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* Fix some more problems with nested append relations.Tom Lane2014-10-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | As of commit a87c72915 (which later got backpatched as far as 9.1), we're explicitly supporting the notion that append relations can be nested; this can occur when UNION ALL constructs are nested, or when a UNION ALL contains a table with inheritance children. Bug #11457 from Nelson Page, as well as an earlier report from Elvis Pranskevichus, showed that there were still nasty bugs associated with such cases: in particular the EquivalenceClass mechanism could try to generate "join" clauses connecting an appendrel child to some grandparent appendrel, which would result in assertion failures or bogus plans. Upon investigation I concluded that all current callers of find_childrel_appendrelinfo() need to be fixed to explicitly consider multiple levels of parent appendrels. The most complex fix was in processing of "broken" EquivalenceClasses, which are ECs for which we have been unable to generate all the derived equality clauses we would like to because of missing cross-type equality operators in the underlying btree operator family. That code path is more or less entirely untested by the regression tests to date, because no standard opfamilies have such holes in them. So I wrote a new regression test script to try to exercise it a bit, which turned out to be quite a worthwhile activity as it exposed existing bugs in all supported branches. The present patch is essentially the same as far back as 9.2, which is where parameterized paths were introduced. In 9.0 and 9.1, we only need to back-patch a small fragment of commit 5b7b5518d, which fixes failure to propagate out the original WHERE clauses when a broken EC contains constant members. (The regression test case results show that these older branches are noticeably stupider than 9.2+ in terms of the quality of the plans generated; but we don't really care about plan quality in such cases, only that the plan not be outright wrong. A more invasive fix in the older branches would not be a good idea anyway from a plan-stability standpoint.)
* Remove num_xloginsert_locks GUC, replace with a #defineHeikki Linnakangas2014-10-01
| | | | | | | I left the GUC in place for the beta period, so that people could experiment with different values. No-one's come up with any data that a different value would be better under some circumstances, so rather than try to document to users what the GUC, let's just hard-code the current value, 8.
* Block signals while computing the sleep time in postmaster's main loop.Andres Freund2014-10-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | DetermineSleepTime() was previously called without blocked signals. That's not good, because it allows signal handlers to interrupt its workings. DetermineSleepTime() was added in 9.3 with the addition of background workers (da07a1e856511), where it only read from BackgroundWorkerList. Since 9.4, where dynamic background workers were added (7f7485a0cde), the list is also manipulated in DetermineSleepTime(). That's bad because the list now can be persistently corrupted if modified by both a signal handler and DetermineSleepTime(). This was discovered during the investigation of hangs on buildfarm member anole. It's unclear whether this bug is the source of these hangs or not, but it's worth fixing either way. I have confirmed that it can cause crashes. It luckily looks like this only can cause problems when bgworkers are actively used. Discussion: 20140929193733.GB14400@awork2.anarazel.de Backpatch to 9.3 where background workers were introduced.
* Improve documentation about binary/textual output mode for output plugins.Andres Freund2014-10-01
| | | | | | | | | Discussion: CAB7nPqQrqFzjqCjxu4GZzTrD9kpj6HMn9G5aOOMwt1WZ8NfqeA@mail.gmail.com, CAB7nPqQXc_+g95zWnqaa=mVQ4d3BVRs6T41frcEYi2ocUrR3+A@mail.gmail.com Per discussion between Michael Paquier, Robert Haas and Andres Freund Backpatch to 9.4 where logical decoding was introduced.
* Rename CACHE_LINE_SIZE to PG_CACHE_LINE_SIZE.Andres Freund2014-10-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | As noted in http://bugs.debian.org/763098 there is a conflict between postgres' definition of CACHE_LINE_SIZE and the definition by various *bsd platforms. It's debatable who has the right to define such a name, but postgres' use was only introduced in 375d8526f290 (9.4), so it seems like a good idea to rename it. Discussion: 20140930195756.GC27407@msg.df7cb.de Per complaint of Christoph Berg in the above email, although he's not the original bug reporter. Backpatch to 9.4 where the define was introduced.
* Change JSONB's on-disk format for improved performance.Tom Lane2014-09-29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The original design used an array of offsets into the variable-length portion of a JSONB container. However, such an array is basically uncompressible by simple compression techniques such as TOAST's LZ compressor. That's bad enough, but because the offset array is at the front, it tended to trigger the give-up-after-1KB heuristic in the TOAST code, so that the entire JSONB object was stored uncompressed; which was the root cause of bug #11109 from Larry White. To fix without losing the ability to extract a random array element in O(1) time, change this scheme so that most of the JEntry array elements hold lengths rather than offsets. With data that's compressible at all, there tend to be fewer distinct element lengths, so that there is scope for compression of the JEntry array. Every N'th entry is still an offset. To determine the length or offset of any specific element, we might have to examine up to N preceding JEntrys, but that's still O(1) so far as the total container size is concerned. Testing shows that this cost is negligible compared to other costs of accessing a JSONB field, and that the method does largely fix the incompressible-data problem. While at it, rearrange the order of elements in a JSONB object so that it's "all the keys, then all the values" not alternating keys and values. This doesn't really make much difference right at the moment, but it will allow providing a fast path for extracting individual object fields from large JSONB values stored EXTERNAL (ie, uncompressed), analogously to the existing optimization for substring extraction from large EXTERNAL text values. Bump catversion to denote the incompatibility in on-disk format. We will need to fix pg_upgrade to disallow upgrading jsonb data stored with 9.4 betas 1 and 2. Heikki Linnakangas and Tom Lane
* Remove ill-conceived ban on zero length json object keys.Andrew Dunstan2014-09-25
| | | | | | | | | | We removed a similar ban on this in json_object recently, but the ban in datum_to_json was left, which generate4d sprutious errors in othee json generators, notable json_build_object. Along the way, add an assertion that datum_to_json is not passed a null key. All current callers comply with this rule, but the assertion will catch any possible future misbehaviour.
* Fix VPATH builds of the replication parser from git for some !gcc compilers.Andres Freund2014-09-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Some compilers don't automatically search the current directory for included files. 9cc2c182fc2 fixed that for builds from tarballs by adding an include to the source directory. But that doesn't work when the scanner is generated in the VPATH directory. Use the same search path as the other parsers in the tree. One compiler that definitely was affected is solaris' sun cc. Backpatch to 9.1 which introduced using an actual parser for replication commands.
* Return NULL from json_object_agg if it gets no rows.Andrew Dunstan2014-09-25
| | | | | This makes it consistent with the docs and with all other builtin aggregates apart from count().
* Fix bogus variable-mangling in security_barrier_replace_vars().Tom Lane2014-09-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | This function created new Vars with varno different from varnoold, which is a condition that should never prevail before setrefs.c does the final variable-renumbering pass. The created Vars could not be seen as equal() to normal Vars, which among other things broke equivalence-class processing for them. The consequences of this were indeed visible in the regression tests, in the form of failure to propagate constants as one would expect. I stumbled across it while poking at bug #11457 --- after intentionally disabling join equivalence processing, the security-barrier regression tests started falling over with fun errors like "could not find pathkey item to sort", because of failure to match the corrupted Vars to normal ones.
* Fix incorrect search for "x?" style matches in creviterdissect().Tom Lane2014-09-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When the number of allowed iterations is limited (either a "?" quantifier or a bound expression), the last sub-match has to reach to the end of the target string. The previous coding here first tried the shortest possible match (one character, usually) and then gave up and back-tracked if that didn't work, typically leading to failure to match overall, as shown in bug #11478 from Christoph Berg. The minimum change to fix that would be to not decrement k before "goto backtrack"; but that would be a pretty stupid solution, because we'd laboriously try each possible sub-match length before finally discovering that only ending at the end can work. Instead, force the sub-match endpoint limit up to the end for even the first shortest() call if we cannot have any more sub-matches after this one. Bug introduced in my rewrite that added the iterdissect logic, commit 173e29aa5deefd9e71c183583ba37805c8102a72. The shortest-first search code was too closely modeled on the longest-first code, which hasn't got this issue since it tries a match reaching to the end to start with anyway. Back-patch to all affected branches.
* Log ALTER SYSTEM statements as DDLStephen Frost2014-09-22
| | | | | | | | | Per discussion in bug #11350, log ALTER SYSTEM commands at the log_statement=ddl level, rather than at the log_statement=all level. Pointed out by Tomonari Katsumata. Back-patch to 9.4 where ALTER SYSTEM was introduced.
* Process withCheckOption exprs in setrefs.cStephen Frost2014-09-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | While withCheckOption exprs had been handled in many cases by happenstance, they need to be handled during set_plan_references and more specifically down in set_plan_refs for ModifyTable plan nodes. This is to ensure that the opfuncid's are set for operators referenced in the withCheckOption exprs. Identified as an issue by Thom Brown Patch by Dean Rasheed Back-patch to 9.4, where withCheckOption was introduced.
* Fix mishandling of CreateEventTrigStmt's eventname field.Robert Haas2014-09-22
| | | | | | It's a string, not a scalar. Petr Jelinek
* Support ALTER SYSTEM RESET command.Fujii Masao2014-09-12
| | | | | | | This patch allows us to execute ALTER SYSTEM RESET command to remove the configuration entry from postgresql.auto.conf. Vik Fearing, reviewed by Amit Kapila and me.
* Fix GIN data page split ratio calculation.Heikki Linnakangas2014-09-12
| | | | | | | | | | The code that tried to split a page at 75/25 ratio, when appending to the end of an index, was buggy in two ways. First, there was a silly typo that caused it to just fill the left page as full as possible. But the logic as it was intended wasn't correct either, and would actually have given a ratio closer to 60/40 than 75/25. Gaetano Mendola spotted the typo. Backpatch to 9.4, where this code was added.
* Fix power_var_int() for large integer exponents.Tom Lane2014-09-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The code for raising a NUMERIC value to an integer power wasn't very careful about large powers. It got an outright wrong answer for an exponent of INT_MIN, due to failure to consider overflow of the Abs(exp) operation; which is fixable by using an unsigned rather than signed exponent value after that point. Also, even though the number of iterations of the power-computation loop is pretty limited, it's easy for the repeated squarings to result in ridiculously enormous intermediate values, which can take unreasonable amounts of time/memory to process, or even overflow the internal "weight" field and so produce a wrong answer. We can forestall misbehaviors of that sort by bailing out as soon as the weight value exceeds what will fit in int16, since then the final answer must overflow (if exp > 0) or underflow (if exp < 0) the packed numeric format. Per off-list report from Pavel Stehule. Back-patch to all supported branches.
* Remove dead InRecovery check.Heikki Linnakangas2014-09-11
| | | | | With the new B-tree incomplete split handling in 9.4, _bt_insert_parent is never called in recovery.
* Preserve AND/OR flatness while extracting restriction OR clauses.Tom Lane2014-09-09
| | | | | | | | | The code I added in commit f343a880d5555faf1dad0286c5632047c8f599ad was careless about preserving AND/OR flatness: it could create a structure with an OR node directly underneath another one. That breaks an assumption that's fairly important for planning efficiency, not to mention triggering various Asserts (as reported by Benjamin Smith). Add a trifle more logic to handle the case properly.
* Fix spinlock implementation for some !solaris sparc platforms.Andres Freund2014-09-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Some Sparc CPUs can be run in various coherence models, ranging from RMO (relaxed) over PSO (partial) to TSO (total). Solaris has always run CPUs in TSO mode while in userland, but linux didn't use to and the various *BSDs still don't. Unfortunately the sparc TAS/S_UNLOCK were only correct under TSO. Fix that by adding the necessary memory barrier instructions. On sparcv8+, which should be all relevant CPUs, these are treated as NOPs if the current consistency model doesn't require the barriers. Discussion: 20140630222854.GW26930@awork2.anarazel.de Will be backpatched to all released branches once a few buildfarm cycles haven't shown up problems. As I've no access to sparc, this is blindly written.
* Move ALTER ... ALL IN to ProcessUtilitySlowStephen Frost2014-09-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Now that ALTER TABLE .. ALL IN TABLESPACE has replaced the previous ALTER TABLESPACE approach, it makes sense to move the calls down in to ProcessUtilitySlow where the rest of ALTER TABLE is handled. This also means that event triggers will support ALTER TABLE .. ALL (which was the impetus for the original change, though it has other good qualities also). Álvaro Herrera Back-patch to 9.4 as the original rework was.
* Assorted message fixes and improvementsPeter Eisentraut2014-09-05
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* Fix segmentation fault that an empty prepared statement could cause.Fujii Masao2014-09-05
| | | | | | Back-patch to all supported branches. Per bug #11335 from Haruka Takatsuka
* Declare lwlock.c's LWLockAcquireCommon() as a static inline.Andres Freund2014-09-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | 68a2e52bbaf98f136 has introduced LWLockAcquireCommon() containing the previous contents of LWLockAcquire() plus added functionality. The latter then calls it, just like LWLockAcquireWithVar(). Because the majority of callers don't need the added functionality, declare the common code as inline. The compiler then can optimize away the unused code. Doing so is also useful when looking at profiles, to differentiate the users. Backpatch to 9.4, the first branch to contain LWLockAcquireCommon().
* pg_is_xlog_replay_paused(): remove super-user-only restrictionBruce Momjian2014-08-29
| | | | | | | | Also update docs to mention which function are super-user-only. Report by sys-milan@statpro.com Backpatch through 9.4
* Fix bug in compressed GIN data leaf page splitting code.Heikki Linnakangas2014-08-29
| | | | | | | | | The list of posting lists it's dealing with can contain placeholders for deleted posting lists. The placeholders are kept around so that they can be WAL-logged, but we must be careful to not try to access them. This fixes bug #11280, reported by Mårten Svantesson. Backpatch to 9.4, where the compressed data leaf page code was added.
* Assorted message improvementsPeter Eisentraut2014-08-29
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* Fix FOR UPDATE NOWAIT on updated tuple chainsAlvaro Herrera2014-08-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If SELECT FOR UPDATE NOWAIT tries to lock a tuple that is concurrently being updated, it might fail to honor its NOWAIT specification and block instead of raising an error. Fix by adding a no-wait flag to EvalPlanQualFetch which it can pass down to heap_lock_tuple; also use it in EvalPlanQualFetch itself to avoid blocking while waiting for a concurrent transaction. Authors: Craig Ringer and Thomas Munro, tweaked by Álvaro http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/51FB6703.9090801@2ndquadrant.com Per Thomas Munro in the course of his SKIP LOCKED feature submission, who also provided one of the isolation test specs. Backpatch to 9.4, because that's as far back as it applies without conflicts (although the bug goes all the way back). To that branch also backpatch Thomas Munro's new NOWAIT test cases, committed in master by Heikki as commit 9ee16b49f0aac819bd4823d9b94485ef608b34e8 .
* Fix Var handling for security barrier viewsStephen Frost2014-08-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In some cases, not all Vars were being correctly marked as having been modified for updatable security barrier views, which resulted in invalid plans (eg: when security barrier views were created over top of inheiritance structures). In passing, be sure to update both varattno and varonattno, as _equalVar won't consider the Vars identical otherwise. This isn't known to cause any issues with updatable security barrier views, but was noticed as missing while working on RLS and makes sense to get fixed. Back-patch to 9.4 where updatable security barrier views were introduced.
* Fix superuser concurrent refresh of matview owned by another.Kevin Grittner2014-08-26
| | | | | | | | | | | Use SECURITY_LOCAL_USERID_CHANGE while building temporary tables; only escalate to SECURITY_RESTRICTED_OPERATION while potentially running user-supplied code. The more secure mode was preventing temp table creation. Add regression tests to cover this problem. This fixes Bug #11208 reported by Bruno Emanuel de Andrade Silva. Backpatch to 9.4, where the bug was introduced.
* Revert XactLockTableWait context setup in conditional multixact waitAlvaro Herrera2014-08-25
| | | | | | | | There's no point in setting up a context error callback when doing conditional lock acquisition, because we never actually wait and so the able wouldn't be able to see it. Backpatch to 9.4, where this was added.
* Fix outdated commentAlvaro Herrera2014-08-22
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* Fix corner-case behaviors in JSON/JSONB field extraction operators.Tom Lane2014-08-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Cause the path extraction operators to return their lefthand input, not NULL, if the path array has no elements. This seems more consistent since the case ought to correspond to applying the simple extraction operator (->) zero times. Cause other corner cases in field/element/path extraction to return NULL rather than failing. This behavior is arguably more useful than throwing an error, since it allows an expression index using these operators to be built even when not all values in the column are suitable for the extraction being indexed. Moreover, we already had multiple inconsistencies between the path extraction operators and the simple extraction operators, as well as inconsistencies between the JSON and JSONB code paths. Adopt a uniform rule of returning NULL rather than throwing an error when the JSON input does not have a structure that permits the request to be satisfied. Back-patch to 9.4. Update the release notes to list this as a behavior change since 9.3.
* Rework 'MOVE ALL' to 'ALTER .. ALL IN TABLESPACE'Stephen Frost2014-08-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | As 'ALTER TABLESPACE .. MOVE ALL' really didn't change the tablespace but instead changed objects inside tablespaces, it made sense to rework the syntax and supporting functions to operate under the 'ALTER (TABLE|INDEX|MATERIALIZED VIEW)' syntax and to be in tablecmds.c. Pointed out by Alvaro, who also suggested the new syntax. Back-patch to 9.4.
* Fix core dump in jsonb #> operator, and add regression test cases.Tom Lane2014-08-20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | jsonb's #> operator segfaulted (dereferencing a null pointer) if the RHS was a zero-length array, as reported in bug #11207 from Justin Van Winkle. json's #> operator returns NULL in such cases, so for the moment let's make jsonb act likewise. Also add a bunch of regression test queries memorializing the -> and #> operators' behavior for this and other corner cases. There is a good argument for changing some of these behaviors, as they are not very consistent with each other, and throwing an error isn't necessarily a desirable behavior for operators that are likely to be used in indexes. However, everybody can agree that a core dump is the Wrong Thing, and we need test cases even if we decide to change their expected output later.
* Revert "Fix bug in checking of IDENTIFY_SYSTEM result."Fujii Masao2014-08-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | This reverts commit 083d29c65b7897f90c70e6dc0a4240a5fa75c8f2. The commit changed the code so that it causes an errors when IDENTIFY_SYSTEM returns three columns. But which prevents us from using the replication-related utilities against the server with older version. This is not what we want. For that compatibility, we allow the utilities to receive three columns as the result of IDENTIFY_SYSTEM eventhough it actually returns four columns in 9.4 or later. Pointed out by Andres Freund.
* Fix bug in checking of IDENTIFY_SYSTEM result.Fujii Masao2014-08-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | 5a991ef8692ed0d170b44958a81a6bd70e90585 added new column into the result of IDENTIFY_SYSTEM command. But it was not reflected into several codes checking that result. Specifically though the number of columns in the result was increased to 4, it was still compared with 3 in some replication codes. Back-patch to 9.4 where the number of columns in IDENTIFY_SYSTEM result was increased. Report from Michael Paquier
* Use ISO 8601 format for dates converted to JSON, too.Tom Lane2014-08-17
| | | | | | | | Commit f30015b6d794c15d52abbb3df3a65081fbefb1ed made this happen for timestamp and timestamptz, but it seems pretty inconsistent to not do it for simple dates as well. (In passing, I re-pgindent'd json.c.)
* Fix bogus return macros in range_overright_internal().Tom Lane2014-08-16
| | | | | | | | | PG_RETURN_BOOL() should only be used in functions following the V1 SQL function API. This coding accidentally fails to fail since letting the compiler coerce the Datum representation of bool back to plain bool does give the right answer; but that doesn't make it a good idea. Back-patch to older branches just to avoid unnecessary code divergence.
* Be less aggressive in asking for feedback of logical walsender clients.Andres Freund2014-08-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When doing logical decoding using START_LOGICAL_REPLICATION in a walsender process the walsender sometimes was sending out keepalive messages too frequently. Asking for feedback every time. WalSndWaitForWal() sends out keepalive messages when it's waiting for new WAL to be generated locally when it sees that the remote side hasn't yet flushed WAL up to the local position. That generally is good but causes problems if the remote side only writes but doesn't flush changes yet. So check for both remote write and flush position. Additionally we've asked for feedback to the keepalive message which isn't warranted when waiting for WAL in contrast to preventing timeouts because of wal_sender_timeout. Complaint and patch by Steve Singer.
* Change first call of ProcessConfigFile so as to process only data_directory.Fujii Masao2014-08-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When both postgresql.conf and postgresql.auto.conf have their own entry of the same parameter, PostgreSQL uses the entry in postgresql.auto.conf because it appears last in the configuration scan. IOW, the other entries which appear earlier are ignored. But, previously, ProcessConfigFile() detected the invalid settings of even those unused entries and emitted the error messages complaining about them, at postmaster startup. Complaining about the entries to ignore is basically useless. This problem happened because ProcessConfigFile() was called twice at postmaster startup and the first call read only postgresql.conf. That is, the first call could check the entry which might be ignored eventually by the second call which read both postgresql.conf and postgresql.auto.conf. To work around the problem, this commit changes ProcessConfigFile so that its first call processes only data_directory and the second one does all the entries. It's OK to process data_directory in the first call because it's ensured that data_directory doesn't exist in postgresql.auto.conf. Back-patch to 9.4 where postgresql.auto.conf was added. Patch by me. Review by Amit Kapila
* Clean up handling of unknown-type inputs in json_build_object and friends.Tom Lane2014-08-09
| | | | | | | | There's actually no need for any special case for unknown-type literals, since we only need to push the value through its output function and unknownout() works fine. The code that was here was completely bizarre anyway, and would fail outright in cases that should work, not to mention suffering from some copy-and-paste bugs.
* Further cleanup of JSON-specific error messages.Tom Lane2014-08-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fix an obvious typo in json_build_object()'s complaint about invalid number of arguments, and make the errhint a bit more sensible too. Per discussion about how to word the improved hint, change the few places in the documentation that refer to JSON object field names as "names" to say "keys" instead, since that's what we've said in the vast majority of places in the docs. Arguably "name" is more correct, since that's the terminology used in RFC 7159; but we're stuck with "key" in view of the naming of json_object_keys() so let's at least be self-consistent. I adjusted a few code comments to match this as well, and failed to resist the temptation to clean up some odd whitespace choices in the same area, as well as a useless duplicate PG_ARGISNULL() check. There's still quite a bit of code that uses the phrase "field name" in non-user- visible ways, so I left those usages alone.
* Reject duplicate column names in foreign key referenced-columns lists.Tom Lane2014-08-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Such cases are disallowed by the SQL spec, and even if we wanted to allow them, the semantics seem ambiguous: how should the FK columns be matched up with the columns of a unique index? (The matching could be significant in the presence of opclasses with different notions of equality, so this issue isn't just academic.) However, our code did not previously reject such cases, but instead would either fail to match to any unique index, or generate a bizarre opclass-lookup error because of sloppy thinking in the index-matching code. David Rowley
* pg_upgrade: prevent oid conflicts with new-cluster TOAST tablesBruce Momjian2014-08-07
| | | | | | | | Previously, TOAST tables only required in the new cluster could cause oid conflicts if they were auto-numbered and a later conflicting oid had to be assigned. Backpatch through 9.3
* Change ParseConfigFp() so that it doesn't process unused entry of each ↵Fujii Masao2014-08-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | parameter. When more than one setting entries of same parameter exist in the configuration file, PostgreSQL uses only entry appearing last in configuration file scan. Since the other entries are not used, ParseConfigFp() doesn't need to process them, but previously it did that. This problematic behavior caused the configuration file scan to detect invalid settings of unused entries (e.g., existence of multiple entries of PGC_POSTMASTER parameter) and log the messages complaining about them. This commit changes the configuration file scan so that it processes only last entry of each parameter. Note that when multiple entries of same parameter exist both in postgresql.conf and postgresql.auto.conf, unused entries in postgresql.conf are still processed only at postmaster startup. The problem has existed since old version, but a user is more likely to encounter it since 9.4 where ALTER SYSTEM command was introduced. So back-patch to 9.4. Amit Kapila, slightly modified by me. Per report from Christoph Berg.
* Improve some JSON error messages.Robert Haas2014-08-05
| | | | | | | These messages are new in 9.4, which hasn't been released yet, so back-patch to REL9_4_STABLE. Daniele Varrazzo
* Avoid wholesale autovacuuming when autovacuum is nominally off.Tom Lane2014-07-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | When autovacuum is nominally off, we will still launch autovac workers to vacuum tables that are at risk of XID wraparound. But after we'd done that, an autovac worker would proceed to autovacuum every table in the targeted database, if they meet the usual thresholds for autovacuuming. This is at best pretty unexpected; at worst it delays response to the wraparound threat. Fix it so that if autovacuum is nominally off, we *only* do forced vacuums and not any other work. Per gripe from Andrey Zhidenkov. This has been like this all along, so back-patch to all supported branches.
* Fix mishandling of background worker PGPROCs in EXEC_BACKEND builds.Robert Haas2014-07-30
| | | | | | | | | | InitProcess() relies on IsBackgroundWorker to decide whether the PGPROC for a new backend should be taken from ProcGlobal's freeProcs or from bgworkerFreeProcs. In EXEC_BACKEND builds, InitProcess() is called sooner than in non-EXEC_BACKEND builds, and IsBackgroundWorker wasn't getting initialized soon enough. Report by Noah Misch. Diagnosis and fix by me.
* Oops, fix recoveryStopsBefore functions for regular commits.Heikki Linnakangas2014-07-29
| | | | | Pointed out by Tom Lane. Backpatch to 9.4, the code was structured differently in earlier branches and didn't have this mistake.