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2020-02-09Revert "docs: change "default role" wording to "predefined role""Tom Lane
This reverts commit 0e936a2148472e6c364aee8c3e298dc16dc4240a. Per discussion, we can't change the section title without some web-site work, so revert this change temporarily. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/157742545062.1149.11052653770497832538@wrigleys.postgresql.org
2020-02-07Fix TRUNCATE .. CASCADE on partitionsAlvaro Herrera
When running TRUNCATE CASCADE on a child of a partitioned table referenced by another partitioned table, the truncate was not applied to partitions of the referencing table; this could leave rows violating the constraint in the referencing partitioned table. Repair by walking the pg_constraint chain all the way up to the topmost referencing table. Note: any partitioned tables containing FKs that reference other partitioned tables should be checked for possible violating rows, if TRUNCATE has occurred in partitions of the referenced table. Reported-by: Christophe Courtois Author: Jehan-Guillaume de Rorthais Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200204183906.115f693e@firost
2020-02-06Add leader_pid to pg_stat_activityMichael Paquier
This new field tracks the PID of the group leader used with parallel query. For parallel workers and the leader, the value is set to the PID of the group leader. So, for the group leader, the value is the same as its own PID. Note that this reflects what PGPROC stores in shared memory, so as leader_pid is NULL if a backend has never been involved in parallel query. If the backend is using parallel query or has used it at least once, the value is set until the backend exits. Author: Julien Rouhaud Reviewed-by: Sergei Kornilov, Guillaume Lelarge, Michael Paquier, Tomas Vondra Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAOBaU_Yy5bt0vTPZ2_LUM6cUcGeqmYNoJ8-Rgto+c2+w3defYA@mail.gmail.com
2020-02-05ALTER SUBSCRIPTION / REFRESH docs: explain copy_dataAlvaro Herrera
The docs are ambiguous as to which tables would be copied over when the copy_data parameter is true in ALTER SUBSCRIPTION ... REFRESH PUBLICATION. Make it clear that it only applies to tables which are new in the publication. Author: David Christensen (reword by Álvaro Herrera) Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/95339420-7F09-4F8C-ACC0-8F1CFAAD9CD7@endpoint.com
2020-01-30Fix slot data persistency when advancing physical replication slotsMichael Paquier
Advancing a physical replication slot with pg_replication_slot_advance() did not mark the slot as dirty if any advancing was done, preventing the follow-up checkpoint to flush the slot data to disk. This caused the advancing to be lost even on clean restarts. This does not happen for logical slots as any advancing marked the slot as dirty. Per discussion, the original feature has been implemented so as in the event of a crash the slot may move backwards to a past LSN. This property is kept and more documentation is added about that. This commit adds some new TAP tests to check the persistency of physical and logical slots after advancing across clean restarts. Author: Alexey Kondratov, Michael Paquier Reviewed-by: Andres Freund, Kyotaro Horiguchi, Craig Ringer Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/059cc53a-8b14-653a-a24d-5f867503b0ee@postgrespro.ru Backpatch-through: 11
2020-01-29Invent "trusted" extensions, and remove the pg_pltemplate catalog.Tom Lane
This patch creates a new extension property, "trusted". An extension that's marked that way in its control file can be installed by a non-superuser who has the CREATE privilege on the current database, even if the extension contains objects that normally would have to be created by a superuser. The objects within the extension will (by default) be owned by the bootstrap superuser, but the extension itself will be owned by the calling user. This allows replicating the old behavior around trusted procedural languages, without all the special-case logic in CREATE LANGUAGE. We have, however, chosen to loosen the rules slightly: formerly, only a database owner could take advantage of the special case that allowed installation of a trusted language, but now anyone who has CREATE privilege can do so. Having done that, we can delete the pg_pltemplate catalog, moving the knowledge it contained into the extension script files for the various PLs. This ends up being no change at all for the in-core PLs, but it is a large step forward for external PLs: they can now have the same ease of installation as core PLs do. The old "trusted PL" behavior was only available to PLs that had entries in pg_pltemplate, but now any extension can be marked trusted if appropriate. This also removes one of the stumbling blocks for our Python 2 -> 3 migration, since the association of "plpythonu" with Python 2 is no longer hard-wired into pg_pltemplate's initial contents. Exactly where we go from here on that front remains to be settled, but one problem is fixed. Patch by me, reviewed by Peter Eisentraut, Stephen Frost, and others. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/5889.1566415762@sss.pgh.pa.us
2020-01-29Fail if recovery target is not reachedPeter Eisentraut
Before, if a recovery target is configured, but the archive ended before the target was reached, recovery would end and the server would promote without further notice. That was deemed to be pretty wrong. With this change, if the recovery target is not reached, it is a fatal error. Based-on-patch-by: Leif Gunnar Erlandsen <leif@lako.no> Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com> Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/993736dd3f1713ec1f63fc3b653839f5@lako.no
2020-01-29Add --parallel option to vacuumdb command.Amit Kapila
Commit 40d964ec99 allowed vacuum command to leverage multiple CPUs by invoking parallel workers to process indexes. This commit provides a '--parallel' option to specify the parallel degree used by vacuum command. Author: Masahiko Sawada, with few modifications by me Reviewed-by: Mahendra Singh and Amit Kapila Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAD21AoDTPMgzSkV4E3SFo1CH_x50bf5PqZFQf4jmqjk-C03BWg@mail.gmail.com
2020-01-28Add connection parameters to control SSL protocol min/max in libpqMichael Paquier
These two new parameters, named sslminprotocolversion and sslmaxprotocolversion, allow to respectively control the minimum and the maximum version of the SSL protocol used for the SSL connection attempt. The default setting is to allow any version for both the minimum and the maximum bounds, causing libpq to rely on the bounds set by the backend when negotiating the protocol to use for an SSL connection. The bounds are checked when the values are set at the earliest stage possible as this makes the checks independent of any SSL implementation. Author: Daniel Gustafsson Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier, Cary Huang Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/4F246AE3-A7AE-471E-BD3D-C799D3748E03@yesql.se
2020-01-25Add functions gcd() and lcm() for integer and numeric types.Dean Rasheed
These compute the greatest common divisor and least common multiple of a pair of numbers using the Euclidean algorithm. Vik Fearing, reviewed by Fabien Coelho. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/adbd3e0b-e3f1-5bbc-21db-03caf1cef0f7@2ndquadrant.com
2020-01-24Add pg_file_sync() to adminpack extension.Fujii Masao
This function allows us to fsync the specified file or directory. It's useful, for example, when we want to sync the file that pg_file_write() writes out or that COPY TO exports the data into, for durability. Author: Fujii Masao Reviewed-By: Julien Rouhaud, Arthur Zakirov, Michael Paquier, Atsushi Torikoshi Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAHGQGwGY8uzZ_k8dHRoW1zDcy1Z7=5GQ+So4ZkVy2u=nLsk=hA@mail.gmail.com
2020-01-24Fix typoPeter Eisentraut
2020-01-24Doc: Fix list of storage parameters available for ALTER TABLEMichael Paquier
Only the parameter parallel_workers can be used directly with ALTER TABLE. Issue introduced in 6f3a13f, so backpatch down to 10. Author: Justin Pryzby Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200106025623.GA12066@telsasoft.com Backpatch-through: 10
2020-01-23Doc: Fix and tweak documentation for ANALYZE reportingMichael Paquier
The docs had some typos and grammar mistakes, and its indentation was inconsistent. Author: Amit Langote, Justin Pryzby Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200116151930.GM26045@telsasoft.com
2020-01-22Add GUC ignore_invalid_pages.Fujii Masao
Detection of WAL records having references to invalid pages during recovery causes PostgreSQL to raise a PANIC-level error, aborting the recovery. Setting ignore_invalid_pages to on causes the system to ignore those WAL records (but still report a warning), and continue recovery. This behavior may cause crashes, data loss, propagate or hide corruption, or other serious problems. However, it may allow you to get past the PANIC-level error, to finish the recovery, and to cause the server to start up. Author: Fujii Masao Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAHGQGwHCK6f77yeZD4MHOnN+PaTf6XiJfEB+Ce7SksSHjeAWtg@mail.gmail.com
2020-01-22Fix concurrent indexing operations with temporary tablesMichael Paquier
Attempting to use CREATE INDEX, DROP INDEX or REINDEX with CONCURRENTLY on a temporary relation with ON COMMIT actions triggered unexpected errors because those operations use multiple transactions internally to complete their work. Here is for example one confusing error when using ON COMMIT DELETE ROWS: ERROR: index "foo" already contains data Issues related to temporary relations and concurrent indexing are fixed in this commit by enforcing the non-concurrent path to be taken for temporary relations even if using CONCURRENTLY, transparently to the user. Using a non-concurrent path does not matter in practice as locks cannot be taken on a temporary relation by a session different than the one owning the relation, and the non-concurrent operation is more effective. The problem exists with REINDEX since v12 with the introduction of CONCURRENTLY, and with CREATE/DROP INDEX since CONCURRENTLY exists for those commands. In all supported versions, this caused only confusing error messages to be generated. Note that with REINDEX, it was also possible to issue a REINDEX CONCURRENTLY for a temporary relation owned by a different session, leading to a server crash. The idea to enforce transparently the non-concurrent code path for temporary relations comes originally from Andres Freund. Reported-by: Manuel Rigger Author: Michael Paquier, Heikki Linnakangas Reviewed-by: Andres Freund, Álvaro Herrera, Heikki Linnakangas Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+u7OA6gP7YAeCguyseusYcc=uR8+ypjCcgDDCTzjQ+k6S9ksQ@mail.gmail.com Backpatch-through: 9.4
2020-01-21Clarify behavior of adding and altering a column in same ALTER command.Tom Lane
The behavior of something like ALTER TABLE transactions ADD COLUMN status varchar(30) DEFAULT 'old', ALTER COLUMN status SET default 'current'; is to fill existing table rows with 'old', not 'current'. That's intentional and desirable for a couple of reasons: * It makes the behavior the same whether you merge the sub-commands into one ALTER command or give them separately; * If we applied the new default while filling the table, there would be no way to get the existing behavior in one SQL command. The same reasoning applies in cases that add a column and then manipulate its GENERATED/IDENTITY status in a second sub-command, since the generation expression is really just a kind of default. However, that wasn't very obvious (at least not to me; earlier in the referenced discussion thread I'd thought it was a bug to be fixed). And it certainly wasn't documented. Hence, add documentation, code comments, and a test case to clarify that this behavior is all intentional. In passing, adjust ATExecAddColumn's defaults-related relkind check so that it matches up exactly with ATRewriteTables, instead of being effectively (though not literally) the negated inverse condition. The reasoning can be explained a lot more concisely that way, too (not to mention that the comment now matches the code, which it did not before). Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/10365.1558909428@sss.pgh.pa.us
2020-01-20Allow vacuum command to process indexes in parallel.Amit Kapila
This feature allows the vacuum to leverage multiple CPUs in order to process indexes. This enables us to perform index vacuuming and index cleanup with background workers. This adds a PARALLEL option to VACUUM command where the user can specify the number of workers that can be used to perform the command which is limited by the number of indexes on a table. Specifying zero as a number of workers will disable parallelism. This option can't be used with the FULL option. Each index is processed by at most one vacuum process. Therefore parallel vacuum can be used when the table has at least two indexes. The parallel degree is either specified by the user or determined based on the number of indexes that the table has, and further limited by max_parallel_maintenance_workers. The index can participate in parallel vacuum iff it's size is greater than min_parallel_index_scan_size. Author: Masahiko Sawada and Amit Kapila Reviewed-by: Dilip Kumar, Amit Kapila, Robert Haas, Tomas Vondra, Mahendra Singh and Sergei Kornilov Tested-by: Mahendra Singh and Prabhat Sahu Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAD21AoDTPMgzSkV4E3SFo1CH_x50bf5PqZFQf4jmqjk-C03BWg@mail.gmail.com https://postgr.es/m/CAA4eK1J-VoR9gzS5E75pcD-OH0mEyCdp8RihcwKrcuw7J-Q0+w@mail.gmail.com
2020-01-19Doc: Improve description of connection strings with Percent-encodingMichael Paquier
Clarify the description related to the use of characters which can be encoded, and add an example. Author: Jobin Augustine Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut, Alvaro Herrera, Heikki Linnakangas, Michael Paquier, Alex Shulgin Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CANaTPsrYgSgE2fuj3=4x=Jmx1c+NgkEDzftNknZbrMuqL+aBhQ@mail.gmail.com
2020-01-18Doc: rearrange the documentation of binary-string functions.Tom Lane
Rather than intermixing the discussion of text-string and binary-string functions, make a clean break, moving all discussion of binary-string operations into section 9.5. This involves some duplication of function descriptions between 9.4 and 9.5, but it seems cleaner on the whole since the individual descriptions are clearer (and on the other side of the coin, it gets rid of some duplicated descriptions, too). Move the convert*/encode/decode functions to a separate table, because they don't quite seem to fit under the heading of "binary string functions". Also provide full documentation of the textual formats supported by encode() and decode() (which was the original goal of this patch series, many moons ago). Also move the table of built-in encoding conversions out of section 9.4, where it no longer had any relevance whatsoever, and put it into section 23.3 about character sets. I chose to put both that and table 23.2 (multibyte-translation-table) into a new <sect2> so as not to break up the flow of discussion in 23.3.3. Also do a bunch of minor copy-editing on the function descriptions in 9.4 and 9.5. Karl Pinc, reviewed by Fabien Coelho, further hacking by me Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20190304163347.7bca4897@slate.meme.com
2020-01-17Add a non-strict version of jsonb_setAndrew Dunstan
jsonb_set_lax() is the same as jsonb_set, except that it takes and extra argument that specifies what to do if the value argument is NULL. The default is 'use_json_null'. Other possibilities are 'raise_exception', 'return_target' and 'delete_key', all these behaviours having been suggested as reasonable by various users. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/375873e2-c957-3a8d-64f9-26c43c2b16e7@2ndQuadrant.com Reviewed by: Pavel Stehule
2020-01-15Report progress of ANALYZE commandsAlvaro Herrera
This uses the progress reporting infrastructure added by c16dc1aca5e0, adding support for ANALYZE. Co-authored-by: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> Co-authored-by: Tatsuro Yamada <tatsuro.yamada.tf@nttcom.co.jp> Reviewed-by: Julien Rouhaud, Robert Haas, Anthony Nowocien, Kyotaro Horiguchi, Vignesh C, Amit Langote
2020-01-15Introduce IndexAM fields for parallel vacuum.Amit Kapila
Introduce new fields amusemaintenanceworkmem and amparallelvacuumoptions in IndexAmRoutine for parallel vacuum. The amusemaintenanceworkmem tells whether a particular IndexAM uses maintenance_work_mem or not. This will help in controlling the memory used by individual workers as otherwise, each worker can consume memory equal to maintenance_work_mem. The amparallelvacuumoptions tell whether a particular IndexAM participates in a parallel vacuum and if so in which phase (bulkdelete, vacuumcleanup) of vacuum. Author: Masahiko Sawada and Amit Kapila Reviewed-by: Dilip Kumar, Amit Kapila, Tomas Vondra and Robert Haas Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAD21AoDTPMgzSkV4E3SFo1CH_x50bf5PqZFQf4jmqjk-C03BWg@mail.gmail.com https://postgr.es/m/CAA4eK1LmcD5aPogzwim5Nn58Ki+74a6Edghx4Wd8hAskvHaq5A@mail.gmail.com
2020-01-14docs: change "default role" wording to "predefined role"Bruce Momjian
The new wording was determined to be more accurate. Also, update release note links that reference these sections. Reported-by: rirans@comcast.net Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/157742545062.1149.11052653770497832538@wrigleys.postgresql.org Backpatch-through: 9.6
2020-01-14walreceiver uses a temporary replication slot by defaultPeter Eisentraut
If no permanent replication slot is configured using primary_slot_name, the walreceiver now creates and uses a temporary replication slot. A new setting wal_receiver_create_temp_slot can be used to disable this behavior, for example, if the remote instance is out of replication slots. Reviewed-by: Masahiko Sawada <masahiko.sawada@2ndquadrant.com> Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CA%2Bfd4k4dM0iEPLxyVyme2RAFsn8SUgrNtBJOu81YqTY4V%2BnqZA%40mail.gmail.com
2020-01-14ALTER TABLE ... ALTER COLUMN ... DROP EXPRESSIONPeter Eisentraut
Add an ALTER TABLE subcommand for dropping the generated property from a column, per SQL standard. Reviewed-by: Sergei Kornilov <sk@zsrv.org> Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/2f7f1d9c-946e-0453-d841-4f38eb9d69b6%402ndquadrant.com
2020-01-13Only superuser can set sslcert/sslkey in postgres_fdw user mappingsAndrew Dunstan
Othrwise there is a security risk. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200109103014.GA4192@msg.df7cb.de
2020-01-10doc: Fix naming of SELinuxMichael Paquier
Reported-by: Tham Nguyen Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/157851402876.29175.12977878383183540468@wrigleys.postgresql.org Backpatch-through: 9.4
2020-01-09Add pg_shmem_allocations view.Robert Haas
This tells you about allocations that have been made from the main shared memory segment. The original patch also tried to show information about dynamic shared memory allocation as well, but I decided to leave that problem for another time. Andres Freund and Robert Haas, reviewed by Michael Paquier, Marti Raudsepp, Tom Lane, Álvaro Herrera, and Kyotaro Horiguchi. Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/20140504114417.GM12715@awork2.anarazel.de
2020-01-09Clarify that pg_trgm is used in exampleMagnus Hagander
Reported-by: Octopus ZHANG Author: Daniel Gustafsson
2020-01-09Allow 'sslkey' and 'sslcert' in postgres_fdw user mappingsAndrew Dunstan
This allows different users to authenticate with different certificates. Author: Craig Ringer
2020-01-08Remove support for Python older than 2.6Peter Eisentraut
Supporting very old Python versions is a maintenance burden, especially with the several variant test files to maintain for Python <2.6. Since we have dropped support for older OpenSSL versions in 7b283d0e1d1d79bf1c962d790c94d2a53f3bb38a, RHEL 5 is now effectively desupported, and that was also the only mainstream operating system still using Python versions before 2.6, so it's a good time to drop those as well. Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/98b69261-298c-13d2-f34d-836fd9c29b21%402ndquadrant.com
2020-01-08Improve the handling of result type coercions in SQL functions.Tom Lane
Use the parser's standard type coercion machinery to convert the output column(s) of a SQL function's final SELECT or RETURNING to the type(s) they should have according to the function's declared result type. We'll allow any case where an assignment-level coercion is available. Previously, we failed unless the required coercion was a binary-compatible one (and the documentation ignored this, falsely claiming that the types must match exactly). Notably, the coercion now accounts for typmods, so that cases where a SQL function is declared to return a composite type whose columns are typmod-constrained now behave as one would expect. Arguably this aspect is a bug fix, but the overall behavioral change here seems too large to consider back-patching. A nice side-effect is that functions can now be inlined in a few cases where we previously failed to do so because of type mismatches. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18929.1574895430@sss.pgh.pa.us
2020-01-06Add functions min_scale(numeric) and trim_scale(numeric).Tom Lane
These allow better control of trailing zeroes in numeric values. Pavel Stehule, based on an old proposal of Marko Tiikkaja's; review by Karl Pinc Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAFj8pRDjs-navGASeF0Wk74N36YGFJ+v=Ok9_knRa7vDc-qugg@mail.gmail.com
2020-01-06Remove support for OpenSSL 0.9.8 and 1.0.0Michael Paquier
Support is out of scope from all the major vendors for these versions (for example RHEL5 uses a version based on 0.9.8, and RHEL6 uses 1.0.1), and it created some extra maintenance work. Upstream has stopped support of 0.9.8 in December 2015 and of 1.0.0 in February 2016. Since b1abfec, note that the default SSL protocol version set with ssl_min_protocol_version is TLSv1.2, whose support was added in OpenSSL 1.0.1, so there is no point to enforce ssl_min_protocol_version to TLSv1 in the SSL tests. Author: Michael Paquier Reviewed-by: Daniel Gustafsson, Tom Lane Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20191205083252.GE5064@paquier.xyz
2020-01-05Docs: use more standard terminology "round-to-nearest-even" instead of ↵Tatsuo Ishii
"round-to-even". Per suggestion from Tom Lane. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/flat/20191230.093451.1762483750956466101.t-ishii%40sraoss.co.jp
2020-01-03Fix typos in parallel query docs.Amit Kapila
Reported-by: Jon Jensen Author: Jon Jensen Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila and Robert Haas Backpatch-through: 10 Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/nycvar.YSQ.7.76.1912301807510.9899@ybpnyubfg
2020-01-01Update copyrights for 2020Bruce Momjian
Backpatch-through: update all files in master, backpatch legal files through 9.4
2019-12-31Modernize Python exception syntax in documentationPeter Eisentraut
Change the exception syntax used in the documentation to use the more current except Exception as ex: rather than the old except Exception, ex: We keep the old syntax in the test code since Python <2.6 is still supported there, but the documentation might as well use the modern syntax.
2019-12-27doc: add examples of creative use of unique expression indexesBruce Momjian
Unique expression indexes can constrain data in creative ways, so show two examples. Reported-by: Tuomas Leikola Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/156760275564.1127.12321702656456074572@wrigleys.postgresql.org Backpatch-through: 9.4
2019-12-27docs: clarify infinite range values from data-type infinitiesBruce Momjian
The previous docs referenced these distinct ideas confusingly. Reported-by: Eugen Konkov Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/376945611.20191026161529@yandex.ru Backpatch-through: 9.4
2019-12-26Add note about how each partition's default value is treated, into the doc.Fujii Masao
Column defaults may be specified separately for each partition. But INSERT via a partitioned table ignores those partition's default values. The former is documented, but the latter restriction not. This commit adds the note about that restriction into the document. Author: Fujii Masao Reviewed-by: Amit Langote Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAHGQGwEs-59omrfGF7hOHz9iMME3RbKy5ny+iftDx3LHTEn9sA@mail.gmail.com
2019-12-21docs: clarify handling of column lists in COPY TO/FROMBruce Momjian
Previously it was unclear how COPY FROM handled cases where not all columns were specified, or if the order didn't match. Reported-by: pavlo.golub@gmail.com Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/157487729344.7213.14245726713444755296@wrigleys.postgresql.org Backpatch-through: 9.4
2019-12-20libpq should expose GSS-related parameters even when not implemented.Tom Lane
We realized years ago that it's better for libpq to accept all connection parameters syntactically, even if some are ignored or restricted due to lack of the feature in a particular build. However, that lesson from the SSL support was for some reason never applied to the GSSAPI support. This is causing various buildfarm members to have problems with a test case added by commit 6136e94dc, and it's just a bad idea from a user-experience standpoint anyway, so fix it. While at it, fix some places where parameter-related infrastructure was added with the aid of a dartboard, or perhaps with the aid of the anti-pattern "add new stuff at the end". It should be safe to rearrange the contents of struct pg_conn even in released branches, since that's private to libpq (and we'd have to move some fields in some builds to fix this, anyway). Back-patch to all supported branches. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/11297.1576868677@sss.pgh.pa.us
2019-12-20Superuser can permit passwordless connections on postgres_fdwAndrew Dunstan
Currently postgres_fdw doesn't permit a non-superuser to connect to a foreign server without specifying a password, or to use an authentication mechanism that doesn't use the password. This is to avoid using the settings and identity of the user running Postgres. However, this doesn't make sense for all authentication methods. We therefore allow a superuser to set "password_required 'false'" for user mappings for the postgres_fdw. The superuser must ensure that the foreign server won't try to rely solely on the server identity (e.g. trust, peer, ident) or use an authentication mechanism that relies on the password settings (e.g. md5, scram-sha-256). This feature is a prelude to better support for sslcert and sslkey settings in user mappings. Author: Craig Ringer. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/075135da-545c-f958-fed0-5dcb462d6dae@2ndQuadrant.com
2019-12-19Extend the ProcSignal mechanism to support barriers.Robert Haas
A new function EmitProcSignalBarrier() can be used to emit a global barrier which all backends that participate in the ProcSignal mechanism must absorb, and a new function WaitForProcSignalBarrier() can be used to wait until all relevant backends have in fact absorbed the barrier. This can be used to coordinate global state changes, such as turning checksums on while the system is running. There's no real client of this mechanism yet, although two are proposed, but an enum has to have at least one element, so this includes a placeholder type (PROCSIGNAL_BARRIER_PLACEHOLDER) which should be replaced by the first real client of this mechanism to get committed. Andres Freund and Robert Haas, reviewed by Daniel Gustafsson and, in earlier versions, by Magnus Hagander. Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmoZwDk=BguVDVa+qdA6SBKef=PKbaKDQALTC_9qoz1mJqg@mail.gmail.com
2019-12-19Doc: add a short summary of available authentication methods.Tom Lane
The "auth-methods" <sect1> used to include descriptions of all our authentication methods. Commit 56811e573 promoted its child <sect2>'s to <sect1>'s, which has advantages but also created some issues: * The auth-methods page itself is essentially empty/useless. * Links that pointed to "auth-methods" as a placeholder for all auth methods were rendered a bit nonsensical. * DocBook no longer provides a subsection table-of-contents here, which formerly was a useful if terse summary of available auth methods. To improve matters, add a handwritten list of all the auth methods. Per gripe from Dave Cramer. Back-patch to v11 where the previous commit came in. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CADK3HH+xQLhcPgg=kWqfogtXGGZr-JdSo=x=WQC0PkAVyxUWyQ@mail.gmail.com
2019-12-18Doc: Improve readability of options for REINDEXMichael Paquier
That's more consistent with the style we have been using with for example EXPLAIN, VACUUM or ANALYZE (this one had only one option in v11). Based on a suggestion from Pavel Stehule. Author: Josef Šimánek Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAFj8pRCrUS+eMFvssVPGZN-VDEMP3XN+1Dop0=CmeBq2D+dqOg@mail.gmail.com Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAFp7QwpeMPEtAR5AYpsG623ooMWX03wMjq5cpZn=X+6OCkfwJw@mail.gmail.com
2019-12-11Emit parameter values during query bind/execute errorsAlvaro Herrera
This makes such log entries more useful, since the cause of the error can be dependent on the parameter values. Author: Alexey Bashtanov, Álvaro Herrera Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/0146a67b-a22a-0519-9082-bc29756b93a2@imap.cc Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut, Andres Freund, Tom Lane
2019-12-10Fix handling of multiple AFTER ROW triggers on a foreign table.Etsuro Fujita
AfterTriggerExecute() retrieves a fresh tuple or pair of tuples from a tuplestore and then stores the tuple(s) in the passed-in slot(s) if AFTER_TRIGGER_FDW_FETCH, while it uses the most-recently-retrieved tuple(s) stored in the slot(s) if AFTER_TRIGGER_FDW_REUSE. This was done correctly before 12, but commit ff11e7f4b broke it by mistakenly clearing the tuple(s) stored in the slot(s) in that function, leading to an assertion failure as reported in bug #16139 from Alexander Lakhin. Also, fix some other issues with the aforementioned commit in passing: * For tg_newslot, which is a slot added to the TriggerData struct by the commit to store new updated tuples, it didn't ensure the slot was NULL if there was no such tuple. * The commit failed to update the documentation about the trigger interface. Author: Etsuro Fujita Backpatch-through: 12 Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16139-94f9ccf0db6119ec%40postgresql.org