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* 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
* Doc: mention packager-supplied tools for server start/stop, initdb, etc.Tom Lane2020-09-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | The majority of our audience is probably using a pre-packaged Postgres build rather than raw sources. For them, much of runtime.sgml is not too relevant, and they should be reading the packager's docs instead. Add some notes pointing that way in appropriate places. Text by me; thanks to Daniel Gustafsson for review and discussion, and to Laurenz Albe for an earlier version. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/159430831443.16535.11360317280100947016@wrigleys.postgresql.org
* 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: document how the backup manifest is transferredBruce Momjian2020-08-31
| | | | | | | | Reported-by: Bernd Helmle Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/31acf8b0f1f701d53245e0cae38abdf5c3a0d559.camel@oopsware.de Backpatch-through: 13
* 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
* doc: Update partitioning limitation on BEFORE triggersAlvaro Herrera2020-08-31
| | | | | Reported-by: Erwin Brandstetter <brsaweda@gmail.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAGHENJ6Le7S3qJJx2TvWvTwRNS3N=BtoNeb7AF2rZvfNBMeQcg@mail.gmail.com
* 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
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Per discussion, we're planning to remove parser support for postfix operators in order to simplify the grammar. So it behooves us to put out a deprecation notice at least one release before that. There is only one built-in postfix operator, ! for factorial. Label it deprecated in the docs and in pg_description, and adjust some examples that formerly relied on it. (The sister prefix operator !! is also deprecated. We don't really have to remove that one, but since we're suggesting that people use factorial() instead, it seems better to remove both operators.) Also state in the CREATE OPERATOR ref page that postfix operators in general are going away. Although this changes the initial contents of pg_description, I did not force a catversion bump; it doesn't seem essential. In v13, also back-patch 4c5cf5431, so that there's someplace for the <link>s to point to. 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
* doc: Fix up title casePeter Eisentraut2020-08-25
| | | | | | This fixes some instances that were missed in earlier processings and that now look a bit strange because they are inconsistent with nearby titles.
* Improve the vacuum error context phase information.Amit Kapila2020-08-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We were displaying the wrong phase information for 'info' message in the index clean up phase because we were switching to the previous phase a bit early. We were also not displaying context information for heap phase unless the block number is valid which is fine for error cases but for messages at 'info' or lower error level it appears to be inconsistent with index phase information. Reported-by: Sawada Masahiko Author: Sawada Masahiko Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila Backpatch-through: 13, where it was introduced Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+fd4k4HcbhPnCs7paRTw1K-AHin8y4xKomB9Ru0ATw0UeTy2w@mail.gmail.com
* 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
* Fix ALTER TABLE's scheduling rules for AT_AddConstraint subcommands.Tom Lane2020-08-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Commit 1281a5c90 rearranged the logic in this area rather drastically, and it broke the case of adding a foreign key constraint in the same ALTER that adds the pkey or unique constraint it depends on. While self-referential fkeys are surely a pretty niche case, this used to work so we shouldn't break it. To fix, reorganize the scheduling rules in ATParseTransformCmd so that a transformed AT_AddConstraint subcommand will be delayed into a later pass in all cases, not only when it's been spit out as a side-effect of parsing some other command type. Also tweak the logic so that we won't run ATParseTransformCmd twice while doing this. It seems to work even without that, but it's surely wasting cycles to do so. Per bug #16589 from Jeremy Evans. Back-patch to v13 where the new code was introduced. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16589-31c8d981ca503896@postgresql.org
* doc: Fix format, incorrect structure names and markup inconsistenciesMichael Paquier2020-08-22
| | | | | | Author: Alexander Lakhin Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2345841-10a5-4eef-257c-02302347cf39@gmail.com Backpatch-through: 13
* 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 explain regression test failure.Fujii Masao2020-08-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Commit 9d701e624f caused the regression test for EXPLAIN to fail on the buildfarm member prion. This happened because of instability of test output, i.e., in text format, whether "Planning:" line is output varies depending on the system state. This commit updated the regression test so that it ignores that "Planning:" line to produce more stable test output and get rid of the test failure. Back-patch to v13. Author: Fujii Masao Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1803897.1598021621@sss.pgh.pa.us
* Rework EXPLAIN for planner's buffer usage.Fujii Masao2020-08-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Commit ce77abe63c allowed EXPLAIN (BUFFERS) to report the information on buffer usage during planning phase. However three issues were reported regarding this feature. (1) Previously, EXPLAIN option BUFFERS required ANALYZE. So the query had to be actually executed by specifying ANALYZE even when we want to see only the planner's buffer usage. This was inconvenient especially when the query was write one like DELETE. (2) EXPLAIN included the planner's buffer usage in summary information. So SUMMARY option had to be enabled to report that. Also this format was confusing. (3) The output structure for planning information was not consistent between TEXT format and the others. For example, "Planning" tag was output in JSON format, but not in TEXT format. For (1), this commit allows us to perform EXPLAIN (BUFFERS) without ANALYZE to report the planner's buffer usage. For (2), this commit changed EXPLAIN output so that the planner's buffer usage is reported before summary information. For (3), this commit made the output structure for planning information more consistent between the formats. Back-patch to v13 where the planner's buffer usage was allowed to be reported in EXPLAIN. Reported-by: Pierre Giraud, David Rowley Author: Fujii Masao Reviewed-by: David Rowley, Julien Rouhaud, Pierre Giraud Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/07b226e6-fa49-687f-b110-b7c37572f69e@dalibo.com
* 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
* Revise REINDEX CONCURRENTLY recovery instructionsAlvaro Herrera2020-08-20
| | | | | | | | | | | | When the leftover invalid index is "ccold", there's no need to re-run the command. Reword the instructions to make that explicit. Backpatch to 12, where REINDEX CONCURRENTLY appeared. Author: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz> Reviewed-by: Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123@gmail.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200819211312.GA15497@alvherre.pgsql
* Suppress unnecessary RelabelType nodes in yet more cases.Tom Lane2020-08-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Commit a477bfc1d fixed eval_const_expressions() to ensure that it didn't generate unnecessary RelabelType nodes, but I failed to notice that some other places in the planner had the same issue. Really noplace in the planner should be using plain makeRelabelType(), for fear of generating expressions that should be equal() to semantically equivalent trees, but aren't. An example is that because canonicalize_ec_expression() failed to be careful about this, we could end up with an equivalence class containing both a plain Const, and a Const-with-RelabelType representing exactly the same value. So far as I can tell this led to no visible misbehavior, but we did waste a bunch of cycles generating and evaluating "Const = Const-with-RelabelType" to prove such entries are redundant. Hence, move the support function added by a477bfc1d to where it can be more generally useful, and use it in the places where planner code previously used makeRelabelType. Back-patch to v12, like the previous patch. While I have no concrete evidence of any real misbehavior here, it's certainly possible that I overlooked a case where equivalent expressions that aren't equal() could cause a user-visible problem. In any case carrying extra RelabelType nodes through planning to execution isn't very desirable. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1311836.1597781384@sss.pgh.pa.us
* Avoid non-constant format string argument to fprintf().Heikki Linnakangas2020-08-18
| | | | | | | | | As Tom Lane pointed out, it could defeat the compiler's printf() format string verification. Backpatch to v12, like that patch that introduced it. Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/1069283.1597672779%40sss.pgh.pa.us
* 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
* Fix printing last progress report line in client programs.Heikki Linnakangas2020-08-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | A number of client programs have a "--progress" option that when printing to a TTY, updates the current line by printing a '\r' and overwriting it. After the last line, '\n' needs to be printed to move the cursor to the next line. pg_basebackup and pgbench got this right, but pg_rewind and pg_checksums were slightly wrong. pg_rewind printed the newline to stdout instead of stderr, and pg_checksums printed the newline even when not printing to a TTY. Fix them, and also add a 'finished' argument to pg_basebackup's progress_report() function, to keep it consistent with the other programs. Backpatch to v12. pg_rewind's newline was broken with the logging changes in commit cc8d415117 in v12, and pg_checksums was introduced in v12. Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/82b539e5-ae33-34b0-1aee-22b3379fd3eb@iki.fi
* 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
* Doc: various improvements for pg_basebackup reference page.Tom Lane2020-08-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Put the -r option in the right section (it certainly isn't an option controlling "the location and format of the output"). Clarify the behavior of the tablespace and waldir options (that part per gripe from robert@interactive.co.uk). Make a large number of small copy-editing fixes in text that visibly wasn't written by native speakers, and try to avoid grammatical inconsistencies between the descriptions of the different options. Back-patch to v13, since HEAD hasn't meaningfully diverged yet. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/159749418850.14322.216503677134569752@wrigleys.postgresql.org
* 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
* pg_dump: fix dependencies on FKs to partitioned tablesAlvaro Herrera2020-08-14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Parallel-restoring a foreign key that references a partitioned table with several levels of partitions can fail: pg_restore: while PROCESSING TOC: pg_restore: from TOC entry 6684; 2606 29166 FK CONSTRAINT fk fk_a_fkey postgres pg_restore: error: could not execute query: ERROR: there is no unique constraint matching given keys for referenced table "pk" Command was: ALTER TABLE fkpart3.fk ADD CONSTRAINT fk_a_fkey FOREIGN KEY (a) REFERENCES fkpart3.pk(a); This happens in parallel restore mode because some index partitions aren't yet attached to the topmost partitioned index that the FK uses, and so the index is still invalid. The current code marks the FK as dependent on the first level of index-attach dump objects; the bug is fixed by recursively marking the FK on their children. Backpatch to 12, where FKs to partitioned tables were introduced. Reported-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> Author: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3170626.1594842723@sss.pgh.pa.us Backpatch: 12-master
* 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
* Fix typo in test comment.Heikki Linnakangas2020-08-14
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* Doc: improve examples for json_populate_record() and related functions.Tom Lane2020-08-13
| | | | | | | Make these examples self-contained by providing declarations of the user-defined row types they rely on. There wasn't room to do this in the old doc format, but now there is, and I think it makes the examples a good bit less confusing.
* 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
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