.
These struct definitions were originally dropped into primnodes.h,
which is a poor choice since that's mainly intended for primitive
expression node types; these are not in that category. What they
are is auxiliary info in Plan trees, so move them to plannodes.h.
For consistency, also relocate some related code that was apparently
placed with the aid of a dartboard.
There's no interesting code changes in this commit, just reshuffling.
Tom Lane [Sun, 10 Jun 2018 19:22:25 +0000 (15:22 -0400)]
Improve run-time partition pruning to handle any stable expression.
The initial coding of the run-time-pruning feature only coped with cases
where the partition key(s) are compared to Params. That is a bit silly;
we can allow it to work with any non-Var-containing stable expression, as
long as we take special care with expressions containing PARAM_EXEC Params.
The code is hardly any longer this way, and it's considerably clearer
(IMO at least). Per gripe from Pavel Stehule.
Michael Paquier [Fri, 1 Jun 2018 18:30:55 +0000 (14:30 -0400)]
Fix and document lock handling for in-memory replication slot data
While debugging issues on HEAD for the new slot forwarding feature of
Postgres 11, some monitoring of the code surrounding in-memory slot data
has proved that the lock handling may cause inconsistent data to be read
by read-only callers of slot functions, particularly
pg_get_replication_slots() which fetches data for the system view
pg_replication_slots, or modules looking directly at slot information.
The code paths involved in those problems concern logical decoding
initialization (down to 9.4) and WAL reservation for slots (new as of
10).
A set of comments documenting all the lock handlings, particularly the
dependency with LW locks for slots and the in_use flag as well as the
internal mutex lock is added, based on a suggested by Simon Riggs.
Some of the fixed code exists down to 9.4 where WAL decoding has been
introduced, but as those race conditions are really unlikely going to
happen as those concern code paths for slot and decoding creation, just
fix the problem on HEAD.
Thomas Munro [Sun, 10 Jun 2018 08:30:25 +0000 (20:30 +1200)]
Limit Parallel Hash's bucket array to MaxAllocSize.
Make sure that we don't exceed MaxAllocSize when increasing the number of
buckets. Perhaps later we'll remove that limit and use DSA_ALLOC_HUGE, but
for now just prevent further increases like the non-parallel code. This
change avoids the error from bug report #15225.
Author: Thomas Munro Reviewed-By: Tom Lane Reported-by: Frits Jalvingh
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/152802081668.26724.16985037679312485972%40wrigleys.postgresql.org
Alvaro Herrera [Fri, 8 Jun 2018 20:18:40 +0000 (16:18 -0400)]
Teach SHOW ALL to honor pg_read_all_settings membership
Also, fix the pg_settings view to display source filename and line
number when invoked by a pg_read_all_settings member. This addition by
me (Álvaro).
Also, fix wording of the comment in GetConfigOption regarding the
restriction it implements, renaming the parameter for extra clarity.
Noted by Michaël.
These were all oversight in commit 25fff40798fc; backpatch to pg10,
where that commit first appeared.
Simon Riggs [Thu, 7 Jun 2018 19:38:12 +0000 (20:38 +0100)]
Exclude VACUUMs from RunningXactData
GetRunningTransactionData() should ignore VACUUM procs because in some
cases they are assigned xids. This could lead to holding back xmin via
the route of passing the xid to standby and then having that hold back
xmin on master via feedback.
Backpatch to 9.1 needed, but will only do so on supported versions.
Backpatch once proven on the buildfarm.
Reported-by: Greg Stark
Author: Simon Riggs Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CANP8+jJBYt=4PpTfiPb0UrH1_iPhzsxKH5Op_Wec634F0ohnAw@mail.gmail.com
Alvaro Herrera [Wed, 6 Jun 2018 18:46:53 +0000 (14:46 -0400)]
Fix function code in error report
This bug causes a lseek() failure to be reported as a "could not open"
failure in the error message, muddling bug reports. I introduced this
copy-and-pasteo in commit 78e122010422.
Noticed while reviewing code for bug report #15221, from lily liang. In
version 10 the affected function is only used by multixact.c and
commit_ts, and only in corner-case circumstances, neither of which are
involved in the reported bug (a pg_subtrans failure.)
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