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* pg_upgrade: fix CopyFile() on Windows to fail on file existenceBruce Momjian2015-11-24
| | | | | | | | | Also fix getErrorText() to return the right error string on failure. This behavior now matches that of other operating systems. Report by Noah Misch Backpatch through 9.1
* doc: Some improvements on CREATE POLICY and ALTER POLICY documentationPeter Eisentraut2015-11-23
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* Clarify pg_rewind connection requirements.Teodor Sigaev2015-11-23
| | | | | Per http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/564C4CE6.9000509@postgrespro.ru Pavel Luzanov <p.luzanov@postgrespro.ru>
* doc: Add more documentation about wal_retrieve_retry_intervalPeter Eisentraut2015-11-23
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* Adopt the GNU convention for handling tar-archive members exceeding 8GB.Tom Lane2015-11-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The POSIX standard for tar headers requires archive member sizes to be printed in octal with at most 11 digits, limiting the representable file size to 8GB. However, GNU tar and apparently most other modern tars support a convention in which oversized values can be stored in base-256, allowing any practical file to be a tar member. Adopt this convention to remove two limitations: * pg_dump with -Ft output format failed if the contents of any one table exceeded 8GB. * pg_basebackup failed if the data directory contained any file exceeding 8GB. (This would be a fatal problem for installations configured with a table segment size of 8GB or more, and it has also been seen to fail when large core dump files exist in the data directory.) File sizes under 8GB are still printed in octal, so that no compatibility issues are created except in cases that would have failed entirely before. In addition, this patch fixes several bugs in the same area: * In 9.3 and later, we'd defined tarCreateHeader's file-size argument as size_t, which meant that on 32-bit machines it would write a corrupt tar header for file sizes between 4GB and 8GB, even though no error was raised. This broke both "pg_dump -Ft" and pg_basebackup for such cases. * pg_restore from a tar archive would fail on tables of size between 4GB and 8GB, on machines where either "size_t" or "unsigned long" is 32 bits. This happened even with an archive file not affected by the previous bug. * pg_basebackup would fail if there were files of size between 4GB and 8GB, even on 64-bit machines. * In 9.3 and later, "pg_basebackup -Ft" failed entirely, for any file size, on 64-bit big-endian machines. In view of these potential data-loss bugs, back-patch to all supported branches, even though removal of the documented 8GB limit might otherwise be considered a new feature rather than a bug fix.
* Fix handling of inherited check constraints in ALTER COLUMN TYPE (again).Tom Lane2015-11-20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The previous way of reconstructing check constraints was to do a separate "ALTER TABLE ONLY tab ADD CONSTRAINT" for each table in an inheritance hierarchy. However, that way has no hope of reconstructing the check constraints' own inheritance properties correctly, as pointed out in bug #13779 from Jan Dirk Zijlstra. What we should do instead is to do a regular "ALTER TABLE", allowing recursion, at the topmost table that has a particular constraint, and then suppress the work queue entries for inherited instances of the constraint. Annoyingly, we'd tried to fix this behavior before, in commit 5ed6546cf, but we failed to notice that it wasn't reconstructing the pg_constraint field values correctly. As long as I'm touching pg_get_constraintdef_worker anyway, tweak it to always schema-qualify the target table name; this seems like useful backup to the protections installed by commit 5f173040. In HEAD/9.5, get rid of get_constraint_relation_oids, which is now unused. (I could alternatively have modified it to also return conislocal, but that seemed like a pretty single-purpose API, so let's not pretend it has some other use.) It's unused in the back branches as well, but I left it in place just in case some third-party code has decided to use it. In HEAD/9.5, also rename pg_get_constraintdef_string to pg_get_constraintdef_command, as the previous name did nothing to explain what that entry point did differently from others (and its comment was equally useless). Again, that change doesn't seem like material for back-patching. I did a bit of re-pgindenting in tablecmds.c in HEAD/9.5, as well. Otherwise, back-patch to all supported branches.
* Avoid server crash when worker registration fails at execution time.Robert Haas2015-11-20
| | | | | | | | | | The previous coding attempts to destroy the DSM in this case, but child nodes might have stored data there and still be holding onto pointers in this case. So don't do that. Also, free the reader array instead of leaking it. Extracted from two different patch versions both by Amit Kapila.
* Fix typo in comment.Robert Haas2015-11-19
| | | | Amit Langote
* Remove numbers from incorrectly-numbered list.Robert Haas2015-11-19
| | | | Reported by Andres Freund.
* Dodge a macro-name conflict with Perl.Tom Lane2015-11-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Some versions of Perl export a macro named HS_KEY. This creates a conflict in contrib/hstore_plperl against hstore's macro of the same name. The most future-proof solution seems to be to rename our macro; I chose HSTORE_KEY. For consistency, rename HS_VAL and related macros similarly. Back-patch to 9.5. contrib/hstore_plperl doesn't exist before that so there is no need to worry about the conflict in older releases. Per reports from Marco Atzeri and Mike Blackwell.
* doc: Clarify some things on pg_receivexlog reference pagePeter Eisentraut2015-11-19
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* Fix thinko: errmsg -> ereport.Tom Lane2015-11-19
| | | | | | | | | Silly mistake in my commit 09cecdf285ea9f51, reported by Erik Rijkers. The fact that the buildfarm didn't find this implies that we are not testing Perl builds that lack MULTIPLICITY, which is a bit disturbing from a coverage standpoint. Until today I'd have said nobody cared about such configurations anymore; but maybe not.
* Make ALTER .. SET SCHEMA do nothing, instead of throwing an ERROR.Robert Haas2015-11-19
| | | | | | | | | This was already true for CREATE EXTENSION, but historically has not been true for other object types. Therefore, this is a backward incompatibility. Per discussion on pgsql-hackers, everyone seems to agree that the new behavior is better. Marti Raudsepp, reviewed by Haribabu Kommi and myself
* fix a perl typoAndrew Dunstan2015-11-19
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* Update docs for vcregress.pl bincheck changesAndrew Dunstan2015-11-18
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* Improve vcregress.pl's handling of tap tests for client programsAndrew Dunstan2015-11-18
| | | | | | | | | The target is now named 'bincheck' rather than 'tapcheck' so that it reflects what is checked instead of the test mechanism. Some of the logic is improved, making it easier to add further sets of TAP based tests in future. Also, the environment setting logic is imrpoved. As discussed on -hackers a couple of months ago.
* Fix incomplete set_foreignscan_references handling for fdw_recheck_qualsRobert Haas2015-11-18
| | | | KaiGai Kohei
* Remove function names from some elog() calls in heapam.c.Andres Freund2015-11-19
| | | | | | | | | | At least one of the names was, due to a function renaming late in the development of ON CONFLICT, wrong. Since including function names in error messages is against the message style guide anyway, remove them from the messages. Discussion: CAM3SWZT8paz=usgMVHm0XOETkQvzjRtAUthATnmaHQQY0obnGw@mail.gmail.com Backpatch: 9.5, where ON CONFLICT was introduced
* Improve ON CONFLICT documentation.Andres Freund2015-11-19
| | | | | | Author: Peter Geoghegan and Andres Freund Discussion: CAM3SWZScpWzQ-7EJC77vwqzZ1GO8GNmURQ1QqDQ3wRn7AbW1Cg@mail.gmail.com Backpatch: 9.5, where ON CONFLICT was introduced
* Accept flex > 2.5.x in configure.Tom Lane2015-11-18
| | | | | | Per buildfarm member anchovy, 2.6.0 exists in the wild now. Hopefully it works with Postgres; if not, we'll have to do something about that, but in any case claiming it's "too old" is pretty silly.
* Make a comment more precise.Robert Haas2015-11-18
| | | | | | Remote expressions now also matter to make_foreignscan() Noted by Etsuro Fujita.
* Avoid aggregating worker instrumentation multiple times.Robert Haas2015-11-18
| | | | Amit Kapila, per design ideas from me.
* Fix dumb bug in tqueue.cRobert Haas2015-11-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | When I wrote this code originally, the intention was to recompute the remapinfo only when the tupledesc changes. This presumably only happens once per query, but I copied the design pattern from other DestReceivers. However, due to a silly oversight on my part, tqueue->tupledesc never got set, leading to recomputation for every tuple. This should improve the performance of parallel scans that return a significant number of tuples. Report by Amit Kapila; patch by me, reviewed by him.
* Fix possible internal overflow in numeric division.Tom Lane2015-11-17
| | | | | | | | | | | div_var_fast() postpones propagating carries in the same way as mul_var(), so it has the same corner-case overflow risk we fixed in 246693e5ae8a36f0, namely that the size of the carries has to be accounted for when setting the threshold for executing a carry propagation step. We've not devised a test case illustrating the brokenness, but the required fix seems clear enough. Like the previous fix, back-patch to all active branches. Dean Rasheed
* Message style fixPeter Eisentraut2015-11-17
| | | | from Euler Taveira
* Improve messagePeter Eisentraut2015-11-16
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* Message improvementsPeter Eisentraut2015-11-16
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* doc: Fix commas and improve spacingPeter Eisentraut2015-11-16
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* Remove volatile qualifiers from bufmgr.c and freelist.cRobert Haas2015-11-16
| | | | | | | | Prior to commit 0709b7ee72e4bc71ad07b7120acd117265ab51d0, access to variables within a spinlock-protected critical section had to be done through a volatile pointer, but that should no longer be necessary. Review by Andres Freund
* Speed up ruleutils' name de-duplication code, and fix overlength-name case.Tom Lane2015-11-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Since commit 11e131854f8231a21613f834c40fe9d046926387, ruleutils.c has attempted to ensure that each RTE in a query or plan tree has a unique alias name. However, the code that was added for this could be quite slow, even as bad as O(N^3) if N identical RTE names must be replaced, as noted by Jeff Janes. Improve matters by building a transient hash table within set_rtable_names. The hash table in itself reduces the cost of detecting a duplicate from O(N) to O(1), and we can save another factor of N by storing the number of de-duplicated names already created for each entry, so that we don't have to re-try names already created. This way is probably a bit slower overall for small range tables, but almost by definition, such cases should not be a performance problem. In principle the same problem applies to the column-name-de-duplication code; but in practice that seems to be less of a problem, first because N is limited since we don't support extremely wide tables, and second because duplicate column names within an RTE are fairly rare, so that in practice the cost is more like O(N^2) not O(N^3). It would be very much messier to fix the column-name code, so for now I've left that alone. An independent problem in the same area was that the de-duplication code paid no attention to the identifier length limit, and would happily produce identifiers that were longer than NAMEDATALEN and wouldn't be unique after truncation to NAMEDATALEN. This could result in dump/reload failures, or perhaps even views that silently behaved differently than before. We can fix that by shortening the base name as needed. Fix it for both the relation and column name cases. In passing, check for interrupts in set_rtable_names, just in case it's still slow enough to be an issue. Back-patch to 9.3 where this code was introduced.
* Remove accidentally-committed debugging code.Robert Haas2015-11-15
| | | | Amit Kapila
* Fix ruleutils.c's dumping of whole-row Vars in ROW() and VALUES() contexts.Tom Lane2015-11-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Normally ruleutils prints a whole-row Var as "foo.*". We already knew that that doesn't work at top level of a SELECT list, because the parser would treat the "*" as a directive to expand the reference into separate columns, not a whole-row Var. However, Joshua Yanovski points out in bug #13776 that the same thing happens at top level of a ROW() construct; and some nosing around in the parser shows that the same is true in VALUES(). Hence, apply the same workaround already devised for the SELECT-list case, namely to add a forced cast to the appropriate rowtype in these cases. (The alternative of just printing "foo" was rejected because it is difficult to avoid ambiguity against plain columns named "foo".) Back-patch to all supported branches.
* Improve type numeric's calculations for ln(), log(), exp(), pow().Tom Lane2015-11-14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Set the "rscales" for intermediate-result calculations to ensure that suitable numbers of significant digits are maintained throughout. The previous coding hadn't thought this through in any detail, and as a result could deliver results with many inaccurate digits, or in the worst cases even fail with divide-by-zero errors as a result of losing all nonzero digits of intermediate results. In exp_var(), get rid entirely of the logic that separated the calculation into integer and fractional parts: that was neither accurate nor particularly fast. The existing range-reduction method of dividing by 2^n can be applied across the full input range instead of only 0..1, as long as we are careful to set an appropriate rscale for each step. Also fix the logic in mul_var() for shortening the calculation when the caller asks for fewer output digits than an exact calculation would require. This bug doesn't affect simple multiplications since that code path asks for an exact result, but it does contribute to accuracy issues in the transcendental math functions. In passing, improve performance of mul_var() a bit by forcing the shorter input to be on the left, thus reducing the number of iterations of the outer loop and probably also reducing the number of carry-propagation steps needed. This is arguably a bug fix, but in view of the lack of field complaints, it does not seem worth the risk of back-patching. Dean Rasheed
* Fix spelling error in postgresql.confBruce Momjian2015-11-14
| | | | Report by Greg Clough
* pg_upgrade: properly detect file copy failure on WindowsBruce Momjian2015-11-14
| | | | | | | | | Previously, file copy failures were ignored on Windows due to an incorrect return value check. Report by Manu Joye Backpatch through 9.1
* Correct sepgsql docs with regard to RLSStephen Frost2015-11-13
| | | | | | | | | | | | The sepgsql docs included a comment that PG doesn't support RLS. That is only true for versions prior to 9.5. Update the docs for 9.5 and master to say that PG supports RLS but that sepgsql does not yet. Pointed out by Heikki. Back-patch to 9.5
* vacuumdb: don't prompt for passwords over and overAlvaro Herrera2015-11-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Having the script prompt for passwords over and over was a preexisting problem when it processed multiple databases or when it processed multiple analyze stages, but the parallel mode introduced in commit a179232047 made it worse. Fix the annoyance by keeping a copy of the password used by the first connection that requires one. Since users can (currently) only have a single password, there's no need for more complex arrangements (such as remembering one password per database). Per bug #13741 reported by Eric Brown. Patch authored and cross-reviewed by Haribabu Kommi and Michael Paquier, slightly tweaked by Álvaro Herrera. Discussion: http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20151027193919.931.54948@wrigleys.postgresql.org Backpatch to 9.5, where parallel vacuumdb was introduced.
* Move each SLRU's lwlocks to a separate tranche.Robert Haas2015-11-12
| | | | | | | | | | This makes it significantly easier to identify these lwlocks in LWLOCK_STATS or Trace_lwlocks output. It's also arguably better from a modularity standpoint, since lwlock.c no longer needs to know anything about the LWLock needs of the higher-level SLRU facility. Ildus Kurbangaliev, reviewd by Álvaro Herrera and by me.
* Fix unwanted flushing of libpq's input buffer when socket EOF is seen.Tom Lane2015-11-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In commit 210eb9b743c0645d I centralized libpq's logic for closing down the backend communication socket, and made the new pqDropConnection routine always reset the I/O buffers to empty. Many of the call sites previously had not had such code, and while that amounted to an oversight in some cases, there was one place where it was intentional and necessary *not* to flush the input buffer: pqReadData should never cause that to happen, since we probably still want to process whatever data we read. This is the true cause of the problem Robert was attempting to fix in c3e7c24a1d60dc6a, namely that libpq no longer reported the backend's final ERROR message before reporting "server closed the connection unexpectedly". But that only accidentally fixed it, by invoking parseInput before the input buffer got flushed; and very likely there are timing scenarios where we'd still lose the message before processing it. To fix, pass a flag to pqDropConnection to tell it whether to flush the input buffer or not. On review I think flushing is actually correct for every other call site. Back-patch to 9.3 where the problem was introduced. In HEAD, also improve the comments added by c3e7c24a1d60dc6a.
* libpq: Notice errors a backend may have sent just before dying.Robert Haas2015-11-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | At least since the introduction of Hot Standby, the backend has sometimes sent fatal errors even when no client query was in progress, assuming that the client would receive it. However, pqHandleSendFailure was not in sync with this assumption, and only tries to catch notices and notifies. Add a parseInput call to the loop there to fix. Andres Freund suggested the fix. Comments are by me. Reviewed by Michael Paquier.
* Make idle backends exit if the postmaster dies.Robert Haas2015-11-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | Letting backends continue to run if the postmaster has exited prevents PostgreSQL from being restarted, which in many environments is catastrophic. Worse, if some other backend crashes, we no longer have any protection against shared memory corruption. So, arrange for them to exit instead. We don't want to expend many cycles on this, but including postmaster death in the set of things that we wait for when a backend is idle seems cheap enough. Rajeev Rastogi and Robert Haas
* Provide readfuncs support for custom scans.Robert Haas2015-11-12
| | | | | | | | | | Commit a0d9f6e434bb56f7e5441b7988f3982feead33b3 added this support for all other plan node types; this fills in the gap. Since TextOutCustomScan complicates this and is pretty well useless, remove it. KaiGai Kohei, with some modifications by me.
* Do a round of copy-editing on the 9.5 release notes.Tom Lane2015-11-11
| | | | | | | | | Also fill in the previously empty "major enhancements" list. YMMV as to which items should make the cut, but it's past time we had something more than a placeholder here. (I meant to get this done before beta2 was wrapped, but got distracted by PDF build problems. Better late than never.)
* Improve documentation around autovacuum-related storage parameters.Tom Lane2015-11-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | These were discussed in three different sections of the manual, which unsurprisingly had diverged over time; and the descriptions of individual variables lacked stylistic consistency even within each section (and frequently weren't in very good English anyway). Clean up the mess, and remove some of the redundant information in hopes that future additions will be less likely to re-introduce inconsistency. For instance I see no need for maintenance.sgml to include its very own list of all the autovacuum storage parameters, especially since that list was already incomplete.
* Be more noisy about "wrong number of nailed relations" initfile problems.Tom Lane2015-11-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In commit 5d1ff6bd559ea8df1b7302e245e690b01b9a4fa4 I added some logic to relcache.c to try to ensure that the regression tests would fail if we made a mistake about which relations belong in the relcache init files. I'm quite sure I tested that, but I must have done so only for the non-shared-catalog case, because a report from Adam Brightwell showed that the regression tests still pass just fine if we bollix the shared-catalog init file in the way this code was supposed to catch. The reason is that that file gets loaded before we do client authentication, so the WARNING is not sent to the client, only to the postmaster log, where it's far too easily missed. The least Rube Goldbergian answer to this is to put an Assert(false) after the elog(WARNING). That will certainly get developers' attention, while not breaking production builds' ability to recover from corner cases with similar symptoms. Since this is only of interest to developers, there seems no need for a back-patch, even though the previous commit went into all branches.
* Generate parallel sequential scan plans in simple cases.Robert Haas2015-11-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add a new flag, consider_parallel, to each RelOptInfo, indicating whether a plan for that relation could conceivably be run inside of a parallel worker. Right now, we're pretty conservative: for example, it might be possible to defer applying a parallel-restricted qual in a worker, and later do it in the leader, but right now we just don't try to parallelize access to that relation. That's probably the right decision in most cases, anyway. Using the new flag, generate parallel sequential scan plans for plain baserels, meaning that we now have parallel sequential scan in PostgreSQL. The logic here is pretty unsophisticated right now: the costing model probably isn't right in detail, and we can't push joins beneath Gather nodes, so the number of plans that can actually benefit from this is pretty limited right now. Lots more work is needed. Nevertheless, it seems time to enable this functionality so that all this code can actually be tested easily by users and developers. Note that, if you wish to test this functionality, it will be necessary to set max_parallel_degree to a value greater than the default of 0. Once a few more loose ends have been tidied up here, we might want to consider changing the default value of this GUC, but I'm leaving it alone for now. Along the way, fix a bug in cost_gather: the previous coding thought that a Gather node's transfer overhead should be costed on the basis of the relation size rather than the number of tuples that actually need to be passed off to the leader. Patch by me, reviewed in earlier versions by Amit Kapila.
* Make sequential scans parallel-aware.Robert Haas2015-11-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | In addition, this path fills in a number of missing bits and pieces in the parallel infrastructure. Paths and plans now have a parallel_aware flag indicating whether whatever parallel-aware logic they have should be engaged. It is believed that we will need this flag for a number of path/plan types, not just sequential scans, which is why the flag is generic rather than part of the SeqScan structures specifically. Also, execParallel.c now gives parallel nodes a chance to initialize their PlanState nodes from the DSM during parallel worker startup. Amit Kapila, with a fair amount of adjustment by me. Review of previous patch versions by Haribabu Kommi and others.
* Add outfuncs.c support for GatherPath.Robert Haas2015-11-11
| | | | | I dunno how commit 3bd909b220930f21d6e15833a17947be749e7fde missed this, but it evidently did.
* Docs: fix misleading example.Tom Lane2015-11-10
| | | | | | | | | Commit 8457d0beca731bf0 introduced an example which, while not incorrect, failed to exhibit the behavior it meant to describe, as a result of omitting an E'' prefix that needed to be there. Noticed and fixed by Peter Geoghegan. I (tgl) failed to resist the temptation to wordsmith nearby text a bit while at it.
* Add missing "static" qualifier.Tom Lane2015-11-10
| | | | Per buildfarm member pademelon.