Peter Eisentraut [Thu, 31 Aug 2017 02:40:24 +0000 (22:40 -0400)]
Remove to pre-8.2 coding convention for PG_MODULE_MAGIC
PG_MODULE_MAGIC has been around since 8.2, with 8.1 long since in EOL,
so remove the mention of #ifdef guards for compiling against pre-8.2
sources from the documentation.
Tom Lane [Wed, 30 Aug 2017 21:21:08 +0000 (17:21 -0400)]
Code review for nodeGatherMerge.c.
Comment the fields of GatherMergeState, and organize them a bit more
sensibly. Comment GMReaderTupleBuffer more usefully too. Improve
assorted other comments that were obsolete or just not very good English.
Get rid of the use of a GMReaderTupleBuffer for the leader process;
that was confusing, since only the "done" field was used, and that
in a way redundant with need_to_scan_locally.
In gather_merge_init, avoid calling load_tuple_array for
already-known-exhausted workers. I'm not sure if there's a live bug there,
but the case is unlikely to be well tested due to timing considerations.
Remove some useless code, such as duplicating the tts_isempty test done by
TupIsNull.
Remove useless initialization of ps.qual, replacing that with an assertion
that we have no qual to check. (If we did, the code would fail to check
it.)
Avoid applying heap_copytuple to a null tuple. While that fails to crash,
it's confusing and it makes the code less legible not more so IMO.
Propagate a couple of these changes into nodeGather.c, as well.
Back-patch to v10, partly because of the possibility that the
gather_merge_init change is fixing a live bug, but mostly to keep
the branches in sync to ease future bug fixes.
Tom Lane [Wed, 30 Aug 2017 17:18:16 +0000 (13:18 -0400)]
Separate reinitialization of shared parallel-scan state from ExecReScan.
Previously, the parallel executor logic did reinitialization of shared
state within the ExecReScan code for parallel-aware scan nodes. This is
problematic, because it means that the ExecReScan call has to occur
synchronously (ie, during the parent Gather node's ReScan call). That is
swimming very much against the tide so far as the ExecReScan machinery is
concerned; the fact that it works at all today depends on a lot of fragile
assumptions, such as that no plan node between Gather and a parallel-aware
scan node is parameterized. Another objection is that because ExecReScan
might be called in workers as well as the leader, hacky extra tests are
needed in some places to prevent unwanted shared-state resets.
Hence, let's separate this code into two functions, a ReInitializeDSM
call and the ReScan call proper. ReInitializeDSM is called only in
the leader and is guaranteed to run before we start new workers.
ReScan is returned to its traditional function of resetting only local
state, which means that ExecReScan's usual habits of delaying or
eliminating child rescan calls are safe again.
As with the preceding commit 7df2c1f8d, it doesn't seem to be necessary
to make these changes in 9.6, which is a good thing because the FDW and
CustomScan APIs are impacted.
Revert the reversion commits a20aac890 and 9b644745c. In the wake of
commit 7df2c1f8d, we should get stable buildfarm results from this test;
if not, I'd like to know sooner not later.
Tom Lane [Wed, 30 Aug 2017 13:29:55 +0000 (09:29 -0400)]
Force rescanning of parallel-aware scan nodes below a Gather[Merge].
The ExecReScan machinery contains various optimizations for postponing
or skipping rescans of plan subtrees; for example a HashAgg node may
conclude that it can re-use the table it built before, instead of
re-reading its input subtree. But that is wrong if the input contains
a parallel-aware table scan node, since the portion of the table scanned
by the leader process is likely to vary from one rescan to the next.
This explains the timing-dependent buildfarm failures we saw after
commit a2b70c89c.
The established mechanism for showing that a plan node's output is
potentially variable is to mark it as depending on some runtime Param.
Hence, to fix this, invent a dummy Param (one that has a PARAM_EXEC
parameter number, but carries no actual value) associated with each Gather
or GatherMerge node, mark parallel-aware nodes below that node as dependent
on that Param, and arrange for ExecReScanGather[Merge] to flag that Param
as changed whenever the Gather[Merge] node is rescanned.
This solution breaks an undocumented assumption made by the parallel
executor logic, namely that all rescans of nodes below a Gather[Merge]
will happen synchronously during the ReScan of the top node itself.
But that's fundamentally contrary to the design of the ExecReScan code,
and so was doomed to fail someday anyway (even if you want to argue
that the bug being fixed here wasn't a failure of that assumption).
A follow-on patch will address that issue. In the meantime, the worst
that's expected to happen is that given very bad timing luck, the leader
might have to do all the work during a rescan, because workers think
they have nothing to do, if they are able to start up before the eventual
ReScan of the leader's parallel-aware table scan node has reset the
shared scan state.
Although this problem exists in 9.6, there does not seem to be any way
for it to manifest there. Without GatherMerge, it seems that a plan tree
that has a rescan-short-circuiting node below Gather will always also
have one above it that will short-circuit in the same cases, preventing
the Gather from being rescanned. Hence we won't take the risk of
back-patching this change into 9.6. But v10 needs it.
Peter Eisentraut [Tue, 29 Aug 2017 23:33:24 +0000 (19:33 -0400)]
doc: Avoid sidebar element
The formatting of the sidebar element didn't carry over to the new tool
chain. Instead of inventing a whole new way of dealing with it, just
convert the one use to a "note".
Tom Lane [Tue, 29 Aug 2017 19:38:05 +0000 (15:38 -0400)]
Doc: document libpq's restriction to INT_MAX rows in a PGresult.
As long as PQntuples, PQgetvalue, etc, use "int" for row numbers, we're
pretty much stuck with this limitation. The documentation formerly stated
that the result of PQntuples "might overflow on 32-bit operating systems",
which is just nonsense: that's not where the overflow would happen, and
if you did reach an overflow it would not be on a 32-bit machine, because
you'd have OOM'd long since.
Tom Lane [Tue, 29 Aug 2017 19:18:01 +0000 (15:18 -0400)]
Teach libpq to detect integer overflow in the row count of a PGresult.
Adding more than 1 billion rows to a PGresult would overflow its ntups and
tupArrSize fields, leading to client crashes. It'd be desirable to use
wider fields on 64-bit machines, but because all of libpq's external APIs
use plain "int" for row counters, that's going to be hard to accomplish
without an ABI break. Given the lack of complaints so far, and the general
pain that would be involved in using such huge PGresults, let's settle for
just preventing the overflow and reporting a useful error message if it
does happen. Also, for a couple more lines of code we can increase the
threshold of trouble from INT_MAX/2 to INT_MAX rows.
To do that, refactor pqAddTuple() to allow returning an error message that
replaces the default assumption that it failed because of out-of-memory.
Along the way, fix PQsetvalue() so that it reports all failures via
pqInternalNotice(). It already did so in the case of bad field number,
but neglected to report anything for other error causes.
Because of the potential for crashes, this seems like a back-patchable
bug fix, despite the lack of field reports.
Robert Haas [Tue, 29 Aug 2017 17:22:49 +0000 (13:22 -0400)]
Propagate sort instrumentation from workers back to leader.
Up until now, when parallel query was used, no details about the
sort method or space used by the workers were available; details
were shown only for any sorting done by the leader. Fix that.
Robert Haas [Tue, 29 Aug 2017 17:12:23 +0000 (13:12 -0400)]
Push tuple limits through Gather and Gather Merge.
If we only need, say, 10 tuples in total, then we certainly don't need
more than 10 tuples from any single process. Pushing down the limit
lets workers exit early when possible. For Gather Merge, there is
an additional benefit: a Sort immediately below the Gather Merge can
be done as a bounded sort if there is an applicable limit.
Tom Lane [Tue, 29 Aug 2017 13:34:21 +0000 (09:34 -0400)]
Improve docs about numeric formatting patterns (to_char/to_number).
The explanation about "0" versus "9" format characters was confusing
and arguably wrong; the discussion of sign handling wasn't very good
either. Notably, while it's accurate to say that "FM" strips leading
zeroes in date/time values, what it really does with numeric values
is to strip *trailing* zeroes, and then only if you wrote "9" rather
than "0". Per gripes from Erwin Brandstetter.
Tom Lane [Mon, 28 Aug 2017 14:14:20 +0000 (10:14 -0400)]
Fix over-aggressive sanity check in misc_sanity.sql.
Fix thinko in commit 8be8510cf: it's okay to have dbid == 0 in normal
(non-pin) entries in pg_shdepend, because global objects such as
databases are entered that way. The test would pass so long as it
was run in a cluster containing no databases/tablespaces owned by,
or granted to, roles other than the bootstrap superuser. That's the
expected situation for "make check", but for "make installcheck", not
so much.
Tom Lane [Sat, 26 Aug 2017 19:19:24 +0000 (15:19 -0400)]
First-draft release notes for 9.6.5.
As usual, the release notes for other branches will be made by cutting
these down, but put them up for community review first. Note the first
entry is only for 9.4.
Peter Eisentraut [Sat, 26 Aug 2017 13:21:46 +0000 (09:21 -0400)]
pg_test_timing: Some NLS fixes
The string "% of total" was marked by xgettext to be a c-format, but it
is actually not, so mark up the source to prevent that.
Compute the column widths of the final display dynamically based on the
translated strings, so that translations don't mess up the display
accidentally.
Robert Haas [Fri, 25 Aug 2017 19:07:44 +0000 (15:07 -0400)]
Improve low-level backup documentation.
Our documentation hasn't really caught up with the fact that
non-exclusive backups can now be taken using pg_start_backup and
pg_stop_backup even on standbys. Update, also correcting some
errors introduced by 52f8a59dd953c6820baf153e97cf07d31b8ac1d6.
Updates to the 9.6 documentation are needed as well, but that
will need a separate patch as some things are different on that
version.
David Steele, reviewed by Robert Haas and Michael Paquier
Tom Lane [Fri, 25 Aug 2017 13:05:17 +0000 (09:05 -0400)]
Code review for pushing LIMIT through subqueries.
Minor improvements for commit 1f6d515a6. We do not need the (rather
expensive) test for SRFs in the targetlist, because since v10 any
such SRFs would appear in separate ProjectSet nodes. Also, make the
code look more like the existing cases by turning it into a simple
recursion --- the argument that there might be some performance
benefit to contorting the code seems unfounded to me, especially since
any good compiler should turn the tail-recursion into iteration anyway.
Andres Freund [Fri, 25 Aug 2017 00:42:49 +0000 (17:42 -0700)]
Add minimal regression test for blessed record type transfer.
Test that blessed records can be transferred through a TupleQueue and
correctly decoded by another backend. While touching the file, make
sure that force_parallel_mode settings only cover relevant tests.
Author: Thomas Munro, editorialized by Andres Freund Reviewed-By: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170823054644.efuzftxjpfi6wwqs%40alap3.anarazel.de
Andres Freund [Fri, 25 Aug 2017 00:01:36 +0000 (17:01 -0700)]
Consolidate the function pointer types used by dshash.c.
Commit 8c0d7bafad36434cb08ac2c78e69ae72c194ca20 introduced dshash with hash
and compare functions like DynaHash's, and also variants that take a user
data pointer instead of size. Simplify the interface by merging them into
a single pair of function pointer types that take both size and a user data
pointer.
Since it is anticipated that memcmp and tag_hash behavior will be a common
requirement, provide wrapper functions dshash_memcmp and dshash_memhash that
conform to the new function types.
Author: Thomas Munro Reviewed-By: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170823054644.efuzftxjpfi6wwqs%40alap3.anarazel.de
Andres Freund [Thu, 24 Aug 2017 22:07:40 +0000 (15:07 -0700)]
Fix harmless thinko in dsa.c.
Commit 16be2fd100199bdf284becfcee02c5eb20d8a11d added DSA_ALLOC_HUGE,
DSA_ALLOC_ZERO and DSA_ALLOC_NO_OOM which have the same numerical
values and meanings as the similarly named MCXT_... macros. In one
place we accidentally used MCXT_ALLOC_NO_OOM when DSA_ALLOC_NO_OOM is
wanted, so tidy that up.
Author: Thomas Munro
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAEepm=2AimHxVkkxnMfQvbZMkXy0uKbVa0-D38c5-qwrCm4CMQ@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch: 10, where dsa was introduced.
Peter Eisentraut [Thu, 24 Aug 2017 19:29:35 +0000 (15:29 -0400)]
pg_upgrade: Remove dead code
Remove code meant for upgrading to a particular version of PostgreSQL
9.0. Since pg_upgrade only supports upgrading to the current major
version, this code is no longer useful.
Peter Eisentraut [Thu, 24 Aug 2017 18:04:28 +0000 (14:04 -0400)]
Increase SCRAM salt length
The original value 12 was set based on RFC 5802 for SCRAM-SHA-1, but RFC
7677 for SCRAM-SHA-256 uses 16, so use that. (This does not affect the
validity of already stored verifiers.)
Tom Lane [Thu, 24 Aug 2017 17:39:51 +0000 (13:39 -0400)]
Make new regression test case parallel-safe, and improve its output.
The test case added by commit 1f6d515a6 fails on buildfarm members that
have force_parallel_mode turned on, because we currently don't report sort
performance details from worker processes back to the master. To fix that,
just make the test table be temp rather than regular; that's a good idea
anyway to forestall any possible interference from auto-analyze.
(The restriction that workers can't access temp tables might go away
someday, but almost certainly not before the other thing gets fixed.)
Also, improve the test so that we retain as much as possible of the
EXPLAIN ANALYZE output. This aids debugging failures, and might also
expose problems that the preceding version masked.
Andres Freund [Wed, 23 Aug 2017 05:41:32 +0000 (22:41 -0700)]
Hash tables backed by DSA shared memory.
Add general purpose chaining hash tables for DSA memory. Unlike
DynaHash in shared memory mode, these hash tables can grow as
required, and cope with being mapped into different addresses in
different backends.
There is a wide range of potential users for such a hash table, though
it's very likely the interface will need to evolve as we come to
understand the needs of different kinds of users. E.g support for
iterators and incremental resizing is planned for later commits and
the details of the callback signatures are likely to change.
Author: Thomas Munro Reviewed-By: John Gorman, Andres Freund, Dilip Kumar, Robert Haas
Discussion:
https://postgr.es/m/CAEepm=3d8o8XdVwYT6O=bHKsKAM2pu2D6sV1S_=4d+jStVCE7w@mail.gmail.com
https://postgr.es/m/CAEepm=0ZtQ-SpsgCyzzYpsXS6e=kZWqk3g5Ygn3MDV7A8dabUA@mail.gmail.com
Andres Freund [Tue, 22 Aug 2017 23:05:48 +0000 (16:05 -0700)]
Refactor typcache.c's record typmod hash table.
Previously, tuple descriptors were stored in chains keyed by a fixed size
array of OIDs. That meant there were effectively two levels of collision
chain -- one inside and one outside the hash table. Instead, let dynahash.c
look after conflicts for us by supplying a proper hash and equal function
pair.
This is a nice cleanup on its own, but also simplifies followup
changes allowing blessed TupleDescs to be shared between backends
participating in parallel query.
Author: Thomas Munro Reviewed-By: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEepm%3D34GVhOL%2BarUx56yx7OPk7%3DqpGsv3CpO54feqjAwQKm5g%40mail.gmail.com
Andres Freund [Tue, 22 Aug 2017 22:36:49 +0000 (15:36 -0700)]
Add a hash_combine function for mixing hash values.
This hash function is derived from Boost's function of the same name.
Author: Andres Freund, Thomas Munro
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEepm%3D3rdgjfxW4cKvJ0OEmya2-34B0qHNG1xV0vK7TGPJGMUQ%40mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170731210844.3cwrkmsmbbpt4rjc%40alap3.anarazel.de
Peter Eisentraut [Mon, 21 Aug 2017 13:17:06 +0000 (09:17 -0400)]
Expand set of predefined ICU locales
Install language+region combinations even if they are not distinct from
the language's base locale. This gives better long-term stability of
the set of predefined locales and makes the predefined locales less
implementation-dependent and more practical for users.
Robert Haas [Mon, 21 Aug 2017 18:43:00 +0000 (14:43 -0400)]
pg_prewarm: Add automatic prewarm feature.
Periodically while the server is running, and at shutdown, write out a
list of blocks in shared buffers. When the server reaches consistency
-- unfortunatey, we can't do it before that point without breaking
things -- reload those blocks into any still-unused shared buffers.
Mithun Cy and Robert Haas, reviewed and tested by Beena Emerson,
Amit Kapila, Jim Nasby, and Rafia Sabih.
Noah Misch [Mon, 21 Aug 2017 04:22:18 +0000 (21:22 -0700)]
Inject $(ICU_LIBS) regardless of platform.
It appeared in a conditional that excludes AIX, Cygwin and MinGW. Give
ICU support a chance to work on those platforms. Back-patch to v10,
where ICU support was introduced.
Andres Freund [Sun, 20 Aug 2017 18:19:12 +0000 (11:19 -0700)]
Partially flatten struct tupleDesc so that it can be used in DSM.
TupleDesc's attributes were already stored in contiguous memory after the
struct. Go one step further and get rid of the array of pointers to
attributes so that they can be stored in shared memory mapped at different
addresses in each backend. This won't work for TupleDescs with contraints
and defaults, since those point to other objects, but for many purposes
only attributes are needed.
Author: Thomas Munro Reviewed-By: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEepm=0ZtQ-SpsgCyzzYpsXS6e=kZWqk3g5Ygn3MDV7A8dabUA@mail.gmail.com
Andres Freund [Sun, 20 Aug 2017 18:19:07 +0000 (11:19 -0700)]
Change tupledesc->attrs[n] to TupleDescAttr(tupledesc, n).
This is a mechanical change in preparation for a later commit that
will change the layout of TupleDesc. Introducing a macro to abstract
the details of where attributes are stored will allow us to change
that in separate step and revise it in future.
Author: Thomas Munro, editorialized by Andres Freund Reviewed-By: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEepm=0ZtQ-SpsgCyzzYpsXS6e=kZWqk3g5Ygn3MDV7A8dabUA@mail.gmail.com
Tom Lane [Sat, 19 Aug 2017 17:39:37 +0000 (13:39 -0400)]
Fix possible core dump in parallel restore when using a TOC list.
Commit 3eb9a5e7c unintentionally introduced an ordering dependency
into restore_toc_entries_prefork(). The existing coding of
reduce_dependencies() contains a check to skip moving a TOC entry
to the ready_list if it wasn't initially in the pending_list.
This used to suffice to prevent reduce_dependencies() from trying to
move anything into the ready_list during restore_toc_entries_prefork(),
because the pending_list stayed empty throughout that phase; but it no
longer does. The problem doesn't manifest unless the TOC has been
reordered by SortTocFromFile, which is how I missed it in testing.
To fix, just add a test for ready_list == NULL, converting the call
with NULL from a poor man's sanity check into an explicit command
not to touch TOC items' list membership. Clarify some of the comments
around this; in particular, note the primary purpose of the check for
pending_list membership, which is to ensure that we can't try to restore
the same item twice, in case a TOC list forces it to be restored before
its dependency count goes to zero.
Per report from FabrÃzio de Royes Mello. Back-patch to 9.3, like the
previous commit.
Robert Haas [Fri, 18 Aug 2017 17:01:05 +0000 (13:01 -0400)]
Fix interaction of triggers, partitioning, and EXPLAIN ANALYZE.
Add a new EState member es_leaf_result_relations, so that the trigger
code knows about ResultRelInfos created by tuple routing. Also make
sure ExplainPrintTriggers knows about partition-related
ResultRelInfos.
That code patch was good as far as it went, but the associated test case
has exposed fundamental brain damage in the parallel scan mechanism,
which is going to take nontrivial work to correct. In the interests of
getting the buildfarm back to green so that unrelated work can proceed,
let's temporarily remove the test case.
Tom Lane [Thu, 17 Aug 2017 17:13:47 +0000 (13:13 -0400)]
Further tweaks to compiler flags for PL/Perl on Windows.
It now emerges that we can only rely on Perl to tell us we must use
-D_USE_32BIT_TIME_T if it's Perl 5.13.4 or later. For older versions,
revert to our previous practice of assuming we need that symbol in
all 32-bit Windows builds. This is not ideal, but inquiring into
which compiler version Perl was built with seems far too fragile.
In any case, we had not previously had complaints about these old
Perl versions, so let's assume this is Good Enough. (It's still
better than the situation ante commit 5a5c2feca, in that at least
the effects are confined to PL/Perl rather than the whole PG build.)
Back-patch to all supported versions, like 5a5c2feca and predecessors.
As Andres pointed out, pg_atomic_init_u64 must be used to initialize an
atomic variable, before it can be accessed with the actual atomic ops.
Trying to use pg_atomic_write_u64 on an uninitialized variable leads to a
failure with the fallback implementation that uses a spinlock.
Tom Lane [Wed, 16 Aug 2017 20:51:56 +0000 (16:51 -0400)]
Extend the default rules file for contrib/unaccent with Vietnamese letters.
Improve generate_unaccent_rules.py to handle composed characters whose base
is another composed character rather than a plain letter. The net effect
of this is to add a bunch of multi-accented Vietnamese characters to
unaccent.rules.
Original complaint from Kha Nguyen, diagnosis of the script's shortcoming
by Thomas Munro.
Tom Lane [Wed, 16 Aug 2017 19:37:14 +0000 (15:37 -0400)]
Make the planner assume that the entries in a VALUES list are distinct.
Previously, if we had to estimate the number of distinct values in a
VALUES column, we fell back on the default behavior used whenever we lack
statistics, which effectively is that there are Min(# of entries, 200)
distinct values. This can be very badly off with a large VALUES list,
as noted by Jeff Janes.
We could consider actually running an ANALYZE-like scan on the VALUES,
but that seems unduly expensive, and anyway it could not deliver reliable
info if the entries are not all constants. What seems like a better choice
is to assume that the values are all distinct. This will sometimes be just
as wrong as the old code, but it seems more likely to be more nearly right
in many common cases. Also, it is more consistent with what happens in
some related cases, for example WHERE x = ANY(ARRAY[1,2,3,...,n]) and
WHERE x = ANY(VALUES (1),(2),(3),...,(n)) now are estimated similarly.
This was discussed some time ago, but consensus was it'd be better
to slip it in at the start of a development cycle not near the end.
(It should've gone into v10, really, but I forgot about it.)
Fix shm_toc.c to always return buffer-aligned memory.
Previously, if you passed a non-aligned size to shm_toc_create(), the
memory returned by shm_toc_allocate() would be similarly non-aligned.
This was exposed by commit 3cda10f41b, which allocated structs containing
a pg_atomic_uint64 field with shm_toc_allocate(). On systems with
MAXIMUM_ALIGNOF = 4, such structs still need to be 8-bytes aligned, but
the memory returned by shm_toc_allocate() was only 4-bytes aligned.
It's quite bogus that we abuse BUFFERALIGN to align the structs for
pg_atomic_uint64. It doesn't really have anything to do with buffers. But
that's a separate issue.
This ought to fix the buildfarm failures on 32-bit x86 systems.
Use atomic ops to hand out pages to scan in parallel scan.
With a lot of CPUs, the spinlock that protects the current scan location
in a parallel scan can become a bottleneck. Use an atomic fetch-and-add
instruction instead.
Since commit 40dae7ec53, which changed the way b-tree page splitting
works, there has been no difference in the handling of root, and non-root
split WAL records. We don't need to distinguish them anymore
If you're worried about the loss of debugging information, note that
usually a root split record will normally be followed by a WAL record to
create the new root page. The root page will also have the BTP_ROOT flag
set on the page itself, and there is a pointer to it from the metapage.
Author: Aleksander Alekseev
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20170406122116.GA11081@e733.localdomain
Alvaro Herrera [Tue, 15 Aug 2017 21:14:07 +0000 (18:14 -0300)]
Simplify autovacuum work-item implementation
The initial implementation of autovacuum work-items used a dynamic
shared memory area (DSA). However, it's argued that dynamic shared
memory is not portable enough, so we cannot rely on it being supported
everywhere; at the same time, autovacuum work-items are now a critical
part of the server, so it's not acceptable that they don't work in the
cases where dynamic shared memory is disabled. Therefore, let's fall
back to a simpler implementation of work-items that just uses
autovacuum's main shared memory segment for storage.
Tom Lane [Tue, 15 Aug 2017 20:49:47 +0000 (16:49 -0400)]
Make simpler-simple-expressions code cope with a Gather plan.
Commit 00418c612 expected that the plan generated for a simple-expression
query would always be a plain Result node. However, if force_parallel_mode
is on, the planner might stick a Gather atop that. Cope by looking through
the Gather. For safety, assert that the Gather's tlist is trivial.
Tom Lane [Tue, 15 Aug 2017 18:05:46 +0000 (14:05 -0400)]
Avoid out-of-memory in a hash join with many duplicate inner keys.
The executor is capable of splitting buckets during a hash join if
too much memory is being used by a small number of buckets. However,
this only helps if a bucket's population is actually divisible; if
all the hash keys are alike, the tuples still end up in the same
new bucket. This can result in an OOM failure if there are enough
inner keys with identical hash values. The planner's cost estimates
will bias it against choosing a hash join in such situations, but not
by so much that it will never do so. To mitigate the OOM hazard,
explicitly estimate the hash bucket space needed by just the inner
side's most common value, and if that would exceed work_mem then
add disable_cost to the hash cost estimate.
This approach doesn't account for the possibility that two or more
common values would share the same hash value. On the other hand,
work_mem is normally a fairly conservative bound, so that eating
two or more times that much space is probably not going to kill us.
If we have no stats about the inner side, ignore this consideration.
There was some discussion of making a conservative assumption, but that
would effectively result in disabling hash join whenever we lack stats,
which seems like an overreaction given how seldom the problem manifests
in the field.
Per a complaint from David Hinkle. Although this could be viewed
as a bug fix, the lack of similar complaints weighs against back-
patching; indeed we waited for v11 because it seemed already rather
late in the v10 cycle to be making plan choice changes like this one.
Alvaro Herrera [Tue, 15 Aug 2017 16:35:12 +0000 (13:35 -0300)]
Fix error handling path in autovacuum launcher
The original code (since 00e6a16d01) was assuming aborting the
transaction in autovacuum launcher was sufficient to release all
resources, but in reality the launcher runs quite a lot of code out of
any transactions. Re-introduce individual cleanup calls to make abort
more robust.
Reported-by: Robert Haas
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmobQVbz4K_+RSmiM9HeRKpy3vS5xnbkL95gSEnWijzprKQ@mail.gmail.com
Robert Haas [Tue, 15 Aug 2017 16:30:38 +0000 (12:30 -0400)]
Assorted preparatory refactoring for partition-wise join.
Instead of duplicating the logic to search for a matching
ParamPathInfo in multiple places, factor it out into a separate
function.
Pass only the relevant bits of the PartitionKey to
partition_bounds_equal instead of the whole thing, because
partition-wise join will want to call this without having a
PartitionKey available.
Adjust allow_star_schema_join and calc_nestloop_required_outer
to take relevant Relids rather than the entire Path, because
partition-wise join will want to call it with the top-parent
relids to determine whether a child join is allowable.
Ashutosh Bapat. Review and testing of the larger patch set of which
this is a part by Amit Langote, Rajkumar Raghuwanshi, Rafia Sabih,
Thomas Munro, Dilip Kumar, and me.
Tom Lane [Tue, 15 Aug 2017 16:28:39 +0000 (12:28 -0400)]
Simplify plpgsql's check for simple expressions.
plpgsql wants to recognize expressions that it can execute directly
via ExecEvalExpr() instead of going through the full SPI machinery.
Originally the test for this consisted of recursively groveling through
the post-planning expression tree to see if it contained only nodes that
plpgsql recognized as safe. That was a major maintenance headache, since
it required updating plpgsql every time we added any kind of expression
node. It was also kind of expensive, so over time we added various
pre-planning checks to try to short-circuit having to do that.
Robert Haas pointed out that as of the SRF-processing changes in v10,
particularly the addition of Query.hasTargetSRFs, there really isn't
any reason to make the recursive scan at all: the initial checks cover
everything we really care about. We do have to make sure that those
checks agree with what inline_function() considers, so that inlining
of a function that formerly wasn't inlined can't cause an expression
considered simple to become non-simple.
Hence, delete the recursive function exec_simple_check_node(), and tweak
those other tests to more exactly agree with inline_function(). Adjust
some comments and function naming to match.
Tom Lane [Tue, 15 Aug 2017 15:07:52 +0000 (11:07 -0400)]
Distinguish wait-for-connection from wait-for-write-ready on Windows.
The API for WaitLatch and friends followed the Unix convention in which
waiting for a socket connection to complete is identical to waiting for
the socket to accept a write. While Windows provides a select(2)
emulation that agrees with that, the native WaitForMultipleObjects API
treats them as quite different --- and for some bizarre reason, it will
report a not-yet-connected socket as write-ready. libpq itself has so
far escaped dealing with this because it waits with select(), but in
libpqwalreceiver.c we want to wait using WaitLatchOrSocket. The semantics
mismatch resulted in replication connection failures on Windows, but only
for remote connections (apparently, localhost connections complete
immediately, or at least too fast for anyone to have noticed the problem
in single-machine testing).
To fix, introduce an additional WL_SOCKET_CONNECTED wait flag for
WaitLatchOrSocket, which is identical to WL_SOCKET_WRITEABLE on
non-Windows, but results in waiting for FD_CONNECT events on Windows.
Ideally, we would also distinguish the two conditions in the API for
PQconnectPoll(), but changing that API at this point seems infeasible.
Instead, cheat by checking for PQstatus() == CONNECTION_STARTED to
determine that we're still waiting for the connection to complete.
(This is a cheat mainly because CONNECTION_STARTED is documented as an
internal state rather than something callers should rely on. Perhaps
we ought to change the documentation ... but this patch doesn't.)
Per reports from Jobin Augustine and Igor Neyman. Back-patch to v10
where commit 1e8a85009 exposed this longstanding shortcoming.
Andres Freund, minor fix and some code review/beautification by me
Robert Haas [Tue, 15 Aug 2017 14:49:06 +0000 (10:49 -0400)]
Teach adjust_appendrel_attrs(_multilevel) to do multiple translations.
Currently, child relations are always base relations, so when we
translate parent relids to child relids, we only need to translate
a singler relid. However, the proposed partition-wise join feature
will create child joins, which will mean we need to translate a set
of parent relids to the corresponding child relids. This is
preliminary refactoring to make that possible.
Ashutosh Bapat. Review and testing of the larger patch set of which
this is a part by Amit Langote, Rajkumar Raghuwanshi, Rafia Sabih,
Thomas Munro, Dilip Kumar, and me. Some adjustments, mostly
cosmetic, by me.
Robert Haas [Tue, 15 Aug 2017 13:16:33 +0000 (09:16 -0400)]
Avoid unnecessary single-child Append nodes.
Before commit d3cc37f1d801a6b5cad9bf179274a8, an inheritance parent
whose only children were temp tables of other sessions would end up
as a simple scan of the parent; but with that commit, we end up with
an Append node, per a report from Ashutosh Bapat. Tweak the logic
so that we go back to the old way, and update the function header
comment for partitioning while we're at it.
Ashutosh Bapat, reviewed by Amit Langote and adjusted by me.
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