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* Revert "Show index search count in EXPLAIN ANALYZE."Peter Geoghegan2025-03-05
| | | | | | | This reverts commit 5ead85fbc81162ab1594f656b036a22e814f96b3. This commit shows test failures with debug_parallel_query=regress. The underlying issue needs to be debugged, so revert for now.
* Allow json{b}_strip_nulls to remove null array elementsAndrew Dunstan2025-03-05
| | | | | | | | | | | An additional paramater ("strip_in_arrays") is added to these functions. It defaults to false. If true, then null array elements are removed as well as null valued object fields. JSON that just consists of a single null is not affected. Author: Florents Tselai <florents.tselai@gmail.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/4BCECCD5-4F40-4313-9E98-9E16BEB0B01D@gmail.com
* Show index search count in EXPLAIN ANALYZE.Peter Geoghegan2025-03-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Expose the count of index searches/index descents in EXPLAIN ANALYZE's output for index scan nodes. This information is particularly useful with scans that use ScalarArrayOp quals, where the number of index scans isn't predictable in advance (at least not with optimizations like the one added to nbtree by Postgres 17 commit 5bf748b8). It will also be useful when EXPLAIN ANALYZE shows details of an nbtree index scan that uses skip scan optimizations set to be introduced by an upcoming patch. The instrumentation works by teaching index AMs to increment a new nsearches counter whenever a new index search begins. The counter is incremented at exactly the same point that index AMs must already increment the index's pg_stat_*_indexes.idx_scan counter (we're counting the same event, but at the scan level rather than the relation level). The new counter is stored in the scan descriptor (IndexScanDescData), which explain.c reaches by going through the scan node's PlanState. This approach doesn't match the approach used when tracking other index scan specific costs (e.g., "Rows Removed by Filter:"). It is similar to the approach used in other cases where we must track costs that are only readily accessible inside an access method, and not from the executor (e.g., "Heap Blocks:" output for a Bitmap Heap Scan). It is inherently necessary to maintain a counter that can be incremented multiple times during a single amgettuple call (or amgetbitmap call), and directly exposing PlanState.instrument to index access methods seems unappealing. Author: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie> Reviewed-By: Tomas Vondra <tomas@vondra.me> Reviewed-By: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> Reviewed-By: Masahiro Ikeda <ikedamsh@oss.nttdata.com> Reviewed-By: Matthias van de Meent <boekewurm+postgres@gmail.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-Wz=PKR6rB7qbx+Vnd7eqeB5VTcrW=iJvAsTsKbdG+kW_UA@mail.gmail.com Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-WzkRqvaqR2CTNqTZP0z6FuL4-3ED6eQB0yx38XBNj1v-4Q@mail.gmail.com
* Add ALTER TABLE ... ALTER CONSTRAINT ... SET [NO] INHERITÁlvaro Herrera2025-03-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | This allows to redefine an existing non-inheritable constraint to be inheritable, which allows to straighten up situations with NO INHERIT constraints so that thay can become normal constraints without having to re-verify existing data. For existing inheritance children this may require creating additional constraints, if they don't exist already. It also allows to do the opposite, if only for symmetry. Author: Suraj Kharage <suraj.kharage@enterprisedb.com> Reviewed-by: jian he <jian.universality@gmail.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAF1DzPVfOW6Kk=7SSh7LbneQDJWh=PbJrEC_Wkzc24tHOyQWGg@mail.gmail.com
* doc: Expand version compatibility for pg_basebackup featuresDaniel Gustafsson2025-03-04
| | | | | | | | | | | | This updates the paragraph on backwards compatitibility for server features to include --incremental which only works on servers with v17 or newer. Backpatch down to v17 where incremental backup was added. Author: David G. Johnston <David.G.Johnston@Gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAKFQuwZYfZyeTkS3g2Ovw84TsxHa796xnf-u5kfgn_auyxZk0Q@mail.gmail.com Backpatch-through: 17
* Split pgstat_bestart() into three different routinesMichael Paquier2025-03-04
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | pgstat_bestart(), used post-authentication to set up a backend entry in the PgBackendStatus array, so as its data becomes visible in pg_stat_activity and related catalogs, has its logic divided into three routines with this commit, called in order at different steps of the backend initialization: * pgstat_bestart_initial() sets up the backend entry with a minimal amount of information, reporting it with a new BackendState called STATE_STARTING while waiting for backend initialization and client authentication to complete. The main benefit that this offers is observability, so as it is possible to monitor the backend activity during authentication. This step happens earlier than in the logic prior to this commit. pgstat_beinit() happens earlier as well, before authentication. * pgstat_bestart_security() reports the SSL/GSS status of the connection, once authentication completes. Auxiliary processes, for example, do not need to call this step, hence it is optional. This step is called after performing authentication, same as previously. * pgstat_bestart_final() reports the user and database IDs, takes the entry out of STATE_STARTING, and reports its application_name. This is called as the last step of the three, once authentication completes. An injection point is added, with a test checking that the "starting" phase of a backend entry is visible in pg_stat_activity. Some follow-up patches are planned to take advantage of this refactoring with more information provided in backend entries during authentication (LDAP hanging was a problem for the author, initially). Author: Jacob Champion <jacob.champion@enterprisedb.com> Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz> Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAOYmi+=60deN20WDyCoHCiecgivJxr=98s7s7-C8SkXwrCfHXg@mail.gmail.com
* doc: Convert UUID functions list to table format.Masahiko Sawada2025-03-03
| | | | | | | | | | | Convert the list of UUID functions into a table for better readability. This commit also adds references to the UUID type section and includes descriptions of different UUID generation algorithm versions. Author: Andy Alsup <bluesbreaker@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CADOZ7s7OHag+r6w+BzKw2xgb3fVtAD-pU=_N9-9pSe5W1TB+xQ@mail.gmail.com
* Allow => syntax for named cursor arguments in plpgsql.Tom Lane2025-03-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | We've traditionally accepted "name := value" syntax for cursor arguments in plpgsql. But it turns out that the equivalent statements in Oracle use "name => value". Since we accept both forms of punctuation for function arguments, it makes sense to do the same here. Author: Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Gilles Darold <gilles@darold.net> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAFj8pRA3d0ARQEMbABa1n6q25AUdNmyO8aGs56XNf9pD4sRMjQ@mail.gmail.com
* Trigger more frequent autovacuums with relallfrozenMelanie Plageman2025-03-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Calculate the insert threshold for triggering an autovacuum of a relation based on the number of unfrozen pages. By only considering the unfrozen portion of the table when calculating how many tuples to add to the insert threshold, we can trigger more frequent vacuums of insert-heavy tables. This increases the chances of vacuuming those pages when they still reside in shared buffers This also increases the number of autovacuums triggered by tuples inserted and not by wraparound risk. We prefer to freeze these pages during insert-triggered autovacuums, as anti-wraparound vacuums are not automatically canceled by conflicting lock requests. We calculate the unfrozen percentage of the table using the recently added (99f8f3fbbc8f) relallfrozen column of pg_class. Author: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Greg Sabino Mullane <htamfids@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Robert Treat <rob@xzilla.net> Reviewed-by: wenhui qiu <qiuwenhuifx@gmail.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/flat/CAAKRu_aj-P7YyBz_cPNwztz6ohP%2BvWis%3Diz3YcomkB3NpYA--w%40mail.gmail.com
* Add relallfrozen to pg_classMelanie Plageman2025-03-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add relallfrozen, an estimate of the number of pages marked all-frozen in the visibility map. pg_class already has relallvisible, an estimate of the number of pages in the relation marked all-visible in the visibility map. This is used primarily for planning. relallfrozen, together with relallvisible, is useful for estimating the outstanding number of all-visible but not all-frozen pages in the relation for the purposes of scheduling manual VACUUMs and tuning vacuum freeze parameters. A future commit will use relallfrozen to trigger more frequent vacuums on insert-focused workloads with significant volume of frozen data. Bump catalog version Author: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Robert Treat <rob@xzilla.net> Reviewed-by: Corey Huinker <corey.huinker@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Greg Sabino Mullane <htamfids@gmail.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/flat/CAAKRu_aj-P7YyBz_cPNwztz6ohP%2BvWis%3Diz3YcomkB3NpYA--w%40mail.gmail.com
* postgres_fdw: Extend postgres_fdw_get_connections to return remote backend PID.Fujii Masao2025-03-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This commit adds a new "remote_backend_pid" output column to the postgres_fdw_get_connections function. It returns the process ID of the remote backend, on the foreign server, handling the connection. This enhancement is useful for troubleshooting, monitoring, and reporting. For example, if a connection is unexpectedly closed by the foreign server, the remote backend's PID can help diagnose the cause. No extension version bump is needed, as commit c297a47c5f already handled it for v18~. Author: Sagar Dilip Shedge <sagar.shedge92@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAPhYifF25q5xUQWXETfKwhc0YVa_6+tfG9Kw4bCvCjpCWxYs2A@mail.gmail.com
* EXPLAIN: Always use two fractional digits for row counts.Robert Haas2025-02-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Commit ddb17e387aa28d61521227377b00f997756b8a27 attempted to avoid confusing users by displaying digits after the decimal point only when nloops > 1, since it's impossible to have a fraction row count after a single iteration. However, this made the regression tests unstable since parallal queries will have nloops>1 for all nodes below the Gather or Gather Merge in normal cases, but if the workers don't start in time and the leader finishes all the work, they will suddenly have nloops==1, making it unpredictable whether the digits after the decimal point would be displayed or not. Although 44cbba9a7f51a3888d5087fc94b23614ba2b81f2 seemed to fix the immediate failures, it may still be the case that there are lower-probability failures elsewhere in the regression tests. Various fixes are possible here. For example, it has previously been proposed that we should try to display the digits after the decimal point only if rows/nloops is an integer, but currently rows is storead as a float so it's not theoretically an exact quantity -- precision could be lost in extreme cases. It has also been proposed that we should try to display the digits after the decimal point only if we're under some sort of construct that could potentially cause looping regardless of whether it actually does. While such ideas are not without merit, this patch adopts the much simpler solution of always display two decimal digits. If that approach stands up to scrutiny from the buildfarm and human users, it spares us the trouble of doing anything more complex; if not, we can reassess. This commit incidentally reverts 44cbba9a7f51a3888d5087fc94b23614ba2b81f2, which should no longer be needed. Author: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> Author: Ilia Evdokimov <ilya.evdokimov@tantorlabs.com> Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmoazzVHn8sFOMFAEwoqBTDxKT45D7mvkyeHgqtoD2cn58Q@mail.gmail.com
* Generalize hash and ordering support in amapiPeter Eisentraut2025-02-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | Stop comparing access method OID values against HASH_AM_OID and BTREE_AM_OID, and instead check the IndexAmRoutine for an index to see if it advertises its ability to perform the necessary ordering, hashing, or cross-type comparing functionality. A field amcanorder already existed, this uses it more widely. Fields amcanhash and amcancrosscompare are added for the other purposes. Author: Mark Dilger <mark.dilger@enterprisedb.com> Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/E72EAA49-354D-4C2E-8EB9-255197F55330@enterprisedb.com
* Doc: Additional clarification for -d option of pg_createsubscriber.Amit Kapila2025-02-27
| | | | | | Author: vignesh C <vignesh21@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CALDaNm0zsFUYpe-tLha+-sp3K8KmBXu0o=LUN=8FFtxMLYikPA@mail.gmail.com
* Use attnum to identify index columns in pg_restore_attribute_stats().Tom Lane2025-02-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Previously we used attname for both table and index columns, but that is problematic for indexes because their attnames are assigned by internal rules that don't guarantee to preserve the names across dump and reload. (This is what's causing the remaining buildfarm failures in cross-version-upgrade tests.) Fortunately we can use attnum instead, since there's no such thing as adding or dropping columns in an existing index. We met this same problem previously with ALTER INDEX ... SET STATISTICS, and solved it the same way, cf commit 5b6d13eec. In pg_restore_attribute_stats() itself, we accept either attnum or attname, but the policy used by pg_dump is to always use attname for tables and attnum for indexes. Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> Author: Corey Huinker <corey.huinker@gmail.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1457469.1740419458@sss.pgh.pa.us
* Add two-phase option in pg_createsubscriber.Amit Kapila2025-02-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch introduces the '--enable-two-phase' option to the 'pg_createsubscriber' utility, allowing users to enable two-phase commit for all subscriptions during their creation. Note that even without this option users can enable the two_phase option for the subscriptions created by pg_createsubscriber. However, it requires the subscription to be disabled first which could be inconvenient for users. When two-phase commit is enabled, prepared transactions are sent to the subscriber at the time of 'PREPARE TRANSACTION', and they are processed as two-phase transactions on the subscriber as well. If disabled, prepared transactions are sent only when committed and are processed immediately by the subscriber. Author: Shubham Khanna <khannashubham1197@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: vignesh C <vignesh21@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Hayato Kuroda <kuroda.hayato@fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: Peter Smith <smithpb2250@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Ajin Cherian <itsajin@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAHv8RjLPdFP=kA5LNSmWZ=+GMXmO+LczvV6p9HJjsXxZz10KGA@mail.gmail.com
* Re-add GUC track_wal_io_timingMichael Paquier2025-02-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This commit is a rework of 2421e9a51d20, about which Andres Freund has raised some concerns as it is valuable to have both track_io_timing and track_wal_io_timing in some cases, as the WAL write and fsync paths can be a major bottleneck for some workloads. Hence, it can be relevant to not calculate the WAL timings in environments where pg_test_timing performs poorly while capturing some IO data under track_io_timing for the non-WAL IO paths. The opposite can be also true: it should be possible to disable the non-WAL timings and enable the WAL timings (the previous GUC setups allowed this possibility). track_wal_io_timing is added back in this commit, controlling if WAL timings should be calculated in pg_stat_io for the read, fsync and write paths, as done previously with pg_stat_wal. pg_stat_wal previously tracked only the sync and write parts (now removed), read stats is new data tracked in pg_stat_io, all three are aggregated if track_wal_io_timing is enabled. The read part matters during recovery or if a XLogReader is used. Extra note: more control over if the types of timings calculated in pg_stat_io could be done with a GUC that lists pairs of (IOObject,IOOp). Reported-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> Author: Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3opf2wh2oljco6ldyqf7ukabw3jijnnhno6fjb4mlu6civ5h24@fcwmhsgmlmzu
* Remove redundant pg_set_*_stats() variants.Jeff Davis2025-02-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | After commit f3dae2ae58, the primary purpose of separating the pg_set_*_stats() from the pg_restore_*_stats() variants was eliminated. Leave pg_restore_relation_stats() and pg_restore_attribute_stats(), which satisfy both purposes, and remove pg_set_relation_stats() and pg_set_attribute_stats(). Reviewed-by: Corey Huinker <corey.huinker@gmail.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1457469.1740419458@sss.pgh.pa.us
* Doc: Fix pg_copy_logical_replication_slot description.Amit Kapila2025-02-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | This commit documents that the failover option is not copied when using the pg_copy_logical_replication_slot function. In passing, we modify the comments in the function clarifying the reason for this behavior. Reported-by: <duffieldzane@gmail.com> Author: Hou Zhijie <houzj.fnst@fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com> Backpatch-through: 17, where it was introduced Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/173976850802.682632.11315364077431550250@wrigleys.postgresql.org
* Missing doc update for f3dae2ae58.Jeff Davis2025-02-24
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* psql: Add pipeline status to prompt and some state variablesMichael Paquier2025-02-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This commit adds %P to psql prompts, able to report the status of a pipeline depending on PQpipelineStatus(): on, off or abort. The following variables are added to report the state of an ongoing pipeline: - PIPELINE_SYNC_COUNT: reports the number of piped syncs. - PIPELINE_COMMAND_COUNT: reports the number of piped commands, a command being either \bind, \bind_named, \close or \parse. - PIPELINE_RESULT_COUNT: reports the results available to read with \getresults. These variables can be used with \echo or in a prompt, using "%:name:" in PROMPT1, PROMPT2 or PROMPT3. Some basic regression tests are added for these. The suggestion to use variables to show the details about the status counters comes from me. The original patch proposed was less extensible, hardcoding the output in the prompt. Author: Anthonin Bonnefoy <anthonin.bonnefoy@datadoghq.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAO6_XqroE7JuMEm1sWz55rp9fAYX2JwmcP_3m_v51vnOFdsLiQ@mail.gmail.com
* oauth: Fix incorrect const markers in structDaniel Gustafsson2025-02-24
| | | | | | | | | Two members in PGoauthBearerRequest were incorrectly marked as const. While in there, align the name of the struct with the typedef as per project style. Reported-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/912516.1740329361@sss.pgh.pa.us
* Remove read/sync fields from pg_stat_wal and GUC track_wal_io_timingMichael Paquier2025-02-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The four following attributes are removed from pg_stat_wal: * wal_write * wal_sync * wal_write_time * wal_sync_time a051e71e28a1 has added an equivalent of this information in pg_stat_io with more granularity as this now spreads across the backend types, IO context and IO objects. So, keeping the same information in pg_stat_wal has little benefits. Another benefit of this commit is the removal of PendingWalStats, simplifying an upcoming patch to add per-backend WAL statistics, which already support IO statistics and which have access to the write/sync stats data of WAL. The GUC track_wal_io_timing, that was used to enable or disable the aggregation of the write and sync timings for WAL, is also removed. pgstat_prepare_io_time() is simplified. Bump catalog version. Bump PGSTAT_FILE_FORMAT_ID, due to the update of PgStat_WalStats. Author: Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/Z7RkQ0EfYaqqjgz/@ip-10-97-1-34.eu-west-3.compute.internal
* Documentation fixups for dumping statistics.Jeff Davis2025-02-22
| | | | | | | Reported-by: Hayato Kuroda (Fujitsu) <kuroda.hayato@fujitsu.com> Reported-by: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/OSCPR01MB149665630030E7F54FDA8B27BF5C72@OSCPR01MB14966.jpnprd01.prod.outlook.com Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/25d26774-25fa-46f2-9888-c6a707d1fef7@dunslane.net
* Change \conninfo to use tabular formatÁlvaro Herrera2025-02-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | (Initially the proposal was to keep \conninfo alone and add this feature as \conninfo+, but we decided against keeping the original.) Also display more fields than before, though not as many as were suggested during the discussion. In particular, we don't show 'role' nor 'session authorization', for both which a case can probably be made. These can be added as followup commits, if we agree to it. Some (most?) reviewers actually reviewed rather different versions of the patch and do not necessarily endorse the current one. Co-authored-by: Maiquel Grassi <grassi@hotmail.com.br> Co-authored-by: Hunaid Sohail <hunaidpgml@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org> Reviewed-by: Sami Imseih <simseih@amazon.com> Reviewed-by: David G. Johnston <david.g.johnston@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Jim Jones <jim.jones@uni-muenster.de> Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> Reviewed-by: Pavel Luzanov <p.luzanov@postgrespro.ru> Reviewed-by: Dean Rasheed <dean.a.rasheed@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Erik Wienhold <ewie@ewie.name> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CP8P284MB24965CB63DAC00FC0EA4A475EC462@CP8P284MB2496.BRAP284.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM
* Avoid race condition between "GRANT role" and "DROP ROLE".Tom Lane2025-02-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Concurrently dropping either the granted role or the grantee does not stop GRANT from completing, instead resulting in a dangling role reference in pg_auth_members. That's relatively harmless in the short run, but inconsistent catalog entries are not a good thing. This patch solves the problem by adding the granted and grantee roles as explicit shared dependencies of the pg_auth_members entry. That's a bit indirect, but it works because the pg_shdepend code applies the necessary locking and rechecking. Commit 6566133c5 previously established similar handling for the grantor column of pg_auth_members; it's not clear why it didn't cover the other two role OID columns. A side-effect of this approach is that DROP OWNED BY will now drop pg_auth_members entries that mention the target role as either the granted or grantee role. That's clearly appropriate for the grantee, since we'll drop its other privileges too. It doesn't seem too far out of line for the granted role, since we're presumably about to drop it and besides we're removing all reasons why it'd matter to be a member of it. (One could argue that this makes DropRole's code to auto-drop pg_auth_members entries unnecessary, but I chose to leave it in place since perhaps some people's workflows expect that to work without a DROP OWNED BY.) Note to patch readers: CreateRole's first CommandCounterIncrement call is now unconditional, because this change creates another case in which it's needed, and it seemed to be more trouble than it's worth to preserve that micro-optimization. Arguably this is a bug fix, but the fact that it changes the expected contents of pg_shdepend seems like not a great thing to do in the stable branches, and perhaps we don't want the change in DROP OWNED BY semantics there either. On the other hand, I opted not to force a catversion bump in HEAD, because the presence or absence of these entries doesn't matter for most purposes. Reported-by: Virender Singla <virender.cse@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAM6Zo8woa62ZFHtMKox6a4jb8qQ=w87R2L0K8347iE-juQL2EA@mail.gmail.com
* pg_upgrade: Add --set-char-signedness to set the default char signedness of ↵Masahiko Sawada2025-02-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | new cluster. This change adds a new option --set-char-signedness to pg_upgrade. It enables user to set arbitrary signedness during pg_upgrade. This helps cases where user who knew they copied the v17 source cluster from x86 (signedness=true) to ARM (signedness=false) can pg_upgrade properly without the prerequisite of acquiring an x86 VM. Reviewed-by: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CB11ADBC-0C3F-4FE0-A678-666EE80CBB07%40amazon.com
* pg_resetwal: Add --char-signedness option to change the default char signedness.Masahiko Sawada2025-02-21
| | | | | | | | | | | With the newly added option --char-signedness, pg_resetwal updates the default char signedness flag in the controlfile. This option is primarily intended for an upcoming patch that pg_upgrade supports preserving the default char signedness during upgrades, and is not meant for manual operation. Reviewed-by: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CB11ADBC-0C3F-4FE0-A678-666EE80CBB07%40amazon.com
* Add default_char_signedness field to ControlFileData.Masahiko Sawada2025-02-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The signedness of the 'char' type in C is implementation-dependent. For instance, 'signed char' is used by default on x86 CPUs, while 'unsigned char' is used on aarch CPUs. Previously, we accidentally let C implementation signedness affect persistent data. This led to inconsistent results when comparing char data across different platforms. This commit introduces a new 'default_char_signedness' field in ControlFileData to store the signedness of the 'char' type. While this change does not encourage the use of 'char' without explicitly specifying its signedness, this field can be used as a hint to ensure consistent behavior for pre-v18 data files that store data sorted by the 'char' type on disk (e.g., GIN and GiST indexes), especially in cross-platform replication scenarios. Newly created database clusters unconditionally set the default char signedness to true. pg_upgrade (with an upcoming commit) changes this flag for clusters if the source database cluster has signedness=false. As a result, signedness=false setting will become rare over time. If we had known about the problem during the last development cycle that forced initdb (v8.3), we would have made all clusters signed or all clusters unsigned. Making pg_upgrade the only source of signedness=false will cause the population of database clusters to converge toward that retrospective ideal. Bump catalog version (for the catalog changes) and PG_CONTROL_VERSION (for the additions in ControlFileData). Reviewed-by: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CB11ADBC-0C3F-4FE0-A678-666EE80CBB07%40amazon.com
* doc: clarify default checksum behavior in non-master branchesBruce Momjian2025-02-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Also simplify and correct data checksum wording in master now that it is the default. PG 13 did not have the awkward wording. Reported-by: Felix <afripowered@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Laurenz Albe Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/173928241056.707.3989867022954178032@wrigleys.postgresql.org Backpatch-through: 14
* doc: remove non-breaking space in SGML files, causes make errorBruce Momjian2025-02-21
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* doc: Add links to olsen93 and ong90 in bibliographyDaniel Gustafsson2025-02-21
| | | | | | | | | | | The bibliography entries for olsen93 and ong90 lacked links to online copies. While ong90 is available in digital form, the olsen93 thesis is only available as a physical copy in the UCB library. To save people from searching for it, we still link to it via the UCB library page. Reported-by: jian he <jian.universality@gmail.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CACJufxFcJYdRvzgt59N26XjFp2tFFUXu+VN+x8Uo0NbDUCMCbw@mail.gmail.com
* Fix a WARNING for data origin discrepancies.Amit Kapila2025-02-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Previously, a WARNING was issued at the time of defining a subscription with origin=NONE only when the publisher subscribed to the same table from other publishers, indicating potential data origination from different origins. However, the publisher can subscribe to the partition ancestors or partition children of the table from other publishers, which could also result in mixed-origin data inclusion. So, give a WARNING in those cases as well. Reported-by: Sergey Tatarintsev <s.tatarintsev@postgrespro.ru> Author: Hou Zhijie <houzj.fnst@fujitsu.com> Author: Shlok Kyal <shlok.kyal.oss@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Vignesh C <vignesh21@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com> Backpatch-through: 16, where it was introduced Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/5eda6a9c-63cf-404d-8a49-8dcb116a29f3@postgrespro.ru
* Drop opcintype from index AM strategy translation APIPeter Eisentraut2025-02-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The type argument wasn't actually really necessary. It was a remnant of converting the API of the gist strategy translation from using opclass to using opfamily+opcintype (commits c09e5a6a016, 622f678c102). For looking up the gist translation function, we used the convention "amproclefttype = amprocrighttype = opclass's opcintype" (see pg_amproc.h). But each operator family should only have one translation function, and getting the right type for the lookup is sometimes cumbersome and fragile, so this is all unnecessarily complicated. To simplify this, change the gist stategy support procedure to take "any", "any" as argument. (This is arbitrary but seems intuitive. The alternative of using InvalidOid as argument(s) upsets various DDL commands, so it's not practical.) Then we don't need opcintype for the lookup, and we can remove it from all the API layers introduced by commit c09e5a6a016. This also adds some more documentation about the correct signature of the gist support function and adds more checks in gistvalidate(). This was previously underspecified. (It relied implicitly on convention mentioned above.) Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/E72EAA49-354D-4C2E-8EB9-255197F55330@enterprisedb.com
* psql: Add support for pipelinesMichael Paquier2025-02-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | With \bind, \parse, \bind_named and \close, it is possible to issue queries from psql using the extended protocol. However, it was not possible to send these queries using libpq's pipeline mode. This feature has two advantages: - Testing. Pipeline tests were only possible with pgbench, using TAP tests. It now becomes possible to have more SQL tests that are able to stress the backend with pipelines and extended queries. More tests will be added in a follow-up commit that were discussed on some other threads. Some external projects in the community had to implement their own facility to work around this limitation. - Emulation of custom workloads, with more control over the actions taken by a client with libpq APIs. It is possible to emulate more workload patterns to bottleneck the backend with the extended query protocol. This patch adds six new meta-commands to be able to control pipelines: * \startpipeline starts a new pipeline. All extended queries are queued until the end of the pipeline are reached or a sync request is sent and processed. * \endpipeline ends an existing pipeline. All queued commands are sent to the server and all responses are processed by psql. * \syncpipeline queues a synchronisation request, without flushing the commands to the server, equivalent of PQsendPipelineSync(). * \flush, equivalent of PQflush(). * \flushrequest, equivalent of PQsendFlushRequest() * \getresults reads the server's results for the queries in a pipeline. Unsent data is automatically pushed when \getresults is called. It is possible to control the number of results read in a single meta-command execution with an optional parameter, 0 means that all the results should be read. Author: Anthonin Bonnefoy <anthonin.bonnefoy@datadoghq.com> Reviewed-by: Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres@jeltef.nl> Reviewed-by: Kirill Reshke <reshkekirill@gmail.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAO6_XqroE7JuMEm1sWz55rp9fAYX2JwmcP_3m_v51vnOFdsLiQ@mail.gmail.com
* Add support for OAUTHBEARER SASL mechanismDaniel Gustafsson2025-02-20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This commit implements OAUTHBEARER, RFC 7628, and OAuth 2.0 Device Authorization Grants, RFC 8628. In order to use this there is a new pg_hba auth method called oauth. When speaking to a OAuth- enabled server, it looks a bit like this: $ psql 'host=example.org oauth_issuer=... oauth_client_id=...' Visit https://oauth.example.org/login and enter the code: FPQ2-M4BG Device authorization is currently the only supported flow so the OAuth issuer must support that in order for users to authenticate. Third-party clients may however extend this and provide their own flows. The built-in device authorization flow is currently not supported on Windows. In order for validation to happen server side a new framework for plugging in OAuth validation modules is added. As validation is implementation specific, with no default specified in the standard, PostgreSQL does not ship with one built-in. Each pg_hba entry can specify a specific validator or be left blank for the validator installed as default. This adds a requirement on libcurl for the client side support, which is optional to build, but the server side has no additional build requirements. In order to run the tests, Python is required as this adds a https server written in Python. Tests are gated behind PG_TEST_EXTRA as they open ports. This patch has been a multi-year project with many contributors involved with reviews and in-depth discussions: Michael Paquier, Heikki Linnakangas, Zhihong Yu, Mahendrakar Srinivasarao, Andrey Chudnovsky and Stephen Frost to name a few. While Jacob Champion is the main author there have been some levels of hacking by others. Daniel Gustafsson contributed the validation module and various bits and pieces; Thomas Munro wrote the client side support for kqueue. Author: Jacob Champion <jacob.champion@enterprisedb.com> Co-authored-by: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se> Co-authored-by: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se> Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org> Reviewed-by: Antonin Houska <ah@cybertec.at> Reviewed-by: Kashif Zeeshan <kashi.zeeshan@gmail.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/d1b467a78e0e36ed85a09adf979d04cf124a9d4b.camel@vmware.com
* Transfer statistics during pg_upgrade.Jeff Davis2025-02-20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add support to pg_dump for dumping stats, and use that during pg_upgrade so that statistics are transferred during upgrade. In most cases this removes the need for a costly re-analyze after upgrade. Some statistics are not transferred, such as extended statistics or statistics with a custom stakind. Now pg_dump accepts the options --schema-only, --no-schema, --data-only, --no-data, --statistics-only, and --no-statistics; which allow all combinations of schema, data, and/or stats. The options are named this way to preserve compatibility with the previous --schema-only and --data-only options. Statistics are in SECTION_DATA, unless the object itself is in SECTION_POST_DATA. The stats are represented as calls to pg_restore_relation_stats() and pg_restore_attribute_stats(). Author: Corey Huinker, Jeff Davis Reviewed-by: Jian He Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CADkLM=fzX7QX6r78fShWDjNN3Vcr4PVAnvXxQ4DiGy6V=0bCUA@mail.gmail.com Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CADkLM%3DcB0rF3p_FuWRTMSV0983ihTRpsH%2BOCpNyiqE7Wk0vUWA%40mail.gmail.com
* doc: Fix typo in section "WAL configuration"Michael Paquier2025-02-20
| | | | | | | | pg_stat_io has an attribute named fsync_time, not sync_time. Oversight in 2f70871c2bc1. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/Z7RkQ0EfYaqqjgz/@ip-10-97-1-34.eu-west-3.compute.internal
* doc: Add details about object "wal" in pg_stat_ioMichael Paquier2025-02-20
| | | | | | | | | | | | This commit adds a short description of what kind of activity is tracked in pg_stat_io for the object "wal", with a link pointing to the section "WAL configuration" that has a lot of details on the matter. This should perhaps have been added in a051e71e28a1, but things are what they are. Author: Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/Z7RkQ0EfYaqqjgz/@ip-10-97-1-34.eu-west-3.compute.internal
* doc: Recommend pg_stat_io rather than pg_stat_wal in WAL configurationMichael Paquier2025-02-20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Since a051e71e28a1, pg_stat_io is able to track statistics for the WAL activity, providing an equivalent of pg_stat_wal with more granularity for the fsyncs/writes counts and timings, as the data is split across backend types. This commit now recommends pg_stat_io rather than pg_stat_wal in the section "WAL configuration", some of the latter's attributes being candidate for removal in a follow-up commit. Extracted from a larger patch by the same author. Author: Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/Z7RkQ0EfYaqqjgz/@ip-10-97-1-34.eu-west-3.compute.internal
* Add support for LIKE in CREATE FOREIGN TABLEMichael Paquier2025-02-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | LIKE enables the creation of foreign tables based on the column definitions, constraints and objects of the defined source relation(s). This feature mirrors the behavior of CREATE TABLE LIKE, but ignores the INCLUDING sub-options that do not make sense for foreign tables: INDEXES, COMPRESSION, IDENTITY and STORAGE. The supported sub-options are COMMENTS, CONSTRAINTS, DEFAULTS, GENERATED and STATISTICS, mapping with the clauses already supported by the command. Note that the restriction with LIKE in CREATE FOREIGN TABLE was added in a0c6dfeecfcc. Author: Zhang Mingli Reviewed-by: Álvaro Herrera, Sami Imseih, Michael Paquier Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/42d3f855-2275-4361-a42a-826172ca2dc4@Spark
* doc: Fix some issues with JSON_TABLE() examplesAmit Langote2025-02-19
| | | | | | | | | | | 1. Remove an unused PASSING variable. 2. Adjust formatting of JSON data used in an example to be valid under strict mode Reported-by: Miłosz Chmura <mieszko4@gmail.com> Author: Robert Treat <rob@xzilla.net> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/173859550337.1071.4748984213168572913@wrigleys.postgresql.org
* Invalidate inactive replication slots.Amit Kapila2025-02-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This commit introduces idle_replication_slot_timeout GUC that allows inactive slots to be invalidated at the time of checkpoint. Because checkpoints happen checkpoint_timeout intervals, there can be some lag between when the idle_replication_slot_timeout was exceeded and when the slot invalidation is triggered at the next checkpoint. To avoid such lags, users can force a checkpoint to promptly invalidate inactive slots. Note that the idle timeout invalidation mechanism is not applicable for slots that do not reserve WAL or for slots on the standby server that are synced from the primary server (i.e., standby slots having 'synced' field 'true'). Synced slots are always considered to be inactive because they don't perform logical decoding to produce changes. The slots can become inactive for a long period if a subscriber is down due to a system error or inaccessible because of network issues. If such a situation persists, it might be more practical to recreate the subscriber rather than attempt to recover the node and wait for it to catch up which could be time-consuming. Then, external tools could create replication slots (e.g., for migrations or upgrades) that may fail to remove them if an error occurs, leaving behind unused slots that take up space and resources. Manually cleaning them up can be tedious and error-prone, and without intervention, these lingering slots can cause unnecessary WAL retention and system bloat. As the duration of idle_replication_slot_timeout is in minutes, any test using that would be time-consuming. We are planning to commit a follow up patch for tests by using the injection point framework. Author: Nisha Moond <nisha.moond412@gmail.com> Author: Bharath Rupireddy <bharath.rupireddyforpostgres@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Peter Smith <smithpb2250@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Hayato Kuroda <kuroda.hayato@fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: Vignesh C <vignesh21@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Hou Zhijie <houzj.fnst@fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CALj2ACW4aUe-_uFQOjdWCEN-xXoLGhmvRFnL8SNw_TZ5nJe+aw@mail.gmail.com Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/OS0PR01MB5716C131A7D80DAE8CB9E88794FC2@OS0PR01MB5716.jpnprd01.prod.outlook.com
* Update to latest Snowball sources.Tom Lane2025-02-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | It's been some time since we did this, partly because the upstream snowball project hasn't formally tagged a new release since 2021. The main motivation for doing it now is to absorb a bug fix (their commit e322673a841d9abd69994ae8cd20e191090b6ef4), which prevents a null pointer dereference crash if SN_create_env() gets a malloc failure at just the wrong point. We'll patch the back branches with only that change, but we might as well do the full sync dance on HEAD. Aside from a bunch of mostly-minor tweaks to existing stemmers, this update adds a new stemmer for Estonian. It also removes the existing stemmer for Romanian using ISO-8859-2 encoding. Upstream apparently concluded that ISO-8859-2 doesn't provide an adequate representation of some Romanian characters, and the UTF-8 implementation should be used instead. While at it, update the README's instructions for doing a sync, which have not been adjusted during the addition of meson tooling. Thanks to Maksim Korotkov for discovering the null-pointer bug and submitting the fix to upstream snowball. Reported-by: Maksim Korotkov <m.korotkov@postgrespro.ru> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1d1a46-67ab1000-21-80c451@83151435
* doc: add example of sign mismatch with POSIX/ISO-8601 time zonesBruce Momjian2025-02-18
| | | | | | Author: Laurenz Albe Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/eb4d1e15c6822c1937be1491118500dd9201492f.camel@cybertec.at
* Raise a WARNING for max_slot_wal_keep_size in pg_createsubscriber.Amit Kapila2025-02-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | During the pg_createsubscriber execution, it is possible that the required WAL is removed from the primary/publisher node due to 'max_slot_wal_keep_size'. This patch raises a WARNING during the '--dry-run' mode if the 'max_slot_wal_keep_size' is set to a non-default value on the primary/publisher node. Author: Shubham Khanna <khannashubham1197@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Peter Smith <smithpb2250@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Hayato Kuroda <kuroda.hayato@fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: Vignesh C <vignesh21@gmail.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAHv8Rj+deqsQXOMa7Tck8CBQUbsua=+4AuMVQ2=MPM0f-ZHbjA@mail.gmail.com
* Doc: Improve pg_replication_slots.inactive_since description.Amit Kapila2025-02-18
| | | | | | Author: Peter Smith <smithpb2250@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAHut+PssvVMTWVtUPto6HbPO8pgVsvtzndt_FdBomA_Oq4zf3w@mail.gmail.com
* Implement Self-Join EliminationAlexander Korotkov2025-02-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The Self-Join Elimination (SJE) feature removes an inner join of a plain table to itself in the query tree if it is proven that the join can be replaced with a scan without impacting the query result. Self-join and inner relation get replaced with the outer in query, equivalence classes, and planner info structures. Also, the inner restrictlist moves to the outer one with the removal of duplicated clauses. Thus, this optimization reduces the length of the range table list (this especially makes sense for partitioned relations), reduces the number of restriction clauses and, in turn, selectivity estimations, and potentially improves total planner prediction for the query. This feature is dedicated to avoiding redundancy, which can appear after pull-up transformations or the creation of an EquivalenceClass-derived clause like the below. SELECT * FROM t1 WHERE x IN (SELECT t3.x FROM t1 t3); SELECT * FROM t1 WHERE EXISTS (SELECT t3.x FROM t1 t3 WHERE t3.x = t1.x); SELECT * FROM t1,t2, t1 t3 WHERE t1.x = t2.x AND t2.x = t3.x; In the future, we could also reduce redundancy caused by subquery pull-up after unnecessary outer join removal in cases like the one below. SELECT * FROM t1 WHERE x IN (SELECT t3.x FROM t1 t3 LEFT JOIN t2 ON t2.x = t1.x); Also, it can drastically help to join partitioned tables, removing entries even before their expansion. The SJE proof is based on innerrel_is_unique() machinery. We can remove a self-join when for each outer row: 1. At most, one inner row matches the join clause; 2. Each matched inner row must be (physically) the same as the outer one; 3. Inner and outer rows have the same row mark. In this patch, we use the next approach to identify a self-join: 1. Collect all merge-joinable join quals which look like a.x = b.x; 2. Add to the list above the baseretrictinfo of the inner table; 3. Check innerrel_is_unique() for the qual list. If it returns false, skip this pair of joining tables; 4. Check uniqueness, proved by the baserestrictinfo clauses. To prove the possibility of self-join elimination, the inner and outer clauses must match exactly. The relation replacement procedure is not trivial and is partly combined with the one used to remove useless left joins. Tests covering this feature were added to join.sql. Some of the existing regression tests changed due to self-join removal logic. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/flat/64486b0b-0404-e39e-322d-0801154901f3%40postgrespro.ru Author: Andrey Lepikhov <a.lepikhov@postgrespro.ru> Author: Alexander Kuzmenkov <a.kuzmenkov@postgrespro.ru> Co-authored-by: Alexander Korotkov <aekorotkov@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Alena Rybakina <lena.ribackina@yandex.ru> Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> Reviewed-by: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> Reviewed-by: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com> Reviewed-by: Jonathan S. Katz <jkatz@postgresql.org> Reviewed-by: David Rowley <david.rowley@2ndquadrant.com> Reviewed-by: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@enterprisedb.com> Reviewed-by: Konstantin Knizhnik <k.knizhnik@postgrespro.ru> Reviewed-by: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi> Reviewed-by: Hywel Carver <hywel@skillerwhale.com> Reviewed-by: Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at> Reviewed-by: Ronan Dunklau <ronan.dunklau@aiven.io> Reviewed-by: vignesh C <vignesh21@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Zhihong Yu <zyu@yugabyte.com> Reviewed-by: Greg Stark <stark@mit.edu> Reviewed-by: Jaime Casanova <jcasanov@systemguards.com.ec> Reviewed-by: Michał Kłeczek <michal@kleczek.org> Reviewed-by: Alena Rybakina <lena.ribackina@yandex.ru> Reviewed-by: Alexander Korotkov <aekorotkov@gmail.com>
* Add information about WAL buffers being full to EXPLAIN (WAL)Michael Paquier2025-02-17
| | | | | | | | | | This is similar to ce5bcc4a9f26, relying on the addition of wal_buffers_full to WalUsage. This time, the information is added to the output generated by EXPLAIN (WAL). Author: Bertrand Drouvot Reviewed-by: Ilia Evdokimov Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/Z6SOha5YFFgvpwQY@ip-10-97-1-34.eu-west-3.compute.internal
* pg_stat_statements: Add wal_buffers_fullMichael Paquier2025-02-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | wal_buffers_full tracks the number of times WAL buffers become full, giving hints to be able to tune the GUC wal_buffers. Up to now, this information was only available in pg_stat_wal. With this field available in WalUsage since eaf502747bac, exposing it in pg_stat_statements is straight-forward, and it offers more granularity at query level. pg_stat_statements does not need a version bump as one has been done in commit cf54a2c00254 for this development cycle. Author: Bertrand Drouvot Reviewed-by: Ilia Evdokimov Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/Z6SOha5YFFgvpwQY@ip-10-97-1-34.eu-west-3.compute.internal