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* Add some randomness to the choice of which GiST page to insert to.Heikki Linnakangas2013-01-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When descending the tree for an insert, and there are multiple equally good pages we could insert to, make the choice in random. Previously, we would always choose the tuple with lowest offset number. That meant that when two non-leaf pages overlap - in the extreme case they might have exactly the same key - all but the first such page went unused. That wasn't optimal for space usage; if you deleted some tuples from the non-first pages, the space would never be reused. With this patch, the other pages are sometimes chosen too, although there's still a heavy bias towards low-offset tuples, so that we don't lose cache locality when doing a lot of inserts with similar keys. Original idea by Alexander Korotkov, although this patch version was written by me and copy-edited by Tom Lane.
* Make pg_dump exclude unlogged table data on hot standby slavesMagnus Hagander2013-01-25
| | | | Noted by Joe Van Dyk
* Fix concat() and format() to handle VARIADIC-labeled arguments correctly.Tom Lane2013-01-25
| | | | | | | | Previously, the VARIADIC labeling was effectively ignored, but now these functions act as though the array elements had all been given as separate arguments. Pavel Stehule
* Fix SPI documentation for new handling of ExecutorRun's count parameter.Tom Lane2013-01-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Since 9.0, the count parameter has only limited the number of tuples actually returned by the executor. It doesn't affect the behavior of INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE unless RETURNING is specified, because without RETURNING, the ModifyTable plan node doesn't return control to execMain.c for each tuple. And we only check the limit at the top level. While this behavioral change was unintentional at the time, discussion of bug #6572 led us to the conclusion that we prefer the new behavior anyway, and so we should just adjust the docs to match rather than change the code. Accordingly, do that. Back-patch as far as 9.0 so that the docs match the code in each branch.
* Use correct output device for Windows prompts.Andrew Dunstan2013-01-24
| | | | | | | | | | This ensures that mapping of non-ascii prompts to the correct code page occurs. Bug report and original patch from Alexander Law, reviewed and reworked by Noah Misch. Backpatch to all live branches.
* Redefine HEAP_XMAX_IS_LOCKED_ONLYAlvaro Herrera2013-01-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Tuples marked SELECT FOR UPDATE in a cluster that's later processed by pg_upgrade would have a different infomask bit pattern than those produced by 9.3dev; that bit pattern was being seen as "dead" by HEAD (because they would fail the "is this tuple locked" test, and so the visibility rules would thing they're updated, even though there's no HEAP_UPDATED version of them). In other words, some rows could silently disappear after pg_upgrade. With this new definition, those tuples become visible again. This is breakage resulting from my commit 0ac5ad5134.
* Make output identical to pg_resetxlog'sAlvaro Herrera2013-01-24
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* Fix rare missing cancellations in Hot Standby.Simon Riggs2013-01-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | The machinery around XLOG_HEAP2_CLEANUP_INFO failed to correctly pass through the necessary information on latestRemovedXid, avoiding cancellations in some infrequent concurrent update/cleanup scenarios. Backpatchable fix to 9.0 Detailed bug report and fix by Noah Misch, backpatchable version by me.
* Also fix rotation of csvlog on Windows.Heikki Linnakangas2013-01-24
| | | | Backpatch to 9.2, like the previous fix.
* Fix failure to rotate postmaster log file for size reasons on Windows.Tom Lane2013-01-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | When we eliminated "unnecessary" wakeups of the syslogger process, we broke size-based logfile rotation on Windows, because on that platform data transfer is done in a separate thread. While non-Windows platforms would recheck the output file size after every log message, Windows only did so when the control thread woke up for some other reason, which might be quite infrequent. Per bug #7814 from Tsunezumi. Back-patch to 9.2 where the problem was introduced. Jeff Janes
* isolationtester: add a few fflush(stderr) callsAlvaro Herrera2013-01-23
| | | | | | The lack of them is causing failures in some BF members. Per Andrew Dunstan.
* pg_isreadyRobert Haas2013-01-23
| | | | | | | New command-line utility to test whether a server is ready to accept connections. Phil Sorber, reviewed by Michael Paquier and Peter Eisentraut
* Improve concurrency of foreign key lockingAlvaro Herrera2013-01-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch introduces two additional lock modes for tuples: "SELECT FOR KEY SHARE" and "SELECT FOR NO KEY UPDATE". These don't block each other, in contrast with already existing "SELECT FOR SHARE" and "SELECT FOR UPDATE". UPDATE commands that do not modify the values stored in the columns that are part of the key of the tuple now grab a SELECT FOR NO KEY UPDATE lock on the tuple, allowing them to proceed concurrently with tuple locks of the FOR KEY SHARE variety. Foreign key triggers now use FOR KEY SHARE instead of FOR SHARE; this means the concurrency improvement applies to them, which is the whole point of this patch. The added tuple lock semantics require some rejiggering of the multixact module, so that the locking level that each transaction is holding can be stored alongside its Xid. Also, multixacts now need to persist across server restarts and crashes, because they can now represent not only tuple locks, but also tuple updates. This means we need more careful tracking of lifetime of pg_multixact SLRU files; since they now persist longer, we require more infrastructure to figure out when they can be removed. pg_upgrade also needs to be careful to copy pg_multixact files over from the old server to the new, or at least part of multixact.c state, depending on the versions of the old and new servers. Tuple time qualification rules (HeapTupleSatisfies routines) need to be careful not to consider tuples with the "is multi" infomask bit set as being only locked; they might need to look up MultiXact values (i.e. possibly do pg_multixact I/O) to find out the Xid that updated a tuple, whereas they previously were assured to only use information readily available from the tuple header. This is considered acceptable, because the extra I/O would involve cases that would previously cause some commands to block waiting for concurrent transactions to finish. Another important change is the fact that locking tuples that have previously been updated causes the future versions to be marked as locked, too; this is essential for correctness of foreign key checks. This causes additional WAL-logging, also (there was previously a single WAL record for a locked tuple; now there are as many as updated copies of the tuple there exist.) With all this in place, contention related to tuples being checked by foreign key rules should be much reduced. As a bonus, the old behavior that a subtransaction grabbing a stronger tuple lock than the parent (sub)transaction held on a given tuple and later aborting caused the weaker lock to be lost, has been fixed. Many new spec files were added for isolation tester framework, to ensure overall behavior is sane. There's probably room for several more tests. There were several reviewers of this patch; in particular, Noah Misch and Andres Freund spent considerable time in it. Original idea for the patch came from Simon Riggs, after a problem report by Joel Jacobson. Most code is from me, with contributions from Marti Raudsepp, Alexander Shulgin, Noah Misch and Andres Freund. This patch was discussed in several pgsql-hackers threads; the most important start at the following message-ids: AANLkTimo9XVcEzfiBR-ut3KVNDkjm2Vxh+t8kAmWjPuv@mail.gmail.com 1290721684-sup-3951@alvh.no-ip.org 1294953201-sup-2099@alvh.no-ip.org 1320343602-sup-2290@alvh.no-ip.org 1339690386-sup-8927@alvh.no-ip.org 4FE5FF020200002500048A3D@gw.wicourts.gov 4FEAB90A0200002500048B7D@gw.wicourts.gov
* Update comments and output for event_trigger regression test.Robert Haas2013-01-23
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* Implement pg_unreachable() on MSVC.Heikki Linnakangas2013-01-23
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* Fix more issues with cascading replication and timeline switches.Heikki Linnakangas2013-01-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When a standby server follows the master using WAL archive, and it chooses a new timeline (recovery_target_timeline='latest'), it only fetches the timeline history file for the chosen target timeline, not any other history files that might be missing from pg_xlog. For example, if the current timeline is 2, and we choose 4 as the new recovery target timeline, the history file for timeline 3 is not fetched, even if it's part of this server's history. That's enough for the standby itself - the history file for timeline 4 includes timeline 3 as well - but if a cascading standby server wants to recover to timeline 3, it needs the history file. To fix, when a new recovery target timeline is chosen, try to copy any missing history files from the archive to pg_xlog between the old and new target timeline. A second similar issue was with the WAL files. When a standby recovers from archive, and it reaches a segment that contains a switch to a new timeline, recovery fetches only the WAL file labelled with the new timeline's ID. The file from the new timeline contains a copy of the WAL from the old timeline up to the point where the switch happened, and recovery recovers it from the new file. But in streaming replication, walsender only tries to read it from the old timeline's file. To fix, change walsender to read it from the new file, so that it behaves the same as recovery in that sense, and doesn't try to open the possibly nonexistent file with the old timeline's ID.
* Fix a few small bugs in yesterday's event trigger patch.Robert Haas2013-01-22
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* Add infrastructure for storing a VARIADIC ANY function's VARIADIC flag.Tom Lane2013-01-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Originally we didn't bother to mark FuncExprs with any indication whether VARIADIC had been given in the source text, because there didn't seem to be any need for it at runtime. However, because we cannot fold a VARIADIC ANY function's arguments into an array (since they're not necessarily all the same type), we do actually need that information at runtime if VARIADIC ANY functions are to respond unsurprisingly to use of the VARIADIC keyword. Add the missing field, and also fix ruleutils.c so that VARIADIC ANY function calls are dumped properly. Extracted from a larger patch that also fixes concat() and format() (the only two extant VARIADIC ANY functions) to behave properly when VARIADIC is specified. This portion seems appropriate to review and commit separately. Pavel Stehule
* Add ddl_command_end support for event triggers.Robert Haas2013-01-21
| | | | Dimitri Fontaine, with slight changes by me
* Refactor ALTER some-obj RENAME implementationAlvaro Herrera2013-01-21
| | | | | | | | | Remove duplicate implementations of catalog munging and miscellaneous privilege checks. Instead rely on already existing data in objectaddress.c to do the work. Author: KaiGai Kohei, changes by me Reviewed by: Robert Haas, Álvaro Herrera, Dimitri Fontaine
* Fix one-byte buffer overrun in PQprintTuples().Tom Lane2013-01-20
| | | | | | | | | | This bug goes back to the original Postgres95 sources. Its significance to modern PG versions is marginal, since we have not used PQprintTuples() internally in a very long time, and it doesn't seem to have ever been documented either. Still, it *is* exposed to client apps, so somebody out there might possibly be using it. Xi Wang
* Fix error-checking typo in check_TSCurrentConfig().Tom Lane2013-01-20
| | | | | | The code failed to detect an out-of-memory failure. Xi Wang
* Fix an O(N^2) performance issue for sessions modifying many relations.Tom Lane2013-01-20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | AtEOXact_RelationCache() scanned the entire relation cache at the end of any transaction that created a new relation or assigned a new relfilenode. Thus, clients such as pg_restore had an O(N^2) performance problem that would start to be noticeable after creating 10000 or so tables. Since typically only a small number of relcache entries need any cleanup, we can fix this by keeping a small list of their OIDs and doing hash_searches for them. We fall back to the full-table scan if the list overflows. Ideally, the maximum list length would be set at the point where N hash_searches would cost just less than the full-table scan. Some quick experimentation says that point might be around 50-100; I (tgl) conservatively set MAX_EOXACT_LIST = 32. For the case that we're worried about here, which is short single-statement transactions, it's unlikely there would ever be more than about a dozen list entries anyway; so it's probably not worth being too tense about the value. We could avoid the hash_searches by instead keeping the target relcache entries linked into a list, but that would be noticeably more complicated and bug-prone because of the need to maintain such a list in the face of relcache entry drops. Since a relcache entry can only need such cleanup after a somewhat-heavyweight filesystem operation, trying to save a hash_search per cleanup doesn't seem very useful anyway --- it's the scan over all the not-needing-cleanup entries that we wish to avoid here. Jeff Janes, reviewed and tweaked a bit by Tom Lane
* Use SET TRANSACTION READ ONLY in pg_dump, if server supports it.Tom Lane2013-01-19
| | | | | | | | | | This currently does little except serve as documentation. (The one case where it has a performance benefit, SERIALIZABLE mode in 9.1 and up, was already using READ ONLY mode.) However, it's possible that it might have performance benefits in future, and in any case it seems like good practice since it would catch any accidentally non-read-only operations. Pavan Deolasee
* Modernize string literal syntax in tutorial example.Tom Lane2013-01-19
| | | | | | | | | | Un-double the backslashes in the LIKE patterns, since standard_conforming_strings is now the default. Just to be sure, include a command to set standard_conforming_strings to ON in the example. Back-patch to 9.1, where standard_conforming_strings became the default. Josh Kupershmidt, reviewed by Jeff Janes
* Make pgxs build executables with the right suffix.Andrew Dunstan2013-01-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Complaint and patch from Zoltán Böszörményi. When cross-compiling, the native make doesn't know about the Windows .exe suffix, so it only builds with it when explicitly told to do so. The native make will not see the link between the target name and the built executable, and might this do unnecesary work, but that's a bigger problem than this one, if in fact we consider it a problem at all. Back-patch to all live branches.
* Protect against SnapshotNow race conditions in pg_tablespace scans.Tom Lane2013-01-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Use of SnapshotNow is known to expose us to race conditions if the tuple(s) being sought could be updated by concurrently-committing transactions. CREATE DATABASE and DROP DATABASE are particularly exposed because they do heavyweight filesystem operations during their scans of pg_tablespace, so that the scans run for a very long time compared to most. Furthermore, the potential consequences of a missed or twice-visited row are nastier than average: * createdb() could fail with a bogus "file already exists" error, or silently fail to copy one or more tablespace's worth of files into the new database. * remove_dbtablespaces() could miss one or more tablespaces, thus failing to free filesystem space for the dropped database. * check_db_file_conflict() could likewise miss a tablespace, leading to an OID conflict that could result in data loss either immediately or in future operations. (This seems of very low probability, though, since a duplicate database OID would be unlikely to start with.) Hence, it seems worth fixing these three places to use MVCC snapshots, even though this will someday be superseded by a generic solution to SnapshotNow race conditions. Back-patch to all active branches. Stephen Frost and Tom Lane
* Rename new latex longtable function name, for consistencyBruce Momjian2013-01-18
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* Unbreak lock conflict detection for Hot Standby.Robert Haas2013-01-18
| | | | | | | | | | This got broken in the original fast-path locking patch, because I failed to account for the fact that Hot Standby startup process might take a strong relation lock on a relation in a database to which it is not bound, and confused MyDatabaseId with the database ID of the relation being locked. Report and diagnosis by Andres Freund. Final form of patch by me.
* Fix off-by-one bug in xlog reading logicAlvaro Herrera2013-01-18
| | | | | | Bug reported by Michael Paquier Author: Andres Freund
* psql latex fixesBruce Momjian2013-01-18
| | | | | | Remove extra line at bottom of table for new 'latex' mode border=3. Also update 'latex'-longtable 'tableattr' docs to say 'whitespace-separated' instead of 'space'.
* Now that START_REPLICATION returns the next timeline's ID after reaching endHeikki Linnakangas2013-01-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | of timeline, take advantage of that in walreceiver. Startup process is still in control of choosign the target timeline, by scanning the timeline history files present in pg_xlog, but walreceiver now uses the next timeline's ID to fetch its history file immediately after it has finished streaming the old timeline. Before, the standby would first try to restart streaming on the old timeline, which fetches the missing timeline history file as a side-effect, and only then restart from the new timeline. This patch eliminates the extra iteration, which speeds up the timeline switch and reduces the noise in the log caused by the extra restart on the old timeline.
* Use the right timeline when beginning to stream from master.Heikki Linnakangas2013-01-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The xlogreader refactoring broke the logic to decide which timeline to start streaming from. XLogPageRead() uses the timeline history to check which timeline the requested WAL position falls into. However, after the refactoring, XLogPageRead() is always first called with the first page in the segment, to verify the segment header, and only then with the actual WAL position we're interested in. That first read of the segment's header made XLogPageRead() to always start streaming from the old timeline containing the segment header, not the timeline containing the actual record, if there was a timeline switch within the segment. I thought I fixed this yesterday, but that fix was too narrow and only fixed this for the corner-case that the timeline switch happened in the first page of the segment. To fix this more robustly, pass explicitly the position of the record we're actually interested in to XLogPageRead, and use that to decide which timeline to read from, rather than deduce it from the page and offset. Per report from Fujii Masao.
* When xlogreader asks the callback function to read a page, make sure weHeikki Linnakangas2013-01-17
| | | | | | | | | get a large enough part of the page to include the beginning of the next record we're interested in. The XLogPageRead callback uses the requested length to decide which timeline to stream WAL from, and if the first call is short, and the page contains a timeline switch, we'll repeatedly try to stream that page from the old timeline, and never get across the timeline switch.
* I added a result set to START_STREAMING command, but neglected walreceiver.Heikki Linnakangas2013-01-17
| | | | | | | The patch to allow pg_receivexlog to switch timeline added a result set after copy has ended in START_STREAMING command, to return the next timeline's ID to the client. But walreceived didn't get the memo, and threw an error on the unexpected result set. Fix.
* Accelerate end-of-transaction dropping of relationsAlvaro Herrera2013-01-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When relations are dropped, at end of transaction we need to remove the files and clean the buffer pool of buffers containing pages of those relations. Previously we would scan the buffer pool once per relation to clean up buffers. When there are many relations to drop, the repeated scans make this process slow; so we now instead pass a list of relations to drop and scan the pool once, checking each buffer against the passed list. When the number of relations is larger than a threshold (which as of this patch is being set to 20 relations) we sort the array before starting, and bsearch the array; when it's smaller, we simply scan the array linearly each time, because that's faster. The exact optimal threshold value depends on many factors, but the difference is not likely to be significant enough to justify making it user-settable. This has been measured to be a significant win (a 15x win when dropping 100,000 relations; an extreme case, but reportedly a real one). Author: Tomas Vondra, some tweaks by me Reviewed by: Robert Haas, Shigeru Hanada, Andres Freund, Álvaro Herrera
* Make pg_receivexlog and pg_basebackup -X stream work across timeline switches.Heikki Linnakangas2013-01-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This mirrors the changes done earlier to the server in standby mode. When receivelog reaches the end of a timeline, as reported by the server, it fetches the timeline history file of the next timeline, and restarts streaming from the new timeline by issuing a new START_STREAMING command. When pg_receivexlog crosses a timeline, it leaves the .partial suffix on the last segment on the old timeline. This helps you to tell apart a partial segment left in the directory because of a timeline switch, and a completed segment. If you just follow a single server, it won't make a difference, but it can be significant in more complicated scenarios where new WAL is still generated on the old timeline. This includes two small changes to the streaming replication protocol: First, when you reach the end of timeline while streaming, the server now sends the TLI of the next timeline in the server's history to the client. pg_receivexlog uses that as the next timeline, so that it doesn't need to parse the timeline history file like a standby server does. Second, when BASE_BACKUP command sends the begin and end WAL positions, it now also sends the timeline IDs corresponding the positions.
* Improve memory space management in tuplesort and tuplestore.Tom Lane2013-01-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The code originally just doubled the size of the tuple-pointer array so long as that would fit in allowedMem. This could result in failing to use as much as half of allowedMem, if (as is typical) the last doubling attempt didn't quite fit. Worse, we might double the array size but be unable to use most of the added slots, because there was no room left within the allowedMem limit for tuples the slots should point to. To fix, double only so long as we've used less than half of allowedMem in total. Then do one more array enlargement, but scale it based on total memory consumption so far. This will work nicely as long as the average tuple size is reasonably stable, and in any case should be better than the old method. This change will result in large sort operations consuming a larger fraction of work_mem than they typically did in the past. The release notes should mention that users may want to revisit their work_mem settings, if they'd tuned those settings based on the old behavior of sorting. Jeff Janes, reviewed by Peter Geoghegan and Robert Haas
* Fix a couple of error-handling bugs in the xlogreader patch.Heikki Linnakangas2013-01-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | XLogReadRecord should reset its state on every error, to make sure it re-reads the page on next call. It was inconsistent in that some errors did that, but some did not. In ReadRecord(), don't give up on an error if we're in standby mode. The loop was set up to retry, but the checks within the loop broke out of the loop on any error. Andres Freund, with some tweaking by me.
* Add a latex-longtable output format to psqlBruce Momjian2013-01-17
| | | | | latex longtable is more powerful than the 'tabular' output format 'latex' uses. Also add border=3 support to 'latex'.
* Silence compiler warningsMagnus Hagander2013-01-17
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* Make GiST indexes on-disk compatible with 9.2 again.Heikki Linnakangas2013-01-17
| | | | | | | | | | | The patch that turned XLogRecPtr into a uint64 inadvertently changed the on-disk format of GiST indexes, because the NSN field in the GiST page opaque is an XLogRecPtr. That breaks pg_upgrade. Revert the format of that field back to the two-field struct that XLogRecPtr was before. This is the same we did to LSNs in the page header to avoid changing on-disk format. Bump catversion, as this invalidates any existing GiST indexes built on 9.3devel.
* Base the default SSL ciphers on DEFAULT instead of ALLMagnus Hagander2013-01-17
| | | | | | | | It's better to start from what the OpenSSL people consider a good default and then remove insecure things (low encryption, exportable encryption and md5 at this point) from that, instead of starting from everything that exists and remove from that. We trust the OpenSSL people to make good choices about what the default is.
* Make size-output fixed length in pg_basebackup verbose modeMagnus Hagander2013-01-17
| | | | | This way the line doesn't shift right as the amount of data processed increases.
* Truncate filenames in the leadning end in pg_basebackup verbose outputMagnus Hagander2013-01-17
| | | | | | | | When truncating at the end, like before, the output would often end up just showing the path instead of the filename. Also increase the length of the filename by 5, which still keeps us at less than 80 characters in most outputs.
* Support multiple -t/--table arguments for more commandsMagnus Hagander2013-01-17
| | | | | | | | On top of the previous support in pg_dump, add support to specify multiple tables (by using the -t option multiple times) to pg_restore, clsuterdb, reindexdb and vacuumdb. Josh Kupershmidt, reviewed by Karl O. Pinc
* Get rid of pg_dump's READMEPeter Eisentraut2013-01-16
| | | | | | | | It was largely full of outdated and incorrect information. Move the few notes which were still relevant into header comments of pg_backup_tar.c and pg_dumpall.c. Josh Kupershmidt
* Split out XLog reading as an independent facilityAlvaro Herrera2013-01-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This new facility can not only be used by xlog.c to carry out crash recovery, but also by external programs. By supplying a function to read XLog pages from somewhere, all the WAL reading can be used for completely different purposes. For the standard backend use, the behavior should be pretty much the same as previously. As for non-backend programs, an hypothetical pg_xlogdump program is now closer to reality, but some more backend support is still necessary. This patch was originally submitted by Andres Freund in a different form, but Heikki Linnakangas opted for and authored another design of the concept. Andres has advanced the patch since Heikki's initial version. Review and some (mostly cosmetics) changes by me.
* Make \? help message more clear when not connected.Heikki Linnakangas2013-01-15
| | | | | | | On second thought, "none" could mislead to think that you're connected a database with that name. Duplicate the whole string, so that it can be more easily translated. In back-branches, thought, just use an empty string in place of the database name, to avoid adding a translatable string.
* Don't pass NULL to fprintf, if not currently connected to a database.Heikki Linnakangas2013-01-15
| | | | | Backpatch all the way to 8.3. Fixes bug #7811, per report and diagnosis by Meng Qingzhong.