Michael Paquier [Thu, 19 Sep 2019 04:18:53 +0000 (13:18 +0900)]
Doc: Fix incorrect mention to connection_object in CONNECT command of ECPG
This fixes an inconsistency with this parameter name not listed in the
command synopsis, and connection_name is the parameter name more
commonly used in the docs for ECPG commands.
Amit Kapila [Thu, 19 Sep 2019 02:32:12 +0000 (08:02 +0530)]
Doc: document autovacuum interruption.
It's important users be able to know (without looking at the source code)
that running DDL or DDL-like commands can interrupt autovacuum which can
lead to a lot of dead tuples and hence slower database operations.
Reported-by: James Coleman
Author: James Coleman Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila
Backpatch-through: 9.4
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAAaqYe-XYyNwML1=f=gnd0qWg46PnvD=BDrCZ5-L94B887XVxQ@mail.gmail.com
Michael Paquier [Thu, 19 Sep 2019 02:01:52 +0000 (11:01 +0900)]
Redesign pageinspect function printing infomask bits
After more discussion, the new function added by ddbd5d8 could have been
designed in a better way. Based on an idea from Álvaro, instead of
returning one column which includes both the raw and combined flags, use
two columns, with one for the raw flags and one for the combined flags.
This also takes care of some issues with HEAP_LOCKED_UPGRADED and
HEAP_XMAX_IS_LOCKED_ONLY which are not really combined flags as they
depend on conditions defined by other raw bits, as mentioned by Amit.
While on it, fix an extra issue with combined flags. A combined flag
was returned if at least one of its bits was set, but all its bits need
to be set to include it in the result.
Author: Michael Paquier Reviewed-by: Álvaro Herrera, Amit Kapila
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20190913114950.GA3824@alvherre.pgsql
smgrdounlinkfork() became dead code as the result of commit ece01aae47,
but it was left in place just in case we want it someday. However no users
have appeared in 7 years, so it's time to remove this unused function.
Doc: Update FDW documentation about direct foreign table modification.
1. Commit 7086be6e3 should have documented the limitation that the direct
modification is disabled when WCO constraints are present, but didn't,
which is definitely my fault. Update the documentation (Postgres 9.6
onwards).
2. Commit fc22b6623 should have documented the limitation that the direct
modification is disabled when generated columns are defined, but
didn't. Update the documentation (Postgres 12 onwards).
Peter Eisentraut [Tue, 17 Sep 2019 20:03:00 +0000 (22:03 +0200)]
Add some const decorations to array constants
Author: Mark G <markg735@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CAEeOP_YFVeFjq4zDZLDQbLSRFxBiTpwBQHxCNgGd%2Bp5VztTXyQ%40mail.gmail.com
Tom Lane [Tue, 17 Sep 2019 19:39:51 +0000 (15:39 -0400)]
Fix bogus handling of XQuery regex option flags.
The SQL spec defers to XQuery to define what the option flags are
for LIKE_REGEX patterns. XQuery says that:
* 's' allows the dot character to match newlines, which by
default it will not;
* 'm' allows ^ and $ to match at newlines, not only at the
start/end of the whole string.
Thus, these are *not* inverses as they are for the similarly-named
POSIX options, and neither one corresponds to the POSIX 'n' option.
Fortunately, Spencer's library does expose these two behaviors as
separately twiddlable flags, so we just have to fix the mapping from
JSP flag bits to REG flag bits. I also chose to rename the symbol
for 's' to DOTALL, to make it clearer that it's not the inverse
of MLINE.
Also, XQuery says that if the 'q' flag "is used together with the m, s,
or x flag, that flag has no effect". I read this as saying that 'q'
overrides the other flags; whoever wrote our code seems to have read
it backwards.
Lastly, while XQuery's 'x' flag is related to what Spencer's code
does for REG_EXPANDED, it's not the same or a subset. It seems best
to treat XQuery's 'x' as unimplemented for now. Maybe later we can
expand our regex code to offer 'x'-style parsing as a separate option.
While at it, refactor the jsonpath code so that (a) there's only
one copy of the flag transformation logic not two, and (b) the
processing of flags is independent of the order in which the flags
are written.
We need some documentation updates to go with this, but I'll
tackle that separately.
SQL Standard 2016 defines SSSSS format pattern for seconds past midnight in
jsonpath .datetime() method and CAST (... FORMAT ...) SQL clause. In our
datetime parsing engine we currently support it with SSSS name.
This commit adds SSSSS as an alias for SSSS. Alias is added in favor of
upcoming jsonpath .datetime() method. But it's also supported in to_date()/
to_timestamp() as positive side effect.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAPpHfdsZgYEra_PeCLGNoXOWYx6iU-S3wF8aX0ObQUcZU%2B4XTw%40mail.gmail.com
Author: Nikita Glukhov, Alexander Korotkov Reviewed-by: Anastasia Lubennikova, Peter Eisentraut
SQL Standard 2016 defines FF1-FF9 format patters for fractions of seconds in
jsonpath .datetime() method and CAST (... FORMAT ...) SQL clause. Parsing
engine of upcoming .datetime() method will be shared with to_date()/
to_timestamp().
This patch implements FF1-FF6 format patterns for upcoming jsonpath .datetime()
method. to_date()/to_timestamp() functions will also get support of this
format patterns as positive side effect. FF7-FF9 are not supported due to
lack of precision in our internal timestamp representation.
Extracted from original patch by Nikita Glukhov, Teodor Sigaev, Oleg Bartunov.
Heavily revised by me.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/fcc6fc6a-b497-f39a-923d-aa34d0c588e8%402ndQuadrant.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAPpHfdsZgYEra_PeCLGNoXOWYx6iU-S3wF8aX0ObQUcZU%2B4XTw%40mail.gmail.com
Author: Nikita Glukhov, Teodor Sigaev, Oleg Bartunov, Alexander Korotkov Reviewed-by: Anastasia Lubennikova, Peter Eisentraut
Dean Rasheed [Sun, 15 Sep 2019 12:13:59 +0000 (13:13 +0100)]
Fix intermittent self-test failures caused by the stats_ext test.
Commit d7f8d26d9 added new tests to the stats_ext regression test that
included creating a view in the public schema, without realising that
the stats_ext test runs in the same parallel group as the rules test,
which makes doing that unsafe.
This led to intermittent failures of the rules test on the buildfarm,
although I wasn't able to reproduce that locally. Fix by creating the
view in a different schema.
Tomas Vondra and Dean Rasheed, report and diagnosis by Thomas Munro.
Revert "For all ppc compilers, implement pg_atomic_fetch_add_ with inline asm."
This reverts commit e7ff59686eacf5021fb84be921116986c3828d8a. It
defined pg_atomic_fetch_add_u32_impl() without defining
pg_atomic_compare_exchange_u32_impl(), which is incompatible with
src/include/port/atomics/fallback.h. Per buildfarm member prairiedog.
PostgreSQL has been unusable when built with xlc 13 and newer, which are
incompatible with our use of __fetch_and_add(). Back-patch to 9.5,
which introduced pg_atomic_fetch_add_u32().
logical decoding: process ASSIGNMENT during snapshot build
Most WAL records are ignored in early SnapBuild snapshot build phases.
But it's critical to process some of them, so that later messages have
the correct transaction state after the snapshot is completely built; in
particular, XLOG_XACT_ASSIGNMENT messages are critical in order for
sub-transactions to be correctly assigned to their parent transactions,
or at least one assert misbehaves, as reported by Ildar Musin.
Lack of parens in the definitions could cause a statement using these
macros to have unexpected semantics. In current code no bug is
apparent, but best to fix the definitions to avoid problems down the
line.
Reported-by: Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/19795.1568400476@sss.pgh.pa.us
The progress state was being clobbered once the first index completed
being rebuilt, causing the final phases of the operation not show
anything in the progress view. This was inadvertently broken in 03f9e5cba0ee, which added progress tracking for REINDEX.
(The reason this bugfix is this small is that I had already noticed this
problem when writing monitoring for CREATE INDEX, and had already worked
around it, as can be seen in discussion starting at
https://postgr.es/m/20190329150218.GA25010@alvherre.pgsql Fixing the
problem is just a matter of fixing one place touched by the REINDEX
monitoring.)
Peter Geoghegan [Thu, 12 Sep 2019 22:45:08 +0000 (15:45 -0700)]
Fix nbtree page split rmgr desc routine.
Include newitemoff in rmgr desc output for nbtree page split records.
In passing, correct an obsolete comment that claimed that newitemoff is
only logged for _L variant nbtree page split WAL records.
Both issues were oversights in commit 2c03216d831, which revamped the
WAL format.
Author: Peter Geoghegan
Backpatch: 9.5-, where the WAL format was revamped.
Tom Lane [Thu, 12 Sep 2019 22:29:17 +0000 (18:29 -0400)]
Fix usage of whole-row variables in WCO and RLS policy expressions.
Since WITH CHECK OPTION was introduced, ExecInitModifyTable has
initialized WCO expressions with the wrong plan node as parent -- that is,
it passed its input subplan not the ModifyTable node itself. Up to now
we thought this was harmless, but bug #16006 from Vinay Banakar shows it's
not: if the input node is a SubqueryScan then ExecInitWholeRowVar can get
confused into doing the wrong thing. (The fact that ExecInitWholeRowVar
contains such logic is certainly a horrid kluge that doesn't deserve to
live, but figuring out another way to do that is a task for some other day.)
Andres had already noticed the wrong-parent mistake and fixed it in commit 148e632c0, but not being aware of any user-visible consequences, he quite
reasonably didn't back-patch. This patch is simply a back-patch of 148e632c0, plus addition of a test case based on bug #16006. I also added
the test case to v12/HEAD, even though the bug is already fixed there.
Back-patch to all supported branches. 9.4 lacks RLS policies so the
new test case doesn't work there, but I'm pretty sure a test could be
devised based on using a whole-row Var in a plain WITH CHECK OPTION
condition. (I lack the cycles to do so myself, though.)
Amit Kapila [Wed, 11 Sep 2019 04:55:49 +0000 (10:25 +0530)]
Doc: Update PL/pgSQL sample function in plpgsql.sgml.
The example used to explain 'Looping Through Query Results' uses
pseudo-materialized views. Replace it with a more up-to-date example
which does the same thing with actual materialized views, which have
been available since PostgreSQL 9.3.
In the passing, change '%' as format specifier instead of '%s' as is used
in other examples in plpgsql.sgml.
Reported-by: Ian Barwick
Author: Ian Barwick Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila
Backpatch-through: 9.4
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/9a70d393-7904-4918-c97c-649f6d114b6a@2ndquadrant.com
Michael Paquier [Thu, 12 Sep 2019 06:06:00 +0000 (15:06 +0900)]
Add to pageinspect function to make t_infomask/t_infomask2 human-readable
Flags of t_infomask and t_infomask2 for each tuple are already included
in the information returned by heap_page_items as integers, and we
lacked a way to make that information human-readable.
Per discussion, the function includes an option which controls if
combined flags should be decomposed or not. The default is false, to
not decompose combined flags.
The module is bumped to version 1.8.
Author: Craig Ringer, Sawada Masahiko Reviewed-by: Peter Geoghegan, Robert Haas, Álvaro Herrera, Moon Insung,
Amit Kapila, Michael Paquier, Tomas Vondra
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAMsr+YEY7jeaXOb+oX+RhDyOFuTMdmHjGsBxL=igCm03J0go9Q@mail.gmail.com
Michael Paquier [Thu, 12 Sep 2019 01:35:13 +0000 (10:35 +0900)]
Improve coverage of psql for backslash commands with \if and \elif
This adds tests to cover more code paths to ignore backslash commands in
false branches when using \if|\elif|\else, and improves the coverage of
\elif.
Tom Lane [Wed, 11 Sep 2019 15:43:01 +0000 (11:43 -0400)]
Rearrange postmaster's startup sequence for better syslogger results.
This is a second try at what commit 57431a911 tried to do, namely,
launch the syslogger before we open postmaster sockets so that our
messages about the sockets end up in the syslogger files. That
commit fell foul of a bunch of subtle issues caused by trying to
launch a postmaster child process before creating shared memory.
Rather than messing with that interaction, let's postpone opening
the sockets till after we launch the syslogger.
This would not have been terribly safe before commit 7de19fbc0,
because we relied on socket opening to detect whether any competing
postmasters were using the same port number. But now that we choose
IPC keys without regard to the port number, there's no interaction
to worry about.
Also delay creation of the external PID file (if requested) till after
the sockets are open, since external code could plausibly be relying
on that ordering of events. And postpone most of the work of
RemovePgTempFiles() so that that potentially-slow processing still
happens after we make the external PID file. We have to be a bit
careful about that last though: as noted in the discussion subsequent to
bug #15804, EXEC_BACKEND builds still have to clear the parameter-file
temp dir before launching the syslogger.
Patch by me; thanks to Michael Paquier for review/testing.
libpq docs: be clearer about conninfo's 'hostaddr'
The previous wording was a bit too terse, too vague on the subject of
'host' and 'hostaddr' in connection specifications, which has caused
people to waste time trying to conform to rules because of
misunderstanding the whole thing; this small change should make things
clearer.
Author: Robert Haas, stemming from Fabien Coelho's complaints
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/alpine.DEB.2.21.1808201323020.13832@lancre
Michael Paquier [Wed, 11 Sep 2019 06:17:35 +0000 (15:17 +0900)]
Fix comment in psql's describe.c
Procedures are supported since v11 and \dfp can be used since this
version, but it was not mentioned as a supported option in the
description of describeFunctions() which handles \df in psql.
Michael Paquier [Wed, 11 Sep 2019 02:07:18 +0000 (11:07 +0900)]
Expand properly list of TAP tests used for prove in vcregress.pl
Depending on the system used, t/*.pl may not be expanded into a list of
tests which can be consumed by prove when attempting to run TAP tests on
a given path. Fix that by using glob() directly in the script, to make
sure that a complete list of tests is provided. This has not proved to
be an issue with MSVC as the list was properly expanded, but it is on
Linux with perl's system().
This is extracted from a larger patch.
Author: Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/6628.1567958876@sss.pgh.pa.us
Backpatch-through: 9.4
Tomas Vondra [Tue, 10 Sep 2019 18:09:27 +0000 (20:09 +0200)]
Allow setting statistics target for extended statistics
When building statistics, we need to decide how many rows to sample and
how accurate the resulting statistics should be. Until now, it was not
possible to explicitly define statistics target for extended statistics
objects, the value was always computed from the per-attribute targets
with a fallback to the system-wide default statistics target.
That's a bit inconvenient, as it ties together the statistics target set
for per-column and extended statistics. In some cases it may be useful
to require larger sample / higher accuracy for extended statics (or the
other way around), but with this approach that's not possible.
So this commit introduces a new command, allowing to specify statistics
target for individual extended statistics objects, overriding the value
derived from per-attribute targets (and the system default).
ALTER STATISTICS stat_name SET STATISTICS target_value;
When determining statistics target for an extended statistics object we
first look at this explicitly set value. When this value is -1, we fall
back to the old formula, looking at the per-attribute targets first and
then the system default. This means the behavior is backwards compatible
with older PostgreSQL releases.
Author: Tomas Vondra
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20190618213357.vli3i23vpkset2xd@development Reviewed-by: Kirk Jamison, Dean Rasheed
Tom Lane [Tue, 10 Sep 2019 22:15:17 +0000 (18:15 -0400)]
Reduce overhead of scanning the backend[] array in LISTEN/NOTIFY.
Up to now, async.c scanned its whole array of per-backend state
whenever it needed to find listening backends. That's expensive
if MaxBackends is large, so extend the data structure with list
links that thread the active entries together.
A downside of this change is that asyncQueueUnregister (unregister
a listening backend at backend exit) now requires exclusive not shared
lock, and it can take awhile if there are many other listening
backends. We could improve the latter issue by using a doubly- not
singly-linked list, but it's probably not worth the storage space;
typical usage patterns for LISTEN/NOTIFY have fairly long-lived
listeners.
In return for that, Exec_ListenPreCommit (initially register a
listening backend), SignalBackends, and asyncQueueAdvanceTail
get significantly faster when MaxBackends is much larger than
the number of listening backends. If most of the potential
backend slots are listening, we don't win, but that's a case
where the actual interprocess-signal overhead is going to swamp
these considerations anyway.
As originally coded, the script would fail on Windows 10 and Python 3
because stdout would not be switched to UTF-8 only for Python 2. This
patch makes that apply to both versions.
Also add python 2 compatibility markers so that we know what to remove
once we drop support for that. Also use a "with" clause to ensure file
descriptor is closed promptly.
There was some duplicate code to run SHOW transaction_read_only to
determine whether the server is read-write or read-only. Reduce it by
adding another state to the state machine.
Peter Geoghegan [Mon, 9 Sep 2019 18:41:19 +0000 (11:41 -0700)]
Add _bt_binsrch() scantid assertion to nbtree.
Assert that _bt_binsrch() binary searches with scantid set in insertion
scankey cannot be performed on leaf pages. Leaf-level binary searches
where scantid is set must use _bt_binsrch_insert() instead.
_bt_binsrch_insert() is likely to have additional responsibilities in
the future, such as searching within GIN-style posting lists using
scantid. It seems like a good idea to tighten things up now.
Tom Lane [Mon, 9 Sep 2019 18:21:40 +0000 (14:21 -0400)]
Be more careful about port selection in src/test/ldap/.
Don't just assume that the next port is free; it might not be, or
if we're really unlucky it might even be out of the TCP range.
Do it honestly with two get_free_port() calls instead.
This is surely a pretty low-probability problem, but I think it
explains a buildfarm failure seen today, so let's fix it.
Andrew Dunstan [Mon, 9 Sep 2019 12:56:33 +0000 (08:56 -0400)]
Prevent msys2 conversion of "cmd /c" switch to a file path
Modern versions of msys2 have changed the treatment of "cmd /c" so that
the runtime will try to convert the switch to a native file path. This
patch adds a setting to inhibit that behaviour.
Andres Freund [Thu, 5 Sep 2019 20:00:20 +0000 (13:00 -0700)]
Reorder EPQ work, to fix rowmark related bugs and improve efficiency.
In ad0bda5d24ea I changed the EvalPlanQual machinery to store
substitution tuples in slot, instead of using plain HeapTuples. The
main motivation for that was that using HeapTuples will be inefficient
for future tableams. But it turns out that that conversion was buggy
for non-locking rowmarks - the wrong tuple descriptor was used to
create the slot.
As a secondary issue 5db6df0c0 changed ExecLockRows() to begin EPQ
earlier, to allow to fetch the locked rows directly into the EPQ
slots, instead of having to copy tuples around. Unfortunately, as Tom
complained, that forces some expensive initialization to happen
earlier.
As a third issue, the test coverage for EPQ was clearly insufficient.
Fixing the first issue is unfortunately not trivial: Non-locked row
marks were fetched at the start of EPQ, and we don't have the type
information for the rowmarks available at that point. While we could
change that, it's not easy. It might be worthwhile to change that at
some point, but to fix this bug, it seems better to delay fetching
non-locking rowmarks when they're actually needed, rather than
eagerly. They're referenced at most once, and in cases where EPQ
fails, might never be referenced. Fetching them when needed also
increases locality a bit.
To be able to fetch rowmarks during execution, rather than
initialization, we need to be able to access the active EPQState, as
that contains necessary data. To do so move EPQ related data from
EState to EPQState, and, only for EStates creates as part of EPQ,
reference the associated EPQState from EState.
To fix the second issue, change EPQ initialization to allow use of
EvalPlanQualSlot() to be used before EvalPlanQualBegin() (but
obviously still requiring EvalPlanQualInit() to have been done).
As these changes made struct EState harder to understand, e.g. by
adding multiple EStates, significantly reorder the members, and add a
lot more comments.
Also add a few more EPQ tests, including one that fails for the first
issue above. More is needed.
Reported-By: yi huang
Author: Andres Freund Reviewed-By: Tom Lane
Discussion:
https://postgr.es/m/CAHU7rYZo_C4ULsAx_LAj8az9zqgrD8WDd4hTegDTMM1LMqrBsg@mail.gmail.com
https://postgr.es/m/24530.1562686693@sss.pgh.pa.us
Backpatch: 12-, where the EPQ changes were introduced
Fix handling of non-key columns get_index_column_opclass()
f2e40380 introduces support of non-key attributes in GiST indexes. Then if
get_index_column_opclass() is asked by gistproperty() to get an opclass of
non-key column, it returns garbage past oidvector value. This commit fixes
that by making get_index_column_opclass() return InvalidOid in this case.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20190902231948.GA5343%40alvherre.pgsql
Author: Nikita Glukhov, Alexander Korotkov
Backpatch-through: 12
Tom Lane [Sun, 8 Sep 2019 21:00:29 +0000 (17:00 -0400)]
Fix RelationIdGetRelation calls that weren't bothering with error checks.
Some of these are quite old, but that doesn't make them not bugs.
We'd rather report a failure via elog than SIGSEGV.
While at it, uniformly spell the error check as !RelationIsValid(rel)
rather than a bare rel == NULL test. The machine code is the same
but it seems better to be consistent.
Coverity complained about this today, not sure why, because the
mistake is in fact old.
In order to implement NULL LAST semantic GiST previously assumed distance to
the NULL value to be Inf. However, our distance functions can return Inf and
NaN for non-null values. In such cases, NULL LAST semantic appears to be
broken. This commit fixes that by introducing separate array of null flags for
distances.
Backpatch to all supported versions.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAPpHfdsNvNdA0DBS%2BwMpFrgwT6C3-q50sFVGLSiuWnV3FqOJuQ%40mail.gmail.com
Author: Alexander Korotkov
Backpatch-through: 9.4
Fix handling Inf and Nan values in GiST pairing heap comparator
Previously plain float comparison was used in GiST pairing heap. Such
comparison doesn't provide proper ordering for value sets containing Inf and Nan
values. This commit fixes that by usage of float8_cmp_internal(). Note, there
is remaining problem with NULL distances, which are represented as Inf in
pairing heap. It would be fixes in subsequent commit.
Backpatch to all supported versions.
Reported-by: Andrey Borodin
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAPpHfdsNvNdA0DBS%2BwMpFrgwT6C3-q50sFVGLSiuWnV3FqOJuQ%40mail.gmail.com
Author: Alexander Korotkov Reviewed-by: Heikki Linnakangas
Backpatch-through: 9.4
Fix behavior of AND CHAIN outside of explicit transaction blocks
When using COMMIT AND CHAIN or ROLLBACK AND CHAIN not in an explicit
transaction block, the previous implementation would leave a
transaction block active in the ROLLBACK case but not the COMMIT case.
To fix for now, error out when using these commands not in an explicit
transaction block. This restriction could be lifted if a sensible
definition and implementation is found.
Tom Lane [Sat, 7 Sep 2019 23:03:11 +0000 (19:03 -0400)]
Avoid using INFO elevel for what are fundamentally debug messages.
Commit 6f6b99d13 stuck an INFO message into the fast path for
checking partition constraints, for no very good reason except
that it made it easy for the regression tests to verify that
that path was taken. Assorted later patches did likewise,
increasing the unsuppressable-chatter level from ALTER TABLE
even more. This isn't good for the user experience, so let's
drop these messages down to DEBUG1 where they belong. So as
not to have a loss of test coverage, create a TAP test that
runs the relevant queries with client_min_messages = DEBUG1
and greps for the expected messages.
This testing method is a bit brute-force --- in particular,
it duplicates the execution of a fair amount of the core
create_table and alter_table tests. We experimented with
other solutions, but running any significant amount of
standard testing with client_min_messages = DEBUG1 seems
to have a lot of output-stability pitfalls, cf commits bbb96c370 and 5655565c0. Possibly at some point we'll look
into whether we can reduce the amount of test duplication.
Backpatch into v12, because some of these messages are new
in v12 and we don't really want to ship it that way.
Tom Lane [Sat, 7 Sep 2019 18:21:59 +0000 (14:21 -0400)]
Fix issues around strictness of SIMILAR TO.
As a result of some long-ago quick hacks, the SIMILAR TO operator
and the corresponding flavor of substring() interpreted "ESCAPE NULL"
as selecting the default escape character '\'. This is both
surprising and not per spec: the standard is clear that these
functions should return NULL for NULL input.
Additionally, because of inconsistency of the strictness markings
of 3-argument substring() and similar_escape(), the planner could not
inline the SQL definition of substring(), resulting in a substantial
performance penalty compared to the underlying POSIX substring()
function.
The simplest fix for this would be to change the strictness marking
of similar_escape(), but if we do that we risk breaking existing views
that depend on that function. Hence, leave similar_escape() as-is
as a compatibility function, and instead invent a new function
similar_to_escape() that comes in two strict variants.
There are a couple of other behaviors in this area that are also
not per spec, but they are documented and seem generally at least
as sane as the spec's definition, so leave them alone. But improve
the documentation to describe them fully.
Patch by me; thanks to Álvaro Herrera and Andrew Gierth for review
and discussion.
Andrew Dunstan [Fri, 6 Sep 2019 19:47:23 +0000 (15:47 -0400)]
Always skip recovery SysV shared memory tests on Windows
The test for SysV support currently involves looking for the perl
modules IPC::SharedMem and IPC::SysV. However, the perl on msys2 has
these modules but the tests fail. Therefore, force skipping the tests on
Windows platforms unconditionally.
Robert Haas [Fri, 6 Sep 2019 14:38:51 +0000 (10:38 -0400)]
Create an API for inserting and deleting rows in TOAST tables.
This moves much of the non-heap-specific logic from toast_delete and
toast_insert_or_update into a helper functions accessible via a new
header, toast_helper.h. Using the functions in this module, a table
AM can implement creation and deletion of TOAST table rows with
much less code duplication than was possible heretofore. Some
table AMs won't want to use the TOAST logic at all, but for those
that do this will make that easier.
Patch by me, reviewed and tested by Prabhat Sabu, Thomas Munro,
Andres Freund, and Álvaro Herrera.
Robert Haas [Fri, 6 Sep 2019 12:22:32 +0000 (08:22 -0400)]
When performing a base backup, check for read errors.
The old code didn't differentiate between a read error and a
concurrent truncation. fread reports both of these by returning 0;
you have to use feof() or ferror() to distinguish between them,
which this code did not do.
It might be a better idea to use read() rather than fread() here,
so that we can display a less-generic error message, but I'm not
sure that would qualify as a back-patchable bug fix, so just do
this much for now.
Jeevan Chalke, reviewed by Jeevan Ladhe and by me.
Make pg_promote() detect postmaster death while waiting for promotion to end.
Previously even if postmaster died and WaitLatch() woke up with that event
while pg_promote() was waiting for the standby promotion to finish,
pg_promote() did nothing special and kept waiting until timeout occurred.
This could cause a busy loop.
This patch make pg_promote() return false immediately when postmaster
dies, to avoid such a busy loop.
Back-patch to v12 where pg_promote() was added.
Author: Fujii Masao Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAHGQGwEs9ROgSp+QF+YdDU+xP8W=CY1k-_Ov-d_Z3JY+to3eXA@mail.gmail.com
Michael Paquier [Fri, 6 Sep 2019 05:00:13 +0000 (14:00 +0900)]
Make use of generic logging in vacuumlo and oid2name
Doing the switch reduces the footprint of "progname" in both utilities
for the messages produced. This also cleans up a couple of
inconsistencies in the message formats.
Author: Michael Paquier Reviewed-by: Álvaro Herrera, Peter Eisentraut
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20190820012819.GA8326@paquier.xyz
Tom Lane [Thu, 5 Sep 2019 17:31:41 +0000 (13:31 -0400)]
Use data directory inode number, not port, to select SysV resource keys.
This approach provides a much tighter binding between a data directory
and the associated SysV shared memory block (and SysV or named-POSIX
semaphores, if we're using those). Key collisions are still possible,
but only between data directories stored on different filesystems,
so the situation should be negligible in practice. More importantly,
restarting the postmaster with a different port number no longer
risks failing to identify a relevant shared memory block, even when
postmaster.pid has been removed. A standalone backend is likewise
much more certain to detect conflicting leftover backends.
(In the longer term, we might now think about deprecating the port as
a cluster-wide value, so that one postmaster could support sockets
with varying port numbers. But that's for another day.)
The hazards fixed here apply only on Unix systems; our Windows code
paths already use identifiers derived from the data directory path
name rather than the port.
src/test/recovery/t/017_shm.pl, which intends to test key-collision
cases, has been substantially rewritten since it can no longer use
two postmasters with identical port numbers to trigger the case.
Instead, use Perl's IPC::SharedMem module to create a conflicting
shmem segment directly. The test script will be skipped if that
module is not available. (This means that some older buildfarm
members won't run it, but I don't think that that results in any
meaningful coverage loss.)
Patch by me; thanks to Noah Misch and Peter Eisentraut for discussion
and review.
Robert Haas [Mon, 8 Jul 2019 15:58:05 +0000 (11:58 -0400)]
Split tuptoaster.c into three separate files.
detoast.c/h contain functions required to detoast a datum, partially
or completely, plus a few other utility functions for examining the
size of toasted datums.
toast_internals.c/h contain functions that are used internally to the
TOAST subsystem but which (mostly) do not need to be accessed from
outside.
heaptoast.c/h contains code that is intrinsically specific to the
heap AM, either because it operates on HeapTuples or is based on the
layout of a heap page.
detoast.c and toast_internals.c are placed in
src/backend/access/common rather than src/backend/access/heap. At
present, both files still have dependencies on the heap, but that will
be improved in a future commit.
Patch by me, reviewed and tested by Prabhat Sabu, Thomas Munro,
Andres Freund, and Álvaro Herrera.
Use the explicit_bzero() function in places where it is important that
security information such as passwords is cleared from memory. There
might be other places where it could be useful; this is just an
initial collection.
For platforms that don't have explicit_bzero(), provide various
fallback implementations. (explicit_bzero() itself isn't standard,
but as Linux/glibc, FreeBSD, and OpenBSD have it, it's the most common
spelling, so it makes sense to make that the invocation point.)
Michael Paquier [Wed, 4 Sep 2019 06:46:37 +0000 (15:46 +0900)]
Fix thinko when ending progress report for a backend
The logic ending progress reporting for a backend entry introduced by b6fb647 causes callers of pgstat_progress_end_command() to do some extra
work when track_activities is enabled as the process fields are reset in
the backend entry even if no command were started for reporting.
This resets the fields only if a command is registered for progress
reporting, and only if track_activities is enabled.
Michael Paquier [Wed, 4 Sep 2019 04:21:11 +0000 (13:21 +0900)]
Delay fsyncs of pg_basebackup until the end of backup
Since the addition of fsync requests in bc34223 to make base backup data
consistent on disk once pg_basebackup finishes, each tablespace tar file
is individually flushed once completed, with an additional flush of the
parent directory when the base backup finishes. While holding a
connection to the server, a fsync request taking a long time may cause a
failure of the base backup, which is annoying for any integration. A
recent example of breakage can involve tcp_user_timeout, but
wal_sender_timeout can cause similar problems.
While reviewing the code, there was a second issue causing too many
fsync requests to be done for the same WAL data. As recursive fsyncs
are done at the end of the backup for both the plain and tar formats
from the base target directory where everything is written, it is fine
to disable fsyncs when fetching or streaming WAL.
This function is only used by xlogreader.c itself, so there's no need to
export it. It was introduced by commit 3b02ea4f0780 with the apparent
intention that it could be used externally, but I couldn't find any
external code calling it.
I (Álvaro) couldn't resist the urge to sort nearby function prototypes
properly while at it.
Remove 'msg' parameter from convert_tuples_by_name
The message was included as a parameter when this function was added in dcb2bda9b704, but I don't think it has ever served any useful purpose.
Let's stop spreading it pointlessly.
Clarify in the help output and documentation that -n, -t etc. take a
"pattern" rather than a "schema" or "table" etc. This was especially
confusing now that the new pg_dumpall --exclude-database option was
documented with "pattern" and the others not, even though they all
behave the same.
Michael Paquier [Tue, 3 Sep 2019 03:30:53 +0000 (12:30 +0900)]
Fix memory leak with lower, upper and initcap with ICU-provided collations
The leak happens in str_tolower, str_toupper and str_initcap, which are
used in several places including their equivalent SQL-level functions,
and can only be triggered when using an ICU-provided collation when
converting the input string.
b615920 fixed a similar leak. Backpatch down 10 where ICU collations
have been introduced.
Author: Konstantin Knizhnik
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/94c0ad0a-cbc2-e4a3-7829-2bdeaf9146db@postgrespro.ru
Backpatch-through: 10
Tom Lane [Mon, 2 Sep 2019 20:10:37 +0000 (16:10 -0400)]
Avoid touching replica identity index in ExtractReplicaIdentity().
In what seems like a fit of misplaced optimization,
ExtractReplicaIdentity() accessed the relation's replica-identity
index without taking any lock on it. Usually, the surrounding query
already holds some lock so this is safe enough ... but in the case
of a previously-planned delete, there might be no existing lock.
Given a suitable test case, this is exposed in v12 and HEAD by an
assertion added by commit b04aeb0a0.
The whole thing's rather poorly thought out anyway; rather than
looking directly at the index, we should use the index-attributes
bitmap that's held by the parent table's relcache entry, as the
caller functions do. This is more consistent and likely a bit
faster, since it avoids a cache lookup. Hence, change to doing it
that way.
While at it, rather than blithely assuming that the identity
columns are non-null (with catastrophic results if that's wrong),
add assertion checks that they aren't null. Possibly those should
be actual test-and-elog, but I'll leave it like this for now.
In principle, this is a bug that's been there since this code was
introduced (in 9.4). In practice, the risk seems quite low, since
we do have a lock on the index's parent table, so concurrent
changes to the index's catalog entries seem unlikely. Given the
precedent that commit 9c703c169 wasn't back-patched, I won't risk
back-patching this further than v12.
Tom Lane [Mon, 2 Sep 2019 18:02:45 +0000 (14:02 -0400)]
Handle corner cases correctly in psql's reconnection logic.
After an unexpected connection loss and successful reconnection,
psql neglected to resynchronize its internal state about the server,
such as server version. Ordinarily we'd be reconnecting to the same
server and so this isn't really necessary, but there are scenarios
where we do need to update --- one example is where we have a list
of possible connection targets and they're not all alike.
Define "resynchronize" as including connection_warnings(), so that
this case acts the same as \connect. This seems useful; for example,
if the server version did change, the user might wish to know that.
An attuned user might also notice that the new connection isn't
SSL-encrypted, for example, though this approach isn't especially
in-your-face about such changes. Although this part is a behavioral
change, it only affects interactive sessions, so it should not break
any applications.
Also, in do_connect, make sure that we desynchronize correctly when
abandoning an old connection in non-interactive mode.
These problems evidently are the result of people patching only one
of the two places where psql deals with connection changes, so insert
some cross-referencing comments in hopes of forestalling future bugs
of the same ilk.
Lastly, in Windows builds, issue codepage mismatch warnings only at
startup, not during reconnections. psql's codepage can't change
during a reconnect, so complaining about it again seems like useless
noise.
Peter Billen and Tom Lane. Back-patch to all supported branches.
Michael Paquier [Mon, 2 Sep 2019 00:38:23 +0000 (09:38 +0900)]
Add overflow-safe math inline functions for unsigned integers
Similarly to the signed versions added in 4d6ad31, this adds a set of
inline functions for overflow checks with unsigned integers, including
uint16, uint32 and uint64. This relies on compiler built-in overflow
checks by default if available. The behavior of unsigned integers is
well-defined so the fallback implementations checks are simple for
additions and subtractions. Multiplications avoid division-based checks
which are expensive if possible, still this can happen for uint64 if
128-bit integers are not available.
While on it, the code in common/int.h is reorganized to avoid too many
duplicated comments. The new macros will be used in a follow-up patch.
All thanks to Andres Freund for the input provided.
Author: Fabien Coelho, Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20190830073423.GB2354@paquier.xyz
Tom Lane [Sat, 31 Aug 2019 17:37:10 +0000 (13:37 -0400)]
Cosmetic improvements for options-handling code in ECPGconnect().
The comment describing the string format was a lie. Make it agree with
reality, add/improve some other comments, fix coding style for loops with
empty bodies. Also add an Assert that we counted parameters correctly,
because the spread-out logic for that looks pretty fragile.
No actual bugs fixed here, so no need to back-patch.
Tom Lane [Fri, 30 Aug 2019 19:44:00 +0000 (15:44 -0400)]
Doc: restructure documentation of the configure script's options.
The list of configure options has grown long, and there was next
to no organization to it, never mind any indication of which options
were interesting to most people. Break it into several sub-sections
to provide a bit of structure, and add some introductory text where
it seems helpful to point people to particular options.
I failed to resist the temptation to do a small amount of
word-smithing on some of the option descriptions, too.
But mostly this is reorganization and addition of intro text.
Tom Lane [Fri, 30 Aug 2019 17:02:35 +0000 (13:02 -0400)]
Doc: remove some long-obsolete information from installation.sgml.
Section 16.2 pointed to platform-specific FAQ files that we removed
way back in 8.4. Section 16.7 contained a bunch of information about
AIX and HPUX bugs that were squashed decades ago, plus discussions of
old compiler versions that are certainly moot now that we require C99
support. Since we're obviously not maintaining this stuff carefully,
just remove it. The HPUX sub-section seems like it can go away
entirely, since everything it said that was still applicable was
redundant with material elsewhere in the chapter.
In passing, I couldn't resist the temptation to do a small amount
of copy-editing on nearby text.
Back-patch to v12, since this stuff is surely obsolete in any
branch that requires C99.
Peter Eisentraut [Thu, 29 Aug 2019 14:19:35 +0000 (16:19 +0200)]
Error out on too many command-line arguments
Fix up oid2name, pg_upgrade, and pgbench to error out on too many
command-line arguments. This makes it match the behavior of other
PostgreSQL programs.
Author: Peter Eisentraut, Ibrar Ahmed
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/f2554627-04e7-383a-ef01-ab99bb6a291c%402ndquadrant.com
Fix overflow check and comment in GIN posting list encoding.
The comment did not match what the code actually did for integers with
the 43rd bit set. You get an integer like that, if you have a posting
list with two adjacent TIDs that are more than 2^31 blocks apart.
According to the comment, we would store that in 6 bytes, with no
continuation bit on the 6th byte, but in reality, the code encodes it
using 7 bytes, with a continuation bit on the 6th byte as normal.
The decoding routine also handled these 7-byte integers correctly, except
for an overflow check that assumed that one integer needs at most 6 bytes.
Fix the overflow check, and fix the comment to match what the code
actually does. Also fix the comment that claimed that there are 17 unused
bits in the 64-bit representation of an item pointer. In reality, there
are 64-32-11=21.
Fitting any item pointer into max 6 bytes was an important property when
this was written, because in the old pre-9.4 format, item pointers were
stored as plain arrays, with 6 bytes for every item pointer. The maximum
of 6 bytes per integer in the new format guaranteed that we could convert
any page from the old format to the new format after upgrade, so that the
new format was never larger than the old format. But we hardly need to
worry about that anymore, and running into that problem during upgrade,
where an item pointer is expanded from 6 to 7 bytes such that the data
doesn't fit on a page anymore, is implausible in practice anyway.
Backpatch to all supported versions.
This also includes a little test module to test these large distances
between item pointers, without requiring a 16 TB table. It is not
backpatched, I'm including it more for the benefit of future development
of new posting list formats.
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/33bfc20a-5c86-f50c-f5a5-58e9925d05ff%40iki.fi Reviewed-by: Masahiko Sawada, Alexander Korotkov
Thomas Munro [Wed, 28 Aug 2019 01:37:03 +0000 (13:37 +1200)]
Avoid catalog lookups in RelationAllowsEarlyPruning().
RelationAllowsEarlyPruning() performed a catalog scan, but is used
in two contexts where that was a bad idea:
1. In heap_page_prune_opt(), which runs very frequently in some large
scans. This caused major performance problems in a field report
that was easy to reproduce.
2. In TestForOldSnapshot(), which runs while we hold a buffer content
lock. It's not clear if this was guaranteed to be free of buffer
deadlock risk.
The check was introduced in commit 2cc41acd8 and defended against a
real problem: 9.6's hash indexes have no page LSN and so we can't
allow early pruning (ie the snapshot-too-old feature). We can remove
the check from all later releases though: hash indexes are now logged,
and there is no way to create UNLOGGED indexes on regular logged
tables.
If a future release allows such a combination, it might need to put
a similar check in place, but it'll need some more thought.
Back-patch to 10.
Author: Thomas Munro Reviewed-by: Tom Lane, who spotted the second problem
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKGKT8oTkp5jw_U4p0S-7UG9zsvtw_M47Y285bER6a2gD%2Bg%40mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAA4eK1%2BWy%2BN4eE5zPm765h68LrkWc3Biu_8rzzi%2BOYX4j%2BiHRw%40mail.gmail.com
Michael Paquier [Wed, 28 Aug 2019 03:28:16 +0000 (12:28 +0900)]
Improve coverage of utils/float.h
check_float4_val() checks after underflow and overflow of values
converted from float8 to float4, but there has never been any regression
tests for that. This brings the coverage of float.h to 100%.
Michael Paquier [Wed, 28 Aug 2019 02:47:35 +0000 (11:47 +0900)]
Disable timeouts when running pg_rewind with online source cluster
In this case, the transfer uses a libpq connection, which is subject to
the timeout parameters set at system level, and this can make the rewind
operation suddenly canceled which is not good for automation. One
workaround to such issues would be to use PGOPTIONS to enforce the
wanted timeout parameters, but that's annoying, and for example pg_dump,
which can run potentially long-running queries disables all types of
timeouts.
lock_timeout and statement_timeout are the ones which can cause problems
now. Note that pg_rewind does not use transactions, so disabling
idle_in_transaction_session_timeout is optional, but it feels safer to
do so for the future.
This is back-patched down to 9.5. idle_in_transaction_session_timeout
is only present since 9.6.
Author: Alexander Kukushkin
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAFh8B=krcVXksxiwVQh1SoY+ziJ-JC=6FcuoBL3yce_40Es5_g@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 9.5
Tom Lane [Tue, 27 Aug 2019 23:49:09 +0000 (19:49 -0400)]
Set application_name per-test in isolation and ecpg tests.
Commit a4327296d taught pg_regress proper to do this, but
missed the opportunity to do likewise in the isolationtester
and ecpg variants of pg_regress. Seems like this might be
helpful for tracking down issues exposed by those tests.
Tom Lane [Tue, 27 Aug 2019 21:24:13 +0000 (17:24 -0400)]
Improve what pg_strsignal prints if we haven't got strsignal(3).
Turns out that returning "unrecognized signal" is confusing.
Make it explicit that the platform lacks any support for signal names.
(At least of the machines in the buildfarm, only HPUX lacks it.)
Back-patch to v12 where we invented this function.
Peter Geoghegan [Tue, 27 Aug 2019 21:01:43 +0000 (14:01 -0700)]
Remove obsolete nbtree page deletion comment.
Commit efada2b8e92, which made the nbtree page deletion algorithm more
robust, removed the concept of a half-dead internal page. Remove a
comment about half dead parent pages that was overlooked.
Tom Lane [Tue, 27 Aug 2019 20:37:21 +0000 (16:37 -0400)]
Doc: clarify behavior of standard aggregates for null inputs.
Section 4.2.7 says that unless otherwise specified, built-in
aggregates ignore rows in which any input is null. This is
not true of the JSON aggregates, but it wasn't documented.
Fix that.
Of the other entries in table 9.55, some were explicit about
ignoring nulls, and some weren't; for consistency and
self-contained-ness, make them all say it explicitly.
Per bug #15884 from Tim Möhlmann. Back-patch to all supported
branches.
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