Robert Haas [Thu, 21 Apr 2016 14:46:09 +0000 (10:46 -0400)]
Allow queries submitted by postgres_fdw to be canceled.
This fixes a problem which is not new, but with the advent of direct
foreign table modification in 0bf3ae88af330496517722e391e7c975e6bad219,
it's somewhat more likely to be annoying than previously. So,
arrange for a local query cancelation to propagate to the remote side.
Michael Paquier, reviewed by Etsuro Fujita. Original report by
Thom Brown.
Kevin Grittner [Thu, 21 Apr 2016 13:40:08 +0000 (08:40 -0500)]
Inline initial comparisons in TestForOldSnapshot()
Even with old_snapshot_threshold = -1 (which disables the "snapshot
too old" feature), performance regressions were seen at moderate to
high concurrency. For example, a one-socket, four-core system
running 200 connections at saturation could see up to a 2.3%
regression, with larger regressions possible on NUMA machines.
By inlining the early (smaller, faster) tests in the
TestForOldSnapshot() function, the i7 case dropped to a 0.2%
regression, which could easily just be noise, and is clearly an
improvement. Further testing will show whether more is needed.
Robert Haas [Thu, 21 Apr 2016 03:34:07 +0000 (23:34 -0400)]
postgres_fdw: Don't push down certain full joins.
If there's a filter condition on either side of a full outer join,
it is neither correct to attach it to the join's ON clause nor to
throw it into the toplevel WHERE clause. Just don't push down the
join in that case.
To maximize the number of cases where we can still push down full
joins, push inner join conditions into the ON clause at the first
opportunity rather than postponing them to the top-level WHERE
clause. This produces nicer SQL, anyway.
Tom Lane [Thu, 21 Apr 2016 03:48:13 +0000 (23:48 -0400)]
Honor PGCTLTIMEOUT environment variable for pg_regress' startup wait.
In commit 2ffa86962077c588 we made pg_ctl recognize an environment variable
PGCTLTIMEOUT to set the default timeout for starting and stopping the
postmaster. However, pg_regress uses pg_ctl only for the "stop" end of
that; it has bespoke code for starting the postmaster, and that code has
historically had a hard-wired 60-second timeout. Further buildfarm
experience says it'd be a good idea if that timeout were also controlled
by PGCTLTIMEOUT, so let's make it so. Like the previous patch, back-patch
to all active branches.
Magnus Hagander [Wed, 20 Apr 2016 18:40:04 +0000 (14:40 -0400)]
Update backup documentation for new APIs
This includes the rest of the documentation that was not included
in 7117685. A larger restructure would still be wanted, but with
this commit the documentation of the new features is complete.
Tom Lane [Wed, 20 Apr 2016 18:25:15 +0000 (14:25 -0400)]
Fix memory leak and other bugs in ginPlaceToPage() & subroutines.
Commit 36a35c550ac114ca turned the interface between ginPlaceToPage and
its subroutines in gindatapage.c and ginentrypage.c into a royal mess:
page-update critical sections were started in one place and finished in
another place not even in the same file, and the very same subroutine
might return having started a critical section or not. Subsequent patches
band-aided over some of the problems with this design by making things
even messier.
One user-visible resulting problem is memory leaks caused by the need for
the subroutines to allocate storage that would survive until ginPlaceToPage
calls XLogInsert (as reported by Julien Rouhaud). This would not typically
be noticeable during retail index updates. It could be visible in a GIN
index build, in the form of memory consumption swelling to several times
the commanded maintenance_work_mem.
Another rather nasty problem is that in the internal-page-splitting code
path, we would clear the child page's GIN_INCOMPLETE_SPLIT flag well before
entering the critical section that it's supposed to be cleared in; a
failure in between would leave the index in a corrupt state. There were
also assorted coding-rule violations with little immediate consequence but
possible long-term hazards, such as beginning an XLogInsert sequence before
entering a critical section, or calling elog(DEBUG) inside a critical
section.
To fix, redefine the API between ginPlaceToPage() and its subroutines
by splitting the subroutines into two parts. The "beginPlaceToPage"
subroutine does what can be done outside a critical section, including
full computation of the result pages into temporary storage when we're
going to split the target page. The "execPlaceToPage" subroutine is called
within a critical section established by ginPlaceToPage(), and it handles
the actual page update in the non-split code path. The critical section,
as well as the XLOG insertion call sequence, are both now always started
and finished in ginPlaceToPage(). Also, make ginPlaceToPage() create and
work in a short-lived memory context to eliminate the leakage problem.
(Since a short-lived memory context had been getting created in the most
common code path in the subroutines, this shouldn't cause any noticeable
performance penalty; we're just moving the overhead up one call level.)
In passing, fix a bunch of comments that had gone unmaintained throughout
all this klugery.
Kevin Grittner [Wed, 20 Apr 2016 13:31:19 +0000 (08:31 -0500)]
Revert no-op changes to BufferGetPage()
The reverted changes were intended to force a choice of whether any
newly-added BufferGetPage() calls needed to be accompanied by a
test of the snapshot age, to support the "snapshot too old"
feature. Such an accompanying test is needed in about 7% of the
cases, where the page is being used as part of a scan rather than
positioning for other purposes (such as DML or vacuuming). The
additional effort required for back-patching, and the doubt whether
the intended benefit would really be there, have indicated it is
best just to rely on developers to do the right thing based on
comments and existing usage, as we do with many other conventions.
This change should have little or no effect on generated executable
code.
Motivated by the back-patching pain of Tom Lane and Robert Haas
Tom Lane [Tue, 19 Apr 2016 20:47:21 +0000 (16:47 -0400)]
Improve regression tests for degree-based trigonometric functions.
Print the actual value of each function result that's expected to be exact,
rather than merely emitting a NULL if it's not right. Although we print
these with extra_float_digits = 3, we should not trust that the platform
will produce a result visibly different from the expected value if it's off
only in the last place; hence, also include comparisons against the exact
values as before. This is a bit bulkier and uglier than the previous
printout, but it will provide more information and be easier to interpret
if there's a test failure.
Tom Lane [Mon, 18 Apr 2016 22:05:56 +0000 (18:05 -0400)]
Make partition-lock-release coding more transparent in BufferAlloc().
Coverity complained that oldPartitionLock was possibly dereferenced after
having been set to NULL. That actually can't happen, because we'd only use
it if (oldFlags & BM_TAG_VALID) is true. But nonetheless Coverity is
justified in complaining, because at line 1275 we actually overwrite
oldFlags, and then still expect its BM_TAG_VALID bit to be a safe guide to
whether to release the oldPartitionLock. Thus, the code would be incorrect
if someone else had changed the buffer's BM_TAG_VALID flag meanwhile.
That should not happen, since we hold pin on the buffer throughout this
sequence, but it's starting to look like a rather shaky chain of logic.
And there's no need for such assumptions, because we can simply replace
the (oldFlags & BM_TAG_VALID) tests with (oldPartitionLock != NULL),
which has identical results and makes it plain to all comers that we don't
dereference a null pointer. A small side benefit is that the range of
liveness of oldFlags is greatly reduced, possibly allowing the compiler
to save a register.
This is just cleanup, not an actual bug fix, so there seems no need
for a back-patch.
Tom Lane [Mon, 18 Apr 2016 17:33:06 +0000 (13:33 -0400)]
Further reduce the number of semaphores used under --disable-spinlocks.
Per discussion, there doesn't seem to be much value in having
NUM_SPINLOCK_SEMAPHORES set to 1024: under any scenario where you are
running more than a few backends concurrently, you really had better have a
real spinlock implementation if you want tolerable performance. And 1024
semaphores is a sizable fraction of the system-wide SysV semaphore limit
on many platforms. Therefore, reduce this setting's default value to 128
to make it less likely to cause out-of-semaphores problems.
Tom Lane [Sun, 17 Apr 2016 15:37:58 +0000 (11:37 -0400)]
Avoid code duplication in \crosstabview.
In commit 6f0d6a507 I added a duplicate copy of psqlscanslash's identifier
downcasing code, but actually it's not hard to split that out as a callable
subroutine and avoid the duplication.
Tom Lane [Sat, 16 Apr 2016 23:53:38 +0000 (19:53 -0400)]
Adjust spin.c's spinlock emulation so that 0 is not a valid spinlock value.
We've had repeated troubles over the years with failures to initialize
spinlocks correctly; see 6b93fcd14 for a recent example. Most of the time,
on most platforms, such oversights can escape notice because all-zeroes is
the expected initial content of an slock_t variable. The only platform
we have where the initialized state of an slock_t isn't zeroes is HPPA,
and that's practically gone in the wild. To make it easier to catch such
errors without needing one of those, adjust the --disable-spinlocks code
so that zero is not a valid value for an slock_t for it.
In passing, remove a bunch of unnecessary #include's from spin.c;
commit daa7527afc227443 removed all the intermodule coupling that
made them necessary.
Tom Lane [Sat, 16 Apr 2016 16:11:41 +0000 (12:11 -0400)]
Disallow creation of indexes on system columns (except for OID).
Although OID acts pretty much like user data, the other system columns do
not, so an index on one would likely misbehave. And it's pretty hard to
see a use-case for one, anyway. Let's just forbid the case rather than
worry about whether it should be supported.
Stephen Frost [Sat, 16 Apr 2016 01:57:15 +0000 (21:57 -0400)]
In recordExtensionInitPriv(), keep the scan til we're done with it
For reasons of sheer brain fade, we (I) was calling systable_endscan()
immediately after systable_getnext() and expecting the tuple returned
by systable_getnext() to still be valid.
That's clearly wrong. Move the systable_endscan() down below the tuple
usage.
Discovered initially by Pavel Stehule and then also by Alvaro.
Tom Lane [Fri, 15 Apr 2016 17:04:17 +0000 (13:04 -0400)]
Use less-generic names in matview.sql.
The original coding of this test used table and view names like "t",
"tv", "foo", etc. This tended to interfere with doing simple manual
tests in the regression database; not to mention that it posed a
considerable risk of conflict with other regression test scripts.
Prefix these names with "mvtest_" to avoid such conflicts.
Also, change transiently-created role name to be "regress_xxx" per
discussions about being careful with regression-test role creation.
Tom Lane [Fri, 15 Apr 2016 16:11:27 +0000 (12:11 -0400)]
Fix possible crash in ALTER TABLE ... REPLICA IDENTITY USING INDEX.
Careless coding added by commit 07cacba983ef79be could result in a crash
or a bizarre error message if someone tried to select an index on the
OID column as the replica identity index for a table. Back-patch to 9.4
where the feature was introduced.
Robert Haas [Fri, 15 Apr 2016 15:58:56 +0000 (11:58 -0400)]
postgres_fdw: Clean up handling of system columns.
Previously, querying the xmin column of a single postgres_fdw foreign
table fetched the tuple length, xmax the typmod, and cmin or cmax the
composite type OID of the tuple. However, when you queried several
such tables and the join got shipped to the remote side, these columns
ended up containing the remote values of the corresponding columns.
Both behaviors are rather unprincipled, the former for obvious reasons
and the latter because the remote values of these columns don't have
any local significance; our transaction IDs are in a different space
than those of the remote machine. Clean this up by setting all of
these fields to 0 in both cases. Also fix the handling of tableoid
to be sane.
Robert Haas and Ashutosh Bapat, reviewed by Etsuro Fujita.
Robert Haas [Fri, 15 Apr 2016 15:49:41 +0000 (11:49 -0400)]
Tweak EXPLAIN for parallel query to show workers launched.
The previous display was sort of confusing, because it didn't
distinguish between the number of workers that we planned to launch
and the number that actually got launched. This has already confused
several people, so display both numbers and label them clearly.
Tom Lane [Fri, 15 Apr 2016 14:44:28 +0000 (10:44 -0400)]
Fix portability problem induced by commit a6f6b7819.
pg_xlogdump includes bufmgr.h. With a compiler that emits code for
static inline functions even when they're unreferenced, that leads
to unresolved external references in the new static-inline version
of BufferGetPage(). So hide it with #ifndef FRONTEND, as we've done
for similar issues elsewhere. Per buildfarm member pademelon.
Make regression test for multiple synchronous standbys more stable.
The regression test checks whether the output of pg_stat_replication is
expected or not after changing synchronous_standby_names and reloading
the configuration file. Regarding this test logic, previously there was
a timing issue which made the test result unstable. That is,
pg_stat_replication could return unexpected result during small window
after the configuration file was reloaded before new setting value
took effect, and which made the test fail.
This commit changes the test logic so that it uses a loop with a timeout
to give some room for the test to pass. Now the test fails only when
pg_stat_replication keeps returning unexpected result for 30 seconds.
Tom Lane [Fri, 15 Apr 2016 04:02:26 +0000 (00:02 -0400)]
Fix memory leak in GIN index scans.
The code had a query-lifespan memory leak when encountering GIN entries
that have posting lists (rather than posting trees, ie, there are a
relatively small number of heap tuples containing this index key value).
With a suitable data distribution this could add up to a lot of leakage.
Problem seems to have been introduced by commit 36a35c550, so back-patch
to 9.4.
Tom Lane [Fri, 15 Apr 2016 02:54:26 +0000 (22:54 -0400)]
Rethink \crosstabview's argument parsing logic.
\crosstabview interpreted its arguments in an unusual way, including
doing case-insensitive matching of unquoted column names, which is
surely not the right thing. Rip that out in favor of doing something
equivalent to the dequoting/case-folding rules used by other psql
commands. To keep it simple, change the syntax so that the optional
sort column is specified as a separate argument, instead of the
also-quite-unusual syntax that attached it to the colH argument with
a colon.
Also, rework the error messages to be closer to project style.
Andres Freund [Fri, 15 Apr 2016 02:26:13 +0000 (19:26 -0700)]
Make init_spin_delay() C89 compliant #2.
My previous attempt at doing so, in 80abbeba23, was not sufficient. While that
fixed the problem for bufmgr.c and lwlock.c , s_lock.c still has non-constant
expressions in the struct initializer, because the file/line/function
information comes from the caller of s_lock().
Give up on using a macro, and use a static inline instead.
Tom Lane [Thu, 14 Apr 2016 23:42:21 +0000 (19:42 -0400)]
Fix core dump in ReorderBufferRestoreChange on alignment-picky platforms.
When re-reading an update involving both an old tuple and a new tuple from
disk, reorderbuffer.c was careless about whether the new tuple is suitably
aligned for direct access --- in general, it isn't. We'd missed seeing
this in the buildfarm because the contrib/test_decoding tests exercise this
code path only a few times, and by chance all of those cases have old
tuples with length a multiple of 4, which is usually enough to make the
access to the new tuple's t_len safe. For some still-not-entirely-clear
reason, however, Debian's sparc build gets a bus error, as reported by
Christoph Berg; perhaps it's assuming 8-byte alignment of the pointer?
The lack of previous field reports is probably because you need all of
these conditions to trigger a crash: an alignment-picky platform (not
Intel), a transaction large enough to spill to disk, an update within
that xact that changes a primary-key field and has an odd-length old tuple,
and of course logical decoding tracing the transaction.
Avoid the alignment assumption by using memcpy instead of fetching t_len
directly, and add a test case that exposes the crash on picky platforms.
Back-patch to 9.4 where the bug was introduced.
Tom Lane [Thu, 14 Apr 2016 17:49:37 +0000 (13:49 -0400)]
Adjust signature of walrcv_receive hook.
Commit 314cbfc5da988eff redefined the signature of this hook as
typedef int (*walrcv_receive_type) (char **buffer, int *wait_fd);
But in fact the type of the "wait_fd" variable ought to be pgsocket,
which is what WaitLatchOrSocket expects, and which is necessary if
we want to be able to assign PGINVALID_SOCKET to it on Windows.
So fix that.
Tom Lane [Thu, 14 Apr 2016 16:18:09 +0000 (12:18 -0400)]
Adjust datatype of ReplicationState.acquired_by.
It was declared as "pid_t", which would be fine except that none of
the places that printed it in error messages took any thought for the
possibility that it's not equivalent to "int". This leads to warnings
on some buildfarm members, and could possibly lead to actually wrong
error messages on those platforms. There doesn't seem to be any very
good reason not to just make it "int"; it's only ever assigned from
MyProcPid, which is int. If we want to cope with PIDs that are wider
than int, this is not the place to start.
Also, fix the comment, which seems to perhaps be a leftover from a time
when the field was only a bool?
Per buildfarm. Back-patch to 9.5 which has same issue.
Tom Lane [Thu, 14 Apr 2016 14:57:29 +0000 (10:57 -0400)]
Docs: clarify description of LIMIT/OFFSET behavior.
Section 7.6 was a tad confusing because it specified what LIMIT NULL
does, but neglected to do the same for OFFSET NULL, making this look
like perhaps a special case or a wrong restatement of the bit about
LIMIT ALL. Wordsmith a bit while at it. Per bug #14084.
Tom Lane [Thu, 14 Apr 2016 03:33:31 +0000 (23:33 -0400)]
Fix broken dependency-mongering for index operator classes/families.
For a long time, opclasscmds.c explained that "we do not create a
dependency link to the AM [for an opclass or opfamily], because we don't
currently support DROP ACCESS METHOD". Commit 473b93287040b200 invented
DROP ACCESS METHOD, but it batted only 1 for 2 on adding the dependency
links, and 0 for 2 on updating the comments about the topic.
In passing, undo the same commit's entirely inappropriate decision to
blow away an existing index as a side-effect of create_am.sql.
Commit cfe96ae corrected the name of pg_logical_emit_message()
in its index entry. But this typo fix caused duplicated index
entry because there was another index entry for the function.
Stephen Frost [Thu, 14 Apr 2016 01:31:24 +0000 (21:31 -0400)]
Disallow SET SESSION AUTHORIZATION pg_*
As part of reserving the pg_* namespace for default roles and in line
with SET ROLE and other previous efforts, disallow settings the role
to a default/reserved role using SET SESSION AUTHORIZATION.
These checks and restrictions on what is allowed regarding default /
reserved roles are under debate, but it seems prudent to ensure that
the existing checks at least cover the intended cases while the
debate rages on. On me to clean it up if the consensus decision is
to remove these checks.
Andres Freund [Thu, 14 Apr 2016 00:38:54 +0000 (17:38 -0700)]
Add required database and origin filtering for logical messages.
Logical messages, added in 3fe3511d05, during decoding failed to filter
messages emitted in other databases and messages emitted "under" a
replication origin the output plugin isn't interested in.
Add tests to verify that both types of filtering actually work. While
touching message.sql remove hunk obsoleted by d25379e.
Bump XLOG_PAGE_MAGIC because xl_logical_message changed and because 3fe3511d05 had omitted doing so. 3fe3511d05 additionally didn't bump
catversion, but 7a542700d has done so since.
Author: Petr Jelinek Reported-By: Andres Freund
Discussion: 20160406142513.wotqy3ba3kanr423@alap3.anarazel.de
Andres Freund [Wed, 13 Apr 2016 23:42:01 +0000 (16:42 -0700)]
Make init_spin_delay() C89 compliant and change stuck spinlock reporting.
The current definition of init_spin_delay (introduced recently in 48354581a) wasn't C89 compliant. It's not legal to refer to refer to
non-constant expressions, and the ptr argument was one. This, as
reported by Tom, lead to a failure on buildfarm animal pademelon.
The pointer, especially on system systems with ASLR, isn't super helpful
anyway, though. So instead of making init_spin_delay into an inline
function, make s_lock_stuck() report the function name in addition to
file:line and change init_spin_delay() accordingly. While not a direct
replacement, the function name is likely more useful anyway (line
numbers are often hard to interpret in third party reports).
This also fixes what file/line number is reported for waits via
s_lock().
As PG_FUNCNAME_MACRO is now used outside of elog.h, move it to c.h.
Reported-By: Tom Lane
Discussion: 4369.1460435533@sss.pgh.pa.us
Tom Lane [Wed, 13 Apr 2016 22:57:52 +0000 (18:57 -0400)]
Fix pg_dump so pg_upgrade'ing an extension with simple opfamilies works.
As reported by Michael Feld, pg_upgrade'ing an installation having
extensions with operator families that contain just a single operator class
failed to reproduce the extension membership of those operator families.
This caused no immediate ill effects, but would create problems when later
trying to do a plain dump and restore, because the seemingly-not-part-of-
the-extension operator families would appear separately in the pg_dump
output, and then would conflict with the families created by loading the
extension. This has been broken ever since extensions were introduced,
and many of the standard contrib extensions are affected, so it's a bit
astonishing nobody complained before.
The cause of the problem is a perhaps-ill-considered decision to omit
such operator families from pg_dump's output on the grounds that the
CREATE OPERATOR CLASS commands could recreate them, and having explicit
CREATE OPERATOR FAMILY commands would impede loading the dump script into
pre-8.3 servers. Whatever the merits of that decision when 8.3 was being
written, it looks like a poor tradeoff now. We can fix the pg_upgrade
problem simply by removing that code, so that the operator families are
dumped explicitly (and then will be properly made to be part of their
extensions).
Although this fixes the behavior of future pg_upgrade runs, it does nothing
to clean up existing installations that may have improperly-linked operator
families. Given the small number of complaints to date, maybe we don't
need to worry about providing an automated solution for that; anyone who
needs to clean it up can do so with manual "ALTER EXTENSION ADD OPERATOR
FAMILY" commands, or even just ignore the duplicate-opfamily errors they
get during a pg_restore. In any case we need this fix.
Andres Freund [Wed, 13 Apr 2016 22:28:29 +0000 (15:28 -0700)]
Avoid atomic operation in MarkLocalBufferDirty().
The recent patch to make Pin/UnpinBuffer lockfree in the hot
path (48354581a), accidentally used pg_atomic_fetch_or_u32() in
MarkLocalBufferDirty(). Other code operating on local buffers was
careful to only use pg_atomic_read/write_u32 which just read/write from
memory; to avoid unnecessary overhead.
On its own that'd just make MarkLocalBufferDirty() slightly less
efficient, but in addition InitLocalBuffers() doesn't call
pg_atomic_init_u32() - thus the spinlock fallback for the atomic
operations isn't initialized. That in turn caused, as reported by Tom,
buildfarm animal gaur to fail. As those errors are actually useful
against this type of error, continue to omit - intentionally this time -
initialization of the atomic variable.
In addition, add an explicit note about only using pg_atomic_read/write
on local buffers's state to BufferDesc's description.
Reported-By: Tom Lane
Discussion: 1881.1460431476@sss.pgh.pa.us
Tom Lane [Wed, 13 Apr 2016 22:12:06 +0000 (18:12 -0400)]
Widen amount-to-flush arguments of FileWriteback and callers.
It's silly to define these counts as narrower than they might someday
need to be. Also, I believe that the BLCKSZ * nflush calculation in
mdwriteback was capable of overflowing an int.
Tom Lane [Wed, 13 Apr 2016 21:17:51 +0000 (17:17 -0400)]
Fix assorted portability issues with using msync() for data flushing.
Commit 428b1d6b29ca599c5700d4bc4f4ce4c5880369bf introduced the use of
msync() for flushing dirty data from the kernel's file buffers. Several
portability issues were overlooked, though:
* Not all implementations of mmap() think that nbytes == 0 means "map
the whole file". To fix, use lseek() to find out the true length.
Fix callers of pg_flush_data to be aware that nbytes == 0 may result
in trashing the file's seek position.
* Not all implementations of mmap() will accept partial-page mmap
requests. To fix, round down the length request to whatever sysconf()
says the page size is. (I think this is OK from a portability standpoint,
because sysconf() is required by SUS v2, and we aren't trying to compile
this part on Windows anyway. Buildfarm should let us know if not.)
* On 32-bit machines, the file size might exceed the available free
address space, or even exceed what will fit in size_t. Check for
the latter explicitly to avoid passing a false request size to mmap().
If mmap fails, silently fall through to the next implementation method,
rather than bleating to the postmaster log and giving up.
* mmap'ing directories fails on some platforms, and even if it works,
msync'ing the directory is quite unlikely to help, as for that matter are
the other flush implementations. In pre_sync_fname(), just skip flush
attempts on directories.
Tom Lane [Wed, 13 Apr 2016 15:49:47 +0000 (11:49 -0400)]
Improve documentation for \crosstabview.
Fix misleading syntax summary (there cannot be a space between colH and
scolH). Provide a link from the existing crosstab() function's
documentation to \crosstabview. Copy-edit the command's description.
Tom Lane [Tue, 12 Apr 2016 23:52:21 +0000 (19:52 -0400)]
Provide errno-translation wrappers around bind() and listen() on Windows.
I've seen one too many "could not bind IPv4 socket: No error" log entries
from the Windows buildfarm members. Per previous discussion, this is
likely caused by the fact that we're doing nothing to translate
WSAGetLastError() to errno. Put in a wrapper layer to do that.
If this works as expected, it should get back-patched, but let's see what
happens in the buildfarm first.
Robert Haas [Tue, 12 Apr 2016 20:24:55 +0000 (16:24 -0400)]
Fix costing for parallel aggregation.
The original patch kind of ignored the fact that we were doing something
different from a costing point of view, but nobody noticed. This patch
fixes that oversight.
Remove unused function GetOldestWALSendPointer from walsender code.
That unused function was introduced as a sample because synchronous
replication or replication monitoring tools might need it in the future.
Recently commit 989be08 added the function SyncRepGetOldestSyncRecPtr
which provides almost the same functionality for multiple synchronous
standbys feature. So it's time to remove that unused sample function.
This commit does that.
Tom Lane [Tue, 12 Apr 2016 19:23:14 +0000 (15:23 -0400)]
Redefine create_upper_paths_hook as being invoked once per upper relation.
Per discussion, this gives potential users of the hook more flexibility,
because they can build custom Paths that implement only one stage of
upper processing atop core-provided Paths for earlier stages.
Tom Lane [Tue, 12 Apr 2016 16:52:35 +0000 (12:52 -0400)]
Improve coding of column-name parsing in psql's new crosstabview.c.
Coverity complained about this code, not without reason because it was
rather messy. Adjust it to not scribble on the passed string; that adds
one malloc/free cycle per column name, which is going to be insignificant
in context. We can actually const-ify both the string argument and the
PGresult.
Kevin Grittner [Tue, 12 Apr 2016 16:48:02 +0000 (11:48 -0500)]
Avoid extra locks in GetSnapshotData if old_snapshot_threshold < 0
On a big NUMA machine with 1000 connections in saturation load
there was a performance regression due to spinlock contention, for
acquiring values which were never used. Just fill with dummy
values if we're not going to use them.
This patch has not been benchmarked yet on a big NUMA machine, but
it seems like a good idea on general principle, and it seemed to
prevent an apparent 2.2% regression on a single-socket i7 box
running 200 connections at saturation load.
Tom Lane [Tue, 12 Apr 2016 15:42:06 +0000 (11:42 -0400)]
Improve API of GenericXLogRegister().
Rename this function to GenericXLogRegisterBuffer() to make it clearer
what it does, and leave room for other sorts of "register" actions in
future. Also, replace its "bool isNew" argument with an integer flags
argument, so as to allow adding more flags in future without an API
break.
Tom Lane [Tue, 12 Apr 2016 15:13:52 +0000 (11:13 -0400)]
In generic WAL application and replay, ensure page "hole" is always zero.
The previous coding could allow the contents of the "hole" between pd_lower
and pd_upper to diverge during replay from what it had been when the update
was originally applied. This would pose a problem if checksums were in
use, and in any case would complicate forensic comparisons between master
and slave servers. So force the "hole" to contain zeroes, both at initial
application of a generically-logged action, and at replay.
Added to ensure that bloom index pages can be distinguished from other pages
by pg_filedump. Because there wasn't any public/production versions before,
it doesn't pay attention to any compatibility issues.
Tom Lane [Tue, 12 Apr 2016 14:52:58 +0000 (10:52 -0400)]
Remove unnecessary definition of _WIN64 in libpq/win32.mak.
In commit b0e40d189325dc7a54d2546245e766f8c47a7c8d, I should have just
removed the /D switch defining WIN64. The reason the code worked before
is that all Windows64 compilers automatically predefine _WIN64. Perhaps
at one time we had code that depended on WIN64 being defined, but it's
long gone, and we should not encourage any reappearance. Per discussion
with Christian Ullrich.
Tom Lane [Tue, 12 Apr 2016 00:07:17 +0000 (20:07 -0400)]
Fix _SPI_execute_plan() for CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS foo AS ...
When IF NOT EXISTS was added to CREATE TABLE AS, this logic didn't get
the memo, possibly resulting in an Assert failure. It looks like there
would have been no ill effects in a non-Assert build, though. Back-patch
to 9.5 where the IF NOT EXISTS option was added.
Tom Lane [Mon, 11 Apr 2016 23:37:04 +0000 (19:37 -0400)]
Fix two places that thought Windows64 is indicated by WIN64 macro.
Everyplace else thinks it's _WIN64, so make these places fall in line.
The pg_regress.c usage is not going to result in any change in behavior,
only suppressing (or not) a compiler warning about downcasting HANDLEs.
So there seems no need for back-patching there.
The libpq/win32.mak usage might represent an actual bug, if anyone were
using this script to build for Windows64, which perhaps nobody is.
Given the lack of field complaints, no back-patch here either.
pg_regress.c problem found by Christian Ullrich, the other by me.
Tom Lane [Mon, 11 Apr 2016 22:17:02 +0000 (18:17 -0400)]
Fix freshly-introduced PL/Python portability bug.
It turns out that those PyErr_Clear() calls I removed from plpy_elog.c
in 7e3bb080387f4143 et al were not quite as random as they appeared: they
mask a Python 2.3.x bug. (Specifically, it turns out that PyType_Ready()
can fail if the error indicator is set on entry, and PLy_traceback's fetch
of frame.f_code may be the first operation in a session that requires the
"frame" type to be readied. Ick.) Put back the clear call, but in a more
centralized place closer to what it's protecting, and this time with a
comment warning what it's really for.
Per buildfarm member prairiedog. Although prairiedog was only failing
on HEAD, it seems clearly possible for this to occur in older branches
as well, so back-patch to 9.2 the same as the previous patch.
Kevin Grittner [Mon, 11 Apr 2016 21:47:50 +0000 (16:47 -0500)]
Use static inline function for BufferGetPage()
I was initially concerned that the some of the hundreds of
references to BufferGetPage() where the literal
BGP_NO_SNAPSHOT_TEST were passed might not optimize as well as a
macro, leading to some hard-to-find performance regressions in
corner cases. Inspection of disassembled code has shown identical
code at all inspected locations, and the size difference doesn't
amount to even one byte per such call. So make it readable.
Kevin Grittner [Mon, 11 Apr 2016 20:43:52 +0000 (15:43 -0500)]
Make oldSnapshotControl a pointer to a volatile structure
It was incorrectly declared as a volatile pointer to a non-volatile
structure. Eliminate the OldSnapshotControl struct definition; it
is really not needed. Pointed out by Tom Lane.
While at it, add OldSnapshotControlData to pgindent's list of
structures.
Tom Lane [Mon, 11 Apr 2016 15:49:48 +0000 (11:49 -0400)]
Fix missing "volatile" in PLy_output().
Commit 5c3c3cd0a3046339 plastered "volatile" on a bunch of variables
in PLy_output(), but removed the one that actually mattered, ie the
one on "oldcontext". This allows some versions of clang to generate
code in which "oldcontext" has been trashed when control reaches the
PG_CATCH block. Per buildfarm member tick.
Use ereport(ERROR) instead of Assert() to emit syncrep_parser error.
The existing code would either Assert or generate an invalid
SyncRepConfig variable, neither of which is desirable. A regular
error should be thrown instead.
This commit silences compiler warning in non assertion-enabled builds.
Per report from Jeff Janes.
Suggested fix by Tom Lane.
It's not entirely clear to me whether PyString_AsString can return
null (looks like the answer might vary between Python 2 and 3).
But in any case, this code's attempt to cope with the possibility
was quite broken, because pstrdup() neither allows a null argument
nor ever returns a null.
Moreover, the code below this point assumes that "message" is a
palloc'd string, which would not be the case for a dgettext result.
Fix both problems by doing the pstrdup step separately.
Tom Lane [Mon, 11 Apr 2016 04:00:08 +0000 (00:00 -0400)]
pg_dump: add missing "destroyPQExpBuffer(query)" in dumpForeignServer().
Coverity complained about this resource leak (why now, I don't know,
since it's been like that a long time). Our general policy in pg_dump
is that PQExpBuffers are worth cleaning up, so do it here too. But
don't bother with a back-patch, because it seems unlikely that very
many databases contain enough FOREIGN SERVER objects to notice.
Tom Lane [Mon, 11 Apr 2016 03:52:34 +0000 (23:52 -0400)]
Add comment about intentional fallthrough in switch.
Coverity complained about an apparent missing "break" in a switch
added by bb140506df605fab. The human-readable comments are pretty
clear that this is intentional, but add a standard /* FALL THRU */
comment to make it clear to tools too.
Tom Lane [Mon, 11 Apr 2016 03:47:30 +0000 (23:47 -0400)]
Clean up foreign-key caching code in planner.
Coverity complained that the code added by 015e88942aa50f0d lacked an
error check for SearchSysCache1 failures, which it should have. But
the code was pretty duff in other ways too, including failure to think
about whether it could really cope with arrays of different lengths.
Tom Lane [Mon, 11 Apr 2016 03:15:55 +0000 (23:15 -0400)]
Fix access-to-already-freed-memory issue in plpython's error handling.
PLy_elog() could attempt to access strings that Python had already freed,
because the strings that PLy_get_spi_error_data() returns are simply
pointers into storage associated with the error "val" PyObject. That's
fine at the instant PLy_get_spi_error_data() returns them, but just after
that PLy_traceback() intentionally releases the only refcount on that
object, allowing it to be freed --- so that the strings we pass to
ereport() are dangling pointers.
In principle this could result in garbage output or a coredump. In
practice, I think the risk is pretty low, because there are no Python
operations between where we decrement that refcount and where we use the
strings (and copy them into PG storage), and thus no reason for Python
to recycle the storage. Still, it's clearly hazardous, and it leads to
Valgrind complaints when running under a Valgrind that hasn't been
lobotomized to ignore Python memory allocations.
The code was a mess anyway: we fetched the error data out of Python
(clearing Python's error indicator) with PyErr_Fetch, examined it, pushed
it back into Python with PyErr_Restore (re-setting the error indicator),
then immediately pulled it back out with another PyErr_Fetch. Just to
confuse matters even more, there were some gratuitous-and-yet-hazardous
PyErr_Clear calls in the "examine" step, and we didn't get around to doing
PyErr_NormalizeException until after the second PyErr_Fetch, making it even
less clear which object was being manipulated where and whether we still
had a refcount on it. (If PyErr_NormalizeException did substitute a
different "val" object, it's possible that the problem could manifest for
real, because then we'd be doing assorted Python stuff with no refcount
on the object we have string pointers into.)
So, rearrange all that into some semblance of sanity, and don't decrement
the refcount on the Python error objects until the end of PLy_elog().
In HEAD, I failed to resist the temptation to reformat some messy bits
from 5c3c3cd0a3046339 along the way.
Back-patch as far as 9.2, because the code is substantially the same
that far back. I believe that 9.1 has the bug as well; but the code
around it is rather different and I don't want to take a chance on
breaking something for what seems a low-probability problem.
Andres Freund [Mon, 11 Apr 2016 03:12:32 +0000 (20:12 -0700)]
Avoid the use of a separate spinlock to protect a LWLock's wait queue.
Previously we used a spinlock, in adition to the atomically manipulated
->state field, to protect the wait queue. But it's pretty simple to
instead perform the locking using a flag in state.
Due to 6150a1b0 BufferDescs, on platforms (like PPC) with > 1 byte
spinlocks, increased their size above 64byte. As 64 bytes are the size
we pad allocated BufferDescs to, this can increase false sharing;
causing performance problems in turn. Together with the previous commit
this reduces the size to <= 64 bytes on all common platforms.
Author: Andres Freund
Discussion: CAA4eK1+ZeB8PMwwktf+3bRS0Pt4Ux6Rs6Aom0uip8c6shJWmyg@mail.gmail.com 20160327121858.zrmrjegmji2ymnvr@alap3.anarazel.de
Andres Freund [Mon, 11 Apr 2016 03:12:32 +0000 (20:12 -0700)]
Allow Pin/UnpinBuffer to operate in a lockfree manner.
Pinning/Unpinning a buffer is a very frequent operation; especially in
read-mostly cache resident workloads. Benchmarking shows that in various
scenarios the spinlock protecting a buffer header's state becomes a
significant bottleneck. The problem can be reproduced with pgbench -S on
larger machines, but can be considerably worse for queries which touch
the same buffers over and over at a high frequency (e.g. nested loops
over a small inner table).
To allow atomic operations to be used, cram BufferDesc's flags,
usage_count, buf_hdr_lock, refcount into a single 32bit atomic variable;
that allows to manipulate them together using 32bit compare-and-swap
operations. This requires reducing MAX_BACKENDS to 2^18-1 (which could
be lifted by using a 64bit field, but it's not a realistic configuration
atm).
As not all operations can easily implemented in a lockfree manner,
implement the previous buf_hdr_lock via a flag bit in the atomic
variable. That way we can continue to lock the header in places where
it's needed, but can get away without acquiring it in the more frequent
hot-paths. There's some additional operations which can be done without
the lock, but aren't in this patch; but the most important places are
covered.
As bufmgr.c now essentially re-implements spinlocks, abstract the delay
logic from s_lock.c into something more generic. It now has already two
users, and more are coming up; there's a follupw patch for lwlock.c at
least.
This patch is based on a proof-of-concept written by me, which Alexander
Korotkov made into a fully working patch; the committed version is again
revised by me. Benchmarking and testing has, amongst others, been
provided by Dilip Kumar, Alexander Korotkov, Robert Haas.
On a large x86 system improvements for readonly pgbench, with a high
client count, of a factor of 8 have been observed.
Author: Alexander Korotkov and Andres Freund
Discussion: 2400449.GjM57CE0Yg@dinodell
Tom Lane [Sun, 10 Apr 2016 17:12:24 +0000 (13:12 -0400)]
Improve contrib/bloom regression test using code coverage info.
Originally, this test created a 100000-row test table, which made it
run rather slowly compared to other contrib tests. Investigation with
gcov showed that we got no further improvement in code coverage after
the first 700 or so rows, making the large table 99% a waste of time.
Cut it back to 2000 rows to fix the runtime problem and still leave
some headroom for testing behaviors that may appear later.
A closer look at the gcov results showed that the main coverage
omissions in contrib/bloom occurred because the test never filled more
than one entry in the notFullPage array; which is unsurprising because
it exercised index cleanup only in the scenario of complete table
deletion, allowing every page in the index to become deleted rather
than not-full. Add testing that allows the not-full path to be
exercised as well.
Also, test the amvalidate function, because blvalidate.c had zero
coverage without that, and besides it's a good idea to check for
mistakes in the bloom opclass definitions.
Fix possible NULL dereference in ExecAlterObjectDependsStmt
I used the wrong variable here. Doesn't make a difference today because
the only plausible caller passes a non-NULL variable, but someday it
will be wrong, and even today's correctness is subtle: the caller that
does pass a NULL is never invoked because of object type constraints.
Surely not a condition to rely on.
Tom Lane [Sun, 10 Apr 2016 04:24:28 +0000 (00:24 -0400)]
Further minor improvement in generic_xlog.c: always say REGBUF_STANDARD.
Since we're requiring pages handled by generic_xlog.c to be standard
format, specify REGBUF_STANDARD when doing a full-page image, so that
xloginsert.c can compress out the "hole" between pd_lower and pd_upper.
Given the current API in which this path will be taken only for a newly
initialized page, the hole is likely to be particularly large in such
cases, so that this oversight could easily be performance-significant.
I don't notice any particular change in the runtime of contrib/bloom's
regression test, though.
Tom Lane [Sat, 9 Apr 2016 23:30:56 +0000 (19:30 -0400)]
Micro-optimize GenericXLogFinish().
Make the inner comparison loops of computeDelta() as tight as possible by
pulling considerations of valid and invalid ranges out of the inner loops,
and extending a match or non-match detection as far as possible before
deciding what to do next. To keep this tractable, give up the possibility
of merging fragments across the pd_lower to pd_upper gap. The fraction of
pages where that could happen (ie, there are 4 or fewer bytes in the gap,
*and* data changes immediately adjacent to it on both sides) is too small
to be worth spending cycles on.
Also, avoid two BLCKSZ-length memcpy()s by computing the delta before
moving data into the target buffer, instead of after. This doesn't save
nearly as many cycles as being tenser about computeDelta(), but it still
seems worth doing.
On my machine, this patch cuts a full 40% off the runtime of
contrib/bloom's regression test.
Tom Lane [Sat, 9 Apr 2016 20:39:30 +0000 (16:39 -0400)]
Get rid of GenericXLogUnregister().
This routine is unsafe as implemented, because it invalidates the page
image pointers returned by previous GenericXLogRegister() calls.
Rather than complicate the API or the implementation to avoid that,
let's just get rid of it; the use-case for having it seems much
too thin to justify a lot of work here.
While at it, do some wordsmithing on the SGML docs for generic WAL.
Tom Lane [Sat, 9 Apr 2016 19:02:19 +0000 (15:02 -0400)]
Code review/prettification for generic_xlog.c.
Improve commentary, use more specific names for the delta fields,
const-ify pointer arguments where possible, avoid assuming that
initializing only the first element of a local array will guarantee
that the remaining elements end up as we need them. (I think that
code in generic_redo actually worked, but only because InvalidBuffer
is zero; this is a particularly ugly way of depending on that ...)
\crosstabview is a completely different way to display results from a
query: instead of a vertical display of rows, the data values are placed
in a grid where the column and row headers come from the data itself,
similar to a spreadsheet.
The sort order of the horizontal header can be specified by using
another column in the query, and the vertical header determines its
ordering from the order in which they appear in the query.
This only allows displaying a single value in each cell. If more than
one value correspond to the same cell, an error is thrown. Merging of
values can be done in the query itself, if necessary. This may be
revisited in the future.
Author: Daniel Verité Reviewed-by: Pavel Stehule, Dean Rasheed
Kevin Grittner [Fri, 8 Apr 2016 22:18:10 +0000 (17:18 -0500)]
Add snapshot_too_old to NSVC @contrib_excludes
The buildfarm showed failure for Windows MSVC builds due to this
omission. This might not be the only problem with the Makefile for
this feature, but hopefully this will get it past the immediate
problem.
Andres Freund [Fri, 8 Apr 2016 21:26:36 +0000 (14:26 -0700)]
Expose more out/readfuncs support functions.
Previously bcac23d exposed a subset of support functions, namely the
ones Kaigai found useful. In 20160304193704.elq773pyg5fyl3mi@alap3.anarazel.de I mentioned that
there's some functions missing to use the facility in an external
project.
To avoid having to add functions piecemeal, add all the functions which
are used to define READ_* and WRITE_* macros; users of the extensible
node functionality are likely to need these. Additionally expose
outDatum(), which doesn't have it's own WRITE_ macro, as it needs
information from the embedding struct.
Stephen Frost [Fri, 8 Apr 2016 20:56:27 +0000 (16:56 -0400)]
Create default roles
This creates an initial set of default roles which administrators may
use to grant access to, historically, superuser-only functions. Using
these roles instead of granting superuser access reduces the number of
superuser roles required for a system. Documention for each of the
default roles has been added to user-manag.sgml.
Bump catversion to 201604082, as we had a commit that bumped it to 201604081 and another that set it back to 201604071...