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* Fix memory leaks in PL/Python.Tom Lane2015-11-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Previously, plpython was in the habit of allocating a lot of stuff in TopMemoryContext, and it was very slipshod about making sure that stuff got cleaned up; in particular, use of TopMemoryContext as fn_mcxt for function calls represents an unfixable leak, since we generally don't know what the called function might have allocated in fn_mcxt. This results in session-lifespan leakage in certain usage scenarios, as for example in a case reported by Ed Behn back in July. To fix, get rid of all the retail allocations in TopMemoryContext. All long-lived allocations are now made in sub-contexts that are associated with specific objects (either pl/python procedures, or Python-visible objects such as cursors and plans). We can clean these up when the associated object is deleted. I went so far as to get rid of PLy_malloc completely. There were a couple of places where it could still have been used safely, but on the whole it was just an invitation to bad coding. Haribabu Kommi, based on a draft patch by Heikki Linnakangas; some further work by me
* Pass extra data to bgworkers, and use this to fix parallel contexts.Robert Haas2015-11-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Up until now, the total amount of data that could be passed to a background worker at startup was one datum, which can be a small as 4 bytes on some systems. That's enough to pass a dsm_handle or an array index, but not much else. Add a bgw_extra flag to the BackgroundWorker struct, allowing up to 128 bytes to be passed to a new worker on any platform. Use this to fix a problem I recently discovered with the parallel context machinery added in 9.5: the master assigns each worker an array index, and each worker subsequently assigns itself an array index, and there's nothing to guarantee that the two sets of indexes match, leading to chaos. Normally, I would not back-patch the change to add bgw_extra, since it is basically a feature addition. However, since 9.5 is still in beta and there seems to be no other sensible way to repair the broken parallel context machinery, back-patch to 9.5. Existing background worker code can ignore the bgw_extra field without a problem, but might need to be recompiled since the structure size has changed. Report and patch by me. Review by Amit Kapila.
* Improve implementation of GEQO's init_tour() function.Tom Lane2015-11-05
| | | | | | | | | | Rather than filling a temporary array and then copying values to the output array, we can generate the required random permutation in-place using the Fisher-Yates shuffle algorithm. This is shorter as well as more efficient than before. It's pretty unlikely that anyone would notice a speed improvement, but shorter code is better. Nathan Wagner, edited a bit by me
* Update spelling of COPY optionsPeter Eisentraut2015-11-04
| | | | | The preferred spelling was changed from FORCE QUOTE to FORCE_QUOTE and the like, but some code was still referring to the old spellings.
* Add regression tests for remote execution of extension operators/functions.Tom Lane2015-11-04
| | | | | | Rather than relying on other extensions to be available for installation, let's just add some test objects to the postgres_fdw extension itself within the regression script.
* Allow postgres_fdw to ship extension funcs/operators for remote execution.Tom Lane2015-11-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The user can whitelist specified extension(s) in the foreign server's options, whereupon we will treat immutable functions and operators of those extensions as candidates to be sent for remote execution. Whitelisting an extension in this way basically promises that the extension exists on the remote server and behaves compatibly with the local instance. We have no way to prove that formally, so we have to rely on the user to get it right. But this seems like something that people can usually get right in practice. We might in future allow functions and operators to be whitelisted individually, but extension granularity is a very convenient special case, so it got done first. The patch as-committed lacks any regression tests, which is unfortunate, but introducing dependencies on other extensions for testing purposes would break "make installcheck" scenarios, which is worse. I have some ideas about klugy ways around that, but it seems like material for a separate patch. For the moment, leave the problem open. Paul Ramsey, hacked up a bit more by me
* Improve comments about abbreviation abort.Robert Haas2015-11-03
| | | | Peter Geoghegan
* postgres_fdw: Add ORDER BY to some remote SQL queries.Robert Haas2015-11-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If the join problem's entire ORDER BY clause can be pushed to the remote server, consider a path that adds this ORDER BY clause. If use_remote_estimate is on, we cost this path using an additional remote EXPLAIN. If not, we just estimate that the path costs 20% more, which is intended to be large enough that we won't request a remote sort when it's not helpful, but small enough that we'll have the remote side do the sort when in doubt. In some cases, the remote sort might actually be free, because the remote query plan might happen to produce output that is ordered the way we need, but without remote estimates we have no way of knowing that. It might also be useful to request sorted output from the remote side if it enables an efficient merge join, but this patch doesn't attempt to handle that case. Ashutosh Bapat with revisions by me. Also reviewed by Fabrízio de Royes Mello and Jeevan Chalke.
* Remove obsolete advice about doubling backslashes in regex escapes.Tom Lane2015-11-03
| | | | | | Standard-conforming literals have been the default for long enough that it no longer seems necessary to go out of our way to tell people to write regex escapes illegibly.
* Code + docs review for unicode linestyle patch.Tom Lane2015-11-03
| | | | | | | | | Fix some brain fade in commit a2dabf0e1dda93c8: erroneous variable names in docs, rearrangements that made sentences less clear not more so, undocumented and poorly-chosen-anyway API behaviors of subroutines, bad grammar in error messages, copy-and-paste faults. Albe Laurenz and Tom Lane
* shm_mq: Third attempt at fixing nowait behavior in shm_mq_receive.Robert Haas2015-11-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Commit a1480ec1d3bacb9acb08ec09f22bc25bc033115b purported to fix the problems with commit b2ccb5f4e6c81305386edb34daf7d1d1e1ee112a, but it didn't completely fix them. The problem is that the checks were performed in the wrong order, leading to a race condition. If the sender attached, sent a message, and detached after the receiver called shm_mq_get_sender and before the receiver called shm_mq_counterparty_gone, we'd incorrectly return SHM_MQ_DETACHED before all messages were read. Repair by reversing the order of operations, and add a long comment explaining why this new logic is (hopefully) correct.
* Correct tiny inaccuracy in strxfrm cache comment.Robert Haas2015-11-03
| | | | Peter Geoghegan
* Remove some more dead Alpha-specific code.Tom Lane2015-11-02
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* Fix problems with ParamListInfo serialization mechanism.Robert Haas2015-11-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Commit d1b7c1ffe72e86932b5395f29e006c3f503bc53d introduced a mechanism for serializing a ParamListInfo structure to be passed to a parallel worker. However, this mechanism failed to handle external expanded values, as pointed out by Noah Misch. Repair. Moreover, plpgsql_param_fetch requires adjustment because the serialization mechanism needs it to skip evaluating unused parameters just as we would do when it is called from copyParamList, but params == estate->paramLI in that case. To fix, make the bms_is_member test in that function unconditional. Finally, have setup_param_list set a new ParamListInfo field, paramMask, to the parameters actually used in the expression, so that we don't try to fetch those that are not needed when serializing a parameter list. This isn't necessary for correctness, but it makes the performance of the parallel executor code comparable to what we do for cases involving cursors. Design suggestions and extensive review by Noah Misch. Patch by me.
* Add RMV to list of commands taking AE lock.Kevin Grittner2015-11-02
| | | | | | Backpatch to 9.3, where it was initially omitted. Craig Ringer, with minor adjustment by Kevin Grittner
* Fix serialization anomalies due to race conditions on INSERT.Kevin Grittner2015-10-31
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | On insert the CheckForSerializableConflictIn() test was performed before the page(s) which were going to be modified had been locked (with an exclusive buffer content lock). If another process acquired a relation SIReadLock on the heap and scanned to a page on which an insert was going to occur before the page was so locked, a rw-conflict would be missed, which could allow a serialization anomaly to be missed. The window between the check and the page lock was small, so the bug was generally not noticed unless there was high concurrency with multiple processes inserting into the same table. This was reported by Peter Bailis as bug #11732, by Sean Chittenden as bug #13667, and by others. The race condition was eliminated in heap_insert() by moving the check down below the acquisition of the buffer lock, which had been the very next statement. Because of the loop locking and unlocking multiple buffers in heap_multi_insert() a check was added after all inserts were completed. The check before the start of the inserts was left because it might avoid a large amount of work to detect a serialization anomaly before performing the all of the inserts and the related WAL logging. While investigating this bug, other SSI bugs which were even harder to hit in practice were noticed and fixed, an unnecessary check (covered by another check, so redundant) was removed from heap_update(), and comments were improved. Back-patch to all supported branches. Kevin Grittner and Thomas Munro
* Implement lookbehind constraints in our regular-expression engine.Tom Lane2015-10-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | A lookbehind constraint is like a lookahead constraint in that it consumes no text; but it checks for existence (or nonexistence) of a match *ending* at the current point in the string, rather than one *starting* at the current point. This is a long-requested feature since it exists in many other regex libraries, but Henry Spencer had never got around to implementing it in the code we use. Just making it work is actually pretty trivial; but naive copying of the logic for lookahead constraints leads to code that often spends O(N^2) time to scan an N-character string, because we have to run the match engine from string start to the current probe point each time the constraint is checked. In typical use-cases a lookbehind constraint will be written at the start of the regex and hence will need to be checked at every character --- so O(N^2) work overall. To fix that, I introduced a third copy of the core DFA matching loop, paralleling the existing longest() and shortest() loops. This version, matchuntil(), can suspend and resume matching given a couple of pointers' worth of storage space. So we need only run it across the string once, stopping at each interesting probe point and then resuming to advance to the next one. I also put in an optimization that simplifies one-character lookahead and lookbehind constraints, such as "(?=x)" or "(?<!\w)", into AHEAD and BEHIND constraints, which already existed in the engine. This avoids the overhead of the LACON machinery entirely for these rather common cases. The net result is that lookbehind constraints run a factor of three or so slower than Perl's for multi-character constraints, but faster than Perl's for one-character constraints ... and they work fine for variable-length constraints, which Perl gives up on entirely. So that's not bad from a competitive perspective, and there's room for further optimization if anyone cares. (In reality, raw scan rate across a large input string is probably not that big a deal for Postgres usage anyway; so I'm happy if it's linear.)
* doc: security_barrier option is a Boolean, not a string.Robert Haas2015-10-30
| | | | | | Mistake introduced by commit 5bd91e3a835b5d5499fee5f49fc7c0c776fe63dd. Hari Babu
* Update parallel executor support to reuse the same DSM.Robert Haas2015-10-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Commit b0b0d84b3d663a148022e900ebfc164284a95f55 purported to make it possible to relaunch workers using the same parallel context, but it had an unpleasant race condition: we might reinitialize after the workers have sent their last control message but before they have dettached the DSM, leaving to crashes. Repair by introducing a new ParallelContext operation, ReinitializeParallelDSM. Adjust execParallel.c to use this new support, so that we can rescan a Gather node by relaunching workers but without needing to recreate the DSM. Amit Kapila, with some adjustments by me. Extracted from latest parallel sequential scan patch.
* Fix typo in bgworker.cRobert Haas2015-10-30
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* Docs: add example clarifying use of nested JSON containment.Tom Lane2015-10-29
| | | | | | | | Show how this can be used in practice to make queries simpler and more flexible. Also, draw an explicit contrast to the existence operator, which doesn't work that way. Peter Geoghegan and Tom Lane
* Remove some remains from Alpha support removalPeter Eisentraut2015-10-29
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* Message style improvementsPeter Eisentraut2015-10-28
| | | | | Message style, plurals, quoting, spelling, consistency with similar messages
* Add missing serial comma, for consistency.Robert Haas2015-10-28
| | | | Amit Langote, per Etsuro Fujita
* Fix incorrect message in ATWrongRelkindError.Robert Haas2015-10-28
| | | | | | Mistake introduced by commit 3bf3ab8c563699138be02f9dc305b7b77a724307. Etsuro Fujita
* Fix secondary expected output for commit_ts testAlvaro Herrera2015-10-27
| | | | Per red wall in buildfarm
* Make Gather node projection-capable.Robert Haas2015-10-28
| | | | | | | | | The original Gather code failed to mark a Gather node as not able to do projection, but it couldn't, even though it did call initialize its projection info via ExecAssignProjectionInfo. There doesn't seem to be any good reason for this node not to have projection capability, so clean things up so that it does. Without this, plans using Gather nodes might need to carry extra Result nodes to do projection.
* Document BRIN's inclusion opclass frameworkAlvaro Herrera2015-10-27
| | | | | | | | | | | Backpatch to 9.5 -- this should have been part of b0b7be61337, but we didn't have 38b03caebc5de either at the time. Author: Emre Hasegeli Revised by: Ian Barwick Discussion: http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAE2gYzyB39Q9up_-TO6FKhH44pcAM1x6n_Cuj15qKoLoFihUVg@mail.gmail.com http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/562DA711.3020305@2ndquadrant.com
* Fix BRIN free space computationsAlvaro Herrera2015-10-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | A bug in the original free space computation made it possible to return a page which wasn't actually able to fit the item. Since the insertion code isn't prepared to deal with PageAddItem failing, a PANIC resulted ("failed to add BRIN tuple [to new page]"). Add a macro to encapsulate the correct computation, and use it in brin_getinsertbuffer's callers before calling that routine, to raise an early error. I became aware of the possiblity of a problem in this area while working on ccc4c074994d734. There's no archived discussion about it, but it's easy to reproduce a problem in the unpatched code with something like CREATE TABLE t (a text); CREATE INDEX ti ON t USING brin (a) WITH (pages_per_range=1); for length in `seq 8000 8196` do psql -f - <<EOF TRUNCATE TABLE t; INSERT INTO t VALUES ('z'), (repeat('a', $length)); EOF done Backpatch to 9.5, where BRIN was introduced.
* Cleanup commit timestamp module activaction, againAlvaro Herrera2015-10-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Further tweak commit_ts.c so that on a standby the state is completely consistent with what that in the master, rather than behaving differently in the cases that the settings differ. Now in standby and master the module should always be active or inactive in lockstep. Author: Petr Jelínek, with some further tweaks by Álvaro Herrera. Backpatch to 9.5, where commit timestamps were introduced. Discussion: http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/5622BF9D.2010409@2ndquadrant.com
* Measure string lengths only onceAlvaro Herrera2015-10-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Bernd Helmle complained that CreateReplicationSlot() was assigning the same value to the same variable twice, so we could remove one of them. Code inspection reveals that we can actually remove both assignments: according to the author the assignment was there for beauty of the strlen line only, and another possible fix to that is to put the strlen in its own line, so do that. To be consistent within the file, refactor all duplicated strlen() calls, which is what we do elsewhere in the backend anyway. In basebackup.c, snprintf already returns the right length; no need for strlen afterwards. Backpatch to 9.4, where replication slots were introduced, to keep code identical. Some of this is older, but the patch doesn't apply cleanly and it's only of cosmetic value anyway. Discussion: http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/BE2FD71DEA35A2287EA5F018@eje.credativ.lan
* shm_mq: Repair breakage from previous commit.Robert Haas2015-10-22
| | | | | | If the counterparty writes some data into the queue and then detaches, it's wrong to return SHM_MQ_DETACHED right away. If we do that, we fail to read whatever was written.
* Add two missing cases to ATWrongRelkindError.Robert Haas2015-10-22
| | | | | | | This way, we produce a better error message if someone tries to do something like ALTER INDEX .. ALTER COLUMN .. SET STORAGE. Amit Langote
* shm_mq: Fix failure to notice a dead counterparty when nowait is used.Robert Haas2015-10-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | The shm_mq mechanism was intended to optionally notice when the process on the other end of the queue fails to attach to the queue. It does this by allowing the user to pass a BackgroundWorkerHandle; if the background worker in question is launched and dies without attaching to the queue, then we know it never will. This logic works OK in blocking mode, but when called with nowait = true we fail to notice that this has happened due to an asymmetry in the logic. Repair. Reported off-list by Rushabh Lathia. Patch by me.
* Fix typos in comments.Robert Haas2015-10-22
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* doc: Add advice on updating checkpoint_segments to max_wal_sizePeter Eisentraut2015-10-22
| | | | with suggestion from Michael Paquier
* Remove redundant CREATEUSER/NOCREATEUSER options in CREATE ROLE et al.Tom Lane2015-10-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | Once upon a time we did not have a separate CREATEROLE privilege, and CREATEUSER effectively meant SUPERUSER. When we invented CREATEROLE (in 8.1) we also added SUPERUSER so as to have a less confusing keyword for this role property. However, we left CREATEUSER in place as a deprecated synonym for SUPERUSER, because of backwards-compatibility concerns. It's still there and is still confusing people, as for example in bug #13694 from Justin Catterson. 9.6 will be ten years or so later, which surely ought to be long enough to end the deprecation and just remove these old keywords. Hence, do so.
* Fix a couple of bugs in recent parallelism-related commits.Robert Haas2015-10-22
| | | | | | | | | | | Commit 816e336f12ecabdc834d4cc31bcf966b2dd323dc added the wrong error check to async.c; sending restrictions is restricted to the leader, not altogether unsafe. Commit 3bd909b220930f21d6e15833a17947be749e7fde added ExecShutdownNode to traverse the planstate tree and call shutdown functions, but made a Gather node, the only node that actually has such a function, abort the tree traversal, which is wrong.
* Add header comments to execParallel.c and nodeGather.c.Robert Haas2015-10-22
| | | | | Patch by me, per a note from Simon Riggs. Reviewed by Amit Kapila and Amit Langote.
* doc: Improve markup and fine-tune replication protocol documentationPeter Eisentraut2015-10-21
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* Fix incorrect translation of minus-infinity datetimes for json/jsonb.Tom Lane2015-10-20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Commit bda76c1c8cfb1d11751ba6be88f0242850481733 caused both plus and minus infinity to be rendered as "infinity", which is not only wrong but inconsistent with the pre-9.4 behavior of to_json(). Fix that by duplicating the coding in date_out/timestamp_out/timestamptz_out more closely. Per bug #13687 from Stepan Perlov. Back-patch to 9.4, like the previous commit. In passing, also re-pgindent json.c, since it had gotten a bit messed up by recent patches (and I was already annoyed by indentation-related problems in back-patching this fix ...)
* doc: Move documentation of max_wal_size to better positionPeter Eisentraut2015-10-20
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* Fix incorrect comment in plannodes.hRobert Haas2015-10-20
| | | | Etsuro Fujita
* Remove duplicate word.Robert Haas2015-10-20
| | | | Amit Langote
* Tab complete CREATE EXTENSION .. VERSION.Robert Haas2015-10-20
| | | | Jeff Janes
* Put back ssl_renegotiation_limit parameter, but only allow 0.Robert Haas2015-10-20
| | | | | | | | | | | | Per a report from Shay Rojansky, Npgsql sends ssl_renegotiation_limit=0 in the startup packet because it does not support renegotiation; other clients which have not attempted to support renegotiation might well behave similarly. The recent removal of this parameter forces them to break compatibility with either current PostgreSQL versions, or previous ones. Per discussion, the best solution is to accept the parameter but only allow a value of 0. Shay Rojansky, edited a little by me.
* Be a bit more rigorous about how we cache strcoll and strxfrm results.Robert Haas2015-10-20
| | | | | | | | | | | Commit 0e57b4d8bd9674adaf5747421b3255b85e385534 contained some clever logic that attempted to make sure that we couldn't get confused about whether the last thing we cached was a strcoll() result or a strxfrm() result, but it wasn't quite clever enough, because we can perform further abbreviations after having already performed some comparisons. Introduce an explicit flag in the hopes of making this watertight. Peter Geoghegan, reviewed by me.
* Remove obsolete comment.Robert Haas2015-10-20
| | | | Peter Geoghegan
* Eschew "RESET statement_timeout" in tests.Noah Misch2015-10-20
| | | | | | | | | Instead, use transaction abort. Given an unlucky bout of latency, the timeout would cancel the RESET itself. Buildfarm members gharial, lapwing, mereswine, shearwater, and sungazer witness that. Back-patch to 9.1 (all supported versions). The query_canceled test still could timeout before entering its subtransaction; for whatever reason, that has yet to happen on the buildfarm.
* Fix incorrect handling of lookahead constraints in pg_regprefix().Tom Lane2015-10-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | pg_regprefix was doing nothing with lookahead constraints, which would be fine if it were the right kind of nothing, but it isn't: we have to terminate our search for a fixed prefix, not just pretend the LACON arc isn't there. Otherwise, if the current state has both a LACON outarc and a single plain-color outarc, we'd falsely conclude that the color represents an addition to the fixed prefix, and generate an extracted index condition that restricts the indexscan too much. (See added regression test case.) Terminating the search is conservative: we could traverse the LACON arc (thus assuming that the constraint can be satisfied at runtime) and then examine the outarcs of the linked-to state. But that would be a lot more work than it seems worth, because writing a LACON followed by a single plain character is a pretty silly thing to do. This makes a difference only in rather contrived cases, but it's a bug, so back-patch to all supported branches.