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* Fix interpolation in test name.Noah Misch2020-09-13
| | | | | | | A pre-commit review had reported the problem, but the fix reached only v10 and earlier. Back-patch to v11. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200423.140546.1055476118690602079.horikyota.ntt@gmail.com
* Use the properly transformed RangeVar for expandTableLikeClause().Tom Lane2020-09-13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | transformCreateStmt() adjusts the transformed statement's RangeVar to specify the target schema explicitly, for the express reason of making sure that auxiliary statements derived by parse transformation operate on the right table. But the refactoring I did in commit 502898192 got this wrong and passed the untransformed RangeVar to expandTableLikeClause(). This could lead to assertion failures or weird misbehavior if the wrong table was accessed. Per report from Alexander Lakhin. Like the previous patch, back-patch to all supported branches. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/05051f9d-b32b-cb35-6735-0e9f2ab86b5f@gmail.com
* doc: Don't hide the "Up" link when it is the same as "Home"Peter Eisentraut2020-09-12
| | | | | | | | The original stylesheets seemed to think this was a good idea, but our users find it confusing and unhelpful, so undo that logic. Reported-by: Fabien COELHO <coelho@cri.ensmp.fr> Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/alpine.DEB.2.22.394.2006210914370.859381%40pseudo
* Use _exit(2) for SIGQUIT during ProcessStartupPacket, too.Tom Lane2020-09-10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Bring the signal handling for startup-packet collection into line with the policy established in commits bedadc732 and 8e19a8264, namely don't risk running atexit callbacks when handling SIGQUIT. Ideally, we'd not do so for SIGTERM or timeout interrupts either, but that change seems a bit too risky for the back branches. For now, just improve the comments in this area to describe the risk. Also relocate where BackendInitialize re-disables these interrupts, to minimize the code span where they're active. This doesn't buy a whole lot of safety, but it can't hurt. In passing, rename startup_die() to remove confusion about whether it is for the startup process. Like the previous commits, back-patch to all supported branches. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1850884.1599601164@sss.pgh.pa.us
* doc: Remove buggy ICU collation from documentationPeter Eisentraut2020-09-10
| | | | | | | | | | | | We have had multiple reports that point to the '@colReorder=latn-digit' collation customization being buggy. We have reported this to ICU and are waiting for a fix. In the meantime, remove references to this from the documentation and replace it by another reordering example. Apparently, many users have been picking up this example specifically from the documentation. Author: Jehan-Guillaume de Rorthais <jgdr@dalibo.com> Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/153201618542.1404.3611626898935613264%40wrigleys.postgresql.org
* Fix title in reference sectionMagnus Hagander2020-09-10
| | | | | Reported-by: Robert Kahlert Author: Daniel Gustafsson
* doc: Fix some grammar and inconsistenciesMichael Paquier2020-09-10
| | | | | | | | Some comments are fixed while on it. Author: Justin Pryzby Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200818171702.GK17022@telsasoft.com Backpatch-through: 9.6
* Make archiver's SIGQUIT handler exit via _exit().Tom Lane2020-09-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Commit 8e19a8264 changed the SIGQUIT handlers of almost all server processes not to run atexit callbacks. The archiver process was skipped, perhaps because it's not connected to shared memory; but it's just as true here that running atexit callbacks in a signal handler is unsafe. So let's make it work like the rest. In HEAD and v13, we can use the common SignalHandlerForCrashExit handler. Before that, just tweak pgarch_exit to use _exit(2) explicitly. Like the previous commit, back-patch to all supported branches. Kyotaro Horiguchi, back-patching by me Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1850884.1599601164@sss.pgh.pa.us
* Fix misleading error message about inconsistent moving-aggregate types.Tom Lane2020-09-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | We reported the wrong types when complaining that an aggregate's moving-aggregate implementation is inconsistent with its regular implementation. This was wrong since the feature was introduced, so back-patch to all supported branches. Jeff Janes Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAMkU=1x808LH=LPhZp9mNSP0Xd1xDqEd+XeGcvEe48dfE6xV=A@mail.gmail.com
* Remove useless lstat() call in pg_rewind.Tom Lane2020-09-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This is duplicative of an lstat that was just done by the calling function (traverse_datadir), besides which we weren't really doing anything with the results. There's not much point in checking to see if someone removed the file since the previous lstat, since the FILE_ACTION_REMOVE code would have to deal with missing-file cases anyway. Moreover, the "exists = false" assignment was a dead store; nothing was done with that value later. A syscall saved is a syscall earned, so back-patch to 9.5 where this code was introduced. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1221796.1599329320@sss.pgh.pa.us
* Make new authentication test case more robust.Tom Lane2020-09-04
| | | | | | | | | | | I happened to notice that the new test case I added in b55b4dad9 falls over if one runs "make check" repeatedly; though not in branches after v10. That's because it was assuming that tmp_check/pgpass wouldn't exist already. However, it's only been since v11 that the Makefiles forcibly remove all of tmp_check/ before starting a TAP run. This fix to unlink the file is therefore strictly necessary only in v10 ... but it seems wisest to do it across the board, rather than let the test rely on external logic to get the conditions right.
* Fix over-eager ping'ing in logical replication receiver.Tom Lane2020-09-04
| | | | | | | | | | | Commit 3f60f690f only partially fixed the broken-status-tracking issue in LogicalRepApplyLoop: we need ping_sent to have the same lifetime as last_recv_timestamp. The effects are much less serious than what that commit fixed, though. AFAICS this would just lead to extra ping requests being sent, once per second until the sender responds. Still, it's a bug, so backpatch to v10 as before. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/959627.1599248476@sss.pgh.pa.us
* C comment: correct use of 64-"byte" cache line sizeBruce Momjian2020-09-04
| | | | | | | | Reported-by: Kelly Min Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAPSbxatOiQO90LYpSC3+svAU9-sHgDfEP4oFhcEUt_X=DqFA9g@mail.gmail.com Backpatch-through: 9.5
* Fix rare deadlock failure in create_am regression test.Tom Lane2020-09-04
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The "DROP ACCESS METHOD gist2" test will require locking the index to be dropped and then its table; while most ordinary operations lock a table first then its index. While no concurrent test scripts should be touching fast_emp4000, autovacuum might chance to be processing that table when the DROP runs, resulting in a deadlock failure. This is pretty rare but we see it in the buildfarm from time to time. To fix, acquire a lock on fast_emp4000 before issuing the DROP. Since the point of the exercise is mostly to prevent buildfarm failures, back-patch to 9.6 where this test was introduced. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/839004.1599185607@sss.pgh.pa.us
* Avoid lockup of a parallel worker when reporting a long error message.Tom Lane2020-09-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Because sigsetjmp() will restore the initial state with signals blocked, the code path in bgworker.c for reporting an error and exiting would execute that way. Usually this is fairly harmless; but if a parallel worker had an error message exceeding the shared-memory communication buffer size (16K) it would lock up, because it would wait for a resume-sending signal from its parallel leader which it would never detect. To fix, just unblock signals at the appropriate point. This can be shown to fail back to 9.6. The lack of parallel query infrastructure makes it difficult to provide a simple test case for 9.5; but I'm pretty sure the issue exists in some form there as well, so apply the code change there too. Vignesh C, reviewed by Bharath Rupireddy, Robert Haas, and myself Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CALDaNm1d1hHPZUg3xU4XjtWBOLCrA+-2cJcLpw-cePZ=GgDVfA@mail.gmail.com
* Fix typo in commentAlvaro Herrera2020-09-01
| | | | | | Introduced by 8b08f7d4820f; backpatch to 11. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200812214918.GA30353@alvherre.pgsql
* doc: clarify that max_wal_size is "during" checkpointsBruce Momjian2020-09-01
| | | | | | | | | | Previous wording was "between". Reported-by: Pavel Luzanov Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/26906a54-d7cb-2f8e-eed7-e31660024694@postgrespro.ru Backpatch-through: 9.5
* Raise error on concurrent drop of partitioned indexAlvaro Herrera2020-09-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We were already raising an error for DROP INDEX CONCURRENTLY on a partitioned table, albeit a different and confusing one: ERROR: DROP INDEX CONCURRENTLY must be first action in transaction Change that to throw a more comprehensible error: ERROR: cannot drop partitioned index \"%s\" concurrently Michael Paquier authored the test case for indexes on temporary partitioned tables. Backpatch to 11, where indexes on partitioned tables were added. Reported-by: Jan Mussler <jan.mussler@zalando.de> Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16594-d2956ca909585067@postgresql.org
* Teach libpq to handle arbitrary-length lines in .pgpass files.Tom Lane2020-09-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Historically there's been a hard-wired assumption here that no line of a .pgpass file could be as long as NAMEDATALEN*5 bytes. That's a bit shaky to start off with, because (a) there's no reason to suppose that host names fit in NAMEDATALEN, and (b) this figure fails to allow for backslash escape characters. However, it fails completely if someone wants to use a very long password, and we're now hearing reports of people wanting to use "security tokens" that can run up to several hundred bytes. Another angle is that the file is specified to allow comment lines, but there's no reason to assume that long comment lines aren't possible. Rather than guessing at what might be a more suitable limit, let's replace the fixed-size buffer with an expansible PQExpBuffer. That adds one malloc/free cycle to the typical use-case, but that's surely pretty cheap relative to the I/O this code has to do. Also, add TAP test cases to exercise this code, because there was no test coverage before. This reverts most of commit 2eb3bc588, as there's no longer a need for a warning message about overlength .pgpass lines. (I kept the explicit check for comment lines, though.) In HEAD and v13, this also fixes an oversight in 74a308cf5: there's not much point in explicit_bzero'ing the line buffer if we only do so in two of the three exit paths. Back-patch to all supported branches, except that the test case only goes back to v10 where src/test/authentication/ was added. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/4187382.1598909041@sss.pgh.pa.us
* doc: add commas after 'i.e.' and 'e.g.'Bruce Momjian2020-08-31
| | | | | | | | | | | This follows the American format, https://jakubmarian.com/comma-after-i-e-and-e-g/. There is no intention of requiring this format for future text, but making existing text consistent every few years makes sense. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200825183619.GA22369@momjian.us Backpatch-through: 9.5
* C comment: remove mention of use of t_hoff WAL structure memberBruce Momjian2020-08-31
| | | | | | | | Reported-by: Antonin Houska Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/21643.1595353537@antos Backpatch-through: 9.5
* pg_upgrade doc: mention saving postgresql.conf.auto filesBruce Momjian2020-08-31
| | | | | | | | | | Also mention files included by postgresql.conf. Reported-by: Álvaro Herrera Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/08AD4526-75AB-457B-B2DD-099663F28040@yesql.se Backpatch-through: 9.5
* docs: in mapping SQL to C data types, timestamp isn't a pointerBruce Momjian2020-08-31
| | | | | | | | | | It is an int64. Reported-by: ajulien@shaktiware.fr Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/159845038271.24995.15682121015698255155@wrigleys.postgresql.org Backpatch-through: 9.5
* doc: cross-link file-fdw and CSV config log sectionsBruce Momjian2020-08-31
| | | | | | | | | | | There is an file-fdw example that reads the server config file, so cross link them. Reported-by: Oleg Samoilov Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/159800192078.2886.10431506404995508950@wrigleys.postgresql.org Backpatch-through: 9.5
* docs: clarify intermediate certificate creation instructionsBruce Momjian2020-08-31
| | | | | | | | Specifically, explain the v3_ca openssl specification. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200824175653.GA32411@momjian.us Backpatch-through: 9.5
* docs: replace "stable storage" with "durable" in descriptionsBruce Momjian2020-08-31
| | | | | | | | | For PG, "durable storage" has a clear meaning, while "stable storage" does not, so use the former. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200817165222.GA31806@momjian.us Backpatch-through: 9.5
* doc: improve description of subscripting of arraysBruce Momjian2020-08-31
| | | | | | | | | | | It wasn't clear the non-integers are cast to integers for subscripting, rather than throwing an error. Reported-by: sean@materialize.io Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/159538675800.624.7728794628229799531@wrigleys.postgresql.org Backpatch-through: 9.5
* docs: improve 'capitals' inheritance exampleBruce Momjian2020-08-31
| | | | | | | | | | Adds constraints and improves wording. Reported-by: 2552891@gmail.com Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/159586122762.680.1361378513036616007@wrigleys.postgresql.org Backpatch-through: 9.5
* doc: clarify the useful features of proceduresBruce Momjian2020-08-31
| | | | | | | | | | This was not clearly documented when procedures were added in PG 11. Reported-by: Robin Abbi Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAGmg_NX327KKVuJmbWZD=pGutYFxzZjX1rU+3ji8UuX=8ONn9Q@mail.gmail.com Backpatch-through: 11
* Fix docs bug stating file_fdw requires absolute pathsMagnus Hagander2020-08-31
| | | | | | | | It has always (since the first commit) worked with relative paths, so use the same wording as other parts of the documentation. Author: Bruce Momjian Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CABUevExx-hm=cit+A9LeKBH39srvk8Y2tEZeEAj5mP8YfzNKUg@mail.gmail.com
* Mark factorial operator, and postfix operators in general, as deprecated.Tom Lane2020-08-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | Back-patch key parts of 4c5cf5431 and 6ca547cf7 into stable branches. I didn't touch pg_description entries here, so it's purely a docs change; and I didn't fool with any examples either. The main point is so that anyone who's wondering if factorial() exists in the stable branches will be reassured. Mark Dilger and John Naylor, with some adjustments by me Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/BE2DF53D-251A-4E26-972F-930E523580E9@enterprisedb.com
* Fix code for re-finding scan position in a multicolumn GIN index.Tom Lane2020-08-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | collectMatchBitmap() needs to re-find the index tuple it was previously looking at, after transiently dropping lock on the index page it's on. The tuple should still exist and be at its prior position or somewhere to the right of that, since ginvacuum never removes tuples but concurrent insertions could add one. However, there was a thinko in that logic, to the effect of expecting any inserted tuples to have the same index "attnum" as what we'd been scanning. Since there's no physical separation of tuples with different attnums, it's not terribly hard to devise scenarios where this fails, leading to transient "lost saved point in index" errors. (While I've duplicated this with manual testing, it seems impossible to make a reproducible test case with our available testing technology.) Fix by just continuing the scan when the attnum doesn't match. While here, improve the error message used if we do fail, so that it matches the wording used in btree for a similar case. collectMatchBitmap()'s posting-tree code path was previously not exercised at all by our regression tests. While I can't make a regression test that exhibits the bug, I can at least improve the code coverage here, so do that. The test case I made for this is an extension of one added by 4b754d6c1, so it only works in HEAD and v13; didn't seem worth trying hard to back-patch it. Per bug #16595 from Jesse Kinkead. This has been broken since multicolumn capability was added to GIN (commit 27cb66fdf), so back-patch to all supported branches. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16595-633118be8eef9ce2@postgresql.org
* docs: client certificates are always sent to the serverBruce Momjian2020-08-25
| | | | | | | | | | They are not "requested" by the server. Reported-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200825.155320.986648039251743210.horikyota.ntt@gmail.com Backpatch-through: 9.5
* Avoid pushing quals down into sub-queries that have grouping sets.Tom Lane2020-08-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The trouble with doing this is that an apparently-constant subquery output column isn't really constant if it is a grouping column that appears in only some of the grouping sets. A qual using such a column would be subject to incorrect const-folding after push-down, as seen in bug #16585 from Paul Sivash. To fix, just disable qual pushdown altogether if the sub-query has nonempty groupingSets. While we could imagine far less restrictive solutions, there is not much point in working harder right now, because subquery_planner() won't move HAVING clauses to WHERE within such a subquery. If the qual stays in HAVING it's not going to be a lot more useful than if we'd kept it at the outer level. Having said that, this restriction could be removed if we used a parsetree representation that distinguished such outputs from actual constants, which is something I hope to do in future. Hence, make the patch a minimal addition rather than integrating it more tightly (e.g. by renumbering the existing items in subquery_is_pushdown_safe's comment). Back-patch to 9.5 where grouping sets were introduced. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16585-9d8c340d23ade8c1@postgresql.org
* docs: improve description of how to handle multiple databasesBruce Momjian2020-08-21
| | | | | | | | | | This is a redesign of the intro to the managing databases chapter. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/159586122762.680.1361378513036616007@wrigleys.postgresql.org Author: David G. Johnston Backpatch-through: 9.5
* docs: add COMMENT examples for new features, rename rtreeBruce Momjian2020-08-21
| | | | | | | | | | Reported-by: Jürgen Purtz Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/15ec5428-d46a-1725-f38d-44986a977abb@purtz.de Author: Jürgen Purtz Backpatch-through: 11
* Fix handling of CREATE TABLE LIKE with inheritance.Tom Lane2020-08-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If a CREATE TABLE command uses both LIKE and traditional inheritance, Vars in CHECK constraints and expression indexes that are absorbed from a LIKE parent table tended to get mis-numbered, resulting in wrong answers and/or bizarre error messages (though probably not any actual crashes, thanks to validation occurring in the executor). In v12 and up, the same could happen to Vars in GENERATED expressions, even in cases with no LIKE clause but multiple traditional-inheritance parents. The cause of the problem for LIKE is that parse_utilcmd.c supposed it could renumber such Vars correctly during transformCreateStmt(), which it cannot since we have not yet accounted for columns added via inheritance. Fix that by postponing processing of LIKE INCLUDING CONSTRAINTS, DEFAULTS, GENERATED, INDEXES till after we've performed DefineRelation(). The error with GENERATED and multiple inheritance is a simple oversight in MergeAttributes(); it knows it has to renumber Vars in inherited CHECK constraints, but forgot to apply the same processing to inherited GENERATED expressions (a/k/a defaults). Per bug #16272 from Tom Gottfried. The non-GENERATED variants of the issue are ancient, presumably dating right back to the addition of CREATE TABLE LIKE; hence back-patch to all supported branches. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16272-6e32da020e9a9381@postgresql.org
* Fix a few typos in JIT comments and READMEDavid Rowley2020-08-21
| | | | | | | Reviewed-by: Abhijit Menon-Sen Reviewed-by: Andres Freund Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAApHDvobgmCs6CohqhKTUf7D8vffoZXQTCBTERo9gbOeZmvLTw%40mail.gmail.com Backpatch-through: 11, where JIT was added
* Disable autovacuum for BRIN test tableAlvaro Herrera2020-08-17
| | | | | | | | This should improve stability in the tests. Per buildfarm member hyrax (CLOBBER_CACHE_ALWAYS) via Tom Lane. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/871534.1597503261@sss.pgh.pa.us
* Doc: fix description of UNION/CASE/etc type unification.Tom Lane2020-08-17
| | | | | | | | | The description of what select_common_type() does was not terribly accurate. Improve it. David Johnston and Tom Lane Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1019930.1597613200@sss.pgh.pa.us
* doc: Fix description about bgwriter and checkpoint in HA sectionMichael Paquier2020-08-17
| | | | | | | | | Since 806a2ae, the work of the bgwriter is split the checkpointer, but a portion of the documentation did not get the message. Author: Masahiko Sawada Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+fd4k6jXxjAtjMVC=wG3=QGpauZBtcgN3Jhw+oV7zXGKVLKzQ@mail.gmail.com Backpatch-through: 9.5
* Move new LOCKTAG_DATABASE_FROZEN_IDS to end of enum LockTagType.Noah Misch2020-08-15
| | | | | | | | | | | Several PGXN modules reference LockTagType values; renumbering would force a recompile of those modules. Oversight in back-patch of today's commit 566372b3d6435639e4cc4476d79b8505a0297c87. Back-patch to released branches, v12 through 9.5. Reported by Tom Lane. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/921383.1597523945@sss.pgh.pa.us
* Prevent concurrent SimpleLruTruncate() for any given SLRU.Noah Misch2020-08-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The SimpleLruTruncate() header comment states the new coding rule. To achieve this, add locktype "frozenid" and two LWLocks. This closes a rare opportunity for data loss, which manifested as "apparent wraparound" or "could not access status of transaction" errors. Data loss is more likely in pg_multixact, due to released branches' thin margin between multiStopLimit and multiWrapLimit. If a user's physical replication primary logged ": apparent wraparound" messages, the user should rebuild standbys of that primary regardless of symptoms. At less risk is a cluster having emitted "not accepting commands" errors or "must be vacuumed" warnings at some point. One can test a cluster for this data loss by running VACUUM FREEZE in every database. Back-patch to 9.5 (all supported versions). Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20190218073103.GA1434723@rfd.leadboat.com
* Be more careful about the shape of hashable subplan clauses.Tom Lane2020-08-14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | nodeSubplan.c expects that the testexpr for a hashable ANY SubPlan has the form of one or more OpExprs whose LHS is an expression of the outer query's, while the RHS is an expression over Params representing output columns of the subquery. However, the planner only went as far as verifying that the clauses were all binary OpExprs. This works 99.99% of the time, because the clauses have the right shape when emitted by the parser --- but it's possible for function inlining to break that, as reported by PegoraroF10. To fix, teach the planner to check that the LHS and RHS contain the right things, or more accurately don't contain the wrong things. Given that this has been broken for years without anyone noticing, it seems sufficient to just give up hashing when it happens, rather than go to the trouble of commuting the clauses back again (which wouldn't necessarily work anyway). While poking at that, I also noticed that nodeSubplan.c had a baked-in assumption that the number of hash clauses is identical to the number of subquery output columns. Again, that's fine as far as parser output goes, but it's not hard to break it via function inlining. There seems little reason for that assumption though --- AFAICS, the only thing it's buying us is not having to store the number of hash clauses explicitly. Adding code to the planner to reject such cases would take more code than getting nodeSubplan.c to cope, so I fixed it that way. This has been broken for as long as we've had hashable SubPlans, so back-patch to all supported branches. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1549209182255-0.post@n3.nabble.com
* Fix postmaster's behavior during smart shutdown.Tom Lane2020-08-14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Up to now, upon receipt of a SIGTERM ("smart shutdown" command), the postmaster has immediately killed all "optional" background processes, and subsequently refused to launch new ones while it's waiting for foreground client processes to exit. No doubt this seemed like an OK policy at some point; but it's a pretty bad one now, because it makes for a seriously degraded environment for the remaining clients: * Parallel queries are killed, and new ones fail to launch. (And our parallel-query infrastructure utterly fails to deal with the case in a reasonable way --- it just hangs waiting for workers that are not going to arrive. There is more work needed in that area IMO.) * Autovacuum ceases to function. We can tolerate that for awhile, but if bulk-update queries continue to run in the surviving client sessions, there's eventually going to be a mess. In the worst case the system could reach a forced shutdown to prevent XID wraparound. * The bgwriter and walwriter are also stopped immediately, likely resulting in performance degradation. Hence, let's rearrange things so that the only immediate change in behavior is refusing to let in new normal connections. Once the last normal connection is gone, shut everything down as though we'd received a "fast" shutdown. To implement this, remove the PM_WAIT_BACKUP and PM_WAIT_READONLY states, instead staying in PM_RUN or PM_HOT_STANDBY while normal connections remain. A subsidiary state variable tracks whether or not we're letting in new connections in those states. This also allows having just one copy of the logic for killing child processes in smart and fast shutdown modes. I moved that logic into PostmasterStateMachine() by inventing a new state PM_STOP_BACKENDS. Back-patch to 9.6 where parallel query was added. In principle this'd be a good idea in 9.5 as well, but the risk/reward ratio is not as good there, since lack of autovacuum is not a problem during typical uses of smart shutdown. Per report from Bharath Rupireddy. Patch by me, reviewed by Thomas Munro Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CALj2ACXAZ5vKxT9P7P89D87i3MDO9bfS+_bjMHgnWJs8uwUOOw@mail.gmail.com
* Handle new HOT chains in index-build table scansAlvaro Herrera2020-08-13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When a table is scanned by heapam_index_build_range_scan (née IndexBuildHeapScan) and the table lock being held allows concurrent data changes, it is possible for new HOT chains to sprout in a page that were unknown when the scan of a page happened. This leads to an error such as ERROR: failed to find parent tuple for heap-only tuple at (X,Y) in table "tbl" because the root tuple was not present when we first obtained the list of the page's root tuples. This can be fixed by re-obtaining the list of root tuples, if we see that a heap-only tuple appears to point to a non-existing root. This was reported by Anastasia as occurring for BRIN summarization (which exists since 9.5), but I think it could theoretically also happen with CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY (much older) or REINDEX CONCURRENTLY (very recent). It seems a happy coincidence that BRIN forces us to backpatch this all the way to 9.5. Reported-by: Anastasia Lubennikova <a.lubennikova@postgrespro.ru> Diagnosed-by: Anastasia Lubennikova <a.lubennikova@postgrespro.ru> Co-authored-by: Anastasia Lubennikova <a.lubennikova@postgrespro.ru> Co-authored-by: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/602d8487-f0b2-5486-0088-0f372b2549fa@postgrespro.ru Backpatch: 9.5 - master
* BRIN: Handle concurrent desummarization properlyAlvaro Herrera2020-08-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If a page range is desummarized at just the right time concurrently with an index walk, BRIN would raise an error indicating index corruption. This is scary and unhelpful; silently returning that the page range is not summarized is sufficient reaction. This bug was introduced by commit 975ad4e602ff as additional protection against a bug whose actual fix was elsewhere. Backpatch equally. Reported-By: Anastasia Lubennikova <a.lubennikova@postgrespro.ru> Diagnosed-By: Alexander Lakhin <exclusion@gmail.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2588667e-d07d-7e10-74e2-7e1e46194491@postgrespro.ru Backpatch: 9.5 - master
* Stamp 11.9.REL_11_9Tom Lane2020-08-10
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* Last-minute updates for release notes.Tom Lane2020-08-10
| | | | Security: CVE-2020-14349, CVE-2020-14350
* Document clashes between logical replication and untrusted users.Noah Misch2020-08-10
| | | | | | Back-patch to v10, which introduced logical replication. Security: CVE-2020-14349