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* Make punctuation consistentPeter Eisentraut2014-03-16
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* Fix whitespacePeter Eisentraut2014-03-16
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* Fix advertised dispsize for libpq's sslmode connection parameter.Tom Lane2014-03-16
| | | | | | | | | | "8" was correct back when "disable" was the longest allowed value, but since "verify-full" was added, it should be "12". Given the lack of complaints, I wouldn't be surprised if nobody is actually using these values ... but still, if they're in the API, they should be right. Noticed while pursuing a different problem. It's been wrong for quite a long time, so back-patch to all supported branches.
* Cleanups from the remove-native-krb5 patchMagnus Hagander2014-03-16
| | | | | | | | | | | krb_srvname is actually not available anymore as a parameter server-side, since with gssapi we accept all principals in our keytab. It's still used in libpq for client side specification. In passing remove declaration of krb_server_hostname, where all the functionality was already removed. Noted by Stephen Frost, though a different solution than his suggestion
* First-draft release notes for 9.3.4.Tom Lane2014-03-15
| | | | | As usual, the release notes for older branches will be made by cutting these down, but put them up for community review first.
* Update time zone data files to tzdata release 2014a.Tom Lane2014-03-15
| | | | DST law changes in Fiji, Turkey; historical changes in Israel, Ukraine.
* Fix race condition in B-tree page deletion.Heikki Linnakangas2014-03-14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In short, we don't allow a page to be deleted if it's the rightmost child of its parent, but that situation can change after we check for it. Problem ------- We check that the page to be deleted is not the rightmost child of its parent, and then lock its left sibling, the page itself, its right sibling, and the parent, in that order. However, if the parent page is split after the check but before acquiring the locks, the target page might become the rightmost child, if the split happens at the right place. That leads to an error in vacuum (I reproduced this by setting a breakpoint in debugger): ERROR: failed to delete rightmost child 41 of block 3 in index "foo_pkey" We currently re-check that the page is still the rightmost child, and throw the above error if it's not. We could easily just give up rather than throw an error, but that approach doesn't scale to half-dead pages. To recap, although we don't normally allow deleting the rightmost child, if the page is the *only* child of its parent, we delete the child page and mark the parent page as half-dead in one atomic operation. But before we do that, we check that the parent can later be deleted, by checking that it in turn is not the rightmost child of the grandparent (potentially recursing all the way up to the root). But the same situation can arise there - the grandparent can be split while we're not holding the locks. We end up with a half-dead page that we cannot delete. To make things worse, the keyspace of the deleted page has already been transferred to its right sibling. As the README points out, the keyspace at the grandparent level is "out-of-whack" until the half-dead page is deleted, and if enough tuples with keys in the transferred keyspace are inserted, the page might get split and a downlink might be inserted into the grandparent that is out-of-order. That might not cause any serious problem if it's transient (as the README ponders), but is surely bad if it stays that way. Solution -------- This patch changes the page deletion algorithm to avoid that problem. After checking that the topmost page in the chain of to-be-deleted pages is not the rightmost child of its parent, and then deleting the pages from bottom up, unlink the pages from top to bottom. This way, the intermediate stages are similar to the intermediate stages in page splitting, and there is no transient stage where the keyspace is "out-of-whack". The topmost page in the to-be-deleted chain doesn't have a downlink pointing to it, like a page split before the downlink has been inserted. This also allows us to get rid of the cleanup step after WAL recovery, if we crash during page deletion. The deletion will be continued at next VACUUM, but the tree is consistent for searches and insertions at every step. This bug is old, all supported versions are affected, but this patch is too big to back-patch (and changes the WAL record formats of related records). We have not heard any reports of the bug from users, so clearly it's not easy to bump into. Maybe backpatch later, after this has had some field testing. Reviewed by Kevin Grittner and Peter Geoghegan.
* Prevent interrupts while reporting non-ERROR elog messages.Tom Lane2014-03-13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This should eliminate the risk of recursive entry to syslog(3), which appears to be the cause of the hang reported in bug #9551 from James Morton. Arguably, the real problem here is auth.c's willingness to turn on ImmediateInterruptOK while executing fairly wide swaths of backend code. We may well need to work at narrowing the code ranges in which the authentication_timeout interrupt is enabled. For the moment, though, this is a cheap and reasonably noninvasive fix for a field-reported failure; the other approach would be complex and not necessarily bug-free itself. Back-patch to all supported branches.
* Allow psql to print COPY command status in more cases.Tom Lane2014-03-13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Previously, psql would print the "COPY nnn" command status only for COPY commands executed server-side. Now it will print that for frontend copies too (including \copy). However, we continue to suppress the command status for COPY TO STDOUT, since in that case the copy data has been routed to the same place that the command status would go, and there is a risk of the status line being mistaken for another line of COPY data. Doing that would break existing scripts, and it doesn't seem worth the benefit --- this case seems fairly analogous to SELECT, for which we also suppress the command status. Kumar Rajeev Rastogi, with substantial review by Amit Khandekar
* Avoid transaction-commit race condition while receiving a NOTIFY message.Tom Lane2014-03-13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Use TransactionIdIsInProgress, then TransactionIdDidCommit, to distinguish whether a NOTIFY message's originating transaction is in progress, committed, or aborted. The previous coding could accept a message from a transaction that was still in-progress according to the PGPROC array; if the client were fast enough at starting a new transaction, it might fail to see table rows added/updated by the message-sending transaction. Which of course would usually be the point of receiving the message. We noted this type of race condition long ago in tqual.c, but async.c overlooked it. The race condition probably cannot occur unless there are multiple NOTIFY senders in action, since an individual backend doesn't send NOTIFY signals until well after it's done committing. But if two senders commit in close succession, it's certainly possible that we could see the second sender's message within the race condition window while responding to the signal from the first one. Per bug #9557 from Marko Tiikkaja. This patch is slightly more invasive than what he proposed, since it removes the now-redundant TransactionIdDidAbort call. Back-patch to 9.0, where the current NOTIFY implementation was introduced.
* Fix a couple of typos in docs.Heikki Linnakangas2014-03-13
| | | | Thom Brown
* C comments: remove odd blank lines after #ifdef WIN32 linesBruce Momjian2014-03-13
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* C comments: remove odd blank lines after #ifdef WIN32 linesBruce Momjian2014-03-13
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* Only WAL-log the modified portion in an UPDATE, if possible.Heikki Linnakangas2014-03-12
| | | | | | | | | When a row is updated, and the new tuple version is put on the same page as the old one, only WAL-log the part of the new tuple that's not identical to the old. This saves significantly on the amount of WAL that needs to be written, in the common case that most fields are not modified. Amit Kapila, with a lot of back and forth with me, Robert Haas, and others.
* Items on GIN data pages are no longer always 6 bytes; update gincostestimate.Heikki Linnakangas2014-03-12
| | | | Also improve the comments a bit.
* Show PIDs of lock holders and waiters in log_lock_waits log message.Fujii Masao2014-03-13
| | | | Christian Kruse, reviewed by Kumar Rajeev Rastogi.
* test_decoding: Documentation fix.Robert Haas2014-03-12
| | | | Andres Freund
* Fix incorrect assertion about historical snapshots.Robert Haas2014-03-12
| | | | | | Also fix some nearby comments. Andres Freund
* Comment fixes related to logical decoding.Robert Haas2014-03-12
| | | | Andres Freund, per complaints by Peter Eisentraut.
* Allow opclasses to provide tri-valued GIN consistent functions.Heikki Linnakangas2014-03-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | With the GIN "fast scan" feature, GIN can skip items without fetching all the keys for them, if it can prove that they don't match regardless of those keys. So far, it has done the proving by calling the boolean consistent function with all combinations of TRUE/FALSE for the unfetched keys, but since that's O(n^2), it becomes unfeasible with more than a few keys. We can avoid calling consistent with all the combinations, if we can tell the operator class implementation directly which keys are unknown. This commit includes a triConsistent function for the built-in array and tsvector opclasses. Alexander Korotkov, with some changes by me.
* In WAL replay, restore GIN metapage unconditionally to avoid torn page.Heikki Linnakangas2014-03-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We don't take a full-page image of the GIN metapage; instead, the WAL record contains all the information required to reconstruct it from scratch. But to avoid torn page hazards, we must re-initialize it from the WAL record every time, even if it already has a greater LSN, similar to how normal full page images are restored. This was highly unlikely to cause any problems in practice, because the GIN metapage is small. We rely on an update smaller than a 512 byte disk sector to be atomic elsewhere, at least in pg_control. But better safe than sorry, and this would be easy to overlook if more fields are added to the metapage so that it's no longer small. Reported by Noah Misch. Backpatch to all supported versions.
* Fix tracking of psql script line numbers during \copy from another place.Tom Lane2014-03-10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Commit 08146775acd8bfe0fcc509c71857abb928697171 changed do_copy() to temporarily scribble on pset.cur_cmd_source. That was a mighty ugly bit of code in any case, but in particular it broke handleCopyIn's ability to tell whether it was reading from the current script source file (in which case pset.lineno should be incremented for each line of COPY data), or from someplace else (in which case it shouldn't). The former case still worked, the latter not so much. The visible effect was that line numbers reported for errors in a script file would be wrong if there were an earlier \copy that was reading anything other than inline-in-the-script-file data. To fix, introduce another pset field that holds the file do_copy wants the COPY code to use. This is a little bit ugly, but less so than passing the file down explicitly through several layers that aren't COPY-specific. Extracted from a larger patch by Kumar Rajeev Rastogi; that patch also changes printing of COPY command tags, which is not a bug fix and shouldn't get back-patched. This particular idea was from a suggestion by Amit Khandekar, if I'm reading the thread correctly. Back-patch to 9.2 where the faulty code was introduced.
* Allow dynamic shared memory segments to be kept until shutdown.Robert Haas2014-03-10
| | | | | Amit Kapila, reviewed by Kyotaro Horiguchi, with some further changes by me.
* Allow logical decoding via the walsender interface.Robert Haas2014-03-10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In order for this to work, walsenders need the optional ability to connect to a database, so the "replication" keyword now allows true or false, for backward-compatibility, and the new value "database" (which causes the "dbname" parameter to be respected). walsender needs to loop not only when idle but also when sending decoded data to the user and when waiting for more xlog data to decode. This means that there are now three separate loops inside walsender.c; although some refactoring has been done here, this is still a bit ugly. Andres Freund, with contributions from Álvaro Herrera, and further review by me.
* Teach on_exit_reset() to discard pending cleanups for dsm.Robert Haas2014-03-10
| | | | | | | | | If a postmaster child invokes fork() and then calls on_exit_reset, that should be sufficient to let it exit() without breaking anything, but dynamic shared memory broke that by not updating on_exit_reset() to discard callbacks registered with dynamic shared memory segments. Per investigation of a complaint from Tom Lane.
* Correct copy/pasto in comment for REPLICA IDENTITYSimon Riggs2014-03-09
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* doc: remove extra whitespace in SGML markupBruce Momjian2014-03-08
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* C comments: improve description of relfilenode uniquenessBruce Momjian2014-03-08
| | | | Report by Antonin Houska
* pg_ctl: improve handling of invalid data directoryBruce Momjian2014-03-08
| | | | | | | | | Return '4' and report a meaningful error message when a non-existent or invalid data directory is passed. Previously, pg_ctl would just report the server was not running. Patch by me and Amit Kapila Report from Peter Eisentraut
* docs: small adjustements to recent SELECT and pg_upgrade improvementsBruce Momjian2014-03-08
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* pg_upgrade: document delete problems with tablespaces inside the cluster ↵Bruce Momjian2014-03-07
| | | | | | directory Per report by Marc Mamin
* doc: improve server's keepalive descriptionBruce Momjian2014-03-07
| | | | | | | Use superior libpq keepalive description for the server-level parameters. Per report by Tatsuo Ishii and Marko Tiikkaja
* docs: improve TABLE command by showing supported clausesBruce Momjian2014-03-07
| | | | Initial patch by Colin 't Hart
* Remove unportable use of anonymous unions from reorderbuffer.h.Tom Lane2014-03-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | In b89e151054a I had assumed it was ok to use anonymous unions as struct members, but while a longstanding extension in many compilers, it's only been standardized in C11. To fix, remove one of the anonymous unions which tried to hide some implementation specific enum values and give the other a name. The latter unfortunately requires changes in output plugins, but since the feature has only been added a few days ago... Andres Freund
* Fix contrib/postgres_fdw to handle multiple join conditions properly.Tom Lane2014-03-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The previous coding supposed that it could consider just a single join condition in any one parameterized path for the foreign table. But in reality, the parameterized-path machinery forces all join clauses that are "movable to" the foreign table to be evaluated at that node; including clauses that we might not consider safe to send across. Such cases would result in an Assert failure in an assert-enabled build, and otherwise in sending an unsafe clause to the foreign server, which might result in errors or silently-wrong answers. A lesser problem was that the cost/rowcount estimates generated for the parameterized path failed to account for any additional join quals that get assigned to the scan. To fix, rewrite postgresGetForeignPaths so that it correctly collects all the movable quals for any one outer relation when generating parameterized paths; we'll now generate just one path per outer relation not one per join qual. Also fix bogus assumptions in postgresGetForeignPlan and estimate_path_cost_size that only safe-to-send join quals will be presented. Based on complaint from Etsuro Fujita that the path costs were being miscalculated, though this is significantly different from his proposed patch.
* release notes: add item missed in 9.2.5 releaseBruce Momjian2014-03-07
| | | | | | | | | Item is "Prevent errors in WAL replay due to references to uninitialized empty pages". Report and text by Andres Freund Backpatch through 9.2.
* fix ReplicationSlotsCountDBSlots for dropping unrelated databasesBruce Momjian2014-03-07
| | | | YAMAMOTO Takashi
* Fix dangling smgr_owner pointer when a fake relcache entry is freed.Heikki Linnakangas2014-03-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | A fake relcache entry can "own" a SmgrRelation object, like a regular relcache entry. But when it was free'd, the owner field in SmgrRelation was not cleared, so it was left pointing to free'd memory. Amazingly this apparently hasn't caused crashes in practice, or we would've heard about it earlier. Andres found this with Valgrind. Report and fix by Andres Freund, with minor modifications by me. Backpatch to all supported versions.
* Avoid memcpy() with same source and destination address.Heikki Linnakangas2014-03-07
| | | | | | | The behavior of that is undefined, although unlikely to lead to problems in practice. Found by running regression tests with Valgrind.
* Fix name of syslog_ident GUC in docs.Heikki Linnakangas2014-03-07
| | | | Michael Paquier
* Avoid getting more than AccessShareLock when deparsing a query.Tom Lane2014-03-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In make_ruledef and get_query_def, we have long used AcquireRewriteLocks to ensure that the querytree we are about to deparse is up-to-date and the schemas of the underlying relations aren't changing. Howwever, that function thinks the query is about to be executed, so it acquires locks that are stronger than necessary for the purpose of deparsing. Thus for example, if pg_dump asks to deparse a rule that includes "INSERT INTO t", we'd acquire RowExclusiveLock on t. That results in interference with concurrent transactions that might for example ask for ShareLock on t. Since pg_dump is documented as being purely read-only, this is unexpected. (Worse, it used to actually be read-only; this behavior dates back only to 8.1, cf commit ba4200246.) Fix this by adding a parameter to AcquireRewriteLocks to tell it whether we want the "real" execution locks or only AccessShareLock. Report, diagnosis, and patch by Dean Rasheed. Back-patch to all supported branches.
* isdigit() needs an unsigned char argument.Heikki Linnakangas2014-03-06
| | | | | | | Per the C standard, the routine should be passed an int, with a value that's representable as an unsigned char or EOF. Passing a signed char is wrong, because a negative value is not representable as an unsigned char. Unfortunately no compiler warns about that.
* Send keepalives from walsender even when busy sending WAL.Heikki Linnakangas2014-03-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If walsender doesn't hear from the client for the time specified by wal_sender_timeout, it will conclude the connection or client is dead, and disconnect. When half of wal_sender_timeout has elapsed, it sends a ping to the client, leaving it the remainig half of wal_sender_timeout to respond. However, it only checked if half of wal_sender_timeout had elapsed when it was about to sleep, so if it was busy sending WAL to the client for long enough, it would not send the ping request in time. Then the client would not know it needs to send a reply, and the walsender will disconnect even though the client is still alive. Fix that. Andres Freund, reviewed by Robert Haas, and some further changes by me. Backpatch to 9.3. Earlier versions relied on the client to send the keepalives on its own, and hence didn't have this problem.
* Don't reject ROW_MARK_REFERENCE rowmarks for materialized views.Tom Lane2014-03-06
| | | | | | | | | | We should allow this so that matviews can be referenced in UPDATE/DELETE statements in READ COMMITTED isolation level. The requirement for that is that a re-fetch by TID will see the same row version the query saw earlier, which is true of matviews, so there's no reason for the restriction. Per bug #9398. Michael Paquier, after a suggestion by me
* C comment update: relfilenode is only unique with a tablespaceBruce Momjian2014-03-05
| | | | Report from Antonin Houska
* docs: to_timestamp and to_date do minimal range checkingBruce Momjian2014-03-05
| | | | Initial patch from Steve Crawford
* pg_dump: make argument combination error exit code consistentBruce Momjian2014-03-05
| | | | Per report from Pavel Golub
* Fix portability issues in recently added make_timestamp/make_interval code.Tom Lane2014-03-05
| | | | | | | | Explicitly reject infinity/NaN inputs, rather than just assuming that something else will do it for us. Per buildfarm. While at it, make some over-parenthesized and under-legible code more readable.
* Add comment that ec_relids excludes "child" EquivalenceClass members.Tom Lane2014-03-05
| | | | | | This was already documented a few lines further down, but the comment just beside the field declaration could be misleading. Per gripe from Kyotaro Horiguchi.
* Fix some typos introduced by the logical decoding patch.Robert Haas2014-03-05
| | | | Erik Rijkers