Robert Haas [Wed, 29 Nov 2017 22:06:14 +0000 (17:06 -0500)]
New C function: bms_add_range
This will be used by pending patches to improve partition pruning.
Amit Langote and Kyotaro Horiguchi, per a suggestion from David
Rowley. Review and testing of the larger patch set of which this is a
part by Ashutosh Bapat, David Rowley, Dilip Kumar, Jesper Pedersen,
Rajkumar Raghuwanshi, Beena Emerson, Amul Sul, and Kyotaro Horiguchi.
Robert Haas [Wed, 29 Nov 2017 20:19:07 +0000 (15:19 -0500)]
Add extensive tests for partition pruning.
Currently, partition pruning happens via constraint exclusion, but
there are pending places to replace that with a different and
hopefully faster mechanism. To be sure that we don't change behavior
without realizing it, add extensive test coverage.
Note that not all of these behaviors are optimal; in some cases,
partitions are not pruned even though it would be safe to do so.
These tests therefore serve to memorialize the current state rather
than the ideal state. Patches that improve things can update the test
results as appropriate.
Amit Langote, adjusted by me. Review and testing of the larger patch
set of which this is a part by Ashutosh Bapat, David Rowley, Dilip
Kumar, Jesper Pedersen, Rajkumar Raghuwanshi, Beena Emerson, Amul Sul,
and Kyotaro Horiguchi.
Robert Haas [Tue, 28 Nov 2017 17:05:52 +0000 (12:05 -0500)]
Fix ReinitializeParallelDSM to tolerate finding no error queues.
Commit d4663350646ca0c069a36d906155a0f7e3372eb7 changed things so
that shm_toc_lookup would fail with an error rather than silently
returning NULL in the hope that such failures would be reported
in a useful way rather than via a system crash. However, it
overlooked the fact that the lookup of PARALLEL_KEY_ERROR_QUEUE
in ReinitializeParallelDSM is expected to fail when no DSM segment
was created in the first place; in that case, we end up with a
backend-private memory segment that still contains an entry for
PARALLEL_KEY_FIXED but no others. Consequently a benign failure
to initialize parallelism can escalate into an elog(ERROR);
repair.
Robert Haas [Tue, 28 Nov 2017 16:39:16 +0000 (11:39 -0500)]
Teach bitmap heap scan to cope with absence of a DSA.
If we have a plan that uses parallelism but are unable to execute it
using parallelism, for example due to a lack of available DSM
segments, then the EState's es_query_dsa will be NULL. Parallel
bitmap heap scan needs to fall back to a non-parallel scan in such
cases.
Peter Eisentraut [Tue, 28 Nov 2017 16:28:05 +0000 (11:28 -0500)]
PL/Python: Fix potential NULL pointer dereference
After d0aa965c0a0ac2ff7906ae1b1dad50a7952efa56, one error path in
PLy_spi_execute_fetch_result() could result in the variable "result"
being dereferenced after being set to NULL. To fix that, just clear the
resources right there and return early.
Also add another SPI_freetuptable() call so that that is cleared in all
error paths.
discovered by John Naylor <jcnaylor@gmail.com> via scan-build
Robert Haas [Tue, 28 Nov 2017 15:51:01 +0000 (10:51 -0500)]
Add null test to partition constraint for default range partitions.
Non-default range partitions have a constraint which include null
tests, and both default and non-default list partitions also have a
constraint which includes null tests, but for some reason this was
missed for default range partitions. This could cause the partition
constraint to evaluate to false for rows that were (correctly) routed
to that partition by insert tuple routing, which could in turn
cause constraint exclusion to prune the default partition in cases
where it should not.
Tom Lane [Tue, 28 Nov 2017 01:56:46 +0000 (20:56 -0500)]
Mark some more functions as pg_attribute_noreturn().
Doing this suppresses Coverity warnings and might allow improved
code in some cases. The prospects of that are not so bright as
to warrant back-patching, though.
Tom Lane [Tue, 28 Nov 2017 00:22:08 +0000 (19:22 -0500)]
Fix assorted syscache lookup sloppiness in partition-related code.
heap_drop_with_catalog and ATExecDetachPartition neglected to check for
SearchSysCache failures, as noted in bugs #14927 and #14928 from Pan Bian.
Such failures are pretty unlikely, since we should already have some sort
of lock on the rel at these points, but it's neither a good idea nor
per project style to omit a check for failure.
Also, StorePartitionKey contained a syscache lookup that it never did
anything with, including never releasing the result. Presumably the
reason why we don't see refcount-leak complaints is that the lookup
always fails; but in any case it's pretty useless, so remove it.
All of these errors were evidently introduced by the relation
partitioning feature. Back-patch to v10 where that came in.
Tom Lane [Mon, 27 Nov 2017 22:53:56 +0000 (17:53 -0500)]
Fix creation of resjunk tlist entries for inherited mixed UPDATE/DELETE.
rewriteTargetListUD's processing is dependent on the relkind of the query's
target table. That was fine at the time it was made to act that way, even
for queries on inheritance trees, because all tables in an inheritance tree
would necessarily be plain tables. However, the 9.5 feature addition
allowing some members of an inheritance tree to be foreign tables broke the
assumption that rewriteTargetListUD's output tlist could be applied to all
child tables with nothing more than column-number mapping. This led to
visible failures if foreign child tables had row-level triggers, and would
also break in cases where child tables belonged to FDWs that used methods
other than CTID for row identification.
To fix, delay running rewriteTargetListUD until after the planner has
expanded inheritance, so that it is applied separately to the (already
mapped) tlist for each child table. We can conveniently call it from
preprocess_targetlist. Refactor associated code slightly to avoid the
need to heap_open the target relation multiple times during
preprocess_targetlist. (The APIs remain a bit ugly, particularly around
the point of which steps scribble on parse->targetList and which don't.
But avoiding such scribbling would require a change in FDW callback APIs,
which is more pain than it's worth.)
Also fix ExecModifyTable to ensure that "tupleid" is reset to NULL when
we transition from rows providing a CTID to rows that don't. (That's
really an independent bug, but it manifests in much the same cases.)
Add a regression test checking one manifestation of this problem, which
was that row-level triggers on a foreign child table did not work right.
Back-patch to 9.5 where the problem was introduced.
Etsuro Fujita, reviewed by Ildus Kurbangaliev and Ashutosh Bapat
Simon Riggs [Mon, 27 Nov 2017 09:34:05 +0000 (09:34 +0000)]
Pad XLogReaderState's per-buffer data_bufsz more aggressively.
Originally, we palloc'd this buffer just barely big enough to hold the
largest xlog backup block seen so far. We now MAXALIGN the palloc size.
The original coding could result in many repeated palloc cycles, in the
worst case where we see a series ofgradually larger xlog records. We
ameliorate that similarly to 8735978e7aebfbc499843630131c18d1f7346c79
by imposing a minimum buffer size of BLCKSZ.
Tom Lane [Sun, 26 Nov 2017 20:17:24 +0000 (15:17 -0500)]
Pad XLogReaderState's main_data buffer more aggressively.
Originally, we palloc'd this buffer just barely big enough to hold the
largest xlog record seen so far. It turns out that that can result in
valgrind complaints, because some compilers will emit code that assumes
it can safely fetch padding bytes at the end of a struct, and those
padding bytes were unallocated so far as aset.c was concerned. We can
fix that by MAXALIGN'ing the palloc request size, ensuring that it is big
enough to include any possible padding that might've been omitted from
the on-disk record.
An additional objection to the original coding is that it could result in
many repeated palloc cycles, in the worst case where we see a series of
gradually larger xlog records. We can ameliorate that cheaply by
imposing a minimum buffer size that's large enough for most xlog records.
BLCKSZ/2 was chosen after a bit of discussion.
In passing, remove an obsolete comment in struct xl_heap_new_cid that the
combocid field is free due to alignment considerations. Perhaps that was
true at some point, but it's not now.
Joe Conway [Sun, 26 Nov 2017 17:49:40 +0000 (09:49 -0800)]
Make has_sequence_privilege support WITH GRANT OPTION
The various has_*_privilege() functions all support an optional
WITH GRANT OPTION added to the supported privilege types to test
whether the privilege is held with grant option. That is, all except
has_sequence_privilege() variations. Fix that.
Tom Lane [Sat, 25 Nov 2017 20:30:11 +0000 (15:30 -0500)]
Replace raw timezone source data with IANA's new compact format.
Traditionally IANA has distributed their timezone data in pure source
form, replete with extensive historical comments. As of release 2017c,
they've added a compact single-file format that omits comments and
abbreviates command keywords. This form is way shorter than the pure
source, even before considering its allegedly better compressibility.
Hence, let's distribute the data in that form rather than pure source.
I'm pushing this now, rather than at the next timezone database update,
so that it's easy to confirm that this data file produces compiled zic
output that's identical to what we were getting before.
Tom Lane [Sat, 25 Nov 2017 19:42:10 +0000 (14:42 -0500)]
Avoid formally-undefined use of memcpy() in hstoreUniquePairs().
hstoreUniquePairs() often called memcpy with equal source and destination
pointers. Although this is almost surely harmless in practice, it's
undefined according to the letter of the C standard. Some versions of
valgrind will complain about it, and some versions of libc as well
(cf. commit ad520ec4a). Tweak the code to avoid doing that.
Noted by Tomas Vondra. Back-patch to all supported versions because
of the hazard of libc assertions.
Tom Lane [Sat, 25 Nov 2017 19:15:48 +0000 (14:15 -0500)]
Repair failure with SubPlans in multi-row VALUES lists.
When nodeValuesscan.c was written, it was impossible to have a SubPlan in
VALUES --- any sub-SELECT there would have to be uncorrelated and thereby
would produce an InitPlan instead. We therefore took a shortcut in the
logic that throws away a ValuesScan's per-row expression evaluation data
structures. This was broken by the introduction of LATERAL however; a
sub-SELECT containing a lateral reference produces a correlated SubPlan.
The cleanest fix for this would be to give up the optimization of
discarding the expression eval state. But that still seems pretty
unappetizing for long VALUES lists. It seems to work to just prevent
the subexpressions from hooking into the ValuesScan node's subPlan
list, so let's do that and see how well it works. (If this breaks,
due to additional connections between the subexpressions and the outer
query structures, we might consider compromises like throwing away data
only for VALUES rows not containing SubPlans.)
Per bug #14924 from Christian Duta. Back-patch to 9.3 where LATERAL
was introduced.
Tom Lane [Sat, 25 Nov 2017 18:19:43 +0000 (13:19 -0500)]
Update buffile.h/.c comments for removal of non-temp option.
Commit 11e264517 removed BufFile's isTemp flag, thereby eliminating
the possibility of resurrecting BufFileCreate(). But it left that
function in place, as well as a bunch of comments describing how things
worked for the non-temp-file case. At best, that's now a source of
confusion. So remove the long-since-commented-out function and change
relevant comments.
I (tgl) wanted to rename BufFileCreateTemp() to BufFileCreate(), but
that seems not to be the consensus position, so leave it as-is.
In passing, fix commit f0828b2fc's failure to update BufFileSeek's
comment to match the change of its argument type from long to off_t.
(I think that might actually have been intentional at the time, but
now that 64-bit off_t is nearly universal, it looks anachronistic.)
Tom Lane [Sat, 25 Nov 2017 16:48:09 +0000 (11:48 -0500)]
Improve planner's handling of set-returning functions in grouping columns.
Improve query_is_distinct_for() to accept SRFs in the targetlist when
we can prove distinctness from a DISTINCT clause. In that case the
de-duplication will surely happen after SRF expansion, so the proof
still works. Continue to punt in the case where we'd try to prove
distinctness from GROUP BY (or, in the future, source relations).
To do that, we'd have to determine whether the SRFs were in the
grouping columns or elsewhere in the tlist, and it still doesn't
seem worth the trouble. But this trivial change allows us to
recognize that "SELECT DISTINCT unnest(foo) FROM ..." produces
unique-ified output, which seems worth having.
Also, fix estimate_num_groups() to consider the possibility of SRFs in
the grouping columns. Its failure to do so was masked before v10 because
grouping_planner() scaled up plan rowcount estimates by the estimated SRF
multiplier after performing grouping. That doesn't happen anymore, which
is more correct, but it means we need an adjustment in the estimate for
the number of groups. Failure to do this leads to an underestimate for
the number of output rows of subqueries like "SELECT DISTINCT unnest(foo)"
compared to what 9.6 and earlier estimated, thus breaking plan choices
in some cases.
Per report from Dmitry Shalashov. Back-patch to v10 to avoid degraded
plan choices compared to previous releases.
Robert Haas [Sat, 25 Nov 2017 15:49:17 +0000 (10:49 -0500)]
Avoid projecting tuples unnecessarily in Gather and Gather Merge.
It's most often the case that the target list for the Gather (Merge)
node matches the target list supplied by the underlying plan node;
when this is so, we can avoid the overhead of projecting.
Tom Lane [Sat, 25 Nov 2017 00:28:19 +0000 (19:28 -0500)]
Improve valgrind logic in aset.c, and fix multiple issues in generation.c.
Revise aset.c so that all the "private" fields of chunk headers are
marked NOACCESS when outside the module, improving on the previous
coding which protected only requested_size. Fix a couple of corner
case bugs, such as failing to re-protect the header during a failure
exit from AllocSetRealloc, and wrong padding-size calculation for an
oversize allocation request.
Apply the same design to generation.c, and also fix several bugs therein
that I found by dint of hacking the code to use generation.c as the
standard allocator and then running the core regression tests with it.
Notably, we have to track the actual size of each block, else the
wipe_mem call in GenerationReset clears the wrong amount of memory for
an oversize-chunk block; and GenerationCheck needs a way of identifying
freed chunks that isn't fooled by palloc(0). I chose to fix the latter
by resetting the context pointer to NULL in a freed chunk, roughly like
what happens in a freed aset.c chunk.
Tom Lane [Fri, 24 Nov 2017 20:50:22 +0000 (15:50 -0500)]
Mostly-cosmetic improvements in memory chunk header alignment coding.
Add commentary about what we're doing and why. Apply the method used for
padding in GenerationChunk to AllocChunkData, replacing the rather ad-hoc
solution used in commit 7e3aa03b4. Reorder fields in GenerationChunk so
that the padding calculation will work even if sizeof(size_t) is different
from sizeof(void *) --- likely that will never happen, but we don't need
the assumption if we do it like this. Improve static assertions about
alignment.
In passing, fix a couple of oversights in the "large chunk" path in
GenerationAlloc().
Dean Rasheed [Fri, 24 Nov 2017 14:14:40 +0000 (14:14 +0000)]
RLS comment fixes.
The comments in get_policies_for_relation() say that CREATE POLICY
does not support defining restrictive policies. This is no longer
true, starting from PG10.
Dean Rasheed [Fri, 24 Nov 2017 12:01:18 +0000 (12:01 +0000)]
Doc: add a summary table to the CREATE POLICY docs.
This table summarizes which RLS policy expressions apply to each
command type, and whether they apply to the old or new tuples (or
both), which saves reading through a lot of text.
Rod Taylor, hacked on by me. Reviewed by Fabien Coelho.
Tom Lane [Fri, 24 Nov 2017 05:29:20 +0000 (00:29 -0500)]
Fix unstable regression test added by commits 59b71c6fe et al.
The query didn't really have a preferred index, leading to platform-
specific choices of which one to use. Adjust it to make sure tenk1_hundred
is always chosen.
Noah Misch [Fri, 24 Nov 2017 04:22:04 +0000 (20:22 -0800)]
Support linking with MinGW-built Perl.
This is necessary for ActivePerl 5.18 onwards and for Strawberry Perl.
It is not sufficient for 32-bit builds with newer Visual Studio; these
fail with error LINK2026. Back-patch to 9.3 (all supported versions).
Andres Freund [Fri, 24 Nov 2017 01:13:09 +0000 (17:13 -0800)]
Fix handling of NULLs returned by aggregate combine functions.
When strict aggregate combine functions, used in multi-stage/parallel
aggregation, returned NULL, we didn't check for that, invoking the
combine function with NULL the next round, despite it being strict.
The equivalent code invoking normal transition functions has a check
for that situation, which did not get copied in a7de3dc5c346. Fix the
bug by adding the equivalent check.
Based on a quick look I could not find any strict combine functions in
core actually returning NULL, and it doesn't seem very likely external
users have done so. So this isn't likely to have caused issues in
practice.
Reported-By: Andres Freund
Author: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20171121033642.7xvmjqrl4jdaaat3@alap3.anarazel.de
Backpatch: 9.6, where parallel aggregation was introduced
Peter Eisentraut [Thu, 23 Nov 2017 14:39:47 +0000 (09:39 -0500)]
Convert documentation to DocBook XML
Since some preparation work had already been done, the only source
changes left were changing empty-element tags like <xref linkend="foo">
to <xref linkend="foo"/>, and changing the DOCTYPE.
The source files are still named *.sgml, but they are actually XML files
now. Renaming could be considered later.
In the build system, the intermediate step to convert from SGML to XML
is removed. Everything is build straight from the source files again.
The OpenSP (or the old SP) package is no longer needed.
The documentation toolchain instructions are updated and are much
simpler now.
Fujii Masao [Thu, 23 Nov 2017 07:46:42 +0000 (16:46 +0900)]
doc: mention wal_receiver_status_interval as GUC affecting logical rep worker.
wal_receiver_timeout, wal_receiver_status_interval and
wal_retrieve_retry_interval configuration parameters affect the logical rep
worker, but previously only wal_receiver_status_interval was not mentioned
as such parameter in the doc.
Noah Misch [Thu, 23 Nov 2017 04:18:15 +0000 (20:18 -0800)]
Build src/test/isolation during "make" and "make install".
This hack closes a race condition in "make -j check-world" and "make -j
installcheck-world". Back-patch to v10, before which these parallel
invocations had worse problems.
Simon Riggs [Wed, 22 Nov 2017 18:45:07 +0000 (05:45 +1100)]
Generational memory allocator
Add new style of memory allocator, known as Generational
appropriate for use in cases where memory is allocated
and then freed in roughly oldest first order (FIFO).
Use new allocator for logical decoding’s reorderbuffer
to significantly reduce memory usage and improve performance.
Tom Lane [Tue, 21 Nov 2017 22:30:48 +0000 (17:30 -0500)]
pgbench: fix stats reporting when some transactions are skipped.
pgbench can skip some transactions when both -R and -L options are used.
Previously, this resulted in slightly silly statistics both in progress
reports and final output, because the skipped transactions were counted
as executed for TPS and related stats. Discount skipped xacts in TPS
numbers, and also when figuring the percentage of xacts exceeding the
latency limit.
Also, don't print per-script skipped-transaction counts when there is
only one script. That's redundant with the overall count, and it's
inconsistent with the fact that we don't print other per-script stats
when there's only one script. Clean up some unnecessary interactions
between what should be independent options that were due to that
decision.
While at it, avoid division-by-zero in cases where no transactions were
executed. While on modern platforms this would generally result in
printing "NaN" rather than a crash, that isn't spelled consistently
across platforms and it would confuse many people. Skip the relevant
output entirely when practical, else print zeroes.
Fabien Coelho, reviewed by Steve Singer, additional hacking by me
Robert Haas [Tue, 21 Nov 2017 18:56:24 +0000 (13:56 -0500)]
Provide for forward compatibility with future minor protocol versions.
Previously, any attempt to request a 3.x protocol version other than
3.0 would lead to a hard connection failure, which made the minor
protocol version really no different from the major protocol version
and precluded gentle protocol version breaks. Instead, when the
client requests a 3.x protocol version where x is greater than 0, send
the new NegotiateProtocolVersion message to convey that we support
only 3.0. This makes it possible to introduce new minor protocol
versions without requiring a connection retry when the server is
older.
In addition, if the startup packet includes name/value pairs where
the name starts with "_pq_.", assume that those are protocol options,
not GUCs. Include those we don't support (i.e. all of them, at
present) in the NegotiateProtocolVersion message so that the client
knows they were not understood. This makes it possible for the
client to request previously-unsupported features without bumping
the protocol version at all; the client can tell from the server's
response whether the option was understood.
It will take some time before servers that support these new
facilities become common in the wild; to speed things up and make
things easier for a future 3.1 protocol version, back-patch to all
supported releases.
Robert Haas [Tue, 21 Nov 2017 18:06:32 +0000 (13:06 -0500)]
Fix multiple problems with satisfies_hash_partition.
Fix the function header comment to describe the actual behavior.
Check that table OID, modulus, and remainder arguments are not NULL
before accessing them. Check that the modulus and remainder are
sensible. If the table OID doesn't exist, return NULL instead of
emitting an internal error, similar to what we do elsewhere. Check
that the actual argument types match, or at least are binary coercible
to, the expected argument types. Correctly handle invocation of this
function using the VARIADIC syntax. Add regression tests.
Robert Haas and Amul Sul, per a report by Andreas Seltenreich and
subsequent followup investigation.
Tom Lane [Tue, 21 Nov 2017 01:25:18 +0000 (20:25 -0500)]
Support index-only scans in contrib/cube and contrib/seg GiST indexes.
To do this, we only have to remove the compress and decompress support
functions, which have never done anything more than detoasting.
In the wake of commit d3a4f89d8, this results in automatically enabling
index-only scans, since the core code will now know that the stored
representation is the same as the original data (up to detoasting).
The only exciting part of this is that ALTER OPERATOR FAMILY lacks
a way to drop a support function that was declared as being part of
an opclass rather than being loose in the family. For the moment,
we'll hack our way to a solution with a manual update of the pg_depend
entry type, which is what distinguishes the two cases. Perhaps
someday it'll be worth providing a cleaner way to do that, but for
now it seems like a very niche problem.
Note that the underlying C functions remain, to support use of the shared
libraries with older versions of the modules' SQL declarations. Someday
we may be able to remove them, but not soon.
Tom Lane [Mon, 20 Nov 2017 22:57:46 +0000 (17:57 -0500)]
Add support for Motorola 88K to s_lock.h.
Apparently there are still people out there who care about this old
architecture. They probably care about dusty versions of Postgres
too, so back-patch to all supported branches.
David Carlier (from a patch being carried by OpenBSD packagers)
Robert Haas [Mon, 20 Nov 2017 17:34:06 +0000 (12:34 -0500)]
Tweak use of ExecContextForcesOids by Gather (Merge).
Specifically, pass the outer plan's PlanState instead of our own
PlanState. At present, ExecContextForcesOids doesn't actually care
which PlanState we pass; it just looks through to the underlying
EState to find the result relation or top-level eflags. However, in
the future it might care. If that happens, and if our goal is to get
a tuple descriptor that matches that of the outer plan, then I think
what we care about is whether the outer plan's context forces OIDs,
rather than whether our own context forces OIDs, just as we use the
outer node's target list rather than our own.
Robert Haas [Mon, 20 Nov 2017 17:00:33 +0000 (12:00 -0500)]
Pass eflags down to parallel workers.
Currently, there are no known consequences of this oversight, so no
back-patch. Several of the EXEC_FLAG_* constants aren't usable in
parallel mode anyway, and potential problems related to the presence
or absence of OIDs (see EXEC_FLAG_WITH_OIDS, EXEC_FLAG_WITHOUT_OIDS)
seem at present to be masked by the unconditional projection step
performed by Gather and Gather Merge. In general, however, it seems
important that all participants agree on the values of these flags,
which modify executor behavior globally, and a pending patch to skip
projection in Gather (Merge) would be outright broken in certain cases
without this fix.
Patch by me, based on investigation of a test case provided by Amit
Kapila. This patch was also reviewed by Amit Kapila.
Tom Lane [Sat, 18 Nov 2017 21:46:29 +0000 (16:46 -0500)]
Fix compiler warning in rangetypes_spgist.c.
On gcc 7.2.0, comparing pointer to (Datum) 0 produces a warning.
Treat it as a simple pointer to avoid that; this is more consistent
with comparable code elsewhere, anyway.
Tom Lane [Sat, 18 Nov 2017 21:24:05 +0000 (16:24 -0500)]
Merge near-duplicate code in RI triggers.
Merge ri_restrict_del and ri_restrict_upd into one function ri_restrict.
Create a function ri_setnull that is the common implementation of
RI_FKey_setnull_del and RI_FKey_setnull_upd. Likewise create a function
ri_setdefault that is the common implementation of RI_FKey_setdefault_del
and RI_FKey_setdefault_upd. All of these pairs of functions were identical
except for needing to check for no-actual-key-change in the UPDATE cases;
the one extra if-test is a small price to pay for saving so much code.
Aside from removing about 400 lines of essentially duplicate code, this
allows us to recognize that we were uselessly caching two identical plans
whenever there were pairs of triggers using these duplicated functions
(which is likely very common).
Peter Eisentraut [Tue, 31 Oct 2017 14:49:36 +0000 (10:49 -0400)]
Consistently catch errors from Python _New() functions
Python Py*_New() functions can fail and return NULL in out-of-memory
conditions. The previous code handled that inconsistently or not at
all. This change organizes that better. If we are in a function that
is called from Python, we just check for failure and return NULL
ourselves, which will cause any exception information to be passed up.
If we are called from PostgreSQL, we consistently create an "out of
memory" error.
Tom Lane [Sat, 18 Nov 2017 17:42:52 +0000 (12:42 -0500)]
Improve to_date/to_number/to_timestamp behavior with multibyte characters.
The documentation says that these functions skip one input character
per literal (non-pattern) format character. Actually, though, they
skipped one input *byte* per literal *byte*, which could be hugely
confusing if either data or format contained multibyte characters.
To fix, adjust the FormatNode representation and parse_format() so
that multibyte format characters are stored as one FormatNode not
several, and adjust the data-skipping bits to advance by pg_mblen()
not necessarily one byte. There's no user-visible behavior change
on the to_char() side, although the internal representation changes.
Commit e87d4965b had already fixed most places where we skip characters
on the basis of non-literal format patterns to advance by characters
not bytes, but this gets one more place, the SKIP_THth macro. I think
everything in formatting.c gets that right now.
It'd be nice to have some regression test cases covering this behavior;
but of course there's no way to do so in an encoding-agnostic way, and
many of the interesting aspects would also require unportable locale
selections. So I've not bothered here.
Tom Lane [Sat, 18 Nov 2017 17:16:37 +0000 (12:16 -0500)]
Fix quoted-substring handling in format parsing for to_char/to_number/etc.
This code evidently intended to treat backslash as an escape character
within double-quoted substrings, but it was sufficiently confused that
cases like ..."foo\\"... did not work right: the second backslash
managed to quote the double-quote after it, despite being quoted itself.
Rewrite to get that right, while preserving the existing behavior
outside double-quoted substrings, which is that backslash isn't special
except in the combination \".
Comparing to Oracle, it seems that their version of to_char() for
timestamps allows literal alphanumerics only within double quotes, while
non-alphanumerics are allowed outside quotes; backslashes aren't special
anywhere; there is no way at all to emit a literal double quote.
(Bizarrely, their to_char() for numbers is different; it doesn't allow
literal text at all AFAICT.) The fact that they don't treat backslash
as special justifies our existing behavior for backslash outside double
quotes. I considered making backslash inside double quotes act the same
way (ie, special only if before "), which in a green field would be a
more consistent behavior. But that would likely break more existing SQL
code than what this patch does.
Add some test cases illustrating this behavior. (Only the last new
case actually changes behavior in this commit.)
Little of this behavior was documented, either, so fix that.
Peter Eisentraut [Sat, 18 Nov 2017 15:07:57 +0000 (10:07 -0500)]
Support channel binding 'tls-unique' in SCRAM
This is the basic feature set using OpenSSL to support the feature. In
order to allow the frontend and the backend to fetch the sent and
expected TLS Finished messages, a PG-like API is added to be able to
make the interface pluggable for other SSL implementations.
This commit also adds a infrastructure to facilitate the addition of
future channel binding types as well as libpq parameters to control the
SASL mechanism names and channel binding names. Those will be added by
upcoming commits.
Some tests are added to the SSL test suite to test SCRAM authentication
with channel binding.
Author: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz> Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>
Tom Lane [Fri, 17 Nov 2017 17:53:20 +0000 (12:53 -0500)]
Remove contrib/start-scripts/osx/.
Since those scripts haven't worked at all in macOS releases of 2014
and later, and aren't the recommended way to do it on any release
since 2005, there seems little point carrying them into the future.
It's very unlikely that anyone would be installing PG >= 11 on a
macOS release where they couldn't use contrib/start-scripts/macos/.
Tom Lane [Fri, 17 Nov 2017 17:46:52 +0000 (12:46 -0500)]
Provide modern examples of how to auto-start Postgres on macOS.
The scripts in contrib/start-scripts/osx don't work at all on macOS
10.10 (Yosemite) or later, because they depend on SystemStarter which
Apple deprecated long ago and removed in 10.10. Add a new subdirectory
contrib/start-scripts/macos with scripts that use the newer launchd
infrastructure.
Since this problem is independent of which Postgres version you're using,
back-patch to all supported branches.
Tom Lane [Fri, 17 Nov 2017 17:04:06 +0000 (12:04 -0500)]
Prevent to_number() from losing data when template doesn't match exactly.
Non-data template patterns would consume characters whether or not those
characters were what the pattern expected, for example
SELECT TO_NUMBER('1234', '9,999');
produced 134 because the '2' got eaten by the comma pattern. This seems
undesirable, not least because it doesn't happen in Oracle. For the ','
and 'G' template patterns, we can fix this by consuming characters only
if they match what the pattern would output. For non-data patterns such
as 'L' and 'TH', it seems impractical to tighten things up to the point of
consuming only exact matches to what the pattern would output; but we can
improve matters quite a lot by redefining the behavior as "consume only
characters that aren't digits, signs, decimal point, or comma".
Also, fix it so that the behavior is to consume the number of *characters*
the pattern would output, not the number of *bytes*. The old coding would
do surprising things with non-ASCII currency symbols, for example. (It
would be good to apply that rule for literal text as well, but this commit
only fixes it for non-data patterns.)
Oliver Ford, reviewed by Thomas Munro and Nathan Wagner, and whacked around
a bit more by me
Robert Haas [Fri, 17 Nov 2017 16:53:00 +0000 (11:53 -0500)]
Set proargmodes for satisfies_hash_partition.
It appears that proargmodes should always be set for variadic
functions, but satifies_hash_partition had it as NULL. In addition to
fixing the problem, add a regression test to guard against future
mistakes of this type.
Andres Freund [Fri, 17 Nov 2017 01:52:57 +0000 (17:52 -0800)]
Remove BufFile's isTemp flag.
The isTemp flag controls whether buffile.c chops BufFile data up into
1GB segments on disk. Since it was badly named and always true, get
rid of it.
Author: Thomas Munro (based on suggestion by Peter Geoghegan) Reviewed-By: Peter Geoghegan, Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-Wz%3D%2B9Rfqh5UdvdW9rGezdhrMGGH-JL1X9FXXVZdeeGeOJA%40mail.gmail.com
Andres Freund [Fri, 17 Nov 2017 01:28:11 +0000 (17:28 -0800)]
Provide DSM segment to ExecXXXInitializeWorker functions.
Previously, executor nodes running in parallel worker processes didn't
have access to the dsm_segment object used for parallel execution. In
order to support resource management based on DSM segment lifetime,
they need that. So create a ParallelWorkerContext object to hold it
and pass it to all InitializeWorker functions.
Author: Thomas Munro Reviewed-By: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEepm=2W=cOkiZxcg6qiFQP-dHUe09aqTrEMM7yJDrHMhDv_RA@mail.gmail.com
Tom Lane [Thu, 16 Nov 2017 22:57:38 +0000 (17:57 -0500)]
Clean up warnings in MinGW builds.
Experimentation with modern MinGW (specifically the 5.0.2 version packaged
for Fedora 26) shows that its version of sys/stat.h *does* provide S_IRGRP
and friends, contrary to the expectation of win32_port.h. This results in
an astonishing number of compiler warnings, and perhaps in incorrect code
--- I'm not sure if the nonzero values supplied by MinGW's header actually
do anything. Hence, adjust win32_port.h to only define these macros if
<sys/stat.h> doesn't.
This might be worth back-patching, but given the lack of complaints so
far, I'm not too excited about it.
Tom Lane [Thu, 16 Nov 2017 21:22:57 +0000 (16:22 -0500)]
Make PL/Python handle domain-type conversions correctly.
Fix PL/Python so that it can handle domains over composite, and so that
it enforces domain constraints correctly in other cases that were not
always done properly before. Notably, it didn't do arrays of domains
right (oversight in commit c12d570fa), and it failed to enforce domain
constraints when returning a composite type containing a domain field,
and if a transform function is being used for a domain's base type then
it failed to enforce domain constraints on the result. Also, in many
places it missed checking domain constraints on null values, because
the plpy_typeio code simply wasn't called for Py_None.
Rather than try to band-aid these problems, I made a significant
refactoring of the plpy_typeio logic. The existing design of recursing
for array and composite members is extended to also treat domains as
containers requiring recursion, and the APIs for the module are cleaned
up and simplified.
The patch also modifies plpy_typeio to rely on the typcache more than
it did before (which was pretty much not at all). This reduces the
need for repetitive lookups, and lets us get rid of an ad-hoc scheme
for detecting changes in composite types. I added a couple of small
features to typcache to help with that.
Although some of this is fixing bugs that long predate v11, I don't
think we should risk a back-patch: it's a significant amount of code
churn, and there've been no complaints from the field about the bugs.
Robert Haas [Thu, 16 Nov 2017 19:19:27 +0000 (14:19 -0500)]
Fix broken cleanup interlock for GIN pending list.
The pending list must (for correctness) always be cleaned up by vacuum, and
should (for the avoidance of surprising behavior) always be cleaned up
by an explicit call to gin_clean_pending_list, but cleanup is optional
when inserting. The old logic got this backward: cleanup was forced
if (stats == NULL), but that's going to be *false* when vacuuming and
*true* for inserts.
Robert Haas [Thu, 16 Nov 2017 17:57:17 +0000 (12:57 -0500)]
Update postgresql.conf.sample to match pg_settings classificaitons.
A handful of settings, most notably shared_preload_libraries, were
just plain the wrong place compared to their assigned config_group
value in guc.c (and thus pg_settings). In other cases the names of
the sections in postgresql.conf.sample were mildly different from
the corresponding entries in config_group_names[]. Make it all
consistent.
Robert Haas [Thu, 16 Nov 2017 17:06:14 +0000 (12:06 -0500)]
Pass InitPlan values to workers via Gather (Merge).
If a PARAM_EXEC parameter is used below a Gather (Merge) but the InitPlan
that computes it is attached to or above the Gather (Merge), force the
value to be computed before starting parallelism and pass it down to all
workers. This allows us to use parallelism in cases where it previously
would have had to be rejected as unsafe. We do - in this case - lose the
optimization that the value is only computed if it's actually used. An
alternative strategy would be to have the first worker that needs the value
compute it, but one downside of that approach is that we'd then need to
select a parallel-safe path to compute the parameter value; it couldn't for
example contain a Gather (Merge) node. At some point in the future, we
might want to consider both approaches.
Independent of that consideration, there is a great deal more work that
could be done to make more kinds of PARAM_EXEC parameters parallel-safe.
This infrastructure could be used to allow a Gather (Merge) on the inner
side of a nested loop (although that's not a very appealing plan) and
cases where the InitPlan is attached below the Gather (Merge) could be
addressed as well using various techniques. But this is a good start.
Amit Kapila, reviewed and revised by me. Reviewing and testing from
Kuntal Ghosh, Haribabu Kommi, and Tushar Ahuja.
Tom Lane [Thu, 16 Nov 2017 17:03:04 +0000 (12:03 -0500)]
Define _WINSOCK_DEPRECATED_NO_WARNINGS in all MSVC builds.
Commit 0fb54de9a thought that this was only needed in VS2015 and later,
but buildfarm member woodlouse shows that at least VS2013 whines as
well. Let's just define it regardless of MSVC version; it should be
harmless enough in older releases.
Also, in the wake of ed9b3606d, it seems better to put it in win32_port.h
where <winsock2.h> is included.
Since this is only suppressing a pedantic compiler warning, I don't
feel a need for a back-patch.
Andrew Dunstan [Thu, 16 Nov 2017 16:35:02 +0000 (11:35 -0500)]
Back out the session_start and session_end hooks feature.
It's become apparent during testing that there are problems with at
least the testing regime. I don't think we should have it without a
working test regime, and the difficulties might indicate implementation
problems anyway, so I'm backing out the whole thing until that's sorted
out.
Tom Lane [Thu, 16 Nov 2017 16:16:53 +0000 (11:16 -0500)]
Fix bogus logic for checking data dirs' versions within pg_upgrade.
Commit 9be95ef15 failed to cure all of the redundancy here: we were
actually calling get_major_server_version() three times for each
of the old and new data directories. While that's not enormously
expensive, it's still sloppy.
Tom Lane [Thu, 16 Nov 2017 15:36:18 +0000 (10:36 -0500)]
Further refactoring of c.h and nearby files.
This continues the work of commit 91aec93e6 by getting rid of a lot of
Windows-specific funny business in "section 0". Instead of including
pg_config_os.h in different places depending on platform, let's
standardize on putting it before the system headers, and in consequence
reduce win32.h to just what has to appear before the system headers or
the body of c.h (the latter category seems to include only PGDLLIMPORT
and PGDLLEXPORT). The rest of what was in win32.h is moved to a new
sub-include of port.h, win32_port.h. Some of what was in port.h seems
to better belong there too.
It's possible that I missed some declaration ordering dependency that
needs to be preserved, but hopefully the buildfarm will find that
out in short order.
Unlike the previous commit, no back-patch, since this is just cleanup
not a prerequisite for a bug fix.
Peter Eisentraut [Thu, 16 Nov 2017 13:41:40 +0000 (08:41 -0500)]
Refactor routine to test connection to SSL server
Move the sub-routines wrappers to check if a connection to a server is
fine or not into the test main module. This is useful for other tests
willing to check connectivity into a server.
Andrew Dunstan [Wed, 15 Nov 2017 22:49:04 +0000 (17:49 -0500)]
Disable installcheck tests for test_session_hooks
The module requires a preloaded library and the defect can't be cured by
a LOAD instruction in the test script. To achieve this we override the
installcheck target in the module's Makefile, and exclude ithe module in
vcregress.pl.
Robert Haas [Wed, 15 Nov 2017 15:23:28 +0000 (10:23 -0500)]
Centralize executor-related partitioning code.
Some code is moved from partition.c, which has grown very quickly lately;
splitting the executor parts out might help to keep it from getting
totally out of control. Other code is moved from execMain.c. All is
moved to a new file execPartition.c. get_partition_for_tuple now has
a new interface that more clearly separates executor concerns from
generic concerns.
Robert Haas [Wed, 15 Nov 2017 13:17:29 +0000 (08:17 -0500)]
Add parallel_leader_participation GUC.
Sometimes, for testing, it's useful to have the leader do nothing but
read tuples from workers; and it's possible that could work out better
even in production.
Thomas Munro, reviewed by Amit Kapila and by me. A few final tweaks
by me.
Tom Lane [Tue, 14 Nov 2017 20:03:55 +0000 (15:03 -0500)]
Prevent int128 from requiring more than MAXALIGN alignment.
Our initial work with int128 neglected alignment considerations, an
oversight that came back to bite us in bug #14897 from Vincent Lachenal.
It is unsurprising that int128 might have a 16-byte alignment requirement;
what's slightly more surprising is that even notoriously lax Intel chips
sometimes enforce that.
Raising MAXALIGN seems out of the question: the costs in wasted disk and
memory space would be significant, and there would also be an on-disk
compatibility break. Nor does it seem very practical to try to allow some
data structures to have more-than-MAXALIGN alignment requirement, as we'd
have to push knowledge of that throughout various code that copies data
structures around.
The only way out of the box is to make type int128 conform to the system's
alignment assumptions. Fortunately, gcc supports that via its
__attribute__(aligned()) pragma; and since we don't currently support
int128 on non-gcc-workalike compilers, we shouldn't be losing any platform
support this way.
Although we could have just done pg_attribute_aligned(MAXIMUM_ALIGNOF) and
called it a day, I did a little bit of extra work to make the code more
portable than that: it will also support int128 on compilers without
__attribute__(aligned()), if the native alignment of their 128-bit-int
type is no more than that of int64.
Add a regression test case that exercises the one known instance of the
problem, in parallel aggregation over a bigint column.
This will need to be back-patched, along with the preparatory commit 91aec93e6. But let's see what the buildfarm makes of it first.
Tom Lane [Tue, 14 Nov 2017 18:46:54 +0000 (13:46 -0500)]
Rearrange c.h to create a "compiler characteristics" section.
Generalize section 1 to handle stuff that is principally about the
compiler (not libraries), such as attributes, and collect stuff there
that had been dropped into various other parts of c.h. Also, push
all the gettext macros into section 8, so that section 0 is really
just inclusions rather than inclusions and random other stuff.
The primary goal here is to get pg_attribute_aligned() defined before
section 3, so that we can use it with int128. But this seems like good
cleanup anyway.
This patch just moves macro definitions around, and shouldn't result
in any changes in generated code. But I'll push it out separately
to see if the buildfarm agrees.
Tom Lane [Tue, 14 Nov 2017 17:33:10 +0000 (12:33 -0500)]
Document changes in large-object privilege checking.
Commit 5ecc0d738 removed the hard-wired superuser checks in lo_import
and lo_export in favor of protecting them with SQL permissions, but
failed to adjust the documentation to match. Fix that, and add a
<caution> paragraph pointing out the nontrivial security hazards
involved with actually granting such permissions. (It's still better
than ALLOW_DANGEROUS_LO_FUNCTIONS, though.)
Also, commit ae20b23a9 caused large object read/write privilege to
be checked during lo_open() rather than in the actual read or write
calls. Document that.
Alvaro Herrera [Tue, 14 Nov 2017 14:19:05 +0000 (15:19 +0100)]
Simplify index_[constraint_]create API
Instead of passing large swaths of boolean arguments, define some flags
that can be used in a bitmask. This makes it easier not only to figure
out what each call site is doing, but also to add some new flags.
The flags are split in two -- one set for index_create directly and
another for constraints. index_create() itself receives both, and then
passes down the latter to index_constraint_create(), which can also be
called standalone.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20171023151251.j75uoe27gajdjmlm@alvherre.pgsql Reviewed-by: Simon Riggs
Tom Lane [Mon, 13 Nov 2017 21:40:03 +0000 (16:40 -0500)]
Allow running just selected steps of pgbench's initialization sequence.
This feature caters to specialized use-cases such as running the normal
pgbench scenario with nonstandard indexes, or inserting other actions
between steps of the initialization sequence. The normal sequence of
initialization actions is broken down into half a dozen steps which can
be executed in a user-specified order, to the extent to which that's
sensible. The actions themselves aren't changed, except to make them
more robust against nonstandard uses:
* all four tables are now dropped in one DROP command, to reduce
assumptions about what foreign key relationships exist;
* all four tables are now truncated at the start of the data load
step, for consistency;
* the foreign key creation commands now specify constraint names, to
prevent accidentally creating duplicate constraints by executing the
'f' step twice.
Make some cosmetic adjustments in the messages emitted by pgbench
so that it's clear which steps are getting run, and so that the
messages agree with the documented names of the steps.
In passing, fix failure to enforce that the -v option is used only
in benchmarking mode.
Masahiko Sawada, reviewed by Fabien Coelho, editorialized a bit by me
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