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* Fix minor memory leak in Standby startupSimon Riggs2016-09-08
| | | | | | | | | | StandbyRecoverPreparedTransactions() leaked the buffer used for two phase state file. This was leaked once at startup and at every shutdown checkpoint seen. Backpatch to 9.6 Stas Kelvich
* 9.6 release notes: correct summary item about freezeBruce Momjian2016-09-07
| | | | | | Previously it less precisely talked about autovacuum. Backpatch-through: 9.6
* Doc: minor documentation improvements about extensions.Tom Lane2016-09-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Document the formerly-undocumented behavior that schema and comment control-file entries for an extension are honored only during initial installation, whereas other properties are also honored during updates. While at it, do some copy-editing on the recently-added docs for CREATE EXTENSION ... CASCADE, use links for some formerly vague cross references, and make a couple other minor improvements. Back-patch to 9.6 where CASCADE was added. The other parts of this could go further back, but they're probably not important enough to bother.
* Doc: small improvements for documentation about VACUUM freezing.Tom Lane2016-09-06
| | | | | | | | | | Mostly, explain how row xmin's used to be replaced by FrozenTransactionId and no longer are. Do a little copy-editing on the side. Per discussion with Egor Rogov. Back-patch to 9.4 where the behavioral change occurred. Discussion: <575D7955.6060209@postgrespro.ru>
* Guard against possible memory allocation botch in batchmemtuples().Tom Lane2016-09-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | Negative availMemLessRefund would be problematic. It's not entirely clear whether the case can be hit in the code as it stands, but this seems like good future-proofing in any case. While we're at it, insist that the value be not merely positive but not tiny, so as to avoid doing a lot of repalloc work for little gain. Peter Geoghegan Discussion: <CAM3SWZRVkuUB68DbAkgw=532gW0f+fofKueAMsY7hVYi68MuYQ@mail.gmail.com>
* Add regression test coverage for non-default timezone abbreviation sets.Tom Lane2016-09-04
| | | | | | | | | | After further reflection about the mess cleaned up in commit 39b691f25, I decided the main bit of test coverage that was still missing was to check that the non-default abbreviation-set files we supply are usable. Add that. Back-patch to supported branches, just because it seems like a good idea to keep this all in sync.
* Remove vestigial references to "zic" in favor of "IANA database".Tom Lane2016-09-04
| | | | | | | | | | | | Commit b2cbced9e instituted a policy of referring to the timezone database as the "IANA timezone database" in our user-facing documentation. Propagate that wording into a couple of places that were still using "zic" to refer to the database, which is definitely not right (zic is the compilation tool, not the data). Back-patch, not because this is very important in itself, but because we routinely cherry-pick updates to the tznames files and I don't want to risk future merge failures.
* Update release notes to mention need for ALTER EXTENSION UPDATE.Tom Lane2016-09-04
| | | | | Maybe we ought to make pg_upgrade do this for you, but it won't happen in 9.6, so call out the need for it as a migration consideration.
* Fix corrupt GIN_SEGMENT_ADDITEMS WAL records on big-endian hardware.Tom Lane2016-09-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | computeLeafRecompressWALData() tried to produce a uint16 WAL log field by memcpy'ing the first two bytes of an int-sized variable. That accidentally works on little-endian hardware, but not at all on big-endian. Replay then thinks it's looking at an ADDITEMS action with zero entries, and reads the first two bytes of the first TID therein as the next segno/action, typically leading to "unexpected GIN leaf action" errors during replay. Even if replay failed to crash, the resulting GIN index page would surely be incorrect. To fix, just declare the variable as uint16 instead. Per bug #14295 from Spencer Thomason (much thanks to Spencer for turning his problem into a self-contained test case). This likely also explains a previous report of the same symptom from Bernd Helmle. Back-patch to 9.4 where the problem was introduced (by commit 14d02f0bb). Discussion: <20160826072658.15676.7628@wrigleys.postgresql.org> Possible-Report: <2DA7350F7296B2A142272901@eje.land.credativ.lan>
* Fix wording of logical decoding conceptsSimon Riggs2016-09-03
| | | | | | Be specific about conditions under which we emit >1 copy of message Craig Ringer
* Don't require dynamic timezone abbreviations to match underlying time zone.Tom Lane2016-09-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Previously, we threw an error if a dynamic timezone abbreviation did not match any abbreviation recorded in the referenced IANA time zone entry. That seemed like a good consistency check at the time, but it turns out that a number of the abbreviations in the IANA database are things that Olson and crew made up out of whole cloth. Their current policy is to remove such names in favor of using simple numeric offsets. Perhaps unsurprisingly, a lot of these made-up abbreviations have varied in meaning over time, which meant that our commit b2cbced9e and later changes made them into dynamic abbreviations. So with newer IANA database versions that don't mention these abbreviations at all, we fail, as reported in bug #14307 from Neil Anderson. It's worse than just a few unused-in-the-wild abbreviations not working, because the pg_timezone_abbrevs view stops working altogether (since its underlying function tries to compute the whole view result in one call). We considered deleting these abbreviations from our abbreviations list, but the problem with that is that we can't stay ahead of possible future IANA changes. Instead, let's leave the abbreviations list alone, and treat any "orphaned" dynamic abbreviation as just meaning the referenced time zone. It will behave a bit differently than it used to, in that you can't any longer override the zone's standard vs. daylight rule by using the "wrong" abbreviation of a pair, but that's better than failing entirely. (Also, this solution can be interpreted as adding a small new feature, which is that any abbreviation a user wants can be defined as referencing a time zone name.) Back-patch to all supported branches, since this problem affects all of them when using tzdata 2016f or newer. Report: <20160902031551.15674.67337@wrigleys.postgresql.org> Discussion: <6189.1472820913@sss.pgh.pa.us>
* Prevent starting a standalone backend with standby_mode on.Tom Lane2016-08-31
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This can't really work because standby_mode expects there to be more WAL arriving, which there will not ever be because there's no WAL receiver process to fetch it. Moreover, if standby_mode is on then hot standby might also be turned on, causing even more strangeness because that expects read-only sessions to be executing in parallel. Bernd Helmle reported a case where btree_xlog_delete_get_latestRemovedXid got confused, but rather than band-aiding individual problems it seems best to prevent getting anywhere near this state in the first place. Back-patch to all supported branches. In passing, also fix some omissions of errcodes in other ereport's in readRecoveryCommandFile(). Michael Paquier (errcode hacking by me) Discussion: <00F0B2CEF6D0CEF8A90119D4@eje.credativ.lan>
* Update comments to reflect code rearrangement.Robert Haas2016-08-31
| | | | | | Commit f9143d102ffd0947ca904c62b1d3d6fd587e0c80 falsified these. KaiGai Kohei
* Fix initdb misbehavior when user mis-enters superuser password.Tom Lane2016-08-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | While testing simple_prompt() revisions, I happened to notice that current initdb behaves rather badly when --pwprompt is specified and the user miskeys the second password. It complains about the mismatch, does "rm -rf" on the data directory, and exits. The problem is that since commit c4a8812cf, there's a standalone backend sitting waiting for commands at that point. It gets unhappy about its datadir having gone away, and spews a PANIC message at the user, which is not nice. (And the shell then adds to the mess with meaningless bleating about a core dump...) We don't really want that sort of thing to happen unless there's an internal failure in initdb, which this surely is not. The best fix seems to be to move the collection of the password earlier, so that it's done essentially as part of argument collection, rather than at the rather ad-hoc time it was done before. Back-patch to 9.6 where the problem was introduced.
* Stamp 9.6rc1.REL9_6_RC1Tom Lane2016-08-29
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* Translation updatesPeter Eisentraut2016-08-29
| | | | | Source-Git-URL: git://git.postgresql.org/git/pgtranslation/messages.git Source-Git-Hash: d7dc5f3738c0ea670b32900bdd2c04da4c36bfb8
* Doc: improve 9.6 description of SP-GiST traverse values.Tom Lane2016-08-29
| | | | Sync relevant parts of commit d2ddee63b back to 9.6 branch.
* Fix pg_receivexlog --synchronousSimon Riggs2016-08-29
| | | | | | | | Make pg_receivexlog work correctly with —-synchronous without slots Backpatch to 9.5 Gabriele Bartolini, reviewed by Michael Paquier and Simon Riggs
* Fix pg_xlogdump so that it handles cross-page XLP_FIRST_IS_CONTRECORD record.Fujii Masao2016-08-29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Previously pg_xlogdump failed to dump the contents of the WAL file if the file starts with the continuation WAL record which spans more than one pages. Since pg_xlogdump assumed that the continuation record always fits on a page, it could not find the valid WAL record to start reading from in that case. This patch changes pg_xlogdump so that it can handle a continuation WAL record which crosses a page boundary and find the valid record to start reading from. Back-patch to 9.3 where pg_xlogdump was introduced. Author: Pavan Deolasee Reviewed-By: Michael Paquier and Craig Ringer Discussion: CABOikdPsPByMiG6J01DKq6om2+BNkxHTPkOyqHM2a4oYwGKsqQ@mail.gmail.com
* Fix stray reference to the old genbki.sh script.Tom Lane2016-08-28
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* Make another editorial pass over the 9.6 release notes.Tom Lane2016-08-28
| | | | I think they're pretty much release-quality now.
* Update 9.6 release notes through today.Tom Lane2016-08-28
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* Add macros to make AllocSetContextCreate() calls simpler and safer.Tom Lane2016-08-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | I found that half a dozen (nearly 5%) of our AllocSetContextCreate calls had typos in the context-sizing parameters. While none of these led to especially significant problems, they did create minor inefficiencies, and it's now clear that expecting people to copy-and-paste those calls accurately is not a great idea. Let's reduce the risk of future errors by introducing single macros that encapsulate the common use-cases. Three such macros are enough to cover all but two special-purpose contexts; those two calls can be left as-is, I think. While this patch doesn't in itself improve matters for third-party extensions, it doesn't break anything for them either, and they can gradually adopt the simplified notation over time. In passing, change TopMemoryContext to use the default allocation parameters. Formerly it could only be extended 8K at a time. That was probably reasonable when this code was written; but nowadays we create many more contexts than we did then, so that it's not unusual to have a couple hundred K in TopMemoryContext, even without considering various dubious code that sticks other things there. There seems no good reason not to let it use growing blocks like most other contexts. Back-patch to 9.6, mostly because that's still close enough to HEAD that it's easy to do so, and keeping the branches in sync can be expected to avoid some future back-patching pain. The bugs fixed by these changes don't seem to be significant enough to justify fixing them further back. Discussion: <21072.1472321324@sss.pgh.pa.us>
* Add a nonlocalized version of the severity field to client error messages.Tom Lane2016-08-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This has been requested a few times, but the use-case for it was never entirely clear. The reason for adding it now is that transmission of error reports from parallel workers fails when NLS is active, because pq_parse_errornotice() wrongly assumes that the existing severity field is nonlocalized. There are other ways we could have fixed that, but the other options were basically kluges, whereas this way provides something that's at least arguably a useful feature along with the bug fix. Per report from Jakob Egger. Back-patch into 9.6, because otherwise parallel query is essentially unusable in non-English locales. The problem exists in 9.5 as well, but we don't want to risk changing on-the-wire behavior in 9.5 (even though the possibility of new error fields is specifically called out in the protocol document). It may be sufficient to leave the issue unfixed in 9.5, given the very limited usefulness of pq_parse_errornotice in that version. Discussion: <A88E0006-13CB-49C6-95CC-1A77D717213C@eggerapps.at>
* Fix potential memory leakage from HandleParallelMessages().Tom Lane2016-08-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | HandleParallelMessages leaked memory into the caller's context. Since it's called from ProcessInterrupts, there is basically zero certainty as to what CurrentMemoryContext is, which means we could be leaking into long-lived contexts. Over the processing of many worker messages that would grow to be a problem. Things could be even worse than just a leak, if we happened to service the interrupt while ErrorContext is current: elog.c thinks it can reset that on its own whim, possibly yanking storage out from under HandleParallelMessages. Give HandleParallelMessages its own dedicated context instead, which we can reset during each call to ensure there's no accumulation of wasted memory. Discussion: <16610.1472222135@sss.pgh.pa.us>
* Put static forward declarations in elog.c back into same order as code.Tom Lane2016-08-26
| | | | | | | | The guiding principle for the last few patches in this area apparently involved throwing darts. Cosmetic only, but back-patch to 9.6 because there is no reason for 9.6 and HEAD to diverge yet in this file.
* Fix assorted small bugs in ThrowErrorData().Tom Lane2016-08-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Copy the palloc'd strings into the correct context, ie ErrorContext not wherever the source ErrorData is. This would be a large bug, except that it appears that all catchers of thrown errors do either EmitErrorReport or CopyErrorData before doing anything that would cause transient memory contexts to be cleaned up. Still, it's wrong and it will bite somebody someday. Fix failure to copy cursorpos and internalpos. Utter the appropriate incantations involving recursion_depth, so that we'll behave sanely if we get an error inside pstrdup. (In general, the body of this function ought to act like, eg, errdetail().) Per code reading induced by Jakob Egger's report.
* Fix logic for adding "parallel worker" context line to worker errors.Tom Lane2016-08-26
| | | | | | | | | The previous coding here was capable of adding a "parallel worker" context line to errors that were not, in fact, returned from a parallel worker. Instead of using an errcontext callback to add that annotation, just paste it onto the message by hand; this looks uglier but is more reliable. Discussion: <19757.1472151987@sss.pgh.pa.us>
* Fix instability in parallel regression tests.Tom Lane2016-08-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Commit f0c7b789a added a test case in case.sql that creates and then drops both an '=' operator and the type it's for. Given the right timing, that can cause a "cache lookup failed for type" failure in concurrent sessions, which see the '=' operator as a potential match for '=' in a query, but then the type is gone by the time they inquire into its properties. It might be nice to make that behavior more robust someday, but as a back-patchable solution, adjust the new test case so that the operator is never visible to other sessions. Like the previous commit, back-patch to all supported branches. Discussion: <5983.1471371667@sss.pgh.pa.us>
* Fix small query-lifespan memory leak in bulk updates.Tom Lane2016-08-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | When there is an identifiable REPLICA IDENTITY index on the target table, heap_update leaks the id_attrs bitmapset. That's not many bytes, but it adds up over enough rows, since the code typically runs in a query-lifespan context. Bug introduced in commit e55704d8b, which did a rather poor job of cloning the existing use-pattern for RelationGetIndexAttrBitmap(). Per bug #14293 from Zhou Digoal. Back-patch to 9.4 where the bug was introduced. Report: <20160824114320.15676.45171@wrigleys.postgresql.org>
* doc: more replacement of <literal> with something betterBruce Momjian2016-08-24
| | | | | | | | Reported-by: Alexander Law Author: Alexander Law Backpatch-through: 9.6
* Fix improper repetition of previous results from a hashed aggregate.Tom Lane2016-08-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | ExecReScanAgg's check for whether it could re-use a previously calculated hashtable neglected the possibility that the Agg node might reference PARAM_EXEC Params that are not referenced by its input plan node. That's okay if the Params are in upper tlist or qual expressions; but if one appears in aggregate input expressions, then the hashtable contents need to be recomputed when the Param's value changes. To avoid unnecessary performance degradation in the case of a Param that isn't within an aggregate input, add logic to the planner to determine which Params are within aggregate inputs. This requires a new field in struct Agg, but fortunately we never write plans to disk, so this isn't an initdb-forcing change. Per report from Jeevan Chalke. This has been broken since forever, so back-patch to all supported branches. Andrew Gierth, with minor adjustments by me Report: <CAM2+6=VY8ykfLT5Q8vb9B6EbeBk-NGuLbT6seaQ+Fq4zXvrDcA@mail.gmail.com>
* Remove unnecessary #include.Kevin Grittner2016-08-24
| | | | | | Accidentally added in 8b65cf4c5edabdcae45ceaef7b9ac236879aae50. Pointed out by Álvaro Herrera
* Build libpgfeutils before pg_isready.Noah Misch2016-08-23
| | | | | | Every program having -lpgfeutils in LDFLAGS must have this dependency, whether or not the program uses a libpgfeutils symbol. Back-patch to 9.6, where libpgfeutils was introduced.
* Suppress compiler warnings in non-cassert builds.Tom Lane2016-08-23
| | | | | | With Asserts off, these variables are set but never used, resulting in warnings from pickier compilers. Fix that with our standard solution. Per report from Jeff Janes.
* doc: fix incorrect 'literal' tagsBruce Momjian2016-08-23
| | | | | | | | Discussion: dcc4113d-1eda-4f60-d1c5-f50eee160bad@gmail.com Author: Alexander Law <exclusion@gmail.com> Backpatch-through: 9.6
* doc: fix typo in recent patchBruce Momjian2016-08-22
| | | | | | Reported-by: Jeff Janes Backpatch-through: 9.6
* Fix possible sorting error when aborting use of abbreviated keys.Robert Haas2016-08-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Due to an error in the abbreviated key abort logic, the most recently processed SortTuple could be incorrectly marked NULL, resulting in an incorrect final sort order. In the worst case, this could result in a corrupt btree index, which would need to be rebuild using REINDEX. However, abbrevation doesn't abort very often, not all data types use it, and only one tuple would end up in the wrong place, so the practical impact of this mistake may be somewhat limited. Report and patch by Peter Geoghegan.
* Guard against parallel-restricted functions in VALUES expressions.Tom Lane2016-08-19
| | | | | | | | | Obvious brain fade in set_rel_consider_parallel(). Noticed it while adjusting the adjacent RTE_FUNCTION case. In 9.6, also make the code look more like what I just did in HEAD by removing the unnecessary function_rte_parallel_ok subroutine (it does nothing that expression_tree_walker wouldn't do).
* reorderbuffer: preserve errno while reporting errorAlvaro Herrera2016-08-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | Clobbering errno during cleanup after an error is an oft-repeated, easy to make mistake. Deal with it here as everywhere else, by saving it aside and restoring after cleanup, before ereport'ing. In passing, add a missing errcode declaration in another ereport() call in the same file, which I noticed while skimming the file looking for similar problems. Backpatch to 9.4, where this code was introduced.
* doc: requirepeer is a way to avoid spoofingBruce Momjian2016-08-18
| | | | | | | | We already mentioned unix_socket_directories as an option. Reported-by: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/45016837-6cf3-3136-f959-763d06a28076%402ndquadrant.com Backpatch-through: 9.6
* Add alternative output for ON CONFLICT toast isolation test.Andres Freund2016-08-18
| | | | | | | | | On some buildfarm animals the isolationtest added in 07ef0351 failed, as the order in which processes are run after unlocking is not guaranteed. Add an alternative output for that. Discussion: <7969.1471484738@sss.pgh.pa.us> Backpatch: 9.6, like the test in the aforementioned commit
* Update line count totals for psql help displays.Tom Lane2016-08-18
| | | | | | | | As usual, we've been pretty awful about maintaining these counts. They're not all that critical, perhaps, but let's get them right at release time. Also fix 9.5, which I notice is just as bad. It's probably wrong further back, but the lack of --help=foo options before 9.5 makes it too painful to count.
* In plpgsql, don't try to convert int2vector or oidvector to expanded array.Tom Lane2016-08-18
| | | | | | | | | | These types are storage-compatible with real arrays, but they don't support toasting, so of course they can't support expansion either. Per bug #14289 from Michael Overmeyer. Back-patch to 9.5 where expanded arrays were introduced. Report: <20160818174414.1529.37913@wrigleys.postgresql.org>
* Update Windows timezone mapping from Windows 7 and 10Magnus Hagander2016-08-18
| | | | | | | | This adds a couple of new timezones that are present in the newer versions of Windows. It also updates comments to reference UTC rather than GMT, as this change has been made in Windows. Michael Paquier
* Fix deletion of speculatively inserted TOAST on conflictAndres Freund2016-08-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | INSERT .. ON CONFLICT runs a pre-check of the possible conflicting constraints before performing the actual speculative insertion. In case the inserted tuple included TOASTed columns the ON CONFLICT condition would be handled correctly in case the conflict was caught by the pre-check, but if two transactions entered the speculative insertion phase at the same time, one would have to re-try, and the code for aborting a speculative insertion did not handle deleting the speculatively inserted TOAST datums correctly. TOAST deletion would fail with "ERROR: attempted to delete invisible tuple" as we attempted to remove the TOAST tuples using simple_heap_delete which reasoned that the given tuples should not be visible to the command that wrote them. This commit updates the heap_abort_speculative() function which aborts the conflicting tuple to use itself, via toast_delete, for deleting associated TOAST datums. Like before, the inserted toast rows are not marked as being speculative. This commit also adds a isolationtester spec test, exercising the relevant code path. Unfortunately 9.5 cannot handle two waiting sessions, and thus cannot execute this test. Reported-By: Viren Negi, Oskari Saarenmaa Author: Oskari Saarenmaa, edited a bit by me Bug: #14150 Discussion: <20160519123338.12513.20271@wrigleys.postgresql.org> Backpatch: 9.5, where ON CONFLICT was introduced
* Properly re-initialize replication slot shared memory upon creation.Andres Freund2016-08-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Slot creation did not clear all fields upon creation. After start the memory is zeroed, but when a physical replication slot was created in the shared memory of a previously existing logical slot, catalog_xmin would not be cleared. That in turn would prevent vacuum from doing its duties. To fix initialize all the fields. To make similar future bugs less likely, zero all of ReplicationSlotPersistentData, and re-order the rest of the initialization to be in struct member order. Analysis: Andrew Gierth Reported-By: md@chewy.com Author: Michael Paquier Discussion: <20160705173502.1398.70934@wrigleys.postgresql.org> Backpatch: 9.4, where replication slots were introduced
* Fix -e option in contrib/intarray/bench/bench.pl.Tom Lane2016-08-17
| | | | | | | | | | As implemented, -e ran an EXPLAIN but then discarded the output, which certainly seems pointless. Make it print to stdout instead. It's been like that forever, so back-patch to all supported branches. Daniel Gustafsson, reviewed by Andreas Scherbaum Patch: <B97BDCB7-A3B3-4734-90B5-EDD586941629@yesql.se>
* Disable update_process_title by default on WindowsMagnus Hagander2016-08-17
| | | | | | | | | | The performance overhead of this can be significant on Windows, and most people don't have the tools to view it anyway as Windows does not have native support for process titles. Discussion: <0A3221C70F24FB45833433255569204D1F5BE3E8@G01JPEXMBYT05> Takayuki Tsunakawa
* docs: my third pass over the 9.6 release notesBruce Momjian2016-08-16
| | | | Backpatch-through: 9.6
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